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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/hAYf5uV8h5f2xWYCvhVdDZ/3deacd74-76b7-46c2-a539-e91da491745e.jpg/r0_125_3521_2114_w1200_h678_fmax.jpgWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sharpshooters will renew culling the white-tailed deer population, growing fast in the heart of the U.S. capital, as early as Thursday night, the National Park Service said.\n\nThe nighttime hunts by Department of Agriculture shooters in Washington's Rock Creek Park will continue until March 31, or until 106 deer have been killed, said Nick Bartolomeo, the park's chief of resources management.\n\nThe general public should remain out of harm's way because joggers and cyclists are generally barred from the park after dark, according to the park service.\n\nThe sharpshooters will deploy on unspecified nights as early as Thursday, when the 12-mile-long (19-km-long) park is normally closed. Park roads will also be temporarily closed as a safety precaution.\n\nThe three-year program is aimed at reducing the deer population to 15 to 20 per square mile (six to eight per square km) from 77 per square mile (31 per square km), Bartolomeo said during a conference call with reporters.\n\nThe first cull took place in March 2013, when 20 deer were killed in one night, he said.\n\nThe number of deer has soared in the last 20 years, with the animals eating nearly all the park's tree seedlings and preventing the forest from growing, according to a statement from the Park Service.\n\n\"There are no historic records of a white-tailed deer population in Rock Creek Park before 1960,\" said Park Superintendent Tara Morrison.\n\nThe deer meat will be donated to food banks and organizations for the homeless.\n\nThe number of U.S. white-tailed deer has exploded from a few hundred thousand in the 1930s to an estimated 30 million presently. The growth has been blamed on a lack of predators and growth of deer-friendly residential areas outside cities.\n\n(Reporting by Lacey Johnson; Editing by Ian Simpson and Gunna Dickson)Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Nearly 11,000 men die from prostate cancer in the UK every year\n\nMen with larger waistlines could be at higher risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer, a study has suggested.\n\nResearch on 140,000 men from eight European countries found that a 4in (10cm) larger waist circumference could increase the chances of getting the cancer by 13%.\n\nMen were most at risk when their waist was bigger than 37in (94cm), the University of Oxford study found.\n\nProstate cancer is the most common cancer in men.\n\nThe study, which was presented at the European Obesity Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden, looked at the association between body measurements in men in their 50s and prostate cancer risk over 14 years.\n\nIn that time, there were about 7,000 cases of prostate cancer, of which 934 were fatal.\n\nThe researchers found that men with a higher body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference had an increased risk of high grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease.\n\nFor example, men with a waist size of 37in (94cm) had a 13% higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer than men with a waist of 33in (84cm).\n\nScientists also observed a higher risk of dying from prostate cancer with increased BMI and increased waist circumference.\n\nNHS Choices says there is a higher risk of health problems for men with a waist size of more than 94cm (37in) and for women of more than 80cm (31.5in).\n\nProstate cancer facts\n\nAbout 47,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year in the UK\n\nMore than 10,800 men die from it every year in the UK\n\nOne in eight men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime\n\nMore than 330,000 men are living with or after prostate cancer\n\nSource: Prostate Cancer UK\n\nDr Aurora Perez-Cornago from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford said the study showed that the association between body size and prostate cancer was complex and varied by disease aggressiveness.\n\nShe said it was likely to be down to cancer-causing hormones in fat cells, but this had not yet been proven.\n\nHer advice was that \"men should try to maintain a healthy weight and if possible lose weight around their waist\".\n\nBut she added that the study had not specifically looked at the impact of losing weight on prostate cancer risk.\n\nA spokesman for Prostate Cancer UK said: \"Maintaining a healthy weight and staying active can protect against many diseases, including cancer.