"I've already grown a goiter at this drudgery," he grouses.
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"This is what we're up against," Stu grouses, retelling the tale.
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"There's nothing but niceness on Sesame Street!" he grouses to cheerful Elmo.
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Mostly, though, Simmons grouses about what a waste of time college is.
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"He caused me more trouble than the occupation," a hotel worker grouses.
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He also grouses, albeit inaudibly, over reports he's raking in $1 mil/month.
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"Stop bringing up the past," he grouses to his son, late in the movie.
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He grouses she has a master's degree in psychology yet chooses not to work.
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"'Help me with her,' you said," the man grouses to his girlfriend in Spanish.
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But some officials appear to have legitimate grouses over a lack of consultation and information.
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"The pills cost 'em 4 cents a unit," a presidential aide grouses about the companies.
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"That money goes to pay for social programs for people who aren't working," Mr. Tropini grouses.
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Whales swim by, a dragon grouses, Dolittle's zoo scurries and cracks wise, and so does Downey.
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Greater sage-grouses live among the sagebrush in the mountain-western United States and some of southern Canada.
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When he visits, Mr Trump will surely hear grouses from his country's firms about their troubles in China.
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Listen to the frustrated photog in the video, who grouses he was only able to get off one shot.
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Warthen grouses her baby daddy isn't even paying for her full tuition and has shunned her, not even bothering to call on Christmas.
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"I've had supply problems of every kind — I've had labor difficulties," grouses Lando Calrissian, the dashing administrator of the movie's gravity-defying metropolis.
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One more thing ... Usher's lawyer grouses the woman is suing under a pseudonym, claiming there's no cause for her to secretly file her lawsuit.
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The Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association, a lobby group, grouses about the unfair advantage Albertan drivers enjoy because they pay no provincial sales tax on vehicles.
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Among the supporting players, Mr. Procaccino grouses amusingly as the morose Fred, who seems to hate only the feckless Kevin more than he hates himself.
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Bernie can't sleep without the TV on, and Ruth grouses that they're going to spend their last night on earth under the gaze of Judy Garland.
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One radio D.J. grouses: "If I have to hear the word 'healing' one more time," and trails into mumbles rather than saying what he's likely to do.
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Trump's been using "We are the Champions" as his walk-out lately, and May grouses the Republican nominee has not asked for nor has he been given permission.
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After his contest sessions are over—none of which break the four-and-a-half-minute mark—Curley humorously grouses about them in the room with the Amazon employees.
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"Someone should call D.C. and tell them we surrendered Guadalajara," Camarena grouses early on, chafing against what he sees as the handcuffs placed on his agency by feckless superiors.
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Kanye West described in vivid detail what it's like to have a bipolar episode, and he grouses people just don't get it ... and actually made it way worse for him.
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Alone in her emphatically colorless office, Lucia (Annie Dow) whimpers and grouses and eventually cajoles Abel (Eddie Martinez of "Sense8"), the tattooed janitor who vacuums her floor, into becoming her confidant.
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By the way ... Grace grouses she doesn't know what to do ... she says it's like she has to put her makeup in a safe to keep it away from her child.
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They don't even want to stand up when the customers come in, she grouses—they know they are there purely to keep the government happy, and are not likely to be fired.
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" On "FML," he grouses, over tiptoeing synths, "You ain't never seen nothing crazier than / This nigga when he off his Lexapro," as he tries to make sense of "the layers to my soul.
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Taken with a Nikon D500 with Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens; 1/800 second at f/6.3; ISO 2500Photo: Kathrin Swoboda (Audubon Photography Awards)Professional Winner: Greater Sage-GrouseGreater sage-grouses.
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Each has its own motor (six-wheel drive, baby!) and 48 cleats, or grouses, machined onto the surface, which will provide for excellent traction, whether the rover is rolling across sandy terrain or jagged rocks.
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David Otunga says Jennifer Hudson is simply a liar when she grouses to the judge in their custody war that he needs to get a job, because he says she knows he already has one.
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One parts-maker grouses about "inconsistency in the application and interpretation of the rules", having received a variety of requests for information from different manufacturers, each seeking to find out whether a product would be compliant.
