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At around 7 A.M. on Monday morning, someone rang the door at the Moscow flat of opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Navalny and his wife were sound asleep: it was a long holiday weekend celebrating the day, in 1990, when Russia declared its independence from the Soviet Union. So Navalny and his wife kept sleeping, but the doorbell kept ringing. Finally, Julia (his wife) got up to check who was there. She looked through the peephole and saw seven men in uniform. "I thought it was either an arrest or a search, so I turned off the lights—as one does in such situations—and called my lawyer," Navalny told me later. Then he went to shave, "because you never know when your next shave will be if they arrest you."
Julia intercepted him in the bathroom with a game-changer: the people outside the door had started an electric saw. "She said, 'You should probably open the door,'" Navalny recalled.
Seven officers from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation piled into the apartment while two of their colleagues, armed with machine guns, blocked the door to the building outside. (It would take Navalny's lawyer two hours—and going on Moscow's most prominent radio station to say he was being blocked from seeing his client—to get into the apartment, something the Investigative Committee quickly denied.)
Upstairs, the investigators read out a search warrant: Navalny was being investigated as a witness in the case that had been opened after the violent clashes between police on protesters on May 6th. He was not a suspect in the case, nor was he charged with anything, which made the aggressive thoroughness of the ensuing search seem rather disproportionate. The investigators took anything electronic or telephonic: every laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPad, e-book, flash drive, D.V.D. player, D.V.D., disk, camera, memory card, and hard drive in the house. They checked the kids' room and confiscated their laptop and camera. "I said, 'Why don't you look at the pictures on the camera? You'll see they were just taking pictures of each other,'" Navalny said. It didn't help. They took the kids' camera, too. And the ten thousand rubles (three hundred dollars) they found.
Investigators also visited the apartment of Julia's parents, who were not at home and were not even witnesses in the case. Her eighty-five-year-old grandmother was at home, however, but was physically unable to get to the door when the saw started up. "It was a very tense situation," said Navalny (his wife was on the phone with her grandmother). "We were afraid she would die of the stress."
After a thirteen-hour search, the apartment looked like a hurricane had hit.
Meanwhile, investigators had also arrived at the apartments of other opposition leaders, including leftist Sergei Udaltsov (scion of a long line of Soviet statesmen), veteran opposition politician and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and Kseniya Sobchak. Sobchak is a television celebrity who was once Russia's scandalous "it" girl (its Paris Hilton, if you will), and she went over to the side of the opposition when a wave of protests broke out following the contested December parliamentary election. Since then, she's dropped one boyfriend—a well-liked functionary in the mayor of Moscow's culture office—for a more fashionable one: a young, but seasoned, opposition activist named Ilya Yashin … whom they found in Sobchak's bed. Sobchak, still half-asleep and thinking she was opening the door for her cleaning lady, didn't even think to check the peephole and so found herself, in only her négligée, facing ten investigators from the committee. (The flat of Yashin's parents, where Yashin still technically lives, was searched that morning, too. Among the confiscated items: Mrs. Yashin's recipe book.)
Sobchak fared worse than the Navalnys. Her lawyer was unable to get inside for four hours, and only knew of the proceedings because Sobchak had managed to squirrel a phone away somewhere and send a desperate text to her assistant. "It was ridiculous," she told me later. "I felt like a spy." The search went on for nine hours, and, at first, the investigators wouldn't let Sobchak get dressed. They also wouldn't let her go to the bathroom alone. "They didn't have a woman to go with me to the bathroom," she told the Echo Moskvy radio station. "I had to do it in front of a man in a mask and with a machine gun."
It's worth noting here that Sobchak isn't just your average opposition activist, or even your average Russian starlet. Her father, Anatoly Sobchak, the first mayor of post-Soviet St. Petersburg, was Vladimir Putin's close friend and mentor. Sobchak is even rumored to be Putin's goddaughter. (Sobchak says that the rumors are false.) Her going over to the opposition, though she carefully avoided direct criticism of her family's friend, was the ultimate betrayal, and the search—pointless and humiliating—was a clear reprisal. Sobchak told me that she tried to go see Putin in early December in order to explain her reasons, but he wouldn't see her. Most recently, when the independent television channel Dozhd TV—where Sobchak has a popular interview show—tried to accredit her for the massive St. Petersburg Economic Forum, in June, she was the only member of the Dozhd crew who was turned down. When pressed, Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary, is said to have replied that the name "Sobchak" is never to be uttered to him again. (Sobchak wouldn't comment on this, and Peskov didn't answer his phone.)
