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Daft Punk 13 records that shaped us
Years before EDM became an acronym even your parents knew, Daft Punk were the byword of cool in electronic music. Now they’re back with their first new studio album in seven ...
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What do men notice first about a woman
The Fourth Hour's "Guys Tell All" panel - Michael Landes, Chuck Nice, Rick Younger and Ryan Chenevert - shares some insight into the minds of men, revealing what guys first notice about women and explaining why it takes some men a long time to tell family they're in a ...
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Wayne and Coleen Rooney have a second son – but why the matching names
Wayne and Coleen Rooney with older son Kai a fortnight before the birth of their second son Klay. Photograph: Matthew Peters/Man Utd via Getty ...
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Micro-enterprises prepare the ground for a local service revolution
bread2share about 18 months ago, she has worked with clients who have a range of needs. "It can have therapeutic value for people with different conditions, for example, I was teaching an elderly man with dementia last week, and he was absolutely delighted when he made his first two loaves," she says.Goudie is one of a growing number of people who have set up micro-enterprises - small ...
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Sir Keith Mills offers key research that grassroots sport funding pays
Sir Keith Mills, the deputy chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, has unveiled the results of a three-year research project that he says proves billions could be saved by the Treasury if more money was invested in grassroots sport projects.The Air Miles founder said that the "groundbreaking" research gave a clear sense of the financial return from the sector for the first ...
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Are Sports Fans Pro Choice
This is not a trick question, just a different context. As a general proposition, don't we all want options? Yes, I submit. And the same is true when we want sports programming. So allow me to posit a hypothetical. Let's assume we have one company that provides all the sports programming for college and professional football and basketball. This company has lobbied effectively to ...
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Vatican marks anniversary of 1972 attack on Michelangelos Pieta
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A combo photo shows a detail view of the damaged Michelangelo's Pieta and it after restoration works at the Vatican. Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an ...
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Leslie Thomas a voice for the dead
'Where somebody dies in the hands of the state, the only people likely to probe are the family and those who represent the family' - Leslie Thomas. Photograph: David Levene for the ...
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The NHS failed my late daughter Tina. It must not fail other disabled people | Christine Papalabropoulos
I feel the most joyous time in anyone's life is when their child is born. Then, for some parents, their joy turns to heartbreak and sorrow when they discover that their child has some kind of disability.They will not know, then, the path that they will tread with this child. It is a path of worry, torment and heartbreak. You fight constantly with services for the appropriate equipment, such ...
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Going the Distance CPA Firm Sponsors Yearlong Push for Employee Health Fitness
particularly from January to April when many firms are willing to invest in the occasional fitness class or healthy lunch to ensure employees stay fit and healthy during the grueling tax season. But healthy living is a year-round commitment ...
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Sports Liverpool will move for Man City defender Kolo Toure
Toure is in the United States as part of City's post-season tour but the proposed move to Anfield is likely to progress quickly once he returns. The 32-year-old joined City from Arsenal in July 2009 for 14m. The expected signing of the Ivory Coast international goes against ...
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Sports David Moyes to tell Rooney his future lies at Man-U
David Moyes is minded to keep Wayne Rooney at Manchester United and the new manager is hopeful he can convince the striker that his long-term future remains at the ...
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Tim Cook gets a Senate grilling Apple tax-avoidance schemes deemed highly questionable
Investigators found that the tech-company routed all of its sales through a number of subsidiary bodies, grouped under the name Apple Operations International and incorporated in ...
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Labour is getting ready to implement strategic change within the civil service | Jon Trickett
Bob Kerslake, head of the civil service, and Jeremy Heywood, cabinet secretary. The civil service is being challenged as never before. Photograph: Graeme ...
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Phonics literacy test for young children a waste of time and money
The phonics literacy test concerned many teachers, with some finding the use of pseudo words confusing. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the ...
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Our emotions match music to colors Study
A new study finds that our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel. Mozart's jaunty "Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major" is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his somber "Requiem in D minor" is linked to bluish gray, the findings revealed.US researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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Dove Sketches most-watched online ad Unilever
Unilever claimed bragging rights Monday to the most-watched Internet commercial of all time - a three-minute study of women's self-perception that stars a forensic artist. The Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant said its "Dove Real Beauty Sketches" has been seen more than 114 million times on YouTube and other video platforms in more than 110 countries "to surpass all ...
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Lunch-hour dance parties gaining worldwide popularity
The concept of lunch hour dance parties is taking hold around the world, with office workers breaking free from the chains that bind them to their desks for sweaty, 60-minute dance-offs in the middle of the day. The idea behind Lunch Beat is simple: for one hour, 9 to 5ers can blow off steam, get some exercise and take in DJ-spun tunes at a midday dance party. The only requirement: "you ...
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Rooney Mara turns model for Calvin Klein
The 28-year-old star of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the recent "Side Effects" has been snapped up by Calvin Klein as the face of the new Downtown fragrance. Rooney Mara has exploded on the international style scene ever since her radical restyle for a role as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's hit 2011 film adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon ...
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T Magazine In Store | Orlebar Brown Adds Swimwear for Women
Orlebar Brown , best known for its tailored men's trunks in preppy colors and funky photographic prints that look as good on land as at sea, introduces its debut collection for women. The founder, Adam Brown, created a 16-piece capsule collection of simple bikinis, one-pieces, sporty rash guards and shorts modeled after the signature men’s ...
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Sharp rise in number of Afghan women put in prison for moral crimes
Running away from home, usually from abuse and forced marriage, and alleged adultery, which often involves rape, have landed most of the 600 women in prison. That figure is an increase of 50 percent over the last 18 months."That increase reflects a shameful lack and failure of political will by both the government ...
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Flickr unveils new redesign as Marissa Mayer promises the site will be awesome again
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, said the redesign includes a new interface based around high-resolution photographs and a terabyte of storage for each user, equating to 537,731 photos at 6.5 megapixels each.Mayer said "you can take all the pictures ever taken and upload them to Flickrand there would [still be room]."Yahoo purchased Flickr in 2005 as the site became increasingly ...
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Police investigate historic abuse claims at school linked to Cyril Smith
Sir Cyril Smith was chairman of governors at Knowl View school: the latest allegations are not thought to involve the former MP. Photograph: PA Archive/Press Association ...
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Gay marriage is a detox symbol for Cameron but is it worth the trouble
gay marriage bill from his own wreckers, as he did later in the day. Why? Because Labour supports the measure and to vote otherwise would be mere tactics. Impatient voters nowadays do not like mere party tactics."I believe the job of the opposition is to oppose. Any opportunity to humiliate Cameron's government and help bring it down should be taken," countered my strongly ...
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Iain Banks posts new update to fans on his cancer
announced his diagnosis with gall bladder cancer in April, has posted another update to fans, in which he ruminates on everything from his new car to the possibility of chemotherapy.The bestselling Scottish novelist has been the recipient of an outpouring of goodwill and support from his readers since he told them in early April that he was "officially very poorly". In ...
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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