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Sania-Liezel enter Eastbourne quarters
Indo-American pairing Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber defeated Croatian-British duo of Darija Jurak and Heather Watson to enter the quarterfinals of the women's doubles event at the Aegon International here Tuesday. The second seeds were not in their elements but managed to win their first round tie 7-6(4), 7-6(3) in one hour and 36 minutes on the grass courts of Devonshire Park. Sania-Liezel had ...
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Structural doping in Dutch cycling Dutch minister
The majority of the Dutch professional cyclists used doping at the end of the 1990s and at the beginning of this century, says a committee headed by former Dutch justice minister Winnie Sorgdrager. The Anti-Doping Approach Committee presented its findings in The Hague Monday after a six-month investigation into the doping culture in Dutch cycling, which was started after revelations in ...
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Teen Dutch footballers father convicted for kicking match official to death
Six teenage footballers and one of the player's fathers have been convicted for attacking a linesman, who was kicked to death following an under-17 game in the Netherlands in December 2012. According to Sky News, five of the players were each given two-year terms in youth detention and a sixth got one year, while another player, who is 15 years old, was sentenced to 30 days detention for ...
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Roberta Vinci Carla Suarez Navarro post Netherlands victories
Carla Suarez Navarro gained the quarterfinals Tuesday at the grass-court Topshelf Open. Vinci, who titled at s'Hertogenbosch in 2011, breezed into the second round with 6-3, 6-3 decision over Estonian Kaia Kanepi. She next faces last week's Nuremberg, Germany, titlist Simona Halep. Spain's Suarez Navarro, meanwhile, posted a second-round triumph over ...
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Defending champ David Ferrer falls to Malisse in Netherlands upset
Xavier Malisse in an upset. Ferrer, ranked fourth in the world, tumbled to the Belgian grass court specialist 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 in the opening round at Autotron Rosmalen. The Spaniard was seeking to repeat in the Netherlands after downing German Philipp Petzschner in last year's finale. Malisse, meanwhile, notched just his 16th win 57 all-time matches against Top 10 players. Elsewhere ...
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Holland frowns on two finalists for open WyCo commission seat
Wyandotte County commissioners are planning to pick a new member this week, but county Mayor Mark Holland first wants them to talk about going back and finding finalists who paid their taxes on ...
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Aegon International gives Laura Robson a first victory under new coach
Laura Robson , recorded her first win under her new coach, Miles Maclagan, to reach the second round of the Aegon International in Eastbourne.The 19-year-old teamed up with Maclagan before the grass season but lost her first match in Birmingham last week to the eventual title winner, Daniela Hantuchova.Robson had a better draw this time, facing the Ukrainian qualifier Yuliya Beygelzimer, and she ...
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Airbnb says its Amsterdam tourists spend more stay longer
economic impact study -- this time for Amsterdam -- once again touting that its guests stay longer and spend more. The company again threw out some big claims and while it didn't include a total figure for how much money Airbnb brings to the city, the average amounts generated per tourist were slightly ...
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Malisse ousts Ferrer on grass in Netherlands
ROSMALEN, Netherlands -; French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before ...
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New Amsterdam Market Returns To Seaport For Sunday Only
New Amsterdam Market returns to the South Street Seaport this Sunday but don't expect to find all the growers, chefs and food producers there every weekend, as this will be a one-day-only event. Breaking with a two year tradition that saw the market open weekends from spring through the fall, this single day affair is the first in a monthly series of food events, to announced at a later ...
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Amg Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. Unit Amg Aluminum Closes The Sale Of Its Interest In Chinese Joint Venture
--- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that AMG Aluminum has closed the previously announced sale of its 45% equity interest in Nanjing Yunhai KB Alloys Co., Ltd ("YKB") to Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals Co., Ltd. AMG Aluminum is the world-leading provider of aluminum master alloys and grain refiners for the aluminum ...
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Holland Receives Carrier Excellence Award from BNSF Logistics
. Award recipients were nominated by BNSF operations team members, then critically evaluated across a number of objective measures including: on-time service, capacity and overall customer service performance throughout the year of ...
