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Is it typical for puppies to growl?
Puppies typically growl when playing it can sound vicious, but it is harmless. For the duration of playtime, a puppy’s entire body language is rounded and fluid. A pet moves immediately, and will growl and display his tooth even though actively playing. A worried puppy’s system language appears to be like completely distinct from that of a playful pup.
Is it usual for puppies to growl and snap?
Prior to snarling or bites occur, puppies will usually growl. Growls should be found as an early warning of elevated aggression if your steps carry on (for far more info, go to ‘Puppy Growling’). Snapping or biting? It is unusual for a pretty young pet to bite, but they will do so if they experience they are in danger
How do you punish a dog for growling?
Really don’t Punish Growling If you punish your doggy for growling, you will only inhibit growling. You will not have done everything to tackle the fundamental concern. For instance, punishing your doggy for growling in the existence of other puppies will end the growling. Nevertheless, your pet will still truly feel awkward about other canines.
What will cause a puppy dog to growl?
The most frequent factors pet dogs growl are dread, possession aggression, territoriality, and soreness. Some dogs also growl when enjoying. Enjoy growling is generally found when two puppies are obtaining a harmless, healthy play session. In this scenario, the growling does not automatically reveal aggression.
Is growling standard pet actions?
It’s absolutely standard for young puppies to growl, and growling isn’t generally a indicator of aggressive actions. What is this? Like adult pet dogs, puppies use many kinds of vocalization, like growling, to converse with their proprietors.
Do puppies grow out of growling?
Puppies who get upset and growl or snap to get folks to back absent from them are a behavioral crisis. Relatively than rising out of aggression, pet dogs improve into it! As self-assurance will increase (and with age, confidence will always increase), the puppy will bark, growl, or snap with much more depth.
How can you notify if a pet is going to be intense?
Right before snarling or bites arise, puppies will normally growl. Growls must be witnessed as an early warning of amplified aggression if your steps continue (for additional information and facts, go to ‘Puppy Growling’). Snapping or biting? It is rare for a very youthful puppy dog to chunk, but they will do so if they come to feel they are in risk
Why does my puppy dog growl and snap at me?
If your canine has a toy or treats that he does not want you to consider from him, he may possibly growl and snap at you to preserve you away. This is a normal territorial intuition. If your pet is exhibiting aggression close to their food and toys, this could be an early indicator of prolonged-phrase aggressive behaviors.
Ought to I be concerned if my pet snaps at me?
A nipping dog can be a playful pup, but after 15 months, puppies should really not check out to touch human skin with their enamel. If the dog continues to nip or chunk you immediately after that time, you need to use schooling to stop that habits. By no means hit a puppy that bites. And never bite again.
What are indicators of aggression in puppies?
The most common aggressive dog behaviour warning indications include snarling, growling, mounting, snapping, nipping, lip curling, lunging, dominant human body language/perform, difficult stance, lifeless-eye stare, aggressive barking, possessiveness, and persistent biting/mouthing.
What to do if pup snaps at you?
If a pet snaps at you, that conduct need to be stopped. Disciplining your puppy doesn’t consist of hitting him and yelling, even though he must recognize a agency tone in your voice. Willpower consists of creating company boundaries and guaranteeing your dog recognizes them
Really should you punish your pet dog for growling at you?
Conversation involving dogs and individuals is in some cases considerably less than distinct. Growls are a single pretty obvious sign and some thing that we can act on to protect against difficulties. Remember to don’t punish your doggy for growling. As a substitute, say a prayer of many thanks that you learned he was not comfortable right before a little something worse transpired.
Should you scold your pet dog for growling?
As a doggy owner, you almost certainly get upset when your pet dog growls. Your initially reaction may perhaps be to suppress the growling by scolding or punishing the dog. This is never a very good concept. By educating your pet that growling is not satisfactory habits, you are having away its skill to alert you that it may perhaps bite.
How do you suitable my doggy when he growls?
What do you do when a canine growls at you?
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How do you reply if your doggy growls at you?
Growling is an psychological response. It is not a disobedient actions. You are unable to punish an emotion out of a pet (or a human). Growling is just your dog’s way of hoping to explain to you a little something critical, and you must listen and genuinely thank your canine for the honest opinions
Is it regular for a puppy to growl?
Puppies primarily growl when enjoying it can seem vicious, but it is harmless. All through playtime, a puppy’s body language is rounded and fluid. A dog moves speedily, and will growl and clearly show his enamel when enjoying. A afraid puppy’s overall body language appears absolutely diverse from that of a playful puppy dog.
What triggers a pup to growl at you?
They allow you know if they’re not comfortable, worried, or upset about a particular circumstance. Growling is also a warning. It is your puppy’s way of saying that they may well chunk. If your pup is growling, they are telling you that they really don’t want to be in a presented problem and require your help.
What does it signify when a pet growls at its operator?
Puppy growling is just a strategy of communication it is your doggy seeking to convey to you a thing. Puppies growl to connect lots of distinctive issues, from concern and aggression to encouraging participate in.
Is it normal for a dog to growl at you?
Why Do Puppies Growl? Growling can appear aggressive, but it is merely 1 way that puppies and puppies converse. They permit you know if they’re not comfortable, fearful, or upset about a particular circumstance. Growling is also a warning.
Do puppies outgrow growling?
The most widespread intense dog behaviour warning symptoms incorporate snarling, growling, mounting, snapping, nipping, lip curling, lunging, dominant body language/enjoy, demanding stance, useless-eye stare, aggressive barking, possessiveness, and persistent biting/mouthing.
Do puppies outgrow aggression?
Why Do Puppies Growl? Growling can look aggressive, but it is simply just one way that puppies and puppies connect. They enable you know if they’re uncomfortable, afraid, or upset about a specified scenario. Growling is also a warning.
How do you get a pet to quit growling?
Will my dog outgrow the aggression? Puppies may go via a biting section that they will frequently outgrow. However in most circumstances, legitimate puppy aggression typically escalates as the pet ages. Though it may well be organic to make excuses, all puppies are able of triggering major hurt.
At what age can you notify if a dog is aggressive?
Most puppies are by way of the worst of the biting stage by about 4 months outdated. Soon after about six months of age, some puppies start out to show indicators of fear aggression. This indicates that they may possibly growl or snap at strangers who solution or try out to touch them.
How can you inform if a pup is currently being playful or intense?
Some ordinary dog enjoy conduct includes chasing and pouncing on a butterfly or chasing the tail, but pup participate in often involves other qualities that may well be perceived as aggressive. Barking, growling, snapping, and biting are all behaviors that puppies may perhaps exhibit all through standard enjoy.
Is it ordinary for puppys to be intense?
