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May 20, 201611:34 PM
Your Creative Moment Of Zen tagged "Art"
I want my MTV. Yes, I am from that generation. A time when moving images were put to the hottest music, and every musician and band was forced to create a video representation of their audio landscape. Most bands, labels... Read more
March 11, 2016 8:57 PM
The Craft Of Marketing tagged "Art"
Is it just a job or the work that you were meant to do? I don't get tired of writing these words. I don't get tired of having conversations about business, and then turning them into a Six Pixels of... Read more
January 12, 2016 7:28 AM
A Blog Is Like Lemmy From Motorhead... And David Bowie tagged "Art"
On December 28th of last year, Lemmy from Motorhead died. Yesterday, David Bowie passed away. All the young dudes. Amazingly, a diverse as their musical genres were, they were both the kind of rock icon that all respected. They get... Read more
June 30, 201511:01 PM
Marketing Needs To Be About What's New tagged "Art"
The most creative ideas win. If you learned nothing else from all of the news coming out of the Cannes Lions advertising festival that our industry just wrapped, it's that big, hairy, audacious and creative ideas still get the most... Read more
May 21, 2015 7:39 AM
The Art Of LEGO tagged "Art"
"What do you want to do for a living?" All of us grapple with who we have become. The work that we do defines us. As a parent, this is the question that we most fantasize about. As an adult, this... Read more
December 18, 201411:02 PM
The Point Of Creativity In Business tagged "Art"
The point of creativity in business is to tell and/or sell. For some reason, the statement above is seen (by many) as some kind of defamation of creativity. A bastardization of the what art is. The proverbial selling of the... Read more
October 31, 2014 8:45 PM
The Biz Of Twitter tagged "Art"
Twitter has one of the most fascinating beginnings. The story of how Twitter came to be is a fascinating one. It's a melting pot of culture, technology, creativity, design and more. It's the story of people who were not afraid... Read more
January 31, 2014 8:11 PM
Hacking Art Education And The Creative Experience tagged "Art"
Is an education worth it? Is an education in art school worth it? There are many marketers that have (or are even thinking about) art education. It will not be news to anyone, that most students leave college in tremendous... Read more
September 6, 201310:18 PM
Some Of The Best (Non-Marketing) E-Newsletters To Make You A Better Business Leader tagged "Art"
Where do you find the things that inspire you? It should come as no surprise that content about marketing and smart marketers is one of the best places to get inspired about better ways to do your marketing. It's not... Read more
May 25, 2012 2:55 PM
The Blog Of Awesome tagged "Art"
In a sea of content, how do you make your stuff stand out? This was one of the questions I was asked during the Burning Questions Panel at this morning's C2 MTL conference. In short, my answer was: Be awesome... Read more
January 13, 2012 3:04 PM
The Power Of Being Vulnerable tagged "Art"
When you're vulnerable people connect more to whatever it is that you're doing. If we're going to talk about the work that we do as a form of art (as I believe it is - much in the same way,... Read more
October 27, 201110:20 PM
Unlimited Capacity tagged "Art"
What do you need to turn your ideas and thoughts into a reality? Painting is hard. First, you need the money to buy all of the materials (canvas, brushes, paints, easel, etc...), then you need years of practice to understand... Read more
September 29, 201110:25 PM
What Does Eight Years Of Blogging Get You? tagged "Art"
Eight years ago on this day in 2003, I started Blogging. Here's some basic info about what has transpired in eight years here at the Six Pixels of Separation Blog: over 2700 Blog entries, over 20,000 comments and over 270... Read more
September 22, 201111:34 PM
9 Glorious Truths About Creating Great Content tagged "Art"
Marketers don't like to make mistakes. People don't like to make mistakes. Content has become a core ingredient in the Marketer's recipe for success. The challenge is that creating great content is like creating art: it's not a perfect science... Read more
August 19, 2011 3:39 PM
Don't Quit... Yet tagged "Art"
Are you thinking of quitting Twitter or Facebook or Blogging? Google + is getting a lot of attention lately. The people that are really enjoying it are now considering quitting Facebook and Twitter for it. It's hard to say where... Read more
July 9, 2011 5:39 PM
Study Art tagged "Art"
The greatest thinkers and the greatest businesspeople have a passion for some kind of art. It's easy to get all smug about a comment like that and think to yourself, "it's easy for successful people to have a passion for... Read more
May 12, 201110:55 PM
Moving People Creates Movements tagged "Art"
What is art? It's a question that has been asked for as long as humans have done acts of creativity - from painting on cave walls to the architecture that surrounds us. Music is art and so to is the... Read more
April 22, 2011 8:32 PM
6 Documentaries To Get Your Creative Marketing Juices Flowing tagged "Art"
Creative inspiration can come from anywhere. For the past long while, my most creative inspiration has come from watching documentaries. There are six, in particular, that really stick out in my mind, and here they are in alphabetical order... -... Read more
April 16, 2011 1:44 PM
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #43 tagged "Art"
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and... Read more
April 1, 201110:45 PM
A Work Of Cinematic Proportions tagged "Art"
How often do you really (and truly) push yourself? On my flight home from the Media Bistro Socialize event in New York City yesterday, I watched an in-flight documentary on the making of the album, The Joshua Tree, by U2. I'm... Read more


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Crayola Model Magic is fun and safe for all ages. It's extremely lightweight and soft, and it air dries in 24 hours without needing firing or baking. Once dry, Model Magic can be carved or sanded. Paint it with tempera, watercolor, acrylic, enamel, or markers.
