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How a Showtime Documentary Could Shape News Access to Sport Events
and news organizations about access and control. Like many professional sports associations with billion-dollar TV rights deals, the USTA doesn't allow just anybody with video cameras to show up at the U.S. Open. Instead, for those who want to cover the annual tennis competition with video equipment in tow, something more is required -- an invitation. The lawsuit says that the filmmakers ...
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Monsters U. L.A. premiere notes
columns and arches, the attendees all wore Monsters U royal blue, and a marching band and some acrobatic cheerleaders kicked off the evening with a custom Monsters U chant. Sulley and Mike Wazowski clearly made the right choice when it came to their higher education. EW was on the scene and spoke to some of the cast and crew, new and old, about the film, the new characters to look forward to, ...
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Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...
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Sports KPL Second leg begins
"Kimani has been ruled out for one month but we have adequate cover because Eric Masika is coming back and Martin Imbalambala is also available. "It is in the midfield where we are incapacitated and may be forced to recall back Patrick Ongoma to help us," he said. Ongoma has been loaned out to fellow KPL side Homeboyz. In another match to be played on Saturday, former champions ...
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Letters The complex causes of underachievement
Underachievement in state schools 'creates moral and political danger' , 15 June) - as are the future bankers, tax avoiders, and benefit fraudsters (though he didn't mention these). He is also right that we should "address the needs of our poorest children", though he is wrong when he says: "It is an issue that can only be tackled by central government taking very ...
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Letters Lift the unjust ban on prisoners votes
The prisoners voting bill before parliament presents an opportunity to lift the unjust and outdated ban on all sentenced prisoners taking part in our democratic process. While those who have committed crimes may be rightly deprived of their liberty, they never cease to be citizens. The current system of blanket disenfranchisement is a violation of the UK's obligations under the European ...
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Gangs of Cairo Egyptian minister fights culture war
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Anti-Mursi protesters, made up of intellectuals and artists, demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Culture against what they claimed are increasing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood ...
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Brazil disgust as sport spotlights squeezed services
Brazil’s middle class are demanding that public services be given a higher priority than football. The country is gearing up to host a global event for that next year; the sport is one step short of worship for millions of Brazilians; but while hospital and school budgets go hungry, many are furious that 11 billion euros is being spent preparing for the Confederation Cup. What lit the ...
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Kanye... or Lucille Bluth Quiz
';I Am a God'; — subtle, ‘Ye — you’ll realize that West’s true kindred spirit is none other than Lucille Bluth. Think about it. If Arrested ...
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John Mayer song about Taylor Swift
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage It’s been a while since we’ve heard John Mayer’s voice, thanks to the barrage of health problems that drove him to announce ...
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Safe sleep rule a must for all
Concern has been raised over the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome fatalities occurring when a baby is being cared for by a secondary carer such as a grandparent, friend or babysitter.SIDS and Kids WA neonatal nurse and education officer Monnia Volpi-Wise estimated that a quarter of SIDS deaths in Australia happened when parents left someone else in charge.She questioned whether protective ...
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Top cop blasts booze industry
Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan is expected to launch an extraordinary attack today on the liquor industry and politicians who baulk at a stand against WA's culture of youth alcohol abuse.Mr O'Callaghan is a keynote speaker at a National Alliance for Action on Alcohol forum in Canberra that is expected to attract the major political parties.Yesterday, he said he simply wants ...
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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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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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