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Marketing scams in 2012 saw Australian consumers robbed of over $94mn

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:51 -0400

SYDNEY - Australian consumers were fleeced of nearly $94 million last year due to various marketing scams, with the majority being perpetrated using text messages and direct calls, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest report. The actual number of losses due to scams could be much higher because many go unreported, stated ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard. The ...

Pietersen confirms fitness for Ashes after knee injury

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:00:02 -0400

England batsman Kevin Pietersen who has not played since March owing to knee injury has confirmed that he will be returning to the team and aim for the Ashes series. Pietersen has said that he will return with the Surrey in their County Championship fixture against Yorkshire in the next week, Sport24 reports. According to the report, this fixture has been considered a comeback for Pietersen who ...

Parents physical activity unlikely to influence teen fitness

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:10:02 -0400

A new study has found that while teens with normal weight parents tended to be more fit, having physically active parents didn't affect teens' level of fitness. Cardiorespiratory fitness influences health in youth and adulthood, said lead study author Eliane Peterhans, a sports sciences researcher at the University of Konstanz in Germany. "It is very important to understand how adolescents ...

Sports Briefing | Swimming Danish Swimmer Tests Positive for Drugs

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:35:28 -0400

Mads Glaesner, a Danish swimmer, will be stripped of gold and bronze medals from last ...

Sports Briefing | Basketball Russian Women Out of World Championship

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:35:16 -0400

Russia did not advance past the opening round of the EuroBasket ...

Sports Briefing | Soccer Tahiti Manages a Goal at the Confederations Cup

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:29:45 -0400

Tahiti avoided humiliation by scoring a goal in a 6-1 loss to Nigeria on Monday at the Confederations Cup in Belohorizonte, Brazil. Jonathan Tehau headed in a goal early in the second half at Mineirao Stadium to reduce the deficit to 3-1. ...

Buddhist monks indulging in lavish lifestyle spark nationwide outrage in Thailand

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:25:21 -0400

A screenshot from YouTube reveals the monks acting "inappropriately, not composed and not adhering to Buddha's teachings of simplicity and ...

Protests wont interfere with Confed Cup - Brazilian sports chief

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:08:59 -0400

Brazil will not allow anti-government protests to mar the international Confederations Cup soccer games being hosted here, Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo warned Monday.Rebelo said at a press conference in Rio that Brazil must show the world that it is a democratic country, but also that it can guarantee the order needed to undertake such events."We will not allow any of these protests to get in ...

Who loves haggis Marvel at the competitions in heavy sports Highland dancing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:07 -0400

Who loves haggis?: Marvel at the competitions in heavy sports, Highland dancing and even frozen haggis tossing at the 27th Annual Scottish Festival & Highland Games at Hamilton Lakes, Thorndale Avenue and Route 53, Itasca. Don't miss the whiskey tastings and bagpipe and drummer show. $12-$20; $5 parking. (708) 447-5092 or . 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. King of Swing: Buddy Guy headlines the ...

Heartburn sufferers urged to visit doctor to rule out cancer if it persists

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:05:39 -0400

People who suffer from heartburn should go and see a doctor if it persists for three weeks because they may be at risk of cancer, experts have ...

Internet companies turning a blind eye to online child abuse images Government says

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:05:38 -0400

Internet chiefs will today be accused by the Government of turning a blind eye to the number of child abuse images that can be accessed ...

Luncheon meat hamburger steak pork increase diabetes risk

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:38:06 -0400

There is more evidence luncheon meat, hot dogs, hamburger, steak and pork increase the risk of type 2 diabetes over the long-term, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues tracked 26,357 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986-2006, 48,709 women in the Nurses' Health Study from 1986-2006 and 74,077 women in the ...

Pumpkin Gnocchi with Spinach Blue Cheese Sauce

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:11:11 -0400

12 sage leavesTo make gnocchi, place potatoes in a steamer and cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender. When cool enough to handle, peel potatoes. Sift flour on to clean work surface. Pass potato through a potato ricer directly over flour. Add pumpkin and parmesan. Season. Drizzle butter evenly over potato. Gradually work flour into potato mix, until the dough forms. Gently knead dough for 1-2 ...

Atlanta sports radio hosts fired for mocking former NFL player with Lou Gehrig’s disease

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:10:44 -0400

A station official says the cast of an Atlanta sports radio show has been fired after mocking a former NFL player who has Lou Gehrig's disease.The ...

Streamlined News Weekend Aquatic Sports Wrapup

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:38 -0400

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 17. THOUGH pre-world championship competition was the order of the weekend, the big news that surfaced was the three-month ban by Danish swimmer Mads Glaesner for taking a cold medication that contained a banned substance in the United States version. Initially, the ban, which began March 19 of this year, meant two things: Glaesner's bronze medal in the 400 free at ...

Maria Miller warns internet firms on child abuse images

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:02:14 -0400

ISPs .In a sign of the government's impatience with the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter, sources say the firms must do more after acting as though "blind" to the problem of child abuse images.Miller said: "Child abuse images are horrific and widespread public concern has made it clear that the industry must take action. Enough is enough."In recent days we ...

Mexican politicians going to the dogs er cats

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:56 -0400

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named ...