Model Magic is non-greasy. It doesn't stick to or stain skin or most types of clothing, and it doesn't flake or crumble, making clean-up easy. Just 4 oz (113 g) of Crayola Model Magic is equivalent to 1 lb (454 g) of traditional air dry clay, making it a terrific value!
Assorted Colors
A 2 lb bucket containing four 8 oz (227 g) pouches of modeling compound: Blue, Red, Yellow, and White.
Assorted Naturals
A 2 lb bucket containing four 8 oz (227 g) pouches of modeling compound: Bisque, Earth Tone, Terra Cotta, and White.
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A 2 lb bucket containing four 8 oz (227 g) pouches of modeling compound: Laser Lemon, Radical Red, Shocking Pink, and Yellow Green.
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Crayola's Model Magic Value Pack contains twelve 8 oz (227 g) pouches of white modeling compound. These "freshness pouches" can be stored away and used as needed. Value Packs are great for teaching several classes, and for larger projects.
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I always will use Model Magic especially for my little ones!
By skerley
from Independence MO
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I use this product for all my grades-K-4 but I especially like it for my K-1. You don't have to worry about it getting on their clothes, hair, the table or the floor. There is NO mess with this!! I also like this product for a quick project with my older students for the same reasons. There just isn't any mess to it. It is easy to paint when dry and it dries within 24 hours! If I could get by with it I would only use this type of clay but students need the experience of the real messy clays as I am told. I recommend this product to all my teacher friends including classroom teachers not just art teachers!!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Justin
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Great pricing.
Excellent for Large Groups!
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Multiple classes need clay and the individual packets make this so easy to use. Markers or paint work well on the dries masterpieces.
Best product per teachers...
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I ordered this product as part of a school supply campaign for local teachers. They were told they could order anything they needed for art instruction. By default, this must be a great product since any brand could have been selected.
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By Kelly
from North Carolina
Bought this in a large quantity, shipped quickly and arrived in good condition even with the heat of summer. The kids have loved playing with it and it dries in good time.
Kids love Model Magic!
By Neetzy
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We use Model Magic at the elementary schools where we do not have kilns. The kids love coloring it with markers. I ordered some as an end of the year treat for my 6th graders. I do have a kiln there, but we do not have the space or facilities for all twelve classes to use clay. It is great for those with sensory issues who do not like the feel of clay and it is a great product to learn 3-D modeling without a kiln.
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I ordered Crayola Dough (colored clay for little grandchildren) and it was overwhelmingly well received by both the kids and their respective sets of parents.A small glitch in delivery was handled smoothly and professionally by the Dick Blick Team, so all kids were happy simultaneously! Thanks. (Shipping glitches are very hard to explain to a three year old).Dick Blick is now confirmed as my "Go-To" source for all Grand Child gifts!
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We love Model Magic. I only buy the white. It is pricy but it does not crack or stick to your hands or the carpet. You can add color with markers while it is wet or dry (wet is better if you kneed it in) or you can paint it. The students always love it.
Awesome product at a great price!!!!
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Ordered the Crayola Model Magic for our Vacation Bible School. It is always of utmost importance to get a quality product for the best price available. dickblick totally delivered!!! With their excellent sale pricing and discount on shipping we were able to have a craft that otherwise we would have only dreamed about! Thanks dickblick!!!
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*Please read my previous review "IT"S NOT CLAY".I had to write an update review because I received such wonderful customer service. I didn't even try to return the Model magic after it didn't work out with the project we did, but I got reimbursed anyway! I just checked my email one day (about a week after I wrote my review) and Blick had sent me a message saying that they were reimbursing me for my Model Magic purchase. WOW! Now that is customer service! It doesn't get any better than that. We'll definitely be Blick customers from now on. Thanks Blick! We appreciate your courtesy, and we'll be ordering from you in the future. ***As I said before the Model Magic is a good product, just not for projects you would use traditional clay for, but I had to give a 5 star review for exceptional customer service.
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BDay Evening Flight, pt1
We really had no expectations when we went to the flyin Bday party for our dear friend Scottie, but one would think with so many aircraft, you might just get your feet off the ground. After a great BBQ, Scottie said, "Lets get a shooting mission going!" Within seconds my bud Kevin was in one plane and Sharon & I were in another with aircraft taxing down the grass strip and launching. Wow…fun doesn't even come close to expressing what came next! And I was very exciting to have my first air to air opportunity to work with the D800 with MB-D12 attached along with the 70-200VR2 ring in the air. Just a few months ago I did my first air to air with the D4 and just before that, the D3x. So to see how the D800 would translate off the ground, I just couldn't wait!
This is a 1955 V-35B Bonanza that was my first subject for the evening. John & Arron at the stick did a great job. Steve flying the Cessna 170 we were in flew a great path so all I had to do was watch the light and background and shoot. And the D800, it did a great job! I simply can't rant enough how that MB-D12 has made all the difference in my shooting experience with the D800. That extra mass especially when shooting out the window of the 172 was key in making a sharp click. It was a great evening and…it wasn't over yet!


