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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department said Monday it has ended its freeze on new enrollments in the nation's federal Job Corps program, but budget constraints mean fewer youths will be admitted in the future.
The temporary freeze, which began on Jan. 28, prevented more than 10,000 disadvantaged and at-risk youth from getting job training at 125 job centers around the country.
House and Senate lawmakers who have complained about the freeze called the decision good news, but some say they are troubled that it was caused in large part by a lack of proper government oversight.
"It is disturbing that financial mismanagement led to a three-month enrollment freeze that prevented students from attending Job Corps and led to job loss at local Job Corps centers," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.
Labor officials have said they were forced to halt new admissions for the first time in the program's history because of a nearly $100 million budget shortfall over the past two years.
Jane Oates, assistant secretary of Labor for Employment and Training, which oversees Job Corps, conceded at a Senate hearing last month that inadequate staffing and monitoring of the program led to budgeting mistakes and cost overruns. She took the blame for not managing the program more effectively.
Since it was created in the 1960s, Job Corps has offered free education and vocational job training for students ages 16 to 24. It usually serves about 60,000 students each year, providing supervised dormitory housing, meals, medical care and counseling. The government pays private contractors to run the job centers.
"The suspension of enrollment has been difficult for students and families, and the department is committed to ensuring that this important program is administered efficiently by (the agency) and in the best interests of students and families," said acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris.
Some lawmakers are concerned that the Labor Department has been renegotiating contracts with private vendors to lower its costs. As a result, fewer youths will be enrolled in many of the job centers.
In a letter to the Labor Department last week, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., called the decision to reduce student slots "extremely shortsighted." He said the plan would result in a loss of 500 out of about 836 student slots in Mississippi's three Job Corps centers, and jeopardize roughly 450 staff jobs.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, met with Labor Secretary-nominee Thomas Perez earlier this month and asked him to fire or suspend those responsible for the program's mismanagement, Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley said Monday. Perez told Collins he would, Kelley said.


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Hawks, Titans set to renew rivalry for 41st time
The Bishop Hendricken football team has won 20 consecutive Thanksgiving games over Toll Gate, and the Hawks will be favored to keep that streak going when the two teams meet again this year.
But with Hendricken making the playoffs each of the last four years, the game has taken on a very different look.
For the Titans, it's the final game of their season, and they'll hold nothing back.
Yet, for the Hawks, it's a game that they always want to win, but also manage well enough so that they're healthy and ready to go for a Division I semifinal game that will be played the following Tuesday.
It's a balancing act for Hendricken, and the game is itself is a mixing of two teams in very different situations.
"Our big thing is to have fun," Toll Gate head coach Matt Mancuso said. "I know they're getting ready for a playoff game. The tougher a game we make it on them early, the quicker those guys will be out."
The Titans went 0-7 this year in Division II-B, but did pick up a non-league victory on Nov. 10 against Pilgrim for their first win of the season. Hendricken went 6-2 in Division I and is coming off a loss to La Salle in its most recent game.
The Hawks allowed the fewest points in all of D-I, and they'll look to keep that trend up against a Toll Gate team that put up the fewest points in D-II-A.
It seems like a little bit of a mismatch on paper, but there's still urgency on the Hawks' side. Nobody wants to be the team that ends the long winning streak.
"It's especially big for the seniors," Hendricken head coach Keith Croft said. "I think they want to keep the streak going against Toll Gate. We'd like to try to get all the seniors to start, or at least play significantly from the beginning of the game."
The game will be played on Wednesday night this year, at Hendricken at 7 p.m.
The Titans will be taking another shot at snapping the streak and finishing the season strong.
"We've got to play physical," Mancuso. "If we go down there and let them know that they can just run all over us, it's going to be as ugly as can be."
The Hawks, meanwhile, will be trying to beat Toll Gate and then turn their focus to a playoff game just six days later.
"You worry about Toll Gate a little more as the week winds down, get healthy a little bit," Croft said. "We give a little extra attention to some of the younger guys who haven't played that much with the varsity. Hopefully we can get them out there on Thanksgiving and then get ready for Tuesday."
Prediction: Hendricken 35, Toll Gate 6

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Astros president, CEO Postolos steps down
HOUSTON -- George Postolos, who played an instrumental role in working with owner Jim Crane and his group to purchase the Astros, resigned suddenly from his position as president and CEO of the team Monday afternoon.
The team released a statement saying Postolos would return to his consulting practice advising investors on acquisitions and strategy in professional sports. Crane wasn't available for comment, but Postolos reiterated to MLB.com the decision to leave was his alone.
HOUSTON -- George Postolos, who played an instrumental role in working with owner Jim Crane and his group to purchase the Astros, resigned suddenly from his position as president and CEO of the team Monday afternoon.
The team released a statement saying Postolos would return to his consulting practice advising investors on acquisitions and strategy in professional sports. Crane wasn't available for comment, but Postolos reiterated to MLB.com the decision to leave was his alone.
"It's something we've talked about, and it's the right time for the organization," he said. "Jim and I have been working together for seven years, and I think a lot has been accomplished."
During his time with the Astros, Postolos helped rebrand the franchise with new uniforms, colors and logos, and also revamped the marketing and foundation departments and emphasized the importance of feedback from Astros fans.
"We appreciate George's hard work in the acquisition of the Astros and his commitment to the organization," Crane said in a statement. "I'd also like to personally thank him for the assistance that he has provided to me over the last several years and wish him the best of luck in the future."
The Astros have undergone a huge makeover under Crane's watch that stretches beyond new uniforms and playing in the American League. There has been a heavy turnover in the front office, with several key members departing in the last 18 months.
The team has also struggled on the field, losing a franchise-record 107 games last year and entering play Monday with a 10-28 record and in last place in the AL West. The Astros' $22 million payroll is the lowest in baseball as the club tries to rebuild through player development and the First-Year Player Draft.
Postolos left a similar position with the NBA's Houston Rockets in 2006 and started a company that helps acquire sports franchises. He and Crane attempted to land the Rangers and Cubs before coming through on their second attempt to purchase the Astros -- a $610 million deal that hinged on a 2013 move to the AL West from the National League, where the club played for 51 years.
