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  • Asia Stocks Rise on U.S. Spending Expectations; Satyam Plunges Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 8:37AMJan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Asian shares rose, lifting the benchmark index by the most in three weeks, after U.S. President-elect Barack Obama indicated stimulus spending will continue for years, boosting confidence consumption in the world’s biggest economy will rebound.
  • As the Assembly convenes, hints emerge of Carcieri’s plan to curb massive budget deficit Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 8:36AMHouse Speaker William J. Murphy vows that lawmakers “cannot and must not try to tax our way out of this economic downturn.”
  • Predictions for 2009: BlackRocks Bob Doll Predicts Equities Will Advance by Double Digits but Remain Highly Volatile ... Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 8:15AM NEW YORK----Equities will remain highly volatile but achieve a double digit percentage gain for 2009 overall, with the support of increasingly attractive valuations and massive sideline cash, according to Robert C.
  • Redesigning home spaces the Twining way Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 8:05AM If you already know West Roxbury resident and interior designer Edie Twining, chances are that your home or office is the envy of family, friends or co-workers.
  • Checkolite and Arkados Merge Whole-House Audio and Lighting into a New Line of iHome Products Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 8:00AM The companies team to create lighting products with speakers that define a new whole-house music platform -
  • Born: January 18, 1940 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 7:50AMDon (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist, vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording engineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940. After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bass and the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taught on all instruments.
  • Hi Ben, Thanks for a Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:25AM Hi Ben, Thanks for a thoughtful summing up of what’s been an enjoyable debate on the "pages" of New Matilda. I think, however, that you oversimplify what I was arguing in my article on the film industry. And one other small quibble - I wouldn’t call myself an industry ‘insider.’ I’m not a filmmaker, and I’m certainly not barracking from inside the industry. I have written about Australian ...
  • SanDisk Launches slotRadio Player and Cards Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:16AMSanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, today unveiled the new Sansa® slotRadio™ player and companion line of slotRadio music cards designed especially for the casual music consumer. The Sansa slotRadio player is a small, stylish, portable music device that comes bundled with a slotRadio card preloaded with 1,000 songs handpicked from ...
  • Get to know the famed nose Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:01AM Kevin Kline alights on the Broadway stage, gracefully and ready to duel – by word and by sword. His plumed hat, set at a rakish angle, cannot hide the nose. Oh, that nose of incredible length, which is the subject of much of “Cyrano de Bergerac. Photo caption: Kevin Kline, left, stars in “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which airs at 8 tonight on PBS. Photo by PBS
  • SanDisk Launches slotRadio Player and Cards Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:01AM LAS VEGAS----SanDisk Corporation , the inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, today unveiled the new Sansa® slotRadio™ player and companion line of slotRadio music cards designed especially for the casual music consumer.
  • Five Ways to be on Trend With Your Wall in 2009 Wednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 2:00AM Wall décor has become seriously trendy over the last couple of years and with homemakers looking for wallet friendly decor 2009 will be the year for stick-on decoration to take off.
  • Asia Stocks Rise on Expectation U.S. Spending Will Boost Growth Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:07PMJan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Asian shares rose, driving up the benchmark index by the most in three weeks, on speculation U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan and tax cuts will revive growth in the region’s largest export market.
  • The first two quarters of 2009, in fact, will see the hedge fund industry continue to shrink, hit by investor ... Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 10:04PMThe year 2009 will be of global recession and deflation with market volatile to macro information flow, says Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research, Thomson Reuters Lipper.
  • Japan Stocks Rise on U.S. Stimulus Expectations; Mitsui Climbs Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:26PMJan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s stocks rose after President- elect Barack Obama said the U.S. will run deficits for years to keep the economy afloat, lifting speculation government spending will boost demand for Japanese products.
  • Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen to Present Balke & Kirkeby: Distant Horizon Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:15PMCOPENHAGEN.- Ordrupgaard will present the exhibition ”Balke & Kirkeby. Distant horizons” from March 5 to June 21 2009, showing paintings by the Norwegian romantic landscape painter, Peder Balke, together with works by the Danish contemporary artist, Per Kirkeby.
