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Got an old car, truck, motorcycle or boat that is just sitting around gathering dust? Donate it to support Hugs Society and help us do our work to help homeless and displaced animals. Go to https://hugssociety.org/other-ways-you-can-help/donate-a-vehicle right now and get started. It's easy and it helps us so much. Thank you.

Department of Justice News: Thoroughbred Racehorse Trainer Jason Servis Sentenced To Four Years In Prison

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that defendant JASON SERVIS was sentenced to four years in prison today for his role in a years-long scheme in which horses trained by SERVIS were doped with approved and unapproved drugs designed to improve the performance of SERVIS’s racehorses, in connection with the charges filed in United States v. Navarro et al., 20 Cr. 160 (MKV). SERVIS was one of over 30 defendants charged in four separate cases in March 2020, each arising from this Office’s multi-year investigation of the abuse of racehorses through the use of performance enhancing drugs (“PEDs”).

Thoroughbred Racehorse Trainer Jason Servis Sentenced To Four Years In Prison Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that defendant JASON SERVIS was sentenced to four years in prison today for his role in a years-long scheme in which horses trained by SERVIS were doped with approved and unapproved drugs designed to improve...

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This man was forced to give his dog to the Humane Society because his had to undergo a long hospital stay. This nurse found out — and immediately went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings the dog to visit daily and will return him as soon as the man is released!❤️

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We all have the power to spark change. And this October, you can too by simply getting that old or unwanted vehicle off your hands. Hugs Society is participating in Cartober, and when you donate your car, truck, motorcycle or boat, the proceeds from your vehicle’s sale go directly to support the program you love.

Donate a Vehicle Hugs Society (formerly Hugs for Homeless Animals) is a 501c3 nonprofit charity dedicated to homeless and displaced animals.

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What's the danger of pruning or cutting down trees in the spring/summer? It's nesting season and you could be cutting down a nest and not know it until it's too late. That's what happened with these Red-breasted Sapsucker babies. Someone cut down their tree, not knowing that these cavity nesting babies were inside. A good Samaritan found a section of cut tree on the ground, and heard baby birds begging for food from inside. Mom couldn't locate them because the tree had been cut down. Now these babies are being raised at our Wildlife Care Center until they are old enough to be released. That's why we recommend waiting to prune or do other significant work to trees until the fall when babies have all fledged and no nests will be compromised.

[Image Description: A photo of two baby Red-breasted Sapsuckers on a towel shaped like a nest in our Wildlife Care Center.]

The search for life beyond Earth is peculiar, from a parrot’s perspective

Built into a massive sinkhole in northern Puerto Rico and completed in 1963, the Arecibo Telescope was first conceived as a tool to study Earth’s upper atmosphere, and funded by the US government in hopes that it might also track nuclear missiles. The sprawling 305-metre radio telescope would eventually become one of the most powerful astronomical tools of the 20th century, making groundbreaking observations of near and deep space, before its partial collapse in 2020 lead to it being decommissioned by the US National Science Foundation. Save for the telescope’s starring roles in the films GoldenEye (1995) and Contact (1997), it is perhaps best known in popular culture for its ‘Arecibo Message’ – a powerful transmission aimed at a star cluster 25,000 light-years away, intended to signal our presence to any interstellar neighbours who might be able to receive and decode it.

The Great Silence (2014) interrogates our drive to find other intelligent minds in the distant static of space while millions of complex lifeforms right here on Earth face existential threats of humanity’s making. Narrated from the perspective of an endangered Puerto Rican parrot dwelling in the rainforests near Arecibo, the experimental work weaves the mythos of the Hindu ‘Om’, the science of the Fermi paradox and the story of a domesticated parrot named Alex, famed for learning some 150 human words, into its expansive narrative. In doing so, the Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla and the US science fiction writer Ted Chiang craft a provocative reflection on humanity’s not-so-lonely place in the Universe, existing besides a vast and still-mysterious constellation of minds that most of us rarely even consider.

First released as a three-channel video installation in 2014 when the Arecibo Telescope was still operational, as a web video experience, The Great Silence requires – and rewards – patience. The film unfolds in a series of still, often breathtaking camera shots of the telescope and its surrounding area that, in an internet context, move at a somewhat glacial pace. Alongside these images and slow-rolling subtitles containing the parrot’s ruminations, the film is propelled by an immersive soundscape that captures the immensity of the telescope against the backdrop of a wet, chirping rainforest. On top of this simple foundation, the complex question of whether we can ever truly know other intelligences emerges, in a narrative that, quite paradoxically, is itself built on anthropomorphism. Through this combination of sparse atmospherics and intricate ideas, the artists craft a highly original and curious piece of art – and one that you’ll want to experience at full screen, with few outside distractions.

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