A Taste of Egypt: A Recipe for Egyptian Chocolate Cake

This overview of Egypt - its geography, its culture, its people, and a recipe, too -was prepared by Whitney Ball while a Business Management student in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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Technicolor forays into original content biz

Addressing the demand for children‘s animated content, and the rapid growth and success of its Bangalore based animation studio, Technicolor announced the formation of a new team to develop and produce animated broadcast content.
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redchillies.vfx creates flooded Wilhelmina for Dharma& s MNIK

Mumbai based redchillies.vfx has delivered 350+ VFX shots (35 minutes of screen time) for Dharma Production s Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol starrer My Name Is Khan . VFX Supervised by Haresh Hingorani, Arjun Mitra and Keitan Yadav the film has two VFX intensive sequences namely the Wilhelmina Flood Sequence and Cloud Sequence along with plenty of regular VFX shots. A team of 125 artists have worked for a period of three months on the same.
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MAAC Preet Vihar fetches "The Best Centre" Award

At the all India business meet held in Mumbai on 27th March 2010, MAAC Preet Vihar was awarded as the "Best MAAC Centre" award. MAAC Preet Vihar was awarded due to the exceptional progress made by the centre towards animation education in India.
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Astute Media & PVR to release Bal Hanuman 2 in 3D enabled screens across India

Through PVR Pictures, Astute will distribute Bal Hanuman 2 all over India with 80+ digital prints while Shemaroo is the electronic media marketing partner world wide. The 75 minute feature is set to release on May 14th in 3D enabled screens only.
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Interview with Emmy Award Winner Senior Flame Artist Angus Wilson

Two time Emmy winner, for outstanding visual effects and senior Flame artist at FuelVFX, Sydney, Angus Wilson was recently in India for a master session sharing his expertise on the best practices of using Autodesk Flame across the world in advertising and film making. He currently supervises commercial effects production and works closely with developers on Pipeline and WorkflowAnimationXpress.com‘s Amrita Valecha and Chaitra Shetty spoke to Angus on the usage of Autodesk Flame, his latest projects and VFX practices worldwide.
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Graphiti makes Krish, Trish and Baltiboy 2 for CFSI

Mumbai based Graphiti Multimedia has made the sequel to its much appreciated 2D cum 3D broadcast feature Krish, Trish and Baltiboy which is commissioned by Children s Film Festival India (CFSI). The film features the title characters in 3D playing sutradars while folk stories from Karnataka, Bengal and Bihar are presented in 2D using traditional folk art of the respective region.
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Green Tech and Gadgets for Earth Day

Here are 15 of the coolest, weirdest, and most practical ecofriendly gizmos.



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Pixar sets up in Vancouver, Canada

The Academy Award-winning Hollywood animation studio Pixar has opened its new studio in Vancouver Canada. Pixar Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios, the creator of some of the world‘s most beloved computer animated films, such as Toy Story, A Bug‘s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up. Located in beautiful Vancouver BC, Pixar Canada‘s mission is to produce animated shorts and television specials, featuring characters from Pixar‘s prior films.
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Corel launches the new edition of award-winning graphics suite for graphics professionals in India

Corel Corporation introduced CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite X5, the newest edition of the company s award-winning package of professional graphics applications in the Indian market. With more than fifty new and enhanced features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 includes major enhancements to asset management, color management, web graphics, a wide variety of learning resources and more content than ever before.
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Choosing an MLM Opportunity

There are a few network marketing opportunities that are just scams. There are far more that may be well-intentioned, but have a poor track record, for any number of reasons. So how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Here are ten tips to help you pick the right network marketing opportunity for you.
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DQE signs broadcasting deal with BBC & Ontario Educational Authority (TVO)

DQE announced a broadcasting agreement with the Canadian-based educational broadcaster, TVO, for the 52 x 11 minute episode animated TV series and the 60 minute special of The Jungle Book. It has also announced the acquisition of this 3D-HD TV series by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Channel for all broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom.
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Counting Underwater