"We started out with an idea that [Crane] would become an MLB owner, and he became the controlling owner of the franchise in his hometown and has a great ownership group in place," Postolos said. "Since the time we closed [November 2011], we've made a lot of improvements in the business, and I think it's in a very good position right now. The organization has a lot of the key pieces in place going forward to be successful. I know Jim will bring a World Series to Houston."
Prior to joining the Astros, Postolos was COO of the Rockets for four years and president and CEO for four years, and he was instrumental in the development of the Toyota Center. He was also behind Comcast SportsNet Houston, a regional sports network formed in partnership with the Astros and Rockets that hit the airwaves last fall.
Slow negotiations between the CSN Houston and satellite/cable providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse and Time Warner Cable have left more than half of the Houston TV market without the ability to watch Astros games on a daily basis, which has frustrated fans.
A Harvard Law School graduate, Postolos began his sports career at a young age, when former San Antonio Spurs owner Angelo Drossos -- a close friend of Postolos' dad -- hired him to sell season tickets during a summer break from Harvard.
Postolos was soon rubbing shoulders with Larry O'Brien, the former NBA commissioner, and later met current NBA commissioner David Stern, who eventually hired him to be his special assistant. A career was born, and Postolos has been a fixture in the Houston sports scene for more than a decade.
For now, Postolos is looking forward to helping investors acquire professional sports franchises.
"If you look at what's going on in the sports acquisition marketplace, it's very robust," Postolos said. "Major League Baseball, even since the time we acquired the Astros, there has been some very impressive transactions put together, and I think that's going to continue in baseball, and also in other major sports. And they all look like they're well-positioned. It's a good time to be doing kind of what I used to do before I became president of the Astros, which is helping investors pursue Major League franchises. I'm kind of back to that again, and it's a good time to return to that."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter.


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Nick Cannon is spending the first week of the new year in the hospital, with wife Mariah Carey by his side. Carey tweeted that Cannon is suffering from "mild kidney failure." His representative confirmed Cannon's hospitalization. He is in Aspen, Colo., where he and Carey were vacationing.
Carey posted a picture on her website of a miserable-looking Cannon in a hospital bed as she lay beside him. She asked for prayers and said Cannon's situation was "very painful." She later called it a "serious moment that's very tough on all of us."
The pair became the parents of twins _ a boy and a girl _ last year.
Cannon is 31. His representative had no further information Wednesday about his condition, but said he is still hospitalized.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to be back on the job next week, an aide said Thursday.
"The secretary continues to recuperate at home. She had long planned to take this holiday week off, so she had no work schedule. She looks forward to getting back to the office next week and resuming her schedule," Philippe Reines told The Cable, a blog operated by Foreign Policy magazine.
Clinton's office announced Dec. 9 she was canceling a trip to the Middle East because of a viral infection. She later suffered a concussion from a fall related to the illness and was unable to testify before House and Senate committees investigating the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Rightwing pundits suggested Clinton's illness was well-timed, with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton calling it a "diplomatic illness to beat the band." But Clinton has promised she will appear before both committees in January, and Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have supported her.


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Real-life exorcisms do occur, and can even happen in Berkshires
The word "exorcism" can cause a flurry of disturbing images: a young girl's head spinning around; profanity too vulgar to be uttered by anyone, let alone a 12-year-old; two priests dying during the ritual.
But those iconic images surrounding a possessed girl named Regan (Linda Blair) and her eventual exorcism in the 1973 film "The Exorcist" are "highly inaccurate" compared to the real-life ritual of casting out demons or spirits, according to Glenn Shuck, an assistant professor of religion at Williams College.
"It's not done so haphazardly," he said. "Priests should focus on driving the demon out, not engaging in the sensational activities depicted in 'The Exorcist.' Sometimes the individual has to be restrained, preferably by a family member, but that's very, very rare. The film has to play up every possible exaggeration."
Hollywood dramatizations notwithstanding, exorcisms under several different names and religions still occur today, and they might even be on the rise.
According to the Episcopal Rite of Exorcism, the ritual is "the practice of expelling evil spirits by means of prayer and set formulas [and] derives its authority from the Lord himself who identified these acts of his messiaship."
Just as in the church's earlier days, exorcism is reserved only for the bishop, who can delegate the rite to others deemed competent.
After his production team in the upcoming documentary "The Exorcist in the 21st Century" spent "hours and hours" speaking with exorcists, priests and bishops, producer Christian Falch told The Eagle he's under "the strong opinion that exorcisms in the Catholic Church are on the rise again, and I do not think we have seen the end of it."
As of January of last year, about 30 Roman Catholic priests were qualified to perform exorcisms, said Thomas John Paprocki, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., in an interview with "The Atlantic" magazine.
In February of 2011, Catholic dioceses were increasing the number of those trained in the rite, according to the National Catholic Register.
And at least one exorcism has been performed this year in the Berkshires -- on a house.
From room to room
There was holy water in the priest's one hand and a crucifix in the other as the congregation moved from room to room during the January exorcism.
"It's important to have a crucifix with you. The holy water, you sprinkle around," the local priest said, recalling the ritual.
(The priest requested anonymity so that there would be no ties to the negative connotations of exorcisms.)
The house merited an exorcism after the tenant cited a deep sense of unease. According to the priest, exorcisms in the Episcopal faith are administered by the bishop to cast out "an entity of ill will."
"It lodges in a place or person," the priest said. "It was successful. They felt a greater ease in their own home [afterward]."
The exorcism is the only one reported by this parish in at least seven years. The priest was calm in recalling the ritual, which had none of the theatrics that characterize demonic-possession movies.
"It's for people who are of strong faith and a commitment to prayer," the priest said. "We gather with the bishop in celebrating the holy communion. It was so simple. In many ways, it was a house blessing. We moved from room to room, praying."
The calm report of the exorcism was in stark contrast to the reports of a 1981 exorcism on a Lee house that made national headlines.
According to reports in The Eagle at the time, Dale and Lui Passetto started experiencing a mean-spirited demon in their house that April. The demon would fling their furniture, destroy religious artifacts and even manifest itself and attack.
