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"Several corporate executives have joined forces with prominent local lawmakers, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and George Soros' National Immigration Forum (NIF) to organize a campaign on Monday to target GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to get them to try to support amnesty. Those executives include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Boeing CEO and chairman Jim McNerney, Marriott hotels chairman and CEO Bill Marriott, NewsCorp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, and Disney president and CEO Bob Iger," Breitbart News reports.
Rubio Backs Away from "Comprehensive" Amnesty Bill, Favors Small Bills
"Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a key congressional Republican advocate of an immigration overhaul, is now calling for reform bills that are less sweeping than the comprehensive legislation he authored this year with a bipartisan group of senators," Politico reports.
"His spokesman said in a statement Monday that Rubio wants to now zero in on areas of immigration reform where Republicans and Democrats on both sides of the Capitol could agree. While some facets of immigration reform enjoy broad bipartisan support – such as boosting the number of visas available for high-skilled immigrants – one major point of disagreement is what to do with the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country."
Over the weekend, Rubio's spokesman said the Senator opposed passing bills in the House as a method of conferencing with the Senate.
"'At this point, the most realistic way to make progress on immigration would be through a series of individual bills,' Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said in an email. 'Any effort to use a limited bill as a ruse to trigger a conference that would then produce a comprehensive bill would be counterproductive. Furthermore, any such effort would fail, because any single senator can and will block conference unless such conference is specifically instructed to limit the conference to only the issue dealt with in the underlying bill.'"
Hispanic Donors for Obama Now Target GOP
"A network of Latino donors that played a pivotal role in raising money for President Obama's reelection is now focused on a new campaign: an effort to oust lawmakers who stand in the way of overhauling immigration laws. The Latino Victory Project, a new political advocacy organization modeled after the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, is planning to spend as much as $20 million on campaigns targeting members of Congress who have sizable Latino communities in their districts but oppose comprehensive immigration reform," the Washington Post writes.
New York Times Endorses End to "Needless" Deportations
"The deportation surge is fed by programs like Secure Communities, which does immigration checks on everyone arrested by local and state law enforcement, and Operation Streamline, in which border crossers in the Southwest are prosecuted en masse, with little access to legal representation. Mr. Obama turned the dragnet on, and can turn it off. In marches and vigils across the country, protesters have made one plea on deportations to Mr. Obama: 'Not one more.' He should heed it," says the New York Times in an editorial.
Chamber of Commerce Sides With Indian IT Firms
"US industry representatives have assured India of strong and continued support against the discriminatory measures proposed in the Immigration Reform Bill that could hit Indian IT companies operating in the country," The Hindu Business Line writes.
"IT majors such as Infosys, Wipro and TCS may have to end up paying steep penal visa fees for their employees, mandatorily raise the salaries of those on H1B visas and also stop hiring more H1B professionals from 2016, if the Bill becomes law.
US Chamber of Commerce chief Steve Van Andel, in a meeting with Commerce & Industry Minister, Anand Sharma, on Monday, said the negative aspects of the Bill needed to be articulated in a more vocal way."
ICE Memo – Obamacare Signup Information Won't Be Used for Immigration
"The Obama administration is assuring immigrants that applications for Obamacare will not be used to enforce immigration law," the Daily Caller reported.
"'[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] does not use information about such individuals or members of their household that is obtained for purposes of determining eligibility for such coverage as the basis for pursuing a civil immigration enforcement action against such individuals or members of their household,' a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reads."
"The memo explains that such information may only be used for administering the Obamacare program and determining eligibility."
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I keep hearing that Immigration is broke some how. There is nothing broken, there just isn't anything being enforced as far as DEPORTING ALL THE ILLEGAL ALIENS. I assume with some of the twisted logic I'm hearing is the only way to fix this immigration problem is to make all ILLEGAL ALIENS LEGAL. This is a total crock of you know what. Kick them out of here and make them do it the right way, I'm talking about entering our country legally and not moving in permanently with some temporary visa.
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We need to round 'em up and fight these open border rich elite on amnesty with their opposite own kind.
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Leland on October 28, 2013 12:41 pm
So the NY Times is endorsing "not one more" deportation? And sure as night follows day, that's offered as a way to fix our "broken system" when the effect would be the exact opposite. Why would anyone who was attempting to come here illegally or overstay a visa be anything but encouraged by the fact that we would be suspending all deportations? It's like the bank meeting robbers at the door with coffee and cake.
The continual lie is that "enforcement doesn't work" when the fact is we don't have real enforcement and nothing in the Senate bill would guarantee it before amnesty occurs. Did I mention Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owns 7% of the stock of the NY Times and has previously lent them 250 million dollars? That wouldn't influence them at all. No way.
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Vastavam web: Shoot-outs between drug gangs left at least six people dead over the weekend in two Rio de Janeiro favelas, the latest in a flare-up of violence in recent months.Through much of yesterday morning, heavy exchanges of gunfire terrorised residents of Rocinha, Rio's biggest favela with 75,000 inhabitants.
Nearly a quarter the city's 6.45 million population live in favelas, the term Brazilians give for the poor, densely populated neighbourhoods clustered on the city's steep hillsides.Local security services told AFP that one person was killed in Rocinha yesterday, the day after five other people were killed in neighbourhoods north of the city.
Witness accounts on social media indicated more than one person may have been killed in Rocinha, and several videos showed armed men running through the neighbourhood's maze of alleys.Police also were attacked in the early morning by a group of heavily armed men near the favela, according to the authorities.
A police source told AFP that they suspect the violence was due to internal divisions in the gang that controls drug trafficking in Rocinha.
According to local media, members of the same gang were behind clashes that left five dead overnight Friday to Saturdayin Morro do Juramento, a favela north of Rio.The growing sense of insecurity has been aggravated by the state of Rio's dismal financial situation. On the verge of bankruptcy, it is a month behind in payments of wages and salaries to its workers, including the police.The government has turned to the army to combat the upsurge in violence, deploying nearly 10,000 troops at the end of July.They have already taken part in two huge operations against the armed gangs in the city's favelas.


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Q: Automorphisms of projective line how does one find the set of Automorphisms of the complex projective line?
PS: no scheme theory is assumed.

A: 0) I'll use coordinates $(t:z)$ on the projective line $\mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)$, with the embedding $\mathbb C\to \mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)$ given by $z\mapsto (1:z)$  and with $\infty = (0:1)$.
1) Now, given an automorphism $f:\mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)\to \mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)$, we may assume $f(\infty)=\infty$: if this is not the case and if $f(\infty)=a=(1:a)\in \mathbb C$, we consider the automorphism $g:\mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)\to \mathbb P^1(\mathbb C): (t:z)\mapsto (z-at:t)$ (which maps $a=(1:a)$ to $(0:1)=\infty$) and the new automorphism $g\circ f$  will satisfy $(g\circ f)(\infty)=\infty$.
2) If $f(\infty)=\infty$, we may consider  the restriction $f\mid \mathbb C=f_0:\mathbb C\to\mathbb C$.
It is given by a polynomial $f_0(z)=P(z)$ and since it is a bijection it must have degree $1$ (by the fundamental theorem of algebra, say) : $P(z)=bz+c=(1:bz+c)$ .
3) Taking into  account   the reduction in 1), we see that the original automorphism must have the form $$(t:z) \mapsto (\gamma z+\delta t:\alpha z+\beta t)   $$ with $\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\delta \in \mathbb C$ and $\alpha\delta-\beta\gamma\neq0$.
Conversely, it is clear that such a formula defines an automorphism of   $\mathbb P^1(\mathbb C)$.
With the obvious traditional abuse of notation we just write this as the Möbius transformation $$f(z)=\frac {\alpha z+\beta}{\gamma z+\delta}     $$
5) Summary $$Aut(P^1(\mathbb C)) =PGl_2(\mathbb C)=Gl_2(\mathbb C)/ \mathbb C ^*            $$

