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Family life: Against the odds, True Blue and tuna fish pie
This picture of my parents was taken in 1963, a year before they got married. It intrigues me, in the circumstances, that they managed to pose for a studio photograph like some confident, conventional, middle-class couple. Mum was very shy – though she ended up as an infant school deputy headteacher – and her...
guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Training for the unthinkable in Oley
If a gunman were to go on a rampage in one of the Oley Valley schools, Oley Township Police Chief David A. White is confident he and the other two members of the department would be as prepared as they could be to respond.Since he was promoted to chi...
readingeagle.com (9 hours ago)
Chase Utley says injury news was 'best-case scenario'
WASHINGTON - Chase Utley believed it was prudent to inform the Phillies moments after pain shot through his right side during batting practice Tuesday. Rather than play through it, an idea a twenty-something Utley might have embraced, Utley was confident in his caution.
philly.com (12 hours ago)
Hawks not getting down about deficit
Toews says team is 'very confident' despite trailing Red Wings 3-1Still 'very confident.'
chicagotribune.com (12 hours ago)
Cassidy: SRI International an innovation powerhouse trying to rise above the noise
SRI International, the lab that brought you Siri, the computer mouse, surgical robots and micro-video service Tout, among a bushel of other innovations, is sometimes the wizard behind the curtain when it comes to getting Silicon Valley props. But CEO Curtis Carlson is confident that the lab’s role in everyday lives...
mercurynews.com (12 hours ago)
Same again? Petr Cech is confident Jose Mourinho will return to repeat his Chelsea success
'It will be great to see him back and hopefully he can reproduce the success we had under him' says Blues keeper
mirror.co.uk (15 hours ago)
Zinedine Zidane: after Messi and Ronaldo, Bale impresses me the most
Of all the praise that has been lavished on Gareth Bale perhaps none will make him blush quite like that delivered by the Frenchman who landed in a rain-drenched London on Friday afternoon dressed in a black jacket, black T-shirt and blue jeans. He looked like any other person but this was Zinedine Zidane, greatness...
guardian.co.uk (16 hours ago)
Wayne Rooney chased by Arsenal
Arsenal are growing increasingly confident they can finance a record-breaking move for Wayne Rooney. Sportmail exclusively revealed the Gunners’ interest in the unsettled Manchester United star last week.
dailymail.co.uk (16 hours ago)
Letters: Just not cricket
David Collier, England and Wales Cricket Board's chief executive, reckons that cricket is in rude health at all levels (Report, 22 May) and that participation in grassroots cricket has increased over the last eight years. This must be a different game than that which I follow every summer weekend, as an official of...
guardian.co.uk (17 hours ago)
Security Guard Shoves Student Down Stairs In Shocking Video
After a shocking video of a teen girl being pushed down the stairs at a Chicago high school surfaced online, district officials suspended the student's alleged attacker. In the video clip, a blue-shirted male security guard is seen apparently pushing the girl down a flight of stairs at Dunbar Vocational Career...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
Tony Bellew confident he has measure of opponent
Ten weeks ago, when Tony Bellew fought out a draw with Isaac Chilemba in Liverpool in a final eliminator for...
thetimes.co.uk (17 hours ago)
Yorkshire fear north-south divide
Yorkshire have warned of the dangers of a north-south divide opening up in English cricket after suffering their second complete washout in consecutive years here. Mark Arthur, who recently joined the county as chief executive, said that the loss of the first day of the second Test against New Zealand, in conditions...
guardian.co.uk (17 hours ago)
Muller in confident mood
Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller is not panicking about the prospect of more Champions League final shoot-out misery at Wembley on Saturday.
standard.co.uk (18 hours ago)
Citi Bikes land in New York: what to expect from the long-awaited scheme
They have arrived! Glowing in Citbank blue, hundreds of Bloomberg Bikes emerged from nowhere onto the streets of New York in the early hours of Friday, greeted with a combination of curiosity, puzzlement, and not a little suspicion. Which is hardly surprising, as it's not been plain cycling so far. Residents of the...
