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Description: I bought three Hultet decor bowls to hang on my wall but once I got home I realized they were really dull and boring.
To remedy this I painted just the back-side of each bowl and then hung them on the wall. It's very subtle but high impact!
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~ Allison @ House of Hepworths, Texas
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Very nice. The overall room is so lovely.
Clever idea! I think the subtle look is usually more elegant than "look at me!" hangings.
So simple and so nice ! Bravo
Now a days home interior is the fashion trend. I really like this Hultet Bamboo Bowls idea. Its really looks very beautiful.
If you paint on the back what impact can it make from the front view. Of course the side view looks nice.
Those bowls look great, simple, clean, with a pop of color. We bought a couple of those bowls about a year ago and they had little holes in them when we bought them. I didn't think anything of it and then we noticed a couple of wood dust piles where the bowls were placed a couple of days later. I imagine they were termites, so we just them away. Just make sure yours don't have holes when you buy them.
So smart. I love the orange against the gray walls. Nice touch of color and very subtle instead of in your face. Very nice!
sorry for the off subject but… I NEED to know where you got your drapes! I am on a hunt for something like these for our master bedroom and am finding a hard tie!!!
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Where did you get your curtains?
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Saturday December 10, 2011
**This is written weekly by STRATFOR's analysts to document ongoing work
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China a** Review/ahead:
Beijing will hold Central Economic Working Conference Dec.12, with policy
tone set by this week as prudent monetary policy and active fiscal policy.
This is essentially to maintain the policy direction unchanged. Though
with maintaining growth as key policy tone and much severe economic
situation for the next year, policy actions may well be changed (in 2008
it changed three times) or not fall in policy line. The later than
expected conference and tone setting also suggested greater challenges in
drafting policies for next year. From latest released data, CPI and PPI
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Beijinga**s three times in past week stressed the need to maintain
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and trade will be keys to watch for next week.
An interesting story from Ordos, saying the 1200 local enterprises will
expect as much as 20 billion yuan credit, which is similar to the earlier
bailout in Wenzhou. One problem with the two cases, however, is that local
enterprises in Ordos have been largely fueled by real estate boom (ghost
town) and other speculative tools, rather than actual business operations.
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channels that have little to do to sustain the business and improving
financial health in the long term. Indication from both Wenzhou and Ordos
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that real economy has little capability to generate profit, that more
credit could risk accumulating debt in the future. This have been the case
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was sustained by mining, both turned to places fueled by investment and
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unique position to facilitate the negotiations due to its majority import
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potential risk of energy security. Meanwhile, the mediation could be a
first test after the independence of South Sudan, of Beijinga**s balance
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following 05 agreements.
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become SEA battery and ambitious plan to promote economy would be
seriously challenged by its relations with Vietnam and Cambodia. Just a
day ahead of the meeting, however, Cambodia launched its largest dam
project under controversy, with Chinaa**s fund. Moreover, Japan, just
newly renewed push on Mekong, will be leading the environmental study.
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next five years. According to the plan, 692 SOEs will remain owned by the
government, and will be organized into 44 large groups, 573 will be
equalized, restructured or dissolved. We will be watching to see the
political connections with those companies and compare SOE reform in
China, aiming for a long term project.
On Tuesday 6th it was announced that Derek Mitchell, the US special envoy
on Myanmar, will visit Beijing on December 12-13 after holding
meetings this week in Japan and South Korea. Mitchell will probably hold
talks with China on Myanmar's opening process to address any potential
misunderstanding, as Chinese commentators have been emphasizing the view
that the U.S. is trying to 'encircle' China with its recent moves in the
Asia-Pacific region, and especially with Hilary Clinton's visit to
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coordinated with Myanmar, Laos, Thailand will begin on Saturday. China's
military power is following its economic power in the mekong/golden
triangle region. China will lead a patrol also made up of Myanmar and Laos
to guard the river against the action of warlords and drug-traffickers.
Though China will be careful to not appear aggressive, the earlier
incidents in Mekong represent an opportunity to expand its influence in
its southern flank.
Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was questioned by police on
Friday 9th over a deadly military crackdown on mass opposition protests in
Bangkok last year while he was in office.
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MPs in submitting their written request to House of Representatives
Speaker Somsak Kiartsuranond. The MPs urged Somsak, who is also their
party colleague, to seek a Constitutional Court ruling terminating the MP
status of Democrat leader Abhisit and Warong Dejkitwikorn, Democrat MP for
Phitsanulok. The political fighting post-flood continues in Thailand, with
the ruling PTP getting back at the opposition Democrat Party in response
to the latter's blocking of the proposed amnesty that would allow former
PM Thaksin Shinawatra to come back to the country.