\n\n\"This research adds to a growing body of evidence that shows that weight and waist size could be another crucial risk factor for men to be aware of when it comes to protecting themselves against prostate cancer.\"\n\nThea Cunningham, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said more research was need to get a clearer picture of the link.\n\n\"It isn't clear whether excess weight itself is causing men to develop aggressive prostate cancers, or if prostate cancers are less likely to be picked up at an early stage in overweight men, meaning their prostate cancer may be aggressive or advanced by the time it is diagnosed.\n\nShe added: \"Keeping a healthy weight can help men reduce their risk of several other cancers including bowel cancer.\"And thus ends Part 2 of Escape From The Mall!\n\nWhat, you didn't know this was part 2? Well, neither did I! I was thinking I should make the next part of the story part 2, but then I realized they'd been in this dressing room for 15 out of 32 comics total in the storyline, so... yeah. Part 2 now officially begins when they get in there.\n\nAnyway, this whole \"which entrance thing has totally happened to me on several occasions. It's usually because I have a favored entrance to such places, but there'll be times when I'll park elsewhere for whatever reason, and I'll get to where I'm used to going, start to wonder if maybe my car's been stolen, and then slap my forehead upon realzing that my car's on the opposite side of the place.Vexed have surprised SK Gaming in the initial round of group C with a 16-10 victory on de_train.\n\nThe start of SK's match with Vexed saw the Poles getting to a quick 5-0 lead as Terrorists after a won pistol round, a gunround and a few anti-ecos.\n\nA single round going SK's way wasn't enough to stabilize economical situation as they were broke after losing the next, but Asger \"AcilioN\" Larsen bailed his team out with three kills and a 1-on-2 clutch for his team's second round in the half.\n\nThree rounds in a row to Vexed's name afterwards, Michael \"Friis\" Jørgensen stepped up with an AWP quad-kill, but the mostly-Danish lineup wasn't able to make a streak out of it as they began staring down the barrel at 12-3.\n\nFurlan lived up to the expectations\n\nMore of Friis's heroics in the second pistol round helped SK to three rounds in a row, and Andreas \"MODDII\" Fridh's quad-kill in the first gunround of the second half extended it to five.\n\nA few of the rounds got a bit too close for comfort, but nevertheless SK gaming clawed their way back into the match round by round. It all stopped once they reached 10 rounds however, as it only took four rounds in a row for the Poles to come out victorious at 16-10.\n\nMLG Columbus 2016 Main Qualifier Best of 1 SK Matchpage 10 16 Vexed 10 Train 16\n\nSK K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis 21 - 18 +3 79.2 1.11 Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenAcilioN 16 - 21 -5 70.0 0.90 Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp 14 - 22 -8 75.9 0.86 Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk 17 - 22 -5 74.6 0.86 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII 15 - 23 -8 62.7 0.78 Vexed K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiFurlan 29 - 15 +14 102.2 1.68 Dominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiGruBy 20 - 17 +3 100.0 1.38 Karol'repo' Cybulskirepo 22 - 17 +5 86.2 1.27 Oskar 'oskarish' Stenborowskioskarish 20 - 18 +2 72.6 1.11 Karol 'rallen' Rodowiczrallen 15 - 16 -1 67.5 1.06\n\nVexed have thus advanced to the winners' match of group C, and will be going up against the winner of CLG versus SPLYCE, which is coming up next in Columbus.EXCLUSIVE: After showy turns in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and tomorrow’s opener Blade Runner 2049, former wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter Dave Bautista is getting his own movie vehicle to shine in. STX has closed a deal to partner with Bautista and develop an action-comedy franchise that he will star in and produce. Jonathan Meisner will co-produce alongside Bautista, and Drew Simon will oversee the project for the studio.\n\nMarvel\n\nAside from his work opposite Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, Bautista stars in a short film made to tie the new film to the Ridley Scott-directed 1982 predecessor. Bautista’s been appearing in more studio fare, after his breakout turn as Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel. He has taken Drax to the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed Avengers: Infinity War, and he’s currently shooting the sequel. Separately, Bautista wrapped the Lionsgate pic Hotel Artemis, opposite Jodie Foster, and stars with Sylvester Stallone in both upcoming Escape Plan sequels. Bautista has started to build a following overseas, and stars in the Chinese Ip Man spinoff for director Yuen Wo-Ping. He also starred in and produced Bushwick, a drama seen at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance. Also upcoming, he stars with Pierce Brosnan and Ray Stevenson in the Scott Mann-directed Final Score for Signature, the Fyzz Facility and Atmosphere.