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Wild horses sold by US going to slaughterhouses?

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Wild horses scour the ground for strands of hay during an adoption event put on by the Bureau of Land Management in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2009.

By Dave Philipps / ProPublica

The Bureau of Land Management faced a crisis this spring.?

The agency protects and manages herds of wild horses that still roam the American West, rounding up thousands of them each year to keep populations stable.

But by March, government pens and pastures were nearly full. Efforts to find new storage space had fallen flat. So had most attempts to persuade members of the public to adopt horses. Without a way to relieve the pressure, the agency faced a gridlock that would invite lawsuits and potentially cause long-term damage to the range.?

So the BLM did something it has done increasingly over the last few years. It turned to a little-known Colorado livestock hauler named Tom Davis who was willing to buy hundreds of horses at a time, sight unseen, for $10 a head.?


The BLM has sold Davis at least 1,700 wild horses and burros since 2009, agency records show [1] -- 70 percent of the animals purchased through its sale program.

Like all buyers, Davis signs contracts promising that animals bought from the program will not be slaughtered and insists he finds them good homes.

But Davis is a longtime advocate of horse slaughter. By his own account, he has ducked Colorado law to move animals across state lines and will not say where they end up. He continues to buy wild horses for slaughter from Indian reservations, which are not protected by the same laws. And since 2010, he has been seeking investors for a slaughterhouse of his own.

"Hell, some of the finest meat you will ever eat is a fat yearling colt," he said. "What is wrong with taking all those BLM horses they got all fat and shiny and setting up a kill plant?"

Animal welfare advocates fear that horses bought by Davis are being sent to the killing floor.?

?The BLM says it protects wild horses,? said Laura Leigh, founder of the Nevada-based advocacy group Wild Horse Education, ?but when they are selling to a guy like this you have to wonder.?

BLM officials say they carefully screen buyers and are adamant that no wild horses ever go to slaughter.

?We don?t feel compelled to sell to anybody we don?t feel good about,? agency spokesman Tom Gorey said. ?We want the horses to be protected.?

Sally Spencer, who runs the wild horse sales program [2], said the agency has had no indication of problems with Davis and it would be unfair for the BLM to look more closely at him based on the volume of his purchases.

"It is no good to just stir up rumors,? she said. ?We have never heard of him not being able to find homes. So people are innocent until proven guilty in the United States."

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Some BLM employees say privately that wild horse program officials may not want to look too closely at Davis. The agency has more wild horses than it knows what to do with, they say, and Davis has become a relief valve for a federal program plagued by conflict and cost over-runs.?

"They are under a lot of pressure in Washington to make numbers,? said a BLM corral manager who did not want his name used because he feared retribution from the agency?s national office. ?Maybe that is what this is about. They probably don't want to look too careful at this guy."

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Wild horses embody the mythic West: Painted Indian war ponies and the cavalry mounts that chased them, pony express runners and the tough partners of cowboys.

At the turn of the 20th Century, they numbered in the millions, but most were rounded up, slaughtered, and used for pet food or fertilizer, until by 1970, there were only 17,000 left.

In 1971, Congress stepped in to save the remaining herds, passing a law [3] that declared wild horses ?living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West? and made it a crime for anyone to harass or kill wild horses on most federal land. The law tasked the departments of Interior and Agriculture with protecting the animals still roaming the range.

Dave Philipps / ProPublica

Tom Davis at his corrals in La Jara, Colo.

In a sense, the Bureau of Land Management -- the part of the Interior Department assigned to oversee the wild horse program -- succeeded in this a bit too well. Protected horses naturally began to reproduce and by 1983 there were an estimated 65,000 horses and burros on the range, competing for resources with cattle and native wildlife.

In the name of maintaining a sustainable balance, the BLM began removing horses from the wild. It now rounds up about 9,400 horses a year, which has kept the wild population at around 35,000.

The captured horses are put up for adoption. Almost anyone can have one for as little as $125 as long as they sign a contract promising not to sell it to slaughter.

Adoptions kept pace with round ups until investigations in the late 1980s and 1990s showed that many adopters, including several BLM employees, had turned a quick profit by selling the horses to slaughterhouses. To discourage such re-sales, the BLM began holding the title of sale for a year. Today the agency says it visits almost every adopter for a ?compliance check? within six months to make sure horses are well cared for.

The restrictions protected horses, but discouraged adoptions, a trend compounded more recently by a bad economy and soaring hay prices.

Today, only one in three captured horses finds a home. The rest go into a warren of tax payer-funded corrals, feed lots and pastures collectively known as ?the holding system.? Since horses often live 20 years after being captured, the holding population has grown steadily for decades from 1,600 in 1989 to more than 47,000. There are now more wild horses living in captivity than in the wild.

For decades, government auditors [4] and wild horse welfare advocates have warned that the policy of capturing and storing horses is unsustainable and have pushed for the BLM to use fertility controls, introduce predators or expand wild horse territories, but the agency has made little progress toward these goals. In the first half of this year, for example, it treated fewer than half as many wild horses with a birth control drug than was planned.?