After the Passetto family contested doctors' theories that they were hallucinating the terrors, an exorcism was performed by two Roman Catholic priests on Sept. 24, 1981. The floors shook and the basement filled with smoke during the ritual, according to The Associated Press.
The exorcism evidently wasn't successful, because further reports showed the Passetto family encountered more supernatural manifestations the following summer.
The Eagle contacted the Passetto family, now living in Florida, but they declined to comment.
The exorcism was arranged by Connecticut natives Ed and Lorraine Warren, who founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952. Their previous experiences with the supernatural were the basis of the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror."
The Warrens are the subject of the upcoming movie "The Conjuring," which will hit theaters in July.
Last resort
Exorcisms in the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches are done as a last resort, and are performed after intense medical and psychological evaluations to rule out underlying mental issues.
"If it's done, it's done very, very carefully," said Shuck, the Williams College religion professor.
In her 12-page lecture from 2010, titled "Exorcism and Possession in the Gospels," Denise Buell, chairman of the religion department at Williams, cited an exorcism performed by Jesus Christ at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark.
"A lot of healings contributed to Jesus are actually exorcisms," Buell said. "Many of my students are surprised when I call attention to them."
Historically, an exorcism was performed on a person just before he or she was baptized to ensure that no evil spirits would be sealed in through the baptism.
"They wanted to make sure the good spiritual power isn't going to compete with the bad spiritual power," Buell said. "The logic is to get out all of the bad stuff, and then the human is ready."
Though he's left his Pentecostal roots behind, Shuck recalls living just outside of Houston and attending a Pentecostal high school. He cited his time there as the reason he became a theologian.
In the Pentecostal faith, the ritual is more commonly referred to as a deliverance rather than an exorcism.
"There are few shades of gray in the Pentecostal church," Shuck said. "What is evil is very well defined, and what is holy is very well defined."
The act of delivering out a spirit in the Pentecostal faith will theoretically rid the vessel of a demon that causes drug or alcohol addiction, or even a physical sickness caused by a virus.
Shuck witnessed both in his family.
"I saw [the family member] was convulsing," Shuck said. "As I looked up stories on exorcisms, I saw that it's not uncommon to experience convulsions. It could have been the scotch, but who knows."
Church members also would frequent Shuck's high school to deliver some students from the demons that caused substance abuse.
"In some cases, they wouldn't even mention demons, but it was intensely emotional," he said. "The last two weeks of school, students would come forward to talk about their deliverance from issues and confess how it's been driven out of their lives."
Classic horror
Released on Dec. 26, 1973, as counter-programming to the usual cheery holiday fare, the William Friedkin film "The Exorcist" remains the champion of demonic-possession films and perhaps horror films altogether. It's usually near the top of the requisite "scariest movies of all time" lists released around Halloween.
Possession and exorcism films have been on the spread ever since. "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," "Drag Me to Hell," "The Last Exorcism," "The Rite," "Insidious," and the ongoing "Paranormal Activity" franchise are some of the better-known recent properties dealing with the subject.
One of the first movies of this year was the demonic-possession film "The Devil Inside," which was the third-biggest movie to ever open in January and grossed more than $100 million worldwide, according to the website Box Office Mojo.
At the end of August, the movie "The Possession" topped the box office for two weekends in a row. It has made more than $70 million worldwide, according to the website.
National interest in possession films isn't indicative of the business that Pittsfield's Beacon Cinema receives, according to John Valente, the cinema's general manager.
"They're not what I call general-interest films," he said. "Hard-core fans come out the first weekend, then business drops off. There's not much word-of-mouth unless it happens to be a film that's really special and unique."
Those words surely describe "The Exorcist," which was the highest-grossing film released in 1973, bringing in about $193 million in the United States, an amount nearly unheard of for its time. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won two -- for sound and best adapted screenplay -- and was the first horror film to be up for best picture.
"I saw 'The Exorcist' when it was first released, and at the time, it was pretty frightening," said the priest who participated in the January 2012 exorcism on the Berkshire house. "I haven't watched any since. I have no interest."
Adjusted for inflation, "The Exorcist" would garner more than $887 million in box-office receipts and be the ninth-biggest movie ever and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.
"['The Exorcist'] did increase the rate of people requesting exorcisms," Shuck said. "It actually refreshed people that it's still done."
Looking on his own experience with "The Exorcist," Steve Lawson, executive director of the Williamstown Film Festival, remembers the film's stellar cast of Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, and how those in the theater with him would go from being genuinely startled to laughing it off in an attempt to kill the tension.
"You have the human interest story. That's what lifted it out of the realm of low-rent horror and into more of a souped-up melodrama," Lawson said. "It tried to go deeper and further than most horror films, and that's why it's still with us and thought so highly of today."
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Exorcism factoids
n Only two or three of the 400 exorcism inquiries received by the Catholic Church each year require the ritual.
n The International Association of Exorcists was founded in 1991 with 12 members but grew to 79 a few years later. Today there are about 200 members.
n Exorcism is protected by the First Amendment, as ruled by a Texas high court in 2008. A North Texas Pentecostal church was not held liable for the subsequent emotional trauma that a parishioner sustained while church members physically restrained her during two exorcism attempts in 1996.
Sources: Eagle news services
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'Teen Mom 2' Star Leah Messer Is Trying To Get Pregnant Again
Leah Messer and Jeremy Calvert just got married and are already planning for a third baby! What's the rush, Leah!?
Fans watched Leah Messer struggle financially, emotionally, and romantically, during the last season of Teen Mom 2. Despite her ups and downs, the 19-year-old reality starlet never gave up on her dream of happily ever ever. And now she's hoping to enhance it with another child!
On April 4, Leah wed her boyfriend, Jeremy Calvert, at the Catlettsburg Wedding Chapel in Ashland, KY. And it seems the blonde beauty isn't wasting any time adding to her family! "Leah can't wait to give him a baby of his own — and Jeremy's thrilled at the thought of having more little ones around," a source tells OK!
Shortly after the couple moved in together last fall, Leah discovered that she was pregnant. In late January, Leah suffered a miscarriage that left her "devastated," according to a family friend. Although Jeremy tried to be supportive, there were "times during the day when she would just break down and cry."