\n\nBautista returned to the WWE to headline 2014’s Wrestlemania. That’s where he got his start, as a six-time world champion and international spokesman for the company. Bautista is repped by Gersh, MSK’s Jay Rosenthal and Meisner Entertainment Group.\n\nHere is the Blade Runner 2049 short that stars Bautista:Bend, OR, July 31, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Signal Bay, Inc. (OTCQB: SGBY) a leading provider of cannabis testing and advisory services announced today that its cannabis testing division EVIO Labs has licensed its first lab in Florida. Kaycha Holdings, LLC will operate under the EVIO Labs brand and the lab will be managed by a lab director with over 18 years of experience in development of Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Products.\n\nCEO Mr. William Waldrop stated, \"With operations in California, Oregon and soon to be Massachusetts, Signal Bay is proud to bring its accredited testing services to Florida. This expansion into Florida allows Signal Bay to continue to execute on its core mission of ensuring medical patients have access to clean cannabis. Our Florida expansion also marks another first as we executed our first license agreement. We are excited to have found a partner with deep ties into the community and shares our common core values.”\n\nAccording to the Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use, there are currently seven licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTC) in Florida. Each MMTC is authorized to cultivate, process and dispense medical marijuana. On June 23, 2017, Florida Governor Scott signed SB 8A, that instructs the Department of Health to increase the number of licensed MMTCs to 17. It also allows for each MMTC to open 25 dispensaries.\n\n“We are excited to help ensure clean and safe cannabis to the patients of Florida. Our partnership with EVIO offers strong support to achieve our goal. EVIO Labs is known for their strength and breadth of knowledge in the marijuana testing industry and raises the standard of cannabis testing throughout the state. With EVIO's experienced team and proven testing methodologies we will ensure Florida treatment centers sell only the highest quality cannabis,” Christopher Martinez, President/Co-Founder of Kaycha Holdings, LLC.\n\nAbout Signal Bay\n\nSignal Bay, Inc. (the “Company”) is an Oregon-based life sciences company. Through its subsidiaries EVIO Labs, Signal Bay Research, and Signal Bay Services, the Company provides analytical testing services, management advisory services and scientific research to the legal cannabis industry. The Company's EVIO Labs division operates state-of-the-art facilities and offers accredited testing methodologies to ensure the safety and quality of the nation's cannabis supply. Learn more at http://www.signalbay.com or the Company can be reached directly @ 1-888-544-EVIO.\n\nSafe Harbor Statement\n\nAny statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be considered to be forward-looking statements. Statements may contain certain forward-looking statements pertaining to future anticipated or projected plans, performance and developments, as well as other statements relating to future operations and results. Words such as \"may,\" \"will,\" \"expect,\" \"believe,\" \"anticipate,\" \"estimate,\" \"intends,\" \"goal,\" \"objective,\" \"seek,\" \"attempt,\" or variations of these or similar words, identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements by their nature are estimates of future results only and involve substantial risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, additional financing requirements, development of new products, our ability to complete our product testing and launch our product commercially, the acceptance of our product in the marketplace, the uncertainty of the laws and regulations relating to cannabis, the impact of competitive products or pricing, technological changes, the effect of economic conditions and other uncertainties detailed from time to time in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available at www.sec.gov or www.signalbay.com\n\nInvestor Relations: investors@signalbay.comWith the trade deadline approaching, general managers around the league are preparing to either shape their teams for the post-season or add future assets for a rebuild.