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November 27, 2015
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge who jailed three suspended lawyers while they await trial in a fraud case in northern Kentucky says he will not disqualify himself.
U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman said in an order Wednesday he sees no reason to remove himself from the case in which the three jailed lawyers face charges they swindled clients out of millions of dollars. The swindle was allegedly in connection with a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen.
The three lawyers, Shirley Cunningham Jr., William Gallion and Melbourne Mills Jr., had asked Bertelsman to remove himself from their criminal case, alleging he had shown bias against them. They said through their attorneys that the bias was shown in the judge's comments in ordering them to jail after they sought a delay in their trial. Bertelsman issued a 16-page order in Covington saying there was no bias.
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text: Palestinians Sneak Sperm Out of Israeli Prisons Fertility doctor cooks up smuggling scheme By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff Posted Feb 24, 2013 1:50 PM CST STORY COMMENTS (32) (Newser) – The wives of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are getting pregnant in an odd way—by smuggling out the prisoners' sperm, NBC News reports. But the families won't say how they get the sperm past a glass separation, body search, and an airport-style scanner. "If I told you the way we smuggled it, definitely the army will prevent it from happening and there are prisoners we don't want to deprive of this same chance," says mother-to-be Lidya Al-Rimawi, who only divulges that they used "a small nylon bag." Salim Abu Khaizaran, an fertility doctor in Ramallah, invented the strategy because he saw the wives of prisoners paying "a very high price"—waiting for years while husbands served time, and then being too old to conceive. Worse, the freed husband is pressured to marry someone else to become a father, "which ... I feel is very sad," he said. But the Israel Prison Service isn't buying stories of sperm that leaps over glass separators: "One can question the ability to smuggle as claimed," a spokeswoman said dryly. A prisoner casts his vote during legislative elections in the Rimonim prison, central Israel,Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow NBC News (Source Grid ») World • Great Finds sperm • Israel and Palestinians • conception • prisoners • Palestinians • strange stuff CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 35% 11% 10% 15% 6% 23% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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It began for Josh Millhaus with a few nasty posts on his Facebook page. Then the rumors began to spread through his high school.
Soon, kids at school - even friends - were ignoring him, whispering behind his back, and some were tripping and shoving him in the lunchroom. The harassment and intimidation, both online and around town, escalated and took on a life of their own in Josh's head.
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November 29, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) - An administration official says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the Obama administration in March.
Salazar has run the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama's first term. Before joining the Cabinet, he served as a senator from Colorado.
Salazar is the latest Cabinet secretary to leave the administration as Obama heads into his second term. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are also leaving.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made.
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text: Over-the-top decorations, thousands of sparkly lights and dramatically themed rooms are just the beginning when holiday home decor goes celebrity. Sunday night on HGTV's Celebrity Holiday Homes, viewers got a chance to follow three stars as they prepared their homes for the holidays. We've got an inside look at what three designers drummed up for Wayne Brady, Jo Dee Messina and Alison Sweeney's holiday decor.Read Full Story


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Eulogists remembered Bryan Fire Lt. Gregory Pickard, 54, and Lt. Eric Wallace, 36, for their on-the-job dedication as well as their humor and kindness.
The Eagle of Bryan-College Station reported (http://bit.ly/155GuUg) that the memorial started with a procession of more than 150 fire trucks from around the state that stretched nearly three miles. The four-hour memorial was held at Central Baptist Church in College Station.
"We have lost two devoted members of our organization," said Bryan fire Chief Randy McGregor, flanked by large photographs of each fallen firefighter on the church stage. "The impact these men had will go on for years in our organization. These men had such an impact on every one of our persons sitting out here, and I know that they will carry on the legacies of everything they brought to us."
Pickard and Wallace died in the blaze that broke out Friday night at an unoccupied Knights of Columbus Hall in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. Investigators said the fire was caused by the failure of an electrical cord in the hall's kitchen.
McGregor remembered both firefighters as having a "great sense of humor.
"And that's probably one of the things we liked about them both," McGregor said.
At the end of the service, the families of the two firefighters were presented with medals of honor from the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Wallace's funeral was scheduled for Thursday in Bryan, while services for Pickard will be held Friday in College Station.
Two firefighters that were injured in the blaze—Ricky Mantey Jr., 30, and Mitchel Moran, 21—were in serious but stable condition Wednesday at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
McGregor said Tuesday that Mantey and Moran have improved and are able to walk short distances.
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The plans for this year's Holidays in Downtown Marion are set. Festivities on Saturday will include a visit from Santa, a Christmas Parade and more.
Breakfast with Santa starts the day off from 9 to 11 a.m. at The Warehouse on West Center Street. The buffet costs $7.95 for adults and $4.95 for kids.
The WMRN Peanut Push to benefit Christmas Clearinghouse is at 10 a.m. Contestants will push their way across West Center Street just west of Prospect Street. ...


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Pugsy Malone, a one-year-old pug-beagle mix, was offered for adoption at the Arfpocalypse Zombie Dog Fest at Klipsch Music Center in Noblesville.
After reading John Nepsa's Dec. 27 letter regarding whether to feed families or feed pets, I knew I must respond. Although he did not mention the names of the two organizations whose revenue he reported as receiving millions of dollars in donations, he failed to mention smaller organizations and shelters that run on shoestring budgets. There are several in Central Indiana that would love to have a tenth of what Nepsa quoted.
There are people who will care for other people and then there are people who will care for animals. No one should be scolded for choosing to help either one.
So, to those who agree with Nepsa, there is enough love to go around, for humans and animals alike. As for myself, I choose animals and will not be made to feel bad about that choice.
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Well, let's see if that little rest pays off for LeBron James and Dwyane Wade as the Miami Heat hosts the N.Y. Knicks in a battle of division leaders. Of course, that "division-leading" thing has different standards: Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks are just 20 games over .500 while the Heat is 43 over and probably think New York's modest little eight-game winning streak is cute. 8 p.m., TNT.


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China's biggest leveraged buyout, the $3.7 billion acquisition of Focus Media Holdings Ltd., is off to a promising start, adding to signs that the Asian-Pacific region's dull leveraged-buyout market could regain luster.
LBOs, in which buyers fund an acquisition using the cash flow of the target, peaked in the region seven years ago and dwindled alongside more-volatile stock markets. The $1.08 billion loan to finance the acquisition of advertising firm Focus Media by its chairman and private-equity firms is in the process of being sold to other banks, which could give renewed confidence in such deals. Add to that the firming of stock markets, low interest rates and increasingly aggressive Chinese and Taiwanese providers of leveraged financing, and bankers say the outlook for LBOs hasn't looked this good in years.
Another day, another Carlyle Group-backed, China-focused buyout.
7 Days Group Holdings Ltd., which runs budget hotels in China, said Thursday it has received a proposal to be taken private by a group of investors, including its co-chairmen and private-equity firms Carlyle and Sequoia Capital China. It's the latest in a string of take-privates of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, which have seen their share prices plunge in the past year since worries arose over their corporate governance. 7 Days's share price has fallen over 23% over the last 12 months.
Private-equity firm Warburg Pincus is the largest shareholder in 7 Days with a 16% stake, which it first bought in 2006.
Leveraged buyout volumes in the U.S. and Asia have jumped this year, thanks in no small part to a number of deals backed by Carlyle which has been both actively buying and exiting investments. In Asia, the biggest such deal this year was the $3.66 billion take-private of U.S.-listed Focus Media, by a consortium including Carlyle, and two Chinese private-equity firms, Citic Capital Partners and FountainVest Partners.
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On May 7, voters will decide the fate of the proposed Johnson County justice center. Voters deserve assurance that a "yes" vote will result in a building that is both compatible with the historic courthouse and energy efficient.
Because the courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, the justice center will follow the guidelines set by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior for additions to historic buildings:
? The character-defining features of the historic courthouse will not be radically changed, obscured, damaged or destroyed.
? The justice center will be clearly differentiated so that the addition does not appear to be part of the historic courthouse.
? The justice center will be at the rear or on an inconspicuous side of the historic courthouse.
? The size and scale of the justice center will be limited in relationship to the historic courthouse.
? The materials used on the exterior of the justice center will complement but, not mimic, the courthouse materials.
The design of the justice center still is in the conceptual stage. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors and the design team are committed to an open, public design process allowing for ideas and input from the entire community. The justice center will be a sustainable building serving the citizens of Johnson County for generations to come.
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Playing mostly 2A and 3A schools, the Melcher-Dallas softball team won two of their three matches in tournament action on Saturday. They started the day with a 14 – 0 loss to West Burlington, Notre Dame. Timely hits were the story in game two with Mediapolis, prevailing in a heavyweight bout, 17 – 12. Freshman Jordan Godfrey earned the win on the mound. The Saints capped their day off with an 8 – 4 win over Louisa-Muscatine. Anastasia Dennison picked up the victory as the pitcher. Melcher-Dallas is 4 – 3 on the season and they'll play Diagonal next on Monday.
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Hattiesburg Police K9 instructor Brian Morse is attacked by Tomi during a training exercise. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases that call for clarification of the Fourth Amendment. Morse said HPD procedure already takes into account many of the gray areas discussed in the cases.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases early next year that have the potential to change the way the nation uses its police dogs.
But typical practice for the six Hattiesburg Police Department K9 units seem to put them a bit ahead of the curve.
Both cases call to the carpet for clarification the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. ...