Now that some time has passed, Leah is ready to start trying for a baby again. "No one has ever seen her this happy," revealed the source. "Leah knows that with Jeremy at her side, there's nothing they can't handle."
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While the Baltimore Ravens can revel in their Super Bowl win for the next few months, the San Francisco 49ers are already looking ahead.
``We've always got next year, we've got next season,'' tight end Vernon Davis said. ``May as well look forward to next season.''
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Twoco Petroleums Ltd. Third Quarter Highlights and 2012 Update
By: Marketwired .
Nov. 28, 2012 07:58 PM
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/29/12 -- Twoco Petroleums Ltd. ("Twoco" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:TWO) announces financial and operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 and an update of its 2012 activities.
Twoco has filed the following documents on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR):
1. Unaudited condensed interim financial statements as at and for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, together with the notes therein as prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards; and 2. Management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations as at and for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.
Copies of these documents may be obtained via SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Highlights of the Third Quarter 2012 include:
-- Petroleum and natural gas sales revenue of $913,357 - a 36% decrease from the Third Quarter 2011 - predominantly due to the decrease in natural gas production and natural gas prices; -- Cash flow used by operations of $42,298. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Company had cash flow from operations of $296,258; -- Average production of 339 boe per day (includes 113 barrels per day of oil and natural gas liquids) - a 45% decrease from the Third Quarter 2011 - a result of shut-in natural gas volumes due to low natural gas prices, a lack of natural gas drilling activity and production declines of the Company's natural gas properties. Current oil production is approximately 120 barrels per day; -- Average production of 113 barrels per day of oil and natural gas liquids from the Company's Warspite heavy oil property represents an 8% increase in the average production of oil and natural gas liquids from the Third Quarter 2011; -- Operating netback of $454,583 ($14.55 per boe); -- Operating netback of $48.48 per barrel in respect of the Company's production of Sparky heavy oil; -- Net loss of $1,037,986; -- Capital expenditures of $65,996; -- Current land position of 105,431 gross (76,782 net) acres; -- Operating costs of $10.54 per boe; -- General and administrative expenses of $6.34 per boe; and -- In the Third Quarter 2012, the Company issued a total of 948,256 common shares in payment of interest accrued to September 30, 2012 on its $3.4 million principal amount of redeemable, convertible, unsecured 8% debentures.
Highlights of Twoco's operations for the 2012 year to date include:
-- Current production of 338 boe per day (includes approximately 120 barrels per day of oil and natural gas liquids); -- Twoco estimates current shut-in and behind pipe production capability of 400 boe per day; and -- The next review date of the Company's credit facilities was to take place on September 30, 2012; however, the review has not yet occurred. The Company and its Bank remain in discussions concerning the next scheduled review date. Effective October 31, 2012, the Bank has agreed to defer collection of monthly interest on the Company's $18,000,000 revolving credit facility as well as the $50,000 working capital waiver fee otherwise due on October 31, 2012. Such monthly interest is currently being added to the principal amount of the Company's revolving credit facility.
Management has been working on certain strategic alternatives including, but not limited to, recapitalizing the Company through financing arrangements or merging with other companies. The Company continues to require the support of its lenders and creditors and will require additional financing to reduce its working capital deficiency and further develop its oil properties to realize the full potential of the significant proved and probable reserve base. There is no assurance, however, that additional funding will be available, if and when needed, and if such funding is not available, the Company's ability to continue as a going concern will be significantly impaired.
Twoco is an oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for, and the acquisition, development and production of, oil and natural gas reserves primarily in the Province of Alberta. Twoco has 73,905,789 common shares issued and outstanding as at today's date.
In this news release the calculation of barrels of oil equivalent (boe) is calculated at a conversion rate of six thousand cubic feet (Mcf) of natural gas for one barrel (Bbl) of oil based on an energy equivalency conversion method. Boes may be misleading particularly if used in isolation. A boe conversion ratio of 6 Mcf: 1Bbl is based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable to the burner tip and does not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements or information ("forward-looking statements"), including statements regarding the Company's shut-in and behind pipe production capability and its ability to continue as a going concern. By their nature, forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond Twoco's control, including the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, volatility of commodity prices, currency fluctuations, imprecision of reserve estimates, environmental risks, operational risks in exploration and development, competition from other industry participants, the lack of availability of qualified personnel or management, stock market volatility and the ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources. Although Twoco believes that the expectations in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, our forward-looking statements have been based on factors and assumptions concerning future events which may prove to be inaccurate. Those factors and assumptions are based upon currently available information. Such statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could influence actual results or events and cause actual results or events to differ materially from those stated, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. As such, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, as no assurance can be provided as to future results, levels of activity or achievements. The risks, uncertainties, material assumptions and other factors that could affect actual results are discussed in our Annual Information Form and other documents available at www.sedar.com. Furthermore, the forward-looking statements contained in this document are made as of the date of this document and, except as required by applicable law, Twoco does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The forward-looking statements contained in this document are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy securities in any jurisdiction.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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WESTBROOK (AP) — Officials say a number of dogs had to be removed, but no animals were injured in a fire at a Maine animal shelter.
Fire crews were called at about 9 a.m. Wednesday to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, located in Westbrook.
WMTW-TV reported that the fire started in a dryer in the laundry room, forcing the shelter to throw out linens and blankets that were being dried.
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The South Carolina Aquarium kicks off the summer on Memorial Day weekend with two new 4-D movies, a new Animal Care Exhibit and hands-on animal experiences, all available May 25.
The movies will be "SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D: The Great Jelly Rescue" and National Geographic's "Sea Monsters 4-D."
At the Animal Care Exhibit, visitors can play veterinarian for a day to the animals that call the aquarium home. Also, they can interact with some of the animals, from touching baby alligators to feeding stingrays to getting eye-to-eye with a barn owl.
Other events include special character appearances by Ollie the otter and Alabaster the albino alligator, four Sea Turtle Hospital tours, special turtle-specific interactive stations set-up throughout the aquarium, and painting with tiny terrapin turtles.
Active and retired military members with a valid ID will be admitted at the discount rate of $5 the entire weekend. Regular admission rates apply for others.
