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Camborne cat owner forced to take in lodger to pay for disowned moggie's bumper medical bill
Motu Motu slept on Tomas Curtis' doorstep for months before becoming part of the family
A pair of cat owners have taken in a lodger to pay for the medical bills of an emaciated moggy who set up camp on their porch after he broke his leg in a cruel cat trap.
Tomas Curtis and Vinay Janna, who live in Camborne, took in two-and-a-half-year-old Motu Motu, which is Hindi for 'chubby chubby', around a year ago and he immediately settled in, becoming a loved member of the family.
However, tragedy struck about eight months after he moved in when Motu Motu wandered into a cat trap down the street, breaking his leg in two places.
Tomas and Vinay have already spent £3,000 on Motu Motu's medical care and, faced with another bill likely to be in the region of £1,000, they are now asking for the help of animal lovers to put their beloved pet on the road to recovery.
Motu Motu after his first operation that meant he had to wear a cast
Tom said: "He lived on our porch for a month before his loving ways and soft nature won his way into our home and into our hearts.
"When we first met him he was skin and bones, hardly recognisable as the cat he is now. He was still incredibly affectionate, despite his nerves - he had decided we were his new home and he wasn't giving up.
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"As winter came around we decided we couldn't let him stay outside and we adopted him properly. Our other cat Scarlet, nervous of the newcomer, soon warmed to him as he came inside."
Tomas has set up a Just Giving page to fund Motu Motu's vet bills (Image: Sally Adams)
Things were going well for him as he quickly put on weight and ate constantly, earning him the name Motu Motu.
Tomas and Vinay then decided that they should try to find his original home, to see if someone was missing him, but after a few months of unsuccessful searching they eventually decided that he had chosen his own home.
However, about eight months after he joined his new home, on one of his adventures out in the area, Motu Motu was caught by a cat trap in a garden nearby.
Tom added: "A cat in the area had been stealing fish from a pond down the road, so they placed a load of traps around their garden, Motu Motu had been passing through or just watching the fish and was snared by one of the traps.
"He broke two bones in his leg, the radius and ulna, the equivalent of the wrist in the human body.
"He went into four separate surgeries in three days, manipulating the leg back into place. He was heavily sedated and medicated whilst the vet worked.
"They put his leg in a cast, and warned us that this was not a guaranteed thing, but we didn't care, he was part of our family and we would do whatever it takes to save his leg."
Tomas with Motu Motu (Image: Sally Adams)
Tom says the owner of the traps is taking no responsibility and he and Vinay have had to pay all the vet fees from their own pocket, which has cost more than £3,000 so far, with more still left to pay.
Motu Motu is still on ongoing medication and has another vet appointment in a month to check on his leg.
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He has a severe limp and struggles being confined to the one room and it is possible that the leg may yet have to be amputated.
They have also since managed to trace Motu Motu's original owner via a microchip, but he has washed his hands of him, they said.
Motu Motu (Image: Sally Adams)
Tom said: "Between the surgeries, his recovery, his medication and all the other bills it has drained us dry.
"We have even rented out our spare room, taking in a lodger to help pay for his vet bills. But we are running out, we have little more that we can do.
"We will still fight to keep his leg, but we have already run up all our credit, we may still have to have it removed. We haven't given up, but we are running out of options.
Motu Motu and Tomas (Image: Sally Adams)
"He didn't give up on us for his home, so we won't give up on him."
You can donate towards Motu Motu's medical bills here
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Is the End of Ice the End of Us?
Posted By Douglas Craig On July 14, 2019 @ 4:00 am In Columns | Comments Disabled
"There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places."
Dahr Jamail is one of my heroes and I don't use that word lightly. To be a hero is to be heroic and to be heroic is to do something extraordinarily brave that puts one at risk and benefits others. That's Jamail. Something in him early in his life and development led him to feel a responsibility beyond himself, his family and friends, even beyond humans.
How else do you explain his decision in 2003 to abandon his passion as an Alaskan mountain-climber and guide and place himself in an active war zone in Iraq to see and report the truth as the Iraqi people were experiencing it? He made his own press pass, and with nothing more than an email address, laptop and a camera, became one of the only unembedded, freelance, independent journalists of that war. Hero.
Jamail spent over a year in Iraq between 2003 and 2005 and quickly became a trusted source for reporting the reality of war that embedded, corporate media reporters could not and would not see or tell. His stories appeared at his website, the Inter Press Service News Agency, The Asia Times, The Nation, Democracy Now! (where I first saw him), TomDispatch, Truthout, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Huffington Post, The Independent, Al Jazeera, NPR and the BBC. Jamail has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan and reported extensively on veterans' resistance against US foreign policy, a story the mainstream media ignored. He spent ten years in the region.
