He has tried to soften his tone, but he has not been helped by the Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor, Jay Katzen, who wants a straight ban on abortions, a prohibition of same-sex marriage and a roll-back of Virginia's restrictions on hand-gun purchases (which Mr Earley supported).

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The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.

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Then, on a smooth. flour-free surface, roll the ball under the palm of your hand until the dough is smooth and firm -- about 1 minute.

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Peters, on the other hand, will be spending some of his new free time suing the makers of Roll-A-Bout, an item he blames for the re-injury of his Achilles heel.

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Flip through the Seattle architect's portfolio and you'll see roofs that levitate on muscular pistons, angular cabins that roll across an alpine valley on wheeled stilts and Brobdingnagian hand cranks that swivel six-ton window walls.

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