Waco Residents Hope Petition Can Save Shelter Pets - Life With Cats

The city of Waco, TX is set to take over the shelter operated by the Humane Society of Central Texas in October, leaving many concerned and upset over the fate of lost, stray and unwanted cats and dogs once the change in management occurs.

At a meeting between city officials and the nonprofit group last week, it was determined that the city would run the facility at 2032 Circle Road as a holding center for stray and seized animals. It will no longer be a shelter and adoption center. The city must hold the animals for up to 72 hours, in keeping with Texas state law, but after that they can be killed.

There is a Change.org petition collecting signatures in an effort to get the city of Waco to take a more humane approach when it assumes control of the shelter. We link to the petition below for anyone who wants to sign and share. There is also a newly created No Kill Waco website, with helpful links to news and the petition, contact information for local officials, and links and information on no kill practices.

The Humane Society of Central Texas and its volunteers are working to have as many animals as possible adopted out, fostered, or taken by rescuers in the remaining days before the city takes control and the animals lose their lives. Those interested in helping can visit the Humane Society of Texas Facebook page, where listings for available animals can be seen and shared. The animals are also listed at Petango and Petfinder; the listings can be accessed from the organization?s adoption page.

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Those interested can sign the Change.org petition here, at City of Waco, Texas: Please don?t kill hundreds of dogs and cats to clear animal shelter.

The petition page includes links to local articles that provide details on why this change of management will take place, along with more on the story. The petition reads, in part:

As a community we have the power and responsibility to oppose policies that will lead to the imminent death of many shelter dogs and cats beginning in October.?These animals?are in danger of being subjected to a 72-hour shelter rule because the city failed to reach?a contract with the non-profit Humane Society of Central Texas, with the intent of taking command of the Circle Road animal shelter on October 1st.

Like many shelters across the nation, the Waco facility is overcrowded with unwanted or unclaimed dogs and cats.

Rather than take proactive and humane steps to deal with this problem, the City Council plans to stop pet adoptions at the facility and do the minimum required under the law to protect the lives of animals delivered into its care, according to local news reports.

Under the proposed policy, these animals ? many of whom are healthy and adoptable ? will be subject to a 72-hour ?shelter? policy. This means that if the shelter can?t find an animal a home, a different shelter, or a foster family within three days, the animal will be killed.

This policy amounts to keeping the animals ?in a facility where the only objective is to house them long enough to satisfy a legal obligation before killing them,??wrote?Woodway?s Susan McVey in the Sept. 11 edition of the?Waco Tribune Herald.

The inevitable logic of the policy is that many lost pets and otherwise healthy animals will be killed to clear space at the shelter. It?s mind-boggling that the city would impose this draconian policy at the same time it closes the shelter to adoptions, which is one of the clearest avenues these animals have for escaping this fate.

We can do better than this. The opinion page of the Waco Tribune Herald from September 11th proves that Waco is full of conscientious citizens who can?t bear to see these animals slaughtered as a result of our collective failure to solve this problem. These citizens understand that we have an ethical responsibility to protect and care for the companion animals we bring into this world.

Tell the City of Waco to immediately halt its plan to kill any animal within 72 hours of receipt. Tell the City Council to hold a public meeting, to establish an oversight board for the shelter, and to come up with smarter, more humane ways to deal with a problem they had a hand in making


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Cavintek named One of the 30 Best Emerging Tech Startups from India

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Bangalore, India, Sep 14, 2012 ? YourStory.in recently announced that Cavintek has been officially selected as one of the 30 best emerging technology startups in India. The TECH 30 report was unveiled in the finale of TechSparks 2012, held in Bangalore on Sep 8, 2012.

The winners were selected from more than 800 applicants all over India. The TechSparks team visited 6 cities and interacted with over 2000 entrepreneurs, numerous VCs and senior technologists. The report is a culmination of the effort to identify the best startups in the country. The winners list can be found online at http://yourstory.in/2012/09/yourstory-ins-tech30-report-2...

The Top 30 companies were chosen by a Jury consisting of entrepreneurs, VCs and corporate leaders. The winners were chosen for the innovation that the product displayed, potential for growth and success in the market and the gumption to execute on the product and create a successful company.

?We?re very proud of the Tech 30 companies of 2012, and give them a bug Kudos for investing the time, money and energy in creating the best technology and innovation that India can be proud of.? said Shradha Sharma, Founder, YourStory.in, the company behind TechSparks.

?We are delighted to be identified in the Top 30 companies and stand committed to serving our customers with world-class products and solutions that improve their productivity and help them more effectively manage their business.? said Bhaskar Krishnamoorthy, Founder and CEO of Cavintek.

