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Samsung Galaxy Note II showing great progress with over 5mn units sold till now
With the launch of Samsung Galaxy Note II in September, it had been announced by Samsung on November 2 that the smart phone had crossed 3 million global sales. Worldwide sales of the Smartphone have exceeded over 5 million units. As announced by Samsung in early November, the selling rate of the 5.5 inch Samsung …
Australian share market is in the exalted position
The Australian share market is now looking for the bargains after the huge losses in the last week. They are associated with the upper level traders. The benchmark of S&P/ASX200 was up to 12.7 points. In a broader sense it can be foreseen as 0.29 percent at 4349.5 and 0.25 percent at 4371.1. ASX 24 …
Choices Care Group in Administration
A care group providing services to about 800 people with learning disabilities in Scotland and north-east England has gone into administration.
The Sounds and Songs of Stanley Cup Rivals
Here at the Wachovia Center, "God Bless America" is performed live by Lauren Hart or with her accompanying a videotape by Kate Smith, who died in 1986. "It´s just so much fun for me," Hart, wearing her lucky outfit – a black leather jacket, a Flyers T-shirt from 1974, their first Stanley Cup year, and …
Where Bands Jam, but Traffic Flows
MANCHESTER, Tenn. – In a warehouse next to his home, David Pennington, the mayor of Coffee County, stores enough pop-culture memorabilia to make a lesser collector gasp. There are entire walls of Gene Autry items, faded Coca-Cola signs hanging from the ceilings and rare baseball cards in a glass display case. Stashed throughout are reams …
Chasing musical legends in Joshua Tree National Park
The wide opens spaces, accommodating inns and restaurants, and the echoes of Gram Parsons draw them to the desert each year. But during this visit, a lively 3-year-old is in the mix. Reporting from Twentynine Palms – Typically, we go to the desert at least once a year. We love the expansive space, several of …
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The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars. The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing …
Top 10 quirky science tricks for parties
Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl?a sort of glorying over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke. Tom was in ecstasies. In such ecstasies that he even controlled his tongue and was silent. He said to himself …
The river was not high, so there was not more
The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing before the distant town. Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of …
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The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing before the distant town. Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of …
Songs That Rock the Boat, With Heart and Soul, Too
On the face of it, Frank Loesser, one of Broadway´s all-time great wielders of urban slang, and Karen Oberlin, a demure pop-jazz singer who radiates a subdued glamour, are not a natural fit. Had he lived in a later time, Loesser, who died in 1969, might have turned a Martin Scorsese movie like "Raging Bull" …
