[BBC] A dog has been killed and several others injured after a snowmobile was deliberately driven into two dog-sled teams competing in a race, officials have said.
The incident happened during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska.
Race marshals said a man on a snowmobile first attacked one sled and later hit the sled that was following behind.
The motive is not clear but police said a suspect had been identified.
Race officials said veteran competitor Aliy Zirkle first reported being attacked near the village of Nulato on the Yukon River during a leg of the 1,000-mile (1,609km) race to Nome.
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters told AP news agency that the snowmobile had hit the side of Ms Zirkle's sled and the driver threatened her several more times before driving off.
One of her dogs was injured. She reported the incident after arriving in Nulato in the early hours of Saturday.
Some time later, competitor Jeff King, who had been following Ms Zirkle, reported being hit by the snowmobile in the same area. One of his dogs was killed and at least three others were maimed.
A statement by the Iditarod Trail Committee said a suspect had been identified by the village police officer in Nulato and authorities were conducting an investigation.
"Regrettably, this incident very much alters the race of the two mushers competing for a win. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... both are going to continue on their way toward Nome," it added.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual event that takes place through some of Alaska's most remote areas between Anchorage and Nome. Competitors and their teams often encounter blizzards, gale-force winds and freezing temperatures.
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PETA protesting against exploitation of animals kills and injures dogs in a dog race they loathe and despise.
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That's not abuse. Those dogs love to run.
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That guy on the snow machine is lucky that he is not dead. He had the opportunity, the ability, the means, and the motive of doing bodily harm or death to the mushers. Mushers carry firearms to protect themselves from moose. They had every right to shoot down this guy to protect their lives.
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[AA.TR] U.S.-based Gulf is will make history later this year when it becomes the first foreign oil company to sell gas in Mexico, the company said Friday.
The move will break a more than 75-year-old state monopoly in the sector in February, the government announced it would bring implement energy reform by permitting foreign oil companies to sell fuel under other banners than Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), the national oil company that has been the only service station operator allowed in Mexico.
"We’re proud to be the first to begin operations with a new brand in the recently opened Mexican market," said Gulf Mexico director Sergio de la Vega.
He said the company will open four gas stations in June and July, adding that two will be located in Mexico City and Monterrey.
He also added that the company, which is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, expects to operate at least 100 service stations at the end of 2016 and 2,000 stations during the next three years.
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Which one of the ruling Mexican Families did they buy off?
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Maybe Mexico will finally get better quality diesel.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Moscow slammed the United States’ “hypocrisy” for refusing to condemn two violent attacks on the Russian embassy in Ukraine.
“In our case, we see no reaction from our Western colleagues… And hypocrisy and duplicity is there, indeed,” Sergei Lavrov told Russian channel Ren TV on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Russian embassy in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, came under attack by angry protesters, who threw stones, smoke pellets, eggs and iodine bottles at the building.
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Here's something about North Korea I'll bet you didn't know and would have never guessed...
SEOUL -- North Korea's "free" medical service has degenerated into a deplorable state with patients compelled to pay for treatment and to even procure drugs on their own, sources familiar with the isolationist country claimed Sunday.
According to multiple sources that maintain clandestine ties with ordinary North Koreans, the North medical service sector has been hit hard by poor economic conditions and shortages of medicine.
"It is an open secret that people wanting treatment must pay hospitals and clinics and that on occasion procure their own drugs," an insider, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
He claimed that people who just could not pay had to give up getting medical treatment altogether and rely on unproven home remedies.
Others said that weak medical infrastructure and unsanitary living conditions are causing outbreaks of malaria, tuberculosis and hand-foot-and-mouth disease which are usually easy to treat and contain.
Reflecting this, the United Nations World Health Organization said the number of tuberculosis cases per 100,000 person in the North has been rising steadily over the year.
In 2010, there were some 395 patients per 100,000, but this rose to 442 in 2014.
In addition, there have been reports from aid groups that the North suffers from shortages of basic drugs and medical equipment like penicillin, anesthetics and even syringes.
"There have been cases where patients have undergone surgery without anesthetics," a aid worker said. He said such shortages have caused people to buy such items themselves to give to doctors.
He then said that there have been reports of medical personnel selling off drugs for profit as well as a circulation of fake drugs, like pain killers and injection drugs.
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B..B..b..but Obamacare and Single Payer are great ideas! Nevermind where they ultimately lead.
[CNS News] With the stroke of Gov. Kate Brown’s signature Friday, Oregon became the first state to eradicate coal from its power supply through legislation and now boasts some of the most stringent demands for renewable energy among its state peers.
The new law will wipe out coal-generated energy in phases through 2030 and requires utilities to provide half of customers’ power with renewable sources by 2040, doubling the state’s previous standard.
Oregon GOP lawmakers, the minority party in both statehouse chambers, went to great lengths to stop the measure with tactics that slowed down the entire legislative process. The GOP raised concerns about cost increases to consumers’ energy bills and questioned whether the environmental benefits were overstated.
"Today, Gov. Brown gave her stamp of approval to a new renewable energy mandate that will cost residential electricity customers in Oregon $190 more each year until 2040," Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli, among the law’s most outspoken opponents, said Friday.
He argued the law "lines the pockets of the green energy industry at the expense of working Oregonians who get nothing in return."
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Oregon has substantial hydroelectric power - probably among the highest in the country. The weather and latitude in the most populous area will make solar power highly ineffective for half the year though.
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Oregon has substantial hydroelectric power - probably among the highest in the country. The weather and latitude in the most populous area will make solar power highly ineffective for half the year though.