About YourStory.in

YourStory.in is India?s leading comprehensive online platform for entrepreneurs, dedicated to promoting the startup ecosystem. YourStory.in provides entrepreneurs with critical value additions like corporate branding, business networking, growth opportunities and investor connections. For more information, visit www.yourstory.in.

About Cavintek

Cavintek is a fast-growing provider of workflow management solutions to small and medium businesses. Cavintek?s flagship product, cflow, helps businesses transition from managing via spreadsheets to an integrated platform. cflow includes applications for HR, payroll, recruitment, and asset management. Cavintek is headquartered in Chennai, India. For further information, please visit www.cavintek.com or call +1 571 222 4241.

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Texas, North Dakota universities re-open after bomb scares

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The University of Texas at Austin allowed students back into the school's buildings on Friday after officials earlier evacuated them due to a bomb threat called in by a man who said he was linked to al Qaeda.

Minutes after the University of Texas ordered an evacuation, North Dakota State University issued its own warning about a bomb threat and told everyone to leave its buildings. North Dakota State was also eventually re-opened after an investigation.

It was unclear whether the threats were linked.

University of Texas President Bill Powers later said the sprawling public university had been searched and he was "extremely confident that the campus is safe."

Still, there were several tense hours at the university, with has about 51,000 students and 24,000 staff and faculty. Officials ordered it cleared after a telephone call from an unidentified man with a Middle Eastern accent who claimed to have placed bombs on campus, spokesman Gary Susswein said.

"He said he was associated with al Qaeda and said the bombs would go off in about 90 minutes," Susswein said. The call came in at 8:35 a.m.

An emergency alert posted on the school's website just before 10 a.m. said: "Immediately evacuate ALL buildings and get as far away as possible. More information to come."

That order was later lifted, but classes were canceled for the day.

North Dakota State University, a public university with about 14,000 students, did not disclose details of the bomb threat it received. It ordered the evacuation at 10:15 a.m. in a posting on its website.

After an investigation, school officials re-opened campus and said classes would resume later Friday.

A third school, Indiana's Valparaiso University, a Lutheran college located an hour east of Chicago, also issued a security warning on Friday.

"An unspecific threat to campus was made through a graffiti message alluding to dangerous and criminal activity alleged to be carried out during the chapel break period on Friday," said a posting on its website. "The broad threat provided no details with respect to location or type."

The university said it had added additional security.

(Additional reporting by Jim Forsyth, Ian Simpson and Mary Slosson; Writing by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Eric Beech)

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CDC: Nation on track for deadliest West Nile year

NEW YORK (AP) ? Health officials say they're convinced this will be the worst year for West Nile virus deaths and severe illnesses since the disease hit America's shores in 1999.

So far, 1,405 serious illnesses and 118 deaths from West Nile have been reported across the country. The bulk are in Texas but Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Michigan have also seen substantial numbers.

The worst year for the mosquito-borne disease was 2002, which saw nearly 3,000 severe cases and 284 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This year's count of severe cases rose by more than 30 percent in the past week, and is on track to surpass 2002, the CDC's Dr. Lyle Petersen said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.

While the height of mosquito season has passed, infections are expected to continue into October, and severe illness and death reports are expected to keep coming in for months, CDC officials said.

West Nile virus was first diagnosed in Uganda in 1937, but no cases were reported in the U.S. until 1999 in New York. The virus gradually spread across the country.

Only about 1 in 5 infected people get sick. Early symptoms can include fever, headache and body aches. Some recover in a matter of days. But 1 in 150 infected people will develop severe symptoms including neck stiffness, disorientation, coma and paralysis.

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Diet And Fitness Tips To Help You Sleep

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Before you shell out a portion of the billions of dollars Americans are expected to spend this year on pills, drinks or medical devices that promise slumber, consider a few do-it-yourself remedies.

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Somali piracy to stay in retreat for now: NATO officer

LONDON (Reuters) - Somali pirate activity is expected to stay low despite the end of the monsoon season, as aggressive navy action, private armed security teams and defensive measures by ships keep the heat on gangs at sea, navy and security officials say.

Last year, Somali piracy in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the northwestern Indian Ocean netted $160 million, and cost the world economy some $7 billion, according to the American One Earth Future foundation.

But in the first half of 2012 there were just 69 incidents involving Somali pirates, compared with 163 in the same period last year, International Maritime Bureau data showed.

"We are expecting the activity rate to be lower than last year at this time ... that is based on the lack of activity in the past six months," said Commodore Bruce Belliveau, NATO's Deputy Chief of Staff Operations.

