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Peterhead are not facing Rangers to ‘make up numbers’

Edit Scotsman 09 Apr 2016
Smith knows a thing or two about cup finals, having pocketed a Uefa Cup runners-up medal in 2008 when he was Rangers' back-up keeper against Zenit St Petersburg in Manchester. He was also Kilmarnock's understudy a year earlier in a 5-1 defeat by Hibernian in the League Cup final ... “In terms of my career highlights, this game will be up there because I'll be playing. “I've experienced League Cup and Scottish Cup finals and league run-ins....

7 Books That Will Change Your Life

Edit Huffington Post 09 Apr 2016
Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective by Richard Carlson, Ph.D ... In this book, Canfield helps you get from where you are to where you want to be by teaching you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions ... Get inspired and motivated as you indulge in this collection and most importantly, act on what you learn!....

Relay for Life's Team Wal*Mart to host Yard Sale

Edit The Examiner 09 Apr 2016
... for Life of Cheatham County ... All proceeds from the sales will go to the team's Relay for Life fundraising efforts. The Team is looking to raise $3000 by the May 14, 2016 Relay for Life event at Riverbluff Park in Ashland City....

Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is about to debut at No.1 on the US album chart

Edit Digital Spy 09 Apr 2016
The Life of Pablo officially went on sale on Friday, April 1 as a paid download on Kanye's website and TIDAL ... This was a sharp reversal for the rapper, who originally vowed to "never" make The Life of Pablo available to Apple....

Cancer battle hasn’t cowed Ian St John

Edit Scotsman 09 Apr 2016
“Are you going to turn up or is this a send-up?” he'd queried on the phone ... The best thing is, it's in tablet form.” ... St John's determination to look on the bright side of life seems to have been nurtured from boyhood, when a family of eight lived in the freezeblock living quarters of a small Motherwell tenement ... “The borders of life threatened to be no wider than the shadows of a factory,” St John notes in his autobiography, Saint....

Interview: Cancer battle hasn’t cowed Ian St John

Edit Scotsman 09 Apr 2016
“Are you going to turn up or is this a send-up?” he'd queried on the phone ... The best thing is, it's in tablet form.” ... St John's determination to look on the bright side of life seems to have been nurtured from boyhood, when a family of eight lived in the freezeblock living quarters of a small Motherwell tenement ... “The borders of life threatened to be no wider than the shadows of a factory,” St John notes in his autobiography, Saint....

Augustine Conversions and Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox review: a new analysis

Edit The Irish Times 09 Apr 2016
It is this journey that the Confessions recall, and in this work Augustine has not only painted a vivid and compelling account of the drama of his intellectual and spiritual quest for understanding, but has also provided the western literary canon with one of its earliest and enduring autobiographical meditations ... is evident in this very fine work....

Gangsters and guns; Kellie suffered 23 years of abuse before reclaiming her life

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Apr 2016
"When you come from that sort of life any man who shows you affection you think you love." And a punch in the face was part of the package, or so she thought ... Earlier this year he died of cancer and for the first time in years she can now sit in a public space without her back to a wall or shudder when she washes knives in the kitchen sink....

Justin Welby discovers biological father was Churchill's private secretary

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2016
So this DNA evidence with which I have now been presented proving that Gavin was not Justin’s biological father, so many years after Gavin’s death, has come as an almost unbelievable shock.” She said she had felt she owed her son an explanation and said she accepted that “what would in normal circumstances be of interest only to those immediately ......

Man pleads guilty in Arizona shootings that killed 1, hurt 5

Edit Denver Post 09 Apr 2016
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Ryan Elliott Giroux ... Ryan Elliott Giroux changed his plea a little more than a year after his initial court hearing in Phoenix, in a deal that likely means he will spend the rest of his life in prison ... In court, he appeared with a clean-shaved head and wore wire-rimmed glasses....

Middle-Aged Become More Style-Conscious

Edit Chosun Ilbo 09 Apr 2016
Koreans in their 40s and 50s are becoming more groomed and style-conscious, credit-card spending patterns show. They rage against the encroaching twilight by snapping up stylish clothes, spending lavishly on beauty care and enjoying the latest in art and culture ... The reason seems to be an increasing life span and a rise in the number of baby boomers who are retiring but want to enjoy their life rather than settle glumly into old age....

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade review: a likeable portrait

Edit The Irish Times 09 Apr 2016
That mention of time has multiple ironies; Eliade, the great Romanian thinker and writer, who was born in 1907 and was to be recognized as one of the 20th century’s leading authorities on comparative religions, actually did write this book when he was about the same age as his uptight, shrewd and appealingly naive narrator who knows how to lie when necessary....

‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and The Importance Of Shooting The S**t (Commentary)

Edit The Wrap 09 Apr 2016
This is an uninhibited, unashamed college party movie; a slice-of-life piece of bros being bros with no overarching conflict ... The lessons in life that truly stick don’t come in a classroom ... They can come while cuddling with a loved one, debating a colleague over coffee, or in this case, taking superhuman rips from a bong at an off-campus rager....
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