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Q: Mailchimp embed form: too many recent signup requests on iOS 10 devices (Update on this below)
On a website we're using the naked embed signup form from Mailchimp in unaltered form to let visitors sign up for a mailing list.
For a lot of users this is working fine. But a substantial amount of users report getting the error:

'recipient 'xxx' has too many recent signup requests'

We did a test with 25 friends. 15 of them could subscribe, 10 of them got the error (9 of them used iphone/ipad with iOS 10). That's a lot of missed subscribers.
Also the error doesn't always appear, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
We've emailed Mailchimp and they suggested removing the hidden anti spam field, because they thought some browsers might fill that field with autofill and trigger the spam filter. We tried this, but the same iPhone/iPad users still can't subscribe to the list. So this does not seem to be the solution.
We also tried the solutions described at this websites:

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*https://brianhogg.com/avoid-mailchimp-too-many-attempts-signup-error/

*https://medium.com/@CodingJoe/what-to-do-when-youve-accidentally-become-a-celebrity-and-you-get-this-mailchimp-error-recipient-98b1f0bbbe0c#.2ygbrfwn7
The first website suggests the same as Mailchimp did. The second website suggests a different approach, but this led to getting the error on all other browsers/devices that were previously working fine, only not on iPhone/Safari.
This is the code we're using:

<form action="//jacquelinemaschino.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=294b4d18f697aff506b9eb34a&id=ab37464845" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="formulier mailchimp validate" target="_blank" novalidate>

    E-mailadres
    <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL">

<input type="text" name="b_294b4d18f697aff506b9eb34a_ab37464845" tabindex="-1" value="">

    <input type="submit" value="Blijf op de hoogte en schrijf je in" class="button button-3" name="mmc_subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe">

</form>

We've searched the entire internet for a solution but we just can't find one. That's why I hope someone here might have experience with this problem or can find a problem with the website itself. The form can be found on http://inclusiefondernemerschap.nl.
Thanks for any help!
UPDATE 17 JAN 2017:
After some investigation we've tracked down the issue is not at Mailchimp's side, but some code in the form that makes iOS10 iPhones show the 'Recipient "" has too many recent signup requests' error.
We're almost there, but as we don't have a iOS10 device to test with (we asked friends) so it's hard to test for us.
We came to the conclusion that:

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*This form triggers the error on iOS10 devices: http://van-vlerken.nl/form-en/form3en.html

*This form works good, and doesn't triggers the error: http://van-vlerken.nl/form-en/form4en.html
So, some HTML code in the first form triggers the error. But we're unable to test any further. Can someone else test this, and maybe alter the HTML code to see what exactly triggers the error?
(Note; the form mentioned above only does a post to the result page which shows a print_r($_POST). No information is send to me, mailchimp or anyone else.)
(Note 2: The iPhone emulator at https://appetize.io/demo won't trigger the error at all, so that emulator is unfortunately unusable in this case)

A: We found that removing target="_blank" from the <form> tag fixed the 'Recipient "" has too many...' error.

A: Try to copy the link (shorter URL) under signup form>Create forms>copy URL in Mailchimp and use that link in place of the existing one.
Try including the protocol in the link too (HTTP or HTTPS)
Hope this helps.


The Kalwar, also called Kalar or Kallar, Sehore and Kalal, are traditionally a community of distillers and traders of country liquor. They are spread across the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, as well as Madhya Pradesh.
The name of the community is derived from the Sanskrit word kalyapala, meaning distiller of liquor; from ancient times until the British period the Kalwar were predominantly engaged in making fermented liquor in small pot-stills.
Sir Denzel Ibbetson describes them as "notorious for enterprise, energy and obstinacy." During British rule the right to manufacture and sell in specified circles or regions was annually auctioned at the District headquarters and the Kalwar assembled to bid for it. It was here that instances of their perseverance could often be noticed; a Kalwar brewer would bid up a license far in excess of the profits which he could hope to realise from it, rather than allow himself to be deprived of a still which he desired to retain.
William Crooke in the Tribes and Castes of North-Western India (1896) states that the Kalwar may be an offshoot of the Baniya (trader) or other similar castes belonging to the Vaishya class, the third-highest class of traders and merchants in the traditional four-fold division of Hindu society. Also, a slight physical resemblance may be traced between the Baniya and the Kalwar. The fact that some of the Kalwar are followers of Jainism – a religion, to which mainly the Baniya adhere to, adds weight to this theory.
In Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal the Kalwar speak Hindi as their mother tongue and use the Devanagari script to write it. In the latter state they also speak Bengali while in Bihar they speak the Indo-Aryan language Magahi as their mother tongue and are conversant with Hindi as well.
The Kalwar are mostly engaged in farming, forestry, business, trade, government and private service, industrial and agricultural labour, and, to a much diminished extent, in their traditional calling of manufacture of country liquor. Quite a few of the younger educated generation, especially in West Bengal, have taken up professions in medicine, engineering, chartered and cost accountancy, teaching and administration.
The Kalwar will eat mutton, chicken, venison, fish but not beef and pork; wheat and rice are the staple cereals consumed as well as vegetables, fruits, pulses, milk and dairy products. Not surprisingly, alcoholism is a problem among their community.
The Kalwar tend to favour formal education and their literacy level on the whole is moderate. Though most of the elderly members of the community have not received any formal education the younger generation is pursuing it and in states like West Bengal their literacy levels are high. They favour modern medicine and family planning techniques as well as the use of indigenous medicines. They take part in various benefits provided by the government, like self-employment schemes, agricultural loans, as well as subsidized food grains and cooking fuel to improve their lot in life.
The Kalwar are an endogamous community (they do not marry outsiders) divided into exogamous clans, i.e. marriage outside the clan is permitted. Some of their clans or gotras in Uttar Pradesh are Durga, Batham, Gulor, Padhouya, Chamiki and Gungwar. In Bihar and West Bengal a number of lineages have been identified which indicate one's ancestry and regulate marriage alliances.
Adult marriages and monogamy are the rule within the community. Consanguineous marriages, (marriages between closely related persons) are forbidden, but junior levirate and junior sororate are permitted. Among the Kalwar of Bihar marriage alliances within the same village are not allowed. Most marriages are arranged by negotiation and a Brahmin (highest Hindu priestly caste) officiates at the ceremony. The rule of residence after marriage is patrilocal – i.e. the couple resides with or near the husband's family. The symbols of marriage for women are vermilion in the mid-head hair parting, toe rings, coloured dot on the forehead (bindi) and black bangles. Divorce and remarriage are socially permissible except among the Biyahut Kalwar.
An interesting marriage custom prevalent among the Kalwar, particularly those living in Madhya Pradesh, is the ceremony known as "marrying the well". This is performed before the wedding procession departs for the bride's residence. In this ceremony, the mother or aunt of the bridegroom goes to a well and sits in its mouth with her legs hanging down inside it. She then asks the bridegroom what he will give her. In response, the bridegroom goes around the well seven times, thereby imitating the marriage ritual of circling around the sacred fire, and throws a stick of a local grass in it at each turn. Afterwards he promises her a handsome present and, being satisfied, she returns to her house.
The Kalwar mostly live in mixed-extended families. The parental property is inherited equally by all the sons, while the eldest succeeds to the deceased father's authority. Women are relegated to a position secondary to the men but they have their specified roles in ritual, domestic and social spheres. The Kalwar have a regional caste council known as Behaut Sangh or Sammelan with a number of branches in northern and southern parts of India, as well as in Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal.
The Kalwar are predominantly Hindu and worship all the deities of the wider Hindu pantheon like Vishnu, Kali, Lakshmi (goddess of wealth and Vishnu's consort) and many others.
Many Kalwar belong to the Vaishnava sect of Hinduism that is devoted to the worship of Vishnu and his two incarnations, Rama and Krishna, with their consorts as its main deities. Rama is the seventh incarnation of Vishnu as a divine prince and icon of morality; he is also the hero of Hindu India's most popularly revered religious epic, the Ramayana.
A priest from their own community performs worship, cures diseases and protects them against evil spirits, while the Brahmin priests are their sacred specialists who perform religious rites and conduct marriages. Both birth and death pollution is strictly observed for specified periods. Tonsure and first feeding of cereals are some of the birth rituals. The dead are cremated and death rituals observed. The ashes are immersed in a river, preferably the holy Ganges River.
The Kalwar observe major Hindu festivals like Janamashtami (birthday of Krishna), Navratri (festival of nine nights dedicated to the worship of various devis or goddesses, especially Durga, a form of Kali), Ramanavmi (birthday of Rama), Holi (spring festival of colours symbolising the victory of good over evil.) During Holi those who sell liquor pay homage to an earthen jar filled with the alcoholic beverage. Some Kalwar follow the atheistic religion of Jainism, while a few are adherents of Sikhism.
Who are belong to this community my humble request to all of you please bring the unity do not say we are kshatriya,kalwar,kalal,kalar.our agenda will be clear for our society we are baniya trader and in deep we can say kalwar baniya.
So please Garv se kaho hm sab vaishye jai.
Mostly Vaishye community belong to Kshatriya vansh and we are also belong to Kshatriya vansh but we are baniya trader just like- Vashney vansaj of Akrur ji maharaja,Aggarwal vansaj of survanshi agsrsen maharaja,Khandelwal vansaj of raja khandelsen,Barnwal vansaj of Raja ahibarn and we are vansaj of sahstrbahu.we are all vaishye.
I am proud to be a Jaiswal.As we also follow our traditional business of liquor.But also a 7 doctors are in our family.
we spread into all India, in diffterent castes-language-cultures.
first of all, all castes of our group listed under one group.At all india basis, we will be united under one name and one group. we will fight for rights and legacy of our ruling.
Are there Muslim Kalals too? I read somewhere about caste Siddiqi Kalal.
Wrongly define as Sudra.Pl. correct this.Bhagwan Balram is our aradhya-dev .
BALBHADRA PUJA has also been celebrated by us.