Japan's prime minister on Monday 5th voiced support for Defense Minister
Yasuo Ichikawa, who is under growing pressure to resign over a series of
gaffes by him and a ministry official on the U.S. military presence in
Okinawa. The House of Councillors is set to approve a censure motion
against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa on Friday 9th, dealing a blow to
the three-month-old government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. Rifts are
starting to appear within the ruling DPJ over PM Noda's cabinet, as he
appears set to stand by two of his ministers that are under attack by
opposing factions within the DPJ. This is something that could result in
the cabinet's unraveling in the short-term future.
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India to discuss "a range of Asia Pacific regional issues," the U.S. State
Department announced on Monday 5th. The meeting, which will be at the
assistant-secretary level, is scheduled to be held in Washington on Dec.
19, said State Department spokesman Mark Toner at his daily news briefing.
The U.S.'s strategy of increasing military and diplomatic cooperation with
Asia-Pacific/Indian Ocean powers keeps on evolving with this meeting.
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regarding growing Chinese influence in the region, adding pressure on
China. China is currently involved in territorial disputes in the SCS with
some of its neighbors, while Japan has tried to insert itself as a player
in that dynamic.
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planned trip to Beijing from Dec. 12 to 13, amid rekindled concerns over
history-related issues, Japanese government officials said Tuesday 6th.
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Nanjing massacre have prompted the Chinese government to postpone the trip
in order to avoid tensions from arising during a meeting that will
probably see talks about cooperation for natural resource extraction in
the East China Sea.
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investment, sending shares of the city-statea**s biggest developers
tumbling by the most in more than two years.
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percent stamp duty. The extra levy will be 3 percent for permanent
residents purchasing a second home and for citizens buying their third
residential property. Speculation was in some part due to Chinese capital
flight into Singaporea**s real estate as the Chinese real estate market
The Philippine government and the MILF, RPa**s largest Muslim rebel group,
have extended the mandate of international cease-fire monitors until
2013. This comes as speculation that commander America Umra Kato, the
MILF leading negotiator, was dead. This spurred the possibility that
negotiations between the government and MILF would fall apart. Tensions
have been building as attacks have occurred in the southern region.
Meetings will continue into next month.
The US government will provide a grant of 24 units of F-16 fighter
aircraft to Indonesia. This announcement was made as Russia and Indonesia
are in talks about a proposed sale of six Su-30MK2 fighter jets.
Indonesia may also buy T-90S tanks and Smerch multiple launch rocket
propelled systems. This indicates the more vigorous implementation of
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono intention to increase defense budget by
35 percent to 64.4 trillion rupiah (about 7.1 billion U. S. dollars) in
2012 from 47.5 trillion rupiah this year.
Indonesiaa**s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged,
pausing after cutting borrowing costs in the previous two meetings to
assess the inflation risk as the rupiah falls. The nationa**s currency
has slumped more than 5 percent in the past three months, the third-worst
performer in Asia, threatening to push up imported inflation even as the
protracted European debt crisis hurts global growth. The governmenta**s
continuing growth policies are not likely to be restrained significantly,
but we will continue monitoring government policies as external economic
factors may worsen.
The US deputy secretary of energy is to visit Taipei December 12-14, the
highest-ranking US government official to visit Taiwan in over a decade.
Daniel Poneman will meet President Ma Ying-jeou and senior government
officials and business leaders. Last week, US Agency for International
Development Administrator Rajiv Shah also visited Taiwan. At that time, he
was the highest-ranking US government official from US President Barack
Obama's administration to have visited the island.
Taiwana**s exports rose the least in more than two years in November as
shipments to Europe slumped and faltering global growth curbed Chinese and
the U.S. demand. Exports climbed only 1.3 percent from a year earlier,
compared with an 11.7 percent pace in October. Thata**s less than the
median 8.6 percent estimate of 14 economists in a Bloomberg News survey.
The inflation rate eased to a 13-month low in November, the islanda**s
property prices have moderated from a record this year and the economy
grew at the slowest pace last quarter since 2009.
North Korea slammed South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for having
encouraged a defector over his recent novel critical of North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il. The development represents the first resumption of the
North's criticism of Lee by name in six months.
Korean and U.S. officials have apparently been unable to reach an
agreement on key issues in a fourth round of talks to revise the bilateral
nuclear energy pact. Park Ro-byug, the Korean envoy for the talks, and
Robert Einhorn, the U.S. State Department's special adviser for
nonproliferation and arms control, discussed whether South Korea should be
allowed to reprocess its own spent nuclear fuel rods.
South Korea will resume concessional loans to Myanmar in light of the
Southeast Asian country's recent democratic reforms, a Seoul official said
An order for three submarines from Indonesia will increase South Korea's
arms exports this year to $2.8 billion (217.57 billion yen), bringing it
neck and neck with China in the front rank of Asia's military exporters.
