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The air-conditioned holiday home includes a flat-screen TV, ironmeet the definition of "air pollutants". In order to qualify as "air pollutants", the emissions must "reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare". In 2009, the EPA issued an endangerment finding which referenced numerous scientific assessments including the IPCC report, and concluded that "greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated both to endanger public health and to endanger public welfare". This conclusion is strongly supported by the body of scientific evidence.

As a consequence of this endangerment finding, the EPA established a timeline to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions, starting with the largest sources such as power plants and oil refineries in 2011. There are now two ways to prevent the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations:

Congress can pass legislation which establishes a different system to control


greenhouse gas emissions, thus superceeding the EPA.

The EPA endangerment finding can be overturned if it's determined that greenhouse gas emissions no longer endanger public health or welfare.

U.S. Congress has attempted to pass climate legislation which includes a carbon pricing mechanism (cap and trade system) several times thus far, but such proposals have rarely gotten more than a couple of Republican votes, and have always failed. Most recently in 2009, the House of Representatives managed to pass a climate bill. Unfortunately we were reminded that the USA is a republic, not a democracy, as Republicans exploited archaic Senate rules and their 41% minority to filibuster (obstruct) similar legislation which was supported by the majority, and it never even made it to a vote in the Senate.

In short, Republicans aren'tto be fair, there are a few Democrats from fossil fuel dependent regions which also support this bill) put very little effort into justifying this legislation. They called two climate scientist "skeptics" to testify before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, and in a sign of the meaninglessness of the hearing, they also called on Donald Roberts to rant about DDT regulations. The "skeptics'" testimony was little more than a litany of long-debunked climate myths, but the Congressmen in the hearing didn't seem very interested in hearing what the scientists had to say anyway. At the end of the hearing, Democrat Congressman Markey wittily summed up the proceedings:

"Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to a bill that overturns the scientific finding that pollution


will of the people. We would still have racial segregation in the South if your opinion of democracy were followed through on.

"Americans have had a long history of confronting the brutal facts and changing accordingly when the evidence and the message are clear (slavery, segregation, women's rights, tobacco, gay rights, isolationism, etc.). "

No no sir, certain americans have a history of confronting these brutal issues. Certain americans learned long before the rest of americans that slavery was wrong and that women and gays deserved equal rights. Are you implying that we should be satisfied with slow progress because "that's how it works in america"? I'm sorry but there are far too many african american people who got beat up while waiting for their rights to kick in foras well), then your point may be valid.

As the article says, "Nevertheless, the mere existence of the bill is an ominous sign of the Republican war on climate science, in which they believe they can overturn scientific evidence based on nothing more than the ignorant opinions of a few politicians."

Unfortunately, this blatantly anti-science attitude has long lurked in the Republican Party, and has now become fossilized in it thanks to the Bush Administration. This was, after all, the administration that made political interference in government and government sponsored science the norm.

Your idealized picture of the American personality is quite false. Why, now I have to play the part of the man from Missouri and ask YOu for the evidence for your stance: don't tell me, show me that


and how, sitting on the beach, he commanded the tide to stop coming in so it wouldn't wet his royal personage. This was presented as an act of arrogance by the mighty. The more nuanced story is subtler and paints Cnut as being a bit more rational than the majority of Republicans...

Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler, tells how Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, butThe act of playing Gary's Mod as a substitute to tripping on acid or playing while on acid.

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My brother Gacid Trips to some weird dancing guy with a briefcase, a traffic cone on his head, and a couple of headcrabs playing twister with a Hello Kitty doll and a bazooka while submerged in apple sauce suspended 10,000 ft in the air shortly before a ROFLcopter did a barrel roll and annihilates his character.


National Employment Law Project senior fellow and former OSHA chief of staff explained to Civil Eats of Tyson’s recent OHSA fine.

In the summer of 2015, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a California-based nonprofit, sent an undercover investigator to a Tyson slaughter plant in Carthage, Texas. As an ALDF letter described, the investigator was instructed to hang live chickens by their feet onto fast moving shackles at a rate of more than 25 chickens per minute.

“The birds would often defecate out of fear, and feces would then get on her skin and clothes and in her eyes,” the letter stated. The “inadequate” eyewear provided to her by Tyson “failed to prevent the chicken feces, dirt, and chicken dander from getting into her eyes through the sides.” A few weeksdo Mantena was created, comprising the entire region of São Mateus do Sul, with the participation of the district of Lajão, which became the municipality of Conselheiro Pena.

Eleven years after the creation of the town, the Governor of the State, José de Magalhães Pinto, issued a document (Decree No. 1,058), creating the Municipality of Mantena. On January 4, 1944, the first mayor, José Fernandes Filho (Fernandinho) was appointed by the Governor. On December 30, 1944, by Decree 1291 was installed the Comarca de Mantena, being its first Osvaldino Judge of Paula Salazar. The municipalities of Mendes Pimentel, Itabirinha de Mantena, Central de Minas, São João do Manteninha and Nova Belém belong to the District of Mantena.

The municipality began to experience an economic and geographic expansion of the largest,


President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski - all key players in the Ukraine crisis - who are due to meet for lunch on June 6 to mark D-day.

Uneasy calm in Ukraine's east

Some calm returned to Ukraine’s east on Wednesday, a day after government troops, in one of their biggest shows of force to date, killed as many as 50 pro-Russia separatists in the country’s restive Donetsk region.

The operation, which was centered on retaking control of Donetsk International Airport seized by rebels earlier, came after Ukrainians, in a poll on Sunday, overwhelming elected pro-Western chocolatier and former foreign minister Petro Poroshenko as their new president.

The assault, following weeks of restraint, filled morgues in the region’s eponymous capital with bodies of rebel gunmen, somewith limbs missing.

Pro-Moscow gunmen have declared the city of a million people capital of an independent "Donetsk People's Republic" they proclaimed following a referendum condemned by both Kiev and the West.

Some battles between separatists and Ukrainian government forces Wednesday in the region of Luhansk.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported that the fighting broke out when separatist fighters tried to overrun a Ukrainian National Guard unit in the city of Luhansk.

The ministry said there were losses on both sides but provided no casualty figures.
Obama blasts Russia, praises allies

President Obama on Wednesday again condemned Russia for its “aggression” against Ukraine and praised Western allies for their unified response to the crisis.

In a speech on global challenges and America’s role in the world, Obama said that Moscow’s posturing brought back memories of “the


on the United States and the EU for the turmoil in Ukraine.

“The people [of Ukraine] are in essence being pushed into the abyss of fratricidal war,” Russian news agencies quoted Lavrov as saying at a ministry reception attended by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called on Russia's Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to block the border to Ukraine to prevent separatist fighters from entering the country.

He said that if Russian influence was eliminated, the crisis could be ended swiftly.Turing Apples featuring Garosu Girls! November 27 2013

Hong Kong is full of local creativity and talent. We are very fortunate to have come across local indie rock band Turing apples. The musical love child of Hans, Ali, Nicola, Lat and Rafe's, together they have written melodic and catchy original songs. They are the sound of all the Garosu Girls' videos, more to be revealed soon. In return, we support their performances with jewelry for their lead singer, Niki. (We hope to dress the male members of the band soon too)


quite effective in using their political power. As was the case in the United States, they were protected from the worst fallout from their bad lending decisions through government bailouts.

The story of Greece, like the Wall Street bailout in the United States, can certainly be described as a "crony capitalism smashup." It only fits the bill of a "socialist smashup" in Will's imagination.

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I was in Athens, Greece in 1992 visiting with a fellow MBA schoolmate. He was then working in marketing with a large US corporation. I asked him then how Greece as a country was doing? He said that if the wealthy would pay their share of taxes, it would be a lot better.
The IMF and the World Bank ...

Guest - Guestdamage the standing of the United States in the region.

Remarkably the piece did not include the views of anyone who had a different opinion. This is remarkable because we know from the leaked chapters that there have been important objections to at least parts of the TPP from most of the countries in the deal. For example, all the countries disagreed with much of what the United States was pressing in the form of stronger and longer patent protection for prescription drugs. Australia objected so strongly to the investor state dispute settlement mechanism that they indicated that this provision would not apply to the country. (It's not clear that this is final.)

Surely the NYT could have found someone in these countries who thinks that negatives, like higher drug


prices and an extra-judicial legal system that can over-ride laws passed at the national and sub-national level, over-ride any gains from the modest tariff reductions in the TPP. For some reason the NYT opted not to present the views of any opponents of the TPP, wrongly implying to its readers that everyone believes that the failure of the TPP would be a serious negative.

The piece also included the wonderful line:

"The White House and its Republican free-trade allies in Congress are searching for ways to revive a bill that would extend aid to workers displaced by global trade agreements."

The phrase "free-trade" is not accurate and does not belong in this piece.

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saurabh: My point is general, not an argument in favor of the TPP. The US drugper capita GDP in the United States and Mexico post-NAFTA.

Developing countries like Mexico are supposed to have more rapid growth than rich countries like the United States. Instead the gap has increased by about five percentage points since NAFTA as growth in the U.S. has exceeded growth in Mexico since NAFTA took effect. (The chart shows growth in international dollars, not adjusted for inflation.)

