Kathleen Conlee, Humane Society of the United States director of animal research issues, called for the college to "publicly affirm its commitment to minimizing the suffering of animals in its labs."

Government documents from the U.S. Department of Health and Humane Services show the university violated animal welfare rules to varying degrees during the past seven years. The most serious incidents include a mouse dying after surgery, a rat found alive in a carcass freezer and 40 frogs that died of dehydration.

In a statement, university officials said they take seriously the "responsibilities to serve as proper stewards of all animal use on campus." The school works to adhere to all federal, state and local regulations and is accredited by the Association of Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, which oversees 770 programs, the statement said.

The Humane Society is in the midst of a public campaign to get universities across the nation to adopt policies that prohibit "severe and unrelieved pain and stress" on research animals, Conlee said. Locally, the campaign includes ads in the Wright State campus newspaper "The Guardian."

Six-hundred colleges have been asked to adopt the policy and so far only 55 have agreed. Ohio State University, Miami University and the University of Cincinnati either don't follow the humane society's specific policy or didn't respond to the agency's inquiries.

Government reports of violations also are being used to pressure Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth universities to adopt the rules.

Tiffany heart tag toggle link necklace The violations at Wright State came to light through a Freedom of Information Act request by the humane society.

Letters from the university show that officials self-report violations, which the school says is part of its protocol, and is something Conlee hopes to see changed. "We don't believe that is the most effective way of oversight."

Humane officials contend that signing the animal suffering policy will help, not hinder, the college's animal research. "If an animal is suffering because of research, that's poor science," Conlee said.

BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The president of the World Water Council (WWC) Thursday praised China's flood relief work while attending a WWC conference in Beijing ed hardy clothing and the WWC Pavilion Day at the Shanghai World Expo.

Loic Fauchon told Xinhua his organization and the international community at large were very impressed by China's rescue efforts and capacity to mobilize resources in flood relief.

Heavy rains and floods ravaging south and central China had killed at least 211 people and left 119 missing.

Fauthon also said cooperation between the WWC and China was very positive, and he was glad that the WWC for the first time had a pavilion at the World Expo.

"The pavilion will show to 8 million visitors of Shanghai World Expo all the important matters of water," said Fauchon.

"For the future, the control of water resources and water quality is essential for the development of China and peace between China and countries around."

He identified the largest challenge facing China in terms of water as bringing water to megacities.

About 400 out of 655 Chinese cities suffer from water shortages, and 200 are in dire situations, the State Council Information Office announced in March.

Fauchon said the Chinese government had already taken a lot of efforts, such as creating infrastructures to transfer water from one region to another.

The WWC, established in 1996, promotes itself as an international platform "to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all levels."

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Malaysian Yachting Association (MYA) general manager Mohd Afendy Abdullah said young Malaysian sailors had won a gold and three silver medals at the championship.

National back up sailors Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy and Norashikin Mohd Sayed had clinched the gold medal from the women's International 420 Class while the three silvers came from Mohd Romzi Mohamad (Laser Radial), Mohamad Farhan (Optimist) and Ku Anas Ku Zamil-Mohd Hafizuddin Mazelan from the men's International 420 Class, he said.

"The achievement was the best performance by Malaysian sailors since winning a gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the same championships held in Pakistan (1999)," he said here today.

Mohd Afendy said more than 30 sailors, both elite and back up national sailors, were currently undergoing training in Langkawi as preparations for the Asian Games.

At the 2006 Doha Asian Games in Qatar, Malaysia won a gold medal through Rufina Tan from the Optimist event.

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It may be fun. But can it last? Hardly anyone knew who Mr Clegg was before he shimmered on to our TV screens on Thursday night, hands nonchalantly in pockets and with his humanity beautifully rehearsed and turned up to maximum.

We knew the other two all too well. Gordon Brown's woebegone visage seems to have been sulking over our breakfast tables for decades, in one role or another.

Meanwhile, we have had almost five years to grow rather too accustomed to David Cameron's smooth face and even smoother manner. He was the future once, but is not as fresh as he once was.

Thanks to broadcasting's ruthless exclusion of third parties from the airwaves, Mr Clegg has been kept from us. So now we swoon when he turns out to be personable, articulate and well-briefed.

There is some justice in this. It is only fair that, in a time of fading tribal loyalties, the Liberal Democrats should at the very least be given a chance to tell us what they have to offer.

But we should read and listen carefully to what that is. Mr Clegg has the great good fortune to look (and dress) very wholesale sexy lingerie unlike the party he leads.

Behind him in the shadows stand dense ranks of beards and sandals, with beliefs so loopily Left-wing that even New Labour long ago abandoned or rejected them.

On national defence, on taxation of property, on green fanaticism, on the punishment of criminals, on immigration and above all on the European Union, the Liberal Democrats have policies which might have been designed to alarm and annoy the very parts of Middle England which they have suddenly reached.

And there is no doubt that a vote for Mr Clegg's party is likely to lead to a Lib-Lab pact of some kind, entrenching New Labour in Downing Street for years to come. If Britain votes on the lines of The Mail on Sunday's opinion poll, Labour would be the largest single party. If you vote orange, you will get Brown.

The holiday romance could end - as they so often do - in sadness, replica hublot watches disappointment and recrimination. Happily, there is still plenty of time to calm down, and for Mr Clegg to lose the allure of novelty.