The Japanese government is seeking to stockpile emergency oil reserves in
South Korea after facing difficulties securing steady supplies following
the massive earthquake and tsunami in March that damaged roads and halted
production at refineries.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
On Dec. 9, it was announced that incumbent President, Joseph Kabila, had
secured his second elected presidency. Kabila edged out his main
competitor Etienne Tshisekedi with a 49% of the popular
vote(Tshisekedi-32%) following an election that saw some bouts of violence
and many claims of irregularities in the overall election process. Over 18
deaths were reported in the lead up to the vote, most notably from the
eastern largely-rebel held provinces and the Kasai and Kinshasa areas,
home to Tshisekedi supporters. Though Etienne Tshisekedi is calling for
annulment to the election, the international community has largely
congratulated the DRC's election committee for a job well done. Election
backlash will continue for a short period, with notable uproar in Kinshasa
which has already reported many citizens fleeing to neighboring Republic
of the Congo to escape clashes between rival supporters.
The Kenyan Defence Force is holding down a cordon area along the southern
Somali border, in Jubaland, while Ethiopians are engaging central Somalia
for their own cordon buffer in the Bakool and Hiran regions. Ethiopian
forces are crossing back and forth to towns such as Beledweyne and Dusa
Marreb to coordinate with pro-government Somali militia proxies, notably
ASWJ. Meanwhile, Somali jihadists have not stood static amid hostile
operations against them. Somali fighters have made moves that have
entrenched their practical and ideological factions. While Al Shabaab
transnationalist jihadists have made moves to reinforce their troop levels
in their stronghold city of Kismayo, recruiting fresh youth and adult
supporters from along the southern coast of Somalia, the nationalist
factions days ago formed a new entity, called the Somali Islamic Emirate,
to defend their strongholds in south-central Somalia against hostile
forces. Led by former top Al Shabaab leaders, the new Somali Islamic
Emirate, led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and Mukhtar Robow abu Mansur,
have adopted a tried and tested tactic of waging a propaganda campaign to
rally new forces to defend Somalia against a perceived foreign-led
aggression. These fighters will likely defend their interests within the
region near Baidoa and Mogadishu where clashes this past week starting to
pick up.
Ivory Coast
With the first national elections since the Ivorian civil war scheduled
for Dec. 11, international observers are hoping to see the first step
toward national reconciliation in the West African country. But because
the government of President Alassane Ouattara has made a number of moves
that run counter to reconciliation, notably sending former President
Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague and failing to incorporate rebels that
supported Gbagob's FPI party, and because the economy is showing few
signs of recovery, the elections likely will lead marginalized political
elements out of the public space and toward armed conflict. These
elections next Monday will likely be met with backlash in the southwestern
northern, and south eastern parts of the country and select neighborhoods
of capital Abidjan where Gbagbo supporters remain.
Sudan/ Republic of South Sudan
International intermediaries, principally China, are asking Sudan and
South Sudan to expedite oil negotiations. Last week marked the first
indications of disruptions in the export of South Sudanese oil through
Sudan's Port Sudan when RSS oil barrels were reportedly delayed due to a
lack of customs clearance resulting from unpaid tariffs. The event was
followed by an inconclusive CPA meeting to negotiate a bilateral tariff
price per barrel as well as tariff arrears since RSS independence.
Sudanese Parliament has since authorized the retention of RSS oil barrels
at Port Sudan as method of payment for South Sudan's transport and
refining tariffs. Meanwhile, rebel proxies being supported across borders
by both Sudan and South Sudan still exist, particularly around the Abyei
and eastern border states of Southern Kordofan, Upper Nile, and Blue Nile
states increasing tensions between the two countries. Reaching a
conclusive revenue sharing agreement may not be feasible before Christmas,
as China has asked, but fellow investor countries are hopeful for at very
least a working or ad hoc agreement for continued oil flow.
Russia/EU: Russia-EU Summit is scheduled to be held in Brussels on
December 15; Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, President of the European
Council, Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission,
JosA(c) Manuel Barroso are expected to attend the summit.
This will be a very good opportunity to see Russia's reaction to the
latest developments in the European crisis. Russia might well announce
that it will support Europe through the IMF or EFSF (whether it ever
really will is a different question).
Italy: Montia**s cabinet is discussing with all the parties in parliament
possible amendments to the decree-law with austerity measures that was
presented last Monday. These discussions have the goal of paving the road
for the approval of the package, which is expected to be voted on December
15 in the Lower House. On December 12 the Italian unions, Cisl and Uil,
plan to hold a strike over the austerity measures.