This is also probably why the investigative officer in charge of the group explained to Sobchak that none of this would have happened had she not gotten tangled up with the wrong people; she should have, he said, married "a dependable Chekist"—that is, agent of the secret police—and stayed home and had his babies.
Investigators took not only all of Sobchak's electronics, but they also opened her safe where they found over a million euros, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and about that many rubles. (Sobchak explained the stash on Twitter: "My annual income is over 2 million. If I don't trust the banks, I don't have the right to keep money at home?") The tax bureau has now opened an audit and the Investigative Committee is working out why the money was split up in several different envelopes—the preferred method of handing out cash in Russia. "Some people keep their money in envelopes, some people rubber band it, some people keep it jars, some people make little airplanes out of it," Sobchak says. "I personally think envelopes are the most convenient way of storing money at home. Why am I obligated to explain this to the whole country?" (Photos of the money, neatly fanned out and next to a ruler for scale—that is, official photographs from the investigation—made it onto the tabloid LifeNews.com just hours after investigators left Sobchak's apartment.)
Investigators also seized her passport, effectively banning her from leaving the country for any reason. So far, both of her petitions—to get back her money and her passport—have been rebuffed. Once a glamorous socialite, now Sobchak says she is broke and has had to borrow money from her mother. "At least they didn't plant drugs on me," she says. "I guess I should be thankful for that."
Like Sobchak, Yashin, Navalny, and the others whose homes were searched on Monday morning were all handed a summons to appear at the offices of the Investigative Committee at 11 A.M. on Tuesday, which was conveniently just an hour before the start of that days' anti-Putin rally where all of them were supposed to speak. They all showed up, and dutifully answered the same fifty-six questions about who organized the May 6th violence, how it was planned, and who financed it. Sobchak's interrogators made her read aloud the statement she had prepared with her lawyer—she'd hoped to save time and make it to the rally—frequently asking her to slow down, rewind, and repeat.
"The whole point was to just keep me there the whole day, to keep me from going to the protest," Navalny said of his time with his interrogators. He had very little to tell them since he's now been jailed twice for his protest activity, and questioned extensively both times. "They asked, 'Tell me about your work history since 2005,'" he said. "It was just a million pointless questions. Four hours of them, then a break, then more pointless questions. When they found out that the rally was over, they suddenly lost interest." Then they took him along while they searched the office of his anti-corruption organization, RosPil. (Navalny was asked to come back again on Wednesday. When he did, he was asked for a handwriting sample, which he refused, citing the fact that he is just a witness in the case.)
The Investigative Committee has thrown over a hundred investigators on the highly-publicized case—twelve comparatively nameless people have already been arrested. According to Navalny, not many of the investigators seem to understand what exactly it is that they're doing. "I can't recall criminal investigations like this in Moscow, except for Nord-Ost," he said, referring to the time, in 2002, when terrorists took hundreds of people hostage inside a Moscow theatre. "And all because one police officer got a black eye on May 6th, for which he was rewarded with an apartment." (Actually, over a dozen policemen were wounded that day; several have in fact been given apartments for their troubles.)
Why is the state doing this? Yashin has said that he thinks they are ginning up a criminal case against opposition leaders like him. More likely, it is a case of an overzealous machine seeking to please its master. If one reads the tea leaves—and that's often all one can do in Russia—it is clear that Putin has had enough of the protests. Go out and protest for fair elections, but the elections are now over, and he won. Now it's time to go home. But people don't seem interested in that, and both protests, on May 6th and on June 12th, drew tens of thousands of people. (In fact, many of those I spoke to at the protest on Tuesday said that they had planned on skipping the rally but changed their minds when they heard about the searches.)