Mad Men What about Bob

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:28 -0400

, viewers learned conclusively that endlessly eager-to-please Bob Benson really is too good to be true. For starters, there’s no such person as ';Bob Benson';; the name is a total fake, as is his résumé. ';Bob'; doesn’t have any true experience in account management — as the intrepid Duck Phillips discovered, before bluffing his way into a job ...

Australia eyes Buddha and baccarat to lure Chinese tourists

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:19:11 -0400

By Jane Wardell SYDNEY, June 18 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:19pm EDT SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn't high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists. But the local mayor and a Chinese businessman have big plans to change that - by building a A$500 million ($480 ...

Cohen finds his Ultimate sport

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:05:51 -0400

For former University City High baseball standout Greg Cohen, Ultimate Frisbee, or Ultimate as it's called by those who play it, "is the hardest sport I've ever ...

Exclusive Singapore Sports Hub will provide us with facilities to host Commonwealth Games says Ng Ser Miang

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:59:41 -0400

Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

Another two-fingered salute to the bespoke tradition from London menswear collections

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:59:17 -0400

The cult of personality. That's what a lot of menswear is built on. It's not too dissimilar to teenagers hero-worshipping their football icons - in fact, clock how many adolescents sport those idolatrous football shirts as everyday attire. Or how many shelled out for Beckham's H&M pants in the vain hope of emulating his ball action, when you think of ...

Pregnant women told moderate drinking will not harm the baby

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:59:17 -0400

Drinking a small glass of wine every day while pregnant may do no harm to the brain development of babies in the womb, a new study ...

Living standards penury in the prime of life | Editorial

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:58:50 -0400

Institute for Fiscal Studies released an authorative analysis of changing financial fortunes over the age range which put that beyond doubt.First, the good news. In an historic success over several decades, the old cast-iron link between old age and penury has slowly been broken. The risk of a pensioner being poor used to be four times that of somebody plucked from elsewhere in the age range, but ...

Critical Shopper Prom Memories at Halston Heritage

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:45:21 -0400

SENIOR PROM, the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria, 1990. The song of the night is Madonna's "Vogue"; chicken paillard with capers is congealing on the plates; and the alpha girls of the class have chosen black Betsey Johnson dresses that barely cover their ...

Motherlode Blog The Home-Cooked Challenge Addicted to Snack Food Trying to Change

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:45:21 -0400

week without prepared foods began. In the comments to my post introducing my plan (to go a week without using any prepared foods for our family of six), JM asked a question that turned out to get right to the heart of what I dubbed the Home-Cooked Challenge: ';What is your ...

Hugh Muirs dairy Revealed – the misery of the governments welfare assessments

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:41:05 -0400

if the strain is showing , that's no surprise. And strain there is, as we see from a leaked email from one of the medical experts employed by Atos to sort the strivers from the skivers. He was exhorted to put in that little bit more effort. His reply is now prized by all those under the cosh. "Our task is becoming ever more complex and ever more futile as we bend over backwards to ...

Fox International Announces Creation of New Italy All-Sports Network

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:40:20 -0400

TAORMINA, Sicily – News Corp’s international pay television unit announced Monday it would launch Fox Sports Italy starting in ...

Man of Steel gets religion

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:38:32 -0400

has a strong passing resemblance to a certain Son of God/Son of Man described in The New Testament of The Bible. The Superman Gospel begins a long time ago and far away in the heavens with an exalted otherworldly Father figure, whose very special son is not only proof of his awesome life giving creative powers but satisfy this story’s condition of a miraculous birth, albeit ironically: ...

Stanley Cup finals Game 2 draws most viewers for NHL on NBC Sports Network

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:07 -0400

Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews (19) reaches to control the puck against Boston Bruins right wing Nathan Horton (18) in the second period during Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. ...

Longtime western Ky. sports writer dead at 46

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:57:06 -0400

PADUCAH, Ky. - Longtime western Kentucky sports writer Joey Fosko has died after suffering an apparent heart attack. The Paducah Sun ( http://bit.ly/19KbSwx), where Fosko had worked 27 years, reported Fosko's death at 46 on its website Monday.The newspaper said Fosko died at 12:02 a.m. CDT Monday.Fosko joined the Sun in 1986, covering high school sports.Arrangements were ...

Oman awards contracts to boost sports infrastructure

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:50:49 -0400

The Omani government has signed contracts for new sports infrastructure projects in Musandam governorate, Oman Daily Observer has reported. The agreements include works on the Khasab sports complex in the governorate, which comprise a football stadium, a gallery which can accommodate up to 11,610 people and 600 dignitaries in addition to a lounge to receive dignitaries, locker rooms, conference ...

T Magazine After Hours | A Performance Artist’s Heartfelt New Persona

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:42:11 -0400

Joni Mitchell . He has often done so through highly theatrical shows with costumes, choreography and elaborate visuals. But last night, Kelly unveiled a new cycle of covers, ...

CECAFA Referees Undergo Fitness Test

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:36:13 -0400

With the 2013 CECAFA Kagame club cup due to Kick off in Sudan Tuesday, referees willing to officiate the regional event have under gone a physical fitness test examination late on Sunday. The competition is the first of its kind to be held in the war-devastated Sudanese regions of North Darfur and south Gordofan in a bid to encourage peace and reconciliation in the areas according to CECAFA ...