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Family Dollar's Board May Need Hell-or-High-Water Antitrust Guarantee
Family Dollar Stores Inc. probably needs Dollar General Corp. to want the company "come hell or high water."
Family Dollar's board cited antitrust concerns when it rejected Dollar General's bid for the company Thursday, saying that Dollar General's promise to divest 700 stores may not be enough to gain approval by regulators.
As the WSJ's Dealpolitik columnist Ronald Barusch wrote this week, Dollar General's bid came with relatively weak antitrust protections.
If regulators said that Dollar General's plan to divest 700 stores isn't enough to keep dollar store competition healthy, Dollar General would have been able to walk away from the deal, leaving Family Dollar at the altar after it gave up a lower but likely safer bid from Dollar Tree Inc.
Family Dollar may be willing to give Dollar General's offer another look if the bidder included a so-called hell-or-high-water clause in its next approach, several investors said. Such a clause would mean that Dollar General would do anything regulators require to get the deal done. So far, Dollar General has shied away from that.
Skipping out on such a guarantee is a bold move by Dollar General in what's widely considered to be a seller's market. In recent months, according to several interviews with M&A bankers and lawyers, buyers have been willing to up the ante and promise sellers much better guarantees to ensure the deal closes easily and swiftly, these deal makers say.
Trian Fund Management LP's Nelson Peltz, whose fund holds a board seat and a stake in Family Dollar, said he supports the Dollar Tree takeover because of the antitrust concerns surrounding a Dollar General deal. Several investors interviewed Thursday echoed his concern.
Still, by early afternoon Thursday, Dollar General swung back, noting its disappointment at Family Dollar for not being willing to discuss the offer in any further detail. The company said once again that it is confident that any antitrust issues can be resolved.
On a conference call earlier this week, Dollar General's CEO called Wal-Mart and potentially Amazon.com competitors, but the dollar stores tend to undercut both retailers on price, so regulators might not consider them to be real competition.
Sachin Shah, a merger arbitrage strategist at Albert Fried & Company LLC said he thinks there's plenty of competition and Family Dollar is simply citing antitrust concerns as a way to scuttle the deal or push up the offer price.
Mr. Shah pointed to an analysis the Federal Trade Commission wrote after their decision to allow the merger between Men's Wearhouse Inc. and Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. Mr. Shah said he thinks the agency's analysis suggests that it would be willing to he thinks the agency's analysis shows it would be willing to clear a merger of the number one and two dollar store chains.
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Still, it's unclear if it would only be passed with further divestitures. In that case, the question is whether Dollar General's offer still makes economic sense if the company is forced to sell many more than the 700 stores they've promised so far. Several analysts and investors said the math may not work.
Dollar General and Carl Icahn, who had been pushing for Family Dollar to sell to Dollar General, have both raised the possibility of another motive: Whether Family Dollar chose Dollar Tree so CEO Howard Levine could keep his job.
Family Dollar could not be reached for an immediate comment.
No matter the reasons for the rejection, one thing is clear: The dollar-store war won't end here.
Several investors say that Family Dollar could be forced to accept Dollar General's all-cash offer if they get stronger antitrust provisions. But it's too soon to say whether Dollar General will consider that.
UPDATE: This post was updated to state that Trian holds a board seat at Family Dollar. An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Trian's Nelson Peltz serves on the board of Family Dollar.


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BANGALORE: The GVK group is likely to take management control of the Bangalore International Airport (BIAL), five months after buying L&T and Zurich Airport's stake to emerge as the southern airport's second-highest shareholder.
The GVK Group, which also operates the Mumbai International Airport, is in talks with Siemens, Airport Authority of India (AAI), the Karnataka government and also Zurich Airport to facilitate this change, two key officials familiar with the development said. The BIAL board is expected to meet in Bangalore some time this week to discuss the proposed change. A BIAL statement to ET declined to provide a specific answer.


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Although more than 11,500 dog tags were issued in Washington County in 2012, dog warden Kelly Schubert said most of the canines she encounters are lacking the identifying item.
"More often do I run into an untagged dog than I run into a tagged dog," she said.
County residents have a chance to change that at a reduced rate this month. Dog tags are being sold by the county for $16 through Jan. 31. After that date, the price rises to $32 and residents whose pooches aren't tagged can be subject to a $150 fine.
"It's a minor misdemeanor if you don't license your dog," Schubert said.
That might not be the only expense associated with not licensing a dog.
"If I pick up a dog and it has a license, I can look up the license and take it home instead of taking it to the Humane Society," Schubert said.
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Washington County dog tags will be sold at the following locations and times for $16:
Tuesday - Newport Peoples Savings Bank, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Thursday- Beverly Village Hall, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Friday - Barlow Farmers Bank, 1 to 5 p.m.
Jan. 23 - Belpre City Hall, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Jan. 24 - Belpre City Hall, 4 to 7 p.m.
Jan. 25 - New Matamoras Peoples Savings Bank, noon to 4 p.m.
Jan. 28 - Lower Salem Peoples Savings Bank, noon to 1 p.m.
Jan. 30 - Bartlett Farmers Bank, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dog tags can also be purchased at the county auditor's office on the second floor of the courthouse or at the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley, 90 Mount Tom Road, Marietta.
Source: Washington County Sheriff's Office.
