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'Lovetown, USA': Virginia town could be site of Oprah matchmaking reality show Washington Post (blog) A new reality show backed by the media mogul's OWN network and the BBC is scouting possible locations for its first season — and the small town of Culpeper, Va., is one of 40 finalists. Dubbed “Lovetown, USA,” the matchmaking show will “take over one ... See all stories on this topic »

Hacking the Google TV Box Without Rooting It, Part 2 TechNewsWorld Pre-Honeycomb streaming app Slingplayer, staple BBC News, broadcaster MSNBC, and video podcast app Mediafly all failed to load properly, or at all, despite my installation of the Orientation Switch that eve79nj had recommended in a GTVHacker forum post ... See all stories on this topic »

Rezidor Announces Celebrity Mixologist to Visit the Park Inn Cardiff City Centre MarketWatch (press release) Aside from his work on BBC's "Something for the Weekend," Wayne Collins has won numerous awards for his cocktail mixing skills, including the 2003/2004 DrinksInternational Bartender of the year. He also appears regularly on UK television where he ... See all stories on this topic »

Crew ends isolation in completing 520-day simulated flight to Mars USA Today We are now ready for further tests," Russian commander Alexey Sitev said after emerging from the Mars500 "spaceship" at a Moscow institute, the BBC reports. The goal was to gauge the psychological and physiological effects of extended isolation. ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

'Big Bang Theory' E4 return watched by almost 1m Digital Spy UK The X Factor USA logged 605k (2.6%) for ITV2 over two hours until 10pm, adding a timeshifted audience of 148k. Elsewhere on digital channels, Russell Howard's Good News dipped to 660k (4.1%) on BBC Three at 10.30pm. Celebrity Juice also shed viewers ... See all stories on this topic »

Bowls: Can King grab Perth title? Perthshire Advertiser The established WBT event features all but one of the top 16 indoor bowlers in theworld, joined by qualifiers from the UK, Australia, South Africa, USA, Canada, Hong Kong and Israel. There will be live coverage of the championship on BBC TV Scotland ... See all stories on this topic »

Divine dispatches: a religion roundup The Guardian (blog) The BBC reports that Dawud Burbank and his wife Khalida Begum Dost were travelling to Mecca and are believed to come from Birmingham in the West Midlands. • Much concern after a Canadian imam was detained, and allegedly beaten, while in Medina. ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

The UK celebrates London 2012 with a 12-week nationwide festival of the ... London 2012 (press release) BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012, a celebration of live music and BBC Radio 1's biggest-ever, free live music event. With six stages and more than 80 international andUK artists, bands and DJs, confirmed acts include Hackney's own superstar, ... See all stories on this topic »

Miranda Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results: Revenue and Profitability at ... MarketWatch (press release) Some of the other notable recent sales wins include Al Jazeera (UAE), Astro TV (Malaysia), BBC West One (UK), BskyB (UK), CBC (Canada), Center for Disease Control (USA), Da Ai TV (Taiwan), Lockheed-Martin (USA), Qatar TV (Qatar), TV Globo (Brazil), ... See all stories on this topic »

Could super-Flu be caused by this year's flu vaccine The Economic Voice A BBC documentary “Clouds of Secrecy” exposed that top secret trials were carried out between 1953 and 1964 where zinc cadmium sulphide was released to see how cloud would disperse biological agents. The BBC also reported a significant increase in ... See all stories on this topic »

Nation brainwashed by cult of boom Sydney Morning Herald ''The name could well have come from war-time GIs who introduced themselves as 'John from America,' '' the BBC reported in a 2007 account of the cult. We sneer at such ignorance. But consider our own irrationalities when it comes to mining. ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Worldclass wildlife Isle of Man Today It is two years since Jeremy's last exhibition in the island, but in the intervening period he has twice won a category in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year competition – the UK's premier wildlife art competition. Last year a painting of an otter ... See all stories on this topic » Isle of Man Today

Reidsville could be site of reality show GoDanRiver.com Now it could, thanks to the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and BBC Worldwide Productions. Lovetown, USA, a new reality show currently in pre-production, is seeking a small town of approximately 15000 people which shows a definite sense of community. ... See all stories on this topic »

Details On Noel Clarke's Upcoming Sci-Fi Horror Project Revealed… Indie Wire (blog) Back in May, in an interview earlier today with BBC Radio 5, Brit renaissance man (director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, and who knows what else), Noel Clarke, who we've given a lot of pixels to on this site, revealed that he had written a ... See all stories on this topic » Indie Wire (blog)

BA parent company IAG gobbles up BMI, snags more Heathrow slots for BA The Periscope Post BA Chief Willie Walsh, speaking to BBC Radio Friday morning, said that this would be a smaller percentage of slots than Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners have at Frankfurt, or Air France and its Sky Team buddies have at Paris Charles de Gaulle. ... See all stories on this topic » The Periscope Post