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MARK Hancock, the former chief executive of Scottish property firm Kilmartin Group, has launched Talisman Capital, backed by a number of wealthy investors.

Hancock left Kilmartin a year ago, well before the problems that led to replica hublot watches it collapsing into administration and receivership recently.

He has been working on plans to capitalise on the opportunities created by the current weakness in the UK property market. He has set up Talisman Capital with Adam Kerr, with whom he established Amerdale, a privately-funded development and investment company in 2004.

Over the following three years, Amerdale built a GBP 100 million portfolio, spread across the UK, Germany and China. Hancock structured and completed the sale of the company in August 2007 to Kilmartin.

He previously held roles as a main board director at Teesland Group, as a senior fund manager for the Mercury property fund at Mercury Asset Management and as an investment surveyor for Strutt & Parker in London.

Kerr was investment officer for the GBP 1.3 billion Merrill Lynch property fund at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and was a director of Melford Securities. He was the founding Partner for Knight Frank & Rutley's office in Francistown, Botswana, and an investment surveyor for Healey & Baker in London.

Hancock and Kerr have been joined by another former Kilmartin executive, Frank Gillespie, who was links of london charms development director. He and Stephen McBride, formerly of Teesland, join as executive directors.

David Hood, who has invested in commercial property through Amerdale since 2005, becomes non-executive chairman. In 1982 he founded Pace Micro Technology, now the world's third-largest set-top box company with more than 1,000 employees and a market capitalisation of over GBP 650m.

Chris Jolly, who retired from Merrill Lynch early in 2009, where he was responsible for the bank's property investment banking team in the UK, completes the team as a non-executive director.

Prosecutors accused Travis Lee Mascarenas, a former assistant manager at the historic Rancho Cucamonga steakhouse, of sneaking in a back door at closing time on Aug. 7, 2007, intending to take money from a safe in a back office.

But once inside the restaurant, he encountered his former boss, manager Louis Alvarez. And after Mascarenas realized he had been recognized, he stabbed Alvarez hoping to kill Thomas sabo charms him, prosecutors said.

A jury of six men and six women found Mascarenas guilty of four felony counts and found additional "special allegations" true, which will lengthen his prison sentence.

The victim of Mascarenas' attack, Louie Alvarez, said after the hearing that he was "overjoyed" by the verdicts.

"It's been a long time coming - 2 1/2 years," he said.

After Mascarenas stabbed Alvarez, the men grappled for control of the knife. It fell out of Mascarenas' hand, and Alvarez testified that he kicked it out of Mascarenas' reach before fleeing.

Mascarenas will likely face a sentence of 23 years to life in prison, said Deputy District Attorney Kyung Kim.

"I think it's what it should have been," Kim said of the verdicts. "I'm glad the jurors listened."

Mascarenas claimed on the witness stand this week that he was intoxicated during the incident, and his attorney argued Wednesday that Mascarenas was too drunk to intend to kill his former boss.

Alvarez on Wednesday called Mascarenas' drunkenness claims a "bald-faced lie."

"I know for a fact he was not drunk the night it happened, and for him to lie on the stand with everything, he said, it was insulting," Alvarez said.

Mascarenas' attorney, Mary Bernal-Flores, told jurors in her closing argument that Mascarenas suffered from alcoholism, which she called a "mental disorder."

She told jurors that Mascarenas was remorseful for his actions, and he didn't intend to kill Alvarez when he stabbed him in the neck.

She faulted the sheriff's investigation into the crime, and questioned why deputies didn't measure Mascarenas' blood-alcohol content when he was arrested in the hours after the incident.

"If there are missing pieces in a puzzle, then a crime has not been committed," Bernal-Flores said.

In rebuttal comments to the jury, Kim called Mascarenas a coward and a liar, and he ridiculed defense claims that Mascarenas was too drunk to form an intent to kill.

"Please apply your common sense," Kim told jurors. "It's been utterly lacking in the defense."

Alvarez said he didn't believe Mascarenas was sincere in his apology.

"It was to put on a show for the jury, to get sympathy," Alvarez said. "He went to the restaurant with one intention, and did what he set out to do, or more."

Good mates and former "Tatts" employees John Clarkson and Adrian Bonica are spending their weekends renovating the hotel, which has traditionally been a Thomas sabo charms city weekend hotspot.

The two men worked as bar managers for the previous lessees for a number of years before Mr Bonica returned to his home in Brisbane and Mr Clarkson returned to the Sunshine Coast.

Subsequently, the hotel lessees went into receivership, forcing the closure of the hotel.

"We heard on the grapevine that it was vacant," Mr Bonica explained.

"So we contacted the owner and eventually bought the lease."

They have since been working weekends pulling up carpet and replacing wall coverings to ready the hotel for a grand reopening in mid-to-late March.

"We helped develop the business and watched it grow so there's a reasonable amount of emotional attachment to the place," Mr Bonica said.

"We think we'll make it a more modern and more comfortable place to be than what it has been."

The duo plans to upgrade and expand the restaurant and focus on providing good quality and good value meals.

They said the reopening of the hotel would create about 20 new jobs.

Mr Bonica said he could not reveal the cost of the lease because of a confidentiality clause in the contract, but said it represented a significant investment in the city.

"It's enough to know that you're in it boots and all -- let's put it that way," he said.

We heard on the grapevine that it was vacant. So we contacted the owner and eventually bought the lease.

-- Adrian Bonica