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Styles Classical / Spanish • Flamenco
Counties East Sussex • Surrey • West Sussex
This Brighton based guitarist has been playing professionally for some years now. Extensive travel abroad opened his eyes and ears to the musical possibilities for live performances.
A trained classical guitarist, he honed his flamenco skills in Spain enabling him to accompany dancers using the complex flamenco rhythms. His interest in different musical styles led him to study at Chichester College to gain a diploma in World Music and then a further diploma in Jazz studies.
A flare for Latin music and jazz led him to focus on Latin Jazz incorporating vibrant Brazilian rhythms with the advanced harmonies and improvisations of jazz. His guitar influences include Baden Powell, Joe Pass and Sylvain Luc.
He is immersed in the thriving music scene in Brighton and performs regularly in a variety of venues (and Radio including BBC) both solo and with many bands and ensembles. He teaches music in schools, tutors adults and is also available for session guitar work.
His classical set incorporates a large repertoire of Spanish and South American pieces. A selection of Argentinean folkloric compositions are performed including Chacareras, Gatos, Chamames and Milongas through to Brazilian Choros and Sambas and Venezuelan Waltzes.


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View from the City End: Finn v Onions
Finn and Onions faced a fight for next place in the pecking order of fast bowlers
Once Steven Finn and Graham Onions were both picked for the third Test at Edgbaston, it was inevitably billed as a showdown between England's two nearly men. But the winner of the shoot-out was arguably the man already in possession of the third seamer slot, Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan, who took 3-74 in 26 probing, disciplined overs.
Onions bagged three wickets (3-56 in 24 overs), and Finn took two (2-65 in 22 overs). But neither did enough to overhaul Bresnan ahead of the South Africa series.
All three bowlers were under pressure coming in to the game. Bresnan was looking over his shoulder at the other two, while both Finn and Onions faced comparisons, not only with each other, but also with the two men not playing – James Anderson, and Stuart Broad, two bowlers at the peak of their powers and hard acts to follow.
And, well, as Onions and Finn bowled, the absence of England's most gifted swing bowlers meant the attack lacked a certain flair.
The absence was also felt in the slip cordon, where Ian Bell took the place of James Anderson at third slip, and spilled regulation catches off both Onions - when Barath had made 4 - and Finn - with Barath on 40. The marvellous Anderson would have snaffled either catch with ease.
Onions bowled a tight line all day, attacking the stumps, and nipping the ball both ways off the seam. He has not played for England since January 2010 and has battled back from a career-threatening back injury, but showed few signs of nerves. The most enjoyable cricket of the day was his duel with Marlon Samuels, who batted sublimely.
Samuels managed to wind up Onions to the extent that he began to chunter at the batsman and indulged in staring battles, something a bowler rarely wins because he must eventually turn his back. This type of banter is counter-productive against Samuels as it merely stirs his competitive juices. A better policy would be to ignore him altogether.
When he reached his fifty, Samuels celebrated by pointing his bat straight at Onions as though to acknowledge his motivational powers. It was provocative, but also clownlike and funny.
Onions' three wickets all came as a result of his superb tight line. Barath (41) was lbw to one that nipped back, the left-handed Deonarine (7) nicked a ball angled across him into Five commentator Geoffrey Boycott's famous corridor of uncertainty, and Narine was bowled by a ball arrowed in at his off stump.
Finn was the quickest of the three seamers, his fastest ball being the first delivery he bowled to Samuels, which was timed at 91.5mph. His average speeds were in the high eighties, a good yard quicker than Onions. He extracted more bounce than his rival, but he bowled several half volleys which cost boundaries.
Finn tried so hard to get close to the stumps that his right knee knocked the bails off at least 15 times. His first wicket of Bravo (7) was a gift, poked lamely back to the bowler, but his second wicket, Sammy (16) was well-earned. Strauss had dropped Sammy off the Middlesex paceman the previous ball, but Finn produced another fast, rising ball to find the edge again and this time Strauss caught it. The captain was so relieved that he nearly decapitated Swann, at 2nd slip, by hurling the ball aside wildly.
But, despite the efforts of Finn and Onions, Bresnan was quietly going about his business and cementing his status. His fastest ball was a good two yards slower than Finn's, but he still managed to pick up the wicket of Fudadin with the most vicious, well-directed bouncer of the day, rearing up at the batsman's throat and fended off to Bell at slip. He may be a tad slower than Finn, or Onions, but there's a lot of beef behind the Bresnan short ball.
Bresnan also picked up the wickets of Powell, the first breakthrough of the day, to an edge, and most significantly, Samuels, who had not looked like getting out. Bresnan dismissed him lbw with one that he slanted in from wide of the crease. It was a fractional decision as the ball was only just on the line of off stump.
Bresnan's dismissal of the West Indies' best batsman meant he had done more than enough to see off his rivals' challenges.


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Window Tint Removal and Bumper Sticker Removal
Oh Fall... when thoughts of newly released cars enter our heads. If only we could make our old car look better so we could get a better trade-in! One of the ways to make your car more appealing to a prospective buyer is to remove that nasty looking, baked-on window tint. And while grandma might be proud that little Joe is a STAR student at WhatChaCallIt Elementary, a possible buyer of your car might not be so impressed by this bumper sticker. Likewise, let's just say that you have purchased a pre-owned motorcycyle... you know, one of those fast looking ones. Did you know you can change alot of the graphics and give that bike a whole new look? No expensive painting required! You can easily remove old window tint and film along with those bumper stickers and decals by using a Jiffy Steamer. This process is fairly simple and very effective.
Things you'll need:
- Jiffy Steamer
- Bottle of ammonia or window cleaner in a plastic spray bottle
- Rags or heavy-duty paper towels
- Tweezers or needle-nose pliers
- Let the car sit in the sun for a few hours to heat those windows up before starting this project. Roll down the side windows when you start so steam does not build up inside the car.
- Start with one of the small side windows in the back seat until you feel comfortable with the task. Start with one corner of the window film tint.
- Hold the steamer about 1 inch away from the corner and steam the area for several minutes to loosen the adhesive that glues the tint to the window. Be careful to not steam your hand. You may want to use some sort of protective mitt. Use the tweezers or pliers to peel back the corner of the film, pulling gently as you continue to apply steam to the larger area of film. Contuinue slowly waving the steam over the film, pulling gently and slowly so that the entire films peels off in one piece.
- Repeat this process for all windows.
- Spray the ammonia on the stripped windows. Wipe with rags or paper towels to remove the residual glue left behind from the film.
You can use any type of Jiffy Steamer to remove window tint however if you have a big job the most effective hose attachment is the "W" style hose. This particular style hose attachment allows you to direct steam at specific points in a more concentrated flow of steam. If you already own a Jiffy Steamer, you need only to have this hose attachment. If you are looking to purchase a multi-use Jiffy Steamer, this type of head is also available on the Jiffy Steamer Interchangeable or "I" models of the Jiffy Steamer. Either way, you'll come out looking like a pro.