And he wrote books, like Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, and The Mass Destruction of Iraq: The Disintegration of a Nation: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible (an e-book co-authored with William Rivers Pitt).
And he won a slew of awards including the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, five Project Censored awards and the 2018 Izzy Award for his "path-breaking and in-depth reporting in 2017" exposing "environmental hazards and militarism."
After a decade as a war reporter, Jamail returned to the states and his first love of mountaineering, "only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption." He began writing his Climate Disruption Dispatches for Truthout and began traveling around the planet, just as he had done in Iraq, as a courageous unimbedded reporter telling the story that corporate media is unable or unwilling to tell.
And earlier this year, Jamail published another book: The End of Ice, Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption. Jamail takes us to Denali, the highest mountain peak in America and "arguably the largest mountain on the planet when measured from its edges," a mountain he has "spent many months" of his life on and a mountain on which one can clearly witness the ravages of our rapidly warming planet. Here on one of the coldest places on Earth, even here, the ice is rapidly melting thanks to human-caused climate disruption.
Jamail writes, "It was difficult for me to fathom that even the Alaska Range was melting, and rapidly at that." He talks about wanting to climb Denali again out of respect and love, like "wanting to be at the bedside of an ailing friend, wanting to share time with them while we are both still here." Mourning the rapid and irreversible changes assaulting the majestic cathedral of ice, Jamail writes, "I began to feel the deep toll climate disruption was taking on Denali. The glaciers were melting underneath my skis, my crampons, and my ice ax. I could feel the cataclysmic impact of the human race's industrial-scale consumerism on the Earth. We had defiled the biosphere and we were past the point of no return."
Jamail takes us to the Gulkana Glacier in the eastern part of the Alaska range where we have one of the longest continuous records "in the Northern Hemisphere of a glacier's mass balance – the difference between the amount of snow it accumulates in the winter and the amount of snow and ice that melted over summer." The World Glacier Monitoring Service surveys conducted since 1980 have found continuous "negative mass balances for glaciers around the globe. In other words, the majority of the world's glaciers are melting, and the trend has accelerated rapidly in recent years."
Jamail quotes, Louis Sass, a USGS glaciologist and former Denali guide who said, "On average we're probably losing fifty (Alaskan) glaciers each year now. And that number will increase if we continue business-as-usual emissions." He quotes Dr. Mike Loso, a physical scientist with the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve who said the rapid warming in Alaska is easily ignored by the outside world. Loso said, "If this was happening in California, every one of these changes would be front-page news. That is why you've had no idea that Alaska's glaciers are losing an estimated 75 billion tons of ice every year."
Jamail takes us to Montana's Glacier National Park where for the first time in 7,000 years, the glaciers are disappearing. Where we once had 150 glaciers in 1850, covering over 60 square miles, we now have 26, covering only 9 square miles, an ice decline of 85 percent. The rest of the ice is expected to all melt in a little over a decade. All alpine glaciers on Earth are expected to be gone within the next eighty years.
Why should we care? Jamail tells us why. "It is clear that mountain ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate disruption, and those very ecosystems provide up to 85 percent of all the water humans need, not to mention other species. Globally, glaciers contain 69 percent of all the freshwater on the planet."
And it is all going away. And it is too late to stop. Even if we ceased all emissions today, it is too late to stop glacial melting. These mountain glaciers have served as our natural water towers as long as humans have lived. And we are draining them as fast as we can. And at the same time, we are sucking up all the precious water lying beneath us in aquifers at unsustainable amounts and rates. All of this means less water for agriculture, higher food prices, and millions of climate refugees fleeing areas of the planet that no longer possess sources of free, fresh water.
This is the story across the Earth. European glaciers in the Alps are half what they were a hundred years ago. The Himalayan Mountains, home to Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, contains "the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic." It "has lost billions of tons of ice" in the last two decades, "double the amount of melting that took place from 1975 to 2000, revealing that the ice loss is accelerating with rising temperatures. It's also threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across much of Asia."
Remarkably, very little warming is needed to push the planet's glaciers to give up their ice. Temperatures in the Himalayas have risen nearly two degrees Fahrenheit (about one degree Celsius) since 2000, which seems miniscule to some. But, according to Joerg Schaefer, a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory "A one degree C increase is a huge change. In the middle of the last ice age the mean annual temperature was only 3 degrees C (5.4°F) cooler." And meanwhile that one degree of human-caused warming has been enough to remove as much as twenty-five percent of the region's ice since 1980.
