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Zoë is the NFL’s first emotional support dog. The smallest 49er offers a big assist to players and staff alike at Levi’s Stadium. The one-year-old French bulldog spends most of her time in the player engagement office where the team can visit her between practices and before and after games. She is working this week, leading up the big NFC Divisional Playoff at Levi Stadium on Saturday. The Niners are the first team in the NFL to have a registered emotional support pooch. Zoë’s talents are many: they include an irresistible charm, the ability to carry a ball quite a...

The first female pilot to head the Air Combat Command F-16 Viper demonstration team was relieved of command Monday due to a “loss of confidence” in her ability to lead, the Air Force said. Capt. Zoe Kotnik was removed from her position after two weeks, Col. Derek O’Malley, the 20th Fighter Wing commander, said in a statement. “I removed Capt. Kotnik from her position as the commander of the Viper Demo team [Monday], because I lost confidence in her ability to lead the team.” O’Malley said. “I know that loss of confidence is a common response from the Air Force,...

A teenaged girl who reportedly went missing on her way to church was found slain near her crashed minivan in a Dallas creek, officials said. The body of Zoe Hastings, 18, was discovered Monday by police responding to calls about a vehicle in the creek near East Lake Highlands Drive and Easton Road. She had died from "obvious homicidal violence," Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said during a press conference.

September 4, 2012 (StandTrue.com) - I want you to meet my friend and fellow abortion abolitionist, 11-year-old Zoe Griffin. In a world when grown adults ignore, deny or just don’t care about the abortion holocaust that has claimed over 55 million of Zoe’s generation, she is willing to take a stand no matter what people think. Zoe joined her mother and friends to lay thousands of roses outside the site of the Democratic convention and pray for the babies, the politicians and this generation. While Zoe was praying, pro-abortion activists who claim to stand up for women began to belittle...

PARIS -- A French lawyer has a warning for parents-to-be: Naming your baby girl Zoe could set her up for a lifetime of annoyances - everything from playground teasing to sexual come-ons. That's the contention of David Koubbi, who is wrangling with French carmaker Renault about its plans to call its new electric car "Zoe." Koubbi is representing the parents of two little girls named Zoe Renault (ZO-eh ruh-NO) - no relation to the French automaker - who are outraged their daughters might have to share their names with a car. They want Renault to find another non-human name for...

As if Zoe Saldana weren't already every guy's dream girl with her roles in sci-fi flicks "Star Trek" and "Avatar," the sexy actress is turning up the heat as the new underwear model for Calvin Klein.

These are the most intelligent and least intelligent dogs, according to The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren. “Over 200 professional dog obedience judges, ranked 110 dog breeds on the basis of their intelligence.” Coren is a dog expert and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. Here are his top and bottom choices. MOST INTELLIGENT 1. Border collie The border collie is energetic, intelligent, keen, alert and responsive. An intense worker of great tractability, it is affectionate toward friends but may be sensibly reserved toward strangers. When approached, the border collie stands its ground. 2. Poodle...

16th of June DEFEATING DEPRESSION PART 1 “Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad” Proverbs 12:25 Depression- from Webster’s New Unabridged Dictionary Low spirits, gloominess, dejection, sadness, a decrease in force, or activity, or amount, a decrease in functional activity. An emotional condition either normal or pathological characterized by discouragement, a feeling of inadequacy, the act of humbling abasement as a depression of pride. Abasement, reduction, sinking, fall, humiliation, dejection, melancholy. Major Depression Facts Major depression is the No.1 psychological disorder in the western world.(1) It is growing in all age groups,...

Zoe Koz weighed no more than a can of soup when she was born, and was so small she fit in the palm of her doctor's hand.But the tiny newborn was strong enough to surprise the physicians who delivered her by Caesarean section Jan. 6."When I delivered her, she kicked me,'' said Dr. Julie Jensen, the obstetrician who presided over Zoe's birth. "She's feisty.'' WORLD'S TINIEST BABIES Two of the 10 smallest babies ever to survive were born in the Chicago suburbs. Here's where and when the 10 tiniest surviving infants were born, according to a registry kept by the...

Islanders Tell How They Survived Cyclone Zoe By Johnson Honimae HONIARA (Reuters) - All the inhabitants of a South Pacific island battered by a fierce cyclone have survived by fleeing to mountain shelters, according to a photographer who has landed on the island. He said it appeared no one had died on Tikopia, where it was feared hundreds might have perished after Cyclone Zoe tore through the remote eastern Solomon Islands on Sunday morning. Tikopia is the biggest of the affected islands which are home to around 3,700 people. The situation on Anuta and other islands hammered by the...

December 31, 2002 Two Pacific islands 'lost' after cyclone From Roger Maynard in Sydney FEARS are growing for the safety of the 3,000 residents of two of the most remote inhabited islands in the South Pacific. Tikopia and Anuta, in the Solomon Islands, are believed to have been devastated by hurricane-force winds. Radio contact was lost after cyclone Zoe reached the maximum category five as it swept across the region, generating 200mph winds and 30ft waves. Loti Yates, the region’s national disaster management director, said there was concern for the islanders. “For 11 hours the islands have come under direct...