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Ozzie Guillen blames Madonna for A-Rod's downfall
Ozzie Guillen, being the sly jokester that he is, decided to connect the downfall of Alex Rodriguez back to Madonna. Here's what he tweeted on Monday: its all madonnas fault. every athlete she has been with has gone bad. see canseco, rodman and now rodriguez lol lol lol— Ozzie Guillen FND (@OzzieGuillen) August 05, 2013…Read More


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An article from Xinhua discusses writing in Zhuang. The Zhuang, China's largest "national minority" group, live mainly in Guangxi. Their language is written with the Roman alphabet.
The first paragraph discusses a prize for literature in Zhuang. One of the winners was a folk song, the other a novella. While I have nothing against folk songs, I find the novella potentially far more interesting as it wouldn't necessarily fit within the framework of what multiculturalism has come to be in today's China: "We love minorities as long as they wear colorful costumes, have some songs and dances, bring in tourists, and don't spout other than the Party line." (It wasn't always so. In the period just after the 1949 revolution, the Communist authorities initially worked to give real support to minority groups — to the extent of registering many people as Zhuang who insisted that, no, they were Han!)
The novella, though, has a rather folksy title, Shorty A-he, so it may be just more in the colorful, old-fashioned-countryside-folk mode. Although there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I hope there's more to Zhuang literature than this. Otherwise, it's going to end up a museum piece.
source: Shǒujiè Zhuàngwén wénxué jiǎng jiēxiǎo Zhuàngyǔ pǔjí dāchéng yìshù kuàichē, (????????????????????), Xinhua, November 4, 2005.