Voice Danielle for the win

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:35:11 -0400

. Danielle will probably win (at least one Vegas gambler puts her odds at 3-1, ahead of fellow finalists Michelle Chamuel and The Swon Brothers).Danielle is also 16 years ...

Lifestyle Secret dossier reveals varsity fired vice-chancellor for hiring Muslim

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:58:52 -0400

Kihumbu Thairu was accused of hiring a Muslim woman 'against ethics of the church', days before he was sacked. A report commissioned by the institution's Board of Trustees lists the hiring of a Muslim, among a host of other 'negligent acts' as reasons for Thairu's sacking. This is despite the fact that the university has been admitting Muslim students. Monday, the ...

HBT As owner Coliseum in sports worst shape

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:54:54 -0400

where the raw sewage flows more freely than the Bud Light . So too is A’s owner Lew Wolff, who tells Eric Fisher of SBJ that he is embarrassed by the mess but that it’s out of his ...

Letter Attack on squatting

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:51:32 -0400

Squatting is one of Britain's oldest forms of tenancies and communities and political movements have grown up around it. There are now signs that the government is seeking to extend this criminalisation beyond the residential sector ...

Exposed Edward Erin the doctor whose faked asthma drug test results proved fatal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:49 -0400

A British doctor faked test results during clinical trials for an asthma drug in which one person died and others contracted cancer and ...

New Kids up to old tricks in Brooklyn

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:46 -0400

Image Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images Yesterday may have been Father’s Day, but EW’s social media all-star Nika Vagner and I were the ones who received the greatest gift of all — a triple bill of boy-band hotness, courtesy of New Kids on the Block’s cheekily named The Package Tour, featuring 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men. We posted to ...

Porsche finds a new target audience Kids

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:40 -0400

German luxury sports car producer Porsche said it has set its sights on a new target audience: Children. Specifically, Porsche said its new pedal-powered go-kart is for kids weighing no more than 110 pounds, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. For kids on the go, the new Porsche go-kart is top shelf all the way. The sticker price for the muscle-and gravity-powered jalopy with the tubular ...

Sports Kenya Police back to the summit of table with win against Western Jaguars

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:43 -0400

Technical University of Kenya (TUK) teams also soared high hitting Kenyatta University 2-1 in the men's National League and edging Multimedia University 1-0 in the women National League to better their chances of grabbing the title this ...

Sports Prisons and Pipeline lift Amaco titles

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:41 -0400

Prisons beat General Service Unit (GSU) 3-2 (25-14, 25-20, 23-25, 23-25, 15-15) in a five-setter thriller to emerge kings. Previous champions Ulinzi surrendered the crown after they were beaten 3-2 (25-19, 13-25, 25-18, 17-25, 9-15) by GSU. New champions also emerged in women's category after Pipeline saw off traditional rivals and 2012 ...

Lifestyle Varsity hires staff to cope with rising student population

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:29 -0400

The University of Nairobi has stepped up efforts to recruit subordinate and teaching staff to manage the population prompted by this year's double ...

Lifestyle UN agency alarmed by millions of children in domestic labour

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:28 -0400

The Day of the African Child 2013 theme was: "Eliminating Harmful Social and Cultural Practices Affecting Children: Our Collective ...

Lifestyle Heads call for ICT boost in high schools

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:27 -0400

They said with the introduction of free laptops for Standard One pupils starting next year, there is need to also empower secondary schools in readiness for the enlightened pupils when they join Form One. The teachers said through capacity building programmes, all secondary school teachers should be given a chance to be technology savvy. "It should not be assumed that all secondary school ...

Lifestyle Teachers Sacco rolls out housing project

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:26 -0400

National Savings and Credit Society announced that it is working on an elaborate housing scheme for all its 53,000 members. In addition to this, the Sacco has acquired a piece of land in Nairobi's Upper Hill area to construct a Sh1.5 billion complex to host its headquarters. This means that the current teachers Sacco offices situated along Tom Mboya street will be relocated to the new ...

Lifestyle Three-day ultimatum over teachers strike

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:25 -0400

Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) -- have convened meetings to review strike options after the government ignored pleas for allocations to pay teachers increased salaries and allowances in the 2013/2014 budget. There was confusion on Monday however when officials of Kuppet insisted that the strike among their members would begin today even as its National Governing Council ...

Rumour mill Kate Moss to go topless for Playboys 60th anniversary

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:39:22 -0400

Kate Moss will reportedly be featured topless on the January, 2014 cover as Playboy celebrates its 60th anniversary. According to the New York Post's Page Six column, the model has also commissioned artist Chuck Close to create a special personal piece based on the magazine images. Moss has been photographed topless and nude countless times in her illustrious career. She recently went ...

Barbra Streisand raps Orthodox Jews actions against Israeli women

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:38:34 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Singer Barbra Streisand (front) waves after receiving a honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen ...

Tai Chi For Fitness Slow-Moving Chinese Exercise Can Improve Health

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:31:10 -0400

NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - For modern, harried lifestyles focused on getting and spending, fitness experts say tai chi, the ancient Chinese slow-moving exercise, can be an ideal way for anyone to stay ...

Moors murderer Ian Brady appears in public at right-to-die hearing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:46:59 -0400

Ian Brady began a legal attempt to prove that he is sane in the hope that he will be discharged from the secure psychiatric hospital where he is incarcerated and sent to a high security jail so he can starve himself to death.The 75-year-old, who hasn't appeared in public since he was photographed on Saddleworth Moor in 1987, appeared at ...

