The Jakarta Post
Badly injured quake victims languish in Medan
Dedy Ardiansyah, The Jakarta Post, Medan
After losing her only son, nine-year-old Dwima Ikbal Lubis, in the 8.7-magnitude quake that rocked her hometown on Nias Island on Monday, Misda Gulo has been warned that she may lose her left hand and foot.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050404.D08&irec=7
PDI-P sets target in local elections
M. Taufiqurrahman and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has changed the much criticized selection of candidates for regional executive posts, which in the past was determined by the central board.
Pramono Anung Wibowo, the newly elected PDI-P secretary-general, said over the weekend that the party had selected its candidates through a regional convention that reached out to the grass roots.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050404.C01&irec=0
Indonesia says 70 percent of Acehnese showing signs of mental stress from tsunami
JAKARTA (AP): More than three months after the Indian Ocean tsunami, 70 percent of survivors in Indonesia are showing signs of psychological problems, ranging from anxiety to depression, the government said Monday.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050404181915&irec=1
Indonesia denies tsunami aid paid for posh ambassador villa in Geneva
JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia on Monday denied allegations in a Swiss newspaper that tsunami relief funds were diverted to purchase a swanky resident for its ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050404154017&irec=4
Lavish villa for Indonesian ambassador following tsunami
GENEVA (AFP): While millions of people around the world have sent donations large and small to assist Indonesia's recovery following the December 26 tsunami, the Jakarta government is spending a fortune to house its ambassador to the UN here in palatial style, the daily Le Matin said Sunday.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050404090804&irec=10
'Everybody feels a personal link with him'
Kornelius Purba, The Jakarta Post
It was Saturday morning on Feb. 5, 2000 in the Vatican audience room. After receiving then president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, Pope John Paul II blessed 11 Indonesian Catholic businessmen and journalists who were traveling with the president.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20050404.B04&irec=3
Police deal with 100 bomb threats after Australian embassy blast
JAKARTA(AFP): Police in the Indonesian capital said Monday they have had to deal with more than 100 bomb threats since a deadly attack on the Australian embassy in September last year, a spokesman said Monday.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050404111331&irec=7
Australian and Indonesian leaders sign new partnership agreement
CANBERRA, Australia (AP): The leaders of Australia and Indonesia on Monday signed a partnership agreement that they said would lead to new security pact between their countries.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050404092336&irec=8
Govt calls on NGOs to obey prevailing rules
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The government has called on local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to obey the laws governing the establishment of such groups, and has asked foreign NGOs to obtain official permission to carry out work in the country.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050404.C02&irec=1
The Seattle Post Intelligencer (cont.)
Man who shot pope says he is mourning
By SUZAN FRASER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ANKARA, Turkey -- Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, said from his Turkish prison Monday that he was mourning the death of his "spiritual brother" and wanted to attend his funeral.
Pasted from <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Pope%20Gunman
Zimbabwe opposition demands new elections
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's embattled opposition on Sunday demanded new parliamentary elections under a different constitution, saying voting can never be free and fair under the current legislative framework.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Zimbabwe%20Election
Zimbabwe's opposition leader criticized
By TERRY LEONARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Zimbabwe's fractured and frustrated political opposition is starting to question whether its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, can bring down President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Zimbabwe%20Opposition%20Leader
Oil platforms may be used for fish farms
By CAIN BURDEAU
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW ORLEANS -- Thousands of oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico could be converted into deep-sea fish farms raising red snapper, mahi mahi, yellow fin tuna and flounder, under a plan backed by the Bush administration.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Farming%20the%20Gulf
Fiery priest may seek Haiti's presidency
By STEVENSON JACOBS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Supporters call him Haiti's Martin Luther King Jr., a fiery Roman Catholic priest who electrifies the masses with populist sermons urging social equality and nonviolent protest.