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Meet Sunder, Animal Rahat's New Elephant Patient
As you may know, Animal Rahat veterinarians have been treating two sorely neglected elephants: Ram Prasad, who belongs to some stubborn and insensitive temple trustees and is used for ceremonial purposes, and Gajraj, an older tusker. As of last month, thanks to the team's diligence, they have now taken on a new elephant patient named Sunder, a very sad case indeed.
Sunder is 13 years old, a young juvenile boy, and has spent the past six years chained inside a dismal shed at a temple in Kolhapur. His previous mahout (handler) grossly abused him, and Sunder bears the scars to prove it. He now has a new mahout, with whom the Animal Rahat vets have made it a top priority to try to develop a good rapport, but the mahout, believe it or not, is afraid of Sunder and has never taken him off the chains, not even for a walk.
The temple authorities resisted giving the Rahat team access to Sunder, but they were able to succeed through a combination of Dr. Sudheesh's impressive military credentials and because one of Animal Rahat's ambulance drivers is related to a priest in the temple. It's all who you know!
After examining Sunder, Rahat's vets determined that he was anemic and dehydrated and has proptosis (bulging) of one of his eyes, probably because of head trauma, most likely from being severely beaten for being mischievous as a youngster. Thanks to the support of caring people like you, there is hope for the first time ever for Sunder, and time is of the essence. If Animal Rahat does not get him proper care now, he will suffer unimaginably when he goes into musth (breeding rage). Vets have embarked on a solid plan to improve Sunder's living conditions—the immediate priorities are to get him out of his dark and damp enclosure, establish a decent watering system, get the mahout to walk him daily, and improve the amount and quality of his food. What Animal Rahat will ultimately try to do is get him away from there, but that mountain is a high one to climb.
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It was really disheartening to hear about sunder being kept captive ina dark room and chained all the time …… just cant imagine a life like that for anyone.. i really wish animal rahat succeeds in getting him away from the temple ..
lesley ish
Is there anybody I can write to and perhaps get others people to write to to get this elephant freed.?
Wh owns the elephant and who owns the temple – can we not put pressure on his owners to release him to an elephant reserve?
There is an Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee.
Liliana Cervini
Please, help Sunder quickly, don't wait anymore.
mary arthur
Please love him and help him. None else has.
Please post the latest updates regarding Sunder. How is he? Has he been rescued from his pathetic living conditions? How far along are Animal Rahat in their plan?
bibi skripec
Why cant finally the human being understand that we cant treat animals like our slaves.
Fur, met, entertainment. This is not right. Animals have feelings. Feel joy, pain and
suffer like us. I cant understand this how the human being (not all) dont care about animals.
They only care what is on there plate. This must stop but when….poor animals around the world…a child can speek…but an animal cant never complain….that is the difference. That is why it is important to support the animal organisations like PETA.
Please keep us posted about Sunder's condition. It's really sad to know that such a miserable treatment was handed out to a noble animal like this.
Jacqueline Genova
It is such a sad story and I hope that poor Sunder finds his way to the reserve and out of the cruel environment that he is experiencine.
J. Wolski
Are tourists and visitors to the temple aware that SUNDER is being abused by the temple? If I knew that I would not want to go to that temple for any reason. Please keep exposing the temple and its systematic torture of SUNDER. If enough people find out than maybe it will decrease the temple's financial bottom line…that seems to be the only way to secure SUNDER'S release from the TEMPLE OF TERROR. There is no excuse as there are people ready and willing to take him to a sanctuary. You cannot appeal to their moral code as they do not have one so appeal to their financial bottom line.
Ayudemos a este pobre elefante a recuperar una vida digna. No podemos quedarnos de brazos cruzados.
After reading Sunder's distressing story I am delighted that progress is being
made to improve his life by Animal Rahat but his emotional scars will be deep
I feel that his only hope of rehabilitation would be a complete change of environment
and integration with other elephants in a sanctuary where he can roam free. I agree with
J. Wolski that tourists should not visit these temples where elephants are being abused
and the abusers should be put on trial for the horrors which have been inflicted.
Barry Kybird
Are elephants ram pasad and gajraj also being placed in a sanctuary ? Surely they cannot be left in the same situation as sunder enduring the same physical and mental torture every day !!
Anymore information on them all ?
Hi Barry, I guess we will have to follow up and see what happens. I am glad Paul McCartney brought this to the world's attention but we don't have his connections. At least many more of us are aware now about how these temple elephants are treated.
Thank you for the article. I am so saddened to think that an animal would be treated like that at a temple. Thank you Mr. McCartney.
Barry Kybird
When WILL I be able to hear that dear Sunder is in the sanctuary ?
There doesnt seem to be any confirmation of this yet ?
Barry Kybird
Received the ewes from PETA uk and PETA India that influential local temple people still refuse to allow Sunder to go to a sanctuary !. A ministerial order was given to free him, how can this be overridden by these people that keep him in spiked chains, hardly able to move or ever lie down !
I hope Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson know about this latest news and are able to effect his release ?
Lyn Flanders
Dreadful dreadful life for this poor soul so far! I am a supporter of Boon Lotts Elephant Sanctuary in Thailand where the elephants have a WONDERFUL LIFE! opposite of this poor boy!! PLEASE HELP HIM! This is TORTURE!!
Brunila De SOuza
Please save Sunder. May Lord Buddha send his heavenly help and help PETA and ANIMAL Rahat to help release Sunder and provide him a decent life. All religious institutions should be banned from keeping elephants as they ill treat them.
Brunila Goa India
1-10-2013 3 pm.
Dorothy Beechers
This poor elephants life at the hands of abusive mahouts/keepers, is disgusting.
Sunder was give to this temple, as i thought a symbol of the religion and culture of India.
But no sadly all this poor inocent elephant has had to endure is a life of sadistic abuse.
Please Animal Rahat get Sunder out of there, as soon as possible.
Brunila D Souza
Please save SUnder. Elephants should not be kept by Temple authorities since they ill treat them
Kristel Carol Mercado
How ironic. The temple people should stopped this cruelty why didn't they do anything? For 6 years chained and beaten? Wow I can't even imagine how to live like that. Surely Sunder would be more than happy to die. How can humans treat these gentle animals so cruelly?
ann naumann
Please free this beautiful soul! He has suffered enough and we need to show him that not all humans are abusive…………..
Renee Miranda
I'm so angry at how Sunder has been treated, and as much as I try to understand I can't. I can't understand why she/he is being abused and hit over and over again. How can that person live with themselves knowing what they are doing. This is a very special animal and needs love and care from someone that want's her recovery to be first and foremost. The person beating him/her needs to go to jail. I know that laws are different in other countries, but he still needs to go to jail for the abuse. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BEAT AND ABUSE ANY ANIMALS…AND THAT MEANS NO ONE. Please do something now, bring her/him to USA. I know it would be costly but we can raise the money if we want to..and I would defiantly help. Now I'm crying, because it is so painful for me to see this video…Sunder must be freed! PLEASE DO SOMETHING NOW…
Nicola Fowler
Haven't stopped having anxiety about this elephant for the last 2 days (when I 1st read about him) What can we do seriously because although I have signed a petition in all honesty what will that do really. Action needs to be taken because every day you take trying to decide how to help that poor animal is spending another 24 hours in hell I honestly don't see why the elephant can't just be taken and put some where it can be happy. I wish I had money because I would be on the next plane out there, or a celebrity because if you can get celebrities to highlight this and get it into the media more than maybe something will be done quicker, seriously what can I do to help because I literally can't sleep at night atm because it's all I think about xx
Subrata Roy
It is the human who can do anything with other's life only. I think the word ' inhuman ' is remain in dictionary only . Please release him .
It's really sad to see the plight of the dear elephant Sunder and his sufferrings all these 6 years. What is the point in running a temple when it's very own elephant is ill treated and tortured. I pray god to get Sunder freed from the clutches of his torturers and to punish those who are involved in torturing the poor animal.
elizabeth peters
After reading that animal Rahat team is looking after,I am slightly at peace otherwise I can't eat our sleep worrying about sunders out come on 23 Dec. Plz get him out of these chains, give him love which he did not get, giv his mahout good remuneration so that he works well. Free sunder plz…..why should he be dehydrated. Even basic Care has been denied to him. So called temple authorities, why did they not stop his abuse. His caretakers should be punished. This is India, land of Ganesha
Gillian Gorfil
High time no elephants were kept in captivity. Shame on India for allowing this disgraceful case of abuse. Send Sunder to a life of freedom and comfort in a sanctuary now.
Lisa Gibbs
Sunder has waited over a year. He is now down on the ground still being beaten and not fed nor cared for in dark cell. come on People show some compassion. We the people need to raise the bar on what is acceptable. 24/7 chained in one spot with no daylight and poor nutrition beaten and now he has to wait. Wait for what? His ultimate retreat to death?In what world can this be acceptable? culture religion no matter .Decency and humanity towards all living things. someone has to recue him time is not his friend
Richa Garg
Please confirm the location of Sunder. I am very concerned on his health. Also advise what we need to do to support the cause.
It brings me to tears when reading any abuse on a animal. It's all from the hands of humans. It's an outrage and disgusting . I keep hearing they are freeing sunder but nothing has happened yet. Every second wasted is another day of abuse for this poor elephant. He deserves to be in a sanctuary and have a normal life. Not a life of abuse and be used for entertainment!!
This is not right, this is not acceptable. Animals do not need to be starved, beaten or abused. How can we help? Who can we contact to stop the abuse? Are people not aware that the way things are going elephants will be extinct? Help us and guide us on to whom we can contact to keep up pressure on this abuse. This animal does not deserve to be punished repeatedly. Can not the animal be sent to somewhere that he would flourish? Perhaps a childrens hospital where they can love the animal.. Surely there is a much better home for Sunder.
Pamela Kaczynski
I have never met Sunder but I love him and want the very best for him.It is terrible that his last mahout abused him so terribly that his new mahout is scared of him. If you treat an elephant with compassion and respect the elephant will know that and cooperate with his mahout.Animal Rahat must CONTINUE giving him proper care. Animal Rahat MUST get him out of there no matter how high the mountain. Of all the abused elephants out there Sunder has a special place in my heart because he was all alone being abused so badly. You must get the new mahout to not be afraid of Sunder. He must get out of his chains ,walked daily,and get the medical treatment he deserves. Also use a reward system with him…he does something good…give him his favorite food…whatever that may be. If elephants are treated humanely they WILL co-operate. I pray for you every day Sunder and hope you get moved to the Sanctuary in Bangalore as soon as possible.
Deborah McArdle
Sunder needs to be placed in the habitat in Bangalore right away. Please no more stalling to get this beautiful animal out of his misery. This is unbearable!
Nanette Valencia
These cowards who beat a chained animal don't deseve to have him. They only bring suffering and that is no way for an animal to live. These people are incredibly stupid. I pray that the right and moral thing is done to help this beautiful animal.
Sylvia Browning
Lord have mercy on Sunder. Let him be freed and cared for!
Bring cruel owners to justice.
Christi Lewing
Thank God something is being done. We are all God's creatures and someone will pay dearly for his abuse. With tears abundant I pray for Sunder. I can't seem to think of anythong else.
He needs to be in a proper sanctuary, with space to roam, good veterinary care and other elephants to bond with. Same for any other elephants being similarly abused. The abusers should be caught and punished.
Please release this poor young elephant before even more damage is done and well before he goes into musth. Please the world is watching, please!
joy hamilton
please please free sunder please please please free sunder
carol foley
Please help this tortured little soul. He is one of GODS creatures and was not put on earth to be treated this way, or to be a slave to the temple. If they believe in God they would not treat him and torture him like they do anyway. Please help him.
Lisa DeMetz
PLEASE move Sunder to a sanctuary!!! He does not deserve what these monsters are doing to him!!! How are these monsters getting away with not honoring Court Orders???!!! This beautiful defenseless innocent elephant should have the life he deserve – roaming the free land the way God intended!!!
Isn't Temple supposed to be God's home where every God creation souls should feel safe & peaceful? Being ir human or animals?? Sunder should be transported out from India where he will be treated with love & care. Those involved in making this boy suffer for 6 years should be punished as a warning to them & also others!!
Please free this inocent baby from his cruel jail warden.
Pamela Miller
I know there are many people and organizations trying to help Sunder. I want to do anything I can to help also.I have signed all the petitions I have seen to have him released as ordered by the proper authorities. I am only one individual living in the US, but if I can write to anyone or any organization or call or email please just tell me who and I will. I know there are other elephants who suffer also, but Sunder has captured my heart. I cry thinking of his torment. Knowing he should be safe and yet will not be released makes it even worse. Anyone with suggestions please get back to me.
Linda macdonald
Please set sunder free from this brutality
I've just learned of this horrific abuse of Sumder my heart breaks.
I'm praying for his release. Please listen to the people pleas
Linda macdonald
I'm sorry I have a typo on my comment Sunder of
Marie Hill
with all this proof and great supporters, Sunder has hope i believe he will finally get to be an elephant and bath and roam and be with other elephants an elephant never forgets and he knows people are there to help they are very smart
Marie Hill
with all this proof and great supporters, Sunder has hope i believe he will finally get to be an elephant and bath and roam and be with other elephants . elephant never forgets and he knows people are there to help they are very smart , Sunder has a spot in .. heart and i would love to go visit him when h gets to his sanctuary… think positive….that can be the only outcome. Freedom and happiness.. no more pain an fear
Carol Foley
Dear Sir, I am writing on behalf of Sudar the elephant and his cruel treatment.I beg you to release him, he needs to be free. He is one of Gods creatures and you cannot allow this cruel treatment to go on. Please release him.m
Sherry Hasha
Please let this majestic animal move on to freedom!! No animal should be beaten and abused!!! I implore you to give him the freedom he deserves so much, Thank you!!!!
Sandra Trommer
I was shocked and in disbelief to hear the plight of this poor elephant, something must be done to help Sunder NOW!!!
Sandra Hannum
What else can we do to help? We read and sign petitions but it doesn't seem to be working.
Tell us what we can do!
Hope Peterson
Its March 26th 2014 and I just read a story on Yahoo news that Sundar is still in the same horrible place – WHY??? I thought Paul McCartney was going to see that this elephant gets moved to a better place with a better care taker!! I'm mad!! Please take action ASAP and get him out of there
I am sick reading this article and I hope it does not stop here with just supplying us with information. Will this elephant and other elephants be rescued, and if so, what is the current status?
What can we do to help? I hope the animal organizations I contribute to are involved and don't drop the ball.
