However, the defending British visually-impaired mixed coxed fours boat, easily booked their place in Saturday's final - winning the semi-final by 13 seconds.

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Later Pardew received a mixed reception as he took up his place in home team's dugout ahead of kick-off.

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The owners, Suzan and Yoni, form a unique Arab-Jewish partnership, but the cross-cultural business arrangement does not seem out of place in Haifa, a mixed city where Arabs and Jews mingle freely, seemingly unaware of the ethnic tensions simmering in other parts of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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Both concluded that there are significant systemic and structural problems with the Army's approach to gender integration and mixed-gender training as well as the "policies, procedures (and) reporting" methods currently in place.

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