The ballad of my sons struggle

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:46:58 -0400

The nuclear grey, Christmas Eve morning in 2001, when I found my disabled son, Nihal, heartstoppingly still, a spidery network of fine blue veins beginning to appear on his cheeks, is a memory both sharp and blurred. In order to live, I had to commit the past to paper: writing had always been my refuge, my way of understanding the world. That is all I remember doing that first year after his ...

Volunteering is good for your blood pressure Study

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:37:25 -0400

Volunteering to help others doesn't only feel good but it can also boost your heart health by reducing blood pressure, a new U.S. study suggests.The study involved 1,100 adults aged 51 to 91, who were interviewed about their volunteering habits and had their blood pressure checked at the beginning of the study and again four years later. All of the subjects had normal blood pressure readings ...

When online dating women want younger men Report

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:37:25 -0400

While it's been long thought that men desire younger women and women desire older men, new data suggests that women are opting for younger men when online dating. According to a report ...

Kanye Wests Yeezus EW review

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:27:12 -0400

Yes, Kanye West has gone rogue again. Did you expect anything less? Five years ago, the Chicago native -; known at the time for ...

Superman III Movie Kryptonite

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:27:12 -0400

Allow me to describe the movie's first scene: Some perv walks into a pole while staring at a hot blonde. Which is immediately followed by a rollerskater stumbling into a hot dog cart and pushing said cart into three telephone booths which topple like dominoes. Then a blind guy mistakes a road marking machine for his seeing eye dog and starts painting yellow circles all over the street before ...

Top 5 TV shows that deal with mental health | MaryLee Sudworth

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:44:31 -0400

Mental illness is having quite the year on the small and big screens. The stereotypical images of straitjackets and Frankenstein-inspired psychiatric procedures have been replaced by very human portrayals ...

With President at G8 Michelle Obama enjoys Irish links

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:25 -0400

Source: Reutersr With the US President locked in high-level meetings at a secluded hotel in Northern Ireland, first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters took the chance to investigate their Irish roots. After arriving in Belfast with her husband yesterday, Obama crossed the border to Dublin to speak to university experts on the president's ancestors, attend a show of traditional ...

Steps in the right direction

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:36:38 -0400

There will be no lie-in for the England rugby full-back Ben Foden on Sunday morning. A recent dad and only just back from the team's Argentina tour, Ben's the poor innocent who has agreed to be the celebrity pacesetter in the NSPCC's Gherkin Challenge race. Foden says he has never done a stair-climbing race before. If he thinks any old elite rugby pro can leg it up 1,037 steps just ...

Lost account of Spanish war sees light after 70 years

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:34:30 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A bagpiper plays the Second Spanish Republic anthem during a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of Spain's Second Republic at a cemetery in Gijon April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Eloy ...

Virginia Ironside Its lovely to offer comfort to someone more miserable than you

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:33:29 -0400

On 18 June 1993, Virginia Ironside published her first agony-aunt piece in The Independent. The column was called "Dilemmas" and the first dilemma belonged to a woman worrying that her cleaning lady was stealing money. "In hindsight, it was an odd one to start the column with," she says today. "More suitable for The Lady than The ...

Stair-climbing A step change in keeping fit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:33:28 -0400

New Day arrives for CNN

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:25:37 -0400

Veteran CNN personalities like Washington correspondent John King and chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour were also on hand to lend the proceedings a bit of gravitas. And in this segment about Iran’s new president, Cuomo, at least, proved that he’s got the capacity to discuss big stories ...

Instagram rumoured to get video functionality on June 20th

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:42:04 -0400

spoken to TechCrunch , the changes would allow Instagram users to share small clips of video of 5-10 seconds in length, but beyond this there is only speculation. The news certainly makes sense given the rocketing popularity of Twitter-owned Vine - a service that allows for sharing of 6 second loops of video with or without sound, with users able to stop and start footage whilst recording ...

Nursing home death rates to be monitored by Care Quality Commission

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:41:51 -0400

David Behan, chief executive of Care Quality Commission, which is considering how to assess whether a high number of deaths at a care home would spark an investigation. Photograph: Martin Argles for the ...

SuperAwesome wants to help brands reconnect with digital kids

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:41:34 -0400

apps , websites and online video jostling with books, TV shows and toys for their attention.One of the companies trying to help brands figure out how to reconnect with kids is ...

French Footballers Stand Trial in Underage Prostitution Case

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:35:20 -0400

PARIS ...

Royal baby to give almost $400 million bump to British economy

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:27:27 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - From Union Jack booties to "Born to Rule" sleepwear, the British royal family has joined retailers in offering baby products to mark the arrival of the royal ...

Copper See how season 2 starts

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:22:26 -0400

wrapped up its first season last October, we left Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) in a pretty dark place. The Civil War-era New York police detective had just suffered betrayals from his wife and his best friend, and the last scene of the finale had Corcoran turning to drugs to deal with his ...

Lifestyle Flying bike for easier commutes

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:47:31 -0400

"Because the capacity of batteries doubles about every 10 years, we can expect that in the future the capacity would be enough for the bike to used for sports, tourism or similar things," said the technical director of Duratec Bicycles, Milan ...

