Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) is calling for submissions for TVF 2006 - The 28th JVC Tokyo Video Festival. The aim of the Festival is to promote the creation of content that explores video's potential to deliver personal messages and elevate the art of video...
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In what seems like a budget oriented decision, California residents should expect a lighter load on their children's backs in coming school years. Deeming printed materials uninteresting and outdated, the bill...
By Martha Bakerjian at About.com
Your Guide to San Francisco.
May 24, 2005
How to Get a Residential Parking Permit in San Francisco
San Francisco residents are eligible for a parking permit, allowing neighborhood parking, if they live within neighborhoods with posted...
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New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has told top police brass that he wants to put up about 400 surveillance cameras on high-crime and high-traffic streets, the NEW YORK POST reports on Monday.
The...
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Journalist Hossein Derakhshan creates a way to blog in Persian and reach an Iranian audience from Canada. But bloggers are harassed in Iran, some even jailed. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to...
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By YARON STEINBUCH
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Fleet Week New York, hosted nearly every year since 1984, is the city's celebration in honor of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The event provides an opportunity for the...
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WASHINGTON - The president of the Public Broadcasting Service on Tuesday rejected criticism by conservatives that public TV is guilty of liberal bias, and she offered a strong defense of PBS' Bill Moyers, a target of right-wing wrath.
"PBS does not belong to any one...
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DARJEERLING and Bunnicula are two kittens who prefer shrimp cocktails and steak frites to pet food. They sleep on Burberry beds in their Greenwich Village apartment and wore matching crystal-studded collars until a few weeks ago, when they chewed off all the stones.
Ruth...
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Florida's busiest airport will begin using high-tech iris-scanning technology to filter out possible terrorists and add an additional layer of security, according to Local 6 News.
Workers and other people at Orlando International Airport will have both irises scanned at...
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Man Arborg bound?
Disappeared in Vancouver
By DEAN PRITCHARD, STAFF REPORTER
The family of a former Arborg man who disappeared two months ago in Vancouver say he may be suffering amnesia and trying to find his way back to his birthplace.
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When you are working in the yard, more than your muscles get a workout. Working in the yard can be meditative by allowing you to have time to be quiet and to listen to your thoughts. There is no television, no...
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Paper (!) entry forms will be available at the town offices, library, and other locations, and you could win prizes for identifying one of the biggest trees in Dover and the state.
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City officials are contesting new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau showing New York City's population dropped by more than 5,000 last year.
The figures, released Thursday, said the population of the city's...
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