| Tanker's 40 tonnes of mayhem | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:06:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | John Ashman was sitting in his lounge watching television when he heard a sickening rumbling sound outside and braced himself. Moments later, a 40-tonne milk truck smashed through his home. VIEW VIDEO The impact shunted Mr Ashman - who was on the couch recovering from a broken ankle - into his kitchen, breaking his other leg. When the dust settled Mr Ashman, the sole occupant in three houses hit by the tanker fully laden with 25,000 litres of milk, realised he was lucky to be alive. The tanker driver told witnesses he had choked on a lolly and may have blacked out, causing a crash that firefighters thought had killed everyone involved. The Fonterra tanker veered off State Highway 2 north of Waipawa, central Hawke's Bay, and crashed through four properties at about 8pm on Saturday night.... | |
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| | | City hospital swops babies | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:20:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cape Town - A Goodwood father on Thursday described his horror after realising his child had been swopped with another at a city hospital. Sean Greyling said he turned cold when he looked at the face of the newborn baby in a crib at N1 City hospital and realised the baby wasn't the one his wife had given birth to two hours earlier. After a panic-stricken search the baby was found with another mother who'd given birth on the same day. Greyling and his wife Eloise fear that their baby, Sonique, might have HIV if the other woman, who could be HIV-positive, breastfed her. "A few weeks ago I saw the story of a mother whose baby had been swopped and who was breastfed by another woman on Carte Blanche," said Greyling. "The other woman had HIV and they feared that their baby might also have contracted the virus.... | |
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| | | WEEKEND SHOWS | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:10:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Dancing at Lughnasa" show, based on a play written by Brian Friel, and awarded Tony Prize in 1992, will have on Sunday the official premiere at the Large Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest (TNB). The show is directed by Irish Lynne Parker, co-founder of theatre company Rough Magic from Dublin and associate director of the Abbey National Theatre, TNB informed. Gheorghe Dinica plays a new part for the Bucharest theatre in this show. The cast also includes Vivian Alivizache, Carmen Ionescu, Carmen Ungureanu, Tania Popa, Rodica Ionescu, Gavril Patru and Liviu Lucaci. The action from "Dancing at Lughnasa" takes place in a village from Ireland, in a warm day at the beginning of August 1936, when everyone is involved in a celebration. People celebrate the Celtic god of harvest.... | |
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| | | Degrees Of Motion - Do You Want it Right Now - Shine On Remixes | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:05:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Not around in the early 90's? It doesn't matter.. I'm pretty sure every house music lover across the globe has a special place in his or her heart for DEGREES OF MOTION. Well folks, DEGREES OF MOTION are back from a 12-year break, this time on CAYENNE RECORDINGS, the label with more funk than an eternity with James Brown! Coming from their recent collaboration with SONIQUE, Haji & Emanuel deliver their best remixes to date, reviving DO YOU WANT IT RIGHT NOW with an epic vocal remix and dub. This is a slammin' track and a half and can't fail to get your dance floors wantin' it (or losin' it) right now! Seamus Haji began playing their version of the remix and was literally inundated with requests from fellow DJs for a copy – you know a track is going to be a hot one when the world's a-list of house DJs are begging for a track! A dub mix is included for vocal free sets.... | |
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| | | Top DJ joins in birthday bash | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:01:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | A CLUB night in Coventry is to celebrate its first full year with an appearance by Brit-award winning DJ, producer and artist Sonique. Local DJ and promoter Paul Morrell is celebrating the anniversary of the launch of his monthly night Classique on Saturday, November 18, at the Glasshouse, in the city centre's Bull Yard. In the past year Paul has attracted superstar DJs like Judge Jules and Brandon Block - but he says Sonique rates as one of the biggest. Sonique made her name in the UK with tracks like It Feels So Good and I Put A Spell On You and soon afterwards she shot to fame in the US and Europe. Tickets are £10 and available from the Glasshouse. .... | |