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Leak Reveals Information On Huawei Mate 40 Lite
Sean Farlow
Huawei is said to be working on the release of the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro phones. But the series might have a third option for those who don't want to spend lots of money on a new Mate 40 device.
We're talking about the Mate 40 Lite, which could once again be a midrange model. The Lite releases have been around for a while now. Some of Huawei's most popular releases have a Lite version.
The information comes from tipster Digital Chat Station, who said that the company is planning to release this version. The phone is expected to be part of the Maimag series, which is a China only lineup. But that lineup is usually rebranded as the Lite options.
A picture from the tipster shows a phone with a circular camera design on the back. A reply to his own post mentions that Huawei's new machine has a very Mate design. Some of the specs mentioned next to the picture show that the phone might have a 6.6-inch display and a 4,300 mAh battery.
The Lite releases are usually one of three options that the company launches along with its flagship devices. The regular Mate and Mate Pro usually have the top specs and features. The Lite version is more of an affordable option for those who don't want to spend a ton of money on a new smartphone. The Lite releases usually don't have the same specs or top features but they have a similar design to their big brothers.
The Lite phones are quite popular so this leak isn't exactly a big surprise since the Mate and P lineups usually include it. But this is still good news since most of the information that has surfaced has to do with the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro.
Earlier this month, there was a report that mentioned that the smartphone will arrive with symmetrical dual speakers to make the audio experience much better. Gizmochina added to that by saying that the technology will be similar to the one used for the Mate 20 series.
Digital Chat Station has also dropped some information on the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro. The tipster revealed a few days ago that there will be no under-display front camera for the device. The technology has been rumored for at least one of the phones but the tipster says it won't be coming since he has seen it in person and held a sample of it.
The phones are said to be coming in Q4 but one report recently said that things could be different for this launch. The Nikkei Asian Review reported that the phones may end up being announced around the same period but the release will happen some time later.
The Mate 30 phones were announced back in September 2019. The phones received good reviews but many of the reviewers were disappointed about the lack of Google services, something that might happen for the Mate 40 too since the US government recently extended the ban for another year. The ban prevents US companies from doing any type of business with the smartphone giant.
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My office shares a floor with the Sierra Club. So oftentimes the shared men's room on the floor is dark when I enter it. The lights have been turned off, either as an act of energy conservation or as a gentle reminder to the rest of us, or both. I don't mind this. I simply turn the lights on. And I usually remember to turn them off again as I leave.
So if darkening the men's room is meant to prime green thinking, it works. And not just green thinking—communal behavior as well. I feel better when I'm reminded to turn out the lights, like I'm doing my part.
But how far does such persuasion go? After all, switching the lights off costs me nothing. What if I make a real sacrifice, buying a hybrid or suffering without the AC? Will that make me even a better citizen?
There are theoretical reasons to think not. Gentle reminders may prime our communitarian impulses, but actual sacrifices may have the opposite, paradoxical, effect. Sacrifices may trigger out moral thermostat, giving us the license to act badly in some other unrelated domain.
That, at least, is the idea that two University of Toronto psychologists recently set out to test in the laboratory. Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong first tested the effects of mere exposure to green products, which symbolize high ethical and humanitarian values. They had volunteers visit on-line stores, some offering mostly environmentally friendly products, the others mostly conventional products. No purchases were made; the volunteers just "walked" the aisles of one store or the other.
Hanging around the eco-store is the equivalent of seeing a conservation advertisement on TV, or entering a darkened men's room. And its effects were striking. The volunteers who were primed for green thinking were much more altruistic in a subsequent task; they gave away more money than average. In short, they were more cooperative citizens.
But here's the interesting part. When they had the volunteers actually make purchases in the two different stores, the results were reversed. That is, the volunteers who made green purchases were more self-centered later on. It's as if making a moral sacrifice establishes moral credentials, which subsequently licenses deviant behavior. Or put another way, we build up moral chits, which we can redeem later by acting selfishly.
If you think that's disturbing, it gets worse. In a separate experiment, the psychologists created the same shopping scenario, with some making green purchases and others conventional purchases. Then they had them participate in an elaborate game. The details are complicated, but the game basically created an opportunity for volunteers to profit by lying about their performance on a task—and also to steal money from a till. And they did both. As reported on-line in the journal Psychological Science, those with green cred were bigger liars and thieves, presumably because they believed they had "earned" the right to transgress with impunity.
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Does Jeanne Gang's architecture inspire social justice?
By Julia Ingalls
Jul 21, '16 12:36 PM EST
In this New York Times interview with Ginia Bellafante, Jeanne Gang discusses the importance and challenges of designing work that isn't simply aesthetically pleasing, but that influences positive changes in social behavior and policy. In addition to her work on waterways, she discusses her idea... View full entry
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Flying firefighters: the jetpack is quickly becoming a reality
By Nicholas Korody
Nov 11, '15 10:18 PM EST
In the near-future, Dubai Civil Defence officers may be zooming in on to the scene of building fires using futuristic personal jetpacks.
Designed by New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Company, the jet-packs can be operated by a single pilot for 30 minutes at ranges of between 30 and 50 kilometres at altitudes of up to 3,000 feet.
The pilot stands on a platform in a 'pilot module' between two propeller engines, which look like large versions of those commonly found on civilian drones. — Khaleej Times
I'm not sure when or how it happened, but apparently jet packs are a real thing now. On Tuesday, the Dubai Civil Defense service signed a deal with Martin Aircraft for the future delivery of jetpacks, training material, and spare parts. Dubai's towering skyline necessitates a degree of vertical... View full entry
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Architect to plead "no contest" in Los Angeles firefighter's death
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Southern Illinois University is a beautiful place in the middle of a small town. The people, who in my opinion, should not attend this school, should be those that do not like nature and large amounts of rain. SIU is surrounded by trees, plants, and our campus lake. Those who do not enjoy nature, for example the bugs, humidity, and no large skyscrapers would not fit best at southern. SIU also recieves large amounts of rain. For those who care about their hairstyles and clothes, come prepared for stormy beautiful weather.
I feel that every type of person is able to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school, teachers, and students are accepting of everyone. I also feel that people who are easily distracted by fun social activities need to be careful. Since there are so many places to go to and spend time with friends in Carbondale, it can be harder to focus on one's education. Other than that, anyone has a chance to be successfull here.
If you are accustomed to big city life and like the hustle and bustle of the city, then Southern Illinois University might not be the place for you. It's a smaller college town, so you may find yourself bored or feel like there is nothing to do. You may also feel like you don't have as much as a social life as you did in the city, but really you just have to go and find it. You also may be suprised to see deer on campus!
The kind of person who shouldn't attend my school is someone who would not like to try to further their education or try something new. My school offers an opportunity for anyone to continue their education in whatever their interests are. There are also new and exciting activities that students can participate in that will build their resume while meeting new people and trying new things.
The kind of person that shouldn't attend this school is someone that is not motivated, someone who struggles with change, someone not able to adjust to new settings and not willing to ask for help. If you are not a team player, cooperative, dependable and not wanting to make a change in your life or the lives of others this school is not for you!
Carbondale has always had a reputation for being a "party town." I believe it takes a person with quite a bit of self control and discipline to be able to attend classes and excel simultaneously. I person who may not be mature enough to resist the temptations presented by this town's atmosphere would easily fail financially and academically.
A person used to a small surrounding shouldnt attend. Everyone would be fine though. It is not a terrifying place but can be overwhelming for someone not used to having a lot of people around. Someone just looking to party wont make it either. You have to be aware that you are in college and not just here to party.
I don't honestsly thing that any person shouldn't attend this school. This school welomes everyone and can benefit each and every person in their one way. SIUC is very diverse and welcoming to everyone. If you have a desire to go to SIUC, than it is the school for you.
If you're looking for bright lights and constant action (think NYC), youll be disappointed. This is a rural university city, with lots of trees and local businesses. If you're not a fan of nature, this school isn't for you.