Puppy dog perform is made up of chasing, pouncing, barking, growling and biting. Many pet entrepreneurs miscalculation standard play actions as aggression or snicker off actions that is a warning indicator for definitely aggressive conduct. Although standard participate in can come to be powerful, it is crucial to be capable to distinguish regular from abnormal habits

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There was not a lot of movement on the jobs front in Manitoba last month.
The province added 2000 net jobs which nudged the unemployment rate down .1 of a per cent from January to 6 per cent.
Stats Canada call that statistically insignificant.
The national picture was much the same, with Canada’s unemployment rate creeping up .1 per cent to 7.3 per cent.
BC is the only province that saw significant job growth; while Saskatchewan and New Brunswick saw the biggest drops.

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Built in 1916 on 117 acres of former Creek Indian land around a 15-acre lake, the Lakewood Fairgrounds were constructed for the home of the Southeastern Fair: an area that contained a circus big top, arcade games, vendors, and a large carousel that remained on the premises until 1967.
The fairgrounds were featured extensively in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, including the beginning and the ending of the film, the "Truck Rodeo" drag race, the Bandit on his hammock, the gate crashing scene, and the "Southern Classic Race."
For the second Smokey sequel, the film crew returned to the fairgrounds to incorporate the destruction of the wooden roller coaster, the Greyhound, as part of the film.
Today, EUE/Screen Gems is building a studio complex on the grounds for tv and film production.

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We’re ready for launch……
On 27th April at 6.15pm, the choristers will be launching their latest CD “How can I keep from singing?” – a fabulous mix of Irish song, sacred gems and a little jazz which they recorded last year to help raise funds for the Cathedral Choir School.
To mark the launch of their new disc, the choristers will be performing several of the tracks live in concert – after which the recordings will be on sale with every cent going to further the work of Ireland’s oldest school.
Come and join us!
HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?
The Choristers of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral ∙ Stuart Nicholson
An Irish Blessing ∙ Bob Chilcott
The Lord’s my shepherd ∙ arr Malcolm Archer
King Jesus hath a garden ∙ arr Stuart Nicholson
Light of the world ∙ John Dankworth
The Father’s Love ∙ Simon Lole
A Psalm of Thanksgiving ∙ Frederick Hand
Jazz Songs of Innocence ∙ Bob Chilcott
Prelude ∙ Suite Antique ∙ John Rutter
Three Irish Melodies ∙ arr Alexander L ’Estrange
She moved thro’ the fair ∙ arr Herbert Hughes
Cockles and Mussels ∙ arr Stuart Nicholson
How can I keep from singing ∙ arr John Scott
Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit ∙ arr Bob Chilcott
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MARTINS, José Murilo. Considerations on the food fortification policy in Brazil.Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, Rio de Janeiro, v. 33, n. 2, p. 158-163, abr./jun. 2011. Disponível em Scielo
Government health authorities approved, in December 2002, the ANVISA (National Sanitary Vigilance Agency) resolution number 344, making the addition of iron and folic acid to all wheat and maize flours industrialized in Brazil obligatory. After a brief review of iron deficiency, iron overload and folic acid deficiency several questions and remarks need to be made about this universal food fortification program. Iron salts and folic acid are drugs widely used in medicine and they may present undesirable side effects. There are potential risks with offering iron to the normal population for a long period of time and to patients with iron overload. Other important remarks are: there is no medical follow up of this treatment in the Brazilian population; patients can decide the quantity of foods (and of these nutrients) that they want to ingest; fortified foods may correct iron deficiency anemia but not necessarily the causes, which include gastrointestinal neoplasms; and folic acid in the diet may interfere with several treatment protocols that use folic acid antagonists, such as methotrexate. Finally, with the exception of some social programs, the costs of treatment using fortified foods are passed on to the population. Considering that Brazil has 330,000 active medical doctors it is suggested that our Health Ministry should invite them to take care of these important medical conditions.

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Principal Environment Scientist, Americas Region
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ISP-operated servers alter search results, researchers claim
Search engine redirects give stealthy love to advertisers
Search engine requests are being altered to redirect users to specific websites in a "stealthy" system that benefits advertisers, US researchers have claimed.
"Malicious servers" operated by internet service providers (ISPs) redirect users to websites relating to the information they have searched for using search engines available in browsers' address bars, the Microsoft and University of New York researchers said.
Online advertising companies are profiting from the system which "inserts several rounds of redirection before eventually directing the user to her destination," the researchers said in a study (8-page/286KB PDF).
"These companies get paid when their advertisement links are clicked by users. The extra rounds of inserted redirection are used to generate clicks, as if they are from a large number of real users," they said.
"In addition, we noticed that this type of modification is extremely stealthy. It only intercepts and redirects if the search queries are generated from the address bar of web browsers. Clearly, only intercepting the queries from the address bar reduces the risk of exposing the malicious servers," they said. "Interestingly, most malicious servers that we have discovered belong to this category."
The malicious servers are also altering search engine requests in other ways, including changing the links that appear alongside results and adverts that accompany those results, the researchers said. Almost 2 per cent of US internet users are affected by alterations made through the malicious servers, they said.
"In total, we discover 349 servers as malicious, that is, as modifying content inflight, and more than 1.9 per cent of all US clients are affected by these malicious servers," the study said.
Intercepting communications is prohibited under the US Wiretap Act. In the UK a similar law, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), also prohibits the interception of communications without a user's knowledge or permission in most cases.
Under RIPA, law enforcement agencies, including the police and MI5, can tap phone, internet or email communications to protect the UK's national security interests, prevent and detect terrorism and serious crime or to safeguard the UK's economic well-being.
Telecoms firms are allowed to unintentionally intercept communications in line with RIPA if the interception "takes place for purposes connected with the provision or operation of that service or with the enforcement, in relation to that service, of any enactment relating to the use of postal services or telecommunications services".
The law also states that unlawful interception takes place if a person makes "some or all of the contents of the communication available, while being transmitted, to a person other than the sender or intended recipient of the communication". It also states that interception is illegal on messages stored "in a manner that enables the intended recipient to collect it or otherwise to have access to it".
Unlawful interceptors of communications and those who commission the illegal practice face the risk of prosecution. The law does not give the accused the right to claim the hacking activity was conducted in the public interest.
In May, Parliament changed RIPA so that it is only legal to monitor private communications, even unintentionally, if you have a warrant or if both the sender and recipient of information agree to the monitoring. The law had previously said that you could monitor without a warrant if you had "reasonable grounds" to believe that the parties to the communication had consented to the monitoring.
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Racing the Enemy
A month ago we observed the 60th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I saved some articles and started recently to look them over. Most of the articles express the opinion that the longstanding controversy over Hiroshima has finally been resolved by a new book entitled Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. The author, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa of the University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that the atom bomb contributed little to Japan's defeat and may have actually encouraged Japan to continue fighting.