guardian.co.uk (19 hours ago)
Rick Gee was like a father to me, Harris says
PEORIA -- A confident Christopher Harris said Rick Gee was "like a father to me." Harris, 34, began to testify and described his relationships with the Gees as good and that they were "family." He painted a picture that he was like an uncle to the four children who lived in the Gees' Beason home and hardly the type...
sj-r.com (19 hours ago)
Rick Gee was like a father to me, Harris says
A confident Christopher Harris said Rick Gee was "like a father to me." Harris, 34, began to testify and described his relationships with the Gees as good and that they were "family." He painted a picture that he was like an uncle to the four children who lived in the Gees' Beason home and hardly the type of...
pjstar.com (20 hours ago)
G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned
G4S, the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault in the West Midlands. The company has been awarded a three-year contract to take over two sexual assault referral centres (Sarcs) in Birmingham and Walsall. The...
guardian.co.uk (21 hours ago)
Caramel-Color Rubbing Alcohol Sold As Scotch
TRENTON, N.J. -- At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water – and apparently not even clean water at that. State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier as part of...
huffingtonpost.com (22 hours ago)
Gill confident of keeping Rooney
Outgoing Manchester United chief executive David Gill says "every bit of work" is being done to resolve Wayne Rooney's future.
bbci.co.uk (22 hours ago)
European Central Bank: Let Them Go Bankrupt!
Everyone has heard of Marie-Antoinette screaming from her balcony at the Palace of Versailles in the early hours of the French Revolution: “if there’s no bread, then let them eat cake!”. Right! Poverty-stricken Frenchmen had access to cake, of course, didn’t they! Well, anyone would think that today’s announcement...
zerohedge.com (23 hours ago)
The future of media measurement should be people-based | David Gosen
When it comes to the development and distribution of content, the pace of innovation has been breathtaking. Today, people consume media on multiple platforms and devices and, with the rise of mobile technologies, they do it any time and in any place. So, how should this proliferating and diverse consumption be...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Woolwich murder: Welby praises response of British Muslim bodies
The archbishop of Canterbury has praised British Muslim organisations for their response to the murder of Lee Rigby, saying that the UK's different religious communities are in a good position of co-operation and mutual support. "We have all been appalled by the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich," said...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
2 men charged in execution-style slayings last month in Akron
Akron police detectives on Thursday arrested two men accused in last month’s execution-style killing of four people inside a Chapel Hill-area townhouse. In custody are Derrick Brantley, 21, and Deshanon Haywood, 21. The Akron men are each charged with four counts of aggravated murder and four counts of aggravated...
ohio.com (1 day ago)
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux – review
When you come upon an old friend after decades apart, what is it that you recognise in them: their ageing face, a shared history, the flash of their eyes, their soul? Susanna, who opens Marcel Theroux's ingenious new novel, is both touched and unnerved when her university boyfriend, Nicholas Slopen, turns up on her...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
New Jersey officials say bar sold rubbing alcohol instead of scotch
At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water - and apparently not even clean water at that. State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier as part of a yearlong...
foxnews.com (1 day ago)
Lewis Hamilton confident he’ll end wait
Lewis Hamilton believes he can secure Mercedes’ first victory of the season after finishing second behind team-mate Nico Rosberg in yesterday’s second practice for the Monaco Grand Prix.
standard.co.uk (1 day ago)
Police confident about Big Weekend
Officers in Londonderry admit the Radio 1 event is their biggest police operation this year and they will "curb any anti-social behaviour".
bbci.co.uk (1 day ago)
Laura Cococcia: On Remaining Artistic: An Interview With the Art Studio NY's Rebecca Schweiger
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso When is the last time you painted, wrote a poem, played the piano? For too many of us, the answer is, "I don't remember." But why don't we engage in the creative activities we enjoyed so much as kids? Painting isn't...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Sam Stosur confident of being French Open title threat
Despite form and fitness woes, Sam Stosur's belief in making another French Open title run is as strong as ever.
abc.net.au (1 day ago)
Search continues for gadabout steer in Epping
A Dover farm owner who sold the 1-year-old steer that escaped when it was being delivered to an Epping boy last weekend is confident the animal will be found 8212 with a little help.
unionleader.com (1 day ago)
