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Scott will master anchor ban say fellow champions
Two of his fellow Australian major winners believe Adam Scott will rise above the anchoring ban and continue to be a world force, provided he stays positive about the issue. Ian Baker-Finch and Geoff Ogilvy were quick to suggest the newly crowned Masters champion could continue his surge in world golf, despite the fact the governing bodies on Monday confirmed a ban to outlaw the putting method ...
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Goodtime gang takes a Freudian slip down to lows of biblical proportions
was a Freudian slip. It dramatised - deep breath - Freud's structural model of the human psyche. Alan (Zach Galifianakis) was the Id, the instinct become rampant, a sort of mother-hating overweight man-child, a veritable psych ward of mental illnesses with a fondness for all pharmaceuticals. Stu was the super ego, the sensible dentist, the limiter, the thinker. Bradley Cooper's ...
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Shades of jailhouse rock as Ai recalls prison stay
When the rebel artist Ai Weiwei was illegally detained in 2011, he recounts, his young paramilitary guards asked him to sing for them. He belted out decades-old Communist revolutionary tunes, and they were stunned that he knew them, he said. Now Ai has answered the guards' request in a different key. He has presented them, and the world, with his first heavy-metal music video, one with ...
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Hardy survivors of Tornado Alley take stock of losses
The scale of destruction in Moore on the fringe of Oklahoma City was so vast that during the first full day of recovery authorities could do little more for dazed survivors than clear the roads and sling a protective perimeter around them. Once the dead and injured were rushed from the shattered streets, police and national guards set up roadblocks in places as arbitrary as the twister ...
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Actors latest role - a very switched on Murdoch
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French paper makes a point ... in English
"Language of Shakespeare": The front page of left-leaning French newspaper Liberation was printed in English. A row over a proposal to allow French universities to teach some classes in English took a fresh turn ...
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Hunters fire warning shot at farmer who caught them on property
Police are looking for two men who bailed up a farmer at gunpoint and fired a warning shot near Orange after he caught them illegally hunting on his land. The 43-year-old property owner was working on his farm when he heard shots and then saw two men chasing ...
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Popes laying on of hands stirs devil of a debate
Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since the Pope laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as the pontiff prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported on Monday ...
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Syrian war spilling over borders
Tensions are rising along Syria's borders as government forces battle to regain control of a strategic border town from rebel fighters. An exchange of fire between Syrian and Israeli forces on the Golan Heights lent weight to warnings the civil war could become a regional conflict. It is feared this could draw in Israel and Iran, which sponsors the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, ...
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Dont needle me the fear is too great to give blood
Illustration: Simon Letch Heckler is about what makes one's blood boil. I'm not sure whether my blood does boil, because the blood bank refuses to collect it from me. As I get older, more of my friends need blood transfusions. I would like to contribute to the blood bank but, despite my best efforts, I cannot. I have a fear of needles - it's as simple as that. Most of us ...
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Injury will not affect Thomas contract
. A sound contract requires both parties to share in the potential risks and ensure the outcome protects the athlete's future. Recently, we have seen players' contract status played out for all to see - Lance Franklin, Dale Thomas, Matthew Leuenberger and veteran free agent Adam Cooney. Each has different strengths and a different level of bargaining power. A player must establish what ...
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Hat-trick challenge for Roosters almost there as Storm surge into view
The Roosters have one more challenge to overcome, it just happens to be a wounded Melbourne side, after identifying an intense three game period to test their premiership worth. The Roosters are beginning to grow some momentum after wins in away games against Manly and North Queensland in recent weeks and face Melbourne on Saturday before a bye. Hooker Jake Friend said the side had spoken about ...
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Noakes out as NSW decide to play it safe
NSW Rugby League has axed Mark Noakes as Blues trainer following a four-hour board meeting on Wednesday. Noakes was told in December he would be a part of Laurie Daley's coaching staff and, until Wednesday, some powerbrokers still wanted him to be part of the campaign for the coming series. However, the directors agreed to go in a different direction when they rubber-stamped their staff ...