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The population of sage grouses in Wyoming — home to an estimated 40 percent of their global population — slumped over the past decades, but had started to recover after an intense effort to protect their mating grounds.
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"This is a big step and shows India has a progressive outlook toward businesses," said an executive with one of the payment companies, adding that the ministry had tried to address some of the industry's biggest grouses.
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" Trump grouses about price of probe - Fox News: "President Trump on Friday blasted the cost of Special Counsel Robert Mueller 's investigation, after a new filing revealed taxpayers have spent nearly $213 million on the Russia probe. 'A.
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Mr. Trump has long complained about the alliance and routinely grouses that the United States is treated shabbily by multilateral organizations of which it is a member, be it the World Trade Organization or the North Atlantic alliance.
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Healy, meanwhile, is bitter after a divorce — "Marriage is building a house for someone you hate," he grouses — and he channels his frustrations through cheapskate harm-for-hire assignments of exactly the kind Ryan Reynolds takes at the beginning of Deadpool.
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Canon EOS 6D with Canon 8503mm EF f/4 L IS USM lens; 1/1500 second at f/5.6; ISO 800Photo: Elizabeth Boehm (Audubon Photography Awards)Elizabeth Boehm caught these greater sage-grouses fighting on their lek in Pinedale, Wyoming.
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Ms. McDonald, then a top lobbyist at the Independent Petroleum Association of America, also intervened on behalf of oil companies like Chesapeake, ConocoPhillips and EOG Resources, pushing for specific changes in zones set up in Wyoming to protect sage grouses.
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As I speed-walk to keep up with his long legs, he grouses about the day-to-day of running a software project: the bug reports and constant tweaks to keep up with operating systems' improvements, the deadening hours of sitting in front of a computer.
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In Johnson's case, that includes spoofing his own image -- as the kid revels in Bravestone's strength and physique -- while Gillan grouses about her wardrobe, Hart gripes about his diminutive size and, most obviously, Black vamps in playing a flighty girl confused by her new, er, accessories.
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Anyone—you, your boyfriend, your boyfriend's awful fucking mate who has a podcast about dating mishaps—who grouses about "Parachute" is nothing more than an empty-headed fucking baby, and I hope they're doomed to an eternity in which the Kaiser Chiefs tropical house record is all they hear until their lonely death.
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The tirade was notable, if it was notable, because of how fuck-heavy and comprehensive it was, and because of when it arrived—at a time when there wasn't much else in baseball to talk about, and after all the changes in the game that Gossage groans and grouses had already become something like settled law.
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As such, it is not really surprising to see him get the reception that thrill rides get in 2017: fuming takes and counter-takes unpacking secret shortcomings and failures, various bad-faith gripes and grouses, the sort of noxious and aggrieved fanboy partisanship inherent to the type of people that keep and tend long Best Ever lists and private pantheons.
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On September 18, 2020, Solomon signed with the Toyama Grouses of the B.League.
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The Toyama Grouses are a Japanese basketball team, playing in the Central Conference of the B.League. They are based in Toyama Prefecture.
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The pilots were impressed with the good performance of the aircraft, but no more Gloster Grouses were provided to the Air Force.
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The mires – that cover more than half of the park's area – are inhabited by black grouses, common cranes, whooper swans, wood sandpipers and northern willow grouses. The old-growth forests house hole nesters such as Eurasian pygmy owls, Ural owls, three-toed woodpeckers, red- breasted flycatchers and the Siberian flying squirrel. The emblem species and the most common species in the park is the pine marten.
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Richard Solomon III (born June 18, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Toyama Grouses of the B.League. He played college basketball for California.
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Samuel Steven Willard (born September 9, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Toyama Grouses in Japan. He played college basketball for Pacific.
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The mountain since 2007 is on the border of the Parco naturale regionale delle Alpi Liguri. In the area can be seen black grouses and lives a chamois' herd.
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On November 3, 2011, he was selected in the eighth round of the 2011 NBA Development League Draft by the Sioux Falls Skyforce. In January 2012, he signed with ŁKS Łódź of the TBL, in Poland. He later left when his contract was purchased by the Toyama Grouses of the Bj league, in Japan for the rest of the 2011–12 season.Japan's Toyama Grouses Purchase Contract of GillespieJapan BJ League Transactions On August 29, 2013, he signed with the Halifax Rainmen of the NBL, in Canada for the 2013–14 season.