Brooks also seems to be inventive in his assessment of patterns of immigration. According to the Migration Policy Institute the number of Mexican immigrants to the United States rose from 4.3 million in 1990 to 11.7 million by 2010.

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"David Brooks warns of economic collapse and war without TPP". Now wait just a minute here. We did not have TPP during the Bush


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Today I’m going to introduce you to the possibly most beautiful alga. Its name is Claudea elegans, which I adapted as “elegant claudea” to serve as a popular name.

I first became aware of the existence of such an organism in my childhood when I saw a drawing of it in an encyclopedia. It had a very beautiful shape, a nice pink color and a cute name. But it was simply depicted among several other algae on that page and besides the drawing and the name, nothing else was said.

Drawing of Claudea elegans from Phycologia Australica.

Unfortunately, there is not much information available online on the elegant claudea. It is a marine species found in Australia, Brazil, India, Pakistan and probably many other tropical waters around thefor rocks. Maybe I’ll talk about it later in another post.

At first I would present the whole system here, but the post would become too big. Therefore, I decided to present animals and plants separately, but again there was too much to talk on animals. So, this post will deal only with mammals and birds. Other groups will be presented in subsequent posts. See amphibians and fish here, insects here and worms here.

Animals were defined by Linnaeus as having an organized, living and sentient body and being able to move freely. They were classified in six classes: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta and Vermes.

1. Mammalia (Mammals)

Heart with two auricles and two ventricles; warm red blood.Lungs breathing reciprocally.Jaw incumbent, covered.Penis entering in viviparous, lactating.Senses: tongue, nostrils, touch, eyes, ears.Covering:


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Alarick Brandon is the powerful wizard who operates The Keep, a refuge for magical people fleeing the persecution of the Ministry. A bitter realist, Alarick knows it’s only a matter of time until the Ministry succeeds in eradicating magic from the world—and exterminating all magical beings—so he has been careful to avoid any personal involvement with the people who pass through his sanctuary…

Cute Poodles Sweet Old Ladies & Hugs: Veterinary Tales

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Slain San Diego police officer Jeremy Henwood was remembered at a tearful memorial service Friday as "a true warrior who stood in harm's way with us, and now he's fallen."

Police Chaplain Herb Smith told 3,000 members of law enforcement, numerous public officials and members of the San Diego public assembled at the Rock Church that, "our tears will water the ground of his memory" but that Henwood's life will serve as an example of bravery and commitment to public service.

Henwood, 36, died early Sunday of wounds suffered Saturday afternoon when he was shot while sitting in his patrol car in the City Heights neighborhood.

His assailant was killed moments later by police when he refused to surrender and reached for a shotgun, the same


weapon used to attack Henwood. No motive for the attack on Henwood has been revealed.

Henwood, a captain in the Marine reserves, had just rejoined the Police Department after a deployment to Afghanistan. He had also made two combat deployments to Iraq.

Police Capt. Lawrence McKinney, commander of the Mid-City Division where Henwood served, said that he "went boldly into harm's way, knowing full well that he might not come back someday."

McKinney, his voice breaking with emotion, urged the crowd to remember Henwood's courage rather than "the cowardly act of one lost soul," a reference to Dejon Marquee White, 23, Henwood's assailant.

The Rev. Miles McPherson, senior pastor at the Rock Church, said that while police officers and San Diego residents are mourning Henwood's killing, they should know that they willsee Henwood again in the afterlife.

"It's winter now, but springtime is coming," he said. "Jeremy is gone but the story goes on ... You will meet him again."

A procession of hundreds of police cars from multiple agencies led to the church. Among the public officials in attendance were Gov. Jerry Brown, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, and Dist. Atty. Bonnie Dumanis.

Police Chief Bill Lansdowne said that in the investigation that came after the shooting, police found on the surveillance tape of a local McDonald's restaurant images of Henwood buying a hamburger for a timid 10-year-old boy -- an act of kindness that exemplified Henwood.

Henwood "challenged himself every day" to protect his community and nation, Lansdowne said. "God bless Jeremy," he added.

Henwood is survived


by his parents, Beverly and Robbie Henwood, of San Antonio; a brother, Robbie Jr.; and sister, Emily. Born in Canada, Henwood grew up in Texas, attended the University of Texas and was an enlisted Marine before becoming an officer.

Emily Henwood, between sobs, said that, "I am really proud to be here and to see his extended family ... I think it goes without saying that Jeremy was a great man and a hero to his country."

Looking at the flag-draped casket, she said, "I didn't say it enough to him but 'Jeremy, I love you and I always will.' "

Burial is set for a national cemetery in San Antonio, where Henwood's parents reside.

Henwood's parents _ his mother is a physician, his father a dentist _ agreed to have hisorgans used for transplant and two kidney patients were recipients.

"Even in death, Jeremy was saving lives," said his brother, Robbie Jr.

Photo: Standing with civilians holding flags, San Diego police patrol officers salute the funeral procession for police Officer Jeremy Henwood on Friday as it moves along Friars Road en route to a memorial service at Rock Church in Point Loma. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times


Square now lets sellers accept Bitcoin on their own storefronts

The leading fuel card company in the United Kingdom is in danger of falling from its pedestal as a result of an apparently poorly executed systems migration. Fleet News reports now that several new fuel card providers are hurrying to enter the market to take advantage of the current dissatisfaction of AllStar customers.

Georgia-based Fleetcor Technologies Inc. acquired UK-based AllStar Business Solutions Limited from the BNP Paribas-owned Arval Group in December of 2011, knowing that it would have to migrate Allstar’s 40,000 fuel card customers (comprising about a million cardholders) onto the Fleetcor technology platform.

Fleetcor itself maintains that many of the customers were migrated successfully, leaving only the larger, more complex relationships to be migrated in 2013. At roughly thetenured teachers – were transferred to desk jobs at district offices located inside schools. Forty percent of those transferred suspects were repeat offenders.

Problem teachers, who sometimes get away with a sexual offense, are surreptitiously transferred to other schools – a practice known as “passing the garbage.”

BOE President Ninfa Segarra was devastated by the outcome of The Post report.

She said – to her knowledge – no agency has ever bothered to analyze sex abuse inside city schools.

“My gut reaction as a mother is that that number is pretty high and it puts a lot of kids in danger,” she said of the number of repeat offenders working with children.

Many blame the United Federation of Teachers because it vigorously defends its accused members. One union source said the UFT is


teachers, some of who tutored and later tried to seduce students through the Internet, made up nearly 10 percent of the offenders. Special Ed teachers also made up 10 percent of the offenders.

The average victim is a 15-year-old female high school student in Brooklyn, where 36 percent of the abuse cases occurred. The average age of an offender is 39.

Seventy-five percent of the victims are girls.

Nearly 20 percent of the offenders are homosexuals and in most of these cases, the attack led to sexual relationship with the student.

When these numbers are added to another 347 substantiated sex abuse cases that have been probed by the Board of Education’s Office of Special Investigation between January 2000 and July 20, 2001, the statistics become even more staggering.

When The Post addedLady Gaga has posted an Instagram photo that appears to show her sporting a brand new tattoo that honours her Grammys collaboration with Metallica.

The pop star posted the image on Sunday, which shows a huge moth with a skull on its body, paying tribute to the Metallica track 'Moth Into Flame' from the band's 2016 record Hardwired... To Self Destruct.

Earlier Gaga teased the performance with a photo of her with the band, referring to them as MetalliGa.

Her show at the 59th Grammy Awards follows her high-wire, drone-assisted Super Bowl halftime show.

Also among those set to perform are A Tribe Called Quest, Anderson .Paak, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Daft Punk and Ed Sheeran.

David Bowie and Beyonce have already picked up a few awards - Bowie posthumously winning his first


musical Grammy for 'Blackstar'.

While the late artist had won a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2006 and one for a video in 1985, this is the first Grammy awarded to him for an individual album or song.Asset Management in Minneapolis.

As Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group in Harrison, New York, puts it, a small bump in gross domestic product wont necessarily move the needle for a large-cap company. And compared with their large-cap counterparts, small-cap stocks are more sensitive to U.S. economic developments. The U.S. recovery has been stronger compared with that in other economic zones, such as many areas of Europe and some emerging markets, including China. Companies listed on the Russell 2000 garner only 16 percent of their sales outside the U.S., compared with 35 percent for companies in the S&P 500, according to Chalupnik.

Another reason for small-cap stocks strong run is investors renewed appetite for risk. The asset class, relative to large-cap stocks, historically has offered higher returns along with


The trial of two men accused of gang sexually assaulting a woman in a Little Italy bar began Monday with the Crown telling the jury the attack was caught on security video — and also that the two accused plied the victim with alcohol and encouraged her to snort cocaine.

In its opening statement in Ontario Superior Court, the Crown said it would present video from eight cameras inside the former College Street Bar on Dec. 14, 2016. The prosecution said the video shows two men repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman who passed out at times after she was given drinks, and was propped up at a bar to inhale lines of cocaine.