What to do if your boss sends inappropriate texts

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:43:24 -0400

A new survey asked complicated relationship questions, like what to do about an inappropriate boss or a partner who is Facebook friends with an ex, and received some surprising results. Relationship expert and Men's Health contributor Ian Kerner and Sascha De Gersdorff of Women's Health discuss the ...

The 10 Best travel beauty

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:40:33 -0400

Ensure that you and your make-up bag travel light this year with this very handy total-face kit. It contains a neat miniature mascara, eyeliner, flattering blush, highlighter and a brightening face primer in fun, summery ...

Rape on television the questions we should all be asking

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:40:03 -0400

rape in 1464 can be. Without giving too much away, Elizabeth does get to say: "Don't doubt my courage" which, she adds, is "a match for any man".Women do play central roles in the series, based on the historical novels of Philippa Gregory. But when I watched this scene, I couldn't help but notice how common rape seems to have become as a dramatic device on primetime ...

Sports Hub’s 2013 Boston Bruins Playoff Montages

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:17 -0400

BOSTON (CBS) - The guys at 98.5 The Sports Hub have been with the Bruins all season long, and created many different montages throughout their current playoff run; from Patrice Bergeron’s winning goal in Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs to Boston’s sweep of the Pittsburgh ...

Google pledges $5m to battle child porn on the web

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:44 -0400

Google is to spend $5m (3.1m) fighting child pornography and abuse, the company will announce today, after criticism that it is not doing enough to prevent the spread of harmful online ...

Study reveals why extroverts love a party

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:29:47 -0400

A new study reveals just how differently extroverts and introverts process experiences, and may help explain why the former loves a good party, while the latter is happy to cozy up to a book and a cup of tea. Published June 13 in the ...

Catholics Lutherans jointly to mark Reformation anniversary

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:24:48 -0400

PARIS/GENEVA (Reuters) - Senior Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials announced on Monday they would mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 as a shared event rather than highlight the clash that split Western ...

Spains obsession with high-speed trains runs into budget reality

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:24:35 -0400

ONBOARD MADRID-ALICANTE HIGH-SPEED TRAIN, June 17 (Reuters) - A one-track dirt road used by local farmers is the main access to a magnificent glass-and-steel train station in the small city of Villena, on Spain's latest high-speed rail ...

Sports Arsenal front-runners to wrap up the transfer of Man-Us Nani

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:45:58 -0400

Turkish giants Galatasaray were interested in making a move but claim to have been priced out of the transfer - with United apparently wanting 8.5million for the 26-year-old who only has one year to run on his current deal. Juventus and Monaco are other possible destinations ...

Claire Perry MP outlines automatic porn filters for UK by end of the year

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:39:15 -0400

Claire Perry MP, David Cameron's special advisor on 'preventing the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood', has outlined plans for UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to make users opt-out to view adult content online by the end of the ...

Nigella Lawson pictures if its a playful tiff what does a serious one look like | Suzanne Moore

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:38:47 -0400

awful pictures of Nigella Lawson who didn't think "If he does this in public what does he do behind closed doors?" Not one that I have spoken to since they appeared. Some have said there is an issue about whether they should have appeared at all as they were in a private place. Actually Lawson and her husband, Charles Saatchi, were sitting in a courtyard outside an expensive ...

Investigative website accuses newspaper over MMR jabs campaign

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:38:46 -0400

the paper's editor, Jonathan Roberts, defended the Post's role, arguing that, at the time the anti-MMR campaign was launched in 1997 "there was genuine concern, even fear, among parents that they could be putting their children at risk." He ...

Sports Verdict Who Is The Best Pitcher In Baseball Clay Buchholz Vs. Clayton Kershaw

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:16:26 -0400

Both Clayton Kershaw and Clay Buchholz find themselves off to absolutely electric starts in the 2013 season. Their numbers in nearly every statistical category are downright silly, each dominating their leagues with extreme precision. Every GM would donate a kidney to sign either of these young dominate aces. So begs the question, which of them is the ...

FEATURE-Religions seen slow to go green Pope has chance to inspire

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:00:55 -0400

Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:00am EDT * Pope Francis stresses environmental protection * Few religions embrace renewable energies for themselves By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, June 17 (Reuters) - Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian ...

A Rare Reunion for the ‘Antwerp Six’

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:26:00 -0400

ANTWERP -- They were known as the ''Antwerp Six" back in the 1980s, when the idea of Belgian fashion seemed like a contradiction in ...

Miss USA 2013 Did you see...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:18:54 -0400

Good God, how I love a pageant! Miss USA and Donald Trump always manage to select the finalists with the most compelling passions. Here’s what you ...

Seth Rogen talks This Is the End

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:18:53 -0400

Image Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images For his latest movie, Seth Rogen invited five of his closest friends over to James Franco’s house to hole up for a few weeks as the world crumbled around them. And, in the end, a lot of moviegoers wanted to be a fly on the wall in that ...

Sibling at London Collections Men

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:42 -0400

A passionate protest is gathering pace among the women of Britain's aristocracy, who believe that men should no longer automatically inherit the family pile and ...

BBFC plan traffic light system of classification for YouTube

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:42 -0400

A new system developed by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will allow individuals uploading video content online to rate their films via a traffic light system in the hope of protecting children from viewing inappropriate ...