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27. Jan 2015, 06:57 edited 28. Jan 2015, 13:59 in Community Chit-chat archive
As a christian I don't know what to say about this but I feel it should be commemorated by all. I can't begin to imagine the horrors involved or the ongoing mental strength of those who survived but I send my commiserations to all forum descendants of those who died because of who they were rather than anything they had done.
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27. Jan 2015, 07:30 edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
Religiously I am a nothing much but I too think this needs commemorating by all.
It was an act of incredible inhumanity and sadly, such acts continue to this day, possibly not so calculated in terms of magnitude and process but they are still happening.
It wasn't just religion either that the Nazis targetted, if you were culturally different - Romani gypsies, black, asian - disabled, homosexual, lots of other things that could see you marked out as 'different' that was enough to see you packaged up into the group of 'bad' and 'unworthy' and sent to a concentration camp. We should all now speak out for those people as well as listening to the survivors and their ancestors so we can maybe begin to hope this kind of action, on any scale, ends.
Hey little fighter, things will get brighter
theresak Posts: 1,998
I`m a Roman Catholic, but agree that we should all commemorate this day. In terms of remembrance of this unspeakable act of inhumanity, I think the baton should be passed on from one generation to the next. What is the alternative? If no-one remembers, no-one will learn.
Having visited Auschwitz/Birkenau a few years ago, I am filled with admiration for anyone who survived, and has somehow found the strength to talk about their experiences. There have been some interesting TV programmes the last few days - I watched Freddy Knoller`s Story on BBC 2 last week, and was amazed at his humour and his spirit.
A lesson to us all.
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Such an horrible time in history, those poor people , being separated from family and never to see them again..and all the suffering that went on..the film about Bergan Belsen was horrific..my father was with the British army that were the first ones in and all he would say was that we weren't allowed to give them food..because there stomachs wouldn't cope with it..he never mentioned the rest.. lets hope nothing like this ever happens again...
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I can't believe there are people who STILL don't believe this awful thing happened. Just how much proof do they need? :shock:
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Those who protest it never happened are the truly bigoted, intolerant and prejudiced but they will always be with us because humans are flawed and always fail to learn from any version of history, even their own.
The Radio5Live phone-in this morning was on this topic and the first caller was a denier (he must have lied to pass their vetting so no honour involved from the word go). The ranting, venom and vitriol was astonishing, deplorable and horrific - he was cut off within seconds but the taste of the call lingered. All he achieved was to increase the sensibilities of those who called in to say that this ghastly part of human history should never be forgotten and it will not because those who share feelings of humanity outnumber those who don't. DD
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I have been thinking of all those poor people today and cannot imagine how horrific it was and I cannot begin to understand why it happened. As LV said, it is still happening in some countries. It makes me feel as if I am living in the wrong world.
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They showed images of camps in Bosnia on the BBC in the nineties, and there are now reports of similar camps in North Korea. I don't think people ever learn. If anything they appear to be encouraged by the lack of intervention.
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Wild Horse (and Burro) Warriors
Fighting for their lives, their land and their water------as Found in 1971 and Beyond
BLM WILD HORSE (AND BURRO) "GATHER" ABUSE CONTINUES
COPTER PILOT FLIPS HORSE OVER WITH LANDING SKIS & The Death of "Blue Moon" (Warm Springs, Or. 2010)
COPTER PILOT HARASSES YEARLING
PUSHES HIM ALONG WITH COPTER SKIS (Twin Peaks, Ca. 2010)
KNOCKS OVER BURRO
GeoThermal Mining Fast-Tracked in Nevada
http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/info/newsroom/2010/june/fast_track_blm_geothermal.html
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Pony Up Cattlemen, Big Corporations Stealing Your Water Rights
An excellent expository piece "Straight From the Horses Heart," (R.T. Fitch) on the Privatization of Public Lands;
http://rtfitch.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/pony-up-cattlemen/#comment-10396
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National Park Service Horse Training School
I am wondering where does the Park Service get these horses? Wouldnt it be wonderful if they used some of the wild ones they run out of the parks every once in a while and sell them at public auction with no limitations, where most of them wind up in killbuyers hands. National Park & Forest Service Wild Horses (and burros) DO NOT enjoy the protections of the 1971 Wild Horse Protection Act, all because of an oversight by the 92nd Congress. Dont you think its time to fix that now, by simple amendment to the Act that would include protection for all of our Nations wild horses on all of our Nations public lands? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpeMkRpMu5w&feature=related
Be sure to see Part 2; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOsRmPihd1I&feature=related
The Evolution Revolution
Excerpt from Thomas Paines Corner Blog. Go here for full article; http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/time-to-stand-upright-dust-your-knuckles-off-and-denude-the-hair-on-your-back/
BS:
Horses are another target in the animal rights campaign. There are approximately 100,000 unwanted horses slaughtered each year and sent overseas for human consumption. But legislation in Congress (HR 503 and S311) would ban equines from being slaughtered, which would open the door for neglect. Animal rights organizations are preying on people's emotion and touting their devotion to horses, but still offer no alternatives for what to do with these animals. The existing horse shelters are full and there is no funding for new ones. This is another extreme animal rights position that hitches a ride on the coattails of our national love for horses.
BB:
Your concern for neglected horses is touching. Unfortunately, your pseudo-sympathetic display falls woefully short of championing horses' rights to live out their natural lives in peace; after being used up by the rich,"horsey" set, which overwhelming dumps their equine family members when they become too expensive, too old or can't sire "winners."
Horses that give their ALL in service to those that in return, unceremoniously betray them with a reward of desperation, hunger, thirst and terror, as they are crammed into trailers and carted off to be hacked to death and bled out for human consumption. Animal rights groups would LOVE to "prey" on peoples' emotions, if only your ilk had any. Here's your 'alternative' to equine slaughter and a message to horse "owners": TAKE RESPONSIBILITY–make a commitment to your horses from cradle to grave–allow them a serene life and NATURAL DEATH. The horse racing industry accounts for much of the atrocity which horses endure throughout their lives and overwhelmingly fuels the glut of horses sent to their violent and gruesome deaths.
~The following is courtesy of Doris Lin who researches and blogs on animal issues ~
Animal rights activists do not believe in killing any animals for food, but there are several arguments that apply specifically to horses.
* Horse slaughter increases prices and profits for horse breeding. If there is no profitable or easy way to dispose of unwanted horses, fewer horses will be bred. As reported in the Morning News, "Before slaughterhouses closed, ranchers knew they could get $1 per pound for the meat. The same meat is now worth only about 20 cents per pound . . . Ranchers are also simply getting out of the horse business, said Ross Lockhart, owner of Stockman's Pride in Bentonville. He used to raise registered quarter horses but hasn't bred anything for the past two years."
* Many Americans believe horses are special, and should be treated more like companion animals than livestock.
* Neglect and abandonment do not increase when slaughterhouses close. According to the International Fund for Horses:
California banned horse slaughter in 1998. California has experienced no increase in abuse cases, and even noted a decrease 3 years following the ban. During the 4 years that the Cavel slaughterhouse was closed, Illinois saw a noticeable decrease in abuse and/or neglect cases. Texas, which had the only two slaughter plants in 2003, had among the nations highest rates of cruelty and theft.
* Some believe that horse slaughter is unusually cruel. At some slaughterhouses, horses are first stunned with a captive bolt gun, then bled to death. However, the horses are sometimes improperly stunned, and are sometimes skinned and bled while still conscious.
