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Dont forget fitness on holiday
Delhi-based fitness expert and trainer Santosh Sharma shares a few tips to stay fit during a holiday:- Avoid visiting a restaurant empty stomach. In such cases people end up eating much more. If you're starving, eat a piece of fruit or have a glass of juice or water in the hotel itself. Later, while having lunch, fill your plate with lightly dressed salads, fish, seafood and lean meats. ...
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Kill Mittal French video game lets players attack Indian billionaire Lakshmi amid factory battle
A French video game is offering players the chance to become a virtual employee of steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal battling to keep a factory ...
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Fitness test deceased was breadwinner
Aspirant traffic cops wait to run 4km in 30 minutes to pass the fitness test which will qualify them to go into the next round for one of 90 provincial posts. File photo; ...
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Sports Business Awards have some Louisville connections
Louisville got a bit of notice last night as SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusinessDaily, sister publications to Business First, handed out their annual honors in New York City. As Business First reports, former Churchill Downs Inc. (NYSE: CDN) President Steve Sexton, who is now president and CEO of an Austin, Texas Formula One track, had reason to smile after the 2012 Grand Prix was ...
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Sports Buzz Is Dwight Howard interested in Rockets
Houston Rockets , or is this just a negotiating ploy? Earlier this week, several media outlets reported that Howard seems torn between wanting to stay with ...
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Councils embrace social media
More than two-thirds of councils use Facebook or Twitter to deal with customers rather than issuing press releases. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
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Love dont cost a ring-ring...Jennifer Lopez launches her own mobile phone store chain
If Mary Portas can't save the high street, perhaps J-Lo can? The entrepreneurial diva has announced that she is to open her own retail chain of mobile phone ...
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Weiss Bier cocktail with charred orange and bourbon
I’ve never been particularly fond of beer cocktails. Many of the beer cocktails I have had were designed by PR people trying to put a spin on a product that already exists. Sometimes, they have been the brainchild of a well-meaning bartender attempting to do an interesting thing since craft beer is trendy. The issue is that the recipe for these things typically involve three or four ...
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A Practical Guide to the Catchphrases of Arrested Development
In 2012, I watched for the first time and discovered that roughly 60 percent of the lexicon of my peer group consisted of direct references to the misadventures of the Bluth family. In the days leading up to the much-anticipated Netflix release of Season 4, experts* predict that that figure may rise as high as 80 or 90 percent. If you're one of the dozen or so people who still haven't ...
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EXCLUSIVE Sports commission develops event incubator
Rob Higgins The new Event Development Institute scheduled to launch June 1 in Tampa is a first-of-its-kind sports event incubator envisioned by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission and funded by private donations. There was no fertile ground in which these event ideas could come to fruition, said Sports Commission Executive Director Rob Higgins. His team created the EDI to give upstart sports event ...
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Lifestyle Sh51.8m gold shipment vanishes mysteriously from airport
The gold was spread among six boxes unloaded from American Airlines Flight 902, which arrived at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday morning from Guayaquil, Ecuador, according to ...
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Live discussion how can we prepare better for ageing
"woefully under-prepared" to cope with this dramatic rise.Our online discussion, which will take place on Friday 24 May from 12 till 2pm, will ask how we can prepare better for an ageing population? How can we get sectors to work closer together to provide joined-up care? How can we encourage health, housing and social care services to collaborate to meet the needs ...
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The Undateables turned me into a celebrity
The Undateables was shown, I was on the way to work and came out from the station, a person driving a car hooted and started doing a Leeds salute. Then when I was waiting to get on the bus, someone took their phone out and took my picture."Raymond Johnson hoped that taking part ...
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A rush-hour high-speed train crash how would you cope – video
High-speed rail disaster rehearsal In Lincolnshire - in pictures Emergency teams recently staged a rail crash, complete with 'victims' to test their readiness for a real disaster. The Guardian was there to capture the most striking ...
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Lifestyle 23 sets of twins in one class
grade level at the school -- meaning that roughly an astonishing 10 percent of them are twins. Only one of the 23 sets of twins are reportedly ...
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Lifestyle Nokia to sponsor mobile stream at a global forum
The Forum, a joint initiative between infoDev, a global innovation program within the World Bank, and the Department of Science and ...
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Nepalese man 81 attempts Everest climb days after 80-year-old set record
mountaineering supremacy has begun on the slopes of the world's highest peak after an 80-year-old Japanese man became the oldest person to reach the summit ...
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All South African public servants may have to retrain
an article on South Africa's Business Day Live , public service minister Lindiwe Sisulu has said the country's 1.6 million public servants would all need training if the Public Administration Bill were to be passed. Directors-general would also have to sit a compulsory exam, the minister reportedly said earlier this week.The bill is part of a wider programme of reform which aims to cut ...
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Indias sports bill draft to be ready by June 30 says minister
alleged spot-fixing in the IPL, has said the sports bill that is currently being drafted should be ready in full by June 30. Speaking to television channel CNN IBN, Singh said: "I feel it's very important for a very strict law, that processes are implemented not only in cricket but in other sports also. Cricket has just been exposed, but there might be things happening in other sports ...
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Table tennis coach says sport will grow
/enpproperty--> A failed title sweep at the just-concluded table tennis worlds tournament did not mean defeat for the ever-victorious China but hope of popularizing the sport worldwide, China's head coach said. A beaming Liu Guoliang, leading team China to the first world tournament as head coach, said he and his team felt really relaxed at losing two of the five world titles in Paris ...
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Gale kicks off David Jones birthday bash
Flying in from the Cannes Film Festival, Gale hosted a glittering black-tie cocktail party at Sydney's Castlereagh Street store on Thursday night.Joined by David Jones chief executive officer, Paul Zahra, guests were ushered up to the store's exclusive Level Seven, where the store's history is being shown in a commemorative exhibition."I'm very excited to be here ...
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The cost of unlocking economic potential from core reference data
open data white paper. The stand-out is a proposal that government should work to identify a collection of national core reference data for priority release.Core reference data is commonly understood to mean authoritative "backbone" datasets that are necessary to make effective use of other data produced by the public sector. Popular examples include national address data and details ...
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Lifestyle Delegates raise alarm on use of Climate funds
Climate Finance as currently constituted supports projects that are not relevant to Africa, the Secretary General of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance has ...
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Lifestyle Man marries 13-year-old girl he allegedly raped
Malaysia 's national news agency, the ministry is concerned that Masmud's action may set an example by providing an escape route in cases of statutory rape. "In order to protect public interest and prevent such incidents, the Ministry urges that the man be charged under Section 376 of the Penal Code in the Sessions Court or Section 80 of the Sabah Syariah Offences Enactment 1995 ...
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Sport infrastructure enables to host European Islamic Olympic Games
A press conference related to Islamic Olympic Games to take place in Azerbaijan in 2017 was held in Hilton hotel in Baku. "The European Olympic Games-2015 will be the first comprehensive competitions in Azerbaijan," Youth and Sports Ministers of Azerbaijan Azad Rahimov ...
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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