Agi Sam at London Collections Men

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:41 -0400

Agi Mdumulla and Sam Cotton occupy an unusual world, especially in fashion. It's a world where pensioners wear short-short suits in digitised jacquards patterned like the back of bus seats, with tailoring in every colour from azure through egg-yolk, and where men cross-dress in multi-pleat culottes. The latter isn't so weird in the fashion world, but Agi & Sam (as their label ...

Richard Nicoll at London Collections Men

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:41 -0400

The line between wearability and showmanship is difficult to tread in fashion. Richard Nicoll states everything he makes is what he wants to wear, but that doesn't mean it lacks catwalk impact. This season he debuted a collaborative range with artist Linder Sterling, she of Orgasm Addict fame. They've worked together since 2009, but it's now branched off into a capsule titled ...

JW Anderson at London Collection Men

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:40 -0400

We all know what cut and paste is shorthand for in the working world, but JW Anderson can't be accused of phoning in his spring/summer collection of geometric shapes layered, folded and wrapped around the torso and arms in varying dimensions.The stripped back parity of Anderson's designs was emphasised by focusing on the top half only, pairing each piece with uniform black wide legged ...

Ian Brady in public plea for transfer from hospital and death in prison

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:27 -0400

Ian Brady has appeared in public for the first time in almost 50 years as he begins his legal attempt to be released from psychiatric hospital and sent to a high-security prison.The hearing opened with proceedings relayed live by video link to rooms ...

Sports Picture of the Day When Boris met Tennis

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:24 -0400

Andy Murray beat Marin Cilic to win his third Queen's Club title on Sunday, Boris Johnson took to the court for a match in aid of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. His willingness to play the fool is well documented, especially in sports. His ability at tennis, however, probably cannot match his more ...

Stuart Hall jailed for indecently assaulting young girls

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:39:17 -0400

The veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after admitting he indecently assaulted 13 girls, the youngest aged nine.Prosecutors said Hall, 83, was a child-abuse predator after he ...

Patients views at heart of hospital inspections plan says care regulator

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:22:33 -0400

hospitals , under proposals to overhaul the way health and social care is regulated.The views of people who use services will become one of the most important sources of information used by new specialist teams when deciding which hospitals to inspect, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.Inspections could last 20 days or longer, with those rated as inadequate inspected "as often as ...

Jet-set monks warned after video exposes lavish lifestyle

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:19:46 -0400

Thailand's Buddhist monks are under investigation following complaints sparked by a video showing some flying on a private jet.The YouTube video showed one of the monks was wearing stylish aviator sunglasses, carrying a luxury brand travel bag and sporting a pair of modern-looking wireless headphones. It attracted criticism from Buddhists ...

Royal Ascot Hard Times for Sport of Kings in Ancestral Home

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:09 -0400

The Royal Meeting at Ascot Racecourse recently turned the corner on its 300th birthday, and the luster of winning on those exalted grounds remains as vivid as ever. The five-day meet, which begins Tuesday on the fabled course near Windsor Castle, remains the showcase of British racing in the ...

NSA surveillance Apple follows Facebook in revealing US data requests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:42:03 -0400

Apple is the latest US technology firm to join Facebook and Microsoft in revealing they have received between 4,000 to 5,000 surveillance requests from the US government since 1 December, ...

It seems to be catching on - OED adds tweet to the dictionary

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:42:03 -0400

latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added a "healthy chunk" of words and meanings taken from the world of ...

Roundup how can women be paid more fairly in the public sector

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:41:45 -0400

naming and shaming organisations that are perpetuating inequality - including those in the public sector. If organisations published the percentage of women and men in junior, middle and senior roles and their average salaries, we might achieve the goal of equal pay more ...

Mythbusting scaling up and spinning out does not guarantee social impact

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:41:42 -0400

Everyone wants social enterprises to grow. The UK is currently home to a dazzling array of (mostly) government-backed funding schemes and support programmes dedicated to helping social enterprise to scale-up. On top of that, we have a seemingly endless parade of corporate giants falling over themselves and each other to help out.It's not entirely clear how successful these initiatives have ...

How skills sharing can help close the funding gap in the charity sector

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:41:40 -0400

charities receive over 85% of this income, meaning the small charities (with income less than 1m) often struggle to continue supplying their services.Add this to the fact that real-term growth figures show that the small charity sector is actually declining and it's clear that we need to find more ways to help close this funding gap and guarantee the survival of our incredibly ...

Get ready for a summer of biking with these tips

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:32:55 -0400

Want a cheaper, greener way to get around? Get ready to feel the wind in your hair - whatever isn't covered by a helmet. Cycling is enjoying a rise in popularity in Canadian cities. Not only is it environmentally friendly and free of fuel and parking costs, it can be your ticket out of gridlock. "Every person stuck in traffic has watched a bike whiz by them," says Ron White, ...

Stuart Hall trial hears how broadcaster laid ground for indecent assaults

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:24:42 -0400

The veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall assaulted a string of young girls using a series of pretexts to gain access to them, a court has heard.Hall, now 83, attacked one of his victims within moments of her being sick, on her 13th birthday; three were molested while he gave them "elocution lessons"; another after he invited her to sing at a supposed recording session at a BBC studio in ...