"It is important that you see the entire interaction between [the woman] and these two men thebe shut down.

It was sold later that year and now operates under new ownership and a new name.

The former College Street Bar, the site of an alleged gang sexual assault, was shut down in Jan. 2017 when charges were laid against owner Gavin MacMillan and bar manager Enzo De Jesus Carrasco. (Lauren Pelley/CBC News)

Nathanson told the jury the victim had met a friend on the night of the alleged assault, who was taking a bartending course at the College Street Bar.

The prosecution is alleging that after the course was over the woman's friend left, and she was alone in the bar with MacMillan and De Jesus Carrasco. Nathanson said the video will show both men "serving [the woman] three drinks over the course of about the next 12


minutes."

The Crown said MacMillan then left the bar for about 45 minutes, leaving the woman alone with De Jesus Carrasco. Nathanson told the jury the woman began to show "increasing signs of intoxication ... Her walk and balance appear to become more wobbly."

The crown told the jury the video will show De Jesus Carrasco pulling the woman over to the bar and slapping "her 10 times on the face — to which she barely seems to react." He then allegedly positioned her head on the bar over what appeared to be cocaine.

After MacMillan returned, the prosecution alleges, both men engaged in sexual acts with the woman, who "appears to be physically overpowered, and the sexual activity is forceful and rough."

The Crown told the jury in addition to thebar surveillance video, it appeared that one or both men recorded the sexual acts with their cellphones.

The Crown said it will present evidence the woman was disoriented and doesn't remember much of what happened throughout the night.

The prosecution alleges she got into a taxi with De Jesus Carrasco believing he was going to take her to where she was staying, but instead he took her to his apartment "where he took her inside and forced sexual intercourse on her."

Nathanson told court the woman eventually left and a friend called 911 so she could report the assault. The woman also went to the hospital where a sexual assault nurse documented "extensive bruising and injuries, particularly to her inner thighs and vaginal area."

Blood and urine samples revealed the presence of


corporation an installation floater insurance policy issued by Aetna Casualty and Surety Company (Aetna) listing Dixie as a named insured.
In a subcontract drafted by Dixie which incorporated the terms of the general contract and the conditions attached thereto, Dixie engaged Starr Electric Company, Inc. (Starr), to perform the electrical work and supply the materials required by the renovation project at a cost of $250,000. Dixie then obtained through Corroon & Black a performance bond and a payment bond issued by Federal Insurance Company (Federal). Starr was insured under its own installation floater policy and a property package policy issued 18 years earlier by Aetna and sold by Corroon & Black.
On January 13, 1987, during the course of the renovation, the Cohen building was destroyed by fire, and theproject was abandoned. At that point, Starr had completed most of the work contemplated by the subcontract.
In response to a fire-damage claim filed by Dixie, Aetna refused coverage and filed a suit for declaratory judgment against Dixie, Corroon & Black, the owner, the project lender, and others. Aetna asked the court to declare that its policy with Dixie did not cover the Cohen project. The suit was compromised and settled out of court by the parties.
On April 10, 1987, three months after the fire, Starr asked Dixie for a copy of the payment bond, "if any". Dixie did not respond to Starr's request. Starr then filed a claim under its own policies with Aetna, and Aetna paid Starr $201,280.56 for loss of its work and the electrical materials


Brooks tops Biershenk at The Budweiser

Joe Brooks won The Budweiser Classic with a birdie on the third playoff hole.

It took three extra holes for Joe Brooks to do something he had never done before.

He won a stroke play championship with a playoff win in The Budweiser Classic at Boscobel.

On the third playoff hole Brooks dropped a 9-iron shot just two feet from the pin on the par-3 165 yard tenth hole.

The Franklin, North Carolina golfer watched as Biershenk missed his birdie attempt and then rolled in the two footer for his first win.

“I was more nervous over that 2-footer than I have been on any 2-footer I have had in 30 years of playing golf,” said the winner.

Brooks who has a lawn care business in Franklin was awith a birdie on the 15th hole.

He parred-in to finish with a second round 70 to match his first round score.

Biershenk’s stood at 3-under par for the tournament going to the final hole.

On number 18 Biershenk pushed his drive well off the fairway and had to take a drop from the hazard.

The defending champion went from being ahead by a stroke to possibly losing the tournament by a shot. Biershenk needed a 17 foot putt for a bogey to drop to 2-under par, but still have a chance to win in a playoff.

Both golfers finished at 140 for the tournament and went to the tenth hole for sudden death. They each parred the hole the first time, but the second time they played the hole Brooks had an


stroke play event.

The winner came to the tournament in South Carolina with a group of 15 golfers from his part of North Carolina. After the win his fellow Tarheel golfers congratulated him and snapped pictures with the winner and his trophy.

“I will be able to find a place to keep this. I’m pretty happy to finally get a win in a tournament like this one,” he concluded.

After Brooks and Biershenk, Oyervides, B.J. Hill and Geoffrey Bell all finished in a tie for third at 1-under par 141.

Joe Brooks from Franklin, NC won his first individual stroke play championship with his playoff win at the Budweiser Classic.

The Budweiser has been the largest weekend tournament played in the Upstate each year. The field is divided into two shotgun starts toalso shot it.

Other details were also absent, including the name and age of the female and the name of the two officers involved.

In the 45-second video, the female’s shoulders are held against a police cruiser by an officer while her sneakers dangle above the ground. She carries a bag and a green notebook as the officer holding her says, “Yes you did. I saw it.”

The incident happened at 7 and T streets NW, near Howard University and across from the Howard Theater, said the Twitter user who published out the tweet.

At one point, the officer puts her down and the two, along with the second officer, begin talking to each other.

The publication of the video comes at a fraught time between the police and critics of excessive, often


DURANT -- The fifth-annual Southeastern Oklahoma State Gridiron Golf Shoot-Out is set for Saturday, July 11.

The four-person scramble will be held at Silverado Golf Course with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m. and a shotgun start slated for 9 a.m.

"The event is just around the corner," said co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Joe Jones. "We are excited to have so many players coming back to support the program and it's not too late for you to join us."

"The Shootout is the football program's major fundraiser but the highlight of the event is getting former players back together and giving Southeastern the chance to interact with our local fans," said head football coach Ray Richards. "It's a win-win for everyone and we hope this year's event is the biggest405-974-2145 or tevans@uco.edu.

Robbins signs with ECU men's golfADA - Dakota Robbins, a two-year high school district champion, has signed a letter of intent to play golf at East Central University for the 2009-10 season, it was announced Thursday by ECU golf coach Danny Key.

The TexAnns, who have claimed the last three Super Region Four championship titles, finished tied for sixth at the 2009 Division II National Championships after back-to-back fifth places finishes in 2007 and 2008.

Strickland Makes First Pro OutingDUNEDIN, FLORIDA – Former Texas A&M-Kingsville pitcher Sam Strickland made his professional debut on June 29 when he started for the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays against the GCL Tigers in a 3-2 win.

Strickland pitched into the fourth inning going three complete innings before being pulled after one batter


in the fourth. He allowed two hits, one run and walked three while striking out three batters. He struck out the first batter he faced.

Strickland was drafted in the 25th round by the Toronto Blue Jays this year and was then assigned to the GCL Blue Jays, their Rookie League affiliate stationed in Dunedin, Florida where they play at the Bobby Mattick Training Center at Englebert Complex.Follow Strickland's Minor League Career by clicking this linkABOUT

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is increasing. This shift in power could mean billions of dollars at stake for brands who are not aligning their values with the younger generation.

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A tie of paleolithic cave art! Now here's where it gets really interesting. According to some religious believers, the explanation for the world appearing to be millions of years old is that when God created it 5778 years ago, He created it fully formed, with the appearance of looking old. This approach, known as prochronic theory, has been advanced by people such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, one of the commentators to the previous post, and in most detail by the the Christian preacher Phillip Henry


was supposed to cover seven states and four provinces. Most dropped out over the years.

Since Trump’s election last fall, Brown has dramatically ramped up his efforts, positioning California as both the focal point of resistance to Trump’s environmental policies and the country’s leading force for climate action.

He has also emerged as a persistent environmental diplomat. Brown has badgered foreign officials to join his Under2 Coalition, a group of national and subnational governments dedicated to keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius in this century. The coalition now boasts more than 170 jurisdictions worldwide, with Canada, Mexico and Sweden among the newest members.

Indeed, the timing of Trump’s long-awaited announcement on the Paris accord may have played into Brown’s hands. The governor is scheduled to fly to China on Fridayfor different age groups, and, since 2002, has paid a base capitation amount of \$25 per expected visit per enrolee (there are also adjustments each year to maintain the value of the subsidies). At first, Access PHOs were funded at higher capitation rates than Interim PHOs. Since 2003, the government has provided further funding, gradually increasing the capitation payment rates to Interim PHOs for particular groups in the population to the rates paid for those in Access PHOs. New funding was provided to Interim PHOs, for those aged 6--17 years of age (from 1 October 2003), those aged 65 and over (from 1 July 2004), those aged 18--24 from 1 July 2005, those aged 45--64 from 1 July 2006, and those aged 25--44 from 1 July 2007.