Learn how to count to ten with the help of underwater sea creatures

Author: Brian haimes
Added: 4/7/2010 1:14:20 PM

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CGSociety launches NVArt 5`s ACCELERATE, worldwide contest for digital artists

The CGSociety, a division of Ballistic Media, has announced ACCELERATE, a new worldwide contest for digital artists to create futuristic vehicle designs in the style of Syd Mead. The competition was created jointly with the sole sponsor NVIDIA and has a prize pool valued of over $37,000. The first prize is $10,000 cash, plus two NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 4GB - 240 CUDA Processors.
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Cash (Flow) Really Is King

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs have to learn, often painfully, is that cash really is king. I'm not talking about paper money -- I'm talking about cash flow. Simply put, it doesn't matter how much money is coming in the future if you don't have enough money to get from here to there.
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FrameFlixx 2 calls for entries

Now in its second year, Frameboxx Frameflixx awards is all set to hit on 16th May 2010 in Goa. After the winners of last year s Frameflixx got national as well as international recognition this time Frameflixx 2 will also felicitate external talents, which will be one of the highlights of the event.
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Planning Your Exit Strategy

The final portion of your business plan outlines your exit strategy. It may seem odd to develop a strategy this soon to leave your business, but potential investors will want to know your long-term plans. Your exit plans need to be clear in your own mind because they will dictate how you operate the company.
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Frameboxx & AnimationXpress.com team up to launch Framepost

Frameboxx Animation Visual Effects (FAVE) has collaborated with AnimationXpress.com to launch Framepost , a fortnightly internal online newsletter developed for circulation within the Frameboxx universe consisting of students, faculty members, management staff and business partners amongst others.
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BOXX Demos and Debuts Rendering Solutions and Workstations at NAB 2010

BOXX Technologies, providing dedicated rendering and innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects, post production, product design, and advanced visualization, today announced that they will feature renderBOXX and ROW (RenderFarm on Wheels) rendering systems.
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Question of the Day: Diversity

Part of my "Question of the Day" series, this film is an all to often needed lesson on accepting others who are different from you.

Author: Anthony Dusko
Added: 3/1/2010 2:14:03 PM

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Gonzalez Accomplice Gets Five Years for Hacking TJX

A federal judge handed down a five-year sentence Thursday to a man who helped steal tens of millions of credit card numbers from Heartland, TJX and others.



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RamSinghKumaresh 1st masterclass slated for 24th April An interview with Vivek Ram & Ranjit Singh

In a positive turn of events three seasoned Industry professionals Vivek Ram, Ranjit Singh and Vaibhav Kumaresh have come together to form an initiative RamSinghKumaresh, through which the trio aim to do their share in bridging the gap between animation training and education. The initiative will have them conducting master classes on the craft of animation filmmaking and 24th April will mark the first master class under this banner. The registration details for the same are available here (www.ramsinghkumaresh.com). This will be the first of a series of classes over the next few weeks featuring assignments, reviews, presentations and interactive discussions..
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Would You Take a Vacation to Afghanistan?

Although it is not considered safe for tourists at the moment, many look forward to being able to visit Afghanistan in the near future. Why? Take a look at some of the remarkable places you would be able to visit and decide for yourself. Would you take a vacation to Afghanistan?
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Kathputlee Animation working on 3D stereoscopic feature & BOO&

Delhi based Kathputlee Animation Studios is working on its IP titled BOO the spirit of Dolls, a television series and a 3D stereoscopy feature. It plans to do a 52X11 min TV episode and a 100 min 3D stereoscopy feature targeting children between 6-10 years of age, early teen and families as well.
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MDA launches International Animation Fund To Catalyze Animation Co-Productions In & With Singapore

Following its successful commissioning of and co-investment in some 200 hours of animation titles for co-production, the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) launched the International Animation Fund (IAF) at MIPTV 2010 in partnership with FremantleMedia Enterprises.
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ABAI and Karnataka Govt. to organize Karnataka AVG Summit on April 23rd & 24th