I just read about Sunder, the abused elephant, you saw on your trip to India in 2012. You wanted to help by placing Sunder in a sanctuary. I just read that never happened. Instead, Sunder is still being mistreated and is now chained in a chicken shack and beaten. Sunder has no shelter from the heat or cold and is unable to lie down. I'm sure you meant to follow through and that this will be a horrendous omission to you but I know you can do something about it now. It's never too late, and it's just so sad.
Judy Genandt
Please, more information about this poor abused animal. Who can we contact to demand a release from these horrific conditions and give Sunder a new life?
Please, please, please help Sunder.
Kevin Price
Please free this poor creature…no person or animal deserves this kind of treatment!
Ramsey Llewellyn
It is unbelievable that a human person could mistreat an animal like this. I wish someone with enough money to buy this poorly treated elephant would buy him and have him transferred to an animal sanctuary. Maybe PETA could start an online campaign for funds to do this. The appropriate authorities in India should also be notified again and the elephants owner should be thrown in jail.
I read this yesterday and it has been on my heart ever since!!!!! What can WE do NOW to help poor Sunder? This is just unbelievable!!! I agree with one of the other comments, is there not SOMEONE we can right to, petition to, etc. to get this moving NOW!!!! This poor elephant deserves so much more!!!! Please let us know NOW!!!!
Can we take off some of the chains so he can lay down. Sheesh.
Please give this poor animal freedom and kindness that he deserves. Hope to see an update fast. Enough already !
never in my life would i sit blindly by and watch or have information to any of Gods creations to be neglected or abused,wth is wrong with people!God tells us that he created all creatures great and small with love,and expects us as the higher so called intelligent ones to care for any animal we take claim of they are to be fed watered see the sunlight feel loved,how anyone can condone these abusive actions at the owners hands is a free trip to hell,and may God forgive them all come judgement day.Surely there is something or someone whom can intervene on this poor sad creature,I mean I donate every month for the survival and care for homeless and abuse animals,someone needs to step up to the plate here and rescue this animal and set him free.may God forgive all of you.SHAME ON YOU!!!!
A bulging eye from being beaten-really.someone should beat that handler!!!!!
happy to hear sunder in good hands now… so sad to know what happened to sunder before
The people of India are animals. PETA INDIA should have fixed this problem but the goverment is a dumb 3rd world group of animals. If I was down the street I would burn that temple to the ground and shoot all those animal abusers! WAKE UP INDIA and fix your dirty laundry!
Gwen Pursell
Please, please, please, help Sunder!
Kevin Haskins
This elephant must live a normal life as we all wish to live. The cruelty must stop and all people of this world must pull together make this happen. This animal needs us.
El Cambridge
He was severely beaten and it caused a head trauma because he was mischevious as a youngster? That's abuse. As of December 2013, there is video footage of Sunder being chained with spikes so he can't move, he is beaten repeatedly until he cries out in pain, he is emaciated. Is this how you are helping him? You say that his mahout is afraid of him. Well, on Youtube there is a picture of his mahout beating him with a pole while Sunder lies on the ground and writhes and cries out in pain. The perpetrators of the abuse – Hayder, Vinay Kore and the Joytiba Temple are in violation of the Animal Welfare Act 1972 – and therefore should be prosecuted under the Act. What Sunder needs is to get away from all of you for you are the cause of his misery. Release him to the sanctuary.
In 2012 Sir Paul McCartney made agreements with Maharashtra State's forest department and Project Elephant,to move an elephant by the name of Sunder to a sanctuary after Sunder had been repeatedly beaten and mistreated in one of Maharashtra's holy temples for six years. The agreement was not kept. Instead, Vinay Kore, a local member of the legislative assembly, who gave Sunder to the temple had him transferred to a dirty chicken shed where he continues to be chained and beaten.
Although in January, 2014 both Minister Kadam and the High Court of Bombay have ordered that Sunder be transferred to a sanctuary, Sunder still remains in the hands of his abusers who chain him so he can't walk beat him with a thick wooden pole as he writhes and cries out in pain. Officials are in disobedience to this ruling indicating they have no respect for the laws of India only their own. There is documentation to prove that Sunder is being starved and beaten.
This is a dirty stain upon India's reputation in the world. I have seen a film where elephants are kept in sheds by beggars and are starved and mistreated
while beggars use them to get money from tourists. Elephants are icons of India. You have a god who has the head of an elephant. This god has been shamed by the actions of the people who abuse him and deceive the courts. They have shamed India in their treatment of Sunder and other elephants. People go to India to see the elephants. They are ashamed to go and witness the cruelty against these gentle creatures.
I will boycott India and all Indian products in my country and encourage others to do the same until Sunder is released to the sanctuary where he is able to live out his live in peace and safety and the people who tortured him and lied to the courts to keep him in chains are brought to justice.
This is the saddest story that I have ever read. Sunder has to be helped!! To be chained like the story reads is just horrible!! Please do whatever it takes to give him a life back before he dies!!
Jo Smith
Shocking, shocking story. Brings shame on India and the Hindu religion. Release him NOW.
Where is SUNDER?
News reports say he is being kept chained up outside a politicians hut.
29th March 2014.
Free Sunder.com website will be up soon. I am going to raise money to purchase Sunder and place him in a sanctuary. The good people of this world can free Sunder. I am a simple person, not a star but I cannot stand by and do nothing.
Thank you for caring!
marie riley
So WHAT has Rahat done in the last 2 years , since Sunder is living under ever more appalling conditions since its intervention? A video on line shows him being chained so that he cannot sleep and being severely beaten. NOW. This is March 2014!
I read article about Sunder, the elephant on Yahoo News, 28 March, 2014 and saw a video how he was cruelly abused by barbaric handlers who hit him such a force with a big stick that gave me a sleepless night. It is so sad to hear that Sir Paul McCartney protested to release the animal, however after more than one year; the abuse seems to be the same. Aren't there any professional volunteers who can help to train rather the handlers than Sunder? Aren't there any handlers who can train the animals with love as well? It is said that Sunder is stubborn. Who would like to listen to the handlers after he had been mistreated with misery so many years at the first temple? Need time to heal but what he received was more abuse. It is natural that trust cannot be established between Sunder and the handlers. Then this horrible local politician, Vinay Kore is a coward to comment to the world criticism. I hope there are many righteous Hindu people who can be any help to alleviate that misery not only Sunder, but all other elephants kept in temples.
Hope Sir McCartney hears updated information from time to time about Sunder and he can perhaps sponsor for volunteer trainees to be send from such as Tusk Foundation? I understand he is rich enough to sponsors Sumo Wrestling.
Please help Sunder! This is so heartbreaking. Please, something must be done, and soon for this poor creature. Hare Krishna
Amalia Wasserman
Please get Sunder into decent and healthy living conditions as soon possible.
pamela saavedra
Please, sign this petition to help Sunder.
This article is two years old. What has your organization done recently for the three elephants? Sunder's tragic story is being published by the media right now. Unfortunately, his situation is deplorable. He needs to be moved to a sanctuary immediately. I have tweeted to several animal loving celebrities about Sunder and his suffering. PLEASE SHARE AND HELP!!! We cannot allow Sunder, Ram Prasad, Gajraj and many more to continue suffering such agony. They deserve peaceful life.
This is unacceptable that he is still in that horriffic place. PPl need to do something NOW. He deserves a better life
Anger & raged is what I feel. Since learning about Sunder he is in my thoughts & prayers daily. Through out the day I mention him to people & ask them to help. His abusers need punishment. Can't imagine what the point is to abuse this elephant or any other animal. The damage physically, psychologically, emotionally, & so on….I hope that if he gets to a sanctuary that he can rehabilitate. Over 2500 days in that kind of situation, would love to see his abusers suffer like he has for that many days. FREE SUNDER!!!!!!!
queenie costax
We need for all to contact their local I ndian embassy to free Sunder. I have boycotted my trip to india this summer due to the disgrace that India has for its elephants.
Please help this poor thing. No creature deserves to suffer like this. Just makes me so sad. I want to help!?
Holly Brookman
Help Sunder!!!!! He deserves love and patience
I would like you to release the elephant immediately and put him to live on a sanctuary with other elephants
If the temple needs him, they can call him for religious and cultural events and so on
Alex Mejia
Will you kindly support our petition on CARE2 for Sunder?
JoAnn Donato
Sign every petition, tweet to celebrities, write the embassy, do whatever you can..Go to Free Sunder FB page and see what you can do. We need to get him out of these deplorable conditions and into a safe sanctuary where he can be cared for properly. This is no way to treat any animal. It is inhumane, cruel, barbaric and a disgrace. WE need to all do whatever we can…FREE SUNDER…
Jennifer Baker
God bless this helpless mammal. He deserves a life in nature, unchained. He has suffered enough…please help him get away from the heartless people who would do this to such a majestic creature. Bless Sunder, in Jesus Christ's Holy name, I pray for Sunder's freedom.
David P. French
I pray for Sunder every night. Why can't Buffet, Gates or Zuckerberg, step up to the plate and save this noble beast. Elephants are sensitive and social and they grieve. This is so sad.
laurel mancini
Ganesha does not like his fellow creatures to be mistreated. Of course Sunder was mischievous as a child – all children can be. But that does not call for beating, which teaches nothing. Hand signals and verbal commands are much better. If one must have an elephant. Otherwise, leave it alone.
His owner should be brought to justice on animal abuse and giving Indian Hindus a Bad Name in the U.S and world. Shame on such low person. You guys with India Peta should have a YOUTUBE COMMERCIAL CHANNEL OPEN to do a Video clips and updates on these animal abuses.
Dallas,TEXAS USA
Fran MacLain
Please go on line and get all the email addresses of the people who can help. I google has Sunder been freed and find email address for the law enforcement agency and the sanctuary that is suppposed to take Sunder. I read the other day that it will take 2-4 weeks to remove Sunder…. that is unacceptable – we went to the moon in 3 days, why can't we move Sunder immediately.
Google the names of the people who can help facilitate Sunders freedom and keep emailing until Sunder is free. I also emailed the India embassy in Washington D.C. and asked for their help. Keep sending emails until we see Sunder in the sanctuary.
I also requested that someone be placed with Sunder 24/7 to keep him from continual abuse.Until Sunder is in the sanctuary and free from his tormentors we have not completed our mission to have him freed.
kunal kumar
This is is brutal behaviour. I cant believe that any human can behave like that with an animal Plz make sure that these people should be punished properly. Please help sunder,, treat him properly and love him.
IT IS NOW APRIL 15, 2014 and SUNDER IS STILL CHAINED and STILL BEING ABUSED!
how can we free this poor elephant and help him?! please let us know!
Lsa Griffin
I hope this is truth. Im ready to fly there, I am vet tech if u need me my free services please contact me..why is he in chains??? Ive worked with elephants they do not need them not even a bull in heat. Why is he not at sanctuary Head trauma? Then press charges I will start petition..seeing there is a live video..or eye for an eye..tusk for tusk
Lsa Griffin
2 years ago and he is still in abusers hands. Get your shit together get him to a sanctuary..HEAD TRAUMA?? Why is the man on video (live video) not behind bars? I will a start a petition this bullshit
This just keeps dragging on and on. That poor elephant! What they've done to him is nothing short of evil! Someone needs to step in and do something for him NOW!
sunder is due to be released by forest dept before June 1 st monsoon season to a sanctuary and after serving his mahout court papers for ownership we donot know where he is an he needs medical attention ASAP! can u please visit forest dept and post a medical report ASAP????? This elephants death will lay heavy on India and anyone ever in contact with him that didn't try to help a helpless animal!!! If it was you wouldn't you want ppl helping not leaving you or ignoring issue?
Time to stop waiting for slobs who obviously have no intention of following through. Get a SWAT team, fly over, simply cut the chains and free Sunder while the team guards him, then fly him out!
Mary Pudsey
I wish to God I had the money to buy this elephant out of this miserable place. I would not hesitate-money is a great lever, and would be the means to a great end of suffering for this poor boy.
Ginger Dickson
Please get this elephant to a sanctuary.
JoEllen Coryell
Please remove Sunder from those vile conditions and get him a handler who isn't afraid of him. WHY IS HE STILL IN CHAINS???? For God's sake he should be away from those evil monsters by now. PLEASE GIVE US AN UPDATE ON HIS WHEREABOUTS. THIS IS TAKING FAR TOO LONG. PLEASE ANSWER!!
Joellen…Sunder has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility on June 6, 2014. Yay!!!
Jeannie Frangione
I find it unconscionable that anyone in a temple that allows/condones the abuse of any animal can claim that they are a "priest"!!! They are all nothing short of cruel, wicked, heartless, selfish people who should never be allowed the privilege of owning such magnificent creatures. The fact that they "resisted giving the Rahat team access to Sunder" means that THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG, and those so called "priests" apparently don't want the rest of the word to see the abuse THEY HAVE ALLOWED!!! Every one of them should have to endure the exact, same abuse the have inflicted on Sunder! May they all be beaten & chained for the rest of their lives, and then go straight to HELL!!!
theresa kaul
please know that this still isn't enough for Sunder….please give him a home in a sanctuary…this is very heartbreaking to me.
Nicola Richardson
Sunder is supposed to have been moved as ordered by the courts to WRCC, but this still has not happened ….even to this very day – he is being abused. It appears and this is my own speculation that the authority who gave Sunder as a gift is preventing the shift to SAVE FACE. Regarding Sunder and his condition, physically he is loosing the battle, emotionally – I can not even imagine what he is going to do with his rage against the human race …. we have damaged him and taught him to HATE. More people please support Sunder – all contact information is available on Facebook – at FREE SUNDER NOW.
Thank you.
Just to update everyone.
Sunder has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility on June 6, 2014. Yay!!!
Janet Cope
Thank God Sunder is away from those monsters at the temple. That is unacceptble to treat an animal that bad. These people are monsters and need beat themselves and lay in pain just like poor Sunder did. Get these monsters and punish them.
Janet Cope
Thank God Sunder is away from those monsters at the temple. That is unacceptble to treat an animal that bad. These people are monsters and need beat themselves and lay in pain just like poor Sunder did. Get these monsters and punish them.
all the best….SUNDAR',,,,,,,,,,,
S Premkumar
Sad – and we hindus have the audacity to claim our religion forbids violance. Curses on jotiba temple & the rascals who run it
I actually hate so many people !!!! How could anyone do this , so disgusting , I would die to save an animal , who ever does this to any animal I will kindly bash them liel they did see how they like it . Why is our world full of greedy , ugly , demons I wish our world was in peace and animals were happy with ther families . Human race had screwed everyone up and the new inventions of technology which become globalised . We are destroying our world and the beautiful things in it that can create a good relationship with . Far out I'm so angry !!!'nnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!! Stuff you owner
Please can't we bring him to the san diego santuary he would be happy there with other elephants love you sunder may god be with you! and be safe
Thank you Animal Rahat for helping the helpless . We people need to implore our representatives in Parliament to make legislation condemning animal abuse with appropriate punishment. Like cut the hands off shark fin fisheries participants .
A temple , a place of refuge, of peace, of comfort .to be associated with such a disgraceful history of animal abuse . Oh India , you need to find an elephant whisperer . Someone to help handlers understand their elephants and nurture them