Once the animal is at the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley shelter on Mount Tom Road, the owner would have to pay a reclamation fee to get it back, likely be cited for failing to register their dog and still have to buy the tag - for $32.
That's if their dog is still there.
Shelter manager Steve Herron said state law requires dogs to be put up for adoption once they've been at the shelter for three days without being claimed.
The shelter is always in a crunch for space, although that will be alleviated somewhat this week when 32 dogs are taken by rescue operations or adopted, Herron said. Some of those animals could have an owner already, but many people don't think to check the shelter if their dog goes missing, he said.
The simplest way to deal with it is to license the dog, Herron said.
"We had one come in last night (with a tag), so within an hour-and-a-half process, it was back home," he said.
Dog tags are on sale during regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the Washington County Auditor's Office on the second floor of the courthouse at Second and Putnam streets in Marietta. They can also be purchased year-round at the Humane Society shelter.
In addition, tags are being sold at various locations around the county for the rest of the month.
Kennel tags are $80 for five dogs, with a $1 fee per additional tag. The price goes to $160 after Jan. 31.
A dog's tags must be renewed each year.


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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Drugs and Alcohol Quotes
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Quote #4
"This is mosquito netting. This is a bottle of vermouth. You like vermouth? These are the English papers." (11.12)
Everybody brings Frederic presents and booze! The priest doesn't seem flirty like Rinaldi, but he too wants to please Frederic and knows just what to bring him. The culture of alcohol is intense.
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"Will you have a drink, Dr. Valentini?"
"A drink? Certainly. I will have ten drinks. Where are they?" (16.76-77)
The doctors that Frederic doesn't like refuse his offer for drinks. Does Dr. Valentini's willingness to drink contribute to Frederic's trust in him?
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"I suppose you can't be blamed for not wanting to go back to the front. But I should think you would try something more intelligent than producing jaundice with alcoholism." (22.18)
Miss Van Campen is the voice of reason. As Frederic points out, her claim sounds rather ridiculous. It's unlikely that Frederic thought, "I'll drink until I totally screw up my liver." She's also mocking the actual soldiers who intentionally wound themselves to stay out of the war. Ironically, she's reacting that way because she thinks Frederic is mocking the men who are fighting, by lying in bed drinking while other men are fighting.


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We have a diverse natural population of 160 isolates of S. sclerotiorum collected from various crops in 24 states from the west to the east coast of the United States. These diverse isolates will be genotyped using the Ion Torrent Personal Genomics Machine (PGM). We have modified and adapted a restriction site associated DNA mapping method, a form of genotype by sequencing and optimized it to run on the PMG. We expect to identify 10,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) at unique loci across the 38 Mb genome of S. sclerotiorum. This would place a molecular marker about every 4 kb in each of the 160 isolates. This density of SNP markers would facilitate high-resolution association mapping to identify genes underlying loci contributing to phenotypic variation. Generation of a genetic database with free access to this genotyping data will greatly benefit the research community and provide a tool that is essential to utilize the publicly available S. sclerotiorum genome sequence.


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Obama proposes $50 billion infrastructure bill
In his Labor Day speech to union members in Milwaukee the president, aiming for a serious reduction in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate, proposed a new $50 billion jobs plan.
Great day for labor: Obama goes to Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE -- There was one clear message everyone in the crowd at Laborfest here took home with them September 6: the true meaning of Labor Day.
Labor Day 2010: Fighting for the American dream
Workers are thinking about more than burgers, football and car races with latest unemployment figures, up to 9.6 percent.
Labor Day: President Obama goes to Milwaukee's LaborFest
MILWAUKEE (PAI)--The President of the United States - along with his Secretary of Labor and the president of the national AFL-CIO - will be special Labor Day guests at Milwaukee's LaborFest.


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Two owners die trying to save their dogs
In Houston and Philadelphia, sad stories emerged at the end of the last week of humans who, while trying to save the lives of their dogs, lost their own.
In Philadelphia, a woman was struck and killed Friday night as she ran onto a set of railroad tracks to save her dog from an oncoming commuter train, police said.
The woman, who police described as in her 40s and from out-of-state, was standing on the platform of the Bryn Mawr station about 6 p.m. when her dog got loose and bounded onto the rails, according to Lower Merion Township police.
The woman was waiting for a train when her dog got loose. She chased the black Chihuahua onto the tracks as an eastbound SEPTAtrain pulled into the station. She was killed instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The dog was recovered without injuries and taken to an animal hospital.
In the Houston arrea, Harris County sheriff's Deputy Eddie Wotipka drowned late Thursday as he attempted to rescue one of his dogs from a canal near his home in Baytown.
The 51-year-old officer had pulled up to his home in his patrol unit and was told by neighbors his dogs were running loose near an industrial canal.
Wotipka saw his English bulldog go into the canal and plunged in after her. He resurfaced once then went under again. Wotipka's body was recovered the next morning about 150 feet from where he entered the canal, the Houston Chronicle reported. The dog also died.
Wotipka joined the department in 1993 and was known as a lover of dogs. While in his patrol cruiser a week ago, he slammed on his brakes to avoid a stray dog in the middle of the road, then ended up bringing the dog, who he named Skidmark, home.
The police officers' union is planning a fundraiser for the Wotipka family on July 31.