"I think they are caught in an old way of doing things,? said John Turner, an endocrinologist at University of Toledo who specializes in wild horse fertility control. ?Once they round up the horses, I don't think they like to treat and release. They would rather remove them."

Driven by the cost of caring for unwanted wild horses, the annual price tag of the program has ballooned from $16 million in 1989 to $76 million today.

Cost pressures prompted Congress to pass a last-minute rider to a 2004 law directing the BLM to sell thousands of old or unadoptable wild horses for $10 a head without restrictions -- even for slaughter -- but the agency has not done so, fearing public outrage.?

Instead, since then, the BLM has been selling horses, but requiring buyers to sign contracts [5] saying they will? ?not knowingly sell or transfer ownership of any listed wild horse and or burro to any person or organization with an intention to resell, trade, or give away the animal for processing into commercial products." Violating the agreement is a felony, but there are no compliance checks similar to those done when horses are adopted.

Even when priced at less than a few bales of hay, these horses had little appeal: Sales dropped [6] from 1,468 in 2005 to 351 in 2008.

To explore other options for reducing the number of horses in holding, top BLM officials gathered for weekly closed-door meetings from July to October 2008. According to meeting minutes obtained by the Conquistador Equine Rescue & Advocacy Program, they considered selling thousands of animals for slaughter and even large-scale euthanasia, but concluded such actions would enrage animal-welfare activists to the point they might "threaten the safety of our facilities and our employees."

No clear plan emerged.

As the wild horse program?s situation grew increasingly dire, a new option came knocking: Tom Davis.

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Davis, 64, a plain-spoken man with a sun-beaten brow, makes his living hauling livestock, but says reselling wild horses now accounts for a substantial part of his income.

By his own account, he has worked around horses all his life -- on racetracks, on ranches, and even rounding up wild horses for slaughter before the 1971 law put a stop to the practice.

For most of that time, he has lived in the tiny town of La Jara, in Colorado?s mountain-ringed San Luis Valley, just down the road from Ken Salazar, the former U.S. Senator who now heads the Department of the Interior.

?When my dad was alive we farmed their land,? Davis said of the Salazar family. ?I like them. I do business with them. I do quite a bit of trucking for Ken.?

(Salazar did not respond to repeated interview requests for this story.)

On a warm morning in May, Davis gave a rambling two-hour interview on the 13-acre spread of corrals and truck lots where he lives.

Leaning against the fence of a muddy corral where a half dozen horses nibbled hay, wearing dusty overalls, Davis gave a simple reason for becoming the BLM?s main buyer.

"I love wild horses to death,? he said. ?It's like an addiction. For some it's drugs, for me it's horses."

According to BLM records, Davis first contacted the program in January 2008. Documents obtained from the agency show he filled out the application [7] to become a buyer over the phone, aided by Spencer, the BLM?s sales director, who wrote in his answers to questions on the form. (A BLM spokesman said in an email that agency employees often did this in the program?s early days, but no longer do.)

Under a question concerning Davis? intended use of the animals, Spencer wrote ?use for movies.? He later told other BLM employees he sold the horses to Mexican movie companies to use on film shoots.

Under a question about what type of horses Davis preferred, the application noted he would take males or females, so long as they were big.

At the bottom of the application, Spencer wrote that she and Davis had ?Discussed goal of providing a good home and making sure none of the horses end up at slaughter plants.? A few weeks later, the BLM sent Davis 36 wild horses from its Ca?on City, Colo., holding corral.

That was the only load the BLM sent Davis in 2008, records show. But in 2009 -- a few months after the meetings about the holding crisis and two weeks after Salazar became head of the Interior Department -- the agency started sending him truckload after truckload, from all over the West. Soon he was by far their biggest customer.

Davis bought 560 horses in 2009, another 332 animals in 2010, 599 more in 2011, and 239 in the first four months of 2012, agency records show. While most BLM buyers purchase one or two horses at a time, Davis averages 35 per purchase and has bought up to 240 at a time.

The animals came from the mountains of California and Wyoming, the mesas of Colorado and Utah, and the deserts of Nevada and Oregon. Many had lived for decades in the wild: Mature band stallions and resilient mares of every color descended from the first American horses.

Davis has paid the BLM a total of $17,630 for the animals, far less than BLM has expended to provide them ? the agency estimates it costs $1,000 to roundup a wild horse and records show it has paid as much as $5,000 per truckload to ship them to Davis. Similar horses that are not acquired from the BLM and can legally be sold for slaughter fetch $300,000 to $600,000 on the open market, according to sales prices from regional livestock auctions.

Some BLM corral managers said in interviews they felt uneasy shipping so many horses to a single buyer, and one they knew so little about, but said such decisions weren?t up to them.

"That all happens in Washington," one said, echoing the comments of many. "We are just peons. We do what we are told."

Davis said BLM employees occasionally asked where his horses ended up, but said he tells them it?s ?none of your damn business.?

