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When the road became a dead-end, Thoman continued over the curb, up the grass hill, through a chain link fence, across the alley, through a board and railroad tie fence, and into a backyard where his vehicle hit a water trough and came to a stop against the back side of a house along 6th Street Northwest.

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Richard Berman, a notorious PR flack who recently helped Smithfield bust its unions, has taken to the pages of the industry trade publication PorkNetwork to urge producers to cling to their gestation crates, which he prefers to call “maternity pens.” His advice: Ignore the issue. If the industry holds steady, he wrote, “it will prevail.”

The proposed legislation would place restrictions on tethering and penning dogs and other animals between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. The bill’s next step is the Agricultural Committee.

To perform geomorphological analyses, we produced the following derived datasets in ArcGIS 10.4: (i) grayscale shaded relief maps (1× and 3× vertical exaggeration) with NW and SW illuminations, (ii) bathymetric surface contour maps (at 1-, 2-, and 5-m vertical intervals), (iii) slope (gradient) maps (0° to 90°), (iv) slope aspect maps (000° to 359°), and (v) profile curvature maps (in degrees m−1). To avoid mapping errors caused by azimuth bias (50, 51) and to ensure faithful landform representation, 2D cross-sectional profiling techniques were used (in Fledermaus and ArcGIS), alongside the first- and second-order derivatives of the bathymetric grid. Color and grayscale shaded relief maps (geotiffs) of digital elevation models were primarily used for 3D visualization purposes and cartographic presentation. All maps and datasets (onshore and offshore) were projected in Geographic Coordinate System GCS-WGS-1984 to minimize geolocation errors. Submarine glacial landforms within the former flow path of the MnIS were digitized in ArcGIS 10.4. Because of the large size of the study area (~10,000 km2) and differing resolution bathymetric datasets (see fig. S1), it was not possible to map all of the study area at the same level of detail, although mapping was typically conducted at 1:10,000 scale. In this study, we paid particular attention to the following: large transverse ridges within the ice-stream trough, other ice-marginal features (moraines, etc.), other evidence of ice-stream/ice-shelf grounding, and areas of hard substrate (bedrock) at seabed.

On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a bloody white parakeet, the victim of a cat attack. The man in front of me in line held, in a small cage, a dove that had collided with a glass tower in the financial district. A girl no older than 7 came in behind me clutching, in her bare hands, a white hen with a slumped neck.

If Kobuk hadn’t fetched Anne, Tika almost certainly would have died. Tika recovered, and as her health improved after the amputation and operation, Kobuk became the bossy dog he’d always been, even as Tika walked around on three legs. But Anne had witnessed their true relationship. Kobuk and Tika, like a true old married couple, would always be there for each other, even if their personalities would never change.

Gestation stalls are intended to minimize fighting among hierarchical sows and protect workers from the pregnant animals, which can weigh between 350 and 450 pounds, said Sarah Crawford, assistant vice president of animal welfare for the National Pork Board in Des Moines, Iowa. She said the stalls are long enough for the animals to lie in, and research has shown some will choose a stall over living in a group.

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“These animals are raised like they’re parked cars, side by side, cage next to cage in a giant warehouse,” said Josh Balk, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). “If this practice was done to dogs or cats, it would be illegal. But it became standard in the pork industry.”

Invasive lobular carcinoma—a malignant breast tumor. This spidery little beast measuring nearly three centimeters meant I had stage 2 cancer.

Though there are no Premier liquid coasters left in the world, the water coaster is far from gone. Mack Rides of Germany seems to have had more success with the concept — the SeaWorld chain’s three Journey to Atlantis water coasters, the first of which opened in 1998 (one year before BuzzSaw Falls) are still entertaining guests today.