Lifestyle Love for bush toilets stings 2015 goal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:50:49 -0400

Out of 34 sub-Saharan African countries, Kenyans are ranked among nine states most notorious for relieving themselves in the bush, open spaces and even in water bodies. In this group of countries, defecating in the open has either increased or has not changed at all since 2005 despite the UN-led Sanitation Drive 2015 working to end the practice. Kenya, which boasts of the strongest economy in the ...

NSA surveillance Apple reveals request figures in interest of transparency

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:44:25 -0400

Apple is the latest US technology firm to join Facebook and Microsoft in revealing they have received between 4,000 to 5,000 surveillance requests from the US government since 1 December, ...

Biggest star in the Galaxy – Jay Z to give away 1 million albums on Samsung’s smartphones

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:44:24 -0400

Jay-Z will be releasing his 12th solo album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, on July 4th, but owners of Samsung's Galaxy smartphones will be able to download the new release three days before the general ...

Ian Brady mental health tribunal - in tweets

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:44:12 -0400

Ian Brady has applied to be transferred from Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Maghull, Merseyside, to an ordinary prison in Scotland. The 75-year-old has been on hunger strike for more than a decade and is tube-fed. Prisoners in Scotland are not force-fed so the move would effectively allow Brady to starve himself to death, without intervention.Brady and the late Myra Hindley were ...

How Sports Can Help Your Career Q And A With Olympic Gold Medalist Megan Jendrick

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:43:26 -0400

Photo: Courtesy of Megan Jendrick When the Seattle rain finally tapers off this time of year I love to go running outside in the fresh air. Running gives me time to ponder my life and, inevitably, I end up thinking how grateful I am to have participated in sports while growing up. Why? Because all the lessons I learned in sports I was able to apply to my career and in my personal ...

UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:19:27 -0400

Belmont Park We said in this week's advance story that Saturday's $150,000, Grade III Hill Prince Stakes for 3-year-olds was a wide-open affair and the $4,808 trifecta payoff bears that out. Notacatbutallama rallied five-wide into the stretch and won by a neck over 37-1 chance Play It Loud. Chamois was third at 12-1 and the favorite, Red Rifle, settled for fourth in the 12-horse field. ...

Smiling Prince Philip leaves hospital after operation

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:56:53 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - A smiling Prince Philip, the 92-year-old husband of the Queen, left hospital on Monday where he had undergone an exploratory operation on his abdomen.Looking sprightly, the prince walked unaided out of the London Clinic after 11 days of treatment and got into his car, waving to onlookers.Philip, the 87-year-old British monarch's husband of more than 65 years, was taken to ...

Comedy review Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansaris Buried Alive set is good but not great

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:48:42 -0400

Julian has been the comedy critic for The Independent since 2003. He is also the author of The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy, ...

Afghan women lose political power as fears grow for the future

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:43:22 -0400

KABUL (Reuters) - A legal requirement that women make up at least a quarter of all provincial elected officials was quietly removed by conservative male parliamentarians, officials said, the latest in a series of decisions undermining advances in women's rights in ...

Sports Fifa investigation puts Ethiopia progress in doubt

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:01:21 -0400

Ethiopia n Football Federation president Sehilu Gebremariam is still confident his side can progress. "This is shocking news - but the point is that we are still leading the group, we believe that we shall still qualify for the next stage," he told the BBC's Newsday programme. "We are scrutinizing the situation and we will give information ...

Today in healthcare Monday 17 June

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:37 -0400

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 Guardian reports that hospitals will be told to make urgent improvements if any department is providing poor care, ...

Breaking the cycle of addiction through social investment

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:36 -0400

Breaking the Cycle services. Breaking the Cycle supports families to successfully reduce parents' drug or alcohol misuse and improve family life. Social investment could help by providing upfront funding for services with local or central government purchasers and commissioners paying for the outcomes achieved.In our model, the outcome payments should be financed through the cost savings and ...

Bristol pound is just one example of what local currencies can achieve

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:34 -0400

The budgets of local authorities are being cut while the needs of their populations remain the same. In this difficult financial environment, borrowing is rising. UK local authorities owed 81.8bn in the financial year 2011-12, costing hundreds of millions in interest on repayments.However, borrowing on the money market is not going to do anything for the local economy. Faced with this reality, ...

NHS patients to get charter of rights

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:08:58 -0400

Hospitals, care homes and GPs could be judged against a new set of patient rights following a radical overhaul of standards to be announced by the health ...

The failure of politics wont be solved by single-issue campaigners | Neal Lawson

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:08:36 -0400

Must politics disappoint? This is the public affairs question of our age. Our economy is still in crisis, those who are least to blame are paying the highest price, and our environment is heading towards disaster. How is anything ever going to change?We already ...

Tai chi getting there more slowly but gracefully and intact

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:56:33 -0400

People practise tai chi, a Chinese martial art, during morning exercises at Longtan Park in Beijing in this September 13, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Grace ...

NHS needs new urgent care system

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:16:33 -0400

Many patients are confused about who to turn to when they need urgent medical help and too often visit accident and emergency units, according to a review seen by the BBC. The review - led by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh - looked at all kinds of urgent and emergency care, including walk-in centres, telephone advice lines and minor injury centres. Sir Bruce was asked to carry ...