"They never question me too hard. It makes 'em look good if they're movin' these horses, see?" he said. "Every horse I take from them saves them a lot of money. I?m doing them a favor. I?m doing the American people a favor."

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So what happened to the wild horses Davis purchased from the BLM?

The agency can?t say for sure. It does not hold onto the titles of wild horses acquired through its sale program as it does with horses that are adopted. Officials also have no process for following up to make sure buyers use animals as they claim they will in applications.

In the interview at the ranch, Davis said he had found most of the mustangs ?good homes? on properties mostly in the southeastern states.? Asked if he would provide records of these sales, he responded, ?Ain?t no way in hell.?

Other people who find homes for rescue horses in the region say they rely heavily on advertising and web sites to connect with buyers. Davis does not appear to do so.

?I?ve never heard of him,? said David Hesse, who runs Mustang and Wild Horse Rescue of Georgia [8]. ?If he said he is finding homes for that many old, untamed mustangs, I?m skeptical. The market is deader than dead. I have trouble finding homes for even the ones that are saddle-broken. Wild ones? No way.?

On some sales applications, Davis has said he sells horses to graze on land used for oil and gas drilling in Texas, but oil industry experts contacted for this story said they had never heard of such a practice.

According to brand inspection documents [9] required by Colorado when livestock is sold or shipped more than 75 miles, Davis and his wife say they have sent 765 animals with BLM wild horse brands to a sparsely populated stretch of arid brush country along the Mexico border in Kinney County, Texas. (The records do not give specific addresses where animals were sent, but identify small towns, such as Spofford, as their destination.)

It?s impossible to confirm that the horses actually arrived there or to know where they might have gone next, however, because Texas is one of the few Western states that do not require brand inspections when horses are moved or sold.

Just south of Kinney County is Eagle Pass, a border town that isthe only crossing for horses going to slaughter in Mexico for hundreds of miles.

There have been no horse slaughterhouses in the U.S. since 2007, when Congress barred funding for U.S. Department of Agriculture horse meat inspectors. Since then horse slaughter has been outsourced. A 2011 report by the General Accountability Office [10] found the export of horses for slaughter to Mexico shot up 660 percent after the ban.

In Eagle Pass, as at other crossings, slaughter horses are checked by USDA veterinarians. A? USDA spokeswoman refused to make veterinarians available for interviews, but confirmed that vets sometimes see wild horses bearing the BLM brand in slaughter export pens.

Brand documents leave almost 1,000 of Davis?s wild horses unaccounted for. That means they should still be within 75 miles of his residence -- if he has complied with state law.

Asked if this was the case, Davis first said the horses were still on 160 acres of land he leases from the state of Colorado. Then he said some had been shipped out of state without brand inspections, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

"Since when is anything in this country done legal?" Davis said in a phone interview.

******

Had BLM officials inquired further about Davis, they might have found reason to question his plans for wild horses.

Davis is a vocal proponent of slaughtering wild horses in the holding system, which he considers a waste of resources. During the interview at his home, he said he would purchase far more horses if the BLM allowed him to resell them to so-called ?kill buyers.?

?They are selling me mere hundreds now,? he said. ?If they sold me 50,000, I guarantee I could do something with them. I would go to Canada. I would go to Mexico.?

Davis has close friends who export horses for slaughter, including Dennis Chavez, whose family runs one of largest export businesses in the southwest. In 1984, when Davis authored ?Be Tough or be Gone [11],? a self-published book about a horseback ride he took from Mexico to Alaska, he dedicated it to Chavez?s father, Sonny Chavez.

Also, despite the obstacles that impede U.S. horse slaughterhouses, Davis said he has been trying to drum up investors to open a slaughter plant in Colorado.

He said he had approached pet food companies to buy the meat and asked Ken Salazar?s brother, John Salazar, who is the head of the Colorado Department of Agriculture, to help him get a grant to finance the business. John Salazar declined to help Davis, and so far the slaughterhouse venture has not gone forward.

?How can the BLM say with a straight face they are protecting wild horses when they deal with this guy?? said Leigh, of Wild Horse Education.

Animal welfare advocates have raised concerns about Davis? purchases, but they say federal officials paid little attention.

In late 2010, the BLM rounded up 255 horses in the Adobe Town wild horse area [12] in Wyoming. A local loose knit group of advocates had been photographing the herd for years. After the round-up, group members called BLM officials, looking to adopt a few of the animals, particularly an old stallion they had named Grey Beard [13].

They were told that the horses had been claimed by an anonymous buyer who planned to resell them to large landowners looking for agricultural tax exemptions. The advocates tried to learn more about the buyer, but Spencer refused to give his name, citing privacy policies.

According to interviews and agency emails, group members told Spencer that anyone buying that many horses at once had to be a kill buyer.

Sandra Longley, one of the advocates, said in an email to another advocate that Spencer had assured her that the buyer in question had a long relationship with the BLM and was ?above reproach.?