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STOCKTON - Education. Training. The gut desire to serve the community. A lot goes into molding a police officer, but it all starts with a dream.
Stockton's newest police officers, Blake Epperson and Eric Jackman, each saw their long-term dreams realized Monday when they were formally welcomed and sworn in by Deputy Police Chief Rick Salsedo.
"I've been working hard and long for this. It's a dream come true," Epperson said at the conclusion of a brief ceremony downtown at Stockton Police headquarters witnessed by family, friends and fellow officers.
Jackman said he felt "awesome. I've been wanting to get into law enforcement for the past five years. It's a pretty difficult job market."
With the addition of Epperson and Jackman, along with nine new officers who were sworn in Saturday at San Joaquin Delta College, the department now has 346 sworn officers. It is aiming for 363.
"It is just a matter of getting (new hires) on board as far as the numbers go," said Salsedo, who indicated the department may have finally turned the corner on the high attrition rate of officers retiring or moving to other agencies.
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Epperson and Jackman will report to Capt. Scott Meadors in the Field Operations Division.
Epperson graduated Saturday from the Basic Peace Officer Academy at Delta College, earning his class's top academic award. A 2007 graduate of Linden High School, he went on to earn a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from California State University, Stanislaus. In 2011, he was a member of the Police Department's Senior Cadet program.
Jackman graduated from the South Bay Regional Police Academy at Evergreen College in San Jose in August 2012. A Bay Area native, he previously worked as a dispatcher and security officer for Oracle Security.
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Pelosi said House Democrats are prepared to consider ways to reduce spending for Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs as long as the cuts are "balanced" by eliminating tax preferences because there's "big money there" for debt reduction.
"We want to see movement" by Republicans "in terms of their sacred cows -- tax giveaways for special interests" and "excessive deductions for the wealthiest people in our country," she said at the Capitol.
Republicans would be willing to close tax loopholes, though not to replace spending cuts, Boehner's office said. Instead, Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said any new tax revenue should be used to lower tax rates.
"I will not be part of any back-room deal and I will absolutely not agree to increase taxes," McConnell said in a statement.
Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, joined Pelosi, Boehner and McConnell at the meeting with Obama.
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Obama is scheduled to order federal departments and agencies today to begin cutting their budgets. The administration has warned that the across-the-board cuts, split between defense and domestic programs, threaten to eventually send poor children home from pre-school, prolong airport security wait times, reduce unemployment benefits and furlough defense workers.
"Not everyone will feel the pain of these cuts right away," Obama said. "I don't anticipate a huge financial crisis, but people are going to be hurt."
While private and government economists have said the cuts may trim growth if they stay in place, investors have signaled they aren't concerned about the impact on the $15.8 trillion U.S. economy.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has risen 6.4 percent this year and the dollar led gains in world markets last month.
The S&P index rose 0.3 percent after dropping as much as 0.9 percent earlier as consumer confidence increased and manufacturing grew at the fastest pace since June 2011. The Dollar Index, which tracks the currency against six U.S. trading partners, climbed 0.5 percent today.
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Take a look at the videos to see examples of stormwater re-use project in action.
At Bronte Park, Waverley Council has implemented a stormwater re-use scheme that is in operation. Stormwater is being collected, stored, treated and then re-used at Bronte to irrigate the parklands, for toilet flushing, pool cleaning of the ocean pool and for cleaning public places.
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Centennial Parklands form the base of a natural catchment for runoff from the surrounding urban area, so re-using stormwater makes good sense. A series of large ponds in the Parklands are linked to each other and the surrounding urban area by channels and pipes. Take a look at how the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust are implementing sustainable water management practices.
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The project was supported with almost $140,000 from the NSW State Government (The Climate Change Fund). Find out more about how Centennial Parklands is managing stormwater.
The Council of The King's School is Australia's oldest independent school, located in North Parramatta on a property of three hundred acres. The school has constructed a stormwater re-use scheme which took approximately three years to build. The scheme takes stormwater off Pennant Hills Road, into storage tanks, and then re-uses it to irrigate eighteen of the school's sporting fields.
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Your dinner plate may hold a key piece of the Alzheimer's puzzle
A virus that commonly infects potatoes looks a lot like one of the proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study. Researchers are using this finding to develop vaccines that could slow—or even prevent—the onset of Alzheimer's.
Robert Friedland, M.D., professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University, and his colleagues reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry that testing on mice has shown vaccination with the potato virus causes the production of antibodies that might slow the progression of Alzheimer's. The investigators propose that eating infected potatoes may cause the development of antibodies that bind to amyloid Beta protein, which collects in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The antibodies may help to clear the protein from the brain.
Human trials of vaccination therapy have produced conflicting results, and one large study was discontinued because of autoimmune encephalitis.
The risk resulted from an inflammatory cell response to the vaccine. Researchers say that the potato virus itself, which also infects eggplant, tomatoes and peppers, poses no risk to humans and that many people likely have eaten potatoes infected with the virus.
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'Move along folks, nothing to see here', the Beat Cop says in the old-time movie while at his back a team of detectives survey the carnage of a gang-style hit. This movie plays today as the higher than expected non-farm payroll number and drop in headline unemployment rate brings 'controlled' selling in global fixed income markets.
We had earlier remembered a lesson learned on approach of a long holiday weekend; Sometimes markets don't cooperate to allow us to leave early.
The bond is in a third consecutive session lower in a candlestick pattern called 'three black crows'. The pattern indicates a strong price reversal from bull market to a bear market. This follows a bearish reversal pattern at the recent high. June 26-27 formed a 'bearish harami' with June 27th forming a single session 'bearish shooting star doji'.
During the last 7 years, we have been taught to buy weakness following the 'one-off' strong economic data print. We had a strong data print today.
However, this follows 4 prior +200K non-farm payroll prints so it is not so much a 'one-off'. There is room for the market move significantly still.
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'Kick-Ass' Creator Discusses His New Gig Consulting on 20th Century Fox's Superhero Movies
Yesterday's big comic movie news (besides the news of Patrick Stewart hinting at a return to The X-Men) was that writer Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) has been hired to serve as a creative consultant on all of Fox's Marvel properties. If you don't follow comics very closely, this might not mean much to you, but for fans it's a pretty exciting proposition. Millar is the man behind some of the biggest stories and series in the medium. He wrote the Marvel series Civil War, worked on The Ultimates and Spider-Man, and was responsible for indie books Wanted and Kick-Ass (both of those, as you'll probably realize, went on to become films). So, Millar is clearly a comic vet with a solid track record – and having him head up your comic movie division is definitely a big deal.