This is such an important issue that I'd like to review some of the newest findings on both sides of the controversy, briefly -- and that is the best I can offer, not yet having read Hasegawa's book. But I will also offer my own perspective. It's worth saying right off the bat that I regard the U.S. as having committed a war crime in Japan 60 years ago -- but I also want to say that leaving it at that would miss much of what was wrong about the whole story of Japan's defeat.
Hasegawa wins much of my confidence because he is Japanese-American, and because his book seems to be the first large work to make great use of the Soviet archives. This is, in short, the most internationalist perspective we've yet had. But let's leave these general considerations: Hiroshima was also a specific event, and Hasegawa builds his conclusion from specific data. His book is called a nearly hour-by-hour account, and such a narrative is likely to deliver a precise picture of what the Japanese leaders were talking about among themselves and in external communication, which in turns allows us some entry into how and when they formed their thoughts or changed their decisions. Hasegawa finds little evidence that the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 1945 changed very much at the top levels of the Japanese government. He finds that the Soviet attack on Japanese forces two days later did bring about an urgency among Japan's leaders to consider surrender. It did not change their minds, strictly speaking. The top six leaders were still evenly divided, even after the Nagasaki bomb on August 9th, over the question of how many conditions they would demand that the Allies accept along with Japan's surrender. But upon learning of the Soviet attack, they did call a special session to review surrender options, with one faction now urgently fighting for a surrender that placed only one condition upon the Allies, namely that the Emperor be allowed to remain on his throne. It was the new crisis, and the inability of the leadership to resolve it, that prompted Emperor Hirohito to make an unprecedented intervention in the affairs of state. He chose surrender.
This general picture has long been known: Hasegawa's great contribution is said to be his study of the Soviet archives. Hasegawa emphasizes two things: the extent to which Japan had placed its remaining hopes on gaining Soviet diplomatic mediation; and the fear that the Japanese had of Soviet occupation. It's never been a secret that Japan sought Soviet help in winning more lenient surrender terms from the U.S., but Soviet archives would tell us more about the extent to which Japanese leaders counted on this dialogue and did or did not retain other hopes. The Soviet declaration of war upon Japan was, in this context, a devastating crisis to Japan's leaders. It eliminated the hope of Soviet mediation, crippled the military's hope of facing and repelling an invasion by America alone, and threatened all of Japan with communist occupation (or the possibility of an internal rebellion).
One of the few articles I have which defend the Hiroshima decision is Richard B. Frank's "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", from the August 8th issue of The Weekly Standard. A few years ago Frank wrote an excellent book, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, and I would offer his arguments as the best remaining ones for the traditional understanding that the atomic bombs were a necessary evil which ended a still larger evil -- and by the latter he means the war, but particularly Japan's continued occupation of Asia. Frank, too, makes significant use of newly opened archives, in this case from Japan and the U.S. His work reveals many of the things wrong with the most critical views of the Hiroshima decision.
One example concerns what American leaders said in the years after the war about the decision to drop the Bomb. Critics correctly noted that the postwar testimonies by Truman and other wartime leaders involved in the Manhattan Project were incomplete, but Frank notes that these men were all sworn not to publicly discuss the secret intelligence that they had received, or the conclusions that they'd derived specifically from that intelligence. In fact much of what they kept to themselves would have argued in their favor. From newly declassified documents we now know that Japan's buildup of troops on the main islands, in anticipation of an Allied invasion, was much larger than the Hiroshima debate has yet imagined: critics have long wanted to emphasize that Japan was essentially defeated before the Bomb, while the mainstream histories have been working without the benefit of the newly opened archives. The build-up was so large that a numerical advantage to the attackers -- necessary for any successful invasion -- could not be guaranteed, and thus the invasion plan had lost critical support within the U.S. military by July 1945. In Frank's view the invasion would never have taken place; it had become unthinkable. So the traditional view that Hiroshima saved countless American boys from perishing in an invasion is wrong -- but the new information means that Truman and the men around him saw themselves as having few options.
Frank also emphasizes that newly opened Japanese files indicating Japan's determination not to negotiate altogether outnumber the few documents, opened decades ago, which indicate a willingness to consider surrender. To my mind, the best argument against Hasegawa's view that the Soviet attack prompted surrender is that the top six leaders were still deadlocked after Nagasaki: the war ended when the Emperor intervened. The Bomb was the excuse given by Hirohito when he ordered the recalcitrant military to surrender immediately on whatever terms could be had; and it was the excuse they accepted. As Frank argues, it saved them face to know, or to say, that they'd been beaten by science and not due to any lack of martial prowess or spiritual vigor.
The chief problem with Frank's recent article, however, is that he does not mention Hasegawa's book or its findings concerning the Soviet archives. An argument must do more than stand on its own; it must also deal satisfactorily with the best counter-arguments. Frank's article does not do this.
When I think of Hiroshima, I cannot help reflecting on a passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church which deals with just war teaching:
Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation.
For most of my life I have held the traditional view that the Bomb ended a just war. Without getting into the question of whether the war against Japan was a just one, I can say that there's little question in my mind that the U.S. was racing the Soviet Union to the occupation of Japan and to a dominance in atomic weapons. This is part of what Hasegawa means by the phrase, "Racing the Enemy," and I see no reason to disagree. It is widely acknowledged that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. competed with each other over the spoils of war in Europe; they did so again after the Soviet attack on Japanese forces, with American and Russian soldiers meeting in the heart of Korea, to terrible effect in later years.
Newly opened Soviet archives reveal that Stalin moved up the date of his planned attack on Japan when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, for fear that Japan would surrender too quickly. Enough documents from the American side suggest a similar anxiety among the leaders in Washington. To all appearances, the U.S. and the Soviet Union both pounced on an essentially defeated enemy. And both committed war crimes in the process.
It's here that the articles praising Hasegawa's book have failed to give perspective. Hasegawa does: he emphasizes what has tended to be ignored, namely that the Soviet Union continued fighting Japan up to 23 days after the surrender. This is plainly unjustified aggression, and the destruction it brought about was vast. Frank reports in Downfall that Stalin’s brief incursion into Japanese-occupied China and Korea resulted in mass imprisonment and the eventual deaths of 347,000 people, two-thirds of them civilians. I would add that Stalin installed a repressive regime in North Korea and gave the go-ahead to Kim Il Sung's invasion of South Korea, from which 3 million deaths resulted. Even sticking with Frank's figure, we're talking about a loss of life somewhat larger than what the atom bombs exacted.
