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Multiply, the world’s fifth largest independent social network geared towards private networking with a member’s real life friends and family, recently launched photo finishing services that enable their members and users to create fast, easy and elegant photo books, calendars, cards and prints.

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For part of this long weekend, Argentines received a free ride on the subways of Buenos Aires due to a shortage of coins that kept Metrovias from being able to sell tickets.According to La Nación, Metrovias asks the National Bank for help but the National Bank did not respond to their request.It is hard to say what is causing this coin shortage, though some companies seem to be hording the coins and making the problems worse. People feel the shortage as they struggle to have coins to pay for buses and telephones. Subway passengers expressed confusion about the situation and many worried that the subways were delayed because of increased holiday traffic. The situation normalized on Tuesday, with passengers once again have to line up and pay their fares, but the situation this weekend simply serves to underline the problems with coinage scarcity that the entire country faces.

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October 14th, 2008 by Jeannie - NWA WorldVacations

Earlier this year, I posted about my trip to Walt Disney World with my then 4 year-old.

Well, we may just have to return to Walt Disney World for my daughter’s next birthday! Or mine!
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Spring is here in full force, and to enjoy these months of mild weather before the hot summer, the city government of Buenos Aires is sponsoring a series of outdoor concerts and events that will be free to the public.According to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide, there will be 250 events in total over the next eleven weeks, including musical shows, tango shows, theater, puppets, story telling, magic shows, film screenings, and poetry.The events are for adults and children.There will also be recitals at Parque Roca, urban music at the Greek Amphitheater in Puerto Madero, and tango in Mataderos, where the fería is held every weekend.The culminating event will be a performance on 9 de Julio, the city’s largest street, by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on November 22. A full schedule of the events is available here.

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A variety of famous actors and directors have participated every year for the last nine years in the free celebration of theater, called Teatrísimo.Teatrísmo is the brain child of newspaper man Luis Mazas who proposed the event in 1999, suggesting that it benefit the Casa del Teatro.Casa del Teatro is a museum on Santa Fe 1243 that preserves much of the history of Argentine theater in its old salons and performance spaces.According to La Nacion, this year’s performances unite famous Argentine actors such as Julieta Díaz, Gustavo Garzón, Juan Palomino, and Viviana Saccone and famous directors, including Jorge Arzumendi, Agustín Alezzo, and Santiago Doria.They will all perform at the Casa del Teatro, beginning today with a ceremony honoring the president of the Casa del Teatro, former actress Mirta Legrand, with the Florencio Sánchez Prize.

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September 27th was World Tourism Day and the Buenos Aires government celebrated by offering free bus tours for anyone who wanted to take a look at the city’s many sites.According to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide, there was a circuit of free hop-on, hop-off buses which departed from four head points in the city.The points were the Obelisk, Recoleta (Quintana 596), Plaza Italia, and La Boca (Av. Pedro de Mendoza and Palos).Along the route there were fourteen stops, including in San Telmo, the Plaza de Mayo, Puerto Madero, and the Costanera Sur.The importance of tourism to the city of Buenos Aires is enormous, considering how many foreigners now visit every year and how much money they bring to help grow the local economy.

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August 11th, 2008 by Sean - NWA WorldVacations

Share your travel story … and maybe, Win a Trip!
What’s the first thing you do when you get home from a vacation (besides take a nap!)? You call a friend or family member to tell them you are back and talk about your vacation, right?

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This Friday night, starting at 7pm, is another in the series of Gallery Nights held every Friday night in the fall in Buenos Aires.Gallery Nights is organized by the art magazine Arte al Dia and takes place in some of Buenos Aires’s swankiest neighborhoods:Barrio Norte and Recoleta.Over 60 galleries, museums, and cultural centers are open and free to the public for this one night of wine drinking, music listening, and general life appreciation.If it gets too cold, there is also a free transportation service that takes gallery goers from stop to stop, following the route from Plaza San Martin to Callao and from Tucuman to Libertador.

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