How to deal with them? Putin is no Assad, and at least so far he has shied away from a real crackdown. But he's clearly unhappy with the situation and wants it to go away. In a country where the law is not a framework of protections and guarantees but rather an instrument used selectively for taking someone out, it helps when your friends or loyal minions are behind the controls of the legal system. Putin's friend and classmate Alexander Bastrykin, for example, happens to be the head of the Investigative Committee, the same ostensibly independent government organization that harassed Navalny's grandmother-in-law and chaperoned Sobchak to the bathroom. (A few hours ago, Bastrykin apologized to the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta for the harsh tone he took with Sergei Sokolov, one of the paper's reporters. Sokolov had said that Bastrykin invited him on a drive, and then drove him out to the forest, where he proceeded to yell at and threaten him, which Bastrykin denied.) United Russia, the ruling party created to support Putin a decade ago, is doing its part in the Russian parliament: last week, they rammed through a law drastically upping fines and ordering restrictions on protesters and those found violating the peace. The Federation Council—the Russian equivalent of the Senate—was in such a rush to please that it passed the law all of twenty minutes after receiving it from the lower house.
And yet, thankfully, none of these zealous cogs seem ready to go all the way; they seem to pause at the critical moment. Protesters arrested over the weekend in St. Petersburg, for instance, were not charged under the new law. And so far, Monday's searches yielded little more than rattled nerves. Which is not to say that psychological warfare waged by a state against its own citizens is something to discount.
Navalny called me on Wednesday, just after he finished observing the Investigative Committee turn his office inside-out. He was his standard cheery, sarcastic self: the image he cultivates is of a fighter for truth who fears nothing. And yet even he was unsettled by Monday's experience—despite having fought state abuses for a decade and having dealt with various reprisals, including a flimsy criminal case and two jail terms. "It's very unpleasant," he said, hinting obliquely that his wife's nerves didn't fare as well as his own. "Even if you're ready for it, even if you know it's coming, you can never be one hundred percent ready. It's very stupid and infuriating because you know it's stupid and yet you can't do anything to stop it."
Sobchak, on the other hand, is new to the game. She has been involved in Russian politics for only six months, and even if she saw it from backstage as the daughter of Putin's mentor, she has yet to develop Navalny's thick skin, the kind you need if you are going to become an enemy of the state. On Tuesday, the day after a humiliating and financially ruinous nine-hour search—and after six hours of questioning—she gave an interview to Echo Moskvy. "You know, it's a nasty feeling when a strong person like me—and I'm a fighter—when you suddenly sit down and realize that your hands are shaking," she said. "Yesterday, my hands were shaking because it's the feeling that you can't do anything, that these people who are walking around your apartment, that they can do whatever they want."
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SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan — The name Dostum means "everyone's friend," and in a certain sense that sums up the political career of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum: from Soviet-supported militia leader during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan to close ally of the United States after 9-11.
Dostum, an Uzbek born to peasants in this far-flung province of Jowzjan, is a man steeped in the Afghan tradition of warlords who rule their regions with cunning and have no worries about spilling blood or changing "friendships" with the prevailing political winds.
His shifts over the past 20-plus years have made and unmade successive Afghan governments. Dostum's betrayal of the government in 1992 doomed the puppet regime the Russians had left behind after their main troop withdrawal.
In 1994, Dostum tried to seize power by pushing his forces into Kabul — leaving a trail of destruction along the way — but was routed by another commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud. Two years later, as the Taliban were about to conquer Kabul, Dostum announced an alliance with Massoud.
Allegations that Dostum oversaw the killings of hundreds or possibly thousands of prisoners of war in 2001, had their bodies dumped in the desert and later sent bulldozers to remove the evidence come as no surprise to many Afghans.
"General Dostum is a dictator," said Juma Khan Hamdard, a former governor of Jowzjan. Dostum's followers staged a protest against Hamdard in May 2007, which led to a fracas in which at least seven people were killed and more than 40 were wounded, with Hamdard and Dostum blaming each other for the violence.
"They invaded the entire city. They surrounded my house," Hamdard said of the incident, which led to him being transferred to a different province.
Maj. Gen. Fazaluddin Ayar, the police chief of the province from 2004 to 2006, put it succinctly: "The reality is that for the time being, General Dostum is more powerful than the government (in the north). He has more sovereignty."
Because of that influence, and the risk of destabilizing the region if it were directly challenged, many Western officials are reluctant to talk when they're asked about Dostum.