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Animals that inhabit this national park are coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, beavers, minks, and weasels. Numerous birds roam in this park including species of various herons, ducks, owls, cranes, plovers, grouses, jays, falcons, geese, hawks, sandpipers and eagles.
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After his season with the Leicester Riders, Woodyard signed with the Toyama Grouses of the Basketball Japan League in October 2008. With the Saitama Broncos in the same league, Woodward was among only two players averaging double-digit scoring during the 2009-2010 season; he averaged 12.2.
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On May 17, 2017, Smith signed with TNT KaTropa of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Smith played for Kyoto Hannaryz of the B.League in 2017–18, before returning to TNT in 2018. Late that year, he returned to Japan after signing a two-year contract with the Toyama Grouses.
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Podkovák is a Nature Reserve within the Český les Landscape Protected Area in the western part of the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic. It protects a small raised bog forest in a small depression with Pinus uncinata ssp. rotundata. Wood grouses appear in the reserve. The area is .
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The varied vegetation supports a variety of birds and animals. Elk are often found on Renskär-Getskär, and resident mammals include fox, squirrel, ermine and plentiful hares. The Papilio machaon butterfly can sometimes be seen. Characteristic birds on Renskär-Getskär include pine grosbeaks, black grouses, rock ptarmigans and capercaillies.
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Before Welsh development, Penn Valley's forest was home to bears, cougars, wolves, rattlesnakes, otters, beavers, weasels, turkeys, grouses, woodland bison, trout, and bald eagles. However, after forest destruction by the Welsh and home building after World War II, most of the rarer animals left.Montgomery County: The First Hundred Years. Norristown: 1884.
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This park is home to mammalian species of white-tailed deer, red and gray foxes, coyote, raccoon, chipmunk, red and gray squirrels, mink, striped skunk, badger, and woodchuck. Bird watchers receive an opportunity to view ruffed grouses, great blue herons, egrets, wood ducks, Canada geese, scarlet tanagers, indigo buntings, pelicans, loons and bluebirds.
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Is rich and varied, comprising a large number of species of hunting interest. The fauna of the softwood forest is represented by: Bears, Wolfs, and Wild boars. Talking about birds, there are: Black grouses, Western capercaillies, Eurasian three-toed woodpeckers, Red crossbills, Coal tits, Ring ouzels, etc. - which are characteristic species for coniferous forests.
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The city of Tochigi held its championship parade for the Link Tochigi Brex the following week on June 3. After the 2017 season and championship, the Link Tochigi Brex resigned Blake Aoki to a 2-year deal. But both sides reached an agreement sending Aoki to the Toyama Grouses for the 2017-2018 season.
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However, he was later waived by the Hawks on October 24 after appearing in four preseason games. On November 17, 2015, he signed with the Fubon Braves of the Taiwanese League. On September 3, 2016, Barron signed a one-year deal with the Toyama Grouses of the Japanese B.League. On December 9, 2016, he parted ways with Toyama.
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The right of using the hunting grounds in Russia was once granted to every social class. The right of the nobility was even sometimes limited by agreements with others regarding hunting grounds. The hawkers and separate persons who dealt with hounds, beavers, black grouses, hares, etc. were permitted either on the landed properties, or on territories specified by local people.
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Searcy played for Japanese club Toyama Grouses during the 2011–12 season. Searcy played for the Philadelphia 76ers during the 2012 preseason but did not make the final cut going into the 2012–13 NBA season.Sixers Waive Devin Searcy On November 14, 2012, Searcy signed with BC Triumph Lyubertsy in Russia. In July 2015, Searcy signed with Rouen Métropole Basket in France.
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After listening to the grouses of the Arab merchants, the Pasai revealed that there was a short cut where they could avoid the arduous voyage. However, they have to pull their boats off shore for a kilometer or so. Learning of this, the Arabs endeavoured to try out this route. One day, the Pasai show this route to the Arabs.