\n\nMarc Bergevin got off to an early start when he acquired Nikita Nesterov from the Tampa Bay Lightning. More news broke this week regarding the Canadiens‘ defence corps, as Bergevin let the other 29 teams know that Greg Pateryn is available in a trade.\n\nNo big shock, but clubs say #Habs GM Marc Bergevin sent out note advising D Greg Pateryn is available. He's in lineup tonight vs. #NYR. — Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) February 21, 2017\n\nThis comes as a bit of a surprise after the Habs lost Mark Barberio on waivers to the Colorado Avalanche, and demoted Zach Redmond to the AHL. While outside factors may be having an influence, it’s clear Bergevin thinks he can improve upon the Michigan-native.\n\nFrom @TSNBobMcKenzie on the #TSN690 Morning Show re: Pateryn and league wide notice: \"There were efforts to move him earlier in the season.\" — Amanda Stein (@amandacstein) February 22, 2017\n\nHe’s not known as an offensive juggernaut, but Pateryn does possess a powerful slapshot; one that helped net him 15 goals in the AHL just three seasons ago. While he hasn’t come close to meeting that sort of production at the NHL level, he has been a steadying presence on the Canadiens’ bottom pairing when given the chance.\n\nHe’s suffered from injury troubles, including a broken ankle earlier this year, which has limited his game total, but he has still managed to remain a positive force when called upon.\n\nIn a small sample size this year, Pateryn is running at a 51.9 Corsi-for percentage, trailing only Jeff Petry and Andrei Markov in that category. It’s clear that with him on the ice the third pair in Montreal is a solid, albeit unspectacular, pairing. They aren’t going to pile up the goals, but when Pateryn plays the bottom duo does well to keep the shots against limited, and help to get play turned the other way. While Pateryn was on the ice this season the Canadiens have controlled over 53% of the scoring chances and goals.\n\nValue\n\nIt’s hard to gauge exactly what Pateryn’s value is going forward. Despite his limited playing time, he’s shown himself to be a highly competent bottom-pairing defenceman. There’s always a market for depth on the blue line; the Canadiens’ GM himself has said many times that “you can never have too many defencemen.”\n\nOrganizational Depth Chart A constantly updated chart of the players in the Habs system, from junior prospects to the current NHL roster. View it here.\n\nA likely return would be a combination of mid- to late-round draft picks or a player and late pick depending on which organization comes calling. There are plenty of teams out there looking to shore up their defence, so it’s likely that Bergevin will have plenty of options to choose from. There’s also the chance he’s packaged as a part of a larger deal as well, whether it be picks or other players going the other way.\n\nThe primary issue with trading Pateryn is that he still has a place in the Canadiens’ system, and his departure would create a large gap at the bottom of the Habs defence. With him gone, Zach Redmond becomes the seventh defender, with Ryan Johnston and Joel Hanley the only right-side options behind him, both of whom have struggled mightily at the NHL level. Ironically, a good return for Pateryn would be a player of his calibre to shore up a rotating cast on Montreal’s third pairing.\n\nPotential trading partners\n\nEveryone is always looking for help on defence; a fact that is repeated year in and year out. This gives Bergevin the freedom to pick his trading partner as opposed to taking what might be the only offer on the table at the time.\n\nWe’ve been hearing about Arizona and Montreal discussing trades for weeks now, primarily concerning centre Martin Hanzal, while we’ve also speculated on an Anthony Duclair trade. The Coyotes have been looking for a defenceman in return for their rentals, in addition to a combination of draft picks or a prospect, with Michael McCarron specifically named earlier in the season.\n\nIt was also mentioned that the St. Louis Blues might want some defensive help in exchange for Kevin Shattenkirk. Greg Pateryn could slide into a third-pairing role there, while Shattenkirk would give Montreal a full complement of top-four defenders on the right side. That move would require some substantial additional pieces leaving Montreal, but Pateryn could make up part of the package.\n\nWhile teams like Buffalo and Toronto are also looking to beef up their defence, a transaction with a divisional rival is unlikely with teams battling each other for playoff positioning. A non-division Canadian team like Edmonton or Winnipeg could be a solid landing spot as Pateryn would likely step into a full-time role with either club.