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This is more if a newbie question but would appreciate the help. I am new to Juniper and trying to setup a pretty simple network. I am using a SSG-5 and trying to be able to have a DMZ setup so it will be able to use a private IP address that points to a public IP address that users will access from the untrusted zone. For example:
I have eth0/0 setup for untrusted with the ip of 22.214.171.124 and the ip address that needs to be accesed by users is 188.8.131.52 (This IP is the address of a load balancer service) The load balancer will then forward this traffic to IIS servers in the range of (192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255)
My goal would be to have the DMZ setup with a private IP address that forwards all traffic for 22.214.171.124 to the Load balancer, any suggestions?
Thanks again for take the time to read/assist!
It sounds like you would just create a DMZ with whatever private address you want for the inbound connection of the load balancer. You assign the private address to the load balancer and the default gateway ip to the firewall DMZ interface.
Then use destination nat to forward the public address to the load balancer input.
I assume the output port of the load balancer would go directly to the subnet with the destination servers in your example.


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Alamogordo Public Schools is pleased to announce our second "Start with the Arts Week" celebration in our schools.
The arts are central to the learning of our students, and our staff and parents are interested in providing opportunities for our students to participate and experience art in their schools.
Art is represented in many ways. It may be presented or received through a musical experience, visual form or movement/dance. The provision of curricular programs that represent the multiple perspectives and diverse voices of our students must address ways in which these experiences are represented.
Literary, poetic, visual, auditory and choreographic opportunities should be fundamental educational aims. Aesthetic learning and experiences might be represented through choral, vocal or instrumental formats. It might include storytelling and Reader's Theater.
Perhaps drama and improvisation prospects might be utilized. Visual occasions through approaches such as drawing, painting, collage and other methods maybe presented for our students. The choices are many and APS is interested in providing programs for our students that encourages their learning in these varied ways.
This week, each school will be highlighting art experiences in their schools in various ways. Each school will approach this in their own way. For more information, contact your principal.
The final celebration will culminate on Saturday at Alamogordo High School.
Last year, during our first "Start with the Arts Celebration Day," we had phenomenal attendance from parents and community members. Our goal this year is to increase our participation so that more can enjoy the thrilling opportunity to see our children perform and present their heart felt connections to art experience.
Dr. Jann Hunter is director of curriculum and instruction for Alamogordo Public Schools.