The commander of a group of troops stationed with the provincial reconstruction team in Sheberghan denied knowing that the grave site in the desert had been disturbed, but he said that if Dostum were involved, the Afghan authorities would be powerless to act.
"In my opinion, they can't do anything about that," said the Finnish captain, Eino Kontiola. "They can investigate it, but if there's a man with that much power, he can always keep himself free."
One of Kontiola's political officers described the situation as "feudal" and said it wasn't likely to change.
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Elbe hills focus group meeting, March
This a friendly reminder about the scheduled ORV Focus Group Meeting for this coming Thursday, March 10, at 7pm. It will be at the usual location, the fire district headquarters near downtown Graham. Which is at or near 23016 70th Ave. East. See you all there.
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Notes from the meeting
Notes from the Elbe focus group meeting 3/10/2011
Updates and past happenings
Problems with kids using the campground for parties and such. They have figured out how to reserve the campground and are abusing the system to hold parties. (Non-wheelers)
Issues with people doing doughnuts in the Lions club parking lot and spraying gravel everywhere. If you park there please treat the property like your own (or better).
Upcoming events:
Eric the manager from 4 wheel parts in Tacoma was there tonight to promote a fun run they are having at Elbe on the weekend of March 26th and 27th. Proceeds from this event will be donated to wheelers for the wounded. There will be flyers at the Moonshiners swapmeet and at the 4 wheel parts store in Tacoma. A breakfast will be served on sat. Pre registration is suggested as there is a 150 vehicle limit.
Bust Bee logging. The Busy Bee logging project is back on and will be starting in late April. The work will be done during the week and the trails open on weekends.
Upcoming workparty on the 30th of April and the 1st of May. This is the annual PNW4WDA work party held every year. Dogpound off road will be providing lunch on the trails.
County line 4x4s will be doing a post fun run trash cleanup in the next couple of weekends.
Nancy is submitting 2 grants in April for the Elbe hills ORV Park. One is an M&O grant which will request moneys for a small tractor as well. The other is for a grant to plan for an expansion of the campground and facilities.
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Viking is a name that most people associate with quality. Everyone has heard of the famous "Viking Stoves" and it should be no surprise to anyone living in the current century (20xx) that they are making some pretty nifty Kitchen products as well. The problem with Viking is the cost of the item doesn't necessarily match the value given…
Now take this Viking Hand Blender with Bonus Chopper for example. You can get a hand blender at Walmart for less than 20 bucks. You can get one with a case for $30 🙂 Hand blenders are not rocket science and using them is pretty task specific. Quick blends, easy chops (if you have a chopper attachment), shakes, drinks, hell even pancake batter. They are pretty versatile.
So what's the big deal right? Well for one thing, the Viking Hand Blender is $120 bucks. Now you are thinking wow that's a lot of money, but this thing has to have a lot of power… a lot more power than the $20 Hamilton Beach hand blender at Walmart right?
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Even if you factor in the "Bonus" Chopper (Bonus does imply free, so you really shouldn't be factoring it in) it still isn't weighing out right in the price department…
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With the $120 Viking you get:
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- blender attachment
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Another thing to consider is the Viking is made of stainless steel while the Hamilton Beach version is made of plastic. Both hand blenders have 2 speed control, and you are able to pulse with them…
So I guess it comes down to power… right? Because I know I'm not going to pay $100 for a free food chopper I'm going to misplace in the first month, and a 35oz measuring beaker. So the extra 100 watts (the Hamilton Beach is 200 watts, the Viking is 300)…
It took the Viking Hand Blender 6 seconds less to pulverize a stainless steel cup full of ice for a smoothie… 6 seconds less than the Hamilton Beach Hand Blender. So that extra 100 watts gives you an extra 6 seconds of your life back when you are making a smoothie. So if you get paid $100 an hour… you'll pay for the difference in hand blenders in time saved in… what… 10 years? After all… even if you blend every day are you really going to be able to justify an extra $100 for a hand blender you use for a minute a day?
