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Australia Moves to Rein in Gambling Ads in Sports
Tune into virtually any major sport in Australia, from rugby to cricket to tennis, and you’re likely to be bombarded by commercials touting the latest odds on the game. Legal sports gambling is a multi-billion-dollar industry in Australia, where betting websites sponsor major teams and buy up stadium naming rights. Imagine a ';Bet365″ logo plastered across the back of a Los ...
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Lifestyle Parents association opposes computer project terms it white elephant in the offing
The project is intended to benefit about 1.4 million pupils set to join Standard One next year. Kenya National Association of Parents secretary general Musau Ndunda said the project is not a priority and expressed fear that it will turn out to be another white elephant. He noted that there is a lot of wastage in the education sector because the Government does not carry out assessment of ...
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Lifestyle Why free laptops will not soothe this school
The rickety desk creaks as Sudhow Abdi, 13, a Standard Seven pupil at Bura Primary School in Fafi Constituency, Garissa County, adjusts her sitting ...
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Lifestyle Your child cant grasp maths It is not in the genes says study
research ers at Institute of of University of London and Buckingham University indicate genetic make-up contribute very little towards children's reading skills and overall academic performance. According to Dr John Jerrim and his colleagues at Institute of , the effects of genes that are believed to be significant for reading ability are very small. "Even if those genes influence ...
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Lifestyle Zetech gets Cisco academy certification
This increases the number of local institutions that have been certified to be academies under the African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute (Afralti) to offer Cisco courses. According to the ...
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Lifestyle Crisis looms as KNH workers threaten strike
KNH grounds yesterday, chanting slogans vowing to stay away from work beginning today until the hospital management pay them 46 per cent salary increase for two years effective July 1, 2011. The workers also want a house allowance of 23 per cent and leave allowance of between Sh1,500 and ...
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Lifestyle Students walk for 106km to bring peace in Baragoi
students from schools in Maralal, Samburu and Pokot areas joined Ibrahim and other peace ambassadors for a peace march that covered 106km. The walk from Maralal ...
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Independence looks to expand fitness options after closing of the YMCA
Independence parks officials this fall hope to expand programming and upgrade facilities to fill the void left by the closing of the Independence YMCA earlier this ...
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Five essentials for the pampered surfer girl
This kit comes with everything a seasoned surfer could need for a day on the water: energy shots, a sunblock stick, and cooling gel, with one per cent of the profits going to the SurfRider foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping our oceans clean ...
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Border goes in to bat to protect skin
Former Australian cricket captain Allan Border was renowned for his skilful cut shot but it is a different kind of cut he is concentrating on now.Border was in Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday in his role as an ambassador for the Know Your Own Skin campaign promoting the importance of regularly checking your skin. The one-time holder of the record for most Test runs met a range of ...
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Apps A poke in the eye for social-network friends
Most social networks are designed to help you connect with your friends (or online admirers) but Hell is Other People promises to keep you as far away from your pesky online friends (and genuine ones) as possible. To keep you off-grid, the app takes your friends' check-in data from your Foursquare account and then works out "optimally-distanced locations" to make sure you ...
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Nike Air Max trainers The return of Nineties sole hits
Not long ago, the only people in a pair of Nike Air Max trainers were sneaker geeks and those rave babies who couldn't quite get over the fact that acid house was dead and the Nineties were, like, totally over, ...
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There’s an air of David Hockney but Burberry fails to make a bigger splash
And with a relentless, even daunting focus on youth behind the scenes and inside the clothes on the catwalk, fashion feels more than vaguely akin to a society where all over 30 are vaporized in the name of "renewal".For big fashion brands, however, most of that is null and void. It's still about growth: fiscal growth. More shops. More clothes - many, many more clothes.But for ...
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Girl Guides promise to serve Queen but no longer God and country
Guides were trumpeted from the very first days of the organisation's existence in 1910. But now, following a consultation with members, God and country are out - leaving just the Queen.In one of the biggest overhauls undergone by guiding in the UK, girls will now instead promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs". They will also pledge "to serve my queen and ...
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Why Students And Taxpayers Are Subsidizing College Sports — And How We Might Fix It
America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard ...
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Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan accused of choosing sex of baby
Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate ...
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Man of Steel A Superman debate
already made a superhuman amount of money . It has also inspired a whole host of serious and extreme reactions, with some praising the grittier take on the Superman myth while others complain about the raw brutality and skyscraper-collapsing imagery in the film’s action-heavy second ...
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College Sport MAGS does demolition job in final
National champions Mt Albert Grammar sent out an early warning that they will again be the team to beat after demolishing Tu Toa by 21 points in the televised college netball final. Obviously pleased with her team's 45-24 win, co-coach Paula Smith said they used the game as a team-building exercise and the chance to show their ability to push on throughout the match. Led by outstanding defender, ...
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Lifestyle Players raise concerns over laptop deal with Microsoft
NAIROBI, KENYA: Players in the telecommunications service industry are raising concerns over the manner in which the Kenyan government is going about its school laptop ...
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Hackett London at London Collections Men
Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hackett presented a collection that harked back to bygone days spent idling on a river bank, with nautical stripes, straw boaters and lightweight summer ...
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Food banks need to feed peoples hope and purpose not just their hunger | Nick Saul
Too many food banks serve up little more than poor-quality food and shame when they could offer those on low-incomes a chance to take control of their lives and what they ...
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Sport picture of the day duck diving under the Hawaiian waves
Underwater photography is normally associated with diving or competitive swimming, not surfing. But here Sarah Lee goes leftfield with a breathtaking picture of Allie Brown duck diving beneath the Hawaiian ...
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Australian sports firm refutes charges of financial irregularities
Australian sports management firm Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM), which finds itself in the midst of controversy regarding the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has refuted allegations of any financial ...
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How to get Game of Thrones-style braided hair
MAC Cosmetics makeup artist Romero Jennings shows you how to get an authentic "Game of Thrones" beauty look, before Bumble and Bumble hairstylist Britney Williams sets to recreating a braided hair look from the ...
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Motherlode Blog Bullies’ May Prey on the Food Allergic
';In a recent survey of 251 sets of parents and children with food allergies, published in Pediatrics in January, roughly a third of the children reported being bullied for their allergies. … Surprisingly, classmates may prey on their vulnerability, plotting to switch a child's lunch to see if she gets sick, for example, or spitting milk at a child's face and causing a ...
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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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