The scribe realizes the scope of the job he's taken on and has posted a letter to fans on Twitter and his website. In it, Millar thanks everyone for their support (particularly Joe Carnahan and Matthew Vaughn) and talks a bit about what this all means. The short version? Potentially good things for fans of X-Men and Fantastic Four and the other Marvel properties at Fox.
Millar tweeted "In all seriousness, this is the biggest thing that's ever happened to me and I really want these movies to be as phenomenal as possible."
He then posted the following excerpts as part of a larger letter on his site's message board:
"It's way too early to talk about plans just yet, but as you can imagine the idea here is to make exactly the kind of superhero movies you and I want to see most. There literally isn't a more talented bunch of filmmakers to be working with and the team at Fox are incredibly excited about this bold new direction too."
Apparently, even Stan Lee stopped by long enough to offer his congrats, which is certainly a sign of blessing when you're handling Marvel properties.
Millar will have his work cut out for him, though. It's too late for him to have much input into The Wolverine, but he's certainly got plenty of time to get his hands dirty tuning up the X-Men: First Class sequel Days of Future Past and trying to reboot The Fantastic Four. If that's not enough, there's always the main X-Men franchise to consider, which has been dormant since the third film disappointed in 2006. One thing he apparently won't have to worry about is Daredevil, which appears poised to head back to Marvel after Fox couldn't get Joe Carnahan's version up and running back in August.
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Roger Simon: Obama needs a legacy, GOP needs votesROGER SIMON
November 16. 2013 1:12AM
IF YOU LIKE your President, you're going to be able to keep him.
In fact, even if you don't like your President, you're going to keep him.
He's not like health insurance.
He's here until Jan. 20, 2017, with no cancellation notices going out in the mail.
The President not only knows this but also has started talking about it. On Friday, at a fundraiser in Florida, he said: "I've run my last election. And along with the gray hair, what comes with being President is that you take the long view and you start thinking about 10 years from now or 20 years from now or 30 years from now."
Except not really. Barack Obama is an activist President who still has an agenda to pass in his second term, and he is thinking about 10 months, 20 months and 30 months from now.
And in his second term, he wants a big legacy issue, as health care was in his first term. He wants immigration reform and a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented workers in the United States.
At one time, this did not look so difficult. Politically, immigration reform helps both parties.
It is now clear, however, that there is a group of Republicans in the House, the so-called kamikaze caucus, who will vote against anything that Obama wants, even if it would help Republicans, too.
The Senate has passed a comprehensive immigration bill, but the House wants to chop it up into separate bills and deal with it piecemeal.
Why piecemeal? Let's say House Republicans pass a law making E-Verify mandatory instead of voluntary. E-Verify is an Internet-based system used by some employers to determine whether a job applicant is in the United States legally. (It is far from flawless, producing both false positives and false negatives, but it's the best thing we've got.)
Democrats say whoa, if you make E-Verify mandatory without giving legal status to the 11 million already here, the system will be used just to deport people. If undocumented workers come out of the shadows, they will be "self-deporting."
Republicans are also very big on securing our 2,000-mile border with Mexico, some wanting to make an absolutely secure border a necessity before anybody already in the United States gets legalized. (Nobody much cares about our 5,500-mile border with Canada.)
The current plan is to spend an incredible $46.3 billion for security along our southern border, about $30 billion of which is to double our number of border agents, to 41,000.
A force of 41,000 to secure a 2,000-mile strip is a big security force. (We currently are using 48,000 U.S. troops to secure all of Afghanistan, which is 252,000 square miles.)
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who helped write the Senate bill providing for all that security, said recently it was mostly political hooey.
"I'll give you a little straight talk: We don't need 20,000 additional Border Patrol agents," McCain told the AFL-CIO. "I voted for it so friends of mine would have comfort that we are securing the border. But the real securing of the border is with technology as opposed to individuals, although we do certainly need individuals."
Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page is not happy with the planned border security "surge." Its editorial stated: "Here's the real story: For some Republicans, border security has become a ruse to kill reform. The border could be defended by the 10th Mountain Division and Claymore antipersonnel mines and it wouldn't be secure enough. As we noted last month . the U.S.-Mexico border is more secure today than it has been in decades. According to Border Patrol statistics, illegal entries are at a 40-year low."
But some Republicans are insisting on the piecemeal approach and the security ruse, even though there is a very good reason for Republicans to pass immigration reform.
That reason is math.
Take the four U.S. mega-states - California, Texas, New York and Florida.
California and New York are safely Democratic in presidential elections.
Florida went Democratic in the past two presidential elections. Texas has been safely Republican.
But what if currently red Texas starts turning Democratic blue because of the increase in the Hispanic vote? Not overnight. But eventually, inexorably.
If the Democrats could be assured of victory in all four mega-states, it would give them 56 percent of the 270 electoral votes they need to elect a President, an enormous advantage.
"When Texas is 'purple,' there will be no more Republican Presidents," an immigration expert told me Monday.
The expert also said that if comprehensive immigration reform is dead in this Congress - and it looks as if it could very well be - it could be passed in an election year or even by a lame-duck Congress. Obama has said he will sign any bill that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million.
This could be his legacy and, ironically, the only hope the Republicans have to be more than a whites-only party, rowing against a demographic tide.
"If the Republicans decided to pass it," Obama said Friday of immigration reform, "it would be to their political advantage to do it."
The Republicans in the House could continue to hold out and hope for a Republican White House in 2016. But every election they delay immigration reform puts the White House farther from their grasp.
Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist.


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TRACY - The Tracy Police Department is investigating a hate crime that reportedly targeted a Tracy City Council member, authorities said.
Police said someone arranged landscaping rocks to resemble a Nazi-style swastika in the front yard of a home in the 1500 block of Arrigotti Lane late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. According to authorities, the home belongs to a prominent family, members of which hold public office and positions in the Tracy African American Association.
