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Finally Figured Out Why Olympics Curling Stones are So Expensive

The popularity of the sport of curling has increased since the Winter 2022 Olympics where 114 athletes participated in various curling competitions. Interestingly, the curling stones are customized for the Olympic games. As per reports, a single curling stone used in the Olympics game costs over $600. Hence, a set of 16 Olympics-certified stones cost $9600. On 15th October 2022, a YouTube video on the channel Insider Business disclosed why these stones were so costly.

How to take better (and more distinctive) photos on vacation

Say you're on vacation at Niagara Falls. You want to take an amazing photo that captures the thundering beauty of the waterfalls – but youdon't want to take the same photo that everyone else is taking. The thing is ... you're not a professional photographer. So, what do you do? As a photographer and visuals editor at NPR, I know that with practice and a few pointers, it's possible for anyone to take vacation photos that are distinctive and tell a great story.

Maya Jama puts on a busty display in a plunging olive green velvet dress as she struts into the Love

Maya Jama looked sensational as she strut into the Love Island All Stars villa on Tuesday evening.   The presenter, 29, will once again return to shock the villa, as she announces four islanders have been dumped, while two new bombshells arrive. She put on a busty display in a plunging olive green velvet dress, which flaunted her incredible figure.    Maya boosted her height in strappy heels and accessorised with dainty gold jewellery, while her brunette locks were styled in a neat braid.

Miley Cyrus Revisits the Day She Decided to End Her Marriage to Liam Hemsworth

Miley Cyrus is reflecting on the end of her marriage to Liam Hemsworth. In the latest edition of the 30-year-old singer's "Used to Be Young" TikTok series, Cyrus reveals the exact day in which she decided it was time to call it quits.  The former couple quietly wed in December 2018 after a decade-long romance, but announced their split less than one year later. Now, Cyrus reveals that it was on the day of her performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England on June 30, 2019 that she chose to move on.

LeSean McCoy -- SHAKES MIKE VICK ... With Killer Crossover

Play video content ANKLES BROKEN Now, Mike Vick knows how all those defenders felt ... The NFL quarterback got crossed over HARD at his celebrity basketball game in Virginia this week ... and was left swingin' at air ... and the culprit is one of his closest friends -- LeSean McCoy! The two former Philadelphia Eagles teammates hit the hardwood at Warwick High School in Newport News -- where Vick grew up -- to raise money for the Mike Vick Foundation, which works with underprivileged kids.

'I'm So Proud To Have You As A Daughter'

Mario Loiseau works two jobs, including long hours as a parking lot attendant, to help pay for his 9-year-old daughter Mabou's tutoring. Mabou is a science and language prodigy and is already studying college-level algebra. "So Daddy, how did you feel when I was born?" she asked her father during a recent visit to StoryCorps in New York City. "It was like a dream come true," he said. "I wanted a child forever, and you were my first and only born.

Breaking Bad Recap: Walt Goes for Broken

Breaking Bad Bit by a Dead Bee Season 2 Episode 3 Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Breaking Bad Bit by a Dead Bee Season 2 Episode 3 Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » We pick up right where we left off: Walt and Jesse are running from the crime scene, Tuco’s dead by Hank’s hand, and Walt’s family still thinks he’s missing.

How do you say Padraig? | Golf

Golf This article is more than 16 years oldHow do you say Padraig?This article is more than 16 years oldManchán MaganWhen Padraig Harrington held aloft the Claret Jug at the Open on Sunday, sports fans around the world steeled themselves to enter the minefield of Irish pronunciation. Should his name be pronounced paw-drig, pahd-rag, paw-rick or paaah-ric? All are in fact correct, depending on the district you happen to be in at the time.

In 'Tastes Like War,' a daughter reckons with her mother's schizophrenia

Grace M. Cho emigrated to the U.S. as a baby, with her Korean mother and her father, a white American who served in the Merchant Marines. They settled in a small, rural town in Washington state, where they were among the only immigrants in the community. "Children used to tease me and bully me for being Asian," Cho says. "I also started to notice that these kinds of things also happened to my mother, sometimes in ways that were even more dramatic than what I had experienced.

La Danza de la Realidad review a portrait of the artist with a circus troupe

Mark Kermode's film of the weekDrama filmsReviewThe octogenarian director Alejandro Jodorowsky relives his troubled childhood in 1930s Chile in a film of carnivalesque exuberance Jeremias Herskovits, left, as the young Alejandro Jodorowsky, with Pamela Flores as his mother and Brontis Jodorowsky, the director’s son, as his father in La Danza de la Realidad. Photograph: PRThe Chilean visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature since 1990’s disappointing The Rainbow Thief is a fantastical quasi-autobiographical romp in the manner of Fellini’s Amarcord, or perhaps Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg.