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</div>Earlier this week Elizabeth Taylor, legendary Academy Award®-winning actress, died in Los Angeles at Cedars-Sinai Hospital at the age of 79. She had been suffering with congestive heart failure and related complications for several years. As a tribute to her life, Sirius XM Radio ran […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>On March 25th the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation will honor a 17-year-old Boy Scout from Omaha, Nebraska with its American Spirit Award. The award is given to an individual that has exhibited extraordinary skill, professionalism, and a spirit of excellence in a challenging situation. […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>Top Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner, wife of Oscar Award winning actor Ben Affleck, has lent her notoriety to Mediaplanet in support of early childhood education. The initiative is designed to help draw attention to the importance of properly educating children starting from an early age. […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>With help from Bluefin Labs, Pepsi has launched an internet music ranking system which aggregates data from social media sites. The platform, dubbed the Pepsi Max Index, provides visitors to the index with a Top 250 of popular and emerging musical talent. The company launched […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>Sony Pictures has announced that Tom Hanks has signed on to star in a true-story movie about the kidnapping of Captain Richard Phillips by Somali Pirates in the spring of 2009. Hanks will reportedly play the role of Captain Phillips. Phillips was the Captain of […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>To keep up with the entire controversy surrounding actor Charlie Sheen, Sirius XM Radio has announced that it has created a 24-hour limited run channel to document and discuss all of the latest news about the celebrity. The station is called, “Tiger Blood Radio.” The […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>The Discovery Communications, best known for the Discovery Channel, announced that they have launched Facebook’s updated Comments plugin on the video clip pages across their broadcast networks. This includes the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Investigation Discovery, Military Channel, and Discovery Health, as […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>The American Legacy Foundation, a.k.a.Legacy, best known for its truth ® youth smoking prevention campaign, is asking aspiring filmmakers refrain from using cigarettes as props in their films. Legacy developed a six-minute documentary titled “Redefining Cool”. Actress and activist Daryl Hannah has lent her support, talents, […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>At the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, for the first time ever, and Iranian film won the award for best picture. The film which took home the “Golden Bear” was titled “Nader and Simin: A Separation”. The film is a drama about a struggling marriage […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>In the wake of charges for a DUI on the 6th of February, NASCAR driver Michael Annett has been placed on probation for one year. At the end of the probation, Annett will be evaluated by a counselor and be subject to random alcohol and […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>When it comes to quality control testing and the development of new products, Botanical Reference Materials (BRMs), also known as Herbal References are critically important. To help companies ultimately obtain all-important FDA approval, the Food and Drug Administration provides in its guidance a recommendation that […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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</div>Industrial drum mixers are normally applied to blend mixes of varying viscosities such as adhesive slurries or cement. Some of these mixers have the capability of blending mixes of very different particle sizes such as fruit and ice cream, and gravel and cement slurry. The […]<!-- AddThis Sharing Buttons below -->
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