Was pursued by hounds wounded to death

AN INVESTIGATION BY Gardaí is now underway after a family dog was mauled to death by a pack of hunt hounds.

Isabelle died on the 30 November in Ashford, Co Wicklow, when she was attacked by 20 hounds from a local hunt hong kong massage.

The family say they were not told about the hunt and that at around 4pm, a load of horses suddenly came and that the dog went running for the gate.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Liveline yesterday, Isabelle’s owner said:

The hounds had gone into the field and and I could see Isabelle lying still on the ground. We eventually found the vet. By this time, Isabelle was very still and we put her on a table on the patio. She died at that point g-suite cardinal.

Isabelle’s owner Kayleigh spoke to TheJournal.ie about how “they were totally out of control. They chased her until they caught her and basically savaged her.”

A Facebook page called ‘Justice for Isabelle’ has been set up and an online petition calling on the Government to regulate hunting has more than 5,000 signatures.

A statement on the Justice for Isabelle page says:

It is clear that the majority have spoken and change needs to happen ielts registration hk. This dangerous past time should not be allowed to continue in the way it has been doing so

Syria chemical disarmament

The U.S. and Russia expect a mid-2014 target for their final destruction to be missed, according to a new document.

BEIRUT - The United States and Russia want Syria to ship its deadly chemical agents out of the country by the end of the year but expect a mid-2014 target for their final destruction to be missed, OtterBox Preserver Series according to a draft document.

The document, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, calls for most chemical materials to be removed from the country in under eight weeks, by December 31, and for remaining chemical weapons facilities to be destroyed by the beginning of March.

Final destruction of all toxic material by the end of next year, as stated in the draft, would be six months beyond the date originally set for Syria to complete the "elimination" of all chemical weapons material. However, if that material were no longer inside Syria, governments seem unlikely to quibble.

The timetable is part of an ambitious disarmament pact with the United Nations which President Bashar al-Assad accepted after an August sarin gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus killed hundreds and almost triggered U.S. air strikes on Syria.

Washington and its allies blamed Assad, locked in a 2-1/2- year civil war, for the world's worst chemical attack in 25 years. Assad, supported by his ally Russia, accused rebels.

Weapons experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) say they have already verified the destruction of chemical production and mixing equipment at 22 of the 23 sites declared by Syrian authorities in October.

The organization now faces a more challenging second phase of operations and is negotiating with Syria a detailed destruction plan for the chemical agents and remaining facilities, which must be agreed by next Friday, under the schedule set by the U.N. Security Council in late September.

Russia and the United States, which jointly brokered the original deal for Syria to destroy its stockpile of nerve agents and other toxic munitions by the end of June 2014, presented their draft timetable to the OPCW this week.

Related: Syria meets key chemical weapons deadline

Under it, all chemicals should be out of Syria by December 31, except for isopropanol - one of two main precursors for sarin - which should be destroyed on site by March 1. Unfilled chemical munitions should be destroyed by the end of January.

It also appears to reject a Syrian request to convert for peaceful use some of the facilities declared under its weapons program, saying any facilities which were used for purposes prohibited by the international Chemical Weapons Convention should not be approved for conversion otterbox iphone 5 case.

DEADLINE SLIPS

The draft document calls on the OPCW and any countries which are prepared to receive the chemicals for elimination to submit a plan by mid-December setting out a destruction plan. It is still unclear where toxic material might go.

The document sets a 31 March, 2014, target for the most dangerous materials to be degraded "to chemicals not suitable for use in chemical weapons", followed by "completion of destruction not later than 30 December, 2014".

Though six months later than the target first set by Moscow and Washington for the complete elimination of all chemical weapons material and equipment, if they have indeed left Syria, any delay in the final destruction would reflect the complexity of the task, rather than the extent of Syria's cooperation.

Security Council Resolution 2118 obliges Syria to comply with a disarmament timetable laid out by the OPCW. The Hague-based agency made the end-June target for elimination "subject to" the detailed OPCW plan which is to be agreed by November 15.

Moving material out may be the hardest part of the process.

Syria's civil war has killed 100,000 people, has no single frontline and has flared up across the country, cutting off or endangering main roads and supply lines linking major cities.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Policy website reported that Syria had presented the OPCW with a request for 40 armored trucks and other equipment to help secure the road from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast and ship out the chemicals.