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do extra work) and maintain the value of their businesses. As a result, each new allocation of public funding is likely to result in policy debate over the balance between maintaining or reducing patient fees and rewarding professionals for their contribution to New Zealanders\' health.

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This article is focused on the period from June 2001 until mid -- 2005. It provides data on fees and use of services covered by:

• the year before the first PHO was established in July 2002

• the roll out of new funding for Access PHOs as they were established after July 2002

• the roll out of new funding to Interim PHOs as they were established, and

• the roll out of new funding to Interim PHOs for those aged 6--17 in October 2003 and thoseBetween 2004 and 2007, he worked for the Treasury for three months of the year. In 2008, he worked for the Ministry of Health for three months. At the Treasury, he advised on primary care policy, but the views expressed here do not reflect the views of the Treasury or the Ministry of Health.

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JC was involved in the design and management of the study, analysis and interpretation of findings, and preparation of this manuscript. NM helped to interpret the findings and draft the manuscript. BG was responsible for data collection and statistical analyses and provided comments on drafts of the article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The researchers gratefully acknowledge the funding of this research by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, the Ministry


Coming Up: Bin Laden Documents To Go Online

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was frustrated with "regional jihadi groups and his seeming inability to exercise control over their actions" in the last few years before he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs.

That's "the most compelling story to be told," according to an analysis of some documents seized from bin Laden's Pakistani compound in the May 2011 raid that ended with his death, West Point's Combating Terrorism Center reported today.

That center this morning posted online its analysis and a small selection from the 6,000 or so pages of material taken from bin Laden's compound. The 17 declassified documents (about 197 pages when translated into English) are messages composed from 2006 to 2011 by bin Laden as well as some ofhis lieutenants. Because they were put on electronic storage devices it can't be known for sure if the messages were ever delivered.

As we reported earlier, CNN's Peter Bergen, who reviewed several hundred of the documents while researching his book Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad, says they:

"Paint a portrait of a man who was simultaneously an inveterate micromanager but was also someone almost delusional in his belief that his organization could still force a change in American foreign policies in the Muslim world if only he could get another big attack organized inside the United States — something some of his subordinates were quite skeptical about given al-Qaida's diminished capabilities."

We're updating this post with highlights and materials. Be sure to click "refresh" to


their cars because many of them got targeted while they were meeting on the road. They also should not enter the market in their cars."

They only should move on cloudy days, bin Laden says.

Update at 11:10 a.m. ET. "Mistakes Have Been Made":

In a document written in the spring of 2010, bin Laden insists that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Muslims were "filled ... with sympathy toward their fellow Mujahidin, as it became patently clear that the Mujahidin are the vanguard and standard-bearers of the Islamic community in fighting the Crusader-Zionist alliance."

But, he added, "on the other hand, after the war expanded and the Mujahidin spread out into many regions, some of the brothers became totally absorbed in fighting our local enemies, and more mistakes have been madethere. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path."

Update At 10:55 a.m. ET. ABC News Might Be "One Of The Best Channels" To Deliver Al-Qaida's Message:

A document written by Adam Gadahn, an American who has acted as a spokesman for al-Qaida, offers thoughts about whether bin Laden might want to issue a message on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks.

Gadahn gives his thoughts about the U.S. TV networks — Fox News "lacks neutrality," CNN "seems to be in cooperation with the government more than the others," MSNBC "may be good and neutral,"


put Muslims in harm's way and to "instead focus on the United States, 'our desired goal.' "

Right at 9 a.m., documents began showing up on the center's website — but clicks on English translations led to error messages. And now, we're not seeing any documents on the site.

But The Associated Press is writing that "in letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West."and imprinting member are interposed in the nip such that the top surface of the cellulosic web is in contacting relationship with the periphery of the first roll. In the nip, the backside of the imprinting member is in contacting relationship with the top surface of a capillary dewatering member while the back surface of the capillary dewatering member is in contacting relationship with the periphery of the second roll. The nip compresses the paper web, the imprinting member, and the capillary dewatering member. Water expelled from the web passes through the imprinting member to the capillary dewatering member forming a hydraulic connection therebetween.


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There are unplayable deliveries, and unspeakably bad shots, but most dismissals fall somewhere between those extremes. Sometimes, there are mitigating factors that muddy even the apparently extreme ones.

Take Josh Hazlewood's dismissal of Ajinkya Rahane in the fourth innings in Perth: a full, wide ball, a flat-bat drive, hit hard but in the air, straight to point.

Watch the side-on replay, and look where Rahane's feet are. His initial movement is back, and at one point his back foot is almost halfway back in the crease while his front foot is on it. Then his front foot moves forward, a fraction late, and he only manages to press it down about six inches in front of the crease. His weight is leaning back as he plays the shot, ensuring he'llbehind him and watched this one better, judged its length better, moved forward more decisively, and either driven it along the ground or left it alone, in either case making a more informed choice.

Rahane wasn't in that sort of form, he had been searching for it for most of the last two years. In that period, he had gone from being India's most consistent batsman across conditions - with centuries in six of the eight countries he had batted in, 90s in the other two, and an average above 50 both home and away - to being a maker of useful small scores rather than match-defining hundreds. His Test average, over those two years, had dropped from the low 50s to the low 40s.

In the previous few months,


on India's tours of England and Australia, Rahane had seemed to be getting close to something approaching his best self, but he never quite appeared to get close enough.

Rediscovering form, of course, isn't entirely up to the batsman. As in football, as Jean-Paul Sartre famously observed, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. England and Australia did everything in their power to complicate Rahane's search for form.

Ajinkya Rahane watches his edge fall short of Alastair Cook Getty Images

On his first tours of the two countries, Rahane had been a far more confident and assertive presence at the crease. He judged length supremely well on the 2014-15 Australia tour, where he scored 399 runs at an average of 57.00 and a strike rate of 63.53. Onthat tour, he scored 70 off 72 balls when the fast bowlers pitched it full, as per ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball data, and 71 off 53 when they pitched it short. He treated the Australian fast bowlers with respect when they bowled the in-between lengths, scoring 110 off 279 balls pitching either on a good length or short of good length.

These numbers showed what made the 26-year old Rahane such an exciting talent. He had the defence, and he had all the shots, off front and back foot. He knew when to defend and when to play those shots. He scored hundreds at Lord's and the MCG, lofting James Anderson back over his head and tennis-swatting Mitchell Johnson wide of mid-on.

The 30-year old Rahane still had the same component parts,


but he wasn't seeing the ball quite so well, and his eyes, hands and feet weren't working quite as smoothly as a collective unit. And the bowlers were making him work a lot harder for his runs.

Let's begin in England. At the start of that tour, Rahane had looked utterly bereft of confidence. At Edgbaston, he was the picture of uncertainty, his dismissals in both innings the result of being trapped in no-man's land: between leaving and playing in the first, between cutting and punching in the second. At Lord's, he was twice out feeling for the ball, hanging his bat out limply, away from his body, neither attacking nor defending.

Lengths England's quicks bowled to Rahane ESPNcricinfo Ltd

By then, Rahane had made 132 runs in his last 12Test innings, at an average of 11.00. This stretch included a horror home series against Sri Lanka at the end of 2017, in which he averaged 3.40, and a tour of South Africa where he spent two out of three Tests on the bench.

The runs began to flow after Lord's, though not in the kind of comic-book burst of cathartic hundreds that would have made this a simpler story to tell. Rahane was still working his way back into form, and was therefore a more circumspect batsman than he had been the last time he had visited these shores. In 2014, he had scored 85 off 83 balls when the fast bowlers had pitched it full. In 2018, he made 57 off 87.

And while he was scoring a


little quicker against bowling that was even slightly short - his strike-rate against short and short-of-good-length deliveries was up from 44.44 to 53.85 - England's quicks adjusted and bowled markedly fuller lengths to him. From 55.44 in 2014, the percentage of balls they landed on a full or good length rose to 77.80 in 2018.

In particular, they bowled a lot more on a traditional good length, up from 36.96% in 2014 to 59.75% in 2018, and it paid off. Five of Rahane's seven dismissals to pace on this tour were off good-length deliveries. He had been dismissed seven times by the quicks in 2014 too, but those dismissals were distributed fairly evenly among the lengths - he was out twice to full balls, twice to length balls, twiceto short-of-good-length balls, and once to a short ball.

Rahane found runs harder to come by against the quicks in 2018 than in 2014, his strike-rate dropping from 45.87 to 42.32, but he was also marginally harder to dismiss, getting out once in 69 balls, roughly, compared to once in 66 balls in 2014. By the end of the series, his average against pace (29.14) was, in fact, just a run short of what it had been in 2014 (30.14).

The big difference came against spin. In 2014, England were only just beginning to turn Moeen Ali from a part-time offspinner to a bowling allrounder. The Moeen of 2018 could still be a frustrating figure in subcontinental conditions, where the pitches were supposed to help him prosper, but he was


a genuine threat at home. He also benefitted from made-to-order conditions in one of the two Tests he played in the 2018 series, in Southampton.

