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Boy saves two and himself from drowning
2008
It all happened when [Matthew Swart] and his friend Asanda Moya (15) were making the most of the school holidays by swimming at Matthew's home in Centurion, near Pretoria. Asanda's mother [Joyce Moya], who has been a domestic worker at the Swart residence for 10 years, instinctively jumped into the pool to save her daughter, even though she can't swim.
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Boy's punch saves 2 lives
2008
Matthew Swart and his friend Asanda Moya (15) were making the most of the school holidays by swimming at Swart's home in Centurion when Moya found herself struggling to keep afloat at the deep end of the pool. Asanda's mother, Joyce, who has been a domestic worker at the Swart residence for 10 years, instinctively jumped into the pool to save her daughter - even though she can't swim. Joyce said Matthew and Asanda, who is recovering at the Moyas' home in Tembisa, had grown up together.
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Triple tragedy in pool averted as boy, 12, saves drowning girl
2008
Matthew Swart and his friend Asanda Moya, 15, were making the most of the school holidays by swimming at Swart's home in Centurion on Thursday. Asanda's mother, Joyce Moya, who has been a domestic worker at the Swart residence for 10 years, instinctively jumped into the pool to save her daughter, even though she cannot swim. \"If we were all trapped in the water, I think we all have an idea of what could have happened,\" she said about Matthew struggling with Asanda.
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CONTROLLED CHAOS ; DECORDOVA ANNUAL OFFERS AN ELEGANT TORRENT OF IDEAS
2006
Christopher Gray's clever \"This Yellow Object\" video uses theatrical improvisation to incisively spoof the often ridiculously ponderous work of interpreting art. The artist circles a yellow sculpture earnestly spouting whatever associations come to mind, such as \"King Midas turned to gold for touching himself.\" Like Gray's piece, \"Confined Reflections\" won't shut up. Gretchen Skogerson and Garth Zeglin's installation is the least realized work in the show. The mirrored domes typically used to hide surveillance cameras here mask speakers. Walk past, and a dome starts chatting you up: \"Have you ever fallen out of love? I wish I could tell you how much it hurts.\" Though the device of a whispering mirror is enticing, the monologues echo those of the worst kind of egocentric seatmates on a trans-Atlantic flight. Hepler, Johnson, and Gregory Miguel Gomez pare information down into lean visual poetry. Gomez's 32-foot-tall bronze sculpture \"Bad Equilibrium\" depicts a narrow U-shaped tube. It looks as if a liquid has been poured into the tube, and the liquid rises higher on the right than on the left. The top of the U is higher on the left than on the right. \"Bad Equilibrium\" conveys something slippery, yet it's done with such simple eloquence, you could sit for a long time, just looking at it.
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Film & Music: LOONEY TUNES: Novelty records: we love them (for five minutes). Then we hate them (for ever). But what do the people behind classics such as Kung Fu Fighting think of them now? Peter Robinson reports
2014
[Alida Swart] laughs off the longstanding rumour that Vanilla signed to EMI as the result of someone losing a bet, but accepts that Vanilla were launched with what was unmistakably a novelty single. \"When we first heard it we just laughed,\" she remembers. \"Then we looked at each other. Two of us wanted to be doing R&B. But we thought: 'We might as well do it.'\" Girl Power was at its peak; they reasoned that Wannabe had itself been gimmicky. No Way No Way got to No 14 but Vanilla's second single only managed No 36 and the band were dropped. Nonetheless, Alida looks back fondly. \"People still tell me today that they remember this song,\" she laughs. \"It's been nominated as the worst song of the 90s quite a few times, but at least it's remembered.\" [Guy Holmes] admits that while Right Said Fred used a novelty single as a trojan horse for a more conventional band launch, one of his later signings was less artistically driven. Years later, stranded in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami and, watching television in the only part of his hotel that hadn't been destroyed, Holmes could not ignore one particular TV ad. It featuring a rather distinctive frog. \"Every five minutes there was a fucking advert for this 'ring-ding-ding-ding-ding' ringtone,\" he recalls. \"I thought: 'That would make a great record.'\" The cash from Crazy Frog's records meant Holmes's label, Gut Records, could develop other artists, including a young Jessie J. \"My bank manager loved me,\" Holmes laughs. \"The downside is that you're instantly an arsehole. Credible artists won't sign to you. I'd worked with U2 in 1982, but as soon as I did I'm Too Sexy I was an arsehole, overnight. The music business should remember it's about entertaining people. There's room for everything, and novelty records are just moments of fun. Gangnam Style is an example that you can blow up on YouTube if you've got a massively entertaining video.\"
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Pixels and pen pals
1995
[Amy Swarts]' students then composed letters of their own and sent them by electronic mail, known as e-mail, to their \"key pals,\" the high-tech version of pen pals, at Fairbanks Elementary. Eva Simeone and Caroline Kinsella sent their bunny, \"Pinky,\" to St. Joseph Convent National School in Clonakilly, Ireland. Caroline already had some knowledge of the country. She was born there and even though she moved to the United States before she was a year old, Caroline frequently returns to visit relatives. PHOTO; Robert J. Pavuchak/Post-Gazette: Third-grade students in Amy Swarts' class crowd into an igloo made of milk jugs in their classroom at Central Elementary School in Hampton. The students have been in touch with schools in Alaska via the Internet and are communicating with pen pals around the country and in Ireland.
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Baby sitter charged with murder of infant girl
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Christy Gutowski Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer
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Hendrickson, Matthew
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Pirkins, Alexandra
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Swart, Jacquelyn A
2001
Rescuers were called to [Jacquelyn A. Swart]'s home in an unincorporated area near Hinsdale at 2:14 p.m. on June 21, 1999, after the child was found unresponsive. [Alexandra Pirkins]'s mother also was at the baby sitter's home when rescuers arrived. Swart vehemently denies the charges, he said. At least one medical expert pinpointed the time of Alexandra's injuries to when the child was not in Swart's care, [Brian Telander] said. Swart began baby-sitting for Alexandra after her husband, a production artist, got to know the child's mother through their mutual employer.
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