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Art Basel fair in Hong Kong attracts global celebrities
Hong Kong International airport and spot two huge billboards heralding the Asian debut of the world's most prominent art fair, Art Basel. Amid a PR frenzy that drew the likes of supermodel Kate Moss and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, it seemed that even the torrential rain and 18,000 lightning strikes across the territory hours before the VIP preview on Wednesday were just part of the ...
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Postcards from Mr Bingo hate mail thats first class – in pictures
Mr Bingo , referring to the vintage postcards he embellishes with insults and sends out. 'People order them for themselves or their loved ones: wives, girlfriendssometimes even their mum.' Mr Bingo had the idea when he was 'feeling a bit naughty' one evening. He promised an offensive missive to the first person who responded to a tweet and was swamped. Comparing the ...
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Giro dItalia 2013 stage 20 - live
Four brutal climbs in the last 140km, although they are a bit shorter than the previous day's monsters. The penultimate climb, Passo Giau is the hardest, and a long-range attack here could win the stage. Lavaredo is the summit where Eddy Merckx won his first Giro in 1968, and if there are small time gaps at the top of the standings, it will witness an intense ...
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Aaand here it is Me and my diploma
Canadian fans of The National have two reasons to rejoice. The Brooklyn-based indie rockers will release their sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, on May 21 following that up with three dates in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. As an added bonus in Toronto ...
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France begins withdrawing from Mali
France began the first stage of a withdrawal from Mali Saturday in what it says is a plan to pull out most of its troops and equipment by the end of the year. A convoy carrying unneeded equipment and vehicles left a French base outside the capital, Bamako, headed for Abidjan ...
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Equity At 100 More Than Just A Broadway Baby
His statue may be a Theater District landmark now, but George M. Cohan caused no small amount of trouble for Actors' Equity early in its history. The union marks its 100th anniversary this ...
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Days of Bulgarian Cinema Begin in Rome
Bulgaria's caretaker Culture Minister, Vladimir Penev, is opening Saturday the sixth edition of the Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Rome, Italy. The event will take place in the "Cinema Home" - Villa Borghese. The program will start with the showing ...
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Imagine on Broadway set to seek charter
FORT WAYNE – In the face of a forced shutdown, Imagine Schools on Broadway held an emergency board meeting Friday to consider avenues for keeping the charter school open this fall, including reapplying for a charter through Ball State University.Ball State, which sponsors charter schools, decided this month not to renew the charters of three Fort Wayne schools – Imagine Schools on ...
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ArteBA 2013 art fair kicks off in Argentina
A visitor attends the "ArteBA 2013" art fair, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on May 24, 2013. The fair is the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, with 82 galleries from Latin America, the US and Europe displaying 500 artists' works, according to the organizers. (Xinhua/Martin ...
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Making The Mandela Tapes
It was a fall-off-your chair moment. Verne Harris, head of programming at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, had just said I could use a vast collection of Mandela's audiocassettes for free. Looking back to that moment in February 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa, I am reminded that journalism and filmmaking are 95 per cent grinding and frustration and five per cent breakthrough and ...
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Couples dedication to modern dance just keeps on giving
ISADORA OPEN: No one could question the dedication of Nicola Follows, who danced here with Paras Terezaki and Anna Wyman's troupes, owned her own Main Dance company, and headed a $4.3-million fundraiser that resulted in the Davie-at-Granville Dance Centre at Scotiabank Dance ...
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My friendship with Patrick Caulfield
As an exhibition of Patrick Caulfield's work opens at Tate Britain, the playwright David Hare recalls his friendship with the painter whom he came to respect as the artists' ...
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The real thing Patrick Caulfield at Tate Britain - in pictures
With the Turner-nominated artist, who died in 2005, the subject of a retrospective at Tate Britain in London, we've gathered together some of his most notable works for you. Many feature Caulfield's signature mode, which was to embed photorealist depiction within abstract or simplified ...