* Allowing horse slaughter creates another source of profit for thoroughbred breeders, thereby supporting horse racing, to which many animal advocates object.
* Several major horse racetracks oppose horse slaughter.
* There are about 9 million domestic horses in the US, and approximately one percent of that number are sent to foreign slaughterhouses each year. If shipping live horses for slaughter were banned, that relatively small number of horses could be absorbed by the horse community in the US.
Whether prohibiting the export of live horses for slaughter will lead to neglect and abandonment remains to be seen, especially in an economy where foreclosures threaten all types of companion animals. However, several major racetracks oppose horse slaughter and taking away an incentive for breeding or overbreeding is a powerful argument against horse slaughter.
If this legislation passes, however, it will not only infringe on constitutional property rights, but it will set up a slippery slope for animal agriculture. If horse slaughter can be banned without being based on food safety, science or facts, what's next?
Constitutional property rights? You have just unwittingly zeroed in on the number one reason for the existence of the AR Movement. Your callous, disgusting and arrogant belief that sentient beings are no more than "property," [reinforced by antiquated laws which harken back several centuries] to be treated as despicably as you see fit and then disposed of at your whim. The day will soon arrive when monsters such as yourself will be held accountable in a court of law, where non-human beings will finally see justice done on their behalf. As for your "slippery slope" regarding animal ag torture, the toilet is its appropriate final resting place.
I'm not sure how "science", Mr.-there-is-no-global-warming, fits into your pro-slaughter argument, so lets stick with food safety and facts. Aside from the obvious moral and ethical issues involved, horse slaughter should be banned based solely on LACK of food safety. It's a well known 'fact' that race horses–which make up the vast majority of U.S. horses slaughtered for human consumption–are DOPED. Aside from this, any horse which has received even the equivalent of an aspirin or other oral medications will have those residues in his/her body at the time of slaughter. There are NO REGULATIONS in the U.S. to prevent horse owners from administering banned substances prior to slaughter because horses are not regarded as food animals. Something you must be well aware of since you happen to be a cattle rancher, who I'd bet the ranch, has sent more than your share of "unwanted" horses to slaughter. When you defend horse slaughter as a means of feeding the populace, you not only advocate an unnecessary evil at the expense of majestic beings, but you defend poisoning human beings as well.
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175 WiILD HORSES TO BE SOLD WITHOUT LIMITATION / NEVADA
Subject: BLM to impound domestic estray horses in Pilot Valley
By The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Elko District Office, in close coordination with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), Simplot Land and Livestock and local residents, will impound a herd of approximately 175 abandoned domestic estray horses located within Pilot Valley north of West Wendover, Nevada.The impoundment is scheduled to begin Friday, June 25 and is expected to take approximately three to four days. The removal will be conducted by an experienced BLM gather contractor.The horses are believed to be released or stray and descendants of horses of local property owners. Over the years the herd has grown in size and is causing considerable impacts to BLM-managed public land resources.The contractor will set up holding corrals on nearby private land owned by Simplot Land and Livestock. Once gathered the horses will be transported to the temporary holding corrals and immediately be placed under the jurisdiction of the State of Nevada.Under Nevada estray laws, the State will try to establish legal ownership and offer the horses back to the lawful owner. Owners of the animals would have to own a registered brand in Nevada or provide legal bill of sale or other descriptive documents. The Nevada Department of Agriculture will accept responsibility of all unclaimed horses pursuant to the State's estray laws.The BLM Nevada State Office and Elko District Office managers and staff initiated and have had ongoing discussions with the State since November 2009 and with private landowners since December 2009 to work towards gathering this herd of estray horses.For more information or questions regarding these horses, please call Ed Foster, Nevada Department of Agriculture, at: 775-353-3711.
A Very Good Man with a Not So Very Good Plan
A staunch wild horse advocate and a man I dearly love for his compassion for the environment and all living things,.. has come up with a new plan to suggest to the BLM for a way to manage our wild horses and burros. Read all about it in his own words by clicking on to the link below;
http://rtfitch.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/renowned-wildlife-ecologist-calls-for-drastic-changes-in-blm-wild-horse-program/#comment-9630
And here is my response:
Craig, You know I love you dearly and I want what you want for the wild ones, for them to remain wild and free upon their traditional lands, ....and it seems to me they already have land set out for them as "reserves" and that is their traditional lands, as so stated by the Wild Horse Annie Act of 1971, which as you know REQUIRES them to be the principle users of same. As you also know, the BLM is ignoring this provision of the 1971 law and are using the Federal Lands Planning and Management Act (FLMPA) enacted in 1974 as an excuse for decimating the herds and/or zeroing them out off their GUARANTEED lands. Prior to FLMPA there was no requirement for any other use of the land, though the language of the Wild Horse Annie Act allowed for discretionary "any other use of the land," so long as the wild ones had principal use. Along came FLMPA in 1974 which set forth a new mandatory multi-use requirement on all public lands. In addition to the new mandatory multi-use requirement, a "sustainability of yield" was outlined as a crucial consideration in any resource and/or land management plan. In other words, "profitability" is now a major concern in formulating any resource or land use plans. In addition to all of this, FLMPA also requires that any decisions regarding land use and resource management plans be effected through written "Land Use and/or Resource Management Plans" as outlined in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) established in 1970 - (This is the Act that requires BLM to let us submit public comments - for all the good it does) Anyways, BLM believes that it can decimate the herds and even zero them out as long as they follow the requirements of FLMPA and NEPA and do it through written plans. That is how they "justify" divesting the wild ones of their land in favor of "more lucrative" endeavors, (sustainability of yield) i.e.; energy and/or exploration (oil & gas, wind farms, utility corridors, and even expansion of wild life reserves (big game hunting) and community building, all of which (of course) are more profitable than keeping wild horses (and burros) roaming free on their traditional lands. So BLM thinks they are operating under the law when they decimate or remove the wild ones off their land simply because they can make more profitable use of the land,...as is REQUIRED by the "new" FLMPA laws. HOWEVER, and I cannot stress this enough,...what BLM fails to realize is that there is an EXEMPTION in the FLMPA laws that DOES NOT require "multiple use and sustainability of yield" for lands that have been designated for a certain use PRIOR to FLMPAs 1974 Act! "Those lands," FLMPA says, should be managed according to the law that was in place prior to FLMPAs enactment! So you see, the BLM is nullifying not only the provision of the Wild Horse Annie Act of 1971 that REQUIRES the wild ones to be principal users of their traditional lands, but by their ignorance, they are nullifying the EXEMPTION clause of the FLMPA law as well!! What is needed to keep the wild ones entitlement to remain on their traditional lands AND to be PRINCIPAL USES of same, is a legal challenge to the BLMs nullification of these important federal statutes. This is some VERY serious stuff as the federal courts as well as our Congress frown upon administrative agencies upsurping the lawmaking (and breaking) powers of the legislature. What is needed to WIN this constitutional challenge is a savvy lawyer well versed in Constitutional law. Do this, and if we are successful, there will be no need to find new "reserves" or for the building of any Salazoos. The wild ones can stay on their traditional lands AND be principal users of same. What have we got to lose? What would it hurt to try? Isn't that what we all really want for the wild ones,.. to stay on their traditional lands, and to be the principal uses of same? -
2 Nevada men plead guilty to killing wild mustangs
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Writer