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Spinnaker Support Shows Support for Financials 2013 Conference by Participating in Amsterdam Event
Educating the SAP marketplace about their third-party maintenance and co-sourcingSM services, Spinnaker Support is excited about the traction gained at the conference DENVER and LONDON - Spinnaker Support, the global market leader for SAP and JD Edwards third-party maintenance, co-sourcing, and consulting services, today announced that they had a successful week meeting with SAP users at the ...
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Dutch teens convicted for killing referee
A Dutch court has convicted six teenage soccer players and a father of manslaughter for kicking a volunteer linesman to death. The game between the two teams, Nieuw Sloten and Buitenboys, took place last November in Almere, near Amsterdam. The game ended in a 2-2 tie after Nieuw Sloten came back from being down 2-0. While the players were shaking hands with the three volunteer officials after ...
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Seven men convicted following death of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen - video
Six teenage football players and one 50 year old man were convicted of manslaughter on Monday in a Dutch court, after kicking a volunteer linesman, Richard Nieuwenhuizen, to death. Forty-one-year-old Nieuwenhuizen was officiating in a match in which his son was playing. The defendants still maintain their innocence and have two weeks to ...
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FIFPro Opens and Bluewater breaks ground in the Netherlands Park 20|20 Development
BEUKENHORST ZUID, HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --In recent weeks, FIFPro, worldwide representative union for professional soccer players, opened its new headquarters building and Bluewater Energy Solutions, a technical service provider to the energy and industrial marketplace, broke ground for a new building at Delta Development's Park 20|20, the first full-service ...
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Ireland well beaten by Netherlands
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Amsterdam to remain a competitive Hot Spot until 2025
Amsterdam has been ranked as the 13th most competitive city "Hot Spot" in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Hot Spots 2025 ...
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Hong Kongs Li purchases Dutch waste company for 944 mil. euros
A group of Li's companies including Cheung Kong Infrastructure said Monday they were buying AVR-Afvalverwerking BV. Li's companies said they were buying the company because it represents a "compelling long-term investment opportunity for the consortium." Van Gansewinkel Groep, which is selling the company, said the deal would close in the third quarter of 2013. The deal still ...
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UPDATE 1-Dutch food ingredients firm to return 250 mln euros to shareholders
Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:38am EDT * Payout via cash dividend, buyback * Remaining ingredient operations named Corbion * Sets sales growth targets for Corbion of 6-9 pct (Adds financial targets, quote) AMSTERDAM, June 18 (Reuters) - Dutch firm CSM NV, which is selling its core bakery business, is returning 250 million euros ($334 million) to shareholders and setting targets for its remaining ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Tuesday June 18
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Evgeny Donskoy rallies over John Isner in the Netherlands
John Isner Monday in first-round play of the grass-court Topshelf Open. Donskoy rallied after dropping the first set to bounce the 6-foot-9 Isner 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-4 at Autotron Rosmalen in the Netherlands. Joining Isner in the ranks of Day 2 upset victims at the Wimbledon tune-up were No. ...
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Dutch court convicts young soccer players father in beating death of volunteer linesman
The widow (pink shirt) and sons of linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen leave the courthouse of Lelystad, Netherlands, on Monday, June 17, 2013. A Dutch court on Monday jailed six teenage boys and a father for up to six years for brutally beating to death amateur soccer linesman Nieuwenhuizen last ...
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Ireland hammered by Holland
A disappointing performance by Ireland saw them fall to a heavy 5-0 defeat in the World League at the hands of hosts Holland. It was always going to be a tough game against the current World champions, but once again Irish defensive errors and incisive Dutch finishing proved the difference between the two sides. The attacking trio of Hofman, Hertzberger and Jonker provided the magic for the ...
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W+Ks Journey With Heineken Leads to Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness
CANNES, France-Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam picked up the Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness here tonight for its remarkable Heineken campaign, which helped boost sales of the Dutch brewer's flagship beer by 5.3 percent in ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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