Posted by John Woestendiek June 14th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, bryn mawr, canal, chihuahua, dead deaths, deputy, die, dog, drowned, drowning, eddie wotipka, english bulldog, harris county, houston, killed, news, officer, ohmidog!, owners, pets, philadelphia, rescue, rescuing, save, saving, septa, sheriff's, train
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Search on for dog woman died trying to save
The search continued yesterday for Gollum, a small Italian Greyhound whose owner died trying to save him and her other two dogs from an icy pond in Texas.
Police say the other two dogs and their owner, Andrea Benua, drowned in the pond Monday.
Gollum is believed not to have dronwned,but he disappeared after the accident. Benua's family and friends are trying to find him, they say, because it's what Benua would have wanted. Benua and her husband had no children, only the dogs, WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth reports.
Benua frequently donated to animal shelters and her friends and family asked that anyone wishing to honor her memory do the same.
Posted by John Woestendiek January 14th, 2010 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: andrea benua, dallas, dogs, drowned, drowning, drowns, fort worth, gollum, ice, italian greyhound, pond, rescue, save, search, texas, trying, video
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USDA releases confidential Vick documents
The United States Department of Agriculture, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, released hundreds of pages of new evidence last week from its investigation of NFL quarterback Michael Vick to Atlanta's WSBTV.
The documents include summaries of interrogations by federal investigators with member of Vick's dogfighting ring and confidential informants in the case.
Among the revelations:
• A confidential informant told investigators that Vick drowned dogs, shot them to death and killed others "with a shovel."
• A Delta Airlines employee from Virginia was fired "when he attempted to get Vick around security" during the peak of the dog fighting operation. Vick "felt responsible" and went on to hire the employee.
• In 2003, Vick and two other men attended a dog fight in Blackstone, Va., bringing with them two pit bulls. Both lost so the dogs were left with the owner of the property. Vick did not keep dogs that lost matches.
• In April 2007, Vick tested several dogs to determine if they had the predisposition to fight. He ordered six or eight dogs destroyed because they did not meet his standards. The witness said Vick personally helped drown three or four dogs, a process that took two people to hold the animal's legs while the dog's head was held under water. Vick also hung dogs.
• The witness told investigators Vick "seemed to get an 'adrenaline high' when killing the dogs."
Vick served nearly two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal animal fighting charge. He was released in 2009 and joined the Philadelphia Eagles.
WSBTV.COM submitted the request for the records in March 2008. The information was delivered by the USDA last week.
Posted by John Woestendiek January 12th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: act, adrenaline, atlanta falcons, department of agriculture, documents, dog fighting, dogfighting, dogs, drowned, freedom of information, high, killed, killing, michael vick, philadelphia eagles, ring operation, usda
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Two brothers die trying to save dog from lake
Two brothers died while trying to rescue their dog from an icy Northern California lake.
The men were identified by the Shasta County Coroner's office as Noel Smith, 38, of Burney, and Nathan Smith, 32, of Citrus Heights, according to the Record Searchlight in Redding.
Three men — all believed to be brothers, possibly on a fishing trip — went into the water after their dog fell through the ice, which was about three inches thick, at the Big Lake boat launch in McArthur. One managed to swim back to shore, but is suffering severe hypothermia.
Paramedics were unable to revive the other two, who had been submerged for several minutes under the icy water as firefighters and volunteers searched for them in a duck hunter's boat.
Rescuers located the two men and performed CPR, but were unable to revive them.
The dog survived and was later found on shore.
Posted by John Woestendiek December 22nd, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: big lake, brothers, california, die, dog, drown, drowned, ice, icy, lake, mcarthur, nathan smith, noel smith, rescue, shasta county
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Resurgence seen in "crush" videos, HSUS says
Animal "crush" videos — recorded depictions of extreme, and generally fatal, animal cruelty — have undergone a resurgence, ten years after they led to the passage of federal anti-animal cruelty laws, the Humane Society of the United States says.
With the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of a federal anti-animal cruelty law on Oct. 6, the HSUS revealed the results of a new investigation showing that such videos are widely available on the Internet, despite the decade-old law, and even more so since it was struck down by an appellate court last July.
The enactment of the Federal Depiction of Animal Cruelty Law in 1999 halted the proliferation of animal crushing operations, the HSUS said. The law has also been used to crack down on commercial dogfighting operations.
"The federal Depiction of Animal Cruelty Law is the only tool available to crack down on this horrific form of extreme animal cruelty," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. "We wouldn't allow the sale of videos of actual child abuse or murder staged for the express purpose of selling videos of such criminal acts, and the same legal principles apply to despicable acts of animal cruelty."
Pacelle wrote about the crushing issue on his blog yesterday.
The videos and photographs show, among other things, women, often in high-heeled shoes, impaling and crushing puppies, kittens and other small animals. Read more »
Posted by John Woestendiek September 16th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abuse, animal, animal cruelty, appelate, burned, cats, courts, crush, crushing, depictions, dogs, drowned, federal, hammers, hamsters, high heels, hsus, humane society of the united states, internet, investigation, kittens, law, mice, nails, puppies, rabbits, sales, struck down, supreme court, torture, video, videos, wayne pacelle
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Artist drowns in lake after saving his dog
Vasily Fedorouk, an internationally acclaimed sculptor, drowned Sunday after saving his dog, Era, from Horsetail Lake, outside Chicago.
