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Government ministers have welcomed reports that the Sun has dropped Page 3 girls - with one branding the controversial feature "old-fashioned sexism".

Britain's best-selling tabloid has not published pictures of topless glamour models since Friday, and has reportedly decided to quietly drop the feature.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, who also holds the women and equalities brief, said the move is "long overdue".
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It's a tabloid. Page 3 girls was the only way to get someone with any brain cells to even look at the paper.
But I guess it is sexist to cater only to men and lesbians by limiting it to topless women. Perhaps they just needed to add a "page 4" with bottomless men?
 
SundinsTooth said:
I would guess that it depends if both offensive lines use the same ball.
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NFL ball rules, in PDF
So it states that for every game, BOTH teams will provide twelve brand new, Wilson footballs more than two hours before the game for the Ref to inspect and approve. The home team must also provide twelve backup balls. The visitors can also provide twelve backup balls, at their own discretion.
In bad weather, the offensive team's center can request a "playable ball" from that pool of pre-approved balls, although it also seems to suggest they won't use one of the visitor-supplied balls until the home-supplied ones are exhausted. So basically, they'd have to go through 24 balls from the home team before considering using one of the visitor's balls.
And there is this:
The Referee shall be the sole judge as to whether all balls offered for play comply with these specifications. A pump is to be furnished by the home club, and the balls shall remain under the supervision of the Referee until they are delivered to the ball attendant just prior to the start of the game.
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So who is this "ball attendant?" A member of the home team crew?
 
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Tim Hortons, which completed its $12.5-billion merger with Burger King just six weeks ago, confirmed layoffs late Monday from its headquarters and regional offices.

But it refused to give a number on jobs cut, despite repeated requests from CBC News.

"Respectfully, because we are still in the process of the re-organization – we're not in the position to confirm the number of people impacted either leaving the company or with new opportunities," Tim Hortons vice-president of corporate affairs Alexandra Cygnal said in an email.

The Tim Hortons/Burger King merger is backed by Burger King owner 3G Capital, a Brazilian investment firm known for its ruthless cost-cutting.

As part of its deal with the federal government, the company, renamed Restaurant Brands International, agreed not to cut front-line staff working at Tim Hortons restaurants.

But that agreement did not apply to the more than 2,000 employees working at headquarters, distribution centres or regional offices in Guelph, Ont., Kingston, Ont., British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
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Would you like Fries with that Whopper of a layoff?
 
It appears that, as per usual, the Great Blue Wall of Toronto has held up:

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An Ontario judge has upheld the conviction of a Toronto police officer found guilty of assaulting a protester during the city's G20 summit four years ago, but has ruled that the man need not serve any jail time.

He was sentenced to 45 days behind bars, though he was almost immediately granted bail pending an appeal.

Superior Court Justice Brian O'Marra has now changed that sentence to one year of probation and 75 hours of community service for Andalib-Goortani.

The judge who presided over Andalib-Goortani's trial had found the officer hit Nobody several times with his baton while the protester was already on the ground, surrounded by other officers who were in the process of arresting him.

Nobody was offering minimal resistance and several other police officers were piled on top of him, she found.

The trial judge also said the officer had shown no remorse and noted his name tag and badge weren't visible during the arrest.

Nobody said he suffered a broken nose, a facial fracture and bruised ribs during the arrest.
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Nice to know that the people who are paid handsomely to enforce our laws continue to be exempt from them.
 
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ATLANTA - The daughter of late singer and entertainer Whitney Houston was found unresponsive in a bathtub Saturday and taken to a hospital in the north Atlanta suburbs, police said.

Bobbi Kristina Brown was found by her husband, Nick Gordon, and a friend and given cardiopulmonary resuscitation, said Officer Lisa Holland, a spokeswoman for the Roswell Police Department. When police arrived, they gave Brown additional care until she was taken alive to North Fulton Hospital.

The incident remains under investigation, police said.

Brown is the daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown. A representative for the family did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills, California. The 48-year-old Houston had struggled for years with cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her behaviour had become erratic.

Authorities examining Houston's death found a dozen prescription drug bottles in the hotel suite. They concluded that Houston accidentally drowned. Heart disease and cocaine use were listed as contributing factors in Houston's death.
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Doesn't sound good.
 
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Controversial imam Hamza Chaoui will be denied a permit to establish his Islamic community centre in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a borough in Montreal's east end.

Chaoui is a Moroccan-born imam in Montreal with controversial views on sharia law and ties to suspected radicals.

Borough mayor Réal Ménard, who spoke at Montreal City Hall along with Mayor Denis Coderre on Saturday morning, said Chaoui was never given a certificate of occupation to begin holding meetings at his community centre.

Chaoui did apply for a transformation permit in January to renovate the building in question, Ménard said. However, he began promoting his community centre on Facebook before ever being granted a permit.
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Buddy says that democracy and Islam are "incompatible," and wants to open a Community Center.
NOT!
 
SundinsTooth said:
It is? I gotta be honest, I've never even given it a second of my time.
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Ya, well, anybody who listened to two lines of Bobby Brown's lyrics or remembered his antics with the boy band he was in prior to going it alone, knew he was a druggie. Once he had his hit solo record, he MC Hammer'd himself into poverty with drugs. He needed Whitney and her money to keep it going.
 
blacksheep said:
Ya, well, anybody who listened to two lines of Bobby Brown's lyrics or remembered his antics with the boy band he was in prior to going it alone, knew he was a druggie. Once he had his hit solo record, he MC Hammer'd himself into poverty with drugs. He needed Whitney and her money to keep it going.
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You're knowledge of this is surprisingly deep.
 
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AMMAN, Jordan — When relatives learned Tuesday night that the Islamic State had released a video showing the death of a Jordanian fighter pilot, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, they tried to keep it from his mother, Issaf, and his wife, Anwar. They switched off the television and tried to wrest a smartphone from his wife’s hand, but she had already seen a mobile news bulletin.

Married only six months, Anwar ran crying into the street, calling her husband’s name and saying, “Please God, let it not be true.” Issaf fell to the floor screaming, pulled her head scarf off and started tearing at her hair.

That was before they knew how he had been killed. No one dared let them know right away that Lieutenant Kasasbeh’s tormentors had apparently burned him alive inside a cage, a killing that was soon described as the most brutal in the group’s bloody history.

Jordan responded rapidly, executing Sajida al-Rishawi, convicted in a suicide bombing plot, and Ziad al-Karbouli, a top lieutenant of Al Qaeda in Iraq, before dawn on Wednesday, according to the official news agency Petra.

Both prisoners had already been sentenced to death for terrorism offenses. Mr. Karbouli was accused as one of the planners of the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman that killed more than 57 people; Ms. Rishawi was the only one of four suicide bombers in that attack whose explosive vest failed to detonate.
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THAT's how to respond to ISIS.
 
why? what does it accomplish?

they pride themselves on martyrdom. this just tells them they still have influencem
 
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