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Construction begins on new island off Jumeirah Beach in Dubai
Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...
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Murofushi loses appeal in IOC member election
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed Athens Olympic champion Koji Murofushi's challenge of an International Olympic Committee's (IOC) disqualification from member election. The Japanese hammer thrower was disqualified from IOC's athletes committee member election after claims he excessively lobbied fellow athletes ahead of voting at the London Olympics, reports Xinhua. The IOC has ...
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ESPN layoffs 7000 workers as TV rights fees rise
Sports media giant ESPN has given pink slips to nearly 7,000 employees on Tuesday, the network said in a statement. The Bristol, Connecticut-based company said it was looking at the financial bottom line. In a statement the company said that they were implementing changes across the company to enhance their continued growth while smartly managing costs. It added that while difficult, they ...
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Microsoft launches all-in-one home entertainment system Xbox One
Microsoft has unveiled its latest video gaming console 'Xbox One' which is believed to transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room. The latest console reportedly promises a vision of the future. According to a report by the Mirror, 'Xbox One' will allow users to turn on the device with words like "Xbox On", and "snap" will allow users to watch two things at ...
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Fitness Success 5 great ways to make fitness and weight loss easier
Most people think that the key to taking off the weight (fat) and keeping off the fat (or staying in shape) is just willpower and self-discipline. In fact, attempting to rely on your willpower to keep the weight (fat) off for the rest of your life is a ticking time bomb — it’s only a matter of time before something else in your life will distract and derail you. Don’t get ...
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Bookmakers anticipate two-horse race for 2020 bid sports
The IOC will vote on whether to include one of the following sports in the 2020 Olympic programme on 8 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos ...
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Is the reaction to Xbox One any different to Xbox 360 The more things change...
Reactions so far to last night's unveiling of the new Xbox One have been tepid to say the least. Industry commentators and internet commenters alike have accused Microsoft of straying from their brief: failing to put gaming at the heart of their new console and concentrating too much on integrating ...
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On-demand services are creating TV infidelity
A survey has found that 61% of women and 51% of men admit to cheating on their partners by secretly watching extra episodes of TV shows they're meant to be watching together as a couple.A study commissioned by a company that offers time-shift and on-demand TV viewing should always be taken with a pinch of salt but, nevertheless, the results of the Netflix survey make for interesting ...
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Webby Awards What you missed
Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images The Webby Awards aren’t the world’s shortest award ceremony — including a dinner break, the ceremony takes the standard three hours — but ...
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Living with Google Glass what its actually like to wear
I have spent the past few weeks lowering my expectations for Google Glass. When I put on Google's smart glasses a year ago - Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, let the press try on his pair at the company's developer conference - I found it exhilarating. But many of my tech-journalist colleagues have panned the device recently, calling it disorienting, buggy, and hobbled by ...
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New Yorkers in glass houses shouldnt be surprised they were photographed | Jill Filipovic
New York City for more than a decade what makes someone a "real" New Yorker and you'll get five different answers: if you're born here; seven years in the city; 10 years; when you're no longer fazed by celebrity sightings; when a bagel guy knows how you like your coffee and uses the perfect amount of cream cheese. My opinion? You become a real New Yorker around the third ...
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Are museums a man or womans world
equality perspective is incorporated in all policies at all levels and at all stages".Gender mainstreaming emerged as a strategy towards global equity by 1995, after it was addressed at the UN's fourth world conference of ...
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Why philosophy students do the most drugs
drugs , compared with 57% of medical students. Why this discrepancy? Is it because philosophy is easier than medicine and thus offers more recreational downtime? Really? Is grasping the Kantian noumenon less demanding than dissecting corpses?The Tab's editors, sensibly, say the survey should be taken with a pinch of salt since respondents are self-selecting. But if so, why would philosophy ...
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Young faces enliven Kuwaits faded art scene
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Kuwaiti graphic designer Mohammad Sharaf talks about his work in his office in Hawalli, May 1, 2013. After two lackluster decades, Kuwait is experiencing a quiet revival of an arts scene ...
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Dubai authorities seize shipment of 259 elephant tusks
IFAW ) said in a statement that the container came from Mombasa in Kenya. Poaching has risen in recent years across sub-Saharan Africa, where well-armed criminal gangs have killed elephants and rhinos for tusks that are often shipped to Asia for use in ornaments and some medicines. The UAE ministry said the shipment, containing 259 pieces of ivory, was discovered by customs officials ...
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Xbox One Price and release date revealed
Last night's reveal of the Xbox One laid out the key features of Microsoft's new console (all-in-one entertainment solution, continuing franchises; eight-fold increase in processing power) but the hour-long presentation still left quite a few questions ...
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Turkey presents Prophets sayings for the 21st Century
during his life. Preachers and jurists use them to understand the Koran and support Muslim teachings and fatwas (religious edicts) on all aspects of life, from prayer to education for women. What makes this one different is that it selects and explains the hadiths from the perspective of today's Turkey, whose mix of a secular state, dynamic economy and Muslim society has aroused ...
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Motherlode Blog Not Worried About a Little Baby Fat
Jessica Grose offers monthly bulletins on how becoming a parent (her daughter was born in December 2012) is changing her life. I was showing my favorite photograph of the baby to an acquaintance. She commented on the girl's sweet thighs sticking out of her flowered onesie and her kissable cheeks, and I said, with maternal pride, "She's such a chubby bunny." The other ...
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Only God Forgives Cannes review
, the deliriously bloody and overwrought Ryan Gosling art thriller that premiered two years ago at Cannes, is a movie that I found stylish in its way (it was hard not to, given that the film was ...
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Fitness-for-work tests unfair on people with mental health problems court says
The judge ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions had breached its duties to make 'reasonable adjustments' under the Equality Act to ensure that people with mental health problems were treated fairly. Photograph: Toby ...
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Lessons from Australian local government
Melbourne, setting for the local government summit. Councils in England and Australia can learn from each other, says John Tizard. Photograph: Lonely Planet ...
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The Highest-Paid Coaches In U.S. Sports
Bill Belichick's two-year run as America's highest-paid coach has come to an end. That title now belongs to Sean Payton, the fellow NFL coach who will be paid around $8 million per year to lead the New Orleans Saints for the next five seasons. Payton's future employment was something of a mystery at the end of last year when the NFL voided his contract extension with the Saints, ...
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Children’s fitness gets D-minus on national report card
Sedentary lifestyles, faraway schools and expensive sports programs are seeing fewer Canadian kids achieving the recommended level of fitness in their daily lives. But a local recreation centre is partnering with a national healthy living body to create better, more innovative ways to squeeze unstructured play and daily exercise into busy schedules. According to Statistics Canada, one in three ...
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High heels dont cause bunions Study
High-heeled shoes are known to shorten calf muscles, cause pain, and even trigger migraines, but according to new research, they won't lead to bunions. For that, you can thank your parents. The study, led Dr. Marian Hannan from Hebrew SeniorLife and Harvard Medical School in Boston, included 1,370 participants enrolled in the Framingham Foot Study. Participants had a mean age of 66 years ...
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Aritzia tags offend disability groups
Vancouver-based Aritzia has yanked some of its clothing tags that drew angry complaints from offended customers and disability groups. Aritzia executives admitted to QMI Agency Tuesday that clothing tags with the ...
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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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