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Time Warner Faces Suit After Taking Over Los Angeles Sports Market
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Tips to feel full on a diet
The worst thing about being on a dreaded diet is feeling hungry. It's when people can crack and eat something they know they shouldn't.When you're trying to lose weight, it can be hard to stick to a lower-calorie menu if you're feeling ravenous the whole time.Fortunately, some of the best foods for weight loss also happen to be the ones that help fill you up.Three of the key ...
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Cronut a worldwide sweet sensation
When a food craze has New Yorkers begrudgingly waiting in queues it is only a matter of time before it hits Down Under.Forget macarons and cupcakes - the latest object of desire for those with a sweet-tooth is a cross between a croissant and a doughnut and it has captured the attention of foodies around the world, including Perth.Since its creator, New York-based chef Dominique Ansel, unveiled ...
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Couple in deck collapse sues Fla. sports bar
A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay last week during the fourth game of the NBA ...
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Mixed bag of results for JD Sports
While sales of trainers and tracksuits at JD Sports are sprinting along, the group's camping and other clothing stores have not quite broken out into a jog so far this ...
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James Gandolfini dies at age 51
, has passed away after suffering a heart attack.He was 51. HBO said in a statement: ';We’re all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family. He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years ...
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iStyle Fashion on two wheels
As you might expect, the fashion bike is a different beast altogether. Designers Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci led the way for the extreme bicycle, with creations that freewheeled into the headlines last year for their whopping price tags. This season, however, a slightly more realistic bar has been set, as brands such as Pretty Ballerinas, H&M and Red or Dead have teamed up with established ...
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Lifestyle marketing meets tech demo in PS4 trailer
'Titanfall' confirmed as Xbox console exclusive PlayStation's trailer for the PS4 lets us have a gander at the new console's interface and how we might be using it. Elaborating on the sort of flat design sensibilities that inform Microsoft's current line of products (Xbox One included), Google's suite of apps, and the PlayStation Network Store's 2012 overhaul, ...
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Shoe Battles Going Toe-to-Toe in Stilettos
The shoe department of Bergdorf Goodman, on the morning of May 29, looked like "an insane asylum of very well-dressed women," said Sasha Charnin Morrison, the fashion director of Us Weekly, who was reporting from the front lines of what has become an annual rite of spring in Manhattan: the first day of the designer shoe ...
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T Magazine Now Screening | The Goofy Cultish World of Master Sommeliers
Court of Master Sommeliers . Over nearly half a century, this international body has only "knighted" 197 candidates as Masters -- about 10 percent of test takers. Dustin Wilson, the wine director of the triple-Michelin-starred Manhattan ...
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Scotland must do more to tackle poverty warns Oxfam
Scotland 's poorest neighbourhoods.The charity has accused ministers in successive Scottish and UK governments of failing to combat poverty effectively by putting wealth-creation, consumption and economic growth ahead of ...
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Washington Sports Clubs To Offer I Am Beach Buff Telephone Hotline For Summer Exercise Advice
Feel like you're not beach-body ready? Now there is a hotline for that. Washington Sports Clubs will be running what they call an "I Am Buff Beach Help Hotline" Friday through Sunday, 6 a.m. through 9 p.m. No, the hotline is not a way to convince you that you are wonderful just the way you are. Instead the gym chain will be doling out fitness ...
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Anchorman 2 trailer A closer look
‘s original theatrical trailer — and a familiar-sounding voiceover, courtesy of the first movie’s narrator Bill Kurtis, kick things off, striking an appropriately serious tone. ';In the ’70s, they were an elite unit — with names like Brick, Champ, Brian, and Ron,'; Kurtis booms. ';They rose like the phoenix, and then–'; black screen! ...
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Miley Cyrus Whats she wearing
She may have hopped off the plane with a dream and her cardigan, but Miley Cyrus has since shed a few layers of clothing and developed some strange tastes in accessories. Cyrus wears an array of spandex and crop tops — all the better to show off the results of the many hours she’s logged on a Pilates reformer –in the just-released video for ';We Can’t Stop.'; ...
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Emmy love for Girls guy
, you’ve probably heard about Adam Driver — or, at least, something his character, also named Adam, did on the show. Alongside Lena Dunham, Driver was responsible for the buzzy moments that kept people watching, talking and tweeting throughout the HBO comedy’s dark second season. Fans’ thoughts about Adam can (and did) change moment to moment, and nowhere was that more on ...
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iStyle Fashion on two wheels
As you might expect, the fashion bike is a different beast altogether. Designers Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci led the way for the extreme bicycle, with creations that freewheeled into the headlines last year for their whopping price tags. This season, however, a slightly more realistic bar has been set, as brands such as Pretty Ballerinas, H&M and Red or Dead have teamed up with established ...
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Study claims ‘inner peace’ can help pupils to cope with exams
A new study from three leading universities has revealed the benefits of teaching "mindfulness" in schools, providing the first evidence that mental exercises akin to Buddhist meditation improve children's attention spans, lower their stress levels and contribute to better exam performance.More than 250 pupils at six schools, aged 12 to 16, were given a nine-week course in ...
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Ofsted chief calls for troubleshooters in schools failing poor children
schools ", the chief inspector of schools in England will say in a radical speech on Thursday, as part of a drive to improve education for poor children "unseen" by the current system.Sir Michael Wilshaw will also spell out a tougher approach ...
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Syrian refugee children left to die at roadside charity told
Nine-year-old Syrian refugee Rania on a home-made swing in her family's new living space in East Amman, Jordan. Photograph: Moises Saman/Save the ...
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Tackling poverty needs radical action not more economic failure says Oxfam
Poverty is a creation of society and - if we work together and have the will - we have ample resources to end it. But the first step on that journey needs to be a radical transformation of the economy so it provides prosperity for all, not just a ...
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Hugh Muirs diary Cracks blight the assault in the Lords against gay marriage
o In the titanic battle in the Lords against gay marriage, many have witnessed the apparent union between Lord Dear, the former chief ...
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NHS regulation never again again | Editorial
NHS and in its regulation will be deeply shaken by yesterday's report into UHMB, and by the admission from the CQC's new chairman David Prior that his organisation ...
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Don’t Know This Face Just Wait
Just as being cast by Prada can turn a woman overnight from a lovely Scandinavian nobody into what Mr. Brown termed "a six-figure girl," a Calvin Klein casting vaults a model's name to the top of the ratings on Web sites ...
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No we cant Japans conservative values collide with plan to mobilize women for economy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to take steps, including expanding daycare, to help mobilize women power as part of his "Abenomics" plan to end economic stagnation and engineer growth in a country beset by an ageing, shrinking ...
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Star Wars 7 characters for VII
trilogy. Or perhaps those ';strong opinions'; indicate that he is some kind of Big Important Leader in whatever version of the Republic is currently reigning in : Episode ...
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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