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Glen Gulutzan faces a number of adjustments that take time
Each week, Mike Heika answers Stars questions in his e-mail newsletter Inside the Dallas Stars. An excerpt:
I liked your article on the talent on this team. But, can this young coach take this C+ talented team to the Cup Finals? At times, he seems a little confused.
Glen Gulutzan should be fine. It's his first year in the NHL, and he's dealing with a lot of different things. For one, he coached in environments that were pretty quiet (Las Vegas and Austin), so he rarely had people questioning his decisions. Two, he won most of the places he went, and that breeds an environment of trust and positivity.
Now, he's trying to earn trust in an environment where he doesn't have all the right answers, and I think that can be confusing. Everyone I have talked to says Gulutzan is a great coach and he will adapt, but you have to give him time. Remember, he was never an NHL assistant coach, the way that both Ken Hitchcock and Dave Tippett were before they became Stars head coaches. His coaching staff also has very little NHL experience.
It's a process, and he's going through the process.
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by Phil Riley
It's all set for a thrilling finale to the Royal Southern Match Cup 2014, held in association with the RYA and Raymarine, with the four top ranked sailors set to go head-to-head out on The Solent on Sunday.
It's all about tactics!
The sun shone - mostly - and the breeze stayed in for the concluding Round Robin matches followed by the Quarter-Finals. While the pre-regatta favourites progressed to the semis, all were kept on their toes by some determined opposition.
Denmark's Lucas Lier, ranked a hardly shabby 42 in the world, gave Reuben Corbett (ranked 15) a run for his money in their Quarter-Final pairing, taking a win off the New Zealander before losing 3-1.
Meanwhile France's Arthur Herreman (ranked 33), who won last year's Royal Southern Grade 3 event, harried the UK's star match-racer Ian Williams around every inch of the course. Eventually, however, he lost out 3-0 to the four-time World Match Racing Champion.
Australian Keith Swinton (ranked seventh) had a relatively easier passage to the semi-finals, despatching Ireland's Philip Bendon (ranked 36) with some clinical and effective sailing for a 3-0 winning margin.
To study corals in the South China Sea, WHOI scientists set up a makeshift floating lab, strapping wooden planks across plastic tubes.
Star of show, once again, was a confident David Gilmour (ranked 12), who continued his so far unbeaten regatta run with a 3-0 quarter-final victory over Royal Southern Academy member Mark Lees (ranked 29).
The Australian will face Williams in their semi-final showdown tomorrow (Sunday), while his compatriot, Swinton, will have to overcome Corbett to make it an all-Aussie final.
'We're pretty happy with how it's gone so far and not dropping a race,' said Gilmour. 'We don't really think going in to a regatta that we are going to win every race, we just take each race as it comes - it's exactly what we've done and it's just come together for us.
Panerai Transat Classique 2015 - Day four.
'The four teams in the semi-finals are those I expected to make it, so there are no easy teams there. They all have their moments, and with these small boats (J80s) almost anything can happen. We just have to focus on what we are doing. We're happy to race with whoever.'
Williams - who carries with him all non-Antipodean hopes - sounded a more cautious note.
'We had some really nice strong breeze out there and it was great to get the boats going - and progress to the semi-finals.
'With any of the Grade two events when you get to the semi-finals and beyond it gets to be tough and it will be - were going to have to pick our game up for sure.
'Those guys are specialists and go to the regattas with the same crew, whereas I've got a completely different team to the one I was sailing with in Germany last week. We've been learning how to work together a bit better and we'll see if it's going to be good enough (on Sunday).'
The remainder of the 12-strong fleet took part in play-off match races to determine their positions below the semi-finalist. Their final places, in descending order from fifth, were: Lees, Bendon, Lier, Herreman, Ali Hall, Tom Mallandine, Andy Shaw and Annabel Vose.
The Match Cup concludes tomorrow with a Prizegiving.