The plan also envisaged an advanced communications network linking Damascus to the sea, a route which has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the Syria conflict because it links Assad's capital to the mountain heartlands of his minority Alawite faith overlooking the Mediterranean.

While Assad's Western foes would be deeply reluctant to support - even indirectly - the consolidation of his military power over central Syria, they have few alternatives.

Flying dangerous shipments out of Damascus airport would be highly risky OtterBox Defender, while neighboring Lebanon would also be a hazardous transit route for the chemical cargoes.

All the dates in the draft are in brackets, suggesting final agreement has not been reached. However, another section of the document reinforces the sense that the destruction of the chemicals will take more time.

If the OPCW or a country where the chemicals have been shipped believes it will not meet the deadlines for destruction "it may submit a proposal ... to revise the target date, specifying the circumstances and proposing an alternative target date, with a view to completing the destruction as soon as possible".

With the care of the dilemma

President Obama said he's taking full responsibility for making sure the health care website gets fixed as soon as possible.

BOSTON ― Declaring himself "not happy" with health care enrollment problems, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he takes "full responsibility" for resolving the computer problems that have bedeviled the administration and undermined a key step in the health care law. "We're going to see this through g-suite cardinal manchester," he said.

Obama chose to address both the benefits and the difficulties of the health care law in Massachusetts, where the state's health care coverage provided the model for the federal health insurance overhaul. The president cited early problems with the Massachusetts law as he tried to lower expectations for the initial enrollment in the federal system.

"All the parade of horribles, the worst predictions about health care reform in Massachusetts never came true," he said. "They're the same arguments that you're hearing now."

The president pointed to benefits already available under the 3-year-old health care law, including ending discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions and permission to keep young people on their parents' insurance plans until they turn 26.

But he conceded the troubled launch of the open enrollment period that began Oct. 1.

"There's no excuse for it," he said. "And I take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP. We are working overtime to improve it every day."

Underscoring the president's challenge, the healthcare.gov website was down, because of technical difficulties, during his remarks.

Obama also tried to clarify the most recent controversy surrounding the law ― the wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance. When he was trying to sell the health care overhaul bill to the public, Obama had vowed that anyone who liked their insurance would be able to keep it.

The cancellation notices apply to people whose plans changed after the law was implemented or don't meet new coverage requirements. The president said those changes ensure that all Americans are able to get quality coverage.

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He said that because of government subsidies, most people who must get new policies will pay less than they are now.

Obama pointed to the bipartisan effort to get the program launched in Massachusetts, contrasting it to the Republican attempts to defund or delay the federal law. He spoke in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, where Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney was joined by the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy to sign the state's 2006 health care overhaul bill.

Republicans say the current computer dysfunction is more reason to repeal the law, and they're pressing Obama administration officials for an explanation.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the health care overhaul at a House committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, apologized for the problem-riddled enrollment launch. She also had to address questions about a government memo raising new security concerns about healthcare.gov.

Using the Massachusetts law as an example, Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor who advised both Romney and Obama on the development of their laws, said only 123 paying consumers signed up the first month of the Massachusetts law, with 36,000 coming on by the time penalties kicked in for failing to have insurance.

In a statement Wednesday, Romney said he believes "a plan crafted to fit the unique circumstances of a single state should not be grafted onto the entire country."

"Beyond that, had President Obama actually learned the lessons of Massachusetts health care, millions of Americans would not lose the insurance they were promised they could keep, millions more would not see their premiums skyrocket and the installation of the program would not have been a frustrating embarrassment," Romney added.

Obama, who lived in Boston while a student at Harvard University, was in town for a World Series game day cardinal manchester, but his spokesman said he didn't plan to make a side trip to Fenway Park. Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama was mindful of the impact his security entourage has on the public and never considered attending.

But sports still figured into his itinerary. Obama got a private, advance view of a statue honoring Hall of Fame basketball player Bill Russell. The statue was scheduled to be unveiled in Boston's City Hall Plaza on Friday. Russell, who played for the Boston Celtics from 1956 to 1969, joined the president.

While in Boston, Obama also planned to speak at a fundraiser for House Democrats at the home of his former ambassador to Spain, Alan Solomont. About 60 people paid $16,200 to $64,800 to dine on Spanish-influenced fare, to be followed by Red Sox cookies in honor of the World Series game being played in town the same night.