Councilwoman Nancy Young told the Tracy Press it was her home that was targeted.
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Canada has two main substantive DWI law criminal offences:
Section 253. Every one commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not,
(a) while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug; or
(b) having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.
The Canadian impaired driving prohibited level of impairment may be slight. In R. v. Stellato, 78 C.C.C. (3d) 380, the issue was whether or not Canada's impaired driving offence required that the driver's conduct demonstrated a marked departure from that of a normal person. Chief Justice Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada agreed with the views of Mr. Justice Labrosse for the Ontario Court of Appeal:
"I agree with Mitchell J.A. in Campbell that the Criminal Code does not prescribe any special test for determining impairment. In the words of Mitchell J.A., impairment is an issue of fact which the trial judge must decide on the evidence and the standard of proof is neither more nor less than that required for any other element of a criminal offence: courts should not apply tests which imply a tolerance that does not exist in law.
In all criminal cases the trial judge must be satisfied as to the accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before a conviction can be registered. Accordingly, before convicting an accused of impaired driving, the trial judge must be satisfied that the accused's ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by alcohol or a drug. If the evidence of impairment is so frail as to leave the trial judge with a reasonable doubt as to impairment, the accused must be acquitted. If the evidence of impairment establishes any degree of impairment ranging from slight to great, the offence has been made out."
Impaired operation or impaired care or control in Canada includes operation or care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft while one's ability to operate is impaired by alcohol or a drug to any degree of impairment. This impaired driving offence is proven by evidence of bad driving and various indicia of impairment observed such as slurred speech, difficulty with standing walking turning, red glassy glossy bloodshot eyes, dilated pupils, odor odour of an alcoholic beverage, complexion flushed face, and performance on physical tests.
It is also a criminal offence in Canada to drive having more than 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 mls of blood whether one's ability to operate a motor vehicle is impaired or not. If a police officer has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a person has committed an offence under s. 253 of the Criminal Code of Canada in the previous 3 hours, he or she may demand a breath sample in order to determine the person's Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC). If the results of a breath test show a reading higher than 80 mg / 100 ml the individual may be charged with the offence of "over 80" or "excess alcohol" or what lawyers in the U.S. call a "per se offence". The offence is proven whether the person's ability to operate is impaired or not. This is a completely separate offence from impaired driving. The driver may appear sober but the over 80 offence is still made out as a result of the breath test.
The DWI offence of excess blood alcohol or over 80 is usually proven by breath tests that determine blood alcohol concentration using and approved instrument such as a Breathalyzer 900 900A or Intoxilyzer 5000C. Blood tests are used in impaired driving and over 80 cases where breath tests are not practical to provide evidence of blood alcohol concentration.
Canada has two main substantive DWI law criminal offences:
Section 253. Every one commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not,
(a) while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug; or
(b) having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.
Both Canadian impaired driving laws are federal criminal law offences. The Crown in Toronto, Ontario Canada can prosecute an impaired operation in either of two ways. Impaired driving and over 80 offences are hybrid offences in Canada. The Crown may prosecute an impaired driving related offence by indictment (roughly similar to a US felony impaired driving) or they may prosecute an impaired driving related offence by summary conviction (roughly similar to a US misdemeanor). The local Crown Attorney must elect whether to proceed with the impaired driving offence by indictment or by summary conviction. Until he or she elects, the impaired driving offence is deemed to be prosecuted by indictment. Most Canadian impaired driving offences are prosecuted by summary conviction.
If a US citizen or other non-Canadian citizen is convicted of an impaired driving related offence in the USA or an impaired driving offence in any country other than Canada, the impaired operation offender will be inadmissible to Canada on grounds of criminality, unless rehabilitated, because the impaired driving offence is deemed to be a Canadian impaired driving offence and all Canadian impaired driving offences are deemed indictable (similar to a US felony - see above) unless the Crown has elected to proceed with the impaired driving offence by summary conviction (which will never have happened because the impaired driving offense occurred outside Canada. The situation will be different if the impaired driving offence occurs in Canada and the Crown elects to proceed by summary conviction which they normally do.
The usual penalty for a first impaired driving offence in Canada is a fine. The minimum second impaired driving offence penalty is 14 days in jail. The minimum penalty for a third impaired driving is 90 days in jail. There is always an impaired driving prohibition and the local province will suspend an impaired driver's driver's licence.
If you are charged with impaired driving in Canada your situation is not hopeless. An experienced impaired driving lawyer or impaired driving attorney can challenge the Crown's case in many ways. Although a conviction for impaired driving may automatically result in a criminal conviction, a fine or jail, a prohibition on driving anywhere in Canada, a suspension of driver's licence by the Province, and increased insurance, a conviction for impaired driving is by no means certain. Busy police officers make mistakes on the road, at the police station, in the breath room, and at Court. It is the responsibility of your impaired driving lawyer to make sure that the Crown does not convict you without proving every element of the impaired driving offence beyond a reasonable doubt.
The onus is always on the Crown to prove each element of its case beyond a reasonable doubt. An experienced impaired driving lawyer will carefully study the disclosure of the Crown brief, including police notes, statements of witnesses, breath room videos, and breath instrument printouts.