A BLM spokesman said Spencer did not recall the conversation.

According to BLM records, most of the horses were sold to Davis.

Warnings from advocates about Davis do not appear to have prompted the BLM to reconsider selling to him.In fact, internal agency email shows that officials actively turned to Davis to absorb freshly rounded-up horses so they wouldn?t end up in the overloaded holding system.

In January, the manager of the agency?s corral in Burns, Ore., emailed superiors in Washington, D.C., to ask what to do with 29 mares, almost all of which were pregnant. Spencer replied that Davis would take them.

In March, a corral manager emailed Spencer to say he had 92 ?nice horses? just rounded up in High Rock, Calif., and to ask if Davis could take some of the geldings.

A day later Spencer replied, ?Davis told me that if the geldings are in good shape he will be able to place them into good homes.?

?How many would Mr. Davis want to buy?? the corral manager asked Spencer. ?And are there any specifics that he is looking for??

?He said he?d be interested in all of them, no specifics,? Spencer replied. ?

Spencer said in an interview she is under no pressure to approve buyers with questionable backgrounds and feels confident that ?we do not sell to people we feel are going to do bad things to the horses.?

When asked about Davis, she said he had been thoroughly checked out and she had confidence in him. More generally, she said that if there were problems with a buyer, she would know.

?People watch where our horses go and the brands are very distinctive,? she said. ?If things were going on, we would get a call.?

Davis? most recent purchase was in April, when he bought 106 animals. Since then, the agency may have opened an inquiry into what he has done with horses bought from the BLM.? In June, an agency investigator contacted this reporter seeking information about him. This month, however, the BLM assistant special investigator in Santa Fe (the contact supplied by the agency on this matter) said he was "unable to confirm or deny" that the BLM is investigating Davis.

Animal welfare advocates say the agency?s reliance on Davis is just another indication of how the wild horse program and its overburdened holding system have been mismanaged.

?He is just a symptom of the train wreck that is the Wild Horse and Burro program,? said Ginger Kathrens, director of the horse advocacy group The Cloud Foundation, based in Colorado Springs. ?They just warehouse more and more horses and create their own crisis. Then, after they run the program into the ground, they have to find ways out of it. It is a whole unnatural ridiculous system run amok. And who pays the ultimate price? Wild horses.?

This report, "All the Missing Horses," first appeared at ProPublica.org.

To contact Dave Philipps about this story, email him at horse@propublica.org.

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Le Taste of France on Pier 54, at West Street and 13th Street, celebrates French gastronomy and culture Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Chefs will prepare special dishes paired with French wines and liquors. A French flea market, live music, wine tastings, games and a French bulldog show are part of the schedule. On Saturday from 6:30 to 11 p.m., Le Soiree turns the event into a big dinner party where guests can meet chefs. Tickets for the day session are $30 in advance, available online or $40 at the door. The Sunday evening program is $149 a person.

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'Unthinkable and devastating': Romney slams Obama on defense cuts

(Alex Wong/Getty Images)SPRINGFIELD, Va.?For the third straight day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaigned in the same state, with Romney arguing before an audience of military veterans that potential cuts to the defense budget are "unthinkable and devastating."

Speaking in the battleground state at an American Legion post outside Washington, D.C., Romney blamed Obama for planned defense cuts agreed to under a 2011 vote to raise the debt ceiling, known as sequestration, calling it a "kind of a gun-to-your-head opportunity" that will kill jobs in Virginia.

"They would make devastating cuts to our military. It's a strange proposal in the first place, even stranger that it's being put in place," Romney said. "The impact will be immediate, and significant right here in Virginia: 136,000 jobs will be lost in Virginia as a result of this move."

The White House has pointed out that Rep. Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate, and other Republican congressional leaders supported sequestration when it was proposed. Romney has previously said it was a "mistake" for Republicans in Congress to back the deal.

But speaking in Virginia, Romney put the blame squarely on Obama?arguing the president is cutting the military at a time of turmoil around the world.

"It is still a troubled and dangerous world. And the idea of cutting our military commitment by a trillion dollars over this decade is unthinkable and devastating," Romney declared. "And when I become president of the United States, we will stop it. I will not cut our commitment to the military."

Romney spoke at approximately the same time Obama held his own campaign event in Virginia Beach. A recent Fox News poll found Obama leading Romney by 7 points among likely Virginia voters, 50 to 43 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-slams-obama-defense-cuts-170822762--election.html

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New clues about ancient water cycles shed light on US deserts

Friday, September 28, 2012

The deserts of Utah and Nevada have not always been dry. Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, when large ice caps covered Canada during the last glacial cooling, valleys throughout the desert southwest filled with water to become large lakes, scientists have long surmised. At their maximum size, the desert lakes covered about a quarter of both Nevada and Utah. Now a team led by a Texas A&M University researcher has found a new water cycle connection between the U.S. southwest and the tropics, and understanding the processes that have brought precipitation to the western U.S. will help scientists better understand how the water cycle might be perturbed in the future.