The moral of the story is this: If you are the type of person that doesn't like Starbucks more than your local coffee house, but goes there anyway so you can carry around a mug that says "Starbucks" and look good… then you will want one of these Viking Hand Blenders. You'll probably never use it, but when your friends show up, you'll pull it out, make some wonderful smoothies with it, waiting for someone to mention "Wow that's a viking?". The problem is at the end of the day it is just a hand blender and I doubt anyone will notice. Save your $100 and get a Hamilton Beach at Walmart. Even if it breaks every 2 years, it will take 12 years to get even with your 1 Viking purchase, and by then it will look pretty beat up anyway.
5 stars for the Viking on performance. Subtract 3 stars for overpricing in a bad economy and you have a 2 star ranking.


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MADMEN returns this evening and with it the long suffering (or to some insufferable) wife of bad man Don Draper the beautiful "Betts" Draper played by American actress January Jones. This caricature was extremely challenging as Betty's thoughts and emotions are often well hidden behind her seemingly stoic, suburban housewife facade. In this drawing she looks pretty well ticked off at Don Draper and probably with very good reason.
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Airlines are repackaging their fees.
Under pressure to find new sources of revenue as ticket prices remain depressed, airlines for years have been tacking on baggage fees and charging for meals that used to be free. The fees are continuing to multiply and increase. In late April four of the largest U.S. airlines raised fees for changing a domestic flight to $200 from $150, posting the notifications in small print on their websites....


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No longer a franchise to sit still and wait when there are team needs to be filled, the Nuggets got to work quickly Thursday on roster improvements by reacquiring an old friend, shooting guard Arron Afflalo from the Orlando Magic.
Afflalo returns to the Nuggets in exchange for Evan Fournier and the 56th pick in the draft.
The deal was first reported by Yahoo Sports.
"I'm excited," Afflalo said. "My whole career has been about maturity and growth, and Denver is the first team that gave me the opportunity to grow."
Afflalo's acquisition will not be a means to another end. According to NBA sources, Afflalo will remain with the Nuggets and not be flipped in another trade with any other team, making him the frontrunner to be the Nuggets starting shooting guard next season.
The Nuggets entered the offseason with a need to enhance their perimeter defense, and Afflalo, who made his name in the NBA as a defensive guard first, fits the bill. One of the best two-way players in the league, Afflalo has also seen his offensive game improve markedly. In his last season of his first stint in Denver, Afflalo averaged 15.2 points per game on 43.9 percent shooting, including 30 percent from the 3-point line.
Last season, he averaged a career high 18.2 points per game on 45.9 percent shooting from the field and 42 percent from the 3-point line.
"It feels good to come back as a better player and somebody that can really impact this current team and the franchise," Afflalo said.
Afflalo has two years worth about $15 million remaining on his current contract. The second season is a player option, meaning he can choose to opt out of his contract after next season.
Afflalo was with the Nuggets from 2009-2012 before being traded to Orlando as part of the deal that brought Andre Iguodala to Denver.
As for the draft, some of the pressure has eased for the Nuggets, who continue to own their lottery spot, No. 11, as well as the the 41st pick in the second round.
Expect the Nuggets to take the best player available in the draft, with no pressure on that player to come in and produce right away. That would open the door to taking a less-polished athlete with huge upside, given that there will be time to develop him at steady rate.
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Arron Afflalo
The Nuggets acquired Arron Afflalo from Orlando on Thursday:
Age: 28
Height: 6-foot-5
Weight: 215 pounds
Position: Guard/Forward
College: UCLA
Drafted: 2007, 27th by Detroit
Was traded to Denver in 2009 and quickly became a starter. Spent three seasons with the Nuggets before being shipped to Orlando in 2012 as part of the deal that brought Andre Iguodala to Denver. A solid two-way player, Afflalo helps fill the Nuggets' void at shooting guard while helping on the defensive end.
Career highlights:
While with the Nuggets, he made a career high six three-pointers, against the Bobcats on Jan. 25, 2010.
2013-14 Averages:
Minutes: 35.0 per game
Points: 18.2 (career high)
Assists: 3.4 (career high)
FG %: 45.9 percent
3-Point %: 42.7 percent
Contract: Two years, about $15 million remaining; second year is player option
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The dean's list recognizes students who have achieved a grade-point average between 3.50 and 3.99 for the semester. The following local students were named to the dean's list are Abbey Daugherty of Amarillo and Thomas Hefner of Bovina.