The following are some of the issues that impaired driving lawyers litigate in Toronto, Ontario Canada:
Reason for the Stop in Impaired Driving Law
Intent - Mens Rea in Impaired Driving Law
Necessity in Impaired Driving Law
Operating or Driving in Impaired Driving Law
Care or Control in Impaired Driving Law
Motor Vehicle in Impaired Driving Law
Included Offences in Impaired Driving Law
"Impaired" in Impaired Driving Law
Causation of Bodily Harm or Death in Impaired Driving Law
Use of Physical & ASD Tests Prior to RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Physical Tests in Impaired Driving Law
Coutts,Milne,Huff,White in Impaired Driving Law
"Counsel" in Impaired Driving Law
Right to Counsel in Impaired Driving Law
Intoxication During RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Interpreter During RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Privacy During RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Waiver of RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Counsel of Choice RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Information Component RTC in Impaired Driving Law
Right to Silence in Impaired Driving Law
Search or Seizure in Impaired Driving Law
Reasons Given for Arrest in Impaired Driving Law
Reasonable & Probable Grounds in Impaired Driving Law
Demand in Impaired Driving Law
"Forthwith" in Impaired Driving Law
Refusal to Comply with Demand in Impaired Driving Law
"Reasonable Excuse" in Impaired Driving Law
Approved Instrument in Impaired Driving Law
Notice re Certificate of Analysis in Impaired Driving Law
Certificate of Analysis in Impaired Driving Law
Evidence to the Contrary in Impaired Driving Law
Suitable Sample in Impaired Driving Law
Two Tests in Impaired Driving Law
Fifteen Minutes Apart in Impaired Driving Law
As Soon as Practicable in Impaired Driving Law
Two Hour Limit in Impaired Driving Law
Sentence - Impaired Minimum Penalty in Impaired Driving Law
Sentence - Impaired Curative Treatment in Impaired Driving Law
Subsequent Conviction in Impaired Driving Law
Disclosure in Impaired Driving Law
Unreasonable Delay in Impaired Driving Law
Rules and Forms in Impaired Driving Law
Constitutional Validity of Legislation in Impaired Driving Law
Exclusion of Evidence Remedy 24(2) in Impaired Driving Law
No impaired driving lawyer or impaired driving attorney can guarantee success. You may be found guilty and suffer the consequences. Sometimes people really are guilty of impaired driving and the system works the way it should. Sometimes there are no available defences. Your impaired driving lawyer can, however, make sure that you are not convicted without a fight. Even the most hopeless cases sometimes result in an acquittal.
Some impaired driving lawyers can provide you with a list of examples of actual cases that they have litigated or negotiated to a conclusion. Obviously names and identifying data will have been removed to protect confidentiality. An impaired driving lawyer may be able to provide you with his or her case law precedents reported in the law books. Ask if the impaired driving lawyer can provide such a list or look at the lawyer's web site. Look to see if the lawyer has experience raising and litigating creative defences based on solid research and trial skills. Does the lawyer know when to negotiate and when to fight? Does the lawyer have substantial experience in this special area of impaired driving?
Ontario lawyers are governed by the Law Society of Upper Canada. The Law Society has strict rules governing the admission of any person to the practice of law in Ontario. Ontario lawyers are expected to engage in ongoing continuing education and research.
Many Ontario criminal lawyers are members of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Association. You may wish to find out if the lawyer is a member of the CLA or their local law association or criminal lawyers association.
Ask how many years the impaired driving lawyer has been in private criminal law practice. Has the Law Society of Upper Canada designated the lawyer as a specialist in a particular field? Please note that although the Law Society has a specialist designation for criminal law, they do not have a specific specialist designation for impaired driving law. You should find out if the lawyer is a leader among and well-connected with his or her colleagues for research purposes: international and local DUI listserv membership, involvement as a lecturer or seminar leader with peer continuing education, professional involvement within provincial and local law associations, professional reputation among toxicologists, experience as both Crown and defence, qualification as a Breath Alcohol Technician. Ask for and read the impaired driving lawyer's curriculum vitae.
Make notes of everything that happened related to your impaired driving charge. Write: "Private and Confidential for Use by My Impaired Driving Lawyer Only" at the top of the page. Give them to your impaired driving lawyer and no one else. You need notes of your drinking scenario, your interaction with the police at the car, and everything that happened at the police station. Use the following:
The Canadian Impaired Driving Checklist
The Canadian Drinking Driver's Worksheet
Retain and safeguard all receipts, bar bills, credit card slips, and documents from the restaurant or bar where you were drinking. Make inquiries and get answers if any of the receipts show errors in number of persons served or times. Purchase from the restaurant, friend, or family, a sample of each wine glass, pint glass, beer glass, mug, stein, shot glass, or other drinking cup. Research how the bar measures their liquor: do they use a shot glass, do they free pour, or do they use a machine to measure?
It is extremely important that you report to your lawyer ACCURATELY how much you had to drink, the exact alcohol percentage of each beverage, the size of the glass, bottle, or pitcher, and the times you started and stopped drinking. Any document or information which substantiates or supports that data should be retained (eg. a cell phone log or recollection of the sports event playing at the bar).
It is very important that you speak to your lawyer before you commence any repairs or permit the write-off of your vehicle. In accident cases, particularly single vehicle accident cases, the operability or immovability of the motor vehicle may be a critical issue in determining a care or control issue.
Make detailed photos of your vehicle and the scene of the accident and share them only with your lawyer.
How to Take Photos for Use in Criminal Court in Canada
Do not speak to an insurance adjuster or file a written statement with your insurance company until you have first received two different kinds of legal advice; first from a criminal law impaired driving lawyer, and second from an insurance law lawyer. Anything you say to the insurance people can and may be used against you in your criminal impaired driving trial. If you speak to your insurance company and admit that you were the driver this may help the Crown prove its case against you.
The Crown Attorney will call evidence from civilian witnesses or the police to prove you were driving a motor vehicle. Did someone see you operating the motor vehicle? Did the driver of the other car see you? Did a person on the street see you driving? Can they identify you? Did the police see you driving? Was someone else driving? Was someone else in the passenger seat who the Crown can subpoena to trial?
Did you admit to driving AFTER YOU SPOKE TO A LAWYER OR DUTY COUNSEL? If so the Crown can use what you said against you at trial. Did they make a video of your statement? Did they write it down? Did you give up your right to a lawyer? Once you spoke to a lawyer did you remain silent?
Can the Crown prove WHEN you were driving? If they can't prove WHEN, if there are no witnesses as to WHEN, or the witnesses are confused about WHEN, then the Crown may have a difficult time proving that your Blood Alcohol Concentration AT THE TIME OF DRIVING was over 80. Human bodies absorb and eliminate alcohol at different rates over time.
There is a presumption in section 258(1)(c) of the Criminal Code of Canada that if certain pre-requisites are established by the Crown then your BAC at the time of the lowest breath test equals your BAC at the time of driving. This presumption cannot be used, however, if the Crown can't prove the time of driving was within 2 hours of the first breath test. That forces the Crown to call an expert witness which is expensive. If they don't call the expert the Crown loses.
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