Rahane v Moeen in 2018 was a markedly different contest to Rahane v Moeen in 2014. In 2014, Rahane scored 83 off 127 against Moeen while being dismissed twice. In 2018, he scored a mere 19 runs off 95 balls, and was out twice.

Rahane vs Moeen Ali Tour Runs Balls wickets Average Strike rate 2014 83 127 2 41.50 65.35 2018 19 95 2 9.50 20.00

Those numbers, however, are a little deceptive: 72 of the 95 balls Rahane faced from Moeen came during the fourth innings of the Southampton Test, when he scored 51 and added 101 high-quality runs with Virat Kohli after theycame together at 22 for 3, in an ultimately failed chase of 245. Moeen was England's biggest threat in that innings, with his turn and bounce out of the rough. Kohli continued to try to drive him out of the rough, as only he can, while Rahane trusted his defence, and the two of them kept Moeen wicketless for 16.4 overs before he finally broke through. The target was just too far out of reach on that surface, but for those 42.2 overs of their partnership, Kohli and Rahane made India believe.

Lengths Australia's quicks bowled to Rahane ESPNcricinfo Ltd

The story of Rahane v Australia was similar, except that he began the tour in better nick than he had in England. In the last three Tests in England, and


two home Tests against West Indies, he had made three fifties in five Tests, and averaged 41.25.

He may, therefore, have prospered had Australia's pacers bowled full to him as often as England's did. But they didn't - from 17.52% in 2014-15, the percentage of full deliveries they bowled to Rahane dropped to 10.28. Their short-ball percentage also fell, from 12.90 to 9.09. On pitches that gave them more margin for error than the featherbeds of 2014-15 did, and against a batsman who wasn't quite in the same kind of form, they bowled better lengths more frequently.

Meanwhile, their spinner, Nathan Lyon, was now a world-class force. He still had the classic loop and dip that defined his bowling in 2014-15, but he also had greater knowledge of how toTwice, he was also out to unplayable deliveries - a shortish Lyon offbreak that crept through at shin height at the MCG; a snorter of a Mitchell Starc bouncer, from left-arm around, at the SCG.

And so it was that Rahane ended his tours of England and Australia with these numbers: an average of 27.88, four fifties, no hundreds. They don't look great at first glance, but don't forget the key contributions he made along the way. His partnerships with Kohli at Trent Bridge and the Ageas Bowl were some of the highest-quality passages of play of the England series, featuring great know-how and purity of technique. In the second innings in Adelaide, he helped Cheteshwar Pujara shut the door in Australia's face, and if his dismissal off a


reverse-sweep looked ugly, it was a shot played when India were looking for quick runs. On an unpredictable Perth pitch, his 51 could have - particularly if India hadn't played four No. 11s - helped India take a first-innings lead, and who knows what might have happened thereon?

In any case, given that his career probably hit its lowest point at Lord's, Rahane's tours of England and Australia begin to look less like a disaster and more like the first stirrings of a batsman recovering his lost poise, always against top-drawer attacks and almost always in challenging conditions. Along the way, he played an understated role in helping solidify India's place at the top of the Test-match ladder.started in the first place: England. Out of the rowdy pubs of London in the eighteenth century emerged the porter, a dark, medium-bodied beer which had lots of malty goodness that was balanced by quite a bit of hops. Earliest reports of the beer’s creation claim it was initially invented by a barman in the pub, made by blending lighter, hoppier beers, with older aged ales – sort of like the Suicides you made at the soda fountain when you were a kid. The result was a drink that took off, and eventually brewers reverse-engineered the mix and started brewing porters, no mixing at the bar needed.

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Pakistan have never won a Test series in Australia. They've lost nine series and drawn two as well as drawing a one-off match on their first visit in 1964 - with some hefty defeats among one or two closer contests. Now, under the new leadership of captain Azhar Ali and coach Misbah-ul-Haq they will try to overturn a home side that is finding its mojo again and remains formidable in their conditions. ESPNcricinfo spoke to Mickey Arthur, the former Pakistan, Australia and South Africa coach - and perhaps soon the new Sri Lanka coach - about what it takes to win in Australia and whether this Pakistan can manage it.

Be positive in attack and defence

The key to having success with the bat in Australia is committing to yoursurfeit of food, goods, and services that is unparalleled in history. North Americans spend less than 15 percent of their disposable income on food, the lowest percentage ever and anywhere, yet people complain about the prices.

Recently a good friend passed away at 92. He is the last of that generation who lived through the Depression and the Second World War (WWII). Like most who were directly and deeply involved he would not talk about his War experience. He talked with me because of my air force experience and interest in the tactical and military aspects. He flew fighter aircraft out of Gibraltar and North Africa in the defense of Malta, some of the most dangerous combat conditions of the War.

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Exposure: The Oxfam Photography Prize for Women 2013

August 20, 2013

Exposure: The Oxfam Photography Prize for Women 2013 – in association with IdeasTap and Magnum Photos

Oxfam is offering three emerging female photographers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to complete a commission for Oxfam’s spring fundraising campaign.

In autumn 2013 Oxfam will commission three of Magnum Photos’ female photographers to document projects in Armenia, Chad and Sri Lanka. Three IdeasTap winners will join Oxfam project managers and the Magnum photographer (one winner per trip), helping Oxfam to tell the stories of women living in poverty worldwide.

Winners will follow the commission brief and produce a set of 100 images that highlight the difficulties faced by people living in poverty and the impact of Oxfam’s work, particularly showcasing the stories of women. Each commission willThat's how Norman's Helen Kelter Skelter stumbled onto the name "Melter," their new, full-length sophomore effort landing Oct. 27 via Shaking Shanghai. The camera's film survived the near disaster and was developed into the upcoming album's cover.

Helen Kelter Skelter oozes an obvious passion for driving, groovy rock with a seductive kiss of psychedelia. Blissfully fuzzy guitars and freaky synths quake throughout "Guud" but never totally overwhelm the song's pop sensibilities. It's a warm, fierce re-introduction to the Okie rockers.

Guitarist Tim Gregory said the new track's framework was built on top of a voicemail. More parts were added until the song had a working formula.

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Members of Woodstock’s American Legion Benson-Flugel Post 111 led the parade, followed by the town’s Boy Scout, Cub Scout and Girl Scout troops. Little League baseball and softball players also enjoyed the opportunity to march. Firefighters and paramedics from the town’s three fire departments, Woodstock Volunteer Fire Association, Bungay Fire Rescue in West Woodstock and Muddy Brook Fire Department in East Woodstock drove their vehicles or marched.

After the parade, paradegoers and marchers gathered for a memorial service at the Woodstock Hill common.

Jordyn Woodland, an eighth-grader at Woodstock Middle School, won an essay contest and read her winning essay at the memorial ceremony.

In part of her essay, Woodland evoked the resilience of the soldiers who constantly guard the Tomb of the Unknowns through any weather at Arlington National CemeteryDay Kimball medical director, was the honored guest speaker. Klare spoke about the military experience of his father, Rudy Klare, a physician who moved to Woodstock after serving as a Marine in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

While in the military, Klare said, his father served as a chief in the naval medical corps, examining naval soldiers injured in combat.

“He was assigned the worst job of his life,” Klare said. “He had a couple of minutes per case to decide who was too gravely wounded to go to the ship’s small operating room.”

As the son of a veteran, Klare referenced the message of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and thanked soldiers, veterans and their families for their sacrifices.

“I would like to express a gratitude to all the


In the Meet the Team section

Veterinary Surgeons

Helen qualified from Cambridge University in 1984 and started working at Towcester Veterinary Centre shortly afterwards. She became a partner at the practice in 1994 and passed the RCVS certificate examination in Small Animal Surgery in 2010.

Helen enjoys the job every part of her job from the consulting to the operating and taking surgical referrals from other practices. She especially enjoys complex orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. She is one of the only people in Northamptonshire registered to carry out laparoscopic (keyhole abdominal) surgery in animals.

Outside work Helen enjoys running – so much so that’s she completed nine marathons! She also competes with her horse regularly. She has had working Labradors and Cocker Spaniels over the years. Helen also very much enjoyswatching top class rugby.

Cat qualified from the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada in 2000 and came to UK and worked in mixed practice for a few years. She started at Towcester Veterinary Centre in 2005 and became a partner in 2011. In 2006 she passed the RCVS examination in Small Animal Surgery and is now head of our surgical referral service. Cat enjoys all aspects of surgery but particularly fracture management and cruciate surgery and along with Helen is one of the few people who carry out laparoscopic surgery in Northamptonshire.

When not in the operating theatre Cat likes spending time with her young son and their pets: two cats, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Buster, 5 fish and two horses. She enjoys horse riding, skiing, running, cycling, cooking


and travelling and has completed several half marathons and triathlons.

Jen Calder BVetMed MRCVS

Clinical Director

Jen qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 2010 and started working at Towcester Veterinary Centre shortly after. Her professional interests include emergency and critical care, dermatology, backyard poultry, and exotic pets.