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Refuge for America's mustangs, deluxe sanctuary for vacationers
By Aaron Millar, for CNN • Published 28th August 2014
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There is, perhaps, no greater living symbol of the untamed, pioneer spirit of the American West than the wild mustang.
In the
Great Basin
of the United States -- a vast, empty, desert plain that stretches across most of Nevada and includes parts of Utah, Idaho, Oregon and California -- it's estimated that 40,000 mustangs still roam free.
They're regarded by many as part of the national heritage and a treasure for people the world over to enjoy.
"They're sensual," says Madeleine Pickens, owner of Nevada's new Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco Resort. "When you come across a wild bunch, it's euphoria."
Her new resort provides a sanctuary for some of these horses while also offering a deluxe stay for those interested in discovering a little more about this American icon.
MORE: 15 of the world's great horse treks
History of the Mustang
Though some dispute the claim, scholars generally believe that mustangs were introduced to the New World by the Spanish in 1493, having been brought over by Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas.
When Native Americans first saw them, they called them "big dogs."
But soon they became an essential component of the life of America's first people and are still considered sacred by many tribes.
In the 19th century, horses of all types, of course, played an essential role in the westward expansion and modernization of America.
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Wild horses are protected under federal law.
But protection policies aren't popular with everyone who lives and works in the West.
Ranchers view mustangs as a threat to their livelihood.
"They're feral," says a former mustanger -- the term used for cowboys charged with controlling their numbers. "Without a natural predator, their presence is unsustainable and bad for the environment."
Charged with maintaining the ecological balance of public grazing land, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has found itself in the middle of disputes related to mustangs and wild horses. (Often used generically to describe any wild horse, "mustang" is derived from the Spanish term "mustengo," which means "ownerless beast" or "stray horse.")
In April, according to
The Salt Lake Tribune
, Iron County officials in Utah drafted a letter to the BLM in effect telling the government that if it didn't remove wild horses from their land, local residents would do the job themselves.
In June, a suit brought against the federal government by the Nevada Association of Counties and Nevada Farm Bureau Federation demanded that the BLM accelerate roundups of mustangs there, as reported by the
Las Vegas Review-Journal
In Nevada, the BLM agreed with ranchers that wild herds threaten the range, but also said it doesn't have the resources to conduct the popular roundups.
Roundups of free roaming horses destined for short term holding pens -- or worse, illegal poaching for sale to slaughterhouses -- have become regular occurrences.
Animal rights groups argue that many of these "gatherings" are unnecessarily cruel, leaving many animals wounded or dead.
They contend that the level that has been set for a sustainable number of wild horses on the land, and reports of their negative impact on the environment, have been skewed in the favor of opposing human interest groups.
Although the BLM adopts a portion of roundup animals to new homes, costs for keeping them are escalating.
In 2013, $46.2 million was spent keeping roughly 50,000 wild horses in short- and long-term holding pens.
MORE: The Indian horses bred to fight elephants
Seed of a
Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco-Resort is a new boutique, luxury ranch that may offer a partial solution.
The brainchild of billionaire businesswoman, philanthropist and former wife of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, Madeleine Pickens, the new ranch is designed to provide a sanctuary for up to a thousand wild horses and a chance for tourists to connect with this iconic symbol of America.
By eliminating expensive holding pens, Pickens says that her ranch alone can save taxpayers as much as $2.5 million a year, while allowing the horses to roam free.
Cowboy experiences are available at the Mustang Monument ranch.
Aaron Millar
Each of the resort's 10 reclaimed wood cottages and 10 live-in teepees have been designed with luxuriously rustic interiors, double beds and artisan bric-a-brac -- if Pottery Barn and Vogue were to elope West, this is where they'd honeymoon.
Meals are served in an enormous hand-painted teepee, there's a saloon with saddle bar stools, high-end gambling tables and a porch for cocktails with a perfect view of the grazing herd.
"It's good for your soul," resident cowboy Clay Naninni says. "Just to watch them run."
Six hundred wild horses roam in a 4,000-acre enclave at the front of the ranch.
Experienced riders can saddle up and head out with resident cowboys, Clay Nannini and Marcus Morrison, for a high adrenalin gallop into the herd that feels, according to Clay, "like riding into thunder."
