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New Xbox One unveiled as home entertainment hub
View Photo Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled an eagerly awaited new generation Xbox One videogame console, touting it as a home entertainment hub that goes far beyond ...
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College Sport Green Bay backs top pupils
Green Bay High School might not be among the heavy hitters in Auckland secondary sport but 10 of their pupils have been given a second-to-none opportunity to make their mark in their chosen endeavours. The inaugural recipients in the school's Jets - Junior Elite Training Squad - programme were announced on Monday night. The initiative, a joint venture between the school, WIL Sport Management and ...
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Hashtag Nation Music Awards Worthy of a Tony
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Sir David Nicholson quits NHS chief steps down in wake of Mid Staffs scandal
The head of the NHS Sir David Nicholson is to step down from his role, it was announced today, following a sustained and sometimes virulent campaign to force his resignation over the Mid Staffordshire ...
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Second nature exhibition in pictures
A new exhibition at London's Pitzhanger Manor Gallery celebrates the work of designers who have taken their creations back to nature.'Second Nature' explores the influence that animals, plants and the environment have had on the fashion industry over the years. Featuring the work of acclaimed London-based designers such as Roksanda Ilincic, Giles Deacon, Peter Pilotto, Fyodor ...
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Fighting hate speech against women on Facebook
A major new campaign calls on the social networking site to put an end to misogyny on its pages - including graphic videos and images that make light of violence against women. Here's hoping the message gets through this ...
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Sociable housing helps older people remain in the community | Jo Salter
As more of us live longer, a greater number of people will be faced with a choice when they get older: struggle to live independently in their own home, or move into a care home or retirement community, with access to better care and support, but perhaps narrower social horizons.Research carried out ...
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Older people up in arms about level of services at Devon retirement village
Residents of the Rydon Village retirement development in Devon say they haven't had they say they were promised. From left: Bill Spinks, Nigel Harding, Betty Hale, and Henry and Miranda Kitchen. Photograph: Jim ...
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Six Xbox 720 features that will change the game
This has always been a very contentious issue for the new console with rumours about an Xbox that needs to be always connected to the internet surfacing earlier this year. After the crowds online reacted badly to this news the former Creative Director at Microsoft, Adam Orth, spoke out on twitter, saying: "Sorry, I don't get the drama over having an 'always on' console," ...
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T Magazine The Great Outdoors | Louis Benechs Gardens Now in Book Form
It wasn’t the garden designer Louis Benech’s idea to do a book on his work: How, Benech wonders, can one really get to know a garden without walking it? But fortunately for his admirers, next month’s ...
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Jeremy Hunt come to my surgery and tell me I dont know my patients | Paul Hobday
I invite Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, to visit my surgery. He might learn something. We like to think we offer a very personal, family-orientated service, where I rarely have a patient in front of me I haven't met on many occasions. And ...
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AE overcrowding could lead to more deaths and serious illnesses MPs told
Many A&E departments have been forced to axe the NHS's four-hour target to deal with patients, Mike Clancy, a medical expert, says. Photograph: ...
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El Cerito man stabbed during brawl involving up to 50 people 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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Divergent See Dauntless symbol
We’ve already showed you what it looks like when you’re a Dauntless initiate andnow can show you the symbol for the Dauntless faction. For those who haven’t read the Veronica Roth ...
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Behind the Candelabra at Cannes
, Steven Soderbergh’s backstage drama about Liberace, the fur-and-sequin-clad, ivory-ticking kitsch maestro of ';wonderful'; entertainment, and his relationship with Scott Thorson, the dewy hunk who became his romantic partner in the late 1970s, is a movie that I’ve been eager to see for many months. Nevertheless, when it was announced that the film wouldn’t just be ...
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Alabama Shakes True Blood song
will feature new and previously released cuts from such cool cats as the Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, and Iggy Pop with Best Coast’s Beth Cosentino. Also on the lineup: a rootsy track called ';Pocket Change'; from the Brittany Howard-led Shakes, which you can hear it exclusively here. The record will be the first in the series to be released in vinyl, but that won’t ...
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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 ...
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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