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Most female quetzals have no ornamentation and are drab. Coloration and tail feather length in quetzals help determine mate choice because the females choose the more elaborately ornamented males. Other birds that exhibit ornamentation include sage grouses and widowbirds. Sage grouse birds gather in a lek, or a special display area, and strut and display their plumage to attract a mate.
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Daiji Yamada (山田 大治、born June 8, 1981) is a Japanese professional basketball player. He plays for Toyama Grouses of the Japanese B.League. Yamada also is a long-time member of the Japan national basketball team, playing for the team in the 2006 FIBA World Championship and both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009.Player Profile at FIBA.
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After his playing career came to an end, Nema got into coaching in 2008. He served as an interm coach for the Toyama Grouses after head coach Masato Fukushima was fired on 28 November 2008 and until the hiring of former Japan national team center Takatoshi Ishibashi in 9 December 2008. In 2015, he was hired as the head coach of the Gunma Crane Thunders.
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Fauna found in the park include bison, pronghorns, greater sage-grouses, burrowing owls, coyotes, ferruginous hawks, swift foxes, prairie rattlesnakes, black-footed ferrets and greater short-horned lizards. Flora includes blue grama grass, needlegrass, plains cottonwood and silver sagebrush. Erosion by glacial meltwater formed many of the park's characteristic features. Highlights of the park's geological landscape include the Frenchman River Valley, the Seventy Mile Butte, and the badlands of Rock Creek.
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Mammalian species found in this park are the elk, caribou, moose, red fox, mule deer, white-tailed deer, porcupine, lynx, beaver, marten, river otter, mink, pika, grizzly bear, coyote, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, black bear, timber wolf, hoary marmot, cougar, and wolverine. The most common birds that fly around this park including raptors are bald eagles, golden eagles, Great horned owls, spruce grouses, white-tailed ptarmigans, bohemian waxwings, and evening grosbeaks.
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Other wildlife within the reserve include black lichen peatlands and spruce forests, which are essential. There are also 51 species of bird, with 43 of them nesting in the reserve; there are also cranes and sharp-tailed grouses. There is a huge diversity of mammals, including the black bear, North American porcupine, wolf, lynx, raccoon, coyote, moose and caribou. Within Sabourin Lake, there are twelve species of fish.
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The Scots elm (Ulmus glabra) also grows at the very limit of its distribution here. Sheep's bit (Jasione montana) is a southern species that can be seen on the Vaarunjyrkkä cliff, along with plants native to the fell area: glaucous bluegrass (Poa glauca) and alpine saxifrage (Micranthes nivalis). Also Siberian flying squirrels, Eurasian three-toed woodpeckers, hazel grouses, bank voles, Eurasian lynxes and brown bears are hiding in the spruce forests of Vaarunvuoret.
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As the aliens dissolve into nothingness, Koenig rebuts, 'It is better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream.' Returning to Alpha, Koenig and company witness the dissolution of the alien ship. The Commander good-naturedly grouses about running the base with his unconscious staff of 'sleeping beauties' just before the events of the last three days catch up with him and he, too, is slumbering in his chair...
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The book is set in Mohawk, an upstate New York mill town in a decline following that of its leather tanning industry. The Mohawk Grill, a diner run by Harry Saunders, is featured. The novel explores the lives of two intersecting families, the Grouses and the Gaffneys. Anne Grouse is the 40-year-old daughter of Mather Grouse and his wife, and lives with her parents and son Randall after her divorce from Dallas Younger, her high-school sweetheart.
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Hawks Waive Jarell Eddie and Dexter Pittman On November 27, 2014, he signed with TED Ankara of Turkey for the rest of the 2014–15 season.TED Ankara announces Dexter Pittman On June 26, 2015, he signed with Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for the 2015–16 season. On May 12, 2016, Pittman was acquired by Santeros de Aguada of the Puerto Rican League. On December 16, 2016, Pittman signed with Toyama Grouses of the Japanese B.League.
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Lamenting that she hadn't even known Patricia's name before the Scream symbiote bonded to her, Andi vows not to let Patricia's sacrifice be in vain. Cocooning Carnage in her hair, Scream tosses Carnage into a meat locker, slams the door and flees. Smashing the door off its hinges, Carnage notes that Andi has escaped and grouses of having to wait for another rematch with her before turning to harvest the Mania and Scream codices from Patricia's corpse.Absolute Carnage: Scream #2-3.
