The Faroe Islands, midway between Britain and Iceland, got in on the act and trebled their quota to 85, 000 tonnes, pushing the total catch way above the ICES limit.

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The four players in the backline must operate as a single entity, pushing up and dropping deep simultaneously to catch opponents offside and starve them of time and space.

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"In the wake of the Aaron Swartz case, we really thought that Justice would kind of catch their breath and maybe understand that they had erred in pushing these cases forward in such an aggressive manner for what are essentially pranks, " Leiderman said.

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Despite the surfeit of players pushing 40, the NBA's current elderly have a ways to go to catch the game's all-time senior citizens.

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When Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes sang about pushing surfboards through turnstiles in Misfits, or Midnight Oil's Peter Garret howled "catch the bus to Bondi, sit on the beach and wonder", they were not only conjuring a scene familiar to their '80s pub rock audience but more importantly, they captured a uniquely sunlit Australian branch of angst.

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The German manufacturer recently released a video of this self-parking wizardry -- you can catch it by following the Read link -- which shows a happy homeowner simply pushing a button on his keyfob to fire up the motor, retract the side-view mirrors, and send the car on a controlled journey to its home just inches from another luxury ride.

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We need to catch these guys up because I believe they are a little but quicker than us but we're pushing all the time.

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