Haatchi, an Anatolian shepherd dog, won first place in the Friends for Life category at the Birmingham NEC event.
In Lika, Croatia, one woman developed an idea at an event for an eco-friendly tote bag that won first place.
Competing against nine other impressive startups, Digital Tip Jar won first place.
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The Kazakhstan native was one of the favorites to win this year's Tour de France after a breakthrough performance that won him first place in the 2006 Vuelta a Espana.
The News 12 stations for Long Island, Westchester-Yonkers and the Hudson Valley won a total of six first-place awards.
For example, your company might provide an on-site masseuse to alleviate stress, but if you don't have enough control over your work to be able to manage that stress in the first place, the masseuse won't do so much for your productivity and happiness.
The South Koreans eventually won the "repeatedly interrupted match, " securing first place in their group, according to the news service.
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Chelsea won for the first time in five matches to retain third place, thrashing third-bottom Wigan 4-1 to ease the pressure on manager Rafael Benitez.
Based on the reports of those who've seen the pirated version of Clones available on the Net, the picture and sound quality are shabby at best and the technical hurdles to downloading it in the first place are sufficient that the average user won't go to the trouble.
Hiroshima, who won the Japanese championship for the first time last month to earn their place in football history, will also take part as the second system is used, with camera-based Hawk-Eye being used for Sunday's tie with the seven-time African champions.
And what of the hard-won fiscal discipline that has allowed the euro's birth in the first place?
Real is atop the league table, four points clear of second-place Barcelona with five matches to go, but Barca won the first league meeting, 3-1, in Madrid in December.
In the decider the same battle for hold took place, but this time Murray repeated the ploy which won the first fall and changed direction to twist Brown back over once more.
They've won only one of their first nine games and are already seven games back of the first place Atlanta Braves in the NL East.
Australia won the first game by 180 runs last weekend, with the third and final contest taking place on Saturday, also at Darwin's Marrara Cricket Ground.
With a win over Manchester City, the comparably tiny-payroll Spurs would claw within two points of first place an epic development for a club that hasn't won a league title since 1961.
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The club won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy during Pardew's first season in charge but finished one place outside the play-off zone despite a late-season surge.
The first-place Nationals (75-46) are barreling toward the postseason, having won 12 of their last 15 games.
This season, the Islanders won four of their first seven games, then lost four in a row and entered Monday in 13th place in the Eastern Conference.
His teams finished in first place in the Western Division seven of the 10 years he coached, and his Raiders won the Super Bowl after the 1976 season.
She won a place in Girls Aloud through reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, and their first single Sound of the Underground went straight to number one.
Despite sitting out for more than a month because of a broken jaw, the Penguins' Sidney Crosby (who won the Hart in 2007) is still the league's leading scorer, and Pittsburgh is in first place in the Eastern Conference.
Verdasco racked up 39 unforced errors and struggled with his opponent's serve throughout - his receiving points won stood at just 17% - as the Czech booked his place in the quarters for the first time at the Australian Open.
The final will take place on either 23 or 24 May and returns to Edinburgh for the first time since Toulouse won there in 2005.
Rusedski won his service game but Henman took the first of his three match points with a service winner to secure his place in the second round at Dubai for the first time in three years.
But won't this create for the new company the same problem that Justice claims is motivating this deal in the first place?
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