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Pro Imaging Golf Classic Brings Industry Players Together For Networking Friendships
Tucson, AZ - After a long, cold winter for many east of the Mississippi, 23 teams soaked up sunshine and 80-degree weather to play in the 23rd annual Pro Imaging Golf Championship. This year the digital players traveled west to the magnificent Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort located in the Sonora Desert Terrain at the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The two-day ...
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ClearBags Releases Airsafe Product Line
El Dorado Hills, CA March 15th, 2009--ClearBags announced the launch of a new product line of Airsafe Art Boxes that meet the stringent product protection requirements of the largest shipping carriers. "Ever have a customer tell you they buy your products for the packaging you use? Well at ClearBags, we hear it all the time! Many artistic professionals are so impressed with our outer ...
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Brand Loyalty Among Digital Camera Buyers Falls Significantly
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As increasing digital camera model offerings challenge perceived product differentiation among consumers, only 26 percent of digital camera buyers say they would purchase the same camera brand in the future -- down from 35 percent in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study(SM) released today. ...
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Western Digital Enters Solid-State Drive Market With Acquisition of SiliconSystems
LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Since its inception in ...
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SavePolaroid.com Co-Founder Creates Two Companies Will Develop New Polaroid-Compatible Film
Dave Bias, co-founder of SavePolaroid.com, announces the formation of two new Polaroid Corp.-related companies -- PolaPremium and The Impossible Project. Bias partnered with Dr. Florian Kaps, the proprietor of unsaleable.com, which has been selling Polaroid film and cameras for the past three years out of Vienna, Austria. The first new company, PolaPremium, is a partnership with Polaroid to ...
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Phase One Invests in Mamiya Digital Imaging
TOKYO, Japan, March 26, 2009 -- Phase One A/S and Mamiya Digital Imaging, Ltd. are proud to announce that Phase One is making a significant financial investment in Mamiya Digital Imaging, thus becoming a major shareholder in the company behind the Mamiya brand of medium format cameras and lenses. Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. The objective of Phase One's investment is to ...
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Judge Rules Polaroid Sale May Proceed
Mar. 27--The auction-like sale of Polaroid Corp. can proceed as scheduled next week after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregory Kishel ruled Thursday that it's too late for the company's creditors to question company executives about the pending transaction and other financial matters. Kishel approved a motion by Polaroid's attorneys to quash recent subpoenas for the depositions of CEO ...
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IPC Announces 2009 Professional Photographer Leadership Awards
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 26, 2008 -- The International Photographic Council (IPC), a non-governmental organization (NGO) of the United Nations, has announced the recipients of its 11th annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards. The winners will be recognized at the IPC International Professional Photographers Month luncheon at the United Nations in New York City on Thursday, May 7, ...
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98-Year-Old Photographer Captures L.A.s Vintage Homes
March 26, 2009 -- Magazines, newspapers, even family scrapbooks are full of photographs of houses -- graphic examples of the American dream. But pictures by the 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman are in a league of their own, so distinctive that they are consulted by movie designers, collected by museums and cherished by homeowners who commission them. [See link below for a ...
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Image Come to Life Woman Gets to Thank Firefighter Who Rescued Her in 1968
The firefighter crawled on his stomach through the pitch-black apartment, the smoke so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Somewhere inside was a baby and he had to find her.A window broke, light filled the room, and he saw her lying in her crib, dressed only in a diaper, unconscious. Soot covered her tiny nose. She wasn't breathing and had no pulse.He grabbed her and ...
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Bigger stronger faster Walsh aims for world stage
Source: Photosport Up-and-coming shot putter Tom Walsh hopes some mentoring from Olympic and world champion Valerie Adams will see him qualify for the world championships in August. The Timaru 21-year-old has seen his chances increase with significant strength gains in the last six months. To be truly world class at this event, you have to be a bit of a beast. "We're talking between ...
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Family life Against the odds True Blue and tuna fish pie
This picture of my parents was taken in 1963, a year before they got married. It intrigues me, in the circumstances, that they managed to pose for a studio photograph like some confident, conventional, middle-class couple.Mum was very shy - though she ended up as an infant school deputy headteacher - and her background could hardly have been less middle-class. Her own mother slept 10-in-a-bed ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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