Mitch Lyle, professor of oceanography, led the study with colleagues from Columbia University, University of California-Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Hokkaido University of Japan, Brown University and the U.S. Geological Survey. Their work, funded by the National Science Foundation, is published in the current issue of Science magazine.

The dry shorelines of these glacial lakes were first discovered by 19th century geologists when the west was first explored, Lyle explains, adding that the source of the additional water has been a mystery. By assembling data from ocean sediments and from dry western valleys collected over the last 30 years, Lyle and the team found a new water cycle connection between the southwest U.S. and the tropics.

"Large ice caps profoundly altered where storms went during glacial periods. Before this study, it was assumed that Pacific winter storms that now track into Washington and Canada were pushed south into central and southern California," Lyle notes.

"However, by comparing timing between wet intervals on the coast, where these storms would first strike, with growth of the inland lakes, we found that they didn't match."

The team was able to time wet periods along the California coast from pollen buried in marine sediments from cores archived by scientists at the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M. They evaluated lake level studies from southeast Oregon, Nevada, Utah, eastern California, New Mexico, and west Texas to find when lakes filled in different parts of the west.

"Many teams of scientists have been working on this problem since the 1950s, when radiocarbon dating first allowed ages to be put on old shorelines," Lyle adds. "The data we synthesized covers a wide latitude so that we could determine how the glacial wet intervals operated."

Only southern California coastal wet intervals matched with the progression of high lakes inland, pointing to the development of a tropical connection, where storms cycled into the region from the tropical Pacific, west of southern Mexico.

"We think that the extra precipitation may have come in summer, enhancing the now weak summer monsoon in the desert southwest. But we need more information about what season the storms arrived to strengthen this speculation," Lyle says.

Not only is the development of the glacial lakes important from a paleoclimate perspective, but it is likely that the lakes were important to the migration of people into North America, Lyle believes. Many of the archaeological sites where early Indians settled when they first came into the U.S. are rock shelters at the edges of these ancient lakes. The lakes were a major source of fish, and a gathering place for deer and wildfowl at that time.

"What we need to do now is look at all of this on a finer scale," Lyle points out. "We need to understand better the processes that directed the storms thousands of years ago, and to predict better what changes might occur in the future."

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

RIM Earnings! - Business Insider

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CEO Thorsten Heins

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RIM's earnings are out!

It's a rare beat for Research In Motion.

Revenue was $2.9 billion versus $2.47 billion expected. Adjusted EPS was -$0.27 versus -$0.47 expected.

It shipped 7.4 million BlackBerrys versus expectations of 7.8 million.

The stock is soaring after-hours, rising as much as 16%.

RIM's brought in $432 million in cashflow from operations for the quarter. Its total cash is $2.3 billion, a $100 million increase.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-earnings-2012-9

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Tigers take AL Central lead, Rays & Angels win

Here's how the pennant races look with exactly one week to go:

? TIGERS ROAR: The AL Central has a new leader, with Detroit moving past Chicago for the first time since July 23. Andy Dirks' hard slide to break up a double play sent the Tigers past Kansas City 5-4. The White Sox have dropped seven of eight, and fell one game back with a 6-4 loss to Cleveland.

? POOL PLAY: Tampa Bay has won seven straight, and hasn't lost since manager Joe Maddon challenged them to run the table like pool hustler Minnesota Fats. The Rays are three games out in the AL wild-card race.

? FLYING HIGH: The Angels have won five in row and now trail by just two games in the AL wild-card chase.

? GOING, GOING ... GONE?: The Phillies' playoff run is almost over. After winning the NL East crown the past five years, Philadelphia was pushed to the brink of elimination with an 8-4 loss to new division champion Washington.

? NEXT UP: The streaking Rays visit the slumping White Sox. James Shields (15-9) starts for Tampa Bay vs. Jake Peavy (11-12).

? CHASE CHATTER: "It just feels good to get a win. That's all that really matters. Right now we have to win out to at least give us a chance to make the playoffs. We can't worry who's in front of us." ? Matt Kemp after homering and driving in four runs to help the Dodgers gain ground on St. Louis for the last NL wild-card spot.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tigers-al-central-lead-rays-angels-win-090611226--mlb.html

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Amazing view of Universe captured

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date.

Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching back almost to the time when the first stars began to shine.

But this was no simple point and snap - some of the objects in this image are too distant and too faint for that.

Rather, this view required Hubble to stare at a tiny patch of sky for more than 500 hours to detect all the light.

The XDF will become an invaluable tool for astronomy. The objects embedded in it will now be followed up by other telescopes. It will keep scientists busy for years, enabling them to study the full history of galaxy formation and evolution.

The new vista is actually an updating of a previous HST product - the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

That was built from data acquired in 2003 and 2004, and saw the telescope burrow into a small area of space in the Constellation Fornax (The Furnace). Again, it necessitated many repeat observations, and revealed thousands of galaxies, both near and far, making it the deepest image of the cosmos ever taken at that time.