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Ryan makes Melbourne group wait on takeover decision
Orica-GreenEDGE Cycling boss and Melbourne businessman Gerry Ryan says he will decide early next month whether to join the consortium that has taken control of Melbourne Storm. European-based New Zealanders Bart Campbell and Michael Watt, and Melbourne millionaire Matthew Tripp, have been identified as members of Holding MS, the company that assumed control of the world champions from News Ltd ...
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Tigers board cools on new negotiations with Marshall
Just hours before Benji Marshall returns to the Wests Tigers' starting side against North Queensland at Leichhardt Oval, chief executive Stephen Humphreys will hold talks with the five-eighth's manager about his future at the club. Marshall's desire to sign a long-term deal with the club has been complicated by coach Mick Potter's decision last week to dump him to the bench, ...
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Cloke working fingers to bone to overcome kicking woes
Travis Cloke's career-long battle to overcome his goalkicking yips has become that bit harder due to recent finger injuries which he says are affecting him in front of goal. The Collingwood spearhead is having a greater impact in games this season compared with last season but is desperate to find a solution to his woes in front of goal heading into Friday night's clash with Sydney. ...
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On-course bookies get level field on tote odds
NSW on-course bookmakers are set to fight back against their corporate cousins after finally being able to offer tote odds as part of their service this month. The state government changed the law to allow NSW bookmakers to give punters the choice of fixed odds and the best of three TAB dividends from around Australia. ''We haven't been able to compete because we have been ...
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Saturday night fever as A-League aims to top record season
Attracting fans to games has been prioritised in the draw for the upcoming A-League season despite Football Federation Australia signing a record television deal in which the competition will be televised on both free-to-air and pay TV for the first time. The A-League experienced its best crowds last season with an average attendance of 12,658 and the FFA is intent on improving that figure by ...
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Myer all out to chase sales
Department store Myer will switch its focus from relentless cost-cutting to driving sales growth and grabbing a greater slice of the discretionary spend by shoppers. The nation's biggest department store will hold a ''Super Saturday'' stocktake sale this weekend to pump up sales and shift an overhang of stock held by some of its suppliers. It will use the occasion to ...
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Wanderers and Eels unite for stadium revamp push
Strange bedfellows: the Western Sydney Wanderers and Parramatta Eels have teamed up in a bid to get Parramatta Stadium a much-needed upgrade. Parramatta and the Western Sydney Wanderers might be cross-code rivals, but they have joined forces in their campaign for a better stadium. Eels officials have been in talks with their Wanderers counterparts about their future venue needs, with a revamp ...
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Rebels prepare for a new generation
The Melbourne Rebels face more changes with the club on Wednesday confirming that Gareth Delve, Richard Kingi and James King would be joining the likes of Ged Robinson and Nick Phipps leaving at the end of the season. While the Rebels face the NSW Waratahs on Friday at AAMI Park without James O'Connor, who is out with a sternum injury, the club is also positioning itself for a future with ...
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Ryan in mix to join revamped Storm
GreenEDGE Cycling boss and Melbourne businessman Gerry Ryan says he will decide early next month whether to join the consortium that has taken control of Melbourne Storm. European-based Kiwis Bart Campbell and Michael Watt and Melbourne millionaire Matthew Tripp have been identified as members of Holding MS, the company that assumed control of the Storm from News Limited on Tuesday. Ryan has ...
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Brookes spooked with good reason
After announcing that he had eked out a fourth consecutive quarterly sales increase for the Myer group with a 0.4per cent rise, chief executive Bernie Brookes said on Wednesday that he was still worried about consumer demand. He cited Wednesday's Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence for May as evidence, and it's persuasive. The Australian economy will grow by ...
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Seven-year hitch works out for KKR
Trying to ascertain whether the private equity investor KKR made or lost money on its seven-year investment in Seven's media assets is something akin to an exercise in the dark arts of business - lots of ingredients and plenty of unknowns have gone into the mix. At first glance it is hard to believe that the initial Seven Media joint venture between Kerry Stokes and KKR, which was struck ...
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Bernie ban sort of fizzles out
''We don't believe so,'' he told reporters. ''I think the week that it was on was Mother's Day. We had a very successful and positive Mother's Day, and that's probably the only indice that we can look at.'' However, CBD reckons Bernie might be looking at the wrong page in his diary. The Twitter mauling erupted on May 2, a Thursday, ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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