For others, there are gentle trots and 4x4 wild horse safaris in search of nearby free-roaming bands, old gold mining settlements and luxurious picnics in mountain valleys.
The highlight: rattling down to a private meadow in an old wagon to serve breakfast to the herd.
Being surrounded by 600 wild, staring eyes and stamping hooves is a rare thrill.
MORE: 6 best places to be a cowboy (for a while)
Other guest
Mustangs may be the ranch's raison d'etre, but there's more than horses here.
Hiking, abseiling, gambling tables, lasso lessons, an in-teepee spa and more are on offer.
Former Navy Seal and director of operations, Monty Heath, can also take you out on a high-powered ATV.
When an ex-special forces operative insists on doing the driving, you know he's not going skimp on screams.
Two brothers from the local Lumbee tribe are on hand to teach Native American crafts -- from learning how to make beaded jewelry to creating medicine wheels, dream catchers and more.
Each night there's storytelling by the fire and performances of sacred dance and traditional falsetto singing.
"Horses are sacred to our people," the Native singers say. "We treat them as human beings."
Things to do: The Ruby Mountains
The eco lodge -- where Vogue meets Pottery Barn.
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The Ruby Mountains may be Nevada's best kept secret.
The 80-mile range is right on the doorstep of the ranch and offers some of the finest outdoor opportunities in the state.
Lamoille Canyon is one of the most popular locations and is filled with fast flowing rivers, beaver dams and idyllic fishing and camping spots.
The 35-mile Ruby Crest Trail is a great way to see some of the best parts of the range and usually takes about three days to hike.
MORE: Horse reiki and bull sperm hair masks: 9 bizarre spa treatments
Things to
o: Great Basin National Park
Great Basin National Park -- a 77,000-acre wilderness of glacier moraines, sagebrush meadows and forests of spruce, aspen and juniper -- is located three hours south of the ranch.
You can hike to the 13,000-foot summit of Wheeler Peak, find pristine alpine lakes and descend deep into the Lehman Caves, a mesmerizing underground complex of stalactites and stalagmites.
The park is most famously home to an ancient grove of bristlecone pines, the oldest living organism on Earth, whose roots were already in the ground when the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built.
More information can be found on the
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Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco Resort
, outside of Wells, Nevada; +1 858 759 5507; $1,000 per teepee per night and $1,500 per cottage per night, including full board and all activities.
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services was notified by a health provider in the Kansas City metro area of a case of Cyclospora. Previously, the department announced that health providers in Jackson County and Taney County reported two cases of Cyclospora. This brings the total to three confirmed cases of Cyclospora in Missouri.
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Cardboard Wayne Gretzky A Stand-Up Guy In Mobile Mini TV Campaign
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May 16, 2012: Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky — actually, a life-size cardboard cutout of "The Great One" from his Edmonton Oilers days — plays a key role in new campaign from Mobile Mini, a leading provider of portable storage solutions, long-distance moving services and secure storage centers.
The campaign focuses on a couple who are in the midst of a major move, deciding which possessions to take or toss out. The commercial, "Wayne," will air during the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs and on such shows as Dancing with the Stars, Law & Order SVU, Glee, Billboard Music Awards, The Big Bang Theory and America's Got Talent.
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Tempe, Az.-based Mobile Mini said 30- and 60-second versions of "Wayne" would run in Phoenix, Denver, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Austin and San Diego. It was described as "the beginning of a fully integrated marketing effort as we expand our footprint nationally," by Pete Buchner, Mobile Mini's vp-marketing.
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The spot opens with the couple wrapping valuables to place in a Mobile Mini moving storage unit. The woman is focusing on heirlooms, framed family photos and furniture, while the guy is concerned with his Gretzky cardboard figure. "If she thinks I'm leaving this, she has another thing coming," he grumbles as he secures the item for moving. "Wayne's been with me since college."
The next day, the man finds Wayne in the trash, so he pulls it out and repacks it in the storage container. That night, his wife again tosses it out, only to find it repacked once again the next day. Ultimately, when the guy again tries to pack Wayne for the move, he finds his wife sitting in the storage container with a buzz saw. The next shot finds the guy trying to reattach Gretzky's cardboard head to the rest of his body.
