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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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Racing up Europes highest volcano in the Etna Supermarathon
This is Mount Etna, at 3,330 meters (10,926 feet) the highest volcano in mainland Europe and one of the most active in the world, and on Saturday I was one of 160 starters gathered on the beach for the "Etna ...
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Heres a chance to fight for disabled peoples mobility | Jane Young
consultation on the personal independence payment (PIP) - the disability benefit that replaces disability living allowance (DLA). After telling us for months that the consultations on PIP were more extensive than any previous consultation and that it had really listened, the government announced its intention to reconsult on the mobility component of the new benefit. The political and legal ...
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We hate to be called a food bank
Bristol City mission. Mums with buggies, tall African men; they wait patiently on red plush pews that have been rearranged for the morning's activities. They check in with a counsellor, then go to the food store for groceries.The clients are here because they are penniless; they exchange the voucher they have been issued with by a referring agency (referrers include local primary schools, ...
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Patricia Clarkson in Maze Runner
Image Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images Who are these amnesiac boys, rising up each month from a rusting elevator into the middle of a grassy glade? What is this massive stone maze surrounding them, and why does it change shape each day? How long will some unseen intelligence keep testing them as they try desperately to escape? These are the core questions ...
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No PC port for EA’s high-end sports engine
eager to show off how the power of its new Ignite Engine can create new, more realistic sports experiences titles. But while that engine will power EA's sports games on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the company says the PC edition of FIFA 14 will not take advantage of it, owing to practical hardware considerations. FIFA 14 is the only sports title EA still annually releases on the PC, ...
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Lifestyle Rwanda hosts 2013 CIO Awards
This is the only competition in East Africa that awards excellence in the execution of IT projects and recognizes the organizations and the people behind those projects. The competition, themed ?Value creation through innovation? is expected to attract over 300 participants across East Africa, and will climax with the Awards gala which will be held in ...
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The 10 Best sports sunglasses
These purple sunglasses with white logo and grey arms boast a lightweight frame and adjustable nose bridge, making them ideal for most sports, including distance running. Unlike many of their competitors, they don't hurt over the top of your ears, and they're sturdy ...
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Smartphones and the rise of child accidents
and the US - where a similar rise has occurred - suggest some of the increase may be a result of parents being too distracted by their phones to supervise their offspring properly.When already distraction-prone children get their own phones, the consequences can be catastrophic. Katherine Littlewood, ...
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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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