The Associated Press Date: Tuesday Apr. 20, 2010 1:33 PM ET LOS ANGELES — First the Beatles and Elvis, now Michael Jackson. The acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil announced Tuesday that it will put on a live touring show featuring the songs of the King of Pop starting late next year. That will be followed by [...]
Conrad Askland, from Mount Vernon, WA USA, is currently living in Macau (SAR) China while working with the Cirque Du Soleil ZAIA show at the Venetian Macao. In Asia he has also performed in Shanghai, South Korea and Japan. October 1, 2009 - 中国加油，中国万岁 Happy Sixty Year Anniversary to the People’s Republic of China! It’s a [...]
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Excerpt: “If one person imitates what a monkey does, and the other person does not imitate, the monkey prefers to spend more time in front of the person that imitated them,” said Dr. Annika Paukner at the National Institutes of Health offices in Poolesville, Maryland. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/13/monkeys.imitations/index.html
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.html Excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit harder by AIDS and HIV than any other region of the world, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization. There has been fierce debate between those who advocate the use of condoms to help stop the spread of the epidemic and those who oppose it. ********************* [...]
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed it’s last newspaper on March 17, 2009. It will now only be available online as an internet newspaper. Excerpt: The paper published its final print edition Tuesday (March 17, 2009) as the P-I makes a transformation into an online-only news outlet. A skeleton crew of 20 to 25 staffers will remain [...]
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Part Two Obama Inauguration speech part one and two. CNN analyzes the speech content here: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.speech.sources/index.html
Thoughts from Macau (SAR) China: “11,000 To Lose Casino Jobs in Macau” – front page featured news at CNN.com today. They are referring specifically to the Sands Venetian. Well now, not the best news for us working at the Venetian in Macau – but insiders have known it was coming. The dream to make Macau [...]
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