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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Muslim-majority Malaysia on Tuesday banned a planned concert by Erykah Badu after a photograph appeared showing the Grammy-winning singer with the Arabic word for Allah written on her body.

The American R&B singer was scheduled to perform Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, but some Muslim groups said Badu was an unsuitable role model for young Malaysians after seeing a publicity photo of her with what appeared to be temporary tattoos of the word Allah on her bare shoulders.

A government committee that includes police and Islamic policy officials decided to forbid Badu's show because the body art was "an insult to Islam and a very serious offence," Information Minister Rais Yatim said in a statement.

The photo of Badu had "triggered public criticism that could jeopardize national security and cause a negative impact to the government's image," the statement added.

The 41-year-old, Dallas-born singer had already arrived in Malaysia. She can stay as a tourist but will not be allowed to perform, an Information Ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public statements.

Razman Razali, managing director of the show's Malaysian organizer, Pineapple Concerts, said his company hopes the ban will be reversed.

Badu is "worried and dismayed," Razman told The Associated Press. She was slated to perform in an auditorium that can hold about 3,000 spectators.

It was the first concert by a Western performer to be banned in Malaysia in recent years. Several other stars, including Gwen Stefani and Avril Lavigne, were told to dress modestly while performing.

The photograph of Badu, which also appears on her official fan website, attracted attention after Malaysia's most widely read English-language daily, The Star, published it Monday.

On Tuesday, the newspaper apologized to Muslims for what it called an "oversight," saying it deeply regretted any offence sparked by the photo, which was "inadvertently published." The Home Ministry summoned The Star's editors to explain the photograph, which caused some Muslim activists to demand the newspaper's suspension.

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Rich Middlemas, TJ Martin and Dan Lindsay accepting the Oscars. (GARY HERSHORN - REUTERS)

“Undefeated” was a surprise Academy Award winner tonight for best documentary. Such a surprise, in fact, that one of the elated co-directors accidently said the f-word during his acceptance speech, making him the second Oscar victory in history to drop that bomb during the live telecast.

As soon as the ”Undefeated” winners got backstage in the press room, the first question they faced pertained to that obscenity utterance.

“First and foremost I’d like to apologize for that,” said TJ Martin, the man responsible for the accidental curse word. (The specific phrase used: “[bleeping] amazing.”)

“That was not the classiest thing in the world,” he added. “However, it did come from the heart.”

Afterward the other director, Daniel Lindsay, noted that they really wanted to dedicate their award to the people of West Memphis, where the high school football documentary was set. Their speech was cut for time before they were able to do that.

Of course, another member of the press had a follow-up, asking whether Martin intended to one-up Melissa Leo, the woman responsible for what was (until now) the singular Oscar f-bomb performance.

“There was no one-upping,” Martin said. “When I say it came from the heart, it was completely spontaneous and accidental.”

And with that, the men responsible for winning an Oscar for a moving documentary about sports, economic struggle and race became those dudes who said a bad word at the Academy Awards.

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27-02-2012 11:31 http://www.learningcomputer.com In order to install WordPress and set it up as your website, you need to do the following things: -Register new website or domain that supports WordPress -Back up your site and domain files -Download and install WordPress application -Extract all the files and upload them using FileZilla -Configure the WordPress Software -Create MySQL database and MySQL user for Word press on your hosting -Enter information about your new blog like Title and Name of Blog -Login to your site and create a new blog post In this video we show you step by step how to setup WordPress site as your main site. We are using a site deletefrom.com. This will help you save on website development and design cost.

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NORMA Group with record sales and earnings in 2011

  - Preliminary sales of fiscal year 2011 exceed forecast

  - Sales increase by 18.5% to EUR 581 million compared to the previous
    year

  - Adjusted EBITA improves by 20.2% to EUR 103 million

  - Adjusted EBITA margin rises from 17.4% to the record level of 17.7%

  - Net debt decreases to below EUR 200 million

  - Order backlog increases from EUR 188 million in the previous year to
    EUR 219 million

Maintal, Germany, 27 February 2012 - NORMA Group AG (´NORMA Group´), an
international market and technology leader in engineered joining
technology, achieved record sales and earnings in fiscal year 2011.
According to preliminary figures, sales grew by 18.5% to EUR 581.4 million
(2010: EUR 490.4 million) in the past fiscal year. The adjusted operating
earnings (adjusted EBITA) of EUR 102.7 million was up 20.2% year on year
(2010: EUR 85.4 million). NORMA Group thus even slightly exceeded the sales
forecast it had revised upwards in July 2011. Over the full year, the
adjusted EBITA margin improved from 17.4% in the previous year to the
record level of 17.7%. The net debt of the SDAX company has been reduced to
EUR 198 million (31.12.2010: EUR 344 million). The order backlog increased
to EUR 219 million by the end of the financial year 2011 compared to EUR
188 million in the previous year. This enables NORMA Group to look to the
fiscal year 2012 with confidence.

Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group: ´We are looking back on a very
successful year that even exceeded our own expectations. The IPO in April
2011 was certainly a milestone, but our business and our earnings also
showed substantial momentum. We grew across all divisions and regions.´

In its last guidance for the financial year 2011, NORMA Group had
forecasted sales of about EUR 570 million and an EBITA margin of near
18.0%.

Positive development including fourth quarter of 2011

In the fourth quarter of 2011, NORMA Group generated sales of EUR 139.6
million up 8.3% compared to the previous year (Q4/2010: EUR 128.9 million).
Adjusted EBITA grew by 9.5% to EUR 22.6 million (Q4/2010: EUR 20.6
million). The adjusted EBITA margin was 16.2% (Q4/2010: 16.0%).

NORMA Group AG - in figures

Overview of key financial      Financial Year 2011    Financial Year 2010
indicators
(in EUR millions)  01.01. - 31.12.2011    01.01. - 31.12.2010
Sales                          581.4                  490.4
Adjusted EBITA                 102.7                  85.4
Adjusted EBITA margin          17.7 %                 17.4 %
Net debt (31.12.)              198                    344
Order book (31.12.)            219                    188

Overview of key financial indicators
(in EUR
millions)                                              Q4 2011    Q4 2010
Sales                                                  139.6      128.9
Adjusted EBITA                                         22.6       20.6
Adjusted EBITA margin                                  16.2       16.0

More information is available from the Investor Relations section at
http://www.normagroup.com.

Upcoming events

A comprehensive report with detailed explanation will be provided upon
presentation of the final fiscal 2011 figures at the balance sheet press
conference as well as the analyst and investor conference on 28 March 2012.

For more information

Daphne Recker
Media Relations
Email: daphne.recker@normagroup.com  
Tel.: +49 (0)6181 - 610 2743

Andreas Trösch
Investor Relations
Email: andreas.troesch@normagroup.com
Tel.: +49 (0)6181 - 610 2741

About NORMA Group

NORMA Group is an international market and technology leader in engineered
joining technology. The company manufactures a wide range of innovative
engineered joining technology solutions in three product categories (clamp,
connect and fluid) and offers more than 35,000 high-quality products and
solutions to approximately 10,000 customers in 80 countries. NORMA Group
joining products can be found in vehicles, ships, trains, aircraft,
domestic appliances, engines and plumbing systems. NORMA Group generated
preliminary sales of around EUR 580 million in 2011. With around 4,200
employees, NORMA Group operates a global network of 17 production
facilities as well as eleven other sales and distribution sites across
Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. NORMA Group has its headquarters in
Maintal, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. NORMA Group was formed in 2006 as
a result of the merger between the German Rasmussen Group and the Swedish
ABA Group. Since April 2011, NORMA Group is listed on the German stock
exchange.

Disclaimer

This press release contains certain future-oriented statements.
Future-oriented statements include all statements which do not relate to
historical facts and events and contain future-oriented expressions such as
´believe´, ´estimate´, ´assume´, ´expect´, ´forecast´, ´intend´, ´could´ or
´should´ or expressions of a similar kind. Such future-oriented statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties since they relate to future events
and are based on the company´s current assumptions, which may not in the
future take place or be fulfilled as expected. The company points out that
such future-oriented statements provide no guarantee for the future and
that the actual events including the financial position and profitability
of the NORMA Group AG and developments in the economic and regulatory
fundamentals may vary substantially (particularly on the down side) from
those explicitly or implicitly assumed in these statements. Even if the
actual assets for the NORMA Group AG, including its financial position and
profitability and the economic and regulatory fundamentals, are in
accordance with such future-oriented statements in this press release, no
guarantee can be given that this will continue to be the case in the
future.

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  Jean Dujardin admitted to dropping the French equivalent of the F-bomb during his acceptance speech for lead actor in “The Artist” during the Oscars ceremony Sunday night.

"I said, ‘It’s amazing, it’s incredible, it’s unbelievable,' " the French actor said in halting English until his translator whispered in his ear that he had actually been asked whether he used profanity.

“Uh, yes,” he said, shrugging and smiling playfully.

From there, the press room was whisked to Paris as Dujardin took, and answered, the bulk of his questions in French.
 
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It was a one-of-a-kind moment backstage since Dujardin was the first French actor to win such an award, despite being one of several nominated over the years.

Now that he will go down in history for his portrayal of silent film star George Valentin, does he hope to transition to “talkies” in America?

“I’m not American actor, I’m French actor,” said Dujardin shyly in English.  “I continue in France.”

Then he whispered in his translator’s ear.

“If he can make another silent movie in America, he’d like to,” his translator said. Dujardin smiled. Everyone laughed.

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Photo: Jean Dujardin backstage with his Oscar. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times

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