Jen lives with two cats, Pirate and Astro (both rescued from work), three ferrets (who she is hoping to breed), a tarantula called Tiki and some Giant African Land Snails.

Aside from looking after her pets, Jen enjoys watching movies, going to concerts, walking and general outdoor pursuits. Her current ambition is to learn to roller skate!

Sarah May BVSc, MRCVS

Assistant

Sarah qualified from Bristol University in 1997 and has worked in small animal practice ever since. She has worked in Northampton for 13 yearsand joined Towcester Veterinary Centre in 2011. She particularly enjoys consulting, internal medicine cases, dermatology and generally building bonds with clients and their pets.

Sarah lives in Northampton with her husband and baby daughter. Outside work she enjoys landscape photography, salsa dancing, playing the oboe, guitar and recorder and singing.

Sophie O’Doherty BVSc MRCVS

Assistant

Sophie qualified from Bristol in 2010 and worked in a mixed practice in Wales for 2 years, before moving south and switching to small animal practice. She joined Towcester Veterinary Centre in February 2014.

She particularly enjoys animal medicine and is looking forward to starting a certificate of further study in this area.

Hannah Flatt BvetMed MRCVS PGCertsam

Assistant

Hannah qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 2007 and has worked in small animal practice ever since. She joined Towcester Veterinary


Centre in 2018.

She particularly enjoys small animal internal medicine and critical care and completed the BSAVA certificate in small animal medicine in 2014.

Hannah lives in Northamptonshire with her husband, two young children and their three lurchers. She enjoys dog walking holidays with the family, running and mountain biking

Damiano Giordano DVM MRCVS

Assistant

Damiano qualified from Bologna university(Italy) in 2012 and moved to the UK in 2013 in order to further his career in the veterinary industry. He worked at a first opinion small animal vet in the Northamptonshire area and joined TVC in June 2017.

He has a strong interest in surgery(soft tissue and orthopaedic)and he is currently studying for a specialist certificate in this area. In his spare time he likes cooking, (especially pizza!), spending time with his wife andtheir 2 year old son, going to the gym and travelling.

Helena Brownfield DVM MRCVS

Assistant

Helena qualified from Szent Istvan University in Hungary in 2017. She completed all of her work experience during vet school with Towcester Vets, so came to work here shortly after graduating. Helena enjoys all aspects of the job, especially surgery, first opinion consulting, and out of hours work. In her free time Helena enjoys eventing her horses, running, and bringing up her new labrador puppy!


Carter Page, a former adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, found himself at the center of the Russia probe and had his reputation and career destroyed by what we now know were lies from our own intelligence system and the media.

On Thursday, Page filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Democratic National Committee for commissioning the discredited Steele dossier that was used by the FBI to surveil him during the 2016 election.

In this week's episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Page sat down with Glenn to talk about how he became the subject of illegal electronic surveillance for more than two years, and and how the mainstream media helped cover up the corruption that has infiltrated our legal systems.

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Areas for resuscitation were classified as emergency department (ED), intensive care unit, ordinary ward and any other locations within the hospital. Response time was calculated from the time the emergency call was received to the time the physician arrived. The duration of resuscitation, the period from start to end of resuscitation, was also recorded. The number of participating resuscitators (physicians or nurses) who had been involved in the resuscitation was collected by reviewing the names signed on the special resuscitation sheet. A repeat resuscitation occurring 6 h after the previous resuscitation was defined as a different event. The result of resuscitation was classified into 'failure' and


around Jerusalem.

5) The evidence of Jewish burial customs. The Shroud details are perfectly consistent with first-century Jewish burial customs. There are even microscopic traces of the flowers that would have been used in the burial-flowers that grew locally and were known to be used for burial. In addition, traces of the spices used for Jewish burial have been discovered.

6) The blood and the image. The bloodstains on the Shroud are real human blood, not paint. The flow of the blood accurately reflects crucifixion and subsequent burial. The image was seared on the linen after the bloodstains. The fact that the bloodstains retain their reddish colour is evidence that the blood came from a person under extreme duress. The most recent finding again suggests that the crucified man wasBAGHDAD, Dec. 14, 2008 -- President George W. Bush spoke with ABC News' Martha Raddatz Sunday following an incident in which an Iraqi reporter threw two shoes at the president. Bush told Raddatz he wasn't insulted by the shoe-throwing, and that stranger things have happened to him.

He also spoke about his legacy, standing by the invasion of Iraq as the right thing to do, but also saying his presidency was about a lot more than taking down Saddam Hussein.

The full transcript of the interview follows:

Martha Raddatz: Let's start with what just happened. And that is someone threw a shoe at you, whether it's an Iraqi reporter?

President Bush: Yeah, I think it's a reporter. At least that's what they told me on the way out, that it's a person


who works in the Iraqi press, stands up and throws his shoe. And it was amusing. I mean, I've seen a lot of weird things during my presidency and this may rank up there as one of the weirdest. On the other hand, I do remember when the president of China came to the South Lawn, and a member of the press corps started yelling. I think it was Falun Gong slogans at the Chinese president. So this happens and it's a sign of a free society.

Raddatz: It's also considered a huge insult in this world, the sole of a shoe, throwing a shoe.

Bush: I guess. Look they were humiliated. The press corps, the rest of the Iraqi press corps was humiliated. These guys were just besides themselvesHussein posed a threat in the post-9/11 world. They didn't find weapons of mass destruction.

Bush: That's true. Everybody thought they had them.

Raddatz: So what threat?

Bush: Saddam Hussein was the sworn enemy of the United States. He had been enriched by oil revenues. He was a sponsor of terror. I have never claimed like some said that he -- you know, oh, that he was directly involved with the attacks on 9/11, but he did support terrorists. And, uh, Saddam Hussein had the capability making weapons of mass destruction.

I did not have the luxury of knowing he did not have them, neither did the rest of the world until after we had come and removed him.

Raddatz: So would you have gone in anyway?

Bush: … Excuse me for a minute.


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Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick won election in 2014 in part by establishing himself as the most committed creationist among the four candidates in the Republican primary, all of whom objected to the teaching of evolution in public school science classes without informing students that there is another competing scientific theory derived from the book of Genesis.

Patrick declared his landslide victory over an incumbent to be providential: “We never backed away from being bold for Jesus Christ . . . we worked hard and left the


A mom in Georgia pleaded guilty to allowing several men, including one 78-year-old, rape her little girls for cash, officials said.

Morgan Summerlin, 25, confessed to bringing her daughters, ages 5 and 6, to men’s houses to be molested and raped in exchange for money, according to the Fulton County District Attorney.

Prosecutors announced Friday that Smith entered a guilty plea for rape and trafficking a person for sexual servitude. She also pleaded guilty to cruelty to children and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

The young girls reportedly told other adults that their mom brought them to the home of 78-year-old Richard Office, whom they referred to as “Pop.”

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for buses for sightseeing tours.Do you need a supply and disposal, so you can reach the campgrounds to the north or south of the city fastest. Simply driving along the coastal road to the next campsite. Barcelona itself has no campsites.

Parking a bus or truck

In Barcelona, the B: SM offers five public parking spaces for buses and one for trucks.

Parking at the hotel

Many hotels in Barcelona are offering their own private car park or garage. Prices are around 15 € per day.Some hotel use the public parking nearby. Please, refer to the heading "Parking" at the hotel description. You'll get an overview of hotels with parking when you click the option "parking" at our hotel search.We’ve heard plenty of bizarre stories at the high school level throughout the years, ranging from recruiting nonsense to on-court antics. But this one might be the best one of them all. A 30-year-old man from South Sudan named Jonathan Nicola managed to get on the varsity team at Catholic Central in Ontario, Canada, by pretending to be a 17-year-old high school student. He was recently arrested by the Canada Border Services Agency.

More info below on this crazy story from the Windsor Star:

Jonathon Nicola, who became a well-known high school basketball player, was being kept Wednesday at the South West Detention Centre. The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board is keeping tight-lipped about the situation. “There’s really not a whole lot to say,” said spokesman Stephen Fields. “Because of


compressed refrigerant; measuring, in a heating mode or a cooling mode, a pressure of the refrigerant flowing in or out a plurality of indoor heat exchangers and the compressor; and compensating the pressures of the refrigerant in the indoor heat exchangers in a prescribed pressure range.
In more detail, the step of measuring the pressures of the refrigerant flowing in or out the indoor heat exchangers comprises the step of measuring the pressures of the refrigerant in an inlet and outlet of each of the heat exchangers.
The step of compensating for the pressure comprises the steps of: comparing any one of the measured pressures of the refrigerant flowing in or out the indoor heat exchangers with the prescribed pressure and determining which one is greater than the other; andincreasing a compressive force of the compressor according to the result of the comparison.
In more detail, the step of comparing pressures comprises the step of comparing the lowest pressure of the refrigerant flowing in or out the indoor heat exchangers or an average pressure of the pressures of the refrigerant flowing in or out the indoor heat exchangers side with the prescribed pressure.
Also, the step of compensating the pressure includes the steps of: comparing any one of differences between the pressures of the refrigerant flowing in or out the indoor heat exchangers and the pressure of the refrigerant flowing in or out the compressor with the prescribed pressure and determining which one is greater than the other; and increasing a compressive force of the compressor according to the


the stock sales during 1986

nor any of the interest and dividends received on the stock, bank

accounts, and certificates of deposit that were jointly in her

and Sandra's names.    However, sometime after filing her 1986 and

1987 returns (and presumably feeling the sting of the sizeable

levies by respondent), petitioner came forward and made known to

the IRS that she and not Sandra owned the stock sold during 1986,

and that petitioner also owned all of the various bank accounts

and certificates of deposit that were titled jointly with Sandra.