Downfall tries also to account for the deaths under Japanese occupation: by one estimate, 100,000 people were dying per month by the end of the war. With this accounted for, finally, we can say we have a truly international perspective. (And probably Hasegawa comes closest). To understand Hiroshima it is necessary to argue that Japan, in relation to the U.S., was essentially already defeated before the Bomb. But the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Japan all were committing war crimes at the conclusion of World War II. Perhaps saying so takes the sting out of any indictment of the Hiroshima bomb: but this would only happen if such a complete perspective were allowed to degenerate into the view that, "Well, everybody was doing it, so what's the big deal?" If we can avoid that sort of thinking, a complete accounting of the crimes and suffering is desirable, indeed necessary.
A final note: the best movie I've seen about this issue is a 3-hour Canadian-Japanese film that was produced for HBO in time for the 50th anniversary, when I first saw it, and simply entitled Hiroshima. (I have a review of it at Amazon). Dess and I saw it last week, and it prompted a very good discussion -- without our old fights. I seem to have changed in my views of war over the last few years, and I don't doubt that my marriage to Dess has much to do with it. But that, as well as my treatments of the Just War doctrine and what it can tell us about certain famous wars, will have to wait for later posts.

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Acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds. At the heart of a 4C is a 237 hp, 258 lb-ft torque turbocharged inline 4, with a top speed of 160 mph and a weight-to-power ratio of 10.4 lbs/hp. A figure that not only promises genuine supercar agility and performance—it delivers.


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THE lawsuit filed this week by Arnold “Dave” Davis against the planned “Chamorro-only” plebiscite on Guam’s political status has made waves not only locally, but in the mainland as well.
The lawsuit has drawn partisan and contrasting reactions from both the American left and the right-wing conservative block.
Antiwar.com, which describes itself as read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents, describes the lawsuit as “typical neo-connish rhetoric” which incorrectly places the context of the planned plebiscite.
In the article titled “Guam shows the way” that appeared in Antiwar.com, author Justin Raimondo wrote that the main argument of the lawsuit, that the plebiscite is racially discriminatory, is false.
“Anyone who was living on Guam in 1950, when the U.S. declared Guam a ‘non self-governing territory’ and officially colonized it, is eligible to vote, as are their descendants, no matter what their race. The plebiscite, which should have been held in 1950, effectively nullifies the conquest of Guam by the U.S. and the denial of its right to national self-determination. That this injustice may soon be coming to an end is what sticks in the craw of Mr. Davis. ... Guam is booty in the game of Empire, an important symbol of American hegemony in the Pacific, and the very idea that the Guamanians want their country back is an affront to the neocons,” Raimondo fumed.
Furthermore, Raimondo stressed that self-determination is an act of supreme justice – one that doesn’t recognize temporal limits to the concept of right, but carries it to its logical conclusion: the idea that the restoration of lost rights is the precondition of liberty.
“A conquered people surely ‘discriminates’ against their conquerors by disdaining them and regretting their very presence – they would have to be inhuman not to. In the battle between ‘democracy’ and justice, libertarians take the side of the latter in any and all cases. And in this case, the line is sharply drawn. On one side, we have those who uphold the alleged democratic ‘right’ of the majority to expropriate the property and liberty of the minority. On the other side of the barricades stands a people who just want their country back,” Raimondo wrote.
On the other side of the political spectrum is Hans A. von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the conservative right wing think tank Heritage Foundation.
Writing in National Review Online, von Spakovsky described Guam’s plebiscite restrictions as more extreme than anything that was in place in the South during the height of Jim Crow.
“Southern states such as Mississippi tried to make it as difficult as possible for blacks to vote through literacy tests, poll taxes, and other obstacles, but some small percentage of blacks were still able to get through this thicket of discrimination to actually register and vote. Guam, on the other hand, bars anyone who is white, Asian, or Filipino from voting in this plebiscite, and even makes it a crime for them to try to register,” von Spakovsky wrote.
The Heritage senior fellow also criticized the Obama Justice Department for refusing to enforce federal voting rights laws in a race-neutral manner when Dave Davis first filed a complaint way back in 2009.
According to von Spakovsky, a Justice Department source familiar with the Davis complaint told him the word quickly came down from the political appointees in the front office of the Civil Rights Division that no action would be taken after Davis complained to the Obama Justice Department about racial discrimination in 2009.
“As with the voter intimidation lawsuit filed by the Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party – which was quickly dismissed by the Obama administration even though the case had been won – Davis’ complaint was ignored,” von Spakovsky wrote, adding it was apparently Obama administration policy now for the Voting Rights Act NOT to be enforced against racial minorities, no matter how egregious the violation.
“The fact that this racial discrimination continues to take place under the nose of the U.S. Department of Justice is unconscionable. ... What is tragic (and infuriating) about this lawsuit is not just that the government of Guam believes it can engage in such flagrant racial discrimination without consequence, but also that the Justice Department agrees,” von Spakovsky wrote.

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- [Free Pattern] Quick And Easy Peasy Crochet Flower Ornament
- Simple, Beautifully Textured Washcloth
- [Free Pattern] Your Men’s Feet Will Be In Heaven With These Super Comfortable Crochet Slippers
- [Free Pattern] This Clever Cat Neck Pillow Will Encourage Kids To Take A Little Catnap!
- [Free Pattern] Quick And Easy Crochet Holly Stocking
Featuring the Celtic Weave, arrows trimmed with cables, and set off by ornamental lace, this throw is so beautiful and so breathtaking! Holiday Cables Throw by Bonnie Barker is an impressive pattern that can easily become your go-to pattern for a special gift. Fairly easy to follow, this pattern makes a lovely blanket that is quite dense but not overly heavy. An adventure for a beginner to intermediate crocheter yet a great accomplishment!
Breathtaking Cables Throw
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Susan Bates® Crochet Hook: 6mm [US J-10]
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Drake’s Ex-Girlfriend Sues Him For ‘Marvin’s Room’
Remember the girl on the other end of the phone in Drake‘s song Marvin’s Room? Well, a woman who claims to be Drake‘s ex-girlfriend, Ericka Lee, is saying that the voice belongs to her. Not only that…she is now suing Drake for damages and for co-writing credit.
According to Rolling Stone, Lee filed papers in Los Angeles where she claimed that she and Drake had both a romantic AND business relationship from early 2010 to the middle of 2011. She claims that during that time they both traded poems and lyrics with each other as well as discussing projects for collaboration.
She also says that she was supposed to have a hook on the track and perform a monologue that would also be included in the song. There were also supposedly texts sent by Drake that acknowledged her participation, one of which supposedly said “U basically made that song.”
She was originally intended to record a hook for the track and perform a monologue that would frame the lyrics. The rapper supposedly acknowledged her contributions to the piece in several texts, including one that apparently reads “U basically made that song.”
According to her, Drake had initially agreed to give her 2 percent of the publishing royalties for the song, and later raised the offer to 4-5 percent along with a $50,000 settlement.