But XDF goes further; it dials down into an even smaller fraction of the UDF.

It incorporates more than 2,000 separate exposures over 10 years using Hubble's two main cameras - the Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed by astronauts in 2002, and the Wide Field Camera 3, which was added to the observatory during its final servicing in 2009.

Beyond the visible

To see what it does, Hubble has to reach beyond the visible into the infrared. It is only at longer wavelengths of light that some of the most distant objects become detectable.

Of the more than 5,000 galaxies in the XDF, one is seen as it existed just 450 million years after the Universe's birth in the Big Bang. Scientists time that event to be 13.7 billion years ago.

This remarkable image will be updated again when Hubble's successor gets into orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2018.

This next-generation observatory's larger mirror and more sensitive infrared instruments will allow it to go deeper still, to witness the very first starlight in the Universe.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19728375#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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Katy Perry named Billboard's woman of the year

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Katy Perry was named Billboard's Woman of the Year on Tuesday, after a whirlwind 12 months in which she split up with her husband and turned their break-up into a hit single and film.

Perry, 27, channeled her split with British comedian Russell Brand in late 2011 into the chart-topping hit "Part Of Me" and a 3D behind-the-scenes film "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" that documented her personal and professional ups and downs.

The singer has won over a legion of fans, known as 'katycats,' on Twitter and Facebook with her quirky costumes and catchy bubble gum pop songs.

Forbes placed Perry at No. 3 on their highest-earning female musicians list in December 2011, estimating her pre-tax earnings at $44 million.

She has sold 48 million tracks in the United States alone, according to Billboard, including the hits "Firework," "California Gurls," "E.T." and "Hot N Cold" from her major-label 2008 debut "One Of The Boys" and 2010 album "Teenage Dream."

Perry has become a branding machine, lending her name to her own fragrance, nail polish and false eyelash lines. She is also the face of skin care line Proactiv and Popchips snacks.

Billboard's editorial director Bill Werde said in a statement that Perry was chosen for her achievements, calling her "one of the most exciting and inspiring artists in the industry."

"Katy Perry broke into the industry not even five years ago, and has already accomplished more than most artists can hope for in an entire career," Werde said.

The Billboard Woman of the Year award selects a female artist with trailblazing achievements. Previous recipients include Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie.

Perry will receive the award at the 2012 Billboard Women in Music event in New York on November 30.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Jill Serjeant and Stacey Joyce)

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Free Consulting: How to Develop your Brand & Community Strategy ...

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I was on a job interview recently (yes, I am on the market!!) for a position in communications strategy, and was asked a bunch of questions of what I would do to help raise awareness of the organization?s presence in the world, make it clear as to what their goals and objectives are, make it easy for aligned partners and projects to engage, and help weave together the many siloed communities out there who are all technically part of their nascent ecosystem, but mostly unaware of each other?s work/existence.

It was fun to think about this as I reflected on everything I?ve learned so far in developing my own brand and presence here at Emergent by Design, the various online communities and collaborative learning environments I?ve helped develop, and the in-person events and conferences I?ve helped organize.

I?ve found it important to focus on the deeper human side of things rather than just the surface tools or tactics, so here are a few insights I?d like to share about the essence of brand and community building, from a people-centered lens:

How to Develop Your Brand

As Tony Hsieh of Zappos would say, your culture is your brand.

You can spend a lot of money in advertising and posturing about who you are, or you can demonstrate it through your behavior.

Behaviors (as well as shared attitudes, values and goals) form your culture. Your culture informs/defines your brand.

So what?s a desirable organizational culture?

Some popular themes might include: a culture of collaboration, open communication, transparency, innovation, excellence, continuous learning, belonging, creativity, empowerment.

While these all sound fantastic, they?re not easy to do just because you ?want? to. I haven?t experienced collaboration and cooperation to be something that comes naturally or easily (for me, at least). It takes work, and requires actual commitments to yourself, choosing and sticking to some core values, and demonstrating leadership by showing others what that looks like.

It has much less to do with choosing the right ?collaboration tools,? and much more about learning how to communicate effectively and resolve interpersonal issues, establishing trust and respect, building strong relationships, and instilling confidence in people?s skills and capabilities.

So what are the core values you?re committed to to form the foundations of your culture?

Zappos culture, for example, is based on these 10 core values:

1) Deliver WOW Through Service
2) Embrace and Drive Change
3) Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4) Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5) Pursue Growth and Learning
6) Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7) Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8) Do More With Less
9) Be Passionate and Determined
10) Be Humble

A similar list can be found in the core values of Agile Boston:

* Serve Others
* Be Purposeful
* Create Results
* Create Relationships
* Increase Learning
* Communicate Honestly
* Create Fun
* Be Focused
* Be Committed
* Be Courageous

I?ve found this kind of intentional culture design to be truly transformative, and actually enjoyable. It creates psychological safety to know what?s actually valued by a community, so you can lovingly ?call bullshit? on others when they?re out of alignment with those values, and quickly correct situations that lead to unnecessary drama.

