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Brazilian Paralympic Committee sign agreement to develop winter sport ahead of Sochi 2014
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Xbox One Gamers unhappy about proposed fee for pre-owned games
Once customers have bought a game they will receive a unique code to activate their purchase. Once the code has been used the game will be linked to that individual's Xbox Live account. If a friend borrows the game CD then they will have to buy a new activation code before they can play. The new code will cost as much as the original game and consoles will have to be connected to the ...
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Xbox One vs PlayStation 4 Why Microsofts console name game just doesnt add up
On Tuesday, before a roomful of panting games journalists and sore-thumbed enthusiasts, Microsoft unveiled its latest games console. The curtain was pulled, and the Xbox One was revealed. As gamers ruminated on the implications of the 'box (not hardcore enough? Better than the forthcoming PlayStation 4?), some of us were left ...
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What’s for supper Stuffed and rolled shoulder of pork
2.5kg boned shoulder of porkSea saltFreshly ground black pepper8 large carrots, peeled and left whole8 banana shallots or small onions, peeled25g flour1 teaspoon Dijon mustard250ml white wineFor the stuffing1 tablespoon olive oil2 garlic cloves, crushed, peeled and diced2 onions, peeled and diced100g chicken livers, chopped200g minced pork75g toasted pine nuts100g stoned prunes, chopped100g ...
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Were just mad about saffron
You don't usually expect to find the replenishments for your spice rack under lock and key, but at my local supermarket in California in the 1980s, the saffron was that closely guarded. Shoppers looked on in curiosity as the mad Englishwoman patiently waited to procure her stash of a tiny packet of scarlet threads costing hundreds of dollars an ounce, desperately needed to gild and perfume ...
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T Magazine On View | Koloman Moser’s Viennese Vision
Hlya Kolabas Koloman Moser (1868-1918) was an Austrian artist and designer -- of everything from interiors and exhibitions to textiles and glass -- and a co-founder (with Josef Hoffman and Fritz Waerndorfer) of the influential, secessionist production cooperative Wiener Werksttte. Often overshadowed by Hoffmann, Moser is finally getting his first American museum exhibition: ';Koloman Moser: ...
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SNL Best host YOU say its...
… or whether you should go to bed and simply scan up through ';Weekend Update'; tomorrow on the DVR. Like a football or basketball game, a host can’t ...
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Video High-tech high fitness Can gadgets enhance your workout
Despite new government labels on sunscreen due out this summer, one watchdog group says high SPF ratings can give people a false sense of security. Norah O'Donnell ...
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Watch Sports Illustrated Model to Attend Prom with Teen
in sunny los angeles. Reporter: He's a high school senior with chutzpah. Kate, can I call you katie? Reporter: Chutzpah enough to ask a super hot supermodel to the prom. You're on the cover of "sports illustrated." I read "sports illustrated." Reporter: Jake's prom-posal to kate upton on youtube. We can ride around all night long until 11:00. That's my ...
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German brewers warn fracking could hurt beer industry
File photo of a waitress using a whistle to free her way while carrying ten of the traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich, September 22, 2012. (KAI ...
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GP who used spy watch to film himself abusing patients is jailed for 12 years
Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, who used a secret camera inside his James Bond-style wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients. Photograph: Wiltshire ...
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The four phases of successful in-house recruitment
Outsourcing the recruitment process is often touted as a saviour to local authorities seeking to achieve lower and lower spend. This has long been common practice in the private sector, and there's no doubt that in some cases outsourcing has been the answer for local government, too.However, it is important to remember that every organisation is different. Organisations are increasingly ...
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Pope Salvador president discuss beatification of slain archbishop
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic ...
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Calorie restriction may not be good for your brain Study
While restricting calories will certainly help you lose weight, research already suggests that it also may slow aging, prolong life, and even cut the effects of certain diseases. But a new study takes it further by probing into whether or not it can delay nerve cell loss in the brain.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), lead by Johannes Gräff, tested their ...
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Egypt to issue smart cards to fuel stations next month
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A motorcyclist carries fuel containers after filling them up from a petrol station as he passes other motorists in queue in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, about 25 km (16 miles) ...
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Promiscuous minds gather for Britains Hay Festival
LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous ...
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O2 Fitness pumps up Wilmington presence
O2 Fitness will open a second club in Wilmington, this one in Hanover Center. O2, the largest privately owned independent fitness operator in the state, already has 11 locations, mostly in the Triangle. This newest club is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter this year. The club will cover 28,000 square feet of space in the Mayfaire Town Center, five miles from the other Wilmington ...
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Wrestling Olympics czar Jacques Rogge praises sports changes
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) LONDON -- Wrestling's governing body has "reacted well" and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said. In an interview with the Associated Press, Rogge said FILA has dealt with the issues that led the IOC executive ...
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Micro-breweries give cheer to British beer drinkers
By Jonathan Cable BRENTWOOD, England | Thu May 23, 2013 9:28am EDT BRENTWOOD, England May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's love affair with quirkily named real ales and their demand for locally produced goods has led to a growing trend in micro-breweries that cater to the more discerning palate. More than 1,000 brewers now operate across the country compared to just over 800 in late 2011, ...
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Lifestyle Suffering of fistula patients
Fistula Centre in Eldoret. The girl, let us call her Veronica, went into labour in February and laboured for so long because she was too timid to tell her husband she was about to have a baby. "I didn't know the cause of the pain or that it was a sign that I was giving birth," Veronica says. Hours later when the pain became unbearable Veronica was taken to hospital for emergency ...
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Dont forget fitness on holiday
Delhi-based fitness expert and trainer Santosh Sharma shares a few tips to stay fit during a holiday:- Avoid visiting a restaurant empty stomach. In such cases people end up eating much more. If you're starving, eat a piece of fruit or have a glass of juice or water in the hotel itself. Later, while having lunch, fill your plate with lightly dressed salads, fish, seafood and lean meats. ...
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Kill Mittal French video game lets players attack Indian billionaire Lakshmi amid factory battle
A French video game is offering players the chance to become a virtual employee of steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal battling to keep a factory ...
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Fitness test deceased was breadwinner
Aspirant traffic cops wait to run 4km in 30 minutes to pass the fitness test which will qualify them to go into the next round for one of 90 provincial posts. File photo; ...
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Sports Business Awards have some Louisville connections
Louisville got a bit of notice last night as SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusinessDaily, sister publications to Business First, handed out their annual honors in New York City. As Business First reports, former Churchill Downs Inc. (NYSE: CDN) President Steve Sexton, who is now president and CEO of an Austin, Texas Formula One track, had reason to smile after the 2012 Grand Prix was ...
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Sports Buzz Is Dwight Howard interested in Rockets
Houston Rockets , or is this just a negotiating ploy? Earlier this week, several media outlets reported that Howard seems torn between wanting to stay with ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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