In the resulting audit of petitioner's 1986 and 1987 tax years,

respondent determined the gain realized from the stock sales and
                       Every fall, the college football season fires up and gives fans an opportunity to eschew responsibility in favor of sitting on the couch every Saturday for 15 weeks. Beautiful. With 844 games on the docket for the regular season, plus conference championships and bowls, all of our couch time comes at the expense of plenty of travel for all 130 FBS teams this season.

This season, I took a look at every team’s away and neutral site schedule and determined how much travel is necessary for each team. The list uses a handful of assumptions that I’ll hit on below, but the top team should be no surprise.

The Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii will be the most traveled team in 2018, racking up 37,703 miles, all in the air of


added geographic outlier Texas A&M. Here’s the full conference averages:

Conference Average Mileage Mountain West 11701 Independent 9366 American 8647 Pac 12 7478 Conf USA 7143 Sun Belt 6017 ACC 5543 Big XII 5152 MAC 4292 Big Ten 4251 SEC 3588

On the individual team level, beyond the previously mentioned top three and bottom, here are some other interesting notes.

Miami (of Florida) has the longest travel schedule of any Power Five team, with a neutral site trip to Dallas to play LSU, a trip to Toledo, and in conference play against Boston College, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Georgia Tech.

Michigan State has the longest journey in the Big Ten, which is surprising given their rather centrally-located status within the conference. Most of that is attributable to an out of conference matchupThursday in photos

Athletes wait for the baton handover as they compete in a men's 4x400-meter relay heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)Photo by Martin Meissner

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Amanda Knox and her family celebrate acquittalItaly's highest court overturned the murder conviction against Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Friday over the 2007 slaying of Knox's roommate, bringing to a definitive end to the high-profile case.


Ridgeland.      This appeal followed with Madison County, on direct appeal, and

Ridgeland, on cross-appeal, arguing that the chancellor erred when she awarded the 220

Business Park to Jackson.     The City of Jackson also appeals arguing that the entire proposed

annexation area (“PAA”) should have been granted to Jackson.

                                STATEMENT OF THE ISSUES

       I.      Whether the Chancellor Erred in Granting the City of Ridgeland
               the Majority ofexpansion. A
        major indicator of a city in decline is the low number of new residential
        subdivision lots platted. Only 34 residential purchases were made in northwest
        Jackson during the year 1998 and only 691 new residential lots were platted in
        the entire City of Jackson from January 1, 1990, until August 31, 2000. In the
        City of Ridgeland, the population is up, residential building permits are up,
        commercial building permits are up, and new streets are being constructed to


(6) geography; and (7) subdivision development.” City of Winona, 879 So.

2d at 977. The evidence revealed that the proposed annexation area was in the path of growth

of both Ridgeland and Jackson. The area is immediately adjacent to both cities in that the PAA

lies to the west of Ridgeland and to the north of Jackson.    Both cities are interconnected by

transportation corridors to the annexation area: Jackson by Livingston Road, Hanging Moss

Road, and I-220 and Ridgeland by Highland Colony Parkway, Old Agency Road, and I-220.

¶12.    However, unlike Jackson, Ridgeland has only one path of growth. Ridgeland is blocked

to the north by the City of Madison, to the east by the Barnett Reservoir, and to the south by

the City of Jackson.    Ridgeland’s    It becomes clear that spillover from Jackson is not now occurring. Echelon
        Business Park was being developed at the time Jackson annexed the area, which
        was ultimately approved in 1989. Additionally, thereto, the Lakeover Business
        Park was being developed. Each of these ventures failed to meet the potential
        anticipated by the City of Jackson when it first annexed this area.
        Consequently, there has been no growth in northwest Jackson to spillover
        into the proposed annexation area.


the 1989 annexation of this area, Jackson’s failure to provide promised

services was evidenced by the fact that in 1997, when the property was deannexed, some of the

services had still not been provided. Regarding the 1997 deannexation, this Court stated:

        The municipality is unable or unwilling to expend the necessary funds to provide
        the services and infrastructure promised within the area. This is clear in that no
        action has been taken toward providing sewer services in the area. In addition,
        the City of Jackson has failed to build the promised fire station. It is clear from
       the projected cost of providing these services, the City is not likely to provide
        these services in the near future.

City of Jackson, 698 So. 2d at 494.

¶29.    The infrastructure to provide water and sewage to the area was also poorly developed.

The 1994 report of the Livingston Road Water Association appraiser reported the following

conditions during the time the area was still within the City of Jackson:

        The Livingston Road Water Association service area infrastructure is not
        adequate at the present time to support urban growth. The association’s existing
        water well is in very poor condition and


Park.

¶42.    After the chancellor issued her first opinion granting the PAA to Ridgeland, Jackson

filed a Motion for Reconsideration.        In her Order Granting Motion for Reconsideration, the

chancellor removed the 220 Business Park from the PAA and awarded the area to Jackson. The

chancellor revised her finding as to three indicia of reasonableness (the need to expand, path

of growth, and other indicia of reasonableness), holding that the annexation of the business

park favored Jackson instead of Ridgeland.            The chancellor’s   revised   opinion cites the

provision of infrastructure into the 220 Business Park, the existence of transportation routes

into the area, the proposed improvements by the City of Jackson along WestTears Gush at American Idol as Once-Homeless Girl Reveals Church Sent Her, Prompts Katy Perry to Talk Church

Kalifa Wilson, who goes by the name of "Kai the Singer," made it through the first round of auditions for the ABC series "American Idol."

Wilson, 19, performed her take on The Temptations "My Girl" on a recent episode in front of judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie. She played both the guitar and the piano during her audition.

The Kingstree, South Carolina native impressed all of the judges with her performance. But it was what she revealed about her life that really got their attention. Wilson said her background was rough, growing up in shelters and basically living out of a car sometimes.

"But I thank God for the car," she


said.

Struck by her performance, Bryan told Wilson, "When you got on the piano, it truly started stirring many, many emotions in me. And quite frankly, I don't know how kids like you pony up and make it here."

"My church," Wilson responded.

"Your church sent you here?" Perry asked and immediately broke into tears.

"So sweet. So sweet," Richie responded.

Bryan told Wilson she was one of the kids who could do two chords and just sing and move mountains.

"You can do that," he said.

As she wiped her eyes, Perry told Wilson she was raised in the church too.

"I didn't grow up with any money. Money was always a problem. It was the cause of everything not great in my life," Perry explained. "We had food stamps and were at the foodDear Sir,

Free flap reconstruction is an essential tool in the coverage of composite large defects for varied etiology and at varied anatomical locations. Often, in case of composite defects where the critical area of the wound is covered by the free flap, some raw area may remain at the recipient site that needs to be covered secondarily. We present an innovative way to address the issue by using the free flap skin paddle as the donor site a skin graft. Most of the times, in our clinical practice, the remnant raw area was often large enough to require a small skin graft for healing. In such cases, the skin paddle of the free flap can be used as the donor site, avoiding morbidity at a new anatomical location.

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In March 2018, Stellar Hearth Product participated in the Hearth Products & BBQ Association's annual expo, which is North America’s largest indoor-outdoor lifestyle showcase and where the industries converge to eat, sleep, breathe everything hearth, patio, and barbecue.

One of the hilights of the HPBExpo is always the Vesta Awards that are presented by the Hearth & Home Magazine. Awards are given in 16 categories including one special award category. Stellar Hearth Products entered into 3 categories and won 3 awards and a finalist in another.

Tak a few moments to browse through the products introduced at this years show.
Please contact Stellar Hearth directly or your local dealer for information regarding the release dates and available of the new products.motorcycle the owner left with the key in the ignition.

He is held responsible for a string of other crimes. In April 2014, he allegedly shot dead two people at a security booth in tambon Don Yai Hom of Muang district and stole their valuables and a gun.

In the same month, he shot and robbed a woman.

In March 2014, he allegedly shot and crucially wounded Somphong Kimha, 43, and took his gold chain near the provincial hall. The same month he also robbed four other people.