Department of IT, BT and S & T, Government of Karnataka, is organizing Karnataka Animation, VFX & Gaming Summit 2010 in association with ABAI (Association of Bangalore Animation Industry) on Friday, 23rd April, 2010 at Grand Ball Room, The Capitol Hotel, Raj Bhavan Road, Bangalore.
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Cartoon Network sets up at Twofour54 to boost Arab animation industry

Cartoon Network, a part of Turner Broadcasting System, a Time Warner company, is providing a massive boost to the fledgling animation industry in the Middle East & North Africa region with news that it is to open a dedicated animation training academy at twofour54 Abu Dhabi.
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Paprikaas to establish state of Art VFX facility in India Interview with Paprikaas GM Biren Ghose

Riding high on successfully bagging the ‘Kung Fu Panda‘ TV series project from Nickelodeon recently and also delivering some cutting edge VFX work through its London based Division MPC, Technicolor‘s Paprikaas has many expansion plans in the pipeline. One of them being the setting up of a spectacular state of the art VFX studio in India. AnimationXpress.com‘s Chaitra Shetty caught up with Paprikaas‘ Biren Ghose to get detailed insight into the company‘s latest endeavors and the strategy ahead..
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Prime Focus brings on board renowned colorist Clive Christopher

Prime Focus brings on board the creative services of veteran colorist Clive Christopher. Based at the Prime Focus advertising facility in Lower Parel, Mumbai, Clive will focus on the commercials output of Prime Focus in India.
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CIO Says Communication Is Key to Buy-in

IT managers described methods for communicating between IT and business management at the SNW conference.



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Juggling Income Streams

I made a pretty long list of personal New Year's resolutions for 2003 - lose weight, be more thoughtful, spend more time with family, exercise more, stop procrastinating, etc. - a pretty typical list. But when it came down to my business, I found that I was pretty quickly able to boil it down to just one, and that was to try to somehow find the right balance in the paradox between finding and maintaining focus vs. generating multiple income streams.
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10 Steps to Improve Your Net

Online networks are the new power lunch tables and the new golf courses for business life in the U.S. In the past ten years, online dating has become mainstream; 40 million Americans use online dating sites. Now, businesspeople are starting to use the same family of technology to find business clients, new partners, and jobs, through virtual contacts they make online.
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VCL provides seamless VFX for & Prince&

VCL was responsible for the complete visual effects in the movie from scratch to screen, including supervision of work by various other studios. Over 80 VCL artists, and over 70 artists from various other studios who were supervised by VCL, worked very hard on Prince
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Sony and 3D World announce global animated film making competition

Sony has partnered with market-leading 3D World magazine to create the ultimate stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) film competition; giving both professional and amateur filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work at this year‘s SIGGRAPH, present their work to millions of Sony BRAVIA 3D TV purchasers and receive global industry acclaim.
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Deal Structure

If you plan to make the rounds of venture capital firms or approach potential angel investors, you need to keep the lender’s interests firmly in mind. Simply put, these institutions or individuals want to protect their investment and generate a high return. With that in mind, here are some things to remember when structuring an investment deal.
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3D - VFX War Season 2 by Maac South Ex, Rajouri Garden & Faridabaad

MAAC South Extension, MAAC Rajouri Garden & MAAC Faridabad is all set to organise 3D VFX War Season II. The event would be staged at the Hotel Parkland Exotica, Chattarpur in New Delhi, on 17th of April from 1 pm onwards.
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Turner& s Syndication Business gathers speed with over 500 hours of programming sold

Turner International today announced a slate of new entertainment content available for syndication to meet an increase in buyer demand from across the Asia Pacific region. Featuring a mix of Turner‘s original productions and acquired series, the new line up spans multiple genres including kids, lifestyle, comedy and actuality.
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NEW IMPROVED COMMENTS!

my comments page complete with music and a short animation!