\n\nIt’s not easy to move a defenceman when your team is struggling, even more so when the team needs a player like Pateryn to help stabilize the team defensively. If they do choose to move him, the Habs will need Nikita Nesterov and Zach Redmond to play up their potential, or else a problem area may grow into a major issue.Artemi Panarin (left) of Russia celebrates scoring the game-winning goal against Canada during the 2011 IIHF World U20 Championship gold medal game. Photograph by: Rick Stewart, Getty\n\nMembers of the Russian world junior hockey championship team, still high off their improbable comeback victory against Canada in Wednesday’s final, were brought back down to earth Thursday after they were kicked off a flight in Buffalo, New York for unruly behaviour.\n\nThe team, celebrating its come-from behind 5-3 win over Team Canada, were removed from a Delta Air Lines flight just before the plane took off at approximately 6:10 a.m.\n\n“To ensure the safe operation of the flight, the crew of flight 1266 denied boarding to 30 passengers who were travelling together and displaying unruly behaviour,” said Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott in a statement. “The passengers are being rebooked on a future flight.”\n\nThe flight was scheduled to fly from Buffalo to Atlanta at 6:15 a.m.\n\n“They were asked by the flight crew to calm down,” said Doug Hartmayer with the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which is in charge of security operations at the airport. “When they didn’t, that’s when they were asked to leave the plane. They left in an orderly manner.”\n\nThe team was forced to deboard the plane, retrieve its luggage and leave the terminal.\n\nHartmayer said an additional five or six police officers attended the terminal to assist in the escort.\n\nPolice at the airport said the players appeared to be intoxicated.\n\nIf the players were drunk, they would have been consuming alcohol illegally, since the legal drinking age in the state of New York is 21, and players on world junior teams must be 20 years of age and under.\n\nHartmayer wouldn’t confirm the players were inebriated but said the team’s behaviour “wasn’t consistent with what you want to find on an airplane.”\n\nThe team was reportedly staying in a Buffalo-area hotel until a new flight can be scheduled.\n\nThe young Russians had stayed at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo for the past 12 days and had checked out around 3 a.m. for the airport.\n\n“We are looking into it but we did not have an occurrence with any incident here,” said hotel manager Jim Burke. “The team was well-behaved. They’re great kids.”\n\nBurke said the players were in a private banquet room for a late-night dinner which ended at 1 a.m.\n\nNo alcohol was served by the hotel staff, he added.\n\nDave Fischer with USA Hockey, one of the organizers of the international tournament, said officials were just learning about the incident.\n\n“It was a marvellous tournament. It was highly successful,” he said. “There are always things that don’t go 100 per cent. I don’t know exactly what happened and until I know all the facts, the severity of the facts, it would be inappropriate for me to comment.”\n\nNot all of the players are heading back to Russia. Some were slated to return to teams in Canada.\n\nFischer said the organizers were no longer responsible for the team’s stay in the U.S.\n\n“The organizers of the tournament have the obligation to get the team to the airport, that’s when our obligation ends,” he said. “The teams are responsible for their own behaviour.”\n\nFischer said it is now up to law enforcement to look into the matter to determine whether any illegal activity took place.\n\nMedia reports say the team was partying into the early morning hours Thursday at the hotel bar.\n\nBuffalo police were still looking into the incident.\n\n“Police were never called to the hotel last night,” said police spokesman Mike DeGeorge. “We need someone to complain and say ‘We saw kids drinking or something.’ Here’s the question now: by the time, they get onto a plane and go to Russia, what’s going to happen?”\n\nlinnguyen@postmedia.com\n\ntwitter.com@lindathu—nguyenMELBOURNE City boss John van’t Schip has vowed to continue his team’s controversially aggressive ways in Friday night’s FFA Cup final replay.\n\nSydney FC’s home advantage is diluted somewhat with the game moved to ANZ Stadium due to a Coldplay concert at their Allianz Stadium home.