We’ll just have to wait and see how this whole thing unfolds!
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Webinar presenter La Shae Brown answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Across the LifeSpan: Serving Older Survivors of Sexual Violence (part 1). Here are just a few of her responses.
Audience Question: What are some agencies doing to help raise the awareness of elder sexual assault? What ideas or educational methods are you seeing especially creative once given our day and age of COVID?
LaShae Brown: I think it’s about how we use to outreach, right? What does outreach look like for someone who might have limited access to a car? Or someone who doesn’t leave their house very often? Or relies on someone else to help them with their basic needs? So, maybe that means masking up and still doing those. Knocking on people’s doors, maybe it’s still doing those old-fashioned phone calls. And just also, being aware that people might not answer, because, if you don’t know why a stranger is calling you, presumably to ask very personal questions. You might not want to talk right? But people do read flyers that they put in their mailboxes. Victoria, one of my former colleagues, her grandmother, mailed her a flyer from the local sexual violence program right that she saw, so they are seeing them. We just really have to think about, if I wasn’t able to leave my house, I’m not comfortable using the internet. How would I still be comfortable and able to get the information that I needed?
Audience Question: Have you seen other people doing presentations like in retirement home facilities, or even some of those social groups that older people might be a part of?
LaShae Brown: Yes, we have. Especially, when we’re thinking about our local Senior Centers, partnering with them is a great way to get to do outreach, and even maybe co-host some events, right? So, let’s just not a random sexual assault advocate is talking to them for the first time when something happens. It’s me LaShae, who does the karaoke every Friday night, and I know she has these services, though I’m not sure which, but I want to talk to her, right. Making yourself a familiar presence at the place that older adults actually frequent.
Audience Question: When we’re talking about the data and the perpetrators. Are the perpetrators typically older than the victim? Or of the same age group as the victim? Or are they younger?
LaShae Brown: Yeah, I’m not quite sure on the actual ages of those who are perpetrating sexual violence against older adults. If we think about the age of the older adult, we can presume that a lot of them are younger, because they would be the caretakers. But, yeah, I don’t actually know what the data is, finding about the actual age of those who perpetrate sexual violence for this population. That’s a great question.
Audience Question: How should we handle it when we hear our peers doing victim-blaming? Do you have some suggestions on how to correct the situation or how to handle this awkward situation?
LaShae Brown: Yes, it’s actually something that appears to be very awkward to confront, but one of my favorite strategies is to ask questions and ask people, what do you mean by that and have them explain it. And then by the time they usually do, they can see that “Oh, maybe I said something wrong or I’m victim-blaming myself,” just to correct them maybe even passively, so they’re saying, “If she knew her caretaker was stealing money from her, then why should keep letting you in the house?” Like, it sounds like she actually needed help, and that was the help that was available to her, right? So just go ahead and really try to empathize with what they mean sometimes really helps and just to correct it that way.
Audience Question: LaShae, one of the common responses people shared during your open-ended question was the reality that people may not report because they’re dependent on the caregiver. What kinds of support services are available to help adult victims if their perpetrator happens to be their caregiver or a close family? Or what do you recommend if some of these small communities don’t have a lot of support services?
LaShae Brown: There’s a lot of interest in that one question. So, for a person in a care facility. They should have some policies and procedures, and there should be access and information about reporting located within the facility. And also, they should have access to a phone and to communicate with other people, as well. Whether that be a social worker, whether that’s you, some other social service agency, they should have access to interact with other people. If it’s a family member, that’s a little bit more tricky, right? Because we’re not really regulating our family members the same way that we regulate these care facilities, and even then, things still slip through the cracks at these locations. So, I would suggest, again, making sure that we’re really focusing on that outreach and building relationships with older adults so that they know that they can communicate with us, not as much as they need to find us but that we are easily accessible for them. I think there was a second part to that question, Chris if you could repeat it. Sorry.
Audience Question: It was relating to the smaller communities who may not have a lot of support services available, what do you recommend, if anything?
LaShae Brown: Yeah. I used to work in a rural program. We have to be that support, right? I know our role might be very specific, but if we need to partner with others and that means that as we are in rural and small communities, we’re probably going to have to wear another hat, right? That means we might be responsible for doing the outreach to older adults or we and another agency are responsible for responding to older adults. Those will handle older adult benefits or just do extracurricular activities with them, right? That’s a way that we can make sure that even though we might have limited services partnering and make sure that people can go through no wrong door, right? They’re able to access services no matter who they’re talking to within our community.
Audience Question: Adult care facilities seem like they might be the right place for opportunities for sexual assault. Have you seen any statistics specific to sexual assault in these adult care facilities?
LaShae Brown: So, yes and no, right? Some adult care facilities willingly report. Some complaints happen or when they’re doing investigations and things of the sort, right? But we know that often, the majority of sexual violence isn’t reported. So even the spaces that we do have information available are often skewed and very much underestimated because people aren’t coming forward and disclosing for a variety of reasons which we talked about.
Audience Question: Sexual assault is part of elder abuse, right? It fits within that umbrella of types of elder abuse, is that true?
LaShae Brown: Yes.
Audience Question: Okay. So, then, the second question. So, then, when we have these incidents, should we also be reaching out to, like, these multi-disciplinary teams who specialize in elder abuse?
LaShae Brown: Absolutely, and they might have some resources. And they may already have those already built-in relationships that we could use and help bridge the gap between our services and their services, right? When we have those collaborations. It just makes that process easier and more streamlined for the survivors. And so, we’re all aware of what services that the other offers. So, again, then we could collaborate.
Audience Question: Can you give some ideas or recommendations on how we can begin a conversation to best assist individuals? How do we start this really delicate conversation?
LaShae Brown: Yeah. So, I really, really, really hope you come back for part two because we’re going to really just be focusing on those services in part two. That’s what part two is really all about. But sometimes it really always starts with forming that relationship, right? I know that I would not be comfortable talking to my southern Baptist grandmother about sexual violence, right? She would tell me, that’s not my business. She would probably tell me off because I’m her granddaughter, right? And what do I know about her experiences? But if we were able to talk about something different like, “Grandma, I really want to learn about this recipe that you taught me when I was younger. Or do you remember when you came when I was born, and we did this right?” Really focusing on that relationship, talking about the harder issue, then maybe some uncomfortable topics will come up once that relationship is formed, right? Asking directly cannot and scare people and make them more frustrated and anxious and can be traumatic, especially if they don’t know you. They are concerned about what’s going to happen if they tell, right? They might be protecting someone, even someone who’s passed away, which can be a reality for older adults, right? They want to protect their reputation. So, we just want to be aware that I’m really focused on building that relationship and also, building that understanding, right? If you tell me, this is what’s going to happen, right? I want to help you find resources. We might not be able to do X, Y, and Z, but I can help you with this. And I’m going to be here to support you, even through this tough conversation. If you don’t want to talk to me about it today or we’re talking about it too much, just let me know. And we can finish at a different time, right? Making sure that we’re reinforcing the options that they have as well is really important.