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Joshua LaTrell Smith (born May 14, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Toyama Grouses of the Japanese B.League. He began his college basketball career with the UCLA Bruins before transferring in the middle of his third season, finishing his career with the Georgetown Hoyas. Smith was a highly regarded center playing basketball in high school in Washington. He led his team to a state title, and he received multiple individual honors, including Associated Press' state player of the year.
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On January 24, 2016, he competed in the league's Slam Dunk Contest. On February 13, he recorded 31 points and 18 rebounds in a 78–68 win over the Gunma Crane Thunders. On February 21, he recorded 26 points and 21 rebounds in an 89–82 loss to the Toyama Grouses. In the regular-season finale on April 24, Turner had 31 points on 13-for-17 shooting and 16 rebounds in a 100–82 win over the Sendai 89ers.
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Within its delimited area, Kutch Bustard Sanctuary reportedly has three species of the bustards namely, the great Indian bustards (endangered) (local name: ghorad), the lesser floricans (endangered) (Sypheotides indica) and the houbara bustards (vulnerable). As per last reports, 66 floricans and 17 houbara bustards were reported. The sanctuary also is habitat for harriers, common cranes, black partridges (local name: kalo tetar), sand grouses, black and grey francolin, spotted and Indian sandgrouse, quails, larks, shrikes, coursers and plovers. Vulnerable species such as the Stoliczka's bushchat and white-naped tit have also been recorded in the KBS.
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She is also offered prayers by those who hunt small game and those who gather mushrooms and berries. Mielikki is known as a skillful healer who heals the paws of animals who have escaped traps, helps chicks that have fallen from their nests and treats the wounds of wood grouses after their mating displays. She knows well the healing herbs and will also help humans if they know well enough to ask her for it. Her name is derived from the old Finnish word mielu which means luck.
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Although Weiyun's mother, Yalian, (Cai Ping Kai) has severe dementia and doesn't remember who she is, Weiyun is the only one filial to her. Weiyun's brother, Jialong (Lin Weiwen) is unable to hold down a job and hides the fact that he is financially dependent on Weiyun from his wife. Weiyun's sister-in-law, Xu Guixiang (May Phua) is a housewife who grouses against Weiyun for staying with them in their already small flat, burdening the family. For Yalian's sake, Weiyun puts up with it for the general good.
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Akita years In January 2013, Togashi signed with the Akita Northern Happinets of the bj league. In his debut game on 2 February 2013, he recorded 15 points, 11 assists, 3 rebounds and 3 steals in a win over the Toyama Grouses. He went on to play 30 games for the Happinets in the second half of the 2012–13 season, averaging 14.5 points, 6.2 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.2 steals in 37.2 minutes per game. Togashi re-joined the Akita Northern Happinets for the 2013–14 season where he managed his first full professional season.
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The fauna of the Julian Alps is very rich as well, a heritage that has to be protected and controlled by the hunting and fishing regulation made by dedicated authorities in the best possible way. More than one thousand species of insects live in the valleys and on the slopes, in the woods you can meet foxes, hares, roes and other minor rodents and mammals, nearby specimens of tetraonides like grouses and cocks of the wood. High pastures are the reign of chamoises, ibexes, reintegrated from 1970, white partridges. In between the rocks nest the woodpecker, the raven with the yellow bill, last but not least the eagle, strictly protected.
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Shi Shi Beach Animals that inhabit this national park are chipmunks, squirrels, skunks, six species of bats, weasels, coyotes, muskrats, fishers, river otters, beavers, red foxes, mountain goats, martens, bobcats, black bears, Canadian lynxes, moles, snowshoe hares, shrews, and cougars. Whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals, and sea otters swim near this park offshore. Birds that fly in this park including raptors are Winter wrens, and Canada jays, Hammond's flycatchers, Wilson's warblers, Blue Grouses, Pine siskins, ravens, spotted owls, Red-breasted nuthatches, Golden-crowned kinglets, Chestnut-backed chickadees, Swainson's thrushes, Red crossbills, Hermit thrushes, Olive-sided flycatchers, bald eagles, Western tanagers, Northern pygmy owls, Townsend's warblers, Townsend's solitaires, Vaux's swifts, band-tailed pigeons, and evening grosbeaks.