While Monti has stated that the decree-law with the austerity measures is
a**untouchablea**, he is well aware that he will have to make some
concessions to the political parties if he wants the law to be approved
without major problems. Therefore, he faces a double challenge: to reach
an agreement with the main parties (PD and PDL) and to keep intact as many
of the original measures as possible. Undoubtedly, Montia**s political
abilities will be tested in the next days.
European Union: On December 9, 23 European Union members banded together
to back tighter budget policing. The agreement, which is to include
automatic sanctions, aims to end past practices of overspending
responsible for the crisis ravaging Europe. Most EU countries will also
provide up to 200 billion euros in extra resources to the International
Monetary Fund, to be used to help European countries in dire straits.
The recent UK/EU divide was clearer than ever in the EU summit, when David
Cameron rejected the measures proposed by France and Germany. However, 23
EU countries gave their support to the measures, while four more will make
their decision at parliamentary level. While fiscal union measures are
important, the key to for the crisis relief might be in the hands of the
European Union: The European Central Bank has capped the maximum purchase
of euro zone sovereign bonds at 20 billion euros a week for now and is not
considering bigger action in response to an EU summit decision to create a
fiscal union, ECB sources said on December 9.
This limit seems quite high. The ECB has never purchased sovereign debt
worth 20 billion euro in a week. This shows that the ECB has further
capacity to support states through purchases of bonds on the secondary
market for the time being. But of course it is a limit and markets might
want to test that limit.
European Union: Timothy Geithner voiced confidence December 7 that Europe
would beat its debt crisis. Geithner, who met leaders including French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi and
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, said he wanted to "make sure
there is a sufficient strong firewall in place" to stop the crisis
EU leaders are under intense pressure to convince markets they can come up
with a rapid rescue plan for the eurozone following the threat of possible
debt downgrades by ratings agency Standard and Poor's.
Russia/Czech Republic - Dec. 8 - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and a
large financial and economic delegation visited the Czech Republic from
Dec. 7 to Dec. 8. Czech and Russian firms struck deals worth 2.15 billion
euros($2.9 billion) on Thursday during a visit to Prague by Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev, who also backed nuclear firm Atomstroyexport in
a tender to expand a Czech power plant. Many Czech officials are wary of
Russian cash, knowing it traditionally comes with political strings
attached. Currently, the Czech government is attempting to limit
Russiaa**s involvement in any strategic sector in the country to that of
minor stakeholder or control. But as the need for investment and cash in
the Czech Republic grows a** and particularly if the eurozone or European
Union begin to break in the next year a** Prague is concerned that the
Czechs may not be able to refuse Russian assistance.
Russia - Dec. 4 - National parliamentary elections was held in Russia,
which set the stage for Russiaa**s presidential vote next March. Over the
past decade elections have not really been of much concern, as the
political landscape of Russia has been dominated by a singular party a**
Premier Vladimir Putina**s United Russia. Though United Russia took the
majority of the vote, but there was actually a decrease for the ruling
party by a projected, maybe 10 percent, leading many in Russia to question
the strength of United Russia a** and its leader Vladimir Putin. Public
may balk at United Russiaa**s show in the elections. But this is all part
of Putina**s grand plan. His plan for managed democracy. These
parliamentary elections designed to keep all parties in Duma loyal to
Putin, while Russia is pretending to be more democratic.
Russia/US - Dec. 8 - A ministerial meeting of the NATO-Russia Council was
held on Thursday by NATO's 28 foreign ministers with Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov. Disagreements on the European anti-missiles system
was the key issue on the agenda of the Russia-NATO Councila**s meeting in
Brussels. As it turned out the parties have different views on
counteracting common security threats. On the eve of the meeting,
Russiaa**s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who headed the Russian
delegation in Brussels, said that a dialogue with NATO on ABM would be
impossible until Russiaa**s position has been heard. So basically NATO and
Russia failed to narrow their differences over the system, but talks will
continue in a bid to reach a deal before NATO's next summit in Chicago in
May 2012.
Russia - Dec. 15 - The WTO is expected to approve Russiaa**s bid for entry
during its conference on December 15-17. It is expected that all the
member will recognize Russia entry included Georgia. But the only problem
would be U.S. recognition of Russia's entry to the WTO which is because of
existing Jacksona**Vanik amendment which many republican senators and
congressmen would like not to be repealed. Morevoer, Russia-EU Summit is
scheduled to be held in Brussels on December 15; Russian president Dmitry
Medvedev, President of the European Council, Herman VAN ROMPUY and the
President of the European Commission, JoseI* Manuel BARROSO are expected
to attend the summit. Furtheremore, Russian permanent representative to
NATO Dmitry Rogozin is expected to present his defence industry report
which is being drafted by the committee on defence and defence industry. A
new defense industry report is especially important in the context of
current unhappiness of Russians over U.S. actions in Central Europe which
is key to watch over the next week.
