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  • Brooklyn Beckham begins training with QPR following dads retirement

    Football star David Beckham's eldest son Brooklyn Beckham is reportedly training with Queens Park Rangers (QPR) following David's retirement. Brooklyn, 14, had started playing at Tottenham HotSpurs when he was as young as four, spent time with the Under 14 team at LA Galaxy and will join David in training at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), the Mirror reports. QPR that has recently been relegated ...

  • Pak batsman Mohd Yousuf rubbishes media reports of retirement from intl cricket

    Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf has rejected media reports which said that he has retired from international cricket. The 38-year-old cricketer said that he is already out of the Pakistan team and haven't played top class cricket for a while now, so there is no need for him to announce any retirement, reports the Daily Times. Yousuf last played for Pakistan in an ODI against South Africa in ...

  • Gulf pension funds ramp up assets amid Arab Spring

    State pension funds in the Gulf are sharply increasing their investments in new assets on the back of the Arab Spring and demographic shifts, a report ...

  • Kris Commons announces Scotland retirement

    Kris Commons has nine caps for his country Commons made the decision prior to Gordon Strachan naming his squad for Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Croatia next month, claiming he would like to focus on playing for Celtic and raising his young family.The 29-year-old insists his retirement was not an impulsive decision and conversations with Celtic boss Neil Lennon and Strachan had ...

  • Suicide on the Rise in Middle Aged Adults www.privateofficer.com

    Now, more Americans die by suicide than in car accidents, reports the CDC. Traditionally, suicide prevention efforts have been focused mostly on youths and older adults, but recent evidence suggests that there have been substantial increases in suicide rates among middle-aged adults. The annual, age-adjusted suicide rate among persons aged 35-64 years increased 28.4%, from 13.7 per 100,000 ...


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Zardoz [DVD]

Zardoz [DVD]

John Boorman's Zardoz is a mythically inspired, goofy cinematic debacle so fundamentally misconceived and laughably executed that it takes on a bizarre enjoyment quality all its own. Following a long history of progressive science fiction, Zardoz is primarily a movie of ideas--inspired by everything from Jungian psychological theories to obscure Greek mythology--but Boorman is s ... ...

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  • Police looking for missing 20-year-old woman

    OTTAWA -- Ottawa Police are asking the public for help in finding 20-year-old Mariah Vining.She was last seen in the downtown core.Vining is described as 5-1, 100 lbs, with green eyes and shoulder length straight brown hair.She was last seen wearing a black cardigan style sweater with black and white leggings.Anyone with information is asked to contact Ottawa Police Service at 613-236-1222 ext. ...

  • Aged care needs more beds funds Cosgrove

    AUSTRALIA needs 83,000 more aged care beds to care for the growing elderly population which is set to rise by three million, former defence chief general Peter Cosgrove ...

  • Senate pension plan savings scaled back by half

    SPRINGFIELD— - Senate President John Cullerton's pension reform proposal would slice only about half of what he estimated it would immediately cut from the state's nearly $100 billion retirement system debt, a development that could boost chances for the rival legislation pushed by House Speaker Michael Madigan. New numbers from state pension systems released Tuesday showed ...

  • Musician shares talents with seniors in Ojai

    Dean Adams, director of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra, plays a song as part of the Friday night jazz hour for residents of Los Robles Care Center in Ojai. Adams is known as Trombone Dean. Dean Adams visits an Ojai skilled nursing and rehabilitation center twice a month to play big band-style songs on his trombone. Residents revel in the music of their youth. Adams enjoys the added practice and ...

  • Television actor Laurence Haddon dead at 90

    Television actor Laurence Haddon has died from complications of dementia in Santa Monica, Calif., his family said Tuesday. He was 90. TVGuide.com said Haddon began his career as a stage and live television actor in the late 1950s after he served as a Merchant Marine in WWII. In addition to playing Ed, one of American TV's first gay characters, on ...

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