The 2 1/2 -year-old German hunting terrier went into the lake to fetch a ball but got caught in some vegetation. Fedorouk, 59, jumped into the lake and freed the dog, but wound up getting entangled himself, according to the Chicago Tribune.
"He was waving his hands in the water," his wife, Dilbara Arapova said. "At first I thought he was joking. Then he went underwater and I started to scream. I couldn't help him. I can't swim."
Another man at the scene, who also couldn't swim, called police on a cell phone. By the time police and paramedics arrived, eight minutes later, Arapova said, it was too late.
Fedorouk was found submerged in 6 to 8 feet of water. An official with the Cook County medical examiner's office said Fedorouk died of accidental drowning. Arapova said police told her that Fedorouk apparently got caught in fishing line.
On Monday, Arapova and her son, Anton Fedorouk, 24, described the sculptor as a hardworking, passionate artist. "He would work from sunup to sundown on his sculptures," Arapova said. "That was his passion. He would want to be remembered for his art. He told me that after he dies, his art will still live on forever."
Fedorouk, who immigrated to the United States with his wife from Ukraine in 1992, attended the Lviv Academy of the Arts, in Lviv Ukraine, in the mid-1970s.
Anton Fedorouk was not surprised that his father risked his life for Era. "He loved our dog. He would do anything to save it."
(Photo from vasilyfedorouk.com)
Posted by John Woestendiek August 26th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: artist, chicago, dilbara arapova, dog, drowned, drowning, drowns, era, fishing line, horsetail lake, rescue, saves, saving, sculptor, ukraine, vasily fedorouk, weeds
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More cat torture, this time in the county
If you were thinking unthinkably cruel animal torture was strictly an urban phenomenon, take a look — if you have the stomach for it — at this item from the Northeast Booster.
The Booster — an Internet conglomeration of recycled news from Baltimore area newspapers — reports that three men were arrested and charged with animal cruelty Thursday after they allegedly tortured a cat in a microwave, then put it in a freezer, then tossed it into a river.
Kevin Abel, 19, Scott McDowell, 18, and Richard Rioux, 25, were all arrested last week in connection with the cat's death, which occurred July 31 in the Edgemere area, according to Bill Toohey, a Baltimore County police spokesman.
Abel, who lives in White Marsh, was house sitting for a friend when he apparently invited the other two men over.
Toohey said the cat was spun on the floor, beaten, placed on ceiling fan, put in the microwave, and closed in the freezer before being placed in a bag with rocks and tossed into Back River, off Lynch Point.
The next day, the owner of the cat — whose identity wasn't revealed — was informed by McDowell that the animal was dead. All three men were intoxicated at the time of the incident, Toohey said.
Abel, Rioux, of White Marsh, and McDowell, of Sparrows Point, were all charged with animal cruelty. A hearing for all three is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Oct. 29 in District Court in Essex.
Posted by John Woestendiek August 15th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abuse, animal cruelty, animals, arrests, baltimore county, cat, ceiling fan, dead, drowned, edgemere, freezer, killeld, microwave, pets, police, river, sparrows point, torture, tortured, white marsh
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Newmills Corn and Flax Mills (Irish: An Muileann Úr - Muilte Arbhair agus Lín) are situated on the R250, Churchill road, beside Newmills Bridge on the south bank of the River Swilly, 5 km west of Letterkenny in the small town of Milltown in County Donegal, Ireland. It features one of the largest, still working, waterwheels in the country. The millrace is 1 km long and powers two separate millheels, one for grinding oats and barley and the other for flax.
Corn and flax mills have been located there since the early 1800s when the Joseph Hunter. This combination of corn and flax mills is found mainly in Ulster where both types of mill were intimately linked to the surrounding farming economy. In 1861, Joseph Hunter sold the mills to John Devine and when Patrick Gallagher moved to Newmills in 1892, he bought the complex from William Devine, John's son. In addition to the mills, Gallagher purchased a residence, public house, grocery and ancillary buildings, including a scutcher's cottage This was located in a field beside the mill pond. The complex also included a forge on the opposite side of the road as well as a sizable farm of land. The business at Newmills was continued by his son, P.F. Gallagher until his death in 1980.
In 1892 the buildings were in a very poor state of repair and, according to the Valuation Office, the corn mills were disused and had been converted to use as farm buildings. Patrick Gallagher made extensive improvements to the corn mill around 1907 when he fitted the waterwheel present today as well as improving the machinery within the mill. During the Second World War, P.F. Gallagher took advantage of the revival of the flax industry when the British Government offered grants to increase the production of flax to guarantee the supply of linen for the war effort. He demolished a small single-storey flax mill in the early 1940s to make way for the relatively modern looking building. The public house and grocery were an important part of the whole enterprise and proved quite successful in the early years of the 20th century. Indeed, a lively export trade developed and when Sir Thomas Lipton started his grocery business in Glasgow, he received his first consignment of butter, bacon, eggs from Newmills.
The importance of Newmills was recognised in a 1978 An Foras Forbatha inventory of industrial archaeological monuments which identified it as by far the best example of a mill complex in County Donegal. In 1986, the mills were purchased by the state for preservation as a national monument.