Moldova - Dec. 16 Two events are significant to watch over the next week.
Firstly, the presidential election is scheduled in Moldova on December 16
in consistency with a draft law unanimously adopted by the Moldovan
parliament. It remains key to see if the Moldovan parliment manages to
elect a president which has not happened before due to political division
in the parliament. Secondly, presidential elections are scheduled to be
held in Moldova's breakaway region Transdniestria. Politically speaking it
is important to watch presidential elections in Transdniestria but in
terms geopolitics of the region not much is expected to change as Russia
is in charge in the breakaway region.
Jacob Shapiro
Director, Operations Center


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Alexander Milroy (1846 - 1881) also joined the Union Army (in addition to his father Robert and brother William) - he signed up with the 20th NYS Militia (80th NYSV). He apparently gave his age as 18 when he signed up in October of 1861. According to the family Bible transcription above, he would really have been only 15 or 16 at the time. At some point during his service, he was promoted to Corporal. His description is given as "5 feet 3 1/2 inches tall, light complexion, dark eyes, light hair." Army records show him as being discharged in 1865. On the Sons of Union Veterans Civil War grave database, there is an entry for MILROY, A. from the 80th NYSV, Company A. He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose, California. The Sons of Union Veterans database gives the death date as December 17, 1881. Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903, found on Ancestry.com, gives his death date as December 29, 1880.


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How you can help eliminate puppy mill horror - Companion Animal Protection Society
Written by Super UserHow You Can Help
Write your senator or representative and ask him or her to address the USDA's failure to enforce the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
If your senators or representative are on agriculture committees, ask them to call for oversight hearings on APHIS/Animal Care's failure to enforce the AWA.
Distribute CAPS' pet shop fact sheet ("Why You Shouldn't Buy That Puppy in the Window") which is available on our website or from CAPS.
Ask local and national media to do stories on pet shops and commercial dog breeding/brokering facilities.
If you currently work for a pet shop or puppy mill and would like to provide information about conditions, contact CAPS. All information is confidential.
Adopt a companion animal. Every year, animal shelters destroy millions of dogs - including purebreds and puppies - and cats. PLEASE adopt a companion animal from your local shelter, humane society, rescue organization (some specialize in a particular breed) or veterinarian. In addition, many pet supply stores, such as Petsmart or Petco, sponsor adoption days.
You can also find animals to adopt at these websites:
Social Media
Models Against Pet Shops and Puppy Mills
What do you get when you combine glamorous professional models with cute rescue dogs, including a puppy mill survivor? The feel-good grass-roots (socially conscious) cause campaign of 2012!Based on a collaboration between The Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) and professional model Kiley Wirtz Jennings, the campaign is titled "Models Against Pet Shops and Puppy Mills." The integrated media campaign seeks to inform and educate the public about the atrocities in puppy mills and the risks to consumers associated with buying dogs at pet shops supplied by these commercial breeding facilities. It also encourages the public to save a life by adopting rescue and shelter animals. Campaign elements include a Public Service Announcement (PSA), print advertisements, public relations, and a huge social media push spearheaded by CAPS Spokesmodel Beatrice, a sassy Basset Hound puppy mill survivor rescued by CAPS, who is also an enthusiastic vegan advocate.
Kiley first learned about CAPS after seeing a shocking video documentary, "CAPS vs. Bauck, How a Small Nonprofit Brought Down a Large Nonprofit," on Vimeo (from a link on Facebook). The documentary follows the undercover employment of a CAPS investigator, who compiled the evidence necessary for Kathy Bauck, one of the largest and most notorious USDA-licensed dog brokers, to be convicted of animal cruelty, the prosecution and conviction, and the termination of Bauck's USDA license.
Kiley, who has two rescue dogs, was so moved by the Bauck documentary that she reached out to CAPS Founder and President Deborah Howard, offering to donate her time and those of professional models, photographers, videographer, make-up artists and clothes stylists. The project was shot in Fort Worth, Texas.
We believe this campaign has the power to sensitize consumers to the cruel connection between pet shop puppies and puppy mills while moving them to affect change and encourage pet stores to adopt a new model… a more humane model that offers only shelter and rescue animals for adoption.
But we need your help in reaching a larger audience of dog lovers.
Be a social media champion!
Help us go viral by sharing this page on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn by clicking the Orange share button above. Or, after watching the Models PSA video below, roll your mouse over the right side of the screen and click on the blue share button.Help us target the media.