The U.S.-backed interim government recently accused him of inciting violence and hiding gunmen loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, jailing him for weeks before freeing him because of a lack of evidence.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Haiti%20Priest%20Power
Fidel Castro sends condolences to Vatican
By VANESSA ARRINGTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HAVANA -- Cuban President Fidel Castro expressed condolences for the death of Pope John Paul II, declaring three days of official mourning on the communist-run island beginning Sunday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Pope%20Cuba
Sealers, protesters clash at Canada hunt
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island -- Protesters alighting from helicopters to try to stop a seal hunt scuffled Friday with sealers who fired warning shots - sending the protesters scurrying back to the aircraft.
Canada's harp seal hunt, the target of protests since the 1960s, began this week when thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears headed for the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world's largest such hunt.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Seal%20Hunt
North Atlantic right whale has baby boom
By JAY LINDSAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOSTON -- A baby boom has given a lift to the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with a near-record number of births in the just-ended calving season, according to researchers at the New England Aquarium.
They warned, however, the species still faces significant hurdles.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Baby%20Whales
World's biggest iceberg begins moving
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
7 WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The world's biggest iceberg has begun moving nearly three months after it stopped its slow float toward colliding with a huge Antarctic ice tongue, New Zealand officials said Monday.
Known as B15A, the giant iceberg, a remnant of a Ross Ice Shelf fracture in 2000, is now moving slowly northward out of McMurdo Sound, where it had been blocking sea access, Antarctica New Zealand chief executive Lou Sanson said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Antarctic%20Iceberg
I always loved horses as a kid
Wild horses: Old West symbols
By Dan MacArthur
North Forty News
If you're looking for an exceptional equine, consider taking a ride on the wild side.
Adopting a mustang requires some serious work, but it can be well worth the effort, according to Barb Flores, the Greeley-based chair of the Colorado Wild Horse and Burro Coalition.
http://www.northfortynews.com/News/200504photoWildHorses.htm
Happy horses: Our destiny for millennia
ORIGINS OF IDEAL BREEDING COUNTRY BEGAN 450 MILLION YEARS AGO
By Amy Wilson
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Before the foundation upon which we live was land at all, before the ancient rocks moved and broke and gnashed against one another and slid north past the equator, before coal was made to the east and west of us, and way before the dinosaurs, the die was cast:
We would be truly great horse country.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/11299126.htm
Volunteers working to make a difference
2,000 join Serve-A-Thon to help others in Valley
Meghan E. Moravcik
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 3, 2005 12:00 AM
The sun beat down on Mike Staeuble's beige cowboy hat. He bent forward, piling dead weeds into a garbage bag.
He sweated through the four hours of backbreaking work Saturday morning.
But it was worth it.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0403difference03.html
Racing into the season
This story was published Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
By Mary Hopkin, Herald staff writer
Bill Hoburg started galloping race horses and won his first race at Estes Park in Colorado as a teenager.
But he no sooner had chosen to be a jockey than he started growing out of the job.
"I was always too big," said the Finley man, who 35 years later remains lean, stands an inch shy of 6 feet and has a little gray creeping into his brown mustache. "I dieted all during high school, but had to quit riding as a senior."
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/6338219p-6215009c.html
Racing: Wait and see on outstanding Mi Jubilee
04.04.05
by Mike Dillon
It will be several days before the extent of Mi Jubilee’s problems are known.
The outstanding filly was sensationally beaten in Saturday’s $45,000 Ford 2YO Classic at New Plymouth, dropping out from the home turn to be officially fourth but more than 10 lengths from the winner Kindacross and only one length from last.
The $2 favourite was ordered by stipendiary stewards to be examined by the club’s veterinary surgeons, who determined Mi Jubliee was sore in the near-side front fetlock.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=4&ObjectID=10118517
Identification can prevent horse theft
Eric Zimmerman
Permanently identifying horses serves many purposes. It enables people to differentiate among horses at one location and allows for accurate record- keeping by horse owners. Permanent identification can aid breed associations in registration as well. This practice promotes accuracy in transfers of horse ownership and parentage verification. It also is important for disease control and can help in securing equine insurance.
http://www.landandlivestockpost.com/commentary/040305zimmerman.htm>
Company executive retreats to horses for retirement
By ANDREW MARTEL
When he was 20, Roger Secrist called Monsanto Inc. to ask for a summer job.