Author: steven hay
Added: 4/8/2010 4:04:49 PM

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DQE & Method Animation to animate Peter Pan in 3D/HD avatar

DQ Entertainment has announced ‘The New Adventures of Peter Pan‘ in a 3D animated CGI format. The TV series will consist of 26 episodes of half hour each, as an enchanting fantasy-adventure genre of story telling.
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Independent filmmaker Varun Sahu makes music video for genero.tv competition

Varun Sahu, an independent film maker has made a music video for Moby s track Wait for me for the genero.tv competition. The music video is about the angel of death and the people he encounters.
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Technicolor s Paprikaas Animation awarded Nickelodeon s Kung Fu Panda series

Technicolor today announced that Nickelodeon, part of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. has awarded Technicolor s Bangalore-based animation studio, Paprikaas, the Kung Fu Panda TV series, which will be produced as an animated series for the worldwide broadcast market, initially comprising 26 episodes.
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SIGGRAPH& s Computer Animation Festival celebrates its 37th year; Calls for entries

In 2010, SIGGRAPH‘s Computer Animation Festival celebrates its 37th year as the world‘s most innovative and stimulating showcase of computer-generated animation and visual effects. This four-day, international event presents a wide spectrum of computer animation genres and styles ranging from narrative character animation to scientific visualization, mainstream TV commercials, and digital effects for futuristic movies.
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Executive Summary

The executive summary is the introduction to a formal business plan. It summarizes the business proposition, key financial projections, where the business stands at present and elements that are critical for success. Remember this is the first thing a potential investor will read. If your executive summary doesn't grab his or her attention, then he or she probably won't bother reading the rest of your package.
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AMD Extends Leadership to Professional Graphics

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today the launch of the first of a new family of ATI FirePro professional graphics solutions with ATI Eyefinity technology, delivering clear performance advances and productivity leadership.
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A Snapshot of Chester

Take a short tour of the City of Chester, the historic gem of the North West of England.
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DSK to conduct Nationwide Entrance Exam for "Design Managers"

DSK Supinfocom International campus announced April 17th 2010 as the date for its nationwide entrance exam in the field of animation, video game design and industrial design. The aspiring students can download the Entrance Exam form on www.dsksic.com. The entrance exam would be conducted at four centers viz. Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata & New Delhi, informed Shirish Kulkarni, Vice President DSK Supinfocom.
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Three Ways to Growth

With all of the latest and greatest concepts, seminars, webcasts, and "How-To" books vying for your attention, you would think that growing your business was as complicated as building the space shuttle. The fact is, there are only three ways to expand business.
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Autodesk announces 2011 Versions of Flame, Flare, Smoke and Lustre

At NAB 2010 Autodesk announced the 2011 releases of its creative finishing products for visual effects, editorial finishing and color grading: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Flare, Autodesk Flint, Autodesk Smoke and Autodesk Lustre. The 2011 releases offer new creative tools, improved interoperability and introduce an end-to-end stereoscopic 3D (S3D) finishing workflow for TV and film.
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Tata Interactive Systems animates Amar Chitra Katha TV Series

Tata Interactive Systems Mumbai has done the animation for the 26 episode Amar Chitra Katha TV series produced by ACK Media and Turner International currently on air on Cartoon Network. The team of 30, comprising staging artists, character artists, animators, background artists and post production, has worked on the project for 8 months.
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& Kung Fu Masters of the Zodiac& premieres on Nick on19th April

‘Kung Fu Masters of the Zodiac‘, a new 3D animated series packed with high-octane martial-arts animation is all set to premiere on Nickelodeon India on 19th April, and airs Monday to Friday at 6pm.
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ASIFA India& s "Commercials: Behind the Scenes" Cg MeetUp a great success!