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The NRTC Research & Training Utilization Award
The National Research & Training Center (NRTC) on Blindness and Low Vision at Mississippi State University has established The NRTC Research & Training Utilization Award. The purpose of this award is to identify and recognize individuals who have used products/information from the NRTC's NIDRR-funded research projects to improve the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired.
Two awards will be offered annually: first place will receive a $500 award and second place will receive a $250 award. The awards will be given to individuals who have used the NRTC's research, training products and activities, or information to provide new or improved services to people who are blind or visually impaired. Selection criteria will be based on applications and practices that have had the most substantial or widest impact on the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired. Award recipients may be featured on the NRTC web site and/or in the NRTC's newsletter. Applications will be accepted at any time, but must be received by May 31, 2013 to be considered for this year's award. Annual review of applications will occur in June, for applications received between June 1 (of the preceding year) and May 31.
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- Winners will be recognized for their contributions and commended for their contributions to the field.
- Improvements in services and research for people who are blind or visually impaired need to be readily available and widely known to as many organizations and people as possible in order to make an impact on the largest number of people with visual impairments.
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- Any rehabilitation service delivery professional that provides services directly to people who are blind or visually impaired.
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- Any person who has used NRTC research in practice or in the conduction of their own research.
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Window Dressing
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On December 30, 2005 @ 12:01 pm In Investing,Trading | Comments Disabled
Jason Goepfert of sentimentrader.com [1] noted the following statistics regarding Window Dressing, i.e., mark ups for the quarter-end (as reported by Rev Shark).
Markups tend to take place in the stocks that have been the best performers during the quarter (all data refer to Q3):
Number of of S&P stocks up more than 20% during the quarter: 35
Number that showed a gain in last three days of quarter: 28
Percentage of stocks that showed a "markup": 80%
Number of S&P stocks down more than 15% in the quarter: 30
Number that showed gains in last three days of quarter: 14
Percentage of stocks that showed a "markup": 47%
So, there is some statistical evidence that strong stocks saw quarter-end markups Q3, while the weaker ones did not.
Where the Markups Are [2]
Rev Shark
RealMon ey.com, 10/5/05 3:21 PM EDT
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I reposted this again on Facebook and Google+ and now on here too, because there are still certain people in this country who need to be hit over the head with this a few more times until they get it. Keep religion out of government and politics!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Trust Not...
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Labels: Politics, Religion, Separation of Church and State
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Monday, October 3, 2011
This was one heck of a concert last Friday evening at the Palms Hotel & Casino. Erasure blew the roof off the place. I've seen Erasure live in concert several times before, and each one was fantastic and elaborate in its own right. But this concert was less show and more about the music. Which was fine by me. The sound mix and accoustics were phenomenal. It always is at the Pearl Concert Theatre inside the Palms.
Andy Bell can belt it out like he did over 20 years ago. And he is singing better than ever. Our little group of friends was dancing, singing and going crazy nonstop. I probably lost 20 pounds by jumping around like a teenager. Who needs a workout? All one needs is a concert like that.
Erasure was amazing!
Here is the concert review from the Las Vegas Sun and more photos:
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Interesting images taken from the press over the weekend.
|Good point indeed. Taken during the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests in New York City.
|I can see how gay marriage can totally mess up this whole traditional marriage value thingy.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Unintelligent Design
I've been asking this question myself many times lately...
via http://joemygod.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
A Not So Laboring Labor Day
We spent a the most wonderful Labor Day weekend with our friends Cobban and his hubby Ray, whom were driving up from Southern Arizona and staying with us for a few days.
We had a great weather, lots of food, a few cocktails and a lot of fun. And we actually accomplished quite a lot of sightseeing. Red Rock Canyon, the Las Vegas Strip, old downtown Las Vegas, a free Howard Jones concert at Fremont Street Experience and Cirque du Soleil's "Love" at the Mirage.
Did I mention that it was one heck of fun weekend?
Below are some impressions.
We had a great weather, lots of food, a few cocktails and a lot of fun. And we actually accomplished quite a lot of sightseeing. Red Rock Canyon, the Las Vegas Strip, old downtown Las Vegas, a free Howard Jones concert at Fremont Street Experience and Cirque du Soleil's "Love" at the Mirage.
Did I mention that it was one heck of fun weekend?
Below are some impressions.
|Cobban, Ray, myself and George at the garden conservatory inside the Bellagio.
|The dancing water fountains of the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip.
|At Red Rock Canyon, just outside Las Vegas, NV.
|The red sandstones of Calico Hills at Red Rock Canyon.
|Red Rock Canyon, just west of Las Vegas, Nevada.
|Ray is educating himself about the natural history at the new visitors center of red Rock Canyon.
|I think George and Cobban should stop growing any taller already.
|Ray, Cobban and I at Red Rock Canyon.
|Cobban is posing as the 'fifth' Beatle at the entrance of Cirque du Soleil's 'Love' at the Mirage. And he is an avid Beatles fan. He really enjoyed the show, which is a feast of amazing visuals and sounds. A must for every Beatles fan.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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A Chihuahua state tribunal this week sentenced a Juárez woman to 18 years in prison in a sex-trafficking case.
Julia Alicia Gonzalez Avila was convicted of human trafficking in the case of four teenage girls who were rescued by Juárez police after one of the girls escaped from captivity on Jan. 20, 2012, the state prosecutor's office said. The girls, ages 15 and 16, were being held at a home on Ramon Aranda street.
Prosecutors said Gonzalez was prostituting the girls and advertising sexual services in newspaper classified ads,


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WELSH RUN - The annual membership meeting of Conococheague Institute, headquartered in Rock Hill Farm, will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 13 in Welsh Barrens Visitors Center, Rock Hill Farm, 12995 Bain Road, Mercersburg.
The meeting is free to members. A potluck membership luncheon and silent auction will be followed by the business meeting, which will include readings and presentations about local events during the French and Indian War era.
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Bridget director takes new aim at Austen
Sharon Maguire, whose debut feature Bridget Jones's Diary this weekend became the biggest UK opener ever, is to direct Mail, a modern-day Jane Austen-style comedy of manners for the UK's Archer Street.
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American Vanilla's flavor is actually not bad, with some of the sweetener aftertaste being offset by the use of a sweet vanilla flavor. That being said, although it also has a bit more coffee flavor to it compared to the other flavored varieties of the brand, it's still not terribly strong. Again, the biggest flaw of this product is the packaging, which features an American flag along with the word "FRENCH" that has been crossed out and replaced with the word "American". We're not sure if this is some sort of nod to the post 9/11 anti-French sentiment or what, but it certainly cheapens the feeling of the product and the entire brand. Overall, a decent flavor that has been undermined by a strange, out-of-date political statement.
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Cat Kalen Introduces Her New Heroine
We were intrigued when RT reviewer Amy raved that Cat Kalen's self-published series first was something special. "Completely different from the other werewolf novels out there, this one's a keeper," she said about Pride's Run. Teen shifter heroine Pride is trapped by a cruel master, but when her life is on the line will this runt of the litter decide that it's time to take control of her life? With this intriguing premise in mind, we went straight to the author to find out just what it is that inspired her heroine.
People have been fascinated by werewolves for years. Pride's Run, the first book in my Wolf's Pride series offers a deeper focus, a situation that seems to have caught the curiosity of readers, especially when they understand these wolves have been confined their whole lives and used as assassins by a cruel drug lord master.
First let me say Pride was an amazing character to write. Her strength of character and survival instincts inspired me, and watching her learn to trust, to believe in herself and use her small size as a strength instead of a weakness had my heart aching for her.
In the beginning of her journey we see the desolate life Pride and the others live; because survival of the fittest applies inside the compound, each wolf is out for themselves. But we see something different in Pride. We instantly begin to care and root for her when she goes without food to feed her aging bunkmates. Only problem is, Pride has to hide the empathy she has for others, because showing compassion in the compound can be used to break her. And Pride refuses to be broken.
When she learns her master intends to breed her with a wolf she despises, she knows she has to run, but running comes with its own obstacles, especially when she joins forces with Logan, the young wolf she was sent to hunt and bring back to her master.
What I love most about Pride is the way she faces obstacles—and she has many to face over the course of the series! I put her in grave dangers, but gave her the inner strength to fight her way out. Even when she makes mistakes, we can forgive her because we know she is young and simply trying the best way she knows how to survive. Her failures as well as her successes help shape her and prepare her for the real world, and watching Logan teach her to trust, to survive in the wild, to live and laugh and most importantly to cry, still tugs on my heartstrings.
Her journey of self discovery is so real, and so emotional, and seeing the world through her eyes was an amazing experience as a writer. As a reader I hope you enjoy Pride's journey and are swept away into her world every bit as much as I was.
- Cat Kalen
You can download your own copy of Pride's Run now and to learn more about the genre be sure to stop by RT's Everything YA Page!


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By Steven Smalley
The final Sunday of the month is upon us this weekend, which means Nikos Gyros, the Greek restaurant in The Village, serves Magnolia in a different way. In addition to their usual menu, Alexandra "Alex" Serpanos, the restaurant's generous owner, dishes up brunch and gives 100% of receipts, including tips, to a community organization. The recipient for April is the Ballard Senior Center, which serves Magnolia, Queen Anne, and Ballard.