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Last day levity Ala. House Dems sport bow ties
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Members of the Democratic minority were inspired to show off their sartorial splendor on the last day of the legislative Session in honor of Mobile's Democratic Rep. Napoleon ...
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Buffy It was 10 years ago tonight...
Image Credit: Richard Cartwright/THE WB It’s been 10 years since Buffy and the Scooby Gang defeated The First, leaving Sunnydale nothing but an imploded ...
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Disabled woman died after NHS blunders ombudsman finds
A catalogue of mistakes by an out-of-hours GP service and a hospital contributed to the death of a young woman with physical and learning disabilities, ...
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Family of Maria Stubbings call for inquiry into police failings
Maria Stubbings was murdered in her home in Chelmsford, Essex, in December 2008 by her former boyfriend Marc Chivers. Photograph: Essex ...
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GPs will face Ofsted-style inspections Jeremy Hunt announces
Jeremy Hunt will also announce plans for each vulnerable elderly person to have a named NHS worker to co-ordinate their care. Photograph: Rex ...
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Parents warned sharing bed with babies increases risk of cot death
A new study found breastfed babies under three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a significantly increased risk of cot death.Researchers estimate that 40 per cent of the 300 cot death cases in the UK each year could be prevented if parents only brought children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.Presently, NHS officials only advise parents against sharing ...
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Up to 50 people reportedly involved in melee outside Alameda sports bar
ALAMEDA -- An El Cerrito man remains hospitalized after he was stabbed multiple times in the back during a melee involving up to 50 people early Sunday morning outside a sports bar, police said.Investigators are still piecing together what led up to the altercation outside Scobies Sports Bar & Grill at 2431 Central Ave. But the incident apparently began after an argument among about six ...
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EA Sports Cup wrap
Chris Lyons dumped his home town club out of the EA Sports cup with a double at Dalymount Park as Bohemians beat Bray Wanderers 4-2 in extra-time to make the quarter-finals.Holders Drogheda United, Sligo Rovers and Cork City all eased through also. But St. Patrick's Athletic had to work hard to beat First Division bottom side Salthill Devon in extra-time at Drom while both Derry City and ...
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Tumblr Users Have All the Feels About Yahoo Acquisition
Early this morning Yahoo announced it would be acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash - roughly a quarter of the purchase price Disney put up for Lucasfilm - and promised to ...
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American Sports Fanaticism Was Born in the Great Gatsby Era
Sports became a U.S. obsession in a time when underground gamblers like Arnold Rothstein-the inspiration for Gatsby's World Series fixer Meyer ...
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Ray Manzarek of the Doors dies
Image Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Getty Images Ray Manzarek, the founding keyboardist for the Doors, passed away this morning in Germany, according to a statement from his publicist. The cause was bile duct cancer. As a member of the legendary rock band that formed in 1965 in Los Angeles and effectively ended with the death of frontman Jim Morrison in 1971 (though the group continued to ...
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Justin Bieber booed Will he listen
Billboard Music Awards incident surely wasn’t the first time Justin Bieber has been booed, but even though he was wearing dark shades, it was clear he was shaken by the reaction. He pointed out to the crowd that he was still only 19 years old (even if it feels like we’ve had him in our lives for no less than four decades now), and that his level of success justified his victory. But ...
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Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping device
WASHINGTON -; Doctors tell people with a heart-zapping device in their chests to give up intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. But lots of patients ignore that advice - and now new research is challenging ...
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Jay-Z Hires Football Agent To Represent Players At Roc Nation Sports
Football agent Kimberly Miale is listed by the NFLPA as being associated with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports. The National Football League Players Association ...
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The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads
through the lens of the latest media campaign ofthe Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. A big shiny Clio Award to everyone out there who figured out what Don Draper was really trying to sell, and to whom he was really trying to sell it, before his long dark working-weekend of the soul came to an end. I didn’t. I’d taken Don’s bargain, and was far too absorbed by ...
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Spring sports teams performing well
From mid-May through early June, state spring sports are winding down in Illinois and every day brings that win-or-go-home excitement. Here is a wrapup on how some of the area teams have fared in recent ...
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Sports Ingwe TV deal with Zuku done without malice
The company in a joint statement with Leopards insists their deal does not infringe on any other existing sponsorship deal. The two reaffirmed their partnership and said they remain committed to the development and airing of Kenya's first football fan television ...
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Sports Sports Cabinet Secretary Wario targets better show in Olympics
Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture and Art Hassan Wario has sounded a warning to sports federations that preparations for Rio De Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016 must start ...
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Lifestyle MPs lower penalties on NHIF defaulters
The MPs last week supported a motion sponsored by Kirinyaga Central MP Joseph Gitari, which sought the penalties surcharged to defaulters lowered from the current 500 per cent to 25 per cent on the grounds it was barely affordable to majority of Kenyans. Gitari said the punitive penalties should not apply to those in the informal sector, with most of them being vegetable and fruits vendors, ...
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Sports Highlights May 20-27
/small-ad --> In the second round of the Southern Section/Ford playoffs, Santa Barbara High will host a baseball game and Dos Pueblos a softball game on Tuesday, May 21. Dos Pueblos is also alive in the baseball playoffs and will travel to Cypress. Santa Barbara will play in the State Regional boys volleyball tournament this week, visiting Eagle Rock in a quarterfinal match Tuesday night. ...
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Letters More social housing needed not sell-offs and mortgage subsidy
Housing for Women's experience is that increasingly local authorities are placing women and their children who are victims of domestic violence in inappropriate private accommodation due to the lack of affordable housing. This is often outside the area where they have established support networks and children's schools and is particularly detrimental to their recovery and resettlement. ...
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Motherlode Blog Best Tool to Fight Childhood Obesity Your Kitchen
In describing the many fronts in the ';war'; against obesity, Jane E. Brody, Well’s Personal Health columnist, is drawn inexorably to one conclusion: the road to a slimmer waistline starts in the home kitchen ...
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Council admits mistakes over Ukip foster parents storm
children away from their Ukip-supporting foster parents has apologised over its handling of the case after a review concluded that mistakes were made but the decision was taken in the children's best ...
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12 signs its a J.J. Abrams film
J.J. Abrams loves mysteries. Long-running mysteries. Multifaceted mysteries. Mysteries of publicity. Mysteries inside of mysteries. He gave a whole speech once about ...
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Blood Ties Cannes review
(1978). When Chris wanders into his old bar, the Ruby, and gives a brotherly hug to the manager, we can feel in our bones why it’s already over: The manager is played by Mark Mahoney, the legendary tattoo artist who wears his street cred like a second skin — he’s elegantly ravaged, and speaks in a rasp that’s equal parts junkie and Don Corleone — and he lures Chris ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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