Also, they only have the hydroelectric power because the Feds built the plant for them and they have advantageous geography. THey should be forced to redistribute their carbon-tax-free electricity to states that weren't so fortunate in the carbon-tax-lottery and are more geographically challenged, like Kansas or Florida. Or maybe Louisiana
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Oregon, in 2015 got about 50% of its electricity from hydro. So utilities will have to get 50% in 2040 and this is announced with trumpets and symbols?
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The surrounding states should all pass laws against selling Oregon electricity. Let them supply it all on their own.
That'd be a good idea except for California which buys energy from Oregon.
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I like Texas' grid. About the right size, and within its borders.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has heightened the tone of his criticism against the country’s Constitutional Court by saying the top court’s verdict which caused the release of two journalists from prison was "against the nation."
"The Constitutional Court has to be one of the institutions that should be the most sensitive about the interests and rights of the state and the people. But this institution and its president [Zuhtu Arslan] have not hesitated to rule against the country and its people on one of the most concrete examples of a massive attack towards The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in recent times," Erdogan said at a rally in Burdur, a Western town, on March 11.
Two prominent journalists from daily Cumhuriyet, its editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, and Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gul, were set free after 92 days of imprisonment as a result of a Constitutional Court decision which said their rights had been violated. Dundar and Gul had been locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by a lower Istanbul court on charges of espionage and terrorism after they reported about claims that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) was allegedly shipping weapons to rebels in Syria.
Erdogan vowed he would continue to stand against the top court’s verdict in line with his presidential duty to protect the constitution, saying, "I am responsible for monitoring the orderly and harmonious work of state bodies, the implementation of the constitution and representing the unity of the state and the people of the Republic of Turkey. Those who would exceed the boundaries of its authority will have to face me. I will never hesitate to voice my objections in the name of my people if the Constitutional Court opts for such a thing."
"It was himself, Mr. President [Arslan], who had told me, ‘We never issue a ruling before its reasoning is ready.’ But unfortunately, I was so unhappy and resentful after this. Why? Because, his position requires honesty," he said.
‘Lower court had to resist’
The lower court in Istanbul that obeyed the top court’s ruling and released Dundar and Gul has also taken its share of Erdogan’s criticism. "The lower court had to resist the Constitutional Court," Erdogan said, although the top court’s decisions are binding for all judicial institutions. "We would see what the Constitutional Court would do then. If the court insists on its decision, I believe things would develop in a different direction."
Recalling that the lower court arrested the two journalists on charges of espionage, Erdogan reiterated his stance that the case had nothing to do with the freedom of the press.
Alone this issue shows the need for a new constitution that would endorse the presidential system, Erdogan stated, lashing out at oppositional parties for stopping the process.
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By now, the State Department should be disabused of its policy that the Muslim Brotherhood and its leadership (whether in Turkey or elsewhere) support liberal democracy. I know, such thinking is foolish.
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New research shows that the youngest students in a classroom are more likely to be given a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than the oldest. The findings raise questions about how we regard those wiggly children who just can’t seem to sit still -- and who also happen to be the youngest in their class. I'm really interested in the subject because we had to move my son to a different school to get him out from under attempts by the feminazi principal to put him on Ritalin.
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I am a psych RN. I have worked with all sorts of kids in my career. And now my grandson has been unofficially diagnosed with ADHD. He is 6 yo. When I play with him, his brain won't stop when I say enough. There is not enough room on this post to say what I feel. Kids with ADHD need to have special diets and a daily routine. I do admit there does seem to be more kids with dx of ADHD than when I was growing up. I don't think it's anti-boy bigotry, "No mo", just boys tend to have ADHD more often than girls.
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I guess, texhooey, yours is one of few real ones, but 99.99% is just some feminazi bitch that can't deal with a boy whose effective IQ is twice hers.
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My wife is a teacher and she believes that it's more these kids are not getting enough sleep. Their parents allow them to remain up to midnight or worse, then they send them off all wired to school and expect the teachers to deal with it. Kids really do need 8+ hours of sleep, not 6. I suspect if parents start giving their kids actual schedules and let them sleep enough, you'll reduce the dx down to the ones that truly have it. I know our little 1 yr old acts like a speed freak if he gets less sleep than he should. His behavior is much different when his routine is kept too, resulting in a solid 11+ hours sleep and he gets his naps. Then he's a relatively calm kid that likes to play and have fun without appearing to be amped on speed.
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Telling little boys to act like little girls does not make them sit down and shut up. ADHD is a cudgel in public schools, not a diagnosis of illness. Being a rambunctious little boy is not a disease. They need time to learn how to properly handle their natural aggression and higher physical activity levels. Not drugs. They need to be able to rough house with each other in the dirt on a playground and have punishment when they go too far so they learn where the limits are. Drugging them does not let them learn.
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Separate classes/schools for girls and boys. Male teachers for the boys and lots of recess.
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My youngest was diagnosed with ADHD in the 3rd grade. She's very smart and I always thought she was just bored. She always made straight A's and finished her work at school quickly and was left with nothing to do but fidget. The school she was going to at the time didn't have any advanced programs as these programs "made the slower students feel bad". The dumbing-down of students was well established. I fought the "diagnosis" tooth and nail and was finally able to get her into a better school. She is now finishing her degree in organic chemistry.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AA.TR] U.S.-based Gulf is will make history later this year when it becomes the first foreign oil company to sell gas in Mexico, the company said Friday.