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"The increasing demand from our customers and prospects requesting off-site storage and long-distance moving services was the catalyst behind expanding our product offerings," Buchner said in a statement. "Through several research studies, we've found consumers are increasingly frustrated with the lack of service and the hassles they experience with long-distance movers and self-storage companies."
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Gretzky retired in 1999 after a Hall of Fame career in which he became the NHL's all-time scoring leader (894 goals, 1963 assists). He played for the Oilers from 1979-88; he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes in 2000 and in 2005 was also head coach. He left both positions in 2009 when the franchise filed for, and eventually emerged from, bankruptcy.


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Oklahoma City Wins NAIA National Championship
FRANKFORT, Ky. - (Box Score) Oklahoma City captured the program's sixth national championship tonight with a 69-48 win over Union (Tenn.) in the championship game of the 2012 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball National Championship presented by Kentuckytourism.com at the Frankfort Convention Center.
Oklahoma City finishes the season 35-1. The national title is the first for the Stars since they won four straight from 1999-2002.
"I'm just happy to see the journey our kids have gone on this season," said Oklahoma City head coach Rob Edmisson. "We defended so well, especially on their All-American (Lavanda Ross). We held her (Ross) to very few looks and really made it tough for her to be effective. Defense wins championships, we say that all the time and it proved itself tonight."
Oklahoma City's Taylor Booze set the tone early in the game as she nailed a pair of 3-pointers to help the Stars jump out to a 9-0 lead. In fact, the Stars held Union scoreless for nearly the first five minutes of the game.
Union -- playing in its fourth-straight title game -- managed to cut the OCU lead to four points on three different occasions in the first half, including 28-24 following Lavanda Ross' driving basket with 4:16 left in the half. Ross finished with a team-high 15 points.
The four-point deficit was the closest the Bulldogs would get.
Oklahoma City scored the next 11 points over the waning minutes of the first half and the start of the second half to take a 39-24 lead with 17:15 left in the game.
Dietra Caldwell opened the decisive run and Lauren Gober closed it with one of her game-high four threes. Caldwell narrowly missed a double-double ending the game with nine points and 10 rebounds, while Gober chipped in 17 points.
Following a Union timeout, the Bulldogs (35-3) scored the next six points to climb within single digits (39-30) with 15:04 remaining. Oklahoma City answered the Union run with a 10-2 spurt of its own and all but ended the Bulldogs' hopes for their third title in four years.
Union managed to cut the lead to 14 (51-37) midway through the half only to have the Stars once again respond and extend their lead to as many 21 points late in half.
Union -- who entered the game allowing just 51.3 points per game this season and just 48.8 during its tournament run -- gave up a season-high 69 points for the second time this season to Oklahoma City. The Stars beat Union 69-57 on Nov. 26.
Oklahoma City shot 53.8 percent (28-of-52) from the field, including making 8-of-14 threes.
Booze -- who was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player -- was one of the reasons the Stars were so efficient from the field. She connected on 8-of-13 shots during the game, including 2-for-3 from deep.
Union shot just 33.9 percent (20-of-59) from the field and 4-for-19 from beyond the three-point arc.
Oklahoma City's Desiree Jeffries finished with eight points and 10 rebounds, while Nicollette Smith added nine points off the bench.
Union's LaTesa McLaughlin joined Ross in double figures with 10 points. Shelby Ashcraft added nine points and 11 rebounds.
2012 NAIA All-Tournament Team
First Team
Lavanda Ross, Union (Tenn.)
Angie Lawrence, Georgetown (Ky.)
Taylor Booze, Oklahoma City
Lauren Gober, Oklahoma City
Brittany Roberts, Lubbock Christian (Texas)
Second Team
Logan Froese, Rogers State (Okla.)
Briana Hall, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Charisse Reece, Biola (Calif.)
Tugce Canitez, Westmont (Calif.)
Kelsey Canavan, Lubbock Christian (Texas)
Most Valuable Player: Taylor Booze, Oklahoma City
Hustle Award: Abby Ballman, Shawnee State (Ohio)
Phyllis Holmes Coach of the Year Award: Rob Edmisson, Oklahoma City
Buffalo Funds Five Star Team Champions of Character Award: Lee (Tenn.)