"We are not seeing the buildup of logistic supplies that they would have had in the past for outfitting fishing vessels or dhows to use as motherships," he told Reuters on the sidelines of a shipping conference in London on Wednesday.

International navies have stepped up pre-emptive action against pirates, including strikes on their bases on the Somali coast, and shipping firms are increasingly using armed guards and other measures such as heightened watches and razor wire.

"In previous years, pirate attacks had jumped by around 70 per cent after the monsoon season ended. However, the post-monsoon jump will be far less," said Rory Lamrock, an intelligence analyst with security firm AKE.

"Ships are better secured and naval operations have put more pressure on pirate groups, to the extent that the chance of a successful hijacking is now very slight compared to years gone past. This has made Somali piracy an increasingly unattractive criminal enterprise."

HUGE AREA

NATO's counter piracy mission is among efforts by international navies to combat the seaborne menace, but officials acknowledge that resources are limited.

Belliveau said forces covered 11 million square km (4 million square miles).

"It's a huge area to patrol," he said.

"It's not irreversible - the success that we are enjoying right now. If we let down our guard, if we reduce the level of forces, if we reduce the compliance ... then we will create a new opportunity for entrepreneurial pirates to come back."

Belliveau said there were 177 hostages and seven vessels held, compared with 682 seafarers and 30 ships held in February 2011.

Somalia's poverty and anarchy make the prospect of million-dollar ransoms still attractive despite the risks. Last week, suspected pirates opened fire on an Italian navy helicopter off the coast of Somalia, wounding a pilot.

AKE's Lamrock said the incident "hints at the increasing desperation of pirate groups".

"It may also have been a hostile reaction following on from the EU's helicopter-borne attack on a pirate logistics stockpile earlier this year," Lamrock said.

Belliveau said the election of Somalia's new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was a "positive step forward".

"There is an insurgency going in southern Somalia with al Shabaab - there are a host of issues that the government will have to deal with," he said. "It will take them time to build institutions, but it's a step in the right direction and provides some hope for the people of Somalia."

Mohamud and the visiting Kenyan foreign minister escaped an apparent suicide bomb attack on Wednesday that was claimed by al Shabaab rebels.

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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The "pro-family" crowd's capacity for hypocrisy knows no bounds:

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Just to recap: Marriage equality for same-sex couples is something that fairly passed through Washington state's people-elected legislature. The legislatively approved bill was then signed by the people-elected Governor. It could, would, and should be the law of the land right now, granting equal civil rights to taxpayers in loving same-sex relationships. Only reason why it's not the law of the land? Well, that would be because certain self-appointed ACTIVISTS think they should TELL US what MARRIAGE should be. They have chosen to FIGHT BACK against the benign concept of peace, exalting discrimination above fairness.

in Washington state, marriage equality supporters are activists by technicality. We would be more than happy to live and let live, working to build communities and rebuild the welfare of both Washington state and the nation at large. But instead of enjoying our candy corn and pumpkin lattes, we must fight for yet another fall. But that, the forced fight, is something that is on them, not us.

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AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.

The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Instead, it mysteriously vanished into the heart of American power. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during World War II.

Documents released Monday and seen in advance by The Associated Press lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.

The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives released and is putting online. Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who helped lead a recent push for the release of the documents, called the effort's success Monday a "momentous occasion" in an attempt to "make history whole."

Historians who saw the material days before the official release describe it as important and shared some highlights with the AP. The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs ? something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.

The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 ? a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when.

The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished ? officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.

In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn.

In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre "one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history." It found that Roosevelt's administration suppressed public knowledge of the crime, but said it was out of military necessity. It also recommended the government bring charges against the Soviets at an international tribunal ? something never acted upon.

Despite the committee's strong conclusions, the White House maintained its silence on Katyn for decades, showing an unwillingness to focus on an issue that would have added to political tensions with the Soviets during the Cold War.

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It was May 1943 in the Katyn forest, a part of Russia the Germans had seized from the Soviets in 1941. A group of American and British POWs were taken against their will by their German captors to witness a horrifying scene at a clearing surrounded by pine trees: mass graves tightly packed with thousands of partly mummified corpses in well-tailored Polish officers uniforms.

The Americans ? Capt. Donald B. Stewart and Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. ? hated the Nazis and didn't want to believe the Germans. They had seen German cruelty up close, and the Soviets, after all, were their ally. The Germans were hoping to use the POWs for propaganda, and to drive a wedge between the Soviet Union and its Western Allies.

But returning to their POW camps, the Americans carried a conviction that they had just witnessed overwhelming proof of Soviet guilt. The corpses' advanced state of decay told them the killings took place much earlier in the war, when the Soviets still controlled the area. They also saw Polish letters, diaries, identification tags, news clippings and other objects ? none dated later than spring of 1940 ? pulled from the graves. The evidence that did the most to convince them was the good state of the men's boots and clothing: That told them the men had not lived long after being captured.

