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Red Wings Detroit officials plan new $650 million home for NHL team in downtown sports zone
FILE - In this May 31, 2009, file photo, hockey fans enter Joe Louis Arena for Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals hockey series in Detroit. The Detroit Red Wings and city official announced Wednesday, June 19, 2013, a $650 million plan for a new arena for the NHL team in the city's downtown entertainment and sports district. Red Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch has long said that he ...
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Lifestyle KNH workers on go-slow to demand pay rise
Richard Lesiyampe held a meeting with union representatives, but no agreement was reached and the workers vowed to down their tools if their demands are not met. The patients bore the brunt of ...
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Lifestyle How joblessness leads to anger mental instability
National Aids and STDs Control Programme do not show, is that alongside the women are hundreds of others equally angry young muggers, petty thieves and traders jostling violently for a living from an almost saturated informal sector. Unemployment is proven to trigger profound and continuing levels of anger in people who feel discarded, undervalued, wronged or denied. It also drives actions of ...
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Lifestyle My long painful struggle in search of a job
She graduated from Moi University with a Bachelor's degree in Tourism in 2008. Brenda, now 30, has sent hundreds of applications seeking employment to no avail. She sits outside her home in Kapseret, Eldoret perusing through her Curriculum Vitae and other academic credentials enveloped by a sense of helplessness. "I cannot say I have not tried because I have been applying for jobs ...
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Lifestyle A generation of youth on the brink and the difficult choices they make
Kenya : He graduated four years ago with big dreams, holding out with pride his crisp university graduation certificate. But the young graduate's wait for a job soon stretched into months and then years. Back in the Nairobi slums where all his friends were doing well from crime, his reluctance to be a gangster faded slowly. Tim, not his real name, started small, he says, stealing small ...
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Lifestyle Kuppet members down tools paralysing learning
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations near. Students of Afraha Secondary School sat in their classes and the responsibility of organising them was left to class prefects and teachers who are not Kuppet members. And learning in most secondary schools in Embu and Tharaka-Nithi counties was paralysed. Kuppet officials said they flushed out teachers from classrooms to have ...
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Lifestyle Knut targets Sh54b laptop cash for pay
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) wants Sh54 billion set aside to finance the Jubilee pledge of laptops for primary school pupils diverted to pay teachers' ...
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The 10 Best new smartphones
There may be whispers of a 5S, but until then, this is as good as it's going to get from Apple. Still, the iPhone 5 remains one of the most coveted smartphones around and with iOS7 around the corner, there's never been a better time to get ...
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US companies criticise UK healthcare firms charitable status and tax breaks
A flyer for the St John's hospice summer fair recently dropped on doormats across north London. The top half of the leaflet advertised the bouncy castle and candyfloss; the bottom half promoted Casualty First - "your private walk-in urgent care centre."Both the hospice and walk-in centre are parts of the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, a private healthcare operator that is ...
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What Serena Williams taught me about rape | Eris Zion Venia Dyson
Thank you, Serena, for implying that:1. Rape is your fault if you're 16 years old girl.2. Rape is your fault if you're drunk.3. Rape is your fault if your parents didn't teach you not to take drinks from other people.4. Rape is your fault if you're too intoxicated to remember it.5. Rape could possibly be your fault if you aren't a virgin.6. Rape isn't a position you ...
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The state wont protect our children from porn – education is the answer | Suzanne Moore
'How was school?" As every parent knows, this question is usually met by a grunt and "Why haven't you bought the biscuits I like?" Then later on they accuse you of not being interested in what they do all day.This week was different. My youngest came in outraged. "Today was the most disgusting day ever. Our teacher showed ...
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Scene City Her Madgesty Arrives Fashionably Late
The reason? Her Madgesty was running an hour late and Ms. Stewart had an early morning. "I have to do the 'Today' show," Ms. Stewart said. Oh, ...
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Motherlode Blog Will Parents Still Turn Down an ‘Anti-Cancer Vaccine’
"These are striking results," Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Times’s Sabrina Tavernise. "They should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates. The bottom line is this: It is possible to protect the next generation from cancer, and we need to do it."But unless these numbers change a significant ...
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Trial Run Sunscreen No Longer Just for Sun
Josie Maran Argan Daily Moisturizer SPF 40 My favorite of the bunch, this moisturizer was lightweight and (more important, considering it's a mineral sunscreen and thus prone to chalkiness) went on clear without shiny residue. The only fault was the noticeable berry smell; while not offensive, I could do without ...
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Front Row Making the Best of a Brief Turn
Christopher Kane 's spiraling face print on matching tops and shorts is the best example of that sort -- or color. We've seen saturated colors and deft fade-outs that suggest techniques associated with digital ...
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North Korean leader Kim used luxury yacht to tour coast website
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a New Year address in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on January 1, ...
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Pioneering free school fails awarded lowest Ofsted grades
Michael Gove , Ofsted inspectors have published the highly critical report into the Discovery Free School, in Crawley, West Sussex, which opened in September 2011.Inspectors were severe on the primary school's leadership, saying its governors failed to grasp the school's "serious shortcomings", while school leaders "believe the school is far better than it is".The ...
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In sports writing the action’s moved away from columns
Bryan Curtis writes about the slow decline of The New York Times’ Sports of the Times column. But more than one column in one newspaper, Curtis is really writing about a broader shift in what content is valuable in an online ...
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Reality TVs best dressed Final 4
There were nailbiters — Nicole Richie best Tyra Banks by just 23 votes — and there were blowouts — Shakira trounced Mariah ...
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Cost an obstacle to seeing GP
People living in Perth's southern corridor of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah rate the worst in the country for putting off attending a GP or dentist because of cost.A review by the National Health Performance Authority found that in the Medicare Local of Perth South Coastal 34 per cent of adults avoided going to the dentist because of the expense, the highest rate in Australia.The area ...
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The retail empires strike back Can new technology lure us back to the high street
The high street has been bruised and battered by online firms but in-store technology is helping to enliven the retail experience, as Rhodri Marsden ...
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Motoring review Porsche Cayman S
You have to be a certain kind of person to buy a bright yellow Porsche. More precisely, you have to be the sort of person who wants to be noticed. You could paint the new Cayman S beige and still get noticed, though - it's a beautiful concoction of aluminium and hot-formed steel with a short, sloping front end, beautiful lines and a tight rear. So why gild the lily and paint the latest ...
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A week with Bosch Indego lawnmower
This little green goblin is the Bosch Indego, an automatic lawnmower. Robochop, if you will. It pootles around your garden cutting the grass, then when it's done it tootles back to its docking station (or nest, as I like to think of it) and recharges itself. If it bumps into anything on its way, it will stop, then chart another course away from the branch/barbecue/bird bath in its path. I ...
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Bull Durham turns 25 -- and whats your favorite sports movie
The other day, I was picking out some movies to give to my nephew, who just graduated from high school and who hinted that he’d like, as a gift from me, some great DVDs for his collection. I was having fun choosing some classics that I thought he’d like . . . a little Hitchcock here, a little Kubrick there . . . and then I thought I should include a sports movie, as he loves sports. ...
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Kate Moss Naomi Campbell came to John Gallianos aid after infamous rant and backlash
Supermodels Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista helped disgraced fashion designer John Galliano get back on his feet after his infamous anti-Semitic rant and subsequent stint in rehab. Galliano's fall from grace came after he was arrested for hurling racist comments at a couple during a night out in France in 2011, which cost him his job as head designer at Christian Dior later ...
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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