Wine Challenge

The International Wine Challenge (IWC) is an annual wine competition. assesses every wine blind and judges each for its faithfulness to variety, region and vintage. Every wine is assessed independently of its price. Value for money awards are made after the wine has been judged for quality

The London IWC now has over 9,000 entries. The results of the competition are published on the International Wine Challenge website in May, in trade bi-weekly magazine Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade Review and the World's Best Wines Guide.

The competition was launched in London in 1984 by Robert Joseph and Charles Metcalfe

The competition takes place over two weeks. There are three rounds of blind tasting: groups of eight to fourteen wines of the same style are tasted and scored by tables of 4 judges. There are over 300 judges. Wines scoring more than 84 points out of 100 advance to round two, where they are tasted again and gold medal winners in each style are awarded. Round three is a tasting of gold medal winners to decide on trophy winners. Throughout the rigorous judging processes, each medal winning wine is tasted at least three times and sometimes as many as six. There is no set number of trophies awarded. In September the IWC Awards Dinner is held in London. Each year, the achievements of the top medal winners, and the leading wine merchants, are publicly rewarded at the International Wine Challenge Awards Dinner, with over 800 guests from the UK wine trade plus international producers and winemakers.

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Orangutans kickboxing

Cruel ape fight club exposed Dressed in garish shorts and boxing gloves, orangutans trade punches and spin-kick each other in a boxing ring.

Horrifying footage shows cheering tourists drawn to the barbaric sport at a theme park called Safari World on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand.

The same company was banned from doing exactly the same thing just six years ago.

While an orangutan pretends to be knocked out of the boxing ring, others, dressed in bikinis are trained as round card girls and bell ringers.

The apes kickbox each other as a spectacle for tourists in a show lasting more than 30 minutes, before being returned to their dark cages. It is not known how many orangutans have been captured and trained by Safari World.

Animal campaigners say the apes - weighing up to 250lbs - could do themselves serious damage in the boxing ring.

They warn it is hastening the end of the orangutan, which experts claim could be extinct in the wild in several years.

Dr Grainne McEntee, head of operations at Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), said: 'It is heartbreaking that such practices still go on.

'Increasing awareness of the impact of deforestation in the Western world is crucial to helping bring this trade to an end.'

He said the continued devastation of the Bornean rainforest fuels this illegal trade in orangutans, both as pets and for use in entertainment.

In 2004, the Thai government banned Safari World from conducting these controversial shows after the centre was found to be using illegally smuggled orangutans from Indonesia.

The issue was exposed by Monkey World in Dorset and after Safari World was closed 48 orangutans were rescued and taken to a refuge in Nyaru Menteng, Indonesian Borneo.

BOS, which cares for 1,000 orangutans at the refuge, was instrumental in the successful repatriation.

'When they arrived in Nyaru Menteng they always protected their face and head whenever people tried to get closer to them, said Hardi, the assistant project manager. 'Maybe, because their trainers often beat them.

'But no longer do they cover their faces and head as they have started trusting us.'

According to the staff at the project, the orangutans are healthy and disease-free

Dr Grainne said: 'These orangutans now enjoy a semi-wild life on one of the islands close to the project.

'We will soon release some of these rehabilitated orangutans back to safe protected rainforest - a future we strive towards for all the orangutans.'

Wild orangutans are now only found in the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Sumatran species is critically endangered while the Bornean species is endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list.

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Most Smelly Sneakers Contest

MONTPELIER, Vt. -An 11-year-old girl will be leaving Vermont as the 2010 "Rotten Sneaker" champion of the United States

Trinette Robinson of Bristol, Conn., was crowned Tuesday in Montpelier at the 35th annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker contest.

The runner up was 6-year-old Madilyn Taylor of West Jordon, Utah.

The two were among nine children aged 6 to 16 competing in the contest. Trinette will get $2,500 and an expenses-paid trip to New York City.

In the contest, the kids' sneakers were judged on the sole, tongue, heel, toe, laces, eyelets, overall condition and odor.

Trinette said she got her sneakers dirty by playing hard in Girl Scout Camp and doing community walks for charity.

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Sprint Bikini in china

Mountain Bikini Sprint in China

babe Thong bikini Sprint conducted the the girls unusual contest called Biking swimwear (g string) Sprint by the Chinese Nanshan ski resort. All the participants have to wear bikinis cloths for this event. The Nanshan Ski resort is located in Beijing and it offers training for the beginners to take part in this event.

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World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Contest

The pageant aims to give opportunities for transsexuals and cross-dressers to display their beauty and talent.Some of the 25 contestants of the Beautiful Philippines beauty pageant pose backstage before the presentation to the media in Manila on October 7, 2008. The coronation night is on October 24, with five winners joining the the Amazing Philippines Theatre (APT), a theatrical show that has showcased the best of Filipino gay talent for the last seven years..

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