Stewart testified before the 1951 Congressional committee about what he saw, and Van Vliet wrote reports on Katyn in 1945 and 1950, the first of which mysteriously disappeared. But the newly declassified documents show that both sent secret encoded messages while still in captivity to army intelligence with their opinion of Soviet culpability. It's an important revelation because it shows the Roosevelt administration was getting information early on from credible U.S. sources of Soviet guilt ? yet still ignored it for the sake of the alliance with Stalin.

One shows head of Army intelligence, Gen. Clayton Bissell, confirming that some months after the 1943 visit to Katyn by the U.S. officers, a coded request by MIS-X, a unit of military intelligence, was sent to Van Vliet requesting him "to state his opinion of Katyn." Bissell's note said that "it is also understood Col. Van Vliet & Capt. Stewart replied."

MIS-X was devoted to helping POWs held behind German lines escape; it also used the prisoners to gather intelligence.

A statement from Stewart dated 1950 confirms he received and sent coded messages to Washington during the war, including one on Katyn: "Content of my report was aprx (approximately): German claims regarding Katyn substantially correct in opinion of Van Vliet and myself."

The newly uncovered documents also show Stewart was ordered in 1950 ? soon before the Congressional committee began its work ? never to speak about a secret message on Katyn.

Krystyna Piorkowska, author of the recently published book "English-Speaking Witnesses to Katyn: Recent Research," discovered the documents related to the coded messages more than a week ago. She was one of several researchers who saw the material ahead of the public release.

She had already determined in her research that Van Vliet and Stewart were "code users" who had gotten messages out about other matters. But this is the first discovery of them communicating about Katyn, she said.

Another Katyn expert aware of the documents, Allen Paul, author of "Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth," told the AP the find is "potentially explosive." He said the material does not appear in the record of the Congressional hearings in 1951-52, and appears to have also been suppressed.

He argues that the U.S. cover-up delayed a full understanding in the United States of the true nature of Stalinism ? an understanding that came only later, after the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb in 1949 and after Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe were already behind the Iron Curtain.

"The Poles had known long before the war ended what Stalin's true intentions were," Paul said. "The West's refusal to hear them out on the Katyn issue was a crushing blow that made their fate worse."

The historical record carries other evidence Roosevelt knew in 1943 of Soviet guilt. One of the most important messages that landed on FDR's desk was an extensive and detailed report British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent him. Written by the British ambassador to the Polish government-in-exile in London, Owen O'Malley, it pointed to Soviet guilt at Katyn.

"There is now available a good deal of negative evidence," O'Malley wrote, "the cumulative effect of which is to throw serious doubt on Russian disclaimers of responsibility for the massacre."

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It wasn't until the waning days of Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe that reformist leader Mikhail Gorbachev publicly admitted to Soviet guilt at Katyn, a key step in Polish-Russian reconciliation.

The silence by the U.S. government has been a source of deep frustration for many Polish-Americans. One is Franciszek Herzog, 81, a Connecticut man whose father and uncle died in the massacre. After Gorbachev's 1990 admission, he was hoping for more openness from the U.S. as well and made three attempts to obtain an apology from President George H.W. Bush.

"It will not resurrect the men," he wrote to Bush. "But will give moral satisfaction to the widows and orphans of the victims."

A reply he got in 1992, from the State Department, did not satisfy him. His correspondence with the government is also among the newly released documents and was obtained early by the AP from the George Bush Presidential Library.

The letter, dated Aug. 12, 1992, and signed by Thomas Gerth, then deputy director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, shows the government stating that it lacked irrefutable evidence until Gorbachev's admission:

"The U.S. government never accepted the Soviet Government's claim that it was not responsible for the massacre. However, at the time of the Congressional hearings in 1951-1952, the U.S. did not possess the facts that could clearly refute the Soviets' allegations that these crimes were committed by the Third Reich. These facts, as you know, were not revealed until 1990, when the Russians officially apologized to Poland."

Herzog expressed frustration at that reply.

"There's a big difference between not knowing and not wanting to know," Herzog said. "I believe the U.S. government didn't want to know because it was inconvenient to them."

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National Archives page on Katyn: http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/katyn-massacre/

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Randy Herschaft reported from New York. AP reporter Monika Scislowska contributed from Warsaw.

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Vanessa Gera can be reached at http//www.twitter.com/VanessaGera and Randy Herschaft at http://www.twitter.com/HerschaftAP

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-memos-show-us-hushed-soviet-crime-132109652.html

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