If you know of any media contacts, please contact us. To extend the campaign, we are currently pitching TV talk shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Today, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, and Anderson, among others. In addition, we are sending press kits to Lifestyle and Fashion magazines including Cosmopolitan, Martha Stewart Living, ELLE, Allure, InStyle and many more.Subscribe to our eNewsletter.
You'll receive thoughtful and meaningful content through The CAPS Communicator and CAPS Action Alerts. And, we NEVER share your email.Donate online.
Click on the Red DONATE NOW button. With options starting as low as $20, your online donations, for 2012, will go directly to help us buy media space for our Public Service Announcements and print advertisements.Regardless of how you help, we hope you enjoy this multi-media campaign and thank you for visiting our website and supporting the CAPS mission. We'd also like to thank everybody who made this exciting project happen including our Hopes Angels models and everyone listed below:
Photo and Video credits: Hopes Angels Models: Hasmik Shaw, Nina Shaw, Maggie Parks, Kiley Wirtz Jennings, Brooke Tobolka, Anna Theunissen, Emily Williams, Natalie Quintanilla. Simon Lopez, Photographer and Retouch Artist; Zack McDowell, Videographer; Kimber Yanks, Head Clothing Stylist; Leah Peev, Clothing Stylist; Candace Henry, Clothing Stylist; Yvonne Coan, Makeup Artist; Nicole Webber, Makeup Artist; Lana Adams, Makeup Artist; Aaron Reeves, Dog Handler; Bryn Durham, Dog Handler; Ann Lopez, Set Crew Member; Levi Jennings, Kiley's Husband and Chief Caterer.
Rescue dogs courtesy of CAPS, Moka's Dog Rescue, and City Pet Rescue.
This is the Face of a Puppy Mill Dog Public Service Announcement (PSA)
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Student Activism
Start School Group
Start with a Statement
Before everything else, before recruiting members or raising money, you need to have a definitive vision. With a clear mission statement, everyone who is involved will know what the group will be trying to achieve.
Find a Facilitator
Because every school has different procedures for student groups, it's really important to let at least one staff member know that you are interested in starting this group. A staff member will likely be able to lead you through the administrative steps to officially starting the group.
Get Students Involved
There are many ways to get other students involved, from posting flyers around school, writing in the school paper or newsletter, speaking to students during breaks, or speaking during the morning announcements. Stay in contact with your group outside of meetings. Instead of sending an email, pick up the phone and make more of a personal connection with your supporters.
Don't Stop
It's easy to lose steam with something "extra" like an advocacy group. The most important thing when starting up a student group is to keep the fire burning. Keep variety in your events and meetings. If you feel yourself burning out, take some time to reevaluate why you wanted to get involved in the first place.
Pet shop/puppy mill subcommittee for existing group
If your school already has an animal rights group, consider starting a pet shop/puppy mill committee.
Tabling is a great way to inform others about the abuses of animals in pet stores and puppy mills. With so many opportunities to table, here are just a few examples:
- Concerts
- Student Activity Fairs
- Festivals and Street Fairs
- Social Awareness Conferences
Start a Street Team
The best places to leaflet are public areas with high foot traffic. Our favorite locations are:
- Outside of subway, train, or bus stations.
- On college campuses
- Near high schools around lunchtime or just before or after school
- Outside of major events like concerts, exhibitions and sports games (preferably as people are leaving)
Postering and Flyering
Fliers are often seen on bulletin boards and kiosks. But you can post them in the hallway, at the library or around campus. Don't forget about cafés or clubs that you frequent, music stores, gyms, rec centers, supermarkets and even bathroom stalls at the mall.
Protest pet shops
Get Organized
Ask a few friends/supporters to help you organize the protest. This will help you delegate responsibly and get more people involved. Once you are organized decide on which type of protest you are having (a silent vigil or chanting).
Pick A Date & Time
Find a time and date that you feel people would be able to attend. We found that noon on Saturday or after 6pm on a weekday work well. Also decide on the duration of the protest. One hour is typical but two hours allows more scheduling flexibility for protesters and media.
Location, Location, Location
To make things go as smoothly as possible, choose a location that has a public sidewalk and good foot/vehicle traffic. If the pet store is in a mall or shopping strip, stay on a public sidewalk so you won't be accused of trespass.
Spread The Word
By having a team of people helping working on the protest, it's even easier to get the word out. Make and post flyers, call friends, write letters to newspapers, post bulletins on MySpace, contact the media by sending a press release and then following up with a phone call.
Be Prepared
In case the local media arrives it's important to know what to say. Ask a friend to help you practice what you would say to the media. The media is especially interested in consumer complaints. Try to find consumers who purchased sick pet shop puppies. Then ask them to attend the protest and speak to the media.
Get Creative
What's a protest without signs? Take time making signs with photos. Use legible writing. Be sure to distribute fact sheets and brochures.
