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Frank Cervantes Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011

Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.

HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish Brown's memoir, currently untitled, in early 2011. Financial terms were not disclosed; Brown was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose many clients have included Kennedy, the liberal icon who died last summer after more than 40 years in office

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 10, 2010 at 10:58am — No Comments

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HOSTING BUISSNESS 2020 CONFERENCE


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Added by Kyle Jonck on March 9, 2010 at 7:04pm — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Valli's Walk of Shame Chic

If style is grace under pressure, as Ernest Hemingway once defined it, then designer Giambattista Valli surely has it in spades.

Though his Italian manufacturer, the Burani group, went into liquidation last month, the designer presented a beautifully slick show in Paris on Monday, March 8, that reminded the audience what a great designer Valli really is.

Staged in a disused bank building, the show opened with a quintet of looks where Valli played with volume, most spectacularl

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 9, 2010 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Lil Wayne begins year jail term in NYC gun case

Lil Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year in jail in New York City for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007, then was taken away in handcuffs to begin his term immediately.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper, born Dwayne Carter, was sentenced in Manhattan after pleading guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted having the loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus.

The rapper will serve his sentence in city jails, not a state prison

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 8, 2010 at 11:41pm — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Oscar hopeful Sandra Bullock crowned worst actress

The day before she is favored to win an Oscar, Sandra Bullock was crowned on Saturday with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009.

Bullock, whose drama "The Blind Side" has made her the odds-on favorite to claim the best actress Oscar, was given a Razzie Award for worst female performance in "All About Steve." No performer has ever won a Razzie and an Oscar the same year.

Unlike most Razzie honorees, Bullock showed up to collect the award, dragging a cart of DVDs to hand out

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 7, 2010 at 11:18am — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Met premieres Shostakovich's absurdist 'The Nose'

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, "The Nose," more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that.

Yet few works in the repertory seem more modern or musically challenging than this absurdist masterpiece that came to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time Friday night.

Written when the composer was just 22, the opera is adapted from a story by Nikolai Gogol about a bureaucrat in St. Petersburg named Kovalyov who wakes up to di

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 6, 2010 at 8:15pm — No Comments

Sean Riley Track Ad Dynamo within Google Analytics

Glad to say we launched support for rich data tracking within Google Analytics today. All your Ad Dynamo data will automatically feed through in detail if you simply activate Analytics Tracking within your Ad Dynamo campaign settings.

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Added by Sean Riley on March 4, 2010 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Emma Byrd Govt slow to force safer designs for window blinds

WASHINGTON – Shopping for her nursery, Kelly Horvath bought a new window shade because its label advertised its child safety features. She later found her 16-month-old son dead in his crib, the shade's cord wrapped around his neck, another young victim of what U.S. government records show are some of the deadliest recalled consumer products. "It was the hardest thing I've had to go through in my life," said Horvath, a stay-at-home mom in Painesville, Ohio, about the death of her son, Josiah, in… Continue

Added by Emma Byrd on March 4, 2010 at 2:23am — No Comments

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Added by Chew magazine on March 3, 2010 at 11:13am — No Comments

Emma Byrd SeaWorld workers describe speed of fatal attack

MIAMI – A killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death eluded SeaWorld workers who furiously unfurled nets while it swam pool-to-pool during the attack last week, according to witness statements released Monday. After minutes of frenzied work to save Dawn Brancheau, the whale was finally corralled but still refused to unclench its teeth, according to the investigative reports released by the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Investigators have said before that she died from multiple traumatic… Continue

Added by Emma Byrd on March 2, 2010 at 2:56am — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Book optioned by 'Avatar' director is halted

Publication has been halted for a disputed book about the atomic bombing of Japan that "Avatar" director James Cameron had optioned for a possible film, The Associated Press has learned.

Publisher Henry Holt and Company, responding to questions from the AP, said Monday that author Charles Pellegrino "was not able to answer" concerns about "The Last Train from Hiroshima," including whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed.

"It is with deep regret that Henry Holt and

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Added by Frank Cervantes on March 1, 2010 at 10:54pm — No Comments

Emma Byrd Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month — yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher. The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings. And Chile was relat… Continue

Added by Emma Byrd on March 1, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Eeshaam September An email to the incompetent public service

To Whom it may concern,

I have emailed CIPRO and gotten no reply, I have called both the National Customer C
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Added by Eeshaam September on March 1, 2010 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Emma Byrd USOC eager to build on 2010 record medals haul

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- After watching their heroes in action during the 2010 Winter Games, somewhere out there are the next Shaun White, Apolo Anton Ohno, Shani Davis, Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn - and the U.S. Olympic Committee wants to find them. The USOC released a guide to the eight Olympic federations for winter sports: biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, figure skating, hockey, luge, ski and snowboard and speedskating. The guide includes a list of suggestions on how to get s… Continue

Added by Emma Byrd on March 1, 2010 at 1:39am — No Comments

Emma Byrd American Idol: The First Four Gone Meet The Press

It’s never easy making it all the way through Hollywood Week and then getting the boot after your first performance as one of American Idol’s Top 24, but Season 9’s early exits were pretty accepting and gracious. Janell Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe Munoz and Tyler Grady spoke to the press about what-ifs, judges, friends, and giving your fans what they want. – Cynthia Wang Only One Regret: Janell Wheeler, the 24-year-old from Orlando who demonstrated star power during Hollywood Week with her r… Continue

Added by Emma Byrd on February 28, 2010 at 1:58am — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Fashion's latest fixation: 3D

This story is brought to you courtesy of ArtInfo.com

Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with t

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Added by Frank Cervantes on February 27, 2010 at 11:16am — No Comments

Chew magazine Benetton 'It's MY time' campaign


What a clever campaign this is. In the age of everything social and interactive and the very prominent 'don't tell us what we want, we'll tell you' attitude of our generation, Benetton have gone and created a global casting competition. Gone are the stereotypical catwalk cliches and model attitud… Continue

Added by Chew magazine on February 26, 2010 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Frank Cervantes A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter creating Oscar magic

Disney's Pixar Animation Studios head into the next week's Oscars with the only movie ever nominated for both best film and best animated film, "Up," about an old man and boy on an adventure in a faraway land.

Since its release last spring, "Up" has sold more than $725 million worth of tickets worldwide. It follows a string of successes that include "The Incredibles" and "Cars."

Disney/Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter, a major star in the world of animation, spoke to R

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Added by Frank Cervantes on February 25, 2010 at 8:39pm — No Comments

Chew magazine Have you heard of Design Thinking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3wwj680nGE&feature=player_embedded

I attended an event that was posted on the Silicon Cape website yesterday that included a chat by a professor from d.school. The event was jam-packed (I was sitting on the receptionist's desk outside in the passage leaning my head into the doorway) but it was completely fascinating to hear what these guys were doing at the d.school (… Continue

Added by Chew magazine on February 25, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Frank Cervantes Country stars Ferlin Husky, Jimmy Dean honored

Ferlin Husky, who first achieved stardom with his 1957 song "Gone," will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with veteran country stars Jimmy Dean, Don Williams, and Billy Sherrill.

"So they're finally going to do it, are they? Well, it's worth the wait," Husky, 84, said on Wednesday.

Husky helped usher in the smoother, more slickly produced Nashville Sound movement, with "Gone" a top country hit that also reached No. 4 on the pop charts. The record featured vo

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Added by Frank Cervantes on February 24, 2010 at 7:42pm — No Comments

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