The Corn Mill
The corn mill handled mainly oats as well as barley and maize all of which were grown locally. The mill is a three-storey building and all the apparatus of the mill, stone, sieves, bucket elevators, fans and a sack hoist are powered by a 7.63 metre (25 ft) waterwheel manufactured by J.Stevenson's Strabane Foundry in 1867. The waterwheel turned at three revoulutions a minute generating eight horsepower which was transferred from the waterwheel to the mill apparatus by means of gearing and belting. The building also housed a kiln for drying the grain. Harry Pinkerton from Raphoe, the miller at Newmills for some years after the Second World War, stated that the mill was in operation nearly all year round. From the harvest in late summer right up to April or May the following year the mill was engaged in grinding the locally-grown grains. During the summer months, animal-feed was prepared, usually by mixing maize with oats.
The first processing of the grain that had been delivered by the farmer to the mill was to dry it. The grain was spread to a depth of around 15cm (6ins) on the drying floor, made up of perforated metal plates on the ground floor. These were heated by the kiln on the lowerground floor, which was fired with a mulled coal, a smokeless fuel, somewhat like anthracite. Turf was not used as it gave the oats an unpleasant flavour. The kiln could dry two tonnes of oats a day, but this could be increased to another half tonne by putting on a load over night.
The grain was then moved to the shelling stones, one or two sets of stones on the ground floor. These separated the hull or husk from the kernel of the grain. The kernels were then ground into oatmeal by the grinding or milling stones. These were usually of a stone known as French burr. The grinding faces had to be dressed or picked at regular intervals to keep the cutting edges sharp. The upper or runner stone could be raised or lowered depending on whether fine, pinhead or coarse oatmeal was required. The meal was lifted to the first floor or upper level where it was cleaned, winnowed and sieved on a series of shakers and fans located there. After this, it was taken back to the lower ground floor to be bagged and then hoisted to the storage area to await collection. Using an ingenious combination of hoists, belts, pulleys and elevators, the whole milling process was highly mechanised and could be managed without too much difficulty by one man. It took 75kg (1.25cwt) of oats to make 50kg (1cwt) of meal, although it could be more depending on the quality of the oats. The ground meal was weighed by the miller and muthered, which meant that the miller retained 4.5kg (10lbs) of meal from every 50kg bag, as payment for his work. Original family home, still on the grounds is presently owned by Robert Kryger , of New York, Grandson of Sarah Gallagher , who was sister of Patrick Gallagher.
5km west of Letterkenny on the R250 leading to Churchill
27th May - 31 August. Daily 10am-6pm, 1-29 September: Wednesday - Sunday 10am-6pm. Last Admission 45 minutes before closing. Average Length of Visit 1 hour.
Exhibition, Car Park, Toilet, Disabled Toilets. Photography Allowed. Commercial photography requires permission.
Ards Forest Park and Beach within 26.2 km
Balleighan / Balleeghan Franciscan Abbey within 14 km
Carrowkeel (Kerrykeel-Gortnavern) Dolmen within 23.2 km
Church of the Good Shepherd, Church of Ireland, Sion Mills within 27 km
Doe Castle Ruins within 22.9 km
Dunlewey Parish Church (Moneymore) within 24.4 km
Dunlewy / Dunlewey Church Riuns within 21.7 km
Errigal Mountain within 22.7 km
Glenveagh National Park, Castle and Gardens within 15.5 km
Grianan of Aileach within 26 km
Killydonnell Franciscan Friary within 15.7 km
Lurgyvale Thatched Cottage, Kilmacrennan within 11.4 km
Rathmullan Carmelite Priory Friary within 25.1 km
St. Aengus Church, Roman Catholic, Burt within 27.1 km
St. Eunan's Cathedral, Roman Catholic, Letterkenny within 4.9 km
Carriage, Corcreggan Mill Hostel within 29.2 km
Errigal Hostel within 22.1 km
Casey's Caravan and Camping Park, Downings within 29.5 km


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Democracy basically means rule of the people living in a state by the citizens of that state. But as not even only two individuals can ever agree exactly what they want, democracy can never be perfect. Indeed, the first democracy in the world –Ancient Athens–was far from a perfect democracy, especially as many of the people living in that "democracy" were slaves and not citizens and had no say at all in how they were ruled.
When once states grew beyond the size of comparatively small City States like ancient Athens , direct democracy in which, in principle, all the people lounged around in a forum and decided what they wanted, direct democracy became impossible. Instead states which aspired to be democracies turned to some form of representative democracy in which, for example, the people elected representatives who were to represent their views in some form of Parliament which itself had some role in electing or controlling a government.
I am not proposing to discuss forms of representative democracy today: these vary greatly in the numerous purportedly democratic states in the world. Nor am I going to discuss limitations of the autonomy of a state's citizens caused by the diplomatic or military intervention of other states, such as Russia's current intervention in the affairs of Ukraine.
Rather, I am going to discuss the general decline in the role of democratically elected governments in the governance of the states which they purport to rule, and the rapidly increasing role of large capitalist corporations in that governance.
I am concerned here with the ability of representative democratic institutions to devise and implement policies related to the economic and social welfare of a state's citizens. The state's capability in such roles can never be absolute. If, as is general, people in one country work to create products and services to be bought by citizens of other countries; and if they also want to buy some of the goods and services produced by citizens of other states, the terms of such trade cannot normally be determined unilaterally by any one state, or by the citizens who work in it. But the growing power of often huge transnational corporations affects the welfare of people in several states by their unilateral decisions taken in order to increase their own profits.