According to Jamail, glaciers are "melting faster than anywhere else on Earth" in West Antarctica. He writes, "the rate of ice loss in Antarctica increased a staggering 50 percent in just the first decade of the 2000s."
And Greenland's ice sheet, which "has existed for 2.4 million years and is 2.1 miles thick at its deepest point…is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s. If it melted entirely, sea levels would rise by 24.3 feet." Greenland has lost 5.6 trillion tons of ice since 1980.
And with melting ice, we get rising seas, which Jamail reports is bad news for anyone who lives near the ocean. Reporting from Southern Florida, Jamail writes that four national parks, the Everglades, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas and Big Cypress National Preserve, a total of 2.46 million acres "will be completely submerged in seawater in my lifetime (Jamail is 51)."
Jamail writes, "Most U.S. government projections estimate between 4.1 and 6.6 feet of sea level rise by 2100." Dr. Harold Wanless, professor and chair of the Department of Geologic Science at the University of Miami predicts we will easily see two feet of sea level rise within the next 30 years which means "Miami-Dade County alone will lose 38 percent of its land, and much of the area of the Turkey Point Nuclear plant on the coast will be submerged." And Wanless said, "And for every foot of sea level rise, the shore will shift further landward five hundred to two thousand feet."
Jamail takes us to the Rock Islands of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, Guam's Tumon Bay and Queensland, Australia to visit some of the world's remaining coral reefs and to talk to scientists about the future of this critical ocean species. What he learns is startling.
For example, we know that the oceans absorb over 90 percent of the carbon dioxide we emit, which means they have been saving us from ourselves. To fully grasp how much heat we are adding to the oceans, Jamail writes, "If you took all of the heat humans generated between the years 1955 and 2010 and placed it in the atmosphere instead of the oceans, global temperatures would have risen by a staggering 97°F." We would all be dead of course.
He further explains that between 1963 and 2013, the rate of human-generated warming in our oceans was "fifteen times faster than what had occurred during the past ten thousand years." He writes, "Oceanic warming had escalated to a rate in excess of twelve Hiroshima bombs detonating per second."
And all of this heat means the death of coral. And what happens to coral will affect the entire ocean ecosystem. Dr. Dean Miller, a marine scientist and director of science and media for Great Barrier Reef Legacy believes the coral in the world's oceans will be bleached and dead well before 2050.
Why should we care? Jamail expalins, "Coral reef ecosystems cover less than 2 percent of Earth's ocean floor yet are home to one-quarter of all marine species." Also, coral reefs "are responsible for producing fish that contribute significantly to what is 17 percent of all globally consumed animal protein. One estimate has valued the biodiversity of coral reefs at $9.9 trillion."
Miller explains that once the coral is gone, "we lose habitat for all of the marine life that depends on it." He continues, "We might see ecosystem collapse as we know it. We'll lose the reef fish from the bleaching, then all of the fish that depend on them, all the way up the food chain to the biggest fish. Everything is affected."
Jamail takes us to the forests of North America, the rainforests in the Amazon Basin, the Pribilofs, a group of islands that lie in the Bering Sea and to "the top of the world," near the Arctic Circle, all to bring us close-up news about our future and the fate of the Earth and all its inhabitants. There is no doubt that one species – human – has brought on "the sixth mass extinction in planetary history, with between 150 and 200 species going extinct daily," a rate one thousand times greater than before we arrived. Attention must be paid.
The climate crisis calls out to all of us to be honest with ourselves and one another about what we have done, what we are doing and what we will most likely continue to do. It calls for humility, integrity, and conscious awareness. We have a decision to make, all of us, to be as heroic as we can be or to continue to be fearful and oblivious, avoiding the terrible truth that we are actively and earnestly destroying the life-giving capacity of the Earth that gave us life.
And as Jamail laments, it is time for grief; individual and collective, sincere and heart-felt. Jamail suggests we ask ourselves, "How shall I use this precious time?" And perhaps heed Thich Nhat Hanh's advice to be present with what is happening to our loved one, the natural Earth: "When your beloved is suffering, you need to recognize her suffering, anxiety, and worries, and just by doing that, you already offer some relief."
My one-hour interview with Dahr Jamail will be broadcast on my Wake-Up Call radio program on KKRN at 88.5 FM on Tuesday, July 16 at 4:00 pm and can be accessed anytime in the archives at kkrn.org.