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| | | Reign's On Fire | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:04:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | I had a chat with Jimmie Reign over the internet. If you're interested in hearing her for yourself, be sure to check out the tracks on http://www.myspace.com/jimmiereign1 My pick of the ones currently on offer is Help Myself To You. Like that quirky flutey sound. 1. I'll be blunt. There's a lot of anonymous young black women coming out with hip-hop tinged R&B records at the moment and it's been this way for a while- what makes you worth our attention? J: I’m worth the attention because I’m always going to get your attention. My songs say the things people think about but never say, especially women. For example in "Tryin’ To Be Your Girl", I’m basically begging for this guy to realize that I’m trying everything to be with him. Most women (especially black women) aren’t going to beg anyone for anything, even though they’ve thought about it.... | |
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| | | Ibiza comes to the south coast | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:12:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Top Ibiza Club brands including Space, Bora Bora, Privilege, Amnesia, Eden and El Divino will be debuting in the UK for their first ever ‘multi-club' event outside of the Spanish Island in a ‘one-off' exclusive weekender. The music-fuelled two-night event known as ‘United Kingdom of Ibiza' will be held on the UK South Coast 13th – 15th October 2006. With club nights hosted by ten internationally renowned Ibiza clubs and sets from over twenty DJs including Dave Pearce, Sonique and Brandon Block, the event will take place in five venues within the massive Butlins Bognor Regis Resort. The event organisers are expecting around 4000 clubbers to attend. The United Kingdom of Ibiza weekender costs from just *£89 per person. The price covers accommodation, all club entrance fees, bars and restaurants and access to the Resort's facilities such as a funfair, giant Splash Waterworld and even a state of the art recording studio if clubbers are feeling creative.... | |
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| | | Indian students develop ''Sonique'' software for Imagine Cup | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:09:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Four Indian students have developed a software technology that promises to improve the lives of visually challenged people by enabling them to move around more freely and perceive their surroundings better. The navigation and processing software called Sonique, developed by four students of the Dhirubhai Institute of Information and Communication Technology for global software giant Microsoft's technology competition ''Imagine Cup'', would help the visually impaired to sense the environment around them and calculate the distance to objects present around them using an ultrasonic sensor technology. The users need to have a palmtop PC cum mobile phone for this software solution to work. The students took inspiration from the echolocation process used by bats, for the technology that emits ultrasonic impulses generated by proximity sensors.... | |
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| | | TECHNOLOGY-INDIA: Cyber Coolies Bridge Digital Divide | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:03:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (IPS) - When Deepak Jagdish, a young Indian student of computer science, explained to Bill Gates last month the complex navigation and processing system of new software, which mimics the echo location system used by bats, to assist visually challenged individuals move about safely, the founder of Microsoft remarked: ''I have never seen something like this''. Jagdish and his fellow students from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar (in western India), have developed computer software that could help blind people, 'see' the environment and the objects around them, spatially. The software controls ultrasonic impulses received by proximity sensors that have a minimum range of five metres. The signals are translated into audible frequencies and conveyed to visually impaired users through headphones.... | |
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| | | Mohun Bagan bring up the rear in Manchester United Premier Cup | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:14:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Manchester, Aug 11: Mohun Bagan finished at the bottom of the tables failing to win even a single match on their debut in the Manchester United Premier Cup football Under-15 tournament for club sides from across the world.After losing all of their four group matches, the Bagan colts also lost their placement matches at Manchester United's Carrington training ground.Playing for 17th-18th place in the morning, the Kolkata outfit went down 1-0 after battling spiritedly against Molenbeek Brussels Football Club, Belgium. The all important goal was scored by David Franck from the penalty spot.In the playoff for the 19th position later in the day, they were drubbed 7-0 by Chile's Catolica Universidad.The South American side was up 4-0 at half-time.In their six matches in the competition, each of 40 minute duration, managed to score one goal while conceding 20.... | |
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