\n\nIvan Franjic, Fernando Brandan, Neil Kilkenny and Tim Cahill are likely to come back into the XI for the clash after fatigue and suspension resulted in them missing last week’s draw with Brisbane Roar.\n\nThe FFA Cup winning coach defended his team’s new-found intensity, which was most recently criticised by Brisbane’s John Aloisi and led to a spiteful last week.\n\nRound 21 Visit Match Centre Visit Match Centre Visit Match Centre Visit Match Centre Visit Match Centre\n\n“It’s football, not futsal. It’s body contact,’’ van’t Schip said.\n\nMelbourne City’s Tim Cahill and Sydney FC’s Sebastian Ryall scuffle in the FFA Cup final. Source: News Corp Australia\n\n“Sometimes a challenge that two players go for a ball and on the high level and high speed, if you’re a bit late it could look worse than it actually is.\n\n“Aggression can be explained in a lot of different ways. For me it’s about being aggressive when we have the ball by playing attacking.\n\n“When we don’t have it it’s about being aggressive in winning the ball back. It’s not said that we kick opponents and get red, yellow cards.’’\n\nEX CAPTAINS: City ‘not unsporstmanlike’\n\nARNOLD: Sydney FC ready for feisty clash\n\nVan’t Schip said a loss wouldn’t rule them out of the race, nor would a win make City title favourites though it would help.\n\nHe said wise heads were needed for what loomed as another big game.\n\n“We know we have players that are up to it, can play big games and deal well with emotions and this is another one,’’ he said.\n\nLISTEN: Tom Smithies from the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun’s Matt Windley look ahead to the weekend’s A-League action, as the top two face off:\n\n“We want to play our own game and we’re going there to win. We do that by having a lot of the ball and controlling the game.\n\n“But they have a good team, they’re at home and it’s a great challenge to see if we can make another step.\n\n“In the Cup game we were aggressive, equal maybe better in the battle, so we’ve shown we can fight and match opponents in that aspect. Playing wise we can still make a lot of improvement, it’s about having the right balance.\n\n“Sydney have been more consistent, but we want to challenge and we want to challenge them. Even if the result doesn’t go our way, the league is long.\n\n“It’s a big game, this is a final as well.’’\n\nSpeedy winger Bernie Ibini will feature for the Sky Blues, who also get Slovakian attacker Filip Holosko back.Applications to carry handguns have skyrocketed in B.C. and Alberta in the past three years – likely driven by demand among people who work in the bush and want portable protection against wildlife.\n\nRates have held steady in the rest of Canada, according to RCMP figures show released in response to an access-to-information request.\n\nWe don’t know how many of these applications were approved because the RCMP won’t tell us.\n\nWe also don’t know how many were for concealed-carry permits for people facing “criminal threats” and how many are for openly carrying handguns in wilderness areas to defend against wildlife. RCMP Staff. Sgt. Julie Gagnon refused to break out the two categories.\n\nThe RCMP’s access-to-information office also refused to make that distinction, citing a section of the federal Access to Information Act exempting “information the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to threaten the safety of individuals.”\n\nWhat we do know is that more people are submitting these applications for “authorizations to carry” : The number of applications across the country rose from 386 to 564 between 2011 and 2013.\n\nIn that time period, they more than doubled in B.C.; in Alberta, they more than doubled from 2011 to 2012.\n\nPeople in the territories submit far more application rates than the rest of Canada. The Yukon had 33 applications in 2013 – almost one for every 1,000 residents – while the Northwest Territories had 29. By contrast, Quebec’s 64 applications make for fewer than one for every 100,000 residents.\n\nThe number of applications and the authorizations issued are about the same, says Ontario’s chief firearms officer, OPP Supt. Chris Wyatt.\n\n” If somebody applies for an ATC and it’s really deficient – they’re not a prospector, they don’t have a wilderness occupation, they just want it when they go camping –we just say ‘You don’t qualify,’ and they don’t pursue their application.”\n\nThe higher number in B.C., Alberta and the Arctic is due to the presence of predator animals, Gagnon said.\n\n“We find that there has been growing concern about the bears, just generally, both among corporations and the general public,” said Eric Beer, a use-of-force instructor at Silvercore, a Delta, B.C. firearms training company. “There has been an increase in interest in bear defence, specifically.”