Monsanto was a global giant, employing more than 20,000 people in chemical plants. But when Secrist called the company's St. Louis headquarters that June day in 1959, he was connected directly to Monsanto's president, Ed Bock. The next day, he was hired as a summer intern.
http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050402/APN/504020670&cachetime=5
Strangles Strikes Three Tampa Bay Horses
Date Posted: 4/1/2005 6:06:48 PM
Last Updated: 4/2/2005 4:35:00 PM
(from Tampa Bay Downs release)
Test results confirmed late Friday afternoon that three horses have tested positive for strangles at Tampa Bay Downs. The affected barn has been placed under quarantine and the infected horses have been isolated to a separate area.
http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=27439
FLORIDA DERBY 5 P.M. TODAY AT GULFSTREAM PARK, CHS. 10, 25
Race has become rich tradition, literally
Today's Florida Derby winner will get $600,000 -- a big reason trainers such as Nick Zito, who has never won the event, don't mind paying a $15,000 entry fee.
BY FRANK CARLSON
fcarlson@herald.com
Today's Florida Derby is worth a lot of money, $1 million to be exact. The purse is split six ways.
But you have to pay to play.
Nine owners put up $15,000 each for their horse to gain entry into the starting gate of the Grade I Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/11293766.htm
Wild horses leave range for new homes
By Megan Graham
Special to the Herald
For 24 wild horses in New Mexico, the arrival of spring has signaled some dramatic lifestyle changes.
Corralled at the Browning Ranch in Farmington, these horses are trading their 75,000-acre home on the Carson National Forest for the urban life of Four Corners ranches, barns and pastures.
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/05/news050402_2.htm
UK Antepost : Grand National
Saturday, 9 April 2005
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All odds checked since 15:55 PM UK
I know it may seem like we say this every year, but this year’s Grand National, run at Aintree on Saturday (3.45), really does look like one of the most open renewals of recent times.
http://www.readabet.com/index.php/home/article/7265
Wild mustangs up for adoption
BY LINN E. CAROLEO
Apr 2, 2005
Burros aren't just for riding.
They can be used as pack animals, as companion animals to horses or as guard animals for sheep and goats, according to Roy E. Lewis, a wild horse and burro specialist for the Bureau of Land Management.
http://sun.yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_15786.php
Jockeys Injured in Bird Strike
Australian racing officials were reviewing safety procedures Thursday after five jockeys were hurt when a flock of seagulls flew into the path of their horses in a bizarre mid-race mishap.
A field of 11 horses was racing toward the finishing post in the final race at Sandown race track in Melbourne on Wednesday when a large flock of the birds suddenly rose up off the track and flew into the approaching horses.
http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-551985.html
Leveling the Track
Handicapping at its best is the study and weighing of numerous variables that give each race its uniqueness, deciding which factors are critical in solving the race puzzle.
But no handicapping factor has ever been as significant as the rise in recent decades of the "super trainers" who often improve horses dramatically in brief periods of time, leaving other variables irrelevant.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/11291119.htm
Appeals court refuses to hear Zobel's case
Assistant prosecutor says appeal is too late because Zobel never posted $105,000 bond
By Wes Johnson
News-Leader staff
Rural Republic horse breeder William Zobel lost another legal battle this week when the Missouri Court of Appeals refused to hear his case.
That might pave the way for Greene County Sheriff Jack Merritt to sell horses confiscated from Zobel's ranch in January.
"The sheriff and the Missouri Humane Society could dispose of the horses in accordance with Judge Burrell's order," said Chief Assistant Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/news/today/20050402-Appealscourtref.html
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