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    British TV presenter Rico Daniels tells Wikinews about being ‘The Salvager’

    Saturday, March 14, 2009 Rico Daniels is a British TV presenter living in France who is known for his two television series — The Salvager — whilst he still lived in the UK and then Le Salvager after he moved to France. Rico has been in a variety of jobs but his passion is now his profession – he turns unwanted ‘junk’ into unusual pieces of furniture. Rico’s creations and the methods used to fabricate them are the subject of the Salvager shows. Rico spoke to Wikinews in January about his inspiration and early life, future plans, other hobbies and more. Read on for the full exclusive interview, published for…

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    Click Here For More Specific Information On: Music School Sydney Australia Melbourne Music Academy How SketchUp has evolved in last 3 years? by Prabhat Ranjit SinghToday, most of the firms in the AEC sector use AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit and ArchiCAD as their relevant software. The status that these programs have gained now makes them nearly synonymous to BIM and CAD. CAD and BIM are renowned to help in representing the physical and functional characters of any project digitally. Likewise, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit and ArchiCAD are considered as one of the essential foundation of buildings and a shared knowledge resource to acquire information pertaining to any facility. Over the years, progressively,…

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    Over 60 illegal miners die in South African mine fire

    Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Over 60 miners were killed in an abandoned gold mine shaft near Welkom, in the Free State province of South Africa, after a fire broke out inside the mine. 36 bodies from the Harmony Gold mining company Eland mine shaft were brought up earlier on the weekend from depths up to 1.4 kilometers (1 mi). On Tuesday, 25 more bodies were recovered by other illegal workers. “We suspect there was a fire on the 18th of May. We never saw any smoke. Over the weekend [30 May] we were informed by other illegal miners that people had died,” said Tom Smith, Chief Operating Officer for Harmony’s South Region,…

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    Trains collide in eastern France

    Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Two trains have collided head-on in eastern France at Zoufftgen in the Moselle region of France, close to the Luxembourg border, at around 11:45 local time (09:45 UTC) earlier today. Based on inital reports, BBC News has suggested 10 passenger deaths as well as the those of two train drivers involved in the incident and a track side worker. French officials later confirmed at least 5 dead. The trains were a french freight train and a Luxembourgeois passenger train. The passenger train was travelling from Luxembourg to Nancy and the freight train was travelling from Thionville to Luxembourg. There are also at present 20 additional casualties…