\n\nSilvercore runs a course for people to qualify to carry a wilderness handgun, and also a bear defence course using shotguns.\n\nPeople working in the remote bush often choose a handgun as a bear defence weapon because it’s easier to carry than a rifle, Wyatt said.\n\n“You’ve got to put the rifle down while you’re working, right? That kind of opens you up a little bit to attack.”\n\n“The people who go for ATCs are employed in the bush – geologists or prospectors,” Beer said. “Their equipment is heavy and bulky. You add a shotgun to that, and they tend to get overloaded.”\n\nWhat’s less clear is whether a small gun will be much good against a big animal – a bear, for example – in a life-or-death situation.\n\nThe OPP requires permit holders to choose “a big handgun,” Wyatt said. “It’s got to be a fairly powerful handgun.”\n\nBeer agrees.\n\n“The largest handgun, with the biggest calibre that the student can handle effectively – that’s what I recommend.”\n\nBut “with brown bears, carrying a handgun is just absolutely stupid,” argues former OPP staff-sergeant Doug Carlson, who ran the gun control system in northwestern Ontario before his retirement.\n\n“You’re dealing with such a humongous bear – you’ll have a hard time knocking it down with a handgun. You might get lucky, but more likely it would just bounce off his skull, or aggravate him.\n\n“You really need a high-powered rifle for something like that. Anybody who was truthful would tell you that.”\n\nThe issue has come up before: The OPP denied a handgun carry permit to a woman who wanted it to fend off polar bears on an expedition to the North Pole, Wyatt said.\n\n“We said: ‘I don’t think you could defend yourself well with a handgun against a polar bear, because they’re so big.'”\n\nBut in general, he added, if people who may face a bear attack want to trust their lives to a handgun, it’s up to them.\n\n“I don’t get to put across, ‘The world according to Chris Wyatt’ about how wise it is to try to take on a bear with a handgun, because the law allows it.”\n\nHow does concealed carry work?\n\nOther than armoured car guards, private citizens in Canada can be licenced to carry handguns in one of four situations: if they are trappers, need protection from wild animals in remote areas, or if “the life of that individual … is in imminent danger from one or more other individuals” and police protection is insufficient under the circumstances.\n\nPolice don’t release statistics on permits to carry concealed handguns against human threats “for security reasons and public safety reasons,” Wyatt said.\n\n“If that number was known, people may make a determination that maybe that person doesn’t have a [permit], and could make an attack on their life without fear of being confronted with a firearm.\n\nOttawa lawyer Solomon Friedman says these permits are “almost impossible to get.”\n\n“The legislation actually contemplates somebody who has been the subject of specific threats of harm or death from a particular person,” he said. “The guy signing your authorization to carry, who is a very high-ranking police officer, has to certify that the police aren’t able to help.\n\n“I have filed several authorization to carry applications on behalf of clients, all unsuccessfully.”\n\nToronto mayoral candidate and former councillor Norm Gardner, who had a concealed carry permit for several years in the 1990s, said the weapon made him “very, very calm.”\n\n“I was asked to go in and help some of the residents in the Jane and Finch area against the drug problem that was going on in the area, and I did, and I did have an altercation with somebody … who was really a drug dealer,” he said.\n\n“As a result of that, I applied for a concealed carry permit.”\n\nGardiner, a Metro councillor at the time who sat on the Police Services Board, was approved after talking to then-Toronto police chief Jack Marks, he said. For several years, Gardner carried a Glock 19, a compact handgun.\n\n“It makes you much calmer than you might ordinarily be, because you don’t want to have to get into a situation where someone could take it from you, or you could expose the firearm, or anything like that.”\n\nIn 1992, while he had the permit, Gardner shot and wounded a man breaking into a store he owned. He was never charged.Rio de Janiero: Demonstrators and police have clashed in Sao Paulo during the first in a planned series of anti-World Cup protests called by radical activist group Anonymous across Brazil.\n\nWith less than five months before the June 12 kick-off - when the five-time champions and hosts take on Croatia - Brazil is facing the same kind of social rumblings that marred last year's Confederations Cup dress rehearsal.