  • DeCordova Museum to Feature Harold Tovish Exhibition Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:15PMLINCOLN, MA.- Harold “Red” Tovish (1921-2008) was one of the most important artists working in Boston during the second half of the twentieth century. A distinguished teacher at Boston University, Tovish made an influential mark on Boston art history.
  • LACMA Acquires Major European Fashion Collection; Museum Catapults to Leader in the Field Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:13PMInstallation View. New Installation of the Modernt Art Galleries. ⓒ 2008 Museum Associates / LACMA. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces the acquisition of an exceptional European fashion collection that includes approximately 250 examples of fashionable dress and more than 300 accessories for men, women, and children dating from 1700 to 1915. The collection ...
  • 250 Years of Coal Culture Documented in Unique Print and Poster Collection Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:12PMCamille Pissarro, French, 1831-1903: Factory at Pontoise, 1874; etching. 11 x 14 inches. From the John P. Eckblad Collection. CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The target="_blank">Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents a special exhibition drawn from one of the most extensive private collections of prints and posters associated with industry and labor.
  • Tech show bucks global downturn Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:28AMMore than 130,000 people are expected to travel to Las Vegas for the giant Consumer Electronics Show.
  • Here comes the Cookie Train Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:22AMThe North Platte Telegraph Thin Mints, Shortbread, Carmel Delights and Peanut Butter Patties - oh my.
  • Des Moines kids express inner Warhol Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:13AMThe Des Moines Art Center gave a crash course in pop art to kids in two groups on Dec. 30.
  • Clive OKs master plan for public art Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 4:12AMClive may soon stand alone among Iowa cities in its commitment to installing public artwork.
  • My Pharmiweb.com Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:27AMResources | Features | The NanoKTN Supports The Significan...
  • China Stocks Rise, Led by Financials on Pudong Bank Profit Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 9:51PMJan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- China’s benchmark stock index rose for a second day, led by financial and energy companies, after Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co. said profit more than doubled and crude oil prices traded close to a one-month high.
  • FIIs begin with a bang, but market players see limited buying Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 9:49PMSensex rally may be short-lived due to poor third quarter results. Continuing their December buying spree, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have begun the New Year with fresh buying in Indian markets even though experts feel that the current rally is likely to be short-lived.
  • Critics picks for top films of 2008 Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 9:45PMThe top 10 films of 2008, according to Associated Press writers David Germain and Christy Lemire:
  • Works of anti-Axis artist march on CMU Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 8:36PMAs a majority of the world slung bullets and bombs during World War II, Polish-born artist Arthur Szyk packed ammunition that was a little less lethal.
  • Concerns build in 2009 Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 8:13PM The watchword in business, here in central Illinois and around the country, is "uncertain" when anticipating what 2009 will bring. After a year that brought a global market meltdown along with billion-dollar bailouts for U.S. financial and automotive industries, economists have various opinions on what the troubled economy will bring in 2009.
  • High-rise suburbs coming Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 7:21AMSydney will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit underground subways under transport blueprint.
  • Get ready: high-rise suburbs coming Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 7:15AMSYDNEY will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit subways under a transport blueprint being developed by senior state and federal government bureaucrats.
  • Q&A: Hal Holbrook talks "Into the Wild," Oscar nomination, and "Mark Twain Tonight" Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 7:14AMHal Holbrook talks about Oscars, film roles, and "Mark Twain Tonight"
  • Readington children share stories of life in America with Afghan students Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 7:08AMA middle school teacher in this Hunterdon County municipality explains life in America to her pupils by having them teach on it to youngsters halfway around the world.
  • Shauna Lyon: Cafe Select, in Nolita. Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:06PMOyster Bar aside, the anticipation of delicious food and pleasing ambience is not usually accompanied by thinking, “Ah, the train station.” Yet in Switzerland, from Bern to Basel to Zurich, some popular restaurants have been housed in der Bahnhof. At the Swiss bistro Café Select, in Nolita, the latest venture . . .
  • Goings on About Town: Movies Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:03PMOPENING BRIDE WARS A comedy, directed by Gary Winick, about two friends who become enemies when their weddings are scheduled for the same day. Starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson. Opening Jan. 9. (In wide release.) HELLRAISER A remake of the 1987 horror film, based on Clive Barker’s novella “The . . .
  • Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:02PMTHE HAPPY ENDING SERIES @ JOE’S PUB For years, the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, which mandates that writers and musicians “take one public risk” (such as revealing their PIN numbers or playing a tricky cover song), took place at a bar in Chinatown. It is moving to Joe’s Pub . . .
  • Books: "Tinkers" Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:02PMThis compact, adamantine début dips in and out of the consciousness of a New England patriarch named George Washington Crosby as he lies dying on a hospital bed in his living room, “right where they put the dining room table, fitted with its two extra leaves for holiday dinners.” The . . .
  • Books: "Reading Dance" Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:02PMThis sweeping anthology of dance writing weighs in at more than thirteen hundred pages. In his introduction, Gottlieb, the editor of myriad books on dance and the former editor of this magazine, acknowledges that no anthology is ideal. This one has a strong tilt toward ballet (and further toward Balanchine . . .
  • Books: "Paracelsus" Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:02PMIn the first major consideration in fifty years of the Renaissance doctor, alchemist, and theologian, Webster draws on nonscientific writings by Paracelsus that have been made widely available only in the past few decades. Born in Sweden in 1493, a quarter century before the German Reformation, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast . . .
  • Books: "Girl Meets Boy" Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 11:02PMIn Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Iphis is brought up as a boy and, on the eve of her wedding to another girl, saved from disaster when an obliging goddess agrees to change her gender. Such obvious transformation is absent from Smith’s modern retelling, which is narrated in alternating chapters by Midge and . . .
  • Abbeville librarian gets chance to study children’s literature Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 10:59PMMary Elizabeth Land, director of the Abbeville County Library System, makes sure the shelves in each of the county’s libraries are well stocked and well read with new best sellers and classics.
  • JOHN CRISP: Rick Warren -- divider or unifier? Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 10:51PMIn 1963, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan argued that some government-sanctioned activities, though religious in origin, lose their religious meaning over time.
  • Technical outlook for 2009 Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 6:15PMDespite a gloomy macroeconomic environment, 2009 is unlikely to be as bad as the previous year. After enjoying three years of nearly 35 per cent plus returns, investors burnt their fingers as the Nifty plunged over 50 per cent in 2008, making it one of the worst years in market history.
  • Web Watch: That singing credit report guy Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 5:01PMWHAT IS IT? "F to the R to the E to the E..." JINGLE ALL THE WAY: Even those of us who despise Madison Avenue and in-your-face marketing in general have to admit: those freecreditreport.com songs are catchy.
  • Mums rule in the kitchen Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 4:44PMThey may not be celebrated chefs but for most of us, nothing can quite match the meals our mothers rustle up for us. Today we bring you ‘A dish I learned from my mother’.
  • JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 4:30PMSmart gadgets, lifelike video, and pocket versions of laptop computers are expected to be Consumer Electronics Show (CES) stars as the annual extravaganza follows its gizmos onto the Web.
  • Cool Nicole Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 3:47PMThe 41-year-old Oscar-winning actress, whose credits include To Die For, Moulin Rouge, The Hours, Cold Mountain and The Golden Compass stars as English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley in the epic romantic adventure film set in northern Australia during World War II.
  • Gordon Brown to blitz credit crisis with fresh ideas Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 3:39PMFor Gordon Brown, government activism is now everything. So expect a flood of initiatives over the coming weeks, starting today with a three-day tour of Britain culminating in the third away-day Cabinet meeting on Thursday, this time in Liverpool.
  • Great expectations for Obama abroad Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 3:34PMTeam Obama is more pragmatic and less ideological than its predecessors, say diplomats and campaign advisers. Afghanistan will be a foreign-policy priority.
  • Before Oregon, creation stories sprang from the land Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 12:18PMTorsten Kjellstrand, The OregonianMount Hood rises out of the forest to 11,249 feet and defines the landscape in much of Oregon, whether you see if from east, west, north or south. In the beginning, there was no state of Oregon...
  • Cell Phone Soap Operas Deliver Safe-Sex Message Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 10:12AMTRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- "Hey baby, you OK?" Mike asks his girlfriend as she sits down next to him.