Two men changed their pleas Wednesday and acknowledged that they shot and killed five wild mustangs in Nevada in a case that flooded U.S. prosecutors with thousands of e-mails from around the world expressing outrage at the slaughter.
Todd Davis, 45, admitted in federal court in Reno that he and Joshua Keathley, 36, had been drinking and used "poor judgment" when they shot the horses with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle in November near the Nevada-California line.
Prosecutors said they offered no plea bargain (YEAH RIGHT)and intend to seek the maximum penalty of one year in jail and $100,000 fine for each at the sentencing set for Sept. 14.
"The intentional and malicious harassment, abuse and killing of federally-protected wild horses should not and will not be tolerated," said Dan Bogden, U.S. attorney for Nevada.
In changing their pleas, the two Lovelock men admitted to U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert McQuaid that they shot the horses about 150 miles northwest of Reno, a violation of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.
"We'd been drinking a little," Davis said. "We saw some horses and used poor judgment and shot a few of them."
Keathley said the two were looking for places to do some trapping when they came across the horses in the rugged high-desert rangeland on the edge of the Sierra Nevada.
"We seen the wild horses," Keathley said in his brief explanation to McQuaid. "We killed a few of them and then we left."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sue Fahami said they shot into a herd of eight to 10 horses and watched AT LEAST FOUR fall to their deaths.
"We feel justice has been served at this point," Fahami told The Associated Press after the court appearance, adding that she and Bogden combined received a total of approximately 24,000 e-mails and letters.
"There has been great public interest in this case. And it's not just in Washoe County, not just in Nevada, not just in the United States," she said. "We've received e-mails from all over the world."
The men were charged in January with "maliciously causing the death of a wild horse" after the U.S Bureau of Land Management offered a $10,000 reward and the Humane Society of the United States added $2,500 for any information leading to criminal convictions in the case.
Activist Terri Farley, author of the popular "Phantom Stallion" series of children's books, attended Wednesday's hearing in support of prosecutors seeking the maximum sentence.
"I really hope the judge nails them big time," she told AP. "They are adult men, not kids. They are out there drinking on public land and using it as their own private shooting gallery."
Some horse protection advocates had criticized the government's decision to charge the two men with only one horse's death. Fahami said that was due in part to the inability to determine which man shot which horse.
"We charged the case based on the provable facts we had. (One horse) is what we could prove," she said. (OOOPPPS,.THERE IT IS, THE BS, didnt the jerks say that they "each shot a few?" Hey Judge, how about 2 and 2? Need more proof, check the ballistics)
These guys will be out in a couple of months out back trapping and shooting up anything moving in the desert again....what about stipulation that they cant ever own horses in life?
Attention: Friends of Wild Horses & Burros
HORSE POWER a non-profit 501(c)3, and The Cloud Foundation are
bringing the Public ....
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory public workshop and the Board
meeting to be web-streamed live from Magnolia Hotel 818 17th Street, Denver,
Colorado, 80202. by HORSE POWER at nvhorsepower.org
The workshop on Monday, June14, will provide the public with a unique
opportunity to express their views, comments, and suggestions regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's wild horse initiative, which he and BLM Director Bob Abbey announced last October.
The Board will hold a regular meeting on wild horse management issues on Tuesday, June 15.
Times of Broadcast are
Monday June 14, 8AM - 4 PM local time
Tuesday June 15, 8AM-5PM local time
AT NVHORSEPOWER.ORG
The public workshop and the Board meeting will take place in Denver,
Colorado, at the Magnolia Hotel, 818 17th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202.
The hours of the Monday workshop are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time; the
Tuesday Board meeting is set for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time. The hotel's
phone number for reservations is 303-607-9000. The business agendas for
the public workshop and Board meeting can be found on page 26990 of the
Thursday, May 13 Federal Register
Live Streaming Coverage Coming
Monday 8 AM-4PM
nvhorsepower.org
BLM Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board Meeting & Public Workshop in Denver
June 14, 2010 - June 15, 2010 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Magnolia Hotel - Denver
BLM/Political Event
BLM WILD HORSE AND BURRO ADVISORY BOARD MEETING and PUBLIC WORKSHOP – scheduled for June 14 & 15, 2010 in Denver, Colorado.
Please attend if you can, this is an important opportunity to speak out for the horses and burros. Please encourage the press to attend as well- this board has done little to represent the public for years but many people will be attending for the horses and burros and it is time to ask the Board to consider the public's opinions and solutions.
The event will take place at the Magnolia Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Rooms run over $200 per night currently but more affordable places to stay include:
The Comfort Inn (about 3 1/2 blocks away) has rooms from $116 (AAA/AARP rate) 303-296-0400
The Hampton Inn (about 6 blocks away) has rooms around $150. phone: 303- 864-8000
Draft Schedule:
I. Advisory Board Public Workshop Monday, June 14, 2010 (8 a.m.–4 p.m.)
8 a.m.—Open Workshop & Introduce Board Members
8:15 a.m.—Meeting Format and Guidelines
8:30 a.m.—Introduction of Secretary's Initiative
Break—(8:50 a.m.–9 a.m.)
9 a.m.—Treasured Herds
Break—(9:50 a.m.–10:10 a.m.)
10:10 a.m.—Preserves
11:15 a.m.—Sustainable Herds
Lunch—(12:05 p.m.–1:30 p.m.)
1:30 p.m.—Adoptions
Break—(2:20 p.m.–2:45 p.m.)
2:45 p.m.—Animal Welfare
3:35 p.m.—Process-Related Feedback
4 p.m.—Adjourn
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (8 a.m.–5 p.m.)
*sign up by noon to speak at 3pm, expect to have only 2 min to speak.
8 a.m.—Call to Order & Introductions
8:15 a.m.—Old Business, Approval of December 7, 2009, Response to Recommendations
9 a.m.—Program Updates: Gathers, Adoptions, Budget, Facility and Pipeline Reports
Break—(9:45 a.m.–10 a.m.)
10 a.m.—Program Updates (continued)
Lunch—(11:45 a.m.–1 p.m.)
1 p.m.—New Business
Break—(2:45 p.m.–3 p.m.)
3 p.m.—Public Comments
4 p.m.—Board Recommendations
4:45 p.m.—Recap/Summary/Next Meeting/Date/Site
BLM PRESS RELEASE WITH MORE DETAILS:
National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Will Conduct Public Workshop
and Hold Meeting in June in Denver
The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the National Wild Horse
and Burro Advisory Board will conduct a public workshop and hold a regular
meeting in June at a two-day event in Denver. The workshop on Monday, June
14, will provide the public with a unique opportunity to express their
views, comments, and suggestions regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken
Salazar's wild horse initiative, which he and BLM Director Bob Abbey
announced last October. The Board will hold a regular meeting on wild
horse management issues on Tuesday, June 15.
Thursday, May 13 Federal Register http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/PDFgate.cgi?WAISdocID=762416245134+2+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
On Monday, June 14, the public will be able to provide feedback and input
concerning Secretary Salazar's initiative, the details of which can be
accessed at the BLM's Website (www.blm.gov); the specific Web address is
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/national/initiative.html
On Tuesday, June 15, the public may address the Advisory Board at an
appropriate point in the agenda, which is expected to be about 3 p.m.,
local time. Individuals who want to make a statement should register with
the BLM by noon on the day of the meeting at the meeting site. Depending
on the number of speakers, the Board may limit the length of presentations,
set at three minutes for previous meetings. Speakers, who should address
the specific wild horse and burro-related topics listed on the agenda, must
submit a written statement of their comments, which may be sent
electronically to the BLM by accessing the following Web address:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/wh_b_contact_us/enhanced_feedback_form.html
. Alternatively, comments may be mailed to the National Wild Horse and
Burro Program, WO-260, Attention: Ramona DeLorme, 1340 Financial Boulevard,
Reno, Nevada, 89502-7147. Written comments pertaining to the Advisory
Board meeting should be submitted no later than close of business June 7,
For additional information about the meeting, please contact Ramona
DeLorme, Wild Horse and Burro Administrative Assistant, at 775-861-6583.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
reach Ms. DeLorme at any time by calling the Federal Information Relay
Service at 1-800-877-8339.
