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Top cop wants booze ad ban during TV sport
AUSTRALIA'S alcohol industry is raising a "one-fingered salute" to society by continuing to push its product onto youngsters, Western Australia's top cop Karl O'Callaghan ...
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Game 3 of Stanley Cup final sets new NHL record on NBC Sports Network
Chicago Blackhawks centre Michal Handzus (26) mixes it up with Boston Bruins defenceman Johnny Boychuk (55) during the first period in Game 3 of their NHL Stanley Cup Finals hockey series in Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 2013. (WINSLOW ...
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Scot and South African appointed to spearhead Commonwealth sport development projects
This position will lead the sponsorship new business acquisition process for the NBA for Africa. The focus will be on new partner development - prospecting, pitching, negotiating and securing new corporate ...
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Cover-up at maternity unit in Furness general hospital says report
Parents of children who died at a maternity unit in Furness general hospital have been given copies of the report. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/Press ...
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Face-down restraint ban considered
Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one ...
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iStyle Mix but don’t match
Fortunately, this summer you can increase the amount of pigeon Italian you know by peppering conversations with the word "spezzato". For the uninitiated, this sartorial turn of phrase, when translated into English, literally means "broken". Apply this visually to what you wear, and it becomes the subtle art of mis-matching your jacket with your trousers. Sounds easy, right? ...
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NHS watchdog accused of hospital scandal cover-up
Britain's NHS regulator has been accused of covering up their failure to prevent a scandal at a hospital maternity unit where at least eight babies are thought to have died from neglect, according to a damning report to be published ...
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Lifestyle Lift changes national ads after probe
Four years after settling similar charges in New York, the plastic surgery company Lifestyle Lift reached a settlement with the Florida attorney general that requires it to change its marketing ...
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Psychiatrists call for action over premature deaths of mentally ill
An international group of psychiatrists today launches a drive to end the global scandal of premature deaths among people suffering from severe mental ...
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UK defies European car sales downturn
Sales were down 5.9 per cent against a year earlier across the European Union, falling to just 1.04 million, the ACEA car makers' association said. This was the worst May since 1993, when sales dropped below 1 million. The downturn punished all major markets as the eurozone wallows in a sixth straight quarter of recession and record unemployment. Sales plummeted 9.9 per cent in Germany and ...
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Universities Sport success not as vital as it used to be
The days of universities seeking the best athletes and sportsmen and women to boost their sporting prowess appear to be over, according to a new ...
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CO Canal Towpath Trail ‘judged’ as great recreation
The 185-mile C&O Canal Towpath Heritage Trail is managed by the National Park Service. This peaceful scene along the trail was taken by park volunteer Nancy ...
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T Magazine Three’s a Trend | The Sailor Look Floods Resort
Looks from the resort collections of (from left) Valentino, Marc Jacobs and Chlo. Gone are the days of referring to the pre-spring collections as ';cruise.'; Yet several resort collections this season seemed high-seas-ready. Interpretations of the United States Navy uniform were both indirect (a very casual denim ensemble ...
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How a Showtime Documentary Could Shape News Access to Sport Events
and news organizations about access and control. Like many professional sports associations with billion-dollar TV rights deals, the USTA doesn't allow just anybody with video cameras to show up at the U.S. Open. Instead, for those who want to cover the annual tennis competition with video equipment in tow, something more is required -- an invitation. The lawsuit says that the filmmakers ...
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Monsters U. L.A. premiere notes
columns and arches, the attendees all wore Monsters U royal blue, and a marching band and some acrobatic cheerleaders kicked off the evening with a custom Monsters U chant. Sulley and Mike Wazowski clearly made the right choice when it came to their higher education. EW was on the scene and spoke to some of the cast and crew, new and old, about the film, the new characters to look forward to, ...
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Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...
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Survey Most women business leaders are team players
Women in top executive positions in the United States and elsewhere are frequent participants in team sports, a survey by accounting firm Enrst & Young found. The survey that included 821 executives and senior managers of substantial firms found 67 percent of women in top executive jobs at some point participated in a team sport while managing their careers. The survey only included ...
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Sports KPL Second leg begins
"Kimani has been ruled out for one month but we have adequate cover because Eric Masika is coming back and Martin Imbalambala is also available. "It is in the midfield where we are incapacitated and may be forced to recall back Patrick Ongoma to help us," he said. Ongoma has been loaned out to fellow KPL side Homeboyz. In another match to be played on Saturday, former champions ...
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Letters The complex causes of underachievement
Underachievement in state schools 'creates moral and political danger' , 15 June) - as are the future bankers, tax avoiders, and benefit fraudsters (though he didn't mention these). He is also right that we should "address the needs of our poorest children", though he is wrong when he says: "It is an issue that can only be tackled by central government taking very ...
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Letters Lift the unjust ban on prisoners votes
The prisoners voting bill before parliament presents an opportunity to lift the unjust and outdated ban on all sentenced prisoners taking part in our democratic process. While those who have committed crimes may be rightly deprived of their liberty, they never cease to be citizens. The current system of blanket disenfranchisement is a violation of the UK's obligations under the European ...
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Gangs of Cairo Egyptian minister fights culture war
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Anti-Mursi protesters, made up of intellectuals and artists, demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Culture against what they claimed are increasing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood ...
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Brazil disgust as sport spotlights squeezed services
Brazil’s middle class are demanding that public services be given a higher priority than football. The country is gearing up to host a global event for that next year; the sport is one step short of worship for millions of Brazilians; but while hospital and school budgets go hungry, many are furious that 11 billion euros is being spent preparing for the Confederation Cup. What lit the ...
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Kanye... or Lucille Bluth Quiz
';I Am a God'; — subtle, ‘Ye — you’ll realize that West’s true kindred spirit is none other than Lucille Bluth. Think about it. If Arrested ...
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John Mayer song about Taylor Swift
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage It’s been a while since we’ve heard John Mayer’s voice, thanks to the barrage of health problems that drove him to announce ...
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Safe sleep rule a must for all
Concern has been raised over the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome fatalities occurring when a baby is being cared for by a secondary carer such as a grandparent, friend or babysitter.SIDS and Kids WA neonatal nurse and education officer Monnia Volpi-Wise estimated that a quarter of SIDS deaths in Australia happened when parents left someone else in charge.She questioned whether protective ...
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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