In its continued effort of sharing knowledge by bringing forth some of the most interesting topics for the benefit of the animation and vfx community, ASIFA India‘s latest Cg MeetUp saw a packed house at the Whistling Woods auditorium.
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GenArts unveils Monsters GT for Adobe After Effects users

GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today GenArts Monsters GT for Adobe After Effects users.
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Ottawa International Animation Festival calls for entries

North America s largest animation event, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is now accepting film submissions for the 2010 edition. All entries for this year s competition must be received by June 1, 2010 and the deadline for preview DVDs is June 15, 2010.
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NVIDIA Quadro introduces High Res Real-Time Video Editing in Adobe CS5 Production Premium

NVIDIA announced that a range of NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) professional graphics solutions are certified by Adobe for Adobe(R) Creative Suite(R) 5 software, and unleash the real-time video editing and effects processing capabilities of Adobe Premiere Pro(R) CS5.
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Independent filmmaker Rohan Sabharwal makes music video for Genero.tv competition

Mumbai based independent film maker and Tenten films CEO Rohan Sabharwal has produced a music video for Moby‘s song ‘Wait for me‘ for the genero.tv competition. The video has been directed by Sohail Thakkar with post production work and camera operating by Shikha Basu
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MSC Malaysia & India to collaborate & co-produce 6-8 VFX driven features

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), South Entertainment Committee, and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), the driver of the MSC Malaysia initiative met to discuss the promotion of bilateral trade and business matchmaking between Malaysian and Indian creative companies, in a follow up to the Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) the two parties signed recently.
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"AND I M A CREATOR" presents poster competition

"And I m a creator" presents a digital poster competition for the students of Birla institute of Technology, Noida. The work will be judged by a Delhi based artist Deepak Tandon, and animation faculty at BIT, Noida, Das Mohan Singh. The competition starts on 6th April, 2010 and students have to submit their results by 14th April, 2010
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Logstory

This is a little piece we did with a mathematician/musician to convey mathematical concepts using only music and picture. We have other scripts that go further and include more/other characters.

Author:
Added: 3/29/2010 1:48:37 PM

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The IPad and Accessories: What You Need to Know

Now that the iPad has been out for a few days and you've read every possible review, first-impressions article, and opinion piece, you're probably starting to...



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PowerAIDS

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Author: Physoic Production
Added: 4/3/2010 8:15:32 PM

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Complimentary Bicycle Rental Service @ Hilton Nagoya

Complimentary Bicycle Rental Service @ Hilton Nagoya.
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9 Weird Places to Find Linux

The open-source operating system, or its logo, at least, are suddenly everywhere.



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Global Hotel Performance in February 2010

Global Hotel Performance in February 2010.
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AirAsia X launches Premium Class

AirAsia X launches Premium Class.
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Airphil Express Assures Safety Despite EU Ban

Airphil Express Assures Safety Despite EU Ban.
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Don't Eat the Cupcakes

Johnny Cupcakes entrepreneur branding into art form and customers into raving fans
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Indonesia launches Biometric Verification for Border Control

Indonesia launches Biometric Verification for Border Control.
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Social Networking Sites

Where services such as Friendster, MySpace and Connexion have been successful bringing singles and groups together based on affinity and mutual interests, business-networking services are now offering a parallel experience in the professional world. Along with LinkedIn are such offerings as Ryze (www.ryze.com) and Tribe.net (www.tribe.net). This use of online, friend/associate-based networking will prove to be one of the most valuable business tools the Internet has yet provided.
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Puerto Rico

How or when the natives of South America arrive on the island of Puerto Rico is still somewhat of a mystery, but when Columbus found the island in 1493, the Taino people were farming, fishing and enjoying the natural beauty of the island. Thanks to Juan Ponce de Leon, who was a lieutenant on the Columbus voyage, the city of Puerto Rico, or �Rich Port,� became an essential Spanish military outpost in the Caribbean...

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Spanish Ministry collaborates with Autodesk to train students and faculty

Autodesk has signed an agreement with the Spanish Ministerio de Industria, Tourismo y Commercio (Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade) to provide Autodesk Education Suites for Entertainment Creation to enable more focused training in 3D modeling, animation and rendering for faculty and students in 19 universities throughout Spain.
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Mobile Digital TV: Coming to a Small Screen Near You

Mobile Digital TV feeds local television programming on the go to smartphones, laptops, and portable media players. We take Mobile DTV for a test drive.



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