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board provides input and advice
to the BLM as it carries out its responsibilities under the 1971 Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. This law mandates the protection,
management, and control of these free-roaming animals in a manner that
ensures healthy herds at levels consistent with the land's capacity to
support them. The BLM manages about 37,000 wild horses and burros that
roam BLM-managed rangelands in 10 Western states; the agency also feeds and
cares for more than 35,000 horses and burros that are maintained in
short-term corrals and long-term Midwestern pastures.
The Advisory Board meets at least twice a year and the BLM Director may
call additional meetings when necessary. Members serve without salary, but
are reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses according to government
travel regulations.
The BLM manages more land – 253 million acres – than any other Federal
agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is
primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The Bureau, with
a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of
sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multiple-use
mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for
the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau
accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation,
livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by
conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public
lands.
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The true patriots who defeated Custer
By Tim Giago,
The Indian holiday on June 25 marks the 134th anniversary of the thrashing of George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn, or Greasy Grass, as the Indians called it. On all of the Sioux Indian reservations in South Dakota it is a statewide holiday.
The bumper stickers were born before the holiday. They could be seen on cars coming and going from the Indian reservations in America. They read "Custer died for your sins," or "Custer wore Arrow Shirts." And then came the holiday.
The Cheyenne and the Arapahoe, also participants in the great victory, have joined the celebration.
They celebrate the day their ancestors handed the U.S. Army one of its worst defeats in all of the so-called Indian Wars. The Indians called them the "White Man Wars."
Ironically, Custer considered himself to be a religious man. And yet the fatal charge he made into the valley of the Greasy Grass happened on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Two hundred ten American cavalrymen rode to their deaths that day, led by a man who was told by Cheyenne medicine men - after he slaughtered their kinsmen at the Washita - that if he ever attempted that feat again, he would surely be killed.
Custer met his demise on June 25, 1876, two years after he discovered gold in the Black Hills, a discovery that precipitated the deadly battles to follow and led to the eventual theft of the He' Sapa (Black Hills) by the U.S. government.
As part of the archaeological excavations 14 years after the battle, marble markers were set in place to mark where each soldier had fallen. According to the National Park Service, the field was eventually dotted with 252 markers or 42 more than the number of soldiers reportedly killed that day.
The Midwest Archaeological Center reported that the archaeologists chose to view the battlefield as a crime scene. And by using a combination of forensic techniques, such as studies of firing pin marks on cartridge cases and rifling marks on bullets, they have been able to determine the variety of weapons used in the battle.
Further excavations revealed skull fragments that had been broken while the bone was green, indicating what is called "perimortem blunt instrument trauma." The famous Lakota warrior Black Elk, when describing the final moments of the battle to which he was a witness, said the Indians used hatchets and clubs to finish off the surviving soldiers.
In what resembled a segment of the CSI television programs so popular today, forensic science indicated that the troopers of the 7th Cavalry were heavy users of coffee and tobacco. The bones demonstrated that the men led a rugged and hard life, indicated by broken bones and significant back problems.
The archaeological digs have substantiated much of what we have seen in the movies over the years. Custer did divide his troops into three elements and then subdivided his command into wings, which happened to be an accepted and field-tested military tactic that had proven to be quite successful until the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Often, I have wondered how many places in America celebrate victories over the U.S. Army. Do descendants of the Confederate Army celebrate? But weren't they also a part of an American army fighting another American army?
The victory by the combined forces of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe over Custer's 7th Cavalry was short and swift. Some Lakota warriors have said it lasted less than 30 minutes. But that battle raised the hackles of white America. The warriors and their families would pay a heavy price for that victory. As punishment and retribution, the three tribes would lose millions of acres of land for having the audacity to stand up and fight for their people and for freedom. If the word "patriots" has meaning, these warriors define it.
Few good things happened to American Indians in the late 1800s or early 1900s, so this one good memory is firmly planted in the minds of a warrior society and lives on. While the rest of America goes about its business, the people of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe nations will reflect upon their day of glory with cookouts, horse races, dancing and prayers to commemorate a time when they ruled the Great Plains and were praised by Gen. Tecumseh Sherman as "the greatest light cavalry he had ever seen."
Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota, is founder and president of the Native American Journalists Association.
© 2010, Tim Giago
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Wild Horse Advocates to Protest in Denver
Wild Horse Advocates To Protest BLM Policy
June 15 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. at BLM Advisory Board meeting in Denver
Press conference at 12:00 P.M.
On June 15, 2010, at 11:00 A.M., in front of the Magnolia Hotel, 818 17th Street in Denver, wild horse advocates and members of the public will gather to protest the Bureau of Land Management's current policy of removing large numbers of wild horses from their historic range. The Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, which advises the BLM on it's own wild horse and burro policy, is meeting on June 15 from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. at this location. The protesters are calling for a moratorium on wild horse and burro round-ups until an independent agency can determine a more accurate number of wild horses and burros on our public lands. At the beginning of fiscal year 2010, the BLM stated there were 37,000 wild horses and burros on public lands and that they planned to remove 12,000. In contrast, there are an estimated 2 million head of cattle on those same public lands. Outraged protesters are also asking for a congressional investigation of the BLM due to the number of animal deaths in recent round-ups. The BLM is currently using round-up techniques which were federally outlawed from 1959 to 1977. A third and most currently important point of contention is that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is asking Congress for an additional $96 million dollars to create so-called "wild horse sanctuaries" in the eastern United States, which will be nothing more than man-made pastures full of sterilized mustangs, NOT wild horses living on their natural terrain and in wild family bands as the title suggests. This plan is in direct conflict with current federal law. The Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 specifically states that these animals "are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of public lands."
The public will also have two scheduled opportunities to voice their concerns in Denver, the first is at a public workshop promoting the "wild horse sanctuaries" (sponsored by the BLM) on June 14, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., and the second is during the public comment period of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting, June 15, 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., when each member of the public will be given either 2 minutes or 3 minutes to speak. However, wild horse advocates and members of the public feel that they have not been heard in Washington thus far, and so they are gathering at the protest in addition to these meetings.
For additional information, contact:
Cathy Bryarly (event organizer) 303-746-4729
The Cloud Foundation www.thecloudfoundation.org 719-633-3842
Fallon Closing to Public?
Maybe they will let Leah and Marilyn and Willis and other mentors and the like in, with a special "Salazoo Pass," since they are down with the plan. Really I give up on this war as I have told them so many times how to put a stop to BLM BS once and for all but no ones listning....what more can I say or do? I have GOT to move on....scuse the pun but I aint whipping this "dead horse" no-more and soon will be poofing this blog. If there is any info anyone wants from it I suggest you grab it now for in a few days it will all be gone. The Wild Horse Wars are lost.