Canada's cyclists join US and Australia in choosing Surrey as their Olympic base road.cc But for the Canadians, as perhaps befits a country which markets itself partly on the friendly welcome its population gives to visitors, there was another reason, with Matthew Knight, of the Canadian Cycling Association, quoted on the BBC News website ... See all stories on this topic »

PIR, OC, BBG, OII, NBL - Friday Stocks to watch at opening bell Retirement Planning Bill Barrett Corporation (BBC) is engaged in exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil, and all of its operations are conducted in the United States.BBC explores for and develops oil and natural gas in the Rocky Mountain ... See all stories on this topic »

Polish economy is booming, bucking international trends Public Radio International PRI PRI's "The World" is a one-hour, weekday radio news magazine offering a mix of news, features, interviews, and music from around the globe. "The World" is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston. More about The World. See all stories on this topic »

X FACTOR BABES FIGHT Daily Star Saturday is bonfire night and there could certainly be fireworks on The show has been losing out in the ratings war to BBC rival Strictly Come Dancing and fans claim the bust-ups are overshadowing the acts. Gary, 40, invited Tulisa, 23, Kelly, 30, ... See all stories on this topic »

Car Insurance Site Tiger.co.uk on Electric Car Sales Press Dispensary (press release) The BBC reported in May that only 704 charging points are in place across the UK and two thirds of UK towns with a population greater than 150000 go without. The knowledge about being able to charge the vehicle at home also seems to be lacking. ... See all stories on this topic »

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. : POOR ECONOMICS by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther ... 4-traders (press release) Edward L. Glaeser (The Penguin Press, USA; Macmillan, UK) In 2009, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population lived in cities. In a time when family, friends and co-workers are a call, text, or email away, 3.3 billion people ... See all stories on this topic »

A promising study on how to stop the aging process DigitalJournal.com The BBC reports that these so-called "retired cells" accumulate naturally as the human body ages. The researchers, who published their findings in the medical periodical Nature, refer to these retired cells as "senescent cells" and say they are the ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Why Occupy Wall Street Is Doomed Algemeiner This is one of the reasons I, as a Jew, feel so much more at ease in New York than I ever did in London–because one is not overpowered by a single dominant news chorus coming from the BBC. Here one can hear different points of view. ... See all stories on this topic »

Looking Back: What was happening in past Novembers? Friday Flyer Canyon Lake resident Michael Petty found the BBC documentary, “United Gates of America,” so objectionable, he lodged a formal complaint with the BBC and encouraged other Canyon Lakers who saw the program to do likewise. Dancers from Diana's Dance... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo! Livestand- will it sink or swim? editorsweblog.org (blog) Flipboard's partners, while fewer in number, seem to be big players that offer a broader perspective of news an entertainment, for instance: The Economist, USA Today, The Guardian, BBC, The Daily Beast. Yahoo hosts Forbes, Scientific American, the NFL, ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple Quiet on Siri Outage NBC Bay Area (blog) ... the top names in Silicon Valley's technology industry and world-class technology reporters from The New York Times, Time Magazine, TechCrunch, USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, NPR, the BBC, Financial Times and Fortune. ... See all stories on this topic »

BBC Worldwide Channels brings latest series of Top Gear India Infoline.com BBC Worldwide Channels has today announced that the latest series of Top Gear, theworld's most popular motoring show, will be coming to global television screens just days after the UK premiere transmission. Kicking off with a new Top Gear special in ... See all stories on this topic »

New York-sized iceberg forms in Pine Island glacier in Antarctica DigitalJournal.com ... as result of climate change, reports BBC Environment. The last big calving event occurred in 2001 so in general people have been expecting something like this to happen fairly soon, and for us it is very exciting to see this while it is happening. ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Abuja Will Soon Become Africa's Best Capital City -Minister Middle East North Africa Financial Network In order to broaden and strengthen the ICT backbone of the FCT Administration, he said a leading information management and communications expert from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Jamilah Tangaza was recently engaged. ... See all stories on this topic »

TOYOTA: Post Qualifying Note And Quotes TruckSeries.com Ombudsman apple buy photoshop for mac most over megabits that know purchased and installed, plus both never famous rc tendency continued considerable flaws: a complicated image unlike the bbc around many google employees contrasts one satisfied ... See all stories on this topic »

Lords debate Creative Industries DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) BBC Worldwide is one of the few genuine international players that we have in the UK. It has unrivalled power in global distribution and a growing and impressive track record in investing in successful and original programmes. ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple Planning Entire New Product Line: Report NBC Bay Area (blog) ... the top names in Silicon Valley's technology industry and world-class technology reporters from The New York Times, Time Magazine, TechCrunch, USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, NPR, the BBC, Financial Times and Fortune. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dishonourable Insults by Greg Knight Liberal Democrat Voice Some of the older insults have dated rather in meaning and impact, but many are still very usable today – such as Winston Churchill's exasperation at the BBC's editorial line on impartiality: “You have no right to be impartial between the fire and the ... See all stories on this topic »

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