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Sports Briefing | Tennis Juan Monaco and Jarkko Nieminen Reach Power Horse Cup Final
Juan Monaco will face Jarkko Nieminen in the final of the Power Horse Cup ATP tournament in Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
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Historic dining under the stars
Twinkling fairylights, a cicada symphony and a long table set for dinner under a starlit sky set the scene for a memorable outback dinner at the historic Durack homestead.Celebrity chef Anna Gare, WA food ambassador Don Hancey and indigenous chefs joined culinary forces for the Durack Homestead Dinner -- one of the social highlights on the Ord Valley Muster events calendar.Gare, who hasn't ...
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Teens dream prom Tux corsage and a Sports Illustrated model on your arm
Cover goddess Kate Upton said no, so Sports Illustrated model Nina Agdal stepped in to escort L.A. high school senior Jake Davidson to his prom on ...
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Allegheny County pursues $3M grant for sports complex at Montour Junction site
Allegheny County homicide Lt. Andrew Schurman talks with detectives and others on scene at HiView Gardens after a fatal shooting on Friday ...
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Fast Furious 6 THAT ending
fan of the franchise, you recognize the crucial importance of what we’re about to see. This is the scene where Han (Sung Kang) dies. Han has been alive in the last few movies, constantly threatening a move to Tokyo; now, he’s finally done it. But there’s a twist here. ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 25
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Family fitness night attracts many in Moorpark
CARLOS CHAVEZ/Special to the Star Runners take part in the family fitness night events Tuesday at Mesa Verde Middle School in Moorpark. The event was part of a campaign to combat childhood ...
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Oxnard-area middle school hosts fitness nights for families
ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Michaela Ann Field, a sixth-grader at Rio del Valle Middle School, juggles scarves Tuesday during a family fitness event. For the last time in the school year, parents and students joined together in exercise Tuesday at the Rio Del Valle Middle School gymnasium as part of a grant-funded program that encourages physical ...
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Experts offer safety tips at start of boating season
File photo: Henry Goldman (right) shows Melanie Yanez how to put on a personal flotation device during the Channel Islands Harbor Safe Boating Expo on ...
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A cracking good dish Mark Hix cooks with crab
Crabs are also good value compared to lobster, especially if you know how to use the shells. So when you buy crab, think two meals: one with the meat, and then another with the shells simmered up into a broth or a delicious smooth, creamy bisque - though that was definitely way out of my grandmother's repertoire. If you don't want to cook your own crab, most good fishmongers will sell ...
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Crab and sea vegetable fritters
Delicate, slightly salty seashore vegetables like sea spinach, sea purslane, sea aster and samphire make great little fritters. Combined with crab they work as a lovely dinner-party starter or a snack at a drinks ...
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School of chop Learning the art of butchery at the Ginger Pig
On a chill March night, we were in the gleaming premises of the Ginger Pig butcher's shop in well-heeled Marylebone, which provides courses in beef, pork, and sausage as well as lamb. A glass-walled cold store with an array of dangling beef worth thousands provided a backdrop that was more Francis Bacon than Rembrandt. Eventually a volunteer came forward and was guided round the ovine ...
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Kaspars Seafood Bar Grill The Savoy London
A manager stands, tapping at a plinth-mounted iPad, like a synth-pop artist on a late-Seventies edition of Top of the Pops. He looks up briefly, then returns to his screen with renewed focus. What can he be doing? Sending an email? Updating Facebook? Bashing out the instrumental break to "Vienna"? Finally, reluctantly, he tears his eyes from the screen to deal with the couple, who no ...
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Tomatoes and crab on toast
A slice of hot buttered toast with juicy, ripe tomatoes is a pleasurable and simple snack - transform it into a thing of luxury by topping it with freshly-picked crab ...
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Grilled courgettes with crab and chilli
British-grown courgettes are starting to hit the market now and I always find you get the most flavour out of them if they are sliced and grilled. It works especially well when you combine them with the delicate flavour of crab and a little kick of ...
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Crab and asparagus broth
I hate throwing things away and the thought of a potential meal going in the bin is more than a little depressing. Turning your crab shells into a broth is a great way tof prevent such a sorry event, and makes for an excellent ...
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Wine Something for the weekend
2010 Tesco Simply Garnacha, Bodegas Borsao You only get 30p's worth of wine after tax and costs in a 5 bottle, but this bright Spanish Beaujolais-alike delivers a gluggy quaffability. 4.99, ...
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Anthony Rose An Italian wine revival
Which wine country has the greatest capacity to confuse, irritate, reward, inspire and delight? Got it in one: Italy. It's not surprising for a country of 20 wine regions stretching from the Alps to the Mediterranean. Adding to the confusion, Wine Grapes (Allen Lane, 120) a scholarly new work co-authored by Jancis Robinson MW, tells us that Italy leads the world in the number of ...
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Shanghai looks for next sports icons
/enpproperty--> Yao Ming has retired. Liu Xiang has an injured Achilles tendon and his future is up in the air, so who will be the next sporting superstar from Shanghai? According to the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, he or she may be among 3,000 talented youngsters the city has chosen to develop their skills. The birthplace of former NBA center Yao and star hurdler Liu is ...
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Wine Something for the weekend
2010 Tesco Simply Garnacha, Bodegas Borsao You only get 30p's worth of wine after tax and costs in a 5 bottle, but this bright Spanish Beaujolais-alike delivers a gluggy quaffability. 4.99, ...
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Tomatoes and crab on toast
A slice of hot buttered toast with juicy, ripe tomatoes is a pleasurable and simple snack - transform it into a thing of luxury by topping it with freshly-picked crab ...
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Crab and asparagus broth
I hate throwing things away and the thought of a potential meal going in the bin is more than a little depressing. Turning your crab shells into a broth is a great way tof prevent such a sorry event, and makes for an excellent ...
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How long can the Keep Calm trend carry on
While various theories exist as to what that figure might represent or where it might have originated, barely anyone knew or cared about its history as they scribbled it on a desk or a wall. It was just a thing.A thing they'd seen other people draw, and now they were going to draw it, too. It was a cultural oddity that lasted decades, but eventually, slowly, it died out - in the same way we ...
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Motherlode Blog A Billionaire on Working Mothers Babies Kill Women’s Focus
Every so often, someone -- usually, but not always, an older white man -- decides to gather up his favorite old stereotype about women, dust it off, polish it up and give it a fresh airing. This time around, it’s a hedge-fund billionaire. Paul Tudor Jones told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others last month that when it comes to the laser focus needed to ...
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Kosovo moves against restaurants holding wild bears
PRIZREN, Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border ...
Tajikistan Focus
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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