She said the review had found that the threshold for taking Shannon or her siblings into care had not been reached.

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Mr Vedral gives a good description of how Shannon's information theory can be applied to winning at blackjack or in buying shares (Shannon and his friends made fortunes in Las Vegas as well as on the stockmarket).

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The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.

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Shannon says the alcohol tastes like fruit juice or pop.

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You do it because you know that your work could be the spark or that seed for the dreams and aspirations of girls like Aissatou and Shannon generations from now.

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On that front, Shannon says the group is considering alternatives like using some sort of alternative currency or donating winnings to charity.

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Joshua Mandel (who knows a thing or two about Iran from his recently completed combat tour as a Marine in Iraq) and Shannon Jones, Reinsch circulated a letter warning the bill "would broadly and indiscriminately harm U.S. and foreign companies as well as individual pensioners" in Ohio.

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