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The Northern Happinets finished the regular season in third place in the Eastern Conference with a 35–17 record. They went on to reach the Eastern Conference final, where they were defeated 99–84 by the Toyama Grouses despite a 15-point effort from Turner. In 54 games on the season, Turner averaged 15.7 points, 10.0 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.0 blocks per game. On June 8, 2016, Turner joined the Rockhampton Rockets for the rest of the 2016 Queensland Basketball League season, returning to the club for a second stint. Two days later, he made his season debut for the Rockets, recording 24 points and 14 rebounds in an 82–71 win over the Sunshine Coast Rip.
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Deer species include Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer, and mule deer; insectivores include vagrant shrews, American water shrews, and coast moles. Bats at Jefferson include little brown bats and silver-haired bats, and American pikas and snowshoe hares are also present. Rodents such as yellow-bellied marmots, mountain beavers, yellow-pine chipmunks, Townsend's chipmunks, golden-mantled ground squirrels, western gray squirrels, Douglas squirrels, mountain pocket gophers, North American beavers, deer mice, bushy-tailed woodrats, water voles, Pacific jumping mice, and North American porcupines are present. Birds nearby include mallards, northern goshawks, sharp-shinned hawks, red-tailed hawks, dusky grouses, grey partridges, killdeers, spotted sandpipers, California gulls, band-tailed pigeons, great horned owls, mountain pygmy owls, common nighthawks, rufous hummingbirds, Northern flickers, pileated woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, hairy woodpeckers, and white-headed woodpeckers.
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Deer species include Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer, and mule deer; insectivores include vagrant shrews, American water shrews, and coast moles. Bats at Jefferson include little brown bats and silver-haired bats, and American pikas and snowshoe hares are also present. Rodents such as yellow-bellied marmots, mountain beavers, yellow-pine chipmunks, Townsend's chipmunks, golden-mantled ground squirrels, western gray squirrels, Douglas squirrels, mountain pocket gophers, North American beavers, deer mice, bushy-tailed woodrats, water voles, Pacific jumping mice, and North American porcupines are present. Birds at Jefferson include mallards, northern goshawks, sharp-shinned hawks, red-tailed hawks, dusky grouses, grey partridges, killdeers, spotted sandpipers, California gulls, band-tailed pigeons, great horned owls, mountain pygmy owls, common nighthawks, rufous hummingbirds, Northern flickers, pileated woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, hairy woodpeckers, and white-headed woodpeckers.
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As his former star quarterback, Jason Street, once says to him, "You [Taylor] will always be my coach". His high school counselor-turned-principal wife, Tami, often grouses about how the lines between football and academics at Dillon High are blurred and the fact that there is the perception that football players can get away with anything. Nonetheless, his strong sense of morality is seen a number of times, such as when he suspends Smash Williams for using steroids, personally apologizes to a student who was beaten up by one of his hot-headed defensive ends, Bobby Reyes, and does not hesitate to punish players for disobeying rules, whether on the field or off. He has a dislike for anything that distracts his players, and is actively opposed to media attention and the hype surrounding his team.
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Rich fauna include deer, wild boars, elks, beavers, bears, bison, wood grouses, heath cocks, snipes etc. From the 10th to the 11th century, although very scarcely populated, the big forest on the right bank of upper Neman River was strategically important for the pagan Lithuanian tribes. Historical Belarusian (then Ruthenian) towns Minsk and Zaslawye were founded on the edge of the forest as fortresses to defend the Ruthenian frontier against Lithuanian forays. In the middle of the 13th century, the forest defended the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the south from the attacks of the Golden Horde and its vassal, the principality of Halych-Volhynia, thus helping the newly formed state to survive. The border between Ruthenia (which remained under the Golden Horde power) and Lithuania that was established as a result of this clash, left traces in the local legends about the battles with Tartars at Mahilna and Koydanava and predetermined the long lasting division of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to Lithuania proper and “Lithuanian Russia”.
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