A central tenet of democracy is that everybody should have equal rights. It might be reasonable to suppose that an "ideal" democratic economic system would take as its first priority the satisfaction of every person in the world's basic needs before it went on to satisfy people's less urgent wants and desires. But no conceivable economic system could approach close to such an ideal. However, the central contention of this talk is that the extent to which modern capitalism diverges from such an ideal is excessive; and that, a better world in which movements towards such an ideal would be more rapid and coherent is feasible.
Economic and social inequality is extreme throughout the world, and is becoming more extreme.. To some extent, the world's economy is moving in the direction of improving the welfare of poor and disadvantaged people through the benefits of economic growth being extended to many more poor people, for example in China and India. But there are several ways in which it is moving in different, far less desirable directions.
I want to talk about five important groups of " weapons" which large transnational corporations use in combination very effectively to sustain and increase their influence over economic decision making at the expense of democracy.
These are:
1. Control over the direction in which technology is developed, exercised by their ownership of Research and Development laboratories and resources used to design and develop new products
2. The enormous and effective effort and expenditure they deploy in lobbying governments and international organisations to influence them to implement policies favourable to capitalism in general and to their own particular industries and activities.
3. Cost reduction. Traditionally, companies have achieved cost reductions by putting increasing pressure on workers to work faster; also through mechanisation, and subsequently automation of production and other processes. Since the 1970s, the transfer of manufacturing operations in particular from developed countries, where labour is relatively expensive, to developing countries where labour is cheap – in some cases, very cheap indeed – has played an increasing role. None of these "weapons" is inherently bad. But it is the ways in which these resources are deployed in combination which has been having an increasingly damaging effect on the interests of people (especially poor people) and on democracy, especially in the last sixty years or so.
4. Arranging transactions between their branches in different countries so as to minimise the total taxes they pay. For example, Amazon has a huge operation in Britain but pays no Corporation Tax because its profits are allocated to countries such as tax havens where much lower taxes are exacted.
5. Decisions whether particular products or services should be provided by private corporations, by public corporations or by voluntary or mutual organisations are surely decisions that should be made democratically by the people in a country. But that is not always so. Health services are a prime example of external influences from other countries and Inernational Organisations being brought to bear on Governments in favour privately provided provision rather than state provision.
1. Technological change
As Joseph Schumpeter wrote about sixty years ago:
"the capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses" It is the cheap cloth, boots, motorcars ,and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production… The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort."(Schumpeter, 1954: 67)
Revolution in production methods and in the products available result in "an avalanche of consumer goods". "the capitalist process…..by virtue of its mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses." (page 68). A modern workman can buy a far greater quantity and variety of goods per hour worked than his forefathers could have bought.
So far so good, but let us take the case of agriculture and food production.
Soil conditions and climate in developing countries are very different (and diverse) throughout the world. But many millions of people are deprived of opportunities of gainful employment by the control of a high proportion of food amd agricultural production by a few enormous corporations which concentrate it on a very restricted range of crop varieties, produced intensively using capital and input intensive large scale production methods. Technology is developed and deployed on a large scale to support these production methods. This in turn accelerates rural unemployment and stimulates the movement of huge numbers of people from the countryside into already overcrowded huge cities in which there is already massive unemployment. Intensive food marketing efforts result in the creation of markets for foods of little nutritional value.
Perhaps the largest social movement the world has ever known is the Food Sovereignty Movement. Its principal manifestation is La Via Campesina, a loose association of peasants and small farmers which has at least 200 million members, and possibly as many as 300 million. The principles of Food Sovereignty can be summarised as "the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems"
But the principal organisations which deploy Research and Development for agricultural production are large multinational corporations. For example, such organisations develop and apply Genetic Modification. principally to meet the demand from food processors and farmers in developed countries.). They use GM to try to develop and market standard solutions (for the whole world) that involve the intensification of agriculture which is often environmentally disastrous.
The enormous numbers of people in the Food Sovereignty movement worldwide have very little power in contrast with the transnational agriculture and food corporations.
2. Lobbying National Governments and the EU
In the United States in the 1920s lobbyists from the oil, tire and automobile industries persuaded federal and state governments to undertake the huge expense of constructing highway networks.(In addition, General Motors took over and dismantled competitive public transport systems , including railways and tramways ).
In November 2013, George Monbiot reported that the British government's subsidy system for gas-burning power stations is being designed by an executive who has been seconded into the Department of Energy: he works for ESB International which builds gas-burning power stations. And that a government minister, Nick Boles, has privately assured the gambling company Ladbrokes that it need o't worry about attempts by local authorities to stop the spread of betting shops. His new law will prevent councils from taking action. Lord Green, a government trade minister requires that large companies have ministerial "buddies", who have to meet them when the companies request it. Previously, Lord Green was chairman of the HSBC Bank.
The European Union and the USA are negotiating a huge trade deal – the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP). If agreed, TTIP will give corporations the power to overturn democratically decided laws on everything from environmental protections to food safety, through a system of secret courts that only corporations would have access to. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will include investor-state dispute settlement. