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SF lodges complaint against BBC over SFIRA label
Sinn Fin has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC after the party's Education Minister in Northern Ireland John O'Dowd was designated a spokesman for SF/IRA during an appearance on Question Time last night.The label was part of the floor plan which was pinned to a camera.Mr O'Dowd said for the BBC to adopt the SF/IRA tag 20 years into a peace process is beyond belief.He is ...
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Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive Rights
Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I found ...
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Electronic dance concert Moonrise Festival canceled
A new electronic dance concert termed the Moonrise Festival which was expected to draw thousands to South Baltimore, has been canceled after organizers failed to obtain the necessary permits, city officials said Thursday, as reported by the Baltimore Sun. Planned for the weekend of June 8-9 in Port Covington, the festival had been promoted as a successor to the long-running Starscape Festival, ...
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Group to give ragtime concert in Thousand Oaks
Contributed photo The Sedalia Ragtime Orchestra will perform May 31 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. Members of the group include (top row from left) Irene Silbert, Faith Newell, Cary Ginell, Tiffany Gambardella and Mary Ann Marx and (second row from left) Ken Dickey, Laura Halladay, Ron Rothman, Sandy Harr, Debbie Banning, Ed Hirsch and Valerie Wong. The Sedalia ...
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Singer Lissie set for concert to raise money for Haiti orphanage
Elaine Constantine/Contributed photo File Photo: Ojai-based musician Lissie. Taking a break from her U.S. tour, Lissie — the stage name for Elisabeth Corrin Maurus — is swinging by her adopted hometown of Ojai to perform at the Libbey Bowl on Saturday for a concert benefiting Changing Tides Orphanage in ...
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Son Puts Love of Music into Benefit for Dads Heart Transplant
Randall Wayne Van Pernis sings and plays guitar at Acropoli Italian Bistro in Dundee on Wednesday afternoon. Van Pernis has organized a benefit concert this Sunday at the restaurant to benefit his father, Paul Van Pernis, who needs a heart ...
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Celebrity birthdays on May 24
Celebrity birthdays on May 24 Actor-comedian Tommy Chong is 75. Musician Bob Dylan is 72. Actor Gary Burghoff (“M-A-S-H”) is 70. Singer Patti LaBelle is 69. Actress Priscilla Presley is 68. Country singer-songwriter Mike Reid is 66. Actor Jim Broadbent is 64. Actor Alfred Molina is 60. Singer Rosanne Cash is 58. Actress Kristin Scott Thomas is 53. Actor John C. Reilly is 48. Actor ...
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Meet five additions to Las Vegas nightlife and entertainment
Las Vegas adds yet another club to its nightlife ranks this weekend with the grand opening of Light at Mandalay Bay. The highly anticipated collaboration between Cirque du Soleil and nightlife operators The Light Group is just the latest addition to a slate of new nightlife and entertainment options that have transformed the Strip in the past six months. Below, meet the Las Vegas nightlife ...
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Gaming industry research in spotlight at Las Vegas conference
Bo Bernhard The largest gaming conference on the planet is coming back to Las Vegas. It's the 15th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking, and it's slated to start Monday at Caesars Palace. "This is the world's first and finest gambling studies conference," said conference host Bo Bernhard, who serves as UNLV's executive director of the ...
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Korn co-headlines at Rocklahoma where singer will feel at home
That's because he grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., where a lot of Okies and Arkies -- including some of Davis' forebears -- ended up when they left Arkansas and Oklahoma behind for a better life during the Great Depression. Along with them came their music, and that's how Bakersfield became the unofficial left-coast capital of country picking, where guys like Buck Owens ...
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Neon Desert Music Festival Omar Rodriguez Lopez brings his new band home
"I just wanted to do a good job. I wanted it to be the best show possible," the guitar virtuoso said, laughing as he recalled that performance with the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group. "To put that into context for you," he said, "I normally don't have those thoughts running in my head before we play." Rodriguez Lopez returned for Neon Desert 2012, playing ...
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Microsoft Introduces Xbox One an All-in-1 Home Entertainment System
According to a release, at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts the user at the center of games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype. "Xbox One is designed to deliver a whole new generation of blockbuster games, television and entertainment in a powerful, all- in-one device," said Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment ...
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Monsieur Popular For nearly two decades French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences - and critics - in a wide variety of films. And hes set to do it again in a new retro romcom. Tara Brady met him
You have to remind yourself that Romain Duris is closing in on 40 and that later today, he'll return home to La Bastille to be with his actor partner, Olivia Bonhamy, and the couple's four-year-old son, Luigi. He has dressed down, in jeans, and his artfully messy, dark hair makes one think in style section bytes such as "campus chic" and not of phrases such as ...
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Sisters As the children of wannabe rock-stars Haim were always destined to make music. Our parents didnt wave us off to college they waved us off to a rock band they tell Brian Boyd
Welcome to the Haim household. You dry the dishes to Sister Sledge, do your homework to Joni Mitchell and wake up to Motown or The Beatles. There's even room for Mariah Carey and Destiny's Child. "It was just your wonderful Californian liberal-arts upbringing," said Haim, as they sat in their Dublin dressing room wolfing down Doritos ahead of an appearance with Florence ...
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Theater classical music dance and cultural stage events Muppets Cant Stop Singing in Sesame Street Live show in T.O.
Sesame Street Live in Thousand Oaks, L.A. and Long Beach Sure, your kids know that Bert from "Sesame Street" has only one eyebrow. But do they know that in Denmark, Bert is called "Bent," and his sidekick Ernie is known as "Erik"? Here's some other Muppet trivia to wow your toddler, preschooler or spouse with when you go see Sesame Street Live's ...
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Dipson Theatres will no longer operate North Park Theatre
May 23--It was the news that Buffalo's informed movie audience both long dreaded and long expected: Dipson Theatres announced today that it will no longer be operating the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue after June ...
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Market for Specialty Films Expected to Grow
US demand for specialty films is expected to grow 5.1 percent annually to $8.0 billion in 2017. Expansion of the market will be fostered by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films that offer such advantages as barrier properties, mechanical strength, and chemical resistance in packaging and construction applications. Additionally, the penetration of specialty films into ...
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Summer Movies Steaming Into Town
The summer movie season has already brought moviegoers Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness, the 12th film in that series. Still to come are second installments of Grown Ups, Despicable Me, The Smurfs, RED, Kick-Ass, 300 and Percy Jackson. There's also Wolverine, a continuation of the Hugh Jackman X-Men/Wolverine movies; the animated prequel Monsters University and the art-film threepeat ...
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Breaking Heathrow airport closed after incident on British Airways plane
Early reports suggest the plane was evacuated and none of the passengers have been injured.Heathrow airport have confirmed that both runways have been closed as a result of an incident, which happened around 9am.Amateur video footage of the incident appears to show smoke coming from one of the aircraft engines. There was speculation that the aircraft had run into a flock of birds.The incident is ...
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On Pro Basketball Heat’s Chris Andersen Is Happy to Share the Spotlight
MIAMI -- The Birdman is most comfortable when he is soaring above the chaos, over the rim, poised to swat the basketball away or to slam it home. Elevation has always suited him ...
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Fitzgerald to debut for Kerry
Dr Crokes defender Fionn Fitzgerald will make his Championship debut for Kerry in Sunday's Munster SFC quarter-final against Tipperary at Fitzgerald Stadium (throw-in 2pm).For Eamonn Fitzmaurice's first Championship match in charge, the nephew of former Kerry goalkeeper Eamonn Fitzgerald will line out at left corner back.Fitzgerald, a league debutant earlier this year, is included in a ...
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Gallagher cant understand fuss around Daft Punk single
Liam Gallagher has blasted Daft Punk's new single.The Beady Eye frontman insists he could've written 'Get Lucky' in "a f***ing hour" and can't understand the "fuss" surrounding the French duo's track, which has already sold half a million copies in the UK.He ranted: "I'd write that in a f***ing hour. I don't know what the fuss is ...
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Bruton hails jobs boost for indigenous firms
More than 100 jobs are to be created over the next three years at three Irish firms in Galway and Dublin.The positions at the technology and manufacturing companies were announced in conjunction with a new wave of multi-million euro funding supported by Enterprise Ireland.Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said it was important indigenous companies were able to compete with multinationals."A key ...
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Cork name five debutants for Munster Football quarter-final
There is a fresh look to the Cork team to face Limerick in tomorrow night's Munster SFC quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 7pm).Manager Conor Counihan will give Championship debuts to goalkeeper Ken O'Halloran, wing back Toms Clancy and the Under-21 trio of Damien Cahalane, John O'Rourke and Brian Hurley.Bishopstown clubman Ken O'Halloran, who deputised for the ...
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Hayes Negotiations have concluded on Haddington Road deal
The junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said unions that do not accept the Haddington Road agreement will not avail of the terms of the deal when the Government enacts the legislation this summer.Mr Hayes said the Coalition aims to have the new proposals brokered at the LRC in place by July 1.The TUI and the ASTI have both said they will reject the Haddington agreement and have no plans to ...
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