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Ah, finally an English version Yiwu China map!This Yiwu map can show you clearly where Yiwu is on our earth.
You can use this map to figure out where Shanghai is, where Guangzhou is, where HK is, and where Yiwu is by simply zooming.
All the streets and roads names are in English now, so there are no difficulties for you to read this map.
Yiwu city is actually quite small, 4$ (25 Yuan)would be enough to go anywhere inside the city by taxi. Maybe you do not even need to read this map:-).

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What Does Life Insurance Cover?
Individuals commonly obtain adequate life insurance policy (professionals advise in between 10-15x your earnings) to cover most or every one of the complying with expenditures:
Whether you’re the key income producer, you’re most likely covering rental fee or home loan, energies, as well as standard home fundamentals like grocery stores, cleansing products as well as even more. A life insurance policy payment covers those expenses and also enables your household as well as enjoyed ones to keep their existing requirement of living when you’re gone.
If you authorized a home loan, bank card, exclusive trainee finance or various other funding together with an enjoyed one, that financial debt does not pass away with you. Your co-signer is still in charge of settling any type of superior equilibriums.
Even if they aren’t a main co-signer, your liked ones will certainly require to cover particular lendings associated with their resources-- like the home mortgage or automobile finance on the family members auto-- in your lack.
A life insurance policy plan can cover any kind of childcare costs you’re presently taking on, consisting of day care, after-school programs, at home assistants as well as even more.
These prices are necessary to think about whether you’re presently reliant on them. If a single income producer passes away, a partner that is taking care of the children would likely need to go back to function. And also, if a stay-at-home moms and dad passes, the functioning partner would certainly require to spend for the important solutions their partner formerly supplied.
In addition to that, if you are a caretaker for maturing moms and dads or individuals with impairments, life insurance policy can cover the expenditure of their treatment.
Yes, life insurance policy can cover future expenditures for your family members, like university tuition. As a matter of fact, our specialists normally advise considering the expense of university if you have or prepare to have actually kids, offered just how high education and learning prices remain to climb up.
The unanticipated fatality of an enjoyed one develops an instant economic problem for family members: the expense of a ■■■■■■■ service and also interment, which can run anywhere from $8,000 to $10,000. Several insurance holders function end-of-life expenditures right into their protection, so their recipient can utilize the life insurance policy payment for the ■■■■■■■ service as well as various other prices.
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Typical life insurance policy plans cover nearly all fatalities because of an ailment, mishap or all-natural reasons, with a couple of prospective exemptions.
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- Exemptions: your plan should be energetic as well as not ended at the time of fatality. By paying your costs on schedule as well as restoring a term plan when it ends, you can be certain your enjoyed ones will certainly get a payment.
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At this point it's well-accepted that analytics data is the beating heart of a great customer experience. It's what allows us to understand our customer's journey through the product and pinpoint opportunities for improvement.
This all sounds great, but reality is a messy place. As a team becomes an organization, the structure used for recording this data can easily diverge. One part of the product might use
userId and another
user_id. There might be both a
CartCheckout and a
CheckoutCart event that mean the same thing. Given thousands of call sites and hundreds of kinds of records, this sort of thing is an inevitability.
Without an enforceable shared vocabulary for describing this data, an organization's ability to use this data in any meaningful way becomes crippled.
Downstream tools for analyzing data begin to lose value as redundant or unexpected data trickles in as a result of implementation errors at the source. Fixing these issues after they’ve made it downstream turns out to be a very expensive proposition, with estimates as high as 60% of a data scientist’s time being spent cleaning and organizing data.
At Segment, we’ve put a considerable amount of engineering effort into scaling our data pipeline to ensure low-latency, high throughput and reliable delivery of event data to power the customer data infrastructure for over 15 thousand companies.
We also recently launched Protocols to help our customers ensure high quality data at scale.
In this post, I want to explore some approaches we’re taking to tackle that dimension of scalability from a developer perspective, allowing organizations to scale the domain of their customer data with a shared, consistent representation of it.
To ensure a successful implementation of Segment, we’ll typically recommend that customers maintain something known as a “Tracking Plan.”
An example of a Tracking Plan that we would use internally for our own product
This spreadsheet gives structure and meaning to the events and fields that are present in every customer data payload.
A tracking plan (also known as an implementation spec) helps clarify what events to track, where those events need to go in the code base, and why those events are necessary from a business perspective.
An example of where a Tracking Plan becomes a critical tool would be in any scenario involving multiple engineers working across products and platforms. If there are no standards around how one should represent a “Signed Up” event or what metadata would be important to capture, you’d eventually find every permutation of it when it comes time to make use of that business critical data, rendering it “worse than useless.”
This Tracking Plan serves as a living document for Central Analytics, Product, Engineering and other teams to agree on what’s important to measure, how those measures are represented and how to name them (the three hard problems in analytics).
Where it breaks down, and how to fix it
As a Tracking Plan evolves, the code that implements it will not often change accordingly. Tickets may get assigned, but oftentimes feature work will get prioritized over maintaining the tracking code, leading to a divergence between the Tracking Plan and implementation. In addition to this, natural human error is still a very real factor that can lead to an incorrect implementation.
This error is a pretty natural result of not having a system to provide validation to an implementor (both at implementation-time, and on an ongoing basis).
Validation that an implementation is correct relative to some idealized target sounds exactly like something that machines can help us with, and indeed they have — from compilers that enforce certain invariants of programs - to test frameworks that allow us to author scenarios in which to run our code and assert expected behaviors.
As alluded to above, an ideal system will provide feedback and validation at three critical places in the product development lifecycle:
At development time “What should I implement?”
At build-time “Is it right?”
At CI time “Has it stayed right?”
As a developer-focused company, these elements of aligning a great developer experience with the process improvements of a centralized tracking plan became a compelling problem to solve.
That’s why we built, and are now open sourcing Typewriter - a tool that lets developers “bring a tracking plan into their editor” by generating a strongly typed client library across a variety of languages from a centrally defined spec.
The developer experience of using a Typewriter generated library in Typescript
Typewriter delivers a higher degree of developer ergonomics over our more general purpose analytics libraries by providing a strongly typed API that speaks to a customer’s data domain. The events, their properties, types, and all associated documentation are present to inform product engineers that need to implement them perfectly to spec, all without leaving the comfort of their development environment.
Compile time (and runtime) validation is performed to ensure that tracking events are dispatched with the correct fields and types to give realtime validation that an implementation is correct.