\n\nPeople help a family out of a burning car after it drove over a barricade of fire started by protesters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Credit:Getty Images\n\nAnonymous called for Saturday's protests against football's fabled event via its Facebook page under the slogan, \"The Cup will not take place.\"\n\nOther activists said \"FIFA go home\" on Twitter, referring to football's world governing body, which was likely watching the weekend's events with some concern.5 years ago\n\nWashington (CNN) - Mike Huckabee urged Republicans to aggressively fight back against Democratic attempts to make female \"libido\" a campaign issue - language that may inflame the ongoing war of words between Republicans and Democrats over women's health issues.\n\nAddressing a Republican National Committee luncheon in Washington, Huckabee said Thursday Democrats have invented a phony \"war on women\" in an effort to lure female voters into their fold.\n\nFollow @politicalticker Follow @PeterHambyCNN\n\n\"It is time Republicans no longer accept listening to the Democrats talk about a war on women because the fact is the Republicans don't have a war on women,\" Huckabee said. \"They have a war for women – for them to be empowered to be something other than victims of their gender.\"\n\nHuckabee said women he knows are \"outraged\" that Democrats think they are \"nothing more than helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have the government provide for them birth control medication. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything anybody else can do.\"\n\n\"Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women,\" he continued. \"That is not a war on them it is a war for them. And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.\"\n\n\"Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be and women across America need to stand up and say enough of that nonsense and I think it is time we lead that discussion,\" he continued.\n\nHuckabee's comments come as the RNC debates a new resolution calling on GOP candidates to frame the abortion debate on their terms in 2014.Ali Al-Habsi has kept seven clean sheets in 23 appearances for Reading this season\n\nAli Al-Habsi's penalty save helped Reading hold promotion-chasing Burnley to a goalless draw in the Championship.\n\nAndre Gray saw his penalty saved after he had been tripped by Al-Habsi, and Reading held out to secure a point.\n\nGray should have put Burnley in front early on when he scuffed Geroge Boyd's cross over from six yards out.\n\nTom Heaton saved from Yann Kermorgant's header at the other end, while Gray put Matt Lowton's cross wide from point-blank range after the break.\n\nFormer Brentford striker Gray, the Championship's top scorer with 18 goals this season, faced a long wait to take his penalty, with Reading winger Hal Robson-Kanu receiving a booking for scuffing up the penalty spot.\n\nThe Royals could have won it when Robson-Kanu fired well over, but they created few chances throughout and have now scored only eight goals in their last 14 matches.\n\nBurnley remain third in the table after extending their unbeaten run in the league to eight games, while Reading stay 15th.\n\nReading manager Brian McDermott:\n\nMedia playback is not supported on this device McDermott on Reading v Burnley\n\n\"I've looked back at the penalty decision three or four times and it doesn't look like Ali's touched him.\n\n\"Then Ali made a great save from the penalty and we're delighted with that.\n\n\"Our players were incensed for a reason, but Ali's made a fabulous save and that was the right outcome.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche:\n\n\"From where I was looking, I did see their player [Robson-Kanu] dig the spot up.\n\n\"I've never seen that in my career and I hope my players never conduct themselves in that manner.\n\n\"I would not expect my players to move the ball off the spot when someone is ready to take a penalty and then kick the floor up. I think that's really poor.\"Sometime around the fourth goal, I descended into hysterics. No exaggeration - as Toni Kroos nicked the ball from Paulinho on the 25th minute and slotted the ball into the back of the net, almost from kickoff, moving and passing around Brazil's backline like cones laid out on a training pitch, I convulsed with hysterical laughter. When the rational disappears, we must confront the irrational and unexpected, and there was little as unexpected as Brazil capitulating as they did last night. When the fifth went in I had to leave the room.\n\nMy Twitter timeline was a series of exclamations,"