The cited statute provides, in part, that after a state's witness testifies on direct examination, the court shall, on motion by the defendant, order the state to produce any prior statement of the witness, which the state has in its possession, which relates to the subject matter of the witness' testimony. The statutory definition of "statement" includes "a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by said witness to an agent of the state and recorded contemporaneously with the making of such oral statement." The key words in the latter quotation are "substantially verbatim recital." Among the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a statement is substantially verbatim (not precisely verbatim) are the extent to which it conforms to the language of the witness,"suck" him, and then he performed anal intercourse on him."
However, at trial, Damon Franklin testified that he had never seen the appellant commit, or attempt to commit, any sexual crime upon Adrian.
In her statement, Kesia Franklin said that the appellant committed oral sex and painful anal intercourse upon her:
William would wake Kesia up in the middle of the night and carry her into the bathroom. Sometimes he would wake her up by performing oral sex on her. Other times he would just pick her up. He would get a towel from the bathroom and place it on the floor in the hallway. He would then place Kesia on the towel face down, remove her clothing (sometimes she slept in street clothesmore often in a gown), and perform anal


intercourse on her.
Kesia said both her bedroom door and her mother's bedroom door would be closed. When Kesia would cry or try to yell for help William would put his hand over her mouth. He also would threaten herHe said if she ever told anyone he would "do it again and then I'll get a gun and blow your head off."
William also bought Kesia clothes and candy to keep her from telling. She was afraid of him, and that kept her from telling. She didn't know if he would really get a gun, but he would often slap her, so she knew he would hurt her if he got mad.
Kesia denies vaginal intercourse. She said he would always put his "thing" in her "behind." This hurt, and sometimesshe would bleed and have stomach cramps.
He usually performed oral sex on her before he took her into the hallway. She said she'd wake up and find his head between her legs. Yet, her testimony at trial was only that the appellant attempted to have anal sex with her, but was unsuccessful.
The statement of Adrian Adams, in part, reflects: "William made Adrian perform oral sex on him only once that Adrian can remember." At trial, Adrian did not testify that appellant performed oral sex upon him.
The quoted parts of the prior statements are inconsistent with part of the trial testimony, but the trial court, by direct restriction on the right of cross-examination, prevented appellant's counsel from using the statements for impeachment purposes. Of course, the right of cross-examination


Investment specialists from Kane Davis Cooper PWM (kdcltd.com) were welcomed for the first time as attendees to the 5th annual China Social Investment Forum (China SIF) held at the China World Hotel Beijing on December 5th.

Invited to share their expertize and experience in the area of Charitable Trusts, members of the senior management of KDC were asked to give a short speech as part of the “Charitable Trust Seminar: A New Approach of Responsible Investment.” The talk lasted around 45 minutes and provided some innovative ideas to the assembled audience, eager to learn how they can make improvements in their own companies. A spokesperson from Kane Davis Cooper Private Wealth Management said it was well-deserved recognition of the company’s growing prominence in the Chinese investment and wealth managementtrends and methods of responsible investing as well as environmentally aware financing for China and the wider world.

The seminars that were held from the 6th to the 8th of December covered:

Stock Exchanges and Sustainable Development

Green Bond Standards

Charitable Trust Seminar: A New Approach to Responsible Investment

Financial Innovation Supporting Poverty Alleviation

Green Financing for Local Regions

Financing Green Start-ups

The conference was organized by China SIF, the Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking, SynTao Green Finance and Caixin Media. The PRI and UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative will co-host the annual conference while other partners will co-host seminars.


Survival of patients with prostate cancer in Yazd, Iran.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men worldwide. Several factors such as availability of screening tests, and dietary, other lifestyle, environmental and genetic influences contribute to worldwide disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates. Our aims were to investigate patient characteristics at the time of diagnosis, common treatment strategies employed and survival in an Iranian male population with prostate cancer. Archives of Pathology Departments of five referral centers affiliated with the School of Medicine of Shahid Sadoughi University in Yazd province were reviewed. Paraffin-embedded blocks were reviewed by two independent pathologists to confirm the diagnosis. The latest modification of the Gleason Scoring System was adopted to determine pathological grading. Following pathological evaluation, patients wereSalina hospital official hurt in hunting accident

A Salina hospital official sustained minor injuries when he was accidentally shot during a weekend hunting excursion in northern Kansas.

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Tipton, Kan.

A Salina hospital official sustained minor injuries when he was accidentally shot during a weekend hunting excursion in northern Kansas.

The Salina Journal reports (http://bit.ly/WDe91K ) that Joel Phelps, chief operating officer of Salina Regional Health Center, suffered pellet injuries mostly to his legs in the accident Saturday. Phelps says he was injured when another hunter tripped and the gun that hunter was carrying discharged. He declined to name the other hunter.

A Salina trauma surgeon who was also part of the hunting


The former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has died, according to a tweet by his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday. He was 95.

"It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe," Mnangagwa wrote.

Tweet: Cde Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace

Mugabe died after battling ill health, the BBC reported on Friday, citing his family.

He was the first post-independence leader of Zimbabwe, and took power in 1980 after the white minority rule ended.

Discontent spread toward the end of his rule amid economicturmoil that were worsened by international sanctions. Large street protests for his resignation spread and impeachment procedures by the parliament took place, ending with a coup that saw the military take control of the country after Mugabe was placed under house arrest.

His 37-year rule concluded in 2017 when he was forced to resign.

Mugabe was known, both at home and overseas, as a power-hungry autocrat. When he finally resigned, there were wild celebrations in the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. Mnangagwa succeeded him in November 2017.

The ailing Mugabe spent his remaining years shuttling between medical facilities in Singapore and his mansion in Harare, Reuters reported, saying the former oppressor died in Singapore.

— Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


Ant McPartlin announced plans to take an 'extended break' from TV following his drink drive conviction in March.

His best friend and showbiz partner Declan Donnelly bravely fronted the remainder of Saturday Night Takeaway alone, and has now headed out to presented I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here without Ant for the first time in the show's history.

But before setting off for Australia, they were spotted looking tense as they left a meeting at their management's office, reportedly on the topic of Ant's TV comeback.

Both brought their partners along for support, with Dec accompanied by wife Ali Astall and their newborn daughter Isla, and Ant with his new girlfriend and former PA, Anne-Marie Corbett.

“Ant’s wellbeing is at the forefront of everyone’s minds and he’s in a greatfrom what have been described as crisis talks over their future together.

"The fact they took their partners should have implied a bit of a friendly family atmosphere and a desire to restore all those old industrial-strength bonds but there's no sign from any of their body language that the meeting was anything other than difficult.

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"Dec's body language signals hint at silent anger, frustration or anxiety.

"His features are contorted into a frown with deep lines etched at the sides of his mouth which is partially open with what look like clenched teeth and a slight lower jaw jut hinting at displeasure.

"Even his hands fall into an awkward, truncated-looking gesture that suggests confused thoughts.

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"At one point they seem to be positioned at the front


of his legs, touching his sides to suggest a need for a barrier or a self-comfort touch.

"Eventually he stuffs them into his pockets and by then his lips are sucked in to form a gesture normally associated with regret or suppressed emotions.

"His eyes are down in a cut-off gesture as though keen to avoid showing his emotions to the cameras.

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"Ant looks equally miserable here but his facial expression and body positioning hints at something a bit more hang-dog or contrite.

"His head is down but his brows are raised and his eyelids droop slightly, while his lips are closed in what looks like an expression of regret.

"When heDepartment inspector general investigate the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death.

James Petrucci has been named acting warden of the MCC, the Justice Department added.

“The Bureau of Prisons also placed on administrative leave two MCC staff assigned to Mr. Epstein’s unit pending the outcome of the investigations. Additional actions may be taken as the circumstances warrant," Kupec said.

Epstein, a registered sex offender following an earlier conviction in 2008, was found dead of apparent suicide in his cell early Saturday morning. He had been placed on suicide watch back in late July after reportedly being found with marks on his neck.

The developments over the weekend have triggered questions about the circumstances of his death and massive scrutiny of the conditions at the detention facility.

Various reports have described the federal jail as being


lighten up the fact that everyone's dead. Seeing as it's such an imaginative premise for a game, I'm sure plenty of gamers would love to play a sequel. At least port Tokyo Jungle Mobile back from obscurity! It's a vegan's fantasy come true!

Rain Also known as Lost in the Rain, Rain is yet another highly creative gaming experience. You play as an invisible boy who can only be seen in the rain. Meanwhile, beasts are on the prowl so the boy must remain sheltered when they're around. The mix of puzzles and stealth along with its innovative premise surely make Rain a sequel-worthy game.

Shatter When it comes to Breakout-inspired games, very few are as brilliantly addictive as Shatter. Merely bouncing a ball off a paddle is somewhat fundiscounts on their premiums and rewards at retailers.

This is not the first time an insurer has asked consumers to give up information in exchange for a discount. In 2014, Desjardins Insurance introduced the Ajusto program in Ontario, where a device is installed in vehicles, measuring speed, time of day use and other driving habits.

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The final details of the new life insurance policy are still being worked out, but Manulife’s subsidiary John Hancock brought it in last year in the United States. The average premium reduction has been between 7 and 15 per cent. Hancock gave out a Fitbit to each policy holder.

Harrison said Canadian policy holders will get an initial discount when they sign up, and then can earn points toward discounts on premiums in future