Demand BLM Keep Fallon Open to the Public - Thursday 6/10 last day openShare. Today at 3:17am
Fallon is closing it's doors to the public after Thursday's tour. Thursday will be the last time any of the 300 brand new foals will be seen by the public; many are starting to get sick too. Now we won't ever know what becomes of them. When adoption time begins, who knows where they will all be. There are also 1700 horses we won't know about. A visitor is the one who noticed that the mare of the starved foal Sorro was stealing another mare's foal after Sorro died. The public has been the eyes for the understaffed (and often oblivious) employees there.
Please write these people to ask the doors remain open:
(Tell Bob Abbey this will be a good start to that 'new direction" for the BLM he is talking about. Let's have him prove it by keeping the public allowed at Fallon.)
BOB ABBEY email= director@blm.gov
Please cc: him on all emails
gene_seidlitz@blm.gov
dean_bolstad@blm.gov
don_glenn@blm.gov
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BLMs "New Direction" a New Spin on an Old (Salazoo) Plan
http://www.examiner.com/x-37163-Equine-Advocacy-Examiner~y2010m6d4-BLMs-new-direction-for-wild-horse-management-wont-curtail-2010-roundups?cid=examiner-email
BLM's "new direction" for wild horse management won't curtail 2010 roundups
June 4, 11:02 PMEquine Advocacy ExaminerMaureen Harmonay
Following the playbook written by its recently hired "conflict resolution" consultant, Kearns & West, the BLM has just announced a lofty-sounding set of goals to guide its future wild horse management practices. In a press release issued yesterday, BLM Director Bob Abbey pronounced that "it's a new day, and we need a fresh look at the Wild Horse and Burro Program."
Mr. Abbey said that going forward, BLM will no longer consider the euthanasia of healthy "excess" wild horses, and will not sell them "without limitation," in an effort to protect them from going to slaughter. That's quite a turnaround from past policies. Within just the last decade, former BLM Director Pat Shea rubber-stamped the concept of using euthanasia as a way of keeping the numbers of "excess" captive wild horses at a manageable level.
Mr. Abbey's openness to a new approach suggests that further changes may be coming. The BLM chief has agreed to open discussions about some heretofore controversial topics, including the potential reintroduction of wild horses or burros into herd areas where they currently don't exist; increased use of fertility controls or other methods to slow population growth; making more forage available for wild horse and burro use; the establishment of preserves to care for unadopted wild horses; the designation of selected wild horses and burros as "treasured herds"; and the placement of more "excess" horses and burros into private care.
The new strategies that Mr. Abbey is proposing sound promising, but wild horse advocates are taking his words with a grain of salt, waiting for the opportunity to state their case for the cessation of the roundups and the return of already-captured wild horses to their rightful Herd Management Areas (HMAs). They will have a chance to do so at the upcoming two-day workshop and public meeting of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board on June 14-15 in Denver.
The bad news is that BLM intends to proceed with the schedule of wild horse roundups or "gathers" that it has already announced. Through the end of 2010 alone, the agency plans to sweep at least 7500 more wild horses from their native ranges in seven western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Many of these roundups will be spearheaded by helicopter stampedes, run by the same contractor whose ruthless collection methods were directly responsible for the deaths of many foals and mares from the Calico Mountain Complex earlier this year.
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Not to forget, first and foremost T. Boone is a BIG OIL man who wants to keep drilling it simply to break our "addiction to foreign oil" ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSa76u8Tyg and not just oil per se.
Someone needs to tell him, we need to break our addiction to oil period.
Pickins Plan: Greenwashing Big Oil;
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Pickins Drops Plans for Giant Wind Farm as Gas & Oil Prices Drop;
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One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the seemingly endless plains of Serengeti National Park are dotted with kopjes, rivers and woodland. The huge annual migration of white-bearded gnu and Burchell's zebra can be viewed in special areas of Serengeti during different times of the year.
Selous Game Reserve is another World Heritage Site and the largest protected wildlife area in Africa. Search for rare Sable Antelope and packs of African Wild Dogs – lycaon pictus – the painted wolf. Here you can take a boat safari on the Rufiji River, amongst hippo, crocodile and numerous water birds.
Drive slowly through the grassland plains, savannah woodland and rocky outcrops, in the company of bushbuck, duikers, eland, hartebeest, hyena, klipspringer, impala, giraffe, oryx, reedbuck, waterbuck and zebra. Watch belligerent yellow baboons, gentle black and white colobus, vervet and blue monkeys, moving among the prolific birdlife of this vast stronghold of nature.
Visit Ruaha park and and take a boat safari down the Great Ruaha River. Now bigger than Kruger park in South Africa and second only to Zambia's Kafue park, Ruaha supports enormous concentrations of wildlife and a wide variety of birdlife.
Mikumi is the most easily accessible of Tanzania's southern parks. Covering some 3,230 sq km of wilderness, Mikumi is yet another animal kingdom where wildlife has the right of way and nature alone holds sway.
Discover the abundant wildlife of Mkata Floodplain, where lion kings survey their domain from the flattened tops of termite mounds. Marvel at the sheer size and power of eland – the world's largest antelope – and at the poetry-in-motion of greater kudu and sable antelope.
Best in the dry season months of June through October, when the Katuma River and floodplains form the only source of drinking water for miles around, this isolated wilderness area boasts 4,000 strong herds of elephant, 1,000-plus buffalo, numerous giraffe, zebra, impala and reedbuck.
Add to the above numerous prides of lion, clans of spotted hyena, up to 200 hippo in one small pool and a myriad colorful birds and you will have an idea of the spectacular tapestry of nature to be found in Katavi.
One of the great floral spectacles of the world, Kitulo has been dubbed by botanists "the Serengeti of Flowers" and is called "God's Garden by the local inhabitants. The breathtaking scale and diversity of Kitulo's wildflowers include a multitude of orchids, stunning red-hot poker, aloes, proteas, lilies and aster daises.
Kitulo, perched at around 8,500 ft, is the first national park in tropical Africa to be gazetted largely for its floral significance, and is a riot of color during the rainy months of late November to April.
Often called the African Galapagos, for its treasure-trove of endemic plants and animals, Udzungwa is the largest (and most bio-diverse) of a chain of large forest-clad mountains which rise regally from the flat coastal scrub of Eastern Tanzania and which are known collectively as the Eastern Arc Mountains.
This brooding and primeval rainforest, which sustains rare plant species not found elsewhere in the world, hides waterfalls, exceptional forest birds and the recently-discovered Sanje crested mangabey.
Saadani is a coastal wildlife sanctuary where beach meets bush in an environment beyond compare. Relax on the palm-fringed white sands of the Indian Ocean where lion and elephant leave their footprints and observe one of the last major green turtle breeding sites on mainland Tanzania.
A scheduled flight to Kigoma and a boat across Lake Tanganyika brings you to Gombe Stream – a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes and river valleys of Lake Tanganikya's sandy northern shores.
Made famous by the pioneering work of Dr Jane Goodall, the Gombe chimps are habituated to human visitors and thus are easy to follow and observe. Share the beach with a troop of friendly olive baboons to the harsh cry of Africa's iconic fish eagle.
Deep in the heart of the African interior lie the Mahale Mountains, home to some of Africa's last remaining wild chimpanzees. Trekking these chimps through montane rainforest and high grassy ridges chequered with alpine bamboo is an unparalleled experience.
After your trek, you can swim and snorkel in the clear waters of the world's longest and second-deepest freshwater lake. An estimated 1,000 fish species inhabit the lake.
Take a boat ride to Rubondo Island – a water wonderland, tucked into the southwest corner of Lake Victoria. Listen to the voice of Africa in the earsplitting, evocative duet of fish eagles, watch yellow-spotted otters frolicking in the island's rocky coves.


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