This answers the questions of “What should I implement” and “Is it right” mentioned earlier. The remaining question of “Has it stayed right?” can be answered by integrating Typewriter as a task in your CI system.
How it works
Typewriter uses what amounts to a machine-readable Tracking Plan with a rich language built on JSON Schema for defining and validating events, their properties and associated types that can be compiled into a standalone library (making use of the excellent quicktype library to generate types for languages we target with static type systems).
This spec can be managed within your codebase, ensuring that any changes to it will result in a regenerated client library, and always up to date tracking code.
What comes next
Being avid Segment users ourselves, we’ve been migrating our mountains of hand written tracking code to Typewriter generated libraries and have been excited to realize the productivity gains of offloading that work to the tooling.
Typewriter will continue to evolve to support the needs of all Segment customers too — we’re continuing to expand it and are open to community PRs!
We’d like you to give Typewriter a shot in your own projects and feel free to open issues, submit PRs, or reach us on twitter @segment.
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The U.S. is unique among developed countries in that consumer demand for diesel-powered cars is practically non-existent.
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Sure, there are rabid fans of “oil burners,” as diesel power plants are called, but they account for a small number of vehicle owners. Consequently, they simply are not offered in the U.S. by many car companies that have robust diesel sales in other countries.
So why don’t Americans like diesel, despite their reputation for exceptional fuel economy? Many blame the ill-fated General Motors Oldsmobile and Cadillac modified gas-into-diesel engines of the late 1970s. The fact that those models self-destructed after fewer than 30,000 miles may well have scared off Americans from diesel power. Others say the old diesels that belched exhaust like a smoke screen from a James Bond car and accelerated like an arthritic snail left a long-lasting negative impression as well. While those two factors undoubtedly steered generations away from diesel, our federal and state governments’ tax rates also play a role in limiting diesel’s acceptance.
The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel. On average, as of January 2013, state and local taxes add another 30.4 cents to each gallon of gasoline and 30 cents to diesel, for a total US average fuel tax of 49.5 cents per gallon for gas and 54.8 cents per gallon for diesel.
The United States is one of the only developed country where diesel costs more at the pump than regular unleaded gasoline, despite the fact that diesel costs less to refine than unleaded gasoline. So, if it costs less, why is it taxed more and why, when prices fluctuate, does it not rise or fall at the same rate that gasoline does? The theory behind the different taxation stems from the fact that the U.S. still views diesel as the fuel of heavy trucks, and heavy trucks cause more damage and wear and tear on the highway infrastructure. To compensate for the added wear and tear, the excise tax is higher. In addition, refineries don’t produce diesel #2 for passenger cars in the same volume as unleaded gasoline. This keeps U.S. diesel prices higher than in the rest of the world. It also means that the rate of replenishment differs at fuel stations, causing the price of diesel to change at a different rate than unleaded gas.
This is unfortunate and short sighted. Modern diesel cars behave much differently than those we remember from the 1970s. Diesels today are reliable (including the Opel-based GM diesel engine offered in the Chevrolet Cruze) and offer great torque and acceleration. They are also significantly easier on the ears both inside and outside the vehicle. Gone too are the soot-laden exhaust fumes; today’s diesels have been re-engineered to burn cleaner and, for larger diesel engines, each manufacturer has developed a urea injection system. (Smaller Jetta diesels don’t require urea injections). The urea additive adds some complications to diesel vehicle ownership since the tank resides in the truck and sprays the exhaust to lower emissions output, creating a “clean diesel.” However, the tank must be refilled every 10,000 miles or so, and while it’s not expensive (about $30 for the liquid and is DIY friendly), if you ignore the warnings about the tank running low, the car will not start if the urea tank runs dry.
So, will it change? If the lobbyists for BMW, Mercedes, VW and GM are successful in their lobbying efforts for a fairer tax rate, running diesel will offer a bigger financial advantage. It’s an advantage that could potentially be better than hybrid running costs. That should bring buyers interested in high mileage and low-running costs into dealerships. My advice is to start educating yourself about diesels, because I think we’ll be seeing more of them soon.
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Astrid: Um... you preened Chicken's feathers?
Tuffnut: What does he give you that I can't, huh? Huh? [a clutch of baby chicks walks onscreen]
Astrid: Aw, Chicken has a family!
Tuffnut: Okay. Yeah, other than that. I can't lay eggs.
Tropey's gone missing!!! Oh dear Lord, what am I gonna do? I mean, he's been acting so strangely. He's been wanting to get out of the house more, he won't eat, he won't sleep, he doesn't want me to pet him, I'm at a complete loss!
What? Wait a minute... is that... Tropey with a girl dog? And (gasp!) PUPPIES! And look, they're so cute!
This is somewhat Truth in Television; compared to humans, other mammals aren't always as visible with the signs of pregnancy, and the next generation really can appear by surprise, the animal's owner having been none the wiser. And that's only counting the female's owner — the male pet, obviously, would show no signs that he knocked up another animal.
See Your Tomcat Is Pregnant if they incorrectly thought the pet was a boy and Monster Is a Mommy for another "unexpected baby animals" trope. Despite the trope name, this can apply to pets other than dogs—in fact, it's just as common for it to involve kittens.
- In one very rare long-term arc in The Beano during the early 1980s, Dennis the Menace's dog Gnasher went missing for several weeks, with readers being encouraged to join in the search in real life. It finally turned out that he'd fallen in love with a poodle and had a litter of puppies with her. The only one who looked like him, Gnipper, subsequently joined the cast.
- In Gift of the Night Fury, all of the dragons on Berk get up and leave Berk without warning (with the exception of Toothless, who can't fly on his own), leaving the Hooligan Tribe at a loss of what's happened. When Meatlug, who Fishlegs had restrained before she had the chance to leave, flies off with Hiccup, he and the other riders discover what they were all leaving for. Hiccup finds the island where they all left, along with eggs and hatchling baby dragons, while the others find a bunch of unhatched gronckle eggs in the barn.
- Averted in Air Bud World Pup, where the puppies don't come as a surprise; people witness Buddy falling hard for Molly, and notice him nipping off to see her before she has their puppies. Also, their respective owners, Josh and Emma, and their families are on friendly terms, so Josh never loses track of Buddy for very long.
- In the second Beethoven movie, the kids are surprised to learn that Beethoven has a St. Bernard girlfriend and several purebred puppies.
- Annie and the Wild Animals starts off with Annie's pet cat, Taffy, acting unlike a usual pet cat and then disappearing into the woods, causing Annie attempting to attract and tame a pet from the woods. The story literally illustrated in the frames of each page reveal that while this is going on, Taffy gives birth to a litter of 3 kittens and eventually comes back to Annie with them.