The Day Of
We recommend arriving 15 -20 minutes early on the day of the protest. Being early has perks: you can get the signs out and be prepared to greet the first comers. Designate one person to shoot photos and video during the protest. Share your photos and footage with CAPS. If there are people you don't recognize, introduce your self to them and thank them for coming.
And Don't Forget
Organizing your own protest on behalf of the animals is making a difference. The animals need your voice. It's important to stay in contact with the people who came to the protest; tell them how important their voice is for the animals when you make follow up calls to thank everyone who came.
More than 90 percent of pet shop puppies come from puppy mills. Most pet shops deal directly with USDA licensed "B" dealers (brokers), who obtain their puppies from breeders who typically run substandard facilities (puppy mills). Many of these breeders have USDA "A" licenses. Some breeders are exempt from licensing because they don't have more than three breeding females and derive more than $500 in gross income from the resale of dogs.
Things to look for
- sickness
- injury
- over crowding
- insufficient food/water
- insects
- accumulation of feces
Record information on a notepad or send a text message to a friend. Take photos with a small camera or cell phone.
Obtain the source of the puppies. Some brokers provide pedigrees to pet shops. Pedigrees, which are lineage charts for purebred dogs, usually have a broker's seal in the bottom left corner and the breeder's name on top. Look at several puppies and have your friends do the same. If the puppy has a pedigree, ask to see it. Some pet shops, such as Petland, have puppy folders, which contain pedigrees and other records, such as breeder names. Some states, such as California require pet shops to provide breeder and broker names, both verbally and in writing. Make sure you get the town and state for all breeders and brokers.
Press Materials
Listen to Deborah Howard's Radio PSA
PDF Documents
- Deborah Howard Biography (PDF)
- Beatrice's Biography (PDF)
- CAPS Brochure (PDF)
- Why You Shouldn't Buy that Puppy in the Window (PDF)
- Why You Shouldn't Buy that Puppy on the Internet (PDF)
- Deborah Howard (web-friendly pictures)
- Deborah Howard (fullsize, stock pictures for hardcopy, slow loading page)
- CAPS Logo
Models and CAPS Unite
Kathy Bauck
- Visit the Kathy Bauck section for more information.
- CAPS Goes Viral with "CAPS vs Bauck, How a Small Nonprofit Brought Down a Large Puppy Mill"
- Bauck Photo Sheet (PDF)
- Kathy Bauck Videos
CAPS in the Media
To raise awareness about the horrors of the pet shops and puppy mills, CAPS has generated stories with the following media: CNN, "Dateline," "20/20," "Hard Copy," Reader's Digest, Life, People, Detroit Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer (two front page articles) and numerous local television news stations and newspapers
CAPS worked for more than a year with Dateline to prepare "A Dog's Life," the in-depth report on pet shops and puppy mills that aired on April 26 and May 10 of 2000. This well-researched piece focused not only on Petland, the largest chain in the country, and the puppy mills that deal with Petland and other pet shops, but also on the American Kennel Club's and USDA's roles in this tragic problem. "A Dog's Life" won a Genesis award in the network newsmagazine category.
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How to find a USDA licensed breeding or brokering facility
Written by Super UserHow to find a USDA licensed breeding or brokering facility
There are thousands commercial breeding facilities in the U.S. The U.S. Government's APHIS website can be used to get information, inspection reports (not CAPS' reports) and other information about these facilities. It's a little complicated to navigate and understand at first, so here we provide some basic instructions:- Visit: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/efoia/index.shtml
- Scroll down and select: Inspection Reports and License and Registration List
- Click on "I AGREE" to get to the search page.
- To narrow your search enter the breeder's name in the name field if you know it.
- Change Customer Type to Breeder (or Broker)
- Click on the State dropdown if you know it.
- Click Search near the bottom of the form.
- The results are in PDF format.
Interpreting the results:
- Breeders are puppy mills, catteries, and similar.
- Dealers are brokers who may also breed, such as Kathy Bauck, Steve Kruse, etc. Brokers typically sell to pet shops.
Where to Adopt your Companion Animal
Adopt a companion animal. Every year, animal shelters destroy millions of dogs - including purebreds and puppies - and cats. PLEASE adopt a companion animal from your local shelter, humane society, rescue organization (some specialize in a particular breed) or veterinarian. In addition, many pet supply stores, such as Petsmart or Petco, sponsor adoption days.
You can also find animals to adopt at these websites:
- www.petfinder.com
- www.pet-ark.com
- www.pets911.com
- www.adoptapet.com
- Where to Adopt in New York City (pdf)
- Where to Adopt in Chicago (pdf)
- Illinois Purebred Rescues (pdf)
Follow this link: Google: Animal Adoption
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Q: What happens if I want to play MEPC but do not have an internet connection?