Genital herpes is putting a dampener on our marriage

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:16:14 -0400

We both have genital herpes. We've been married for 33 years, both of us are sexually faithful, and were only occasionally troubled by it until a few years ago. Now no sooner are we free of it than one of us infects the other and we have to abstain until it clears up. We have Aciclovir tablets but a course makes you feel run ...

Next Food Network Star Chopped

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:59:25 -0400

Danushka, the former fashion model with major Chelsea Clinton face (is that crazy?) and a willful detachment from the competition. ';My goal was knowing I’m not like anyone that’s on the Food Network,'; she said, ';But I just couldn’t make it happen.'; Actually, that’s exactly what she made happen! Good riddance to the woman who thought it’d be ...

Community sports recreation datebook

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:21:20 -0400

Youth and recreation leagues are forming, camps and classes are taking place, tryouts are being scheduled and more is going on across the ...

Bosnians mourn baby who died for lack of ID number

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:08:33 -0400

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Thousands of Bosnians gathered in front of parliament on Sunday evening to mourn a three-month-old baby who died after failing to get timely surgery because a parliamentary wrangle prevented her getting a ...

Sports Stars did well despite the circumstances

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:38:11 -0400

Under the circumstances, I am convinced that the team did their best against the African champions and the southern African side. The players also expressed their raw talent that, if nurtured, would take the country to greater heights of football. There were also some negatives within the team's performance, that I wish to use this forum to highlight, now that I am not able to contribute ...

Sports Why Kenyas elimination from World Cup is a silver lining

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:38:10 -0400

But a little less than 24 hours after Kenya's failure to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil was all but confirmed by the 2-2 draw against Malawi, it is possible to identify a silver-lining of sorts. In some quarters, there is an acceptance that perhaps we should be grateful that Kenya never came face to face with some of the world's established football elite. Perhaps it is possible to ...

Rwanda APR Rayon Sports Depart for Darfur

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:10:43 -0400

RWANDAN representatives APR and Rayon Sport head to Sudan this afternoon ahead of the Cecafa-Kagame cup 2013 set to kick off in the City of Kadugli in North Kordofan on Tuesday. Both sets of players from the respective teams and their officials will depart aboard Kenya Airways at 13.00 hours to Nairobi, where they will connect to Khartoum later in the evening. They will spend a night in ...

Sports Briefing | Football Krafts Super Bowl Ring Said to Be a Gift to Putin

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:50:21 -0400

A spokesman for ...

Allergy warnings cause confusion report

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:45:33 -0400

Allergy warnings on packaged foods are so overused it is difficult for people to make sensible choices, according to Australian research.More than 65 per cent of packaged food and even more of snack food has some form of allergy caution, such as "made in the same factory as products containing peanuts", says Professor Katie Allen, lead author of a research report in the latest issue of ...

Hamish Macdonald talks justice and imprisonment with Erwin James - video

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:36:51 -0400

A clip from the final episode of The Truth Is? in which host Hamish Macdonald meets Erwin James, a Guardian journalist who who served 20 years of a life sentence for murderThe Truth is? is on Ten at 8:30 on 17th ...

A Norwegian idea for Australian and British prisons

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:36:50 -0400

When Arne Nilsen, the governor of Norway’s Bastoy prison, told me that his prison was "an arena of developing responsibility" I knew immediately that he understood the fundamental flaw in the traditional model of imprisonment: the taking away of almost all personal responsibility. Bastoy island sits just a couple of miles off the south-east coast of the country in the Oslo fjord. ...

UPI Sports Calendar for Monday June 17

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:11:14 -0400

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TRNC hosts an international sports event

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:21:21 -0400

The 1st Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) University Sports Games is taking place in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).Turkish Youth & Sports Minister Suat Kilic who attended the opening ceremony of the event in Lefkosa on Tuesday said that this event was a ray of hope for ending the embargoes on TRNC.Athletes from seven countries are participating in the first international ...

Oak Park High recognized for nutrition physical fitness programs

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:58:26 -0400

Oak Park High School is one of four public schools in California to receive the newly introduced Physical Activity and Nutrition Exemplary Program Award from the state Department of ...

Former pros enter LI schools sports world

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:00:26 -0400

Long Island in the pros: MLB edition Wesley Walker stepped onto the playground at a Kings Park elementary school and was met by excited squeals."Mr. Walker!" a group of children shouted, pausing their afternoon ballgame.The pint-size fans weren't born when Walker retired in 1989 as a New York Jets wide receiver. But they all know his post-football profession: physical education ...

Sports Ulinzis powerful surge

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:21:05 -0400

It was a damp affair at the Moi International Sports Centre, as the Kenya National 15s male rugby team succumbed to a narrow 17-16 loss to ...

Prison experts urge replacement of run down dungeons with superjails

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:14:17 -0400

More than 30 "run down and poorly located" jails, including some of the prison system's most famous names - Dartmoor, Holloway, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs - should be shut down and replaced with a new generation of "superjails", according to prison experts.Kevin Lockyer, a former senior Ministry of Justice official and ex-prison governor, says "damp ...

Hospitals to be given Ofsted-style ratings

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:14:15 -0400

Hospitals will be told to make urgent improvements if any department is providing poor care, under new Ofsted-style ratings prompted by the Mid Staffordshire NHS scandal.The "tough and rigorous" ratings will go further than Ofsted's single overall ranking for schools in England by giving an official assessment, from "inadequate to "outstanding", based on inspections ...