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Police remove valuables from unlocked cars
Thursday, August 27, 2009 Police officers in Richmond in south-west London, England are removing valuable items like handbags and laptops from unlocked vehicles and leaving notes telling owners to collect their items in Twickenham police station in a bid to try and encourage car drivers to lock the doors of their vehicles. There is a […]
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Christian youth camp directors charged with dragging 15-year-old girl behind van
Monday, August 13, 2007 Charles Eugene Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt, who run Love Demonstrated Ministries in San Antonio, Texas, United States, have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault for tying a girl to their van and dragging her behind it on her stomach. The victim had stopped running with a group of campers, after […]
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Florida wins BCS National Championship Game over Oklahoma
Friday, January 9, 2009 The Florida Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners by a score of 24 to 14 last night’s FedEx BCS National Championship Game to win the Division I title of the National Collegiate Athletic Association‘s American college football league. Florida, ranked Number 1 in the nation, were led by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim […]
How Is Sleep Apnea And Depression Linked, And Can It Be Devastation Waiting To Happen
By Darrell Miller If you suffer from sleep apnea, depression may be one of the consequences you are dealing with on a daily basis because of it. Although depression is not the only consequence of sleep apnea it can be the one that most affects your quality of life. Depression can be a devastating disorder […]
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Russian choreographer Igor Moiseyev dies at age 101
Friday, November 2, 2007 Igor Moiseyev, who has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance, has died today after a long illness. He was 101 years old. Born Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev on January 21, 1906 in Kiev, Moiseyev graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 and danced in the […]
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The Wrecking Crew music documentary hits cinemas
Monday, March 16, 2015 Music documentary The Wrecking Crew received its commercial première Friday, screening in cinemas in Los Angeles and New York via Magnolia Pictures. Two decades in the making, Denny Tedesco’s documentary observes and honours a group of session musicians collectively known as “The Wrecking Crew”. Tedesco explained he was moved to begin […]
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2008 Leisure Taiwan launched in Taipei World Trade Center
Saturday, July 19, 2008 This year’s Leisure Taiwan trade show (a.k.a Taiwan Sport Recreation and Leisure Show) started yesterday, with 131 companies participating including sports media companies such as ESPN and VideoLand Television, businesses selling sports equipment and fitness clubs. There were also a variety of sports being played in the arena built for the […]
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Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Apple Inc. today has introduced the much-anticipated iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco. The iPhone is claimed to be “a revolutionary mobile phone” as stated on the Apple website. The device appears to be running a mobile version of the Apple operating system Mac OSX. It is approximately the […]
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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s latest film makes Thailand premiere
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Following a world premiere during the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, the latest film by Thai auteur Pen-Ek Ratanaruang made its Thailand premiere on Tuesday night in a screening for the press and celebrities. Before the screening of the new film, Ploy, the director and his stars took the […]
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Wolfram Research’s new product Alpha to compete with Google and Wikipedia
Monday, March 9, 2009 Wolfram Research Inc., makers of Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, have released a limited alpha of their new web service Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha is described by CEO Stephen Wolfram as a “computational knowledge engine.” Unlike Google, Yahoo! and other traditional web search engines that rely on statistical methods […]