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The Braver Better Movie That Star Trek Into Darkness Could Have Been
of ground to cover in two hours, and the whole movie suffers for it.The pacing is choppy and weird, racing past plot holes and lingering on brutal hand-to-hand combat drawn out so far past the point of feasibility that it actually ...
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Whats causing the crisis in AE
Pressure on NHS A&E services has reached critical levels, but why is it so acute now? Share your thoughts on what you think is causing the crisis as well as your own experiences of A&E and out-of-hours ...
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Sir David Nicholson the Stalinist NHS chief who showed loyalty to Tory boss
A known sceptic of Andrew Lansley's big bang health reforms, Sir David Nicholson had a chance to halt the controversial health secretary's plan when he was called in by the Tory enforcer Oliver Letwin and his Lib Dem counterpart Danny Alexander for a meeting in the Treasury in late 2010.The pair asked him whether they should they continue with the reforms given the emerging and ...
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If parents have to pay for school work placements their children will suffer | Libby Page
A student doing work experience at tailor and fashion designer Imtaz Khaliq's London studio. Parents are reportedly being asked to pay 50 or more for their children to do placements. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the ...
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Entertaining change Sony to look at activists spin-off idea
By Tim KellyTOKYO (Reuters) - Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favours long-standing ties with banks, business partners and workers rather than shareholders seeking value.Struggling electronics giant Sony Corp, though, with more foreign and fewer bank shareholders, may prove something of an exception. ...
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Mercedes dealer review opens home front in luxury war
Reuters © Dieter Zetsche, CEO of German carmaker Daimler, poses in a new Mercedes-Benz S-class car during a presentation in Hamburg, May 15, 2013. REUTERS/Fabian ...
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Lifestyle Osama Bin Laden raid knife sold for Sh2.9m
auction in all raised more than $75,000 for several special operations charities, but the proceeds from the knife sale will specifically go the family of Brett "Shady" Shadle, according to Matthew Griffin, a former Army Ranger who helped organized the event. Shadle, who served in SEAL Team Six with Owen, was killed in late March in a training accident in ...
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Lifestyle Grandmother 79 Jumps from plane
jump , she said, was terrifying. The worst part was sitting on the floor of "the narrow, dinky plane which was not exactly a 747 waiting for her turn ...
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Homelessness despair and confusion amid the night shelter funding crisis
The future for housing-benefit funded emergency night shelters for rough sleepers is precarious. So why are ministers so reluctant to intervene to prevent them ...
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NIIT Pledges Support For Sports
Djan Wilteh &Associates' Emmanuel Ola Williams(2ndL) in a handshake with NIIT officials. With them is MC-Caulley of GES IT Company NIIT Computers has pledged its unflinching support for sports in the country. Already, it has supported the Nunu Sports Festival, offering scholarship to 20 outstanding pupils and officials who excelled in the just ended sports festival. "We believe ...
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Community sports recreation datebook
Youth and recreation leagues are forming, camps and classes are taking place, tryouts are being scheduled and more is going on around the ...
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Civil servants are least happy employees in China
Civil servants are the least happy employees in China, research has revealed.A survey of over 9,000 respondents found that civil servants had the lowest level of job satisfaction of the 12 sector categories that were included.According to ...
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Time is ripe to compost
The time has come to compost.Unfortunately, the are no excuses left for the reluctant composter.The oft-used arguments I have no garden, it's too hard or it's smells well, just stink.As a lapsed composter - who throws obscene amounts of food waste in the bin - it's time to step up to my waste management responsibilities.There are many small, stylish and smell-free ...
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Today in healthcare Wednesday 22 May
Good morning and welcome to the daily live blog from the Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network. Throughout the day, we'll be bringing you news, comment and analysis from around the web. The big story of the day ...
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Why market research is important for the NHS
Market research can drive better care, increase patient engagment and help the NHS understand what patients need and how they feel. Photograph: RayArt Graphics ...
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Lifestyle Special K the trend for names
Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen have called their second son Klay. The name is more usually spelt Clay. It's part of a wider trend that is seeing "c" being substituted with ...
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Wales could be the Silicon Valley of public services
The NHS, public libraries and local education authorities all have roots in Wales, making it fertile ground for innovation. Photograph: The Photolibrary ...
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Its time for a new model of specialist housing for older people
I must declare up front: I'm not a housing expert or an ageing society expert, but I do know the numbers. And they all point in one direction - a huge demographic challenge for all generations, particularly on housing need.Everyone knows that our society is ageing. People are living longer and the birth rate is falling. Between 2002 and 2011, there was a 26% increase in the number of people ...
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Councils need to crack down on payday loan companies
The booming payday loan industry demonstrates a fundamental failure to protect our most vulnerable citizens from exploitation. Lenders who charge massive multiples of interest dominating our high streets is bad enough, but now some payday loan companies are aggressively marketing via children and pushing standards to a new low.In Lambeth's deprived Coldharbour and Ferndale wards, Speedy ...
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Lifestyle Students in Dadaab benefit from ICT training
UNHCR ?s Representative in Kenya. ?Access to quality education is a key precondition for the economic development and self-reliance of refugees as well as the enjoyment of many other human rights.? The CTA project, whose foundations were laid in early 2012, targets three main areas for improvement: formal education, vocational training and community e- learning. In primary schools this year, 32 ...
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How to get ahead in ... becoming an activism co-ordinator
Sustrans , the shift from the fringes to the mainstream also means that lobbying organisations like themselves are now recruiting supporters from a much wider audience. Joe Williams, media and policy adviser to Sustrans, says: "I think this shift is probably a reflection of green politics as well its becoming more mainstream although the stereotype of local activists still remains, ...
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Winger Ioane Faces Fitness Race for First Lions Test
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David Laws vetoes plan to force schools to check immigrant status of pupils
David Laws decided the idea would be bureaucratic and difficult to implement.In a sign of the Lib Dems' determination to assert themselves in the coalition, Laws told the education ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Wednesday May 22
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Money raised for sports trip
AFTER inviting locals to their garage sale fundraiser, Sunny Pasco and her friends have managed to raise about $1000 to put towards their overseas sports ...
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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