- By the end of Madeline's Rescue, Genevieve, the dog that rescued Madeline, what the girls keep fighting over ownership of, and was taken away by Landlord Cucuface, is found again by Miss Clavel and taken in. After the girls' second fight over her, Genevieve gives birth to 11 puppies, giving each girl a dog of their own.
- There's an episode of Full House where the Tanners are taking care of a golden retriever named Minnie. When it's almost time for her to go home, they find her on Jessie's bed, where she turns out to have had puppies. Jessie bemoans his rotten luck, but the rest of the household is delighted.
- Frasier is horrified to learn that Martin's dog Eddie hasn't been neutered when a woman shows up with a box full of puppies that are the result of Eddie mating with her dog Phoebe. Daphne immediately falls in love with the puppies and wants to keep them but Frasier insists they have to go.
- Arthur has the episode "Arthur's Pet Business", based on the book of the same name where he takes care of many pets to prove he can care for a dog. One of them was a grouchy dog, who was later revealed to be pregnant as she gave birth to puppies. Arthur was allowed to keep one of them, naming him Pal.
- In the Dennis the Menace epsiode, "Ruff to the Rescue", Mrs. Vandersnoot demands that the Mitchell family keep Ruff, Dennis' dog away from Muffy, her cat, even though Ruff has absolutely no malice towards her. One rainy night, both Ruff and Muffy go missing and Mrs. Vandersnoot accuses Ruff of chasing her. Dennis eventually finds Ruff inside a hollow tree in the park, looking after Muffy and her new litter of kittens.
- An episode of Doug has Roger's Right-Hand Cat acting sick (much to the dismay of his owner) until is discovered that it was just expecting kittens.
- In the Dragons: Riders of Berk episode "Searching For Oswald... and Chicken", the B-plot involves Tuffnut's pet chicken has going missing and has recruited everyone (except for Hiccup and Fishlegs, who is helping Dagur in the main plot of the episode) to help him. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that she was actually with a fetching young rooster and their clutch of newborn chicks.
- In the Gotham Girls episode "Gotham Noir", Catwoman has hired Harley to find her cat Velma who has disappeared. It turns out Velma has found a mate and has had a kitten. The kitten is returned to Catwoman and Velma chooses to stay on the streets.
- The sixth episode of Filmation's cartoon series Lassie's Rescue Rangers is "The Imposters," wherein the Turners are apprehended for larcenies committed by look-alikes. After Lassie succeeds in exposing the imposters, the Turners are vindicated and freed. Upon returning home, however, they are greeted by a snarling Lassie. "Don't tell me you believe we're the culprits?" Fortunately, no: Lassie was being protective of her newborn collie pups. Which means Lassie did her heroics while a Pregnant Badass.
- In Milly, Molly's cartoon adaptation, Milly's cat Marmalade and Molly's cat Tom Cat both go missing in the first episode "Monday", and when they find them, Marmalade has had kittens and it's heavily implied that Tom Cat is the dad.
- Rugrats: In "Bow Wow Wedding Vows", Tommy gets jealous when Spike seems to spend more time Fifi than with him, but soon finds out that Fifi was having their puppies.
- In The Simpsons episode "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds," the family adopts female racing greyhound She's the Fastest after she and family dog Santa's Little Helper mate at the dog track (during a race). Despite the fact that they embarrass Marge by constantly engaging in "you-know-what" in front of the house, she's as surprised as anyone else when She's the Fastest suddenly gives birth to 25 puppies.
Marge: Oh my God, she's having babies! I'm sorry, girl, I thought you were just getting fat!
- The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Spot Returns" has Plankton's pet amoeba getting fatter until he and Karen discover that Spot is pregnant. Afterwards, it gives birth to millions of amoeba puppies.


825 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today
496 people recovered and were released from medical care
2 new deaths
The Chonburi Department of Public Health announced 825 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 today with two new deaths, January 14th, 2022.
This makes a total of 9,869 cases of Covid-19 in the current round of infections, with 8,293 people still under medical care/supervision, and with a total of 7 recorded deaths in Chonburi since the start of this recent round of infections in the beginning of this year, January, 2022.
Additionally, 496 people were also released and recovered yesterday in Chonburi. 1,569 people in total have now been released from medical care and recovered in Chonburi since this current wave of Covid-19 began in the beginning of this year, January, 2022.
One person was listed as being in serious condition in Chonburi currently, either on a ventilator or pneumonia. The person was completely vaccinated. According to the Chonburi Department of Public Health, the vast majority of recent cases are mild or asymptomatic.
The two new deaths were the average age of 74 years old. Both of them were not vaccinated. Both had numerous personal health problems and pre-existing conditions.
In total, 1,926,367 people in Pattaya and Chonburi have received their first dose of a Covid -19 vaccine which is 82.71 percent of the total Chonburi population. Of those, 299,731 have received their first dose and are what the Thai government calls 608 groups (elders, have chronic health problems, and pregnant) which is 81.02 percent of those in these risk groups in Chonburi.
The district-level new cases were as follows today:
Mueang Chonburi 88, Si Racha 173, Banglamung (Pattaya) 419, Panat Nikhom 10, Sattahip 76 (in Navy area 20), Ban Bueng 8, Phan Thong 13, Bor Thong 2, Ko Si Chang 1, and 35 people transferred from other provinces for medical care.
The details on the cases are as follows:
Work and stayed in Rayong, transferred from other provinces for medical care, 30 cases
Cluster, Bangkok Jareonmit company in Si Racha, 2 cases
Cluster, Michelin Siam company in Si Racha, 4 cases
Cluster, Autoliv in Phan Thong, 3 cases
Cluster, Aapico Construction Products company in Mueang Chonburi, 3 cases
Risky occupations meeting many people, 25 cases
11 medical personnel
Back from other provinces 26 cases
8.1 Bangkok, 6 cases
8.2 Petchabun. 2 cases
8.3 Songkhla, 2 cases
8.4 Samut Prakan, 2 cases
8.5 Sukhothai, 2 cases
8.6 Ubon Ratchathani, 2 cases
8.7 Kanchanaburi, 1 cases
8.8 Kalasin, 1 case
8.9 Chiang Mai, 1 case
8.10 Nakhon Nayok, 1 case
8.11 Nakhon Sawan, 1 case
8.12 Buriram, 1 case
8.13 Pathum Thani, 1 case
8.14 Yasothorn, 1 case
8.15 Udon Thani, 1 case
8.16 Pitsanulok, 1 case
9. Close contacts from previously confirmed cases in families – 191 cases, in workplaces – 180 cases, close personal contacts – 35 cases, and joined a party – 21 cases
10. Close contacts of a confirmed patient (under investigation), 36 cases
11. 247 cases close contacts of a confirmed patient (under investigation)
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