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The director has also told about wiretapping of his phone and conversation with an investigator.
The director Aleksander Sokurov states the police inspections of his charitable fund supporting cinematograph Primer intonatsyi were launched, after one of the employees informed the police. He wrote this message on his Facebook page - Ostrov Sokurova.
The message says the inspections of the Fund's financing activity have been carried out for several months now. Sokurov says initially, it was a regular inspection all charitable funds go through. Then, there was a report to the police by the Fund's former employee. The director noted that the informer borrowed large amounts of money from him and the Fund, and did not return it.
Sokurov also said that investigators of St.Petersburg's Petrogradsky district had summoned the Fund's director Nikolay Yankin and his partners for questioning on economic issues.
Sokurov says the reports on the Fund's activities by the his former employee are connected to "an aggressive antagonism" of the organization's director. Later, it was found out that the informer had prior records; shortly before the reports on the Fund's activities, the same person had reported about his acquaintance.
The director has also mentioned a law enforcement's closer attention towards him, after he asked Vladimit Putin about Oleg Sentsov at the meeting of the Council for Culture. Sokurov says after his employee reported to the police, his phone started to be wiretapped by the Federal Security Service.
Sokurov noted that he's not aware of where the inspections may lead to. "If desired, it's always possible to open a criminal prosecution," the director stated, adding that he had been told a lot of times about the similarity of the Fund's situation with Kirill Serebryannikov's case.
"As opposed to his situation, I don't deal with economy and have never checked the director's business operations, because I didn't have any reasons for that," the director emphasized.
The directorate for information and public relations of the Department of the Russian Ministry of Interior in St.Petersburg and Leningrad region reports that the inspection at Sokurov's Fund is being carried out, due to the fact that a citizen had reported about the possibility of unlawful activities. Law-enforcement authorities received the report in March, 2018, however the inspection's time period was over in September, and the criminal case was not initiated, reports RTVI. According to the TV-channel, the inspection was not fully implemented. With that, its documents were returned through the prosecutor's office for additional investigation.
The Fund's director Nikolay Yankin is suspected of embezzlement of public funds in the region and across the country; he allegedly "used falsified financial documents on expenses." According to RTVI, it is about a movie Experiences the St.Petersburg culture сommittee had devoted funds on.


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Haneda Airport (Tokyo International)
The Tokyo International Airport services the Greater Tokyo Area and deals mostly with the domestic flights. The name Haneda Airport was given to the Tokyo International Airport after the Narita International Airport was opened. The Narita International Airport was previously known as the New Tokyo International Airport, which caused some confusion. After the opening of Narita, most of Haneda's international traffic was diverted to the new airport, thus leaving the Tokyo International Airport, concentrating mainly on the domestic traffic. Neverthless, the airport still deals with approximately 60 million passengers annually, and is therefore one of the busiest airports in the world.
The Haneda Airport was opened as the Haneda Aerodrome in 1931, and at the time, it was the biggest civilian airport in Japan. As with many airports during war time, the Haneda Aerodrome became the Haneda Army Air Base in 1945, as an United States military facility. Japan received half the airport back in 1952, which was named the Tokyo International Airport. The entire airport was given back to Japan in the year 1958. During the 1960s, airlines such as Sabena, Cathay Pacific Airways, Pan Am, Air Siam and Swissair began running frequent flights to the Haneda Airport. In 1961 the instrument landing systems were installed on the Haneda Airport runways.
Haneda Airport operates out of three Terminals. Terminal 1 is nicknamed the 'Big Bird', and was opened for use in 1993. The new six story building, complete with shopping areas, observation deck, banks, gift shops and other facilities, replaced the older and smaller terminal that was constructed in 1970. In December 2004, the Haneda Airport unveiled Terminal 2, which features a variety of shops, restaurants, market place and an open-air restaurant that is located on the roof. The Haneda Excel Tokyo Hotel is also situated in this amazing six-story structure. Terminal 3 is a much smaller building and is responsible for chartered, international flights that run between Haneda and the Seoul Gimpo Airport. Haneda also takes care of charter flights during the hours that Narita is not open.
Haneda Airport has three runways, which are all paved and are used for both take-off and landings. The 16R/34L is 3000 meters in length, as is the 16L/34R, with the shorter 4/22 runway being 2 500 meters in length. Transport to and from the Haneda Airport, or Tokyo International Airport, is serviced by the railway service, monorail service and buses.
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