For example, if your culture values results and learning, one of your commitments might be something like ?I will personally support the best idea, regardless of its source.? This is a simple statement, but one that can help a group transcend egos and get focused on common goals and objectives.

Why all of this is important for brand development has to do with the caliber of talent you hope to attract, whether we?re talking about employees, partners, or contributors to open collaboration projects.

A culture that?s fun and high-functioning, displaying clear goals, ways to track and measure progress, easy opt-in ways to participate, and a sense of greater purpose, tends to make for a good game.

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How to Develop Your Community

This goes hand in hand with developing brand and culture.

I?m going to again reference the things covered the other day in the Memes, Manifestos and Movements post, specifically the insights about cultural/community development put forth by Dave Logan and Eric Raymond.

Dave?s advice was:

* Listen to the conversations around you
* Speak in terms of collective values
* Actively triad

Eric?s advice included:

* Name things
* Find the Deepest Yearning
* Use Cultural Capital
* Develop Mission Awareness

In both instances, the keys to weaving together and activating a network/community had to do with strong communication and leadership.

One of the things that came up in the interview discussion was how to better make the community visible to itself and foster collaboration within it. We talked about how just creating a platform for collaboration or environment where the community can gather is not enough.

Again, it takes time and effort and (in my opinion) a genuine interest and passion from the people stewarding the community building effort to want to get to know who the people in the community actually are, what their needs and desires are, what their current practices and processes look like, and what direction they think they?re moving in.

I?ve found that people often have a difficult time articulating these things though.

So there is a bit of an art involved in this ? knowing how to build rapport and trust, knowing how to ask the right questions, knowing how to listen for common themes and patterns, knowing how to make sense of these things and then translate them into language that will be accessible across the disparate groups you?re trying to bring together, spotting opportunities to introduce people and projects to each other so they can cross-pollinate, and being able to hold space for and carry the larger vision that unites the community.

I see there being a great opportunity now for leaders to emerge, people who know how to tell the stories of their communities, and weave these together with the larger stories that are unfolding around the shifts in global society and culture.

Now with all that said?. what would I do?

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Here are a few ideas in response to the original questions:

1. Raise awareness of organization?s presence in the world

  • Build relationships with people and groups in alignment with your mission and values.

What your organization cares about or represents already exists in the world. People are already doing it, or talking about it. Find them. Give them props. Be excited that you?ve found each other! They are your tribe, and will help you spread the word.

  • Partner with projects and events that reinforce and support your stated objectives.

Collaborating and teaming with other groups within the network demonstrates an actual commitment to collaboration and teamwork. Show your awareness of who?s out there already making things happen, and honor them by finding ways to support their efforts, share resources, and not waste time duplicating work.

  • Celebrate wins with the whole ecosystem.

I?m reminded of Kevin Kelly?s post about Brian Eno?s concept of ?scenius,? which is defined as ?the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene.? It talks about the ?network effects of success? as being part of the operating principles of a scenius. ?When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empower the scene to further success.? If your organization is trying to position itself within an ecosystem, share news of your own successes while also participating in the successes of the kindred spirits in your network.

2. Make goals and objectives clear to the public

  • Help others locate themselves in relationship to your story.

Have a clear vision, mission and values on your About page. Be explicit about what you want and what steps are currently underway to actualize those things. Give examples of accomplishments, and how you measured success. Show how the efforts being undertaken from other independent entities within your ecosystem are by default also supporting your own goals.

3. Make it easy for aligned partners and projects to engage

  • Design structure for interactions.

Provide some clear entry points and tiers for engagement. (To donate, click here. To promote or share with your networks, do this. To participate in a project, see what help is needed here. To submit a project, follow these submission guidelines. To join the conversations, go there. To let us know about your community, introduce yourself here. etc)

Provide some standards and guidelines for what quality and excellence looks like. (If you?re fostering dialogue, set the ground rules for engagement so there?s a bias towards sharing, learning and growth. If you?re looking to promote collaboration across projects or communities, help define the protocols of communication and documentation that promote interoperability.)

Have the question ?How can I help you?? at the top of mind and heart when engaging with others in the network.

4. Weave smaller communities together into a larger global ecosystem

  • Uncover the bigger picture story, and tell it.

Talk to the people in these communities, and look for common patterns in the beliefs, values, language, and practices within them. Connect the dots and help shape the narrative, find common ground, and discover the vision that everyone is already sharing.

  • Tell people what?s in it for them.

I?m a believer in enlightened self-interest, the idea that we can act in a way that serves both ourselves and others at the same time. I see this as similar to a non-zero-sum game, the concept that we can have outcomes that don?t require one player to lose in order for the other to win. (In fact, it?s theorized that as networks and society becomes more complex and interdependent, we realize this strategy actually makes more sense in enabling everyone to get what they want.)

People are already pursuing their own goals. They may be unaware of the other players, unsure of why coordinating with those other players might actually make their own goals easier to reach, or how to do it. Help tell that story.