A: You cannot play MEPC without an internet connection. MEPC must authenticate when it is initially run and every 10 days thereafter.
Q: What happens if I install and activate MEPC with an internet connection, but then do not have an internet connection after 10 days? Can I still play MEPC?
A: No. After 10 days the system needs to re-authenticate via the internet. If you do not have an internet connection you will not be able to play until you are reconnected to the internet and able to re-authenticate.
There are a lot of questions that come up around this sort of DRM, things like, 'If you've got nothing to hide why does it bother you anyway?' Of course suggesting that someone has nothing to hide is always going to be a bit of a rum argument. We've all got things to hide. Or if not can I have your card numbers, address, and PIN along with a list of how you voted in the last elections?
When dealing with issues of right and wrong there's quite a bit of groundwork to lay: Is morality something that actually exists? If it is can you hand it to someone as a physical object; can we imagine a property of an object such that it would compel a duty? It seems however that regardless of whether these questions have a positive or negative answer we do not know that answer at the moment. If morality does have its own existence, even as a property of an object it is as of yet unknown to us and the very subjectivity of our own moral values would seem to indicate that we base our morals on something other than objective fact.
Yet it cannot be denied that we have at least some measure of morality. This would in the broadest terms be most likely the result of our personalities, themselves being the results of our biological makeup to which we are innately subjected, along with our life experiences.
For those who would nonetheless insist that morality is somehow innate I would point out that the effects of environment on morality and society cannot be overstated. We have only to look at the Maori Moriori collision in the Chatham Islands to see this. Both cultures arose during a relatively short span of history from roughly the same genetic stock and with roughly the same technological basis for their societies. However the Moriori found themselves on islands with relatively few natural resources ill suited for their style of agriculture and thus evolved a pacifistic society which renounced war and castrated male infants in order to control population growth. Their Maori relatives by contrast were able to develop a much larger population base with relatively dense centres of administration and the crop basis to support specialists and the hierarchical system that came with such a capability. Thus the environment produced one group of warlike people and one group of pacifists, the former of whom would later annihilate the latter.
Within our own society a microcosm of this external model can be cited as the basis for all rights and morality. For while it's possible to say that a morality reproduces itself by things such as conditioning, that morality has formed in response to some environmental or social need. The question then becomes by what need are the rights to privacy and so on formed?
Within our own society the only real threat to the individual is other members of his society. If another individual in your society knows your bank codes, for instance, you can only hope that either his morality, (that being his conditioning as influenced by his available biology,) or the institutionalised rights connected to the group morality will restrain him from using them or protect you from the effects of that use. Most of our rights are not universal rights and most of our morality is not applied universally, it exists because it serves a purpose to us and is by and large selectively applied on that basis.
An individual thus has a right to exercise a certain measure of control over their own personal information to insure their own economic, psychological and physical safety. These are issues of privacy relating directly to the safety of the individual, which in turn relates them to society, and it is from there that the individual's right to control that information is derived. In a similar manner to Rousseau's idea of the individual surrendering their freedoms to the state and in turn receiving rights the individual tolerates their neighbour's rights and in turn receives their rights. Morality exists in great part out of mutual respect for the violence we could do each other if we ever openly fought.
This sort of DRM approach is dangerous within this moral framework for two reasons: firstly because it impinges upon the idea that the individual is able to control their personal information, such as the IP address of their computer, which to an extent indicates their physical location, and their other information that may or may not be attached to the authentication process such as the specs of their computer thus weakening our other rights to control our personal information as well as being a basic impingement on already existing rights.
The second reason it is dangerous is, as Lao Tzu noted in the past, 'If you treat people like criminals they will become criminals.' If morality relies so much on a respect for another then when you fail to show respect you weaken the collective morality, you make criminals more likely to occur.
I'd actually put the money asides to buy this game. It's a Bioware title after all, they're usually pretty good. Heck just looking up I have some of their titles I lugged six hundred miles with me in my limited luggage allowance sitting over my computer. But there are obvious limits to what people are prepared to tolerate and this crosses them.
Ah well, guess that's another lost sale they'll chock up to piracy without sufficient corroborating evidence.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:38 pm
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The second reason it is dangerous is, as Lao Tzu noted in the past, If you treat people like criminals they will become criminals.
Indeed. If a legitimate copy is going to do this, then what are a whole lot of people going to do?
Aquire illegitimate copies.
(Or at least crack their legit ones.)
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It may still be an annoying DRM, and Squee really wouldn't put up with it still, but at least Bioware is putting the pressure on EA. Some of Squee's faith in the EA acquisition is restored
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