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And there?s a brief overview of some concepts I?ve heard experts share, as well as some reflections from my own experience.

How do these thoughts about developing brand, culture and community strategy resonate with you?

Source: http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/09/25/free-consulting-how-to-develop-your-brand-community-strategy/

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Refueling problem causes delays at Oslo Airport

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  • Performs other duties as assigned.
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    • In-depth knowledge of appropriate insurance principles and laws for line of business handled, recoveries offsets and deductions, claim and disability duration, cost containment principles including medical management practices and Social Security and Medicare application procedure as applicable to line of business
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    • PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
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    • Strong organizational skills
    • Good interpersonal skills
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    MP proposes National Health and Fitness Day | canada.com

    OTTAWA ? B.C. Conservative MP John Weston, his fitness instructor wife Donna, and their three soccer-playing kids all have black belts in tae-kwon-do.

    When Weston arrived in Ottawa as a rookie MP in 2008, one of the first things he did ? after noticing the unhealthy lifestyle of many MPs ? was to set up a program to encourage parliamentarians from all parties to swim, run or walk once or twice a week.

    On Monday, the 54-year-old, Mandarin-speaking, Harvard-educated, marathon-running lawyer went a step further with the introduction of a private member?s bill to create a National Health and Fitness Day.

    Weston?s bill calls on municipal governments to provide free or reduced-rate access to their fitness centres the first Saturday of June each year.

    His goal is to create the ?fittest nation on earth? ? a tall order given that the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development says Canada has one of the highest obesity rates in the western world.

    And just last week, Statistics Canada reported that 31.5 per cent of Canadians between ages five and 17 are overweight or obese.

    Excess weight among children leads to diabetes, high blood pressure, and thickening of the arteries in adulthood, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast MP Weston said at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.

    ?This is the first generation of Canadians who will die at a younger age than their parents,? he said, according to a copy of his prepared statement.

    Weston told reporters his proposed bill is about fitness, not fatness.

    ?We are not creating a National Skinny Day. My wife Donna, a fitness instructor, likes to tell me I?m way too thin. And, while some people may see losing weight as an end in itself, today?s initiative is not about that.

    ?The bill I introduced today aims to increase the health of Canadians by increasing our physical participation rates.?

    While private member?s bills rarely pass, Weston said he has the support of all four parties represented in the House of Commons. Two MPs, the NDP?s Peter Stoffer of Nova Scotia and Liberal Kirsty Duncan of Ontario, have publicly endorsed Weston?s initiative.

    Weston said he already has the support of every municipal government in his riding, one in Nova Scotia, and on Monday the City of Ottawa endorsed his efforts.

    But two experts on obesity and nutrition issues questioned the utility of Weston?s bill.

    ?I don?t want to be too down on it, but there are at least a half-dozen things the federal government could do that could be effective, and this probably doesn?t make the top-50 list,? said Bill Jeffery, national coordinator for the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, which advocates on nutrition issues from offices in Washington and Ottawa. ?So it?s hard to get enthusiastic about it.?

    Jeffery said the federal tax system should be geared to favour healthy food, and hasn?t done enough to properly label and regulate trans-fat and sodium levels in packaged food products.

    Ottawa should also regulate commercials geared toward kids, he said.

    ?It?s not disputed that children lack the cognitive maturity to properly interpret advertising, and yet almost everything the things advertised for children are not good for their health,? he said. ?It?s junk food that keep kids sitting on their butts.?

    Dr. Arya Sharma, chair of obesity research and management at the University of Alberta, called the bill ?simplistic.?

    ?Policies to get Canadians moving and eating better are great ? but reducing obesity simply to a matter of diet and exercise is far too simplistic and does a disservice to the many people struggling with excess weight,? he said.

    Obesity is a chronic disease with only treatments, and no cure, and can be caused by stress, food insecurity, mental health issues, time constraints and the widespread availability of unhealthy fast foods.

    ?The problem is we?ve created a society where people don?t have, or don?t take, the time to eat (properly). It?s not what they eat, it?s the fact that they?re inhaling their lunch, or not having lunch at all.?

    He said Canadians should have a debate on the ?real causes? of the obesity epidemic, ?rather than pointing fingers and using strategies that increase shame and blame, or simply tax or ban foods.?

    Weston was asked Monday if he?ll suggest other anti-obesity policy changes to Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.

    In July, Aglukkaq?s office confirmed to Postmedia News that Health Canada had rejected the advice of its own advisory panel of food experts on trans-fat labelling. The panel had urged the government to start monitoring trans-fats in processed foods and deliver a ?strong signal? to companies that regulations will be considered if trans-fat levels aren?t reduced.

    ?I?m not expert enough to offer an opinion on that specific thing, but certainly I would encourage Canadians to look at their nutrition,? he told The Vancouver Sun.

    ?Nutrition is part of the puzzle, and I know this bill will encourage people about the importance of heating healthy foods.?

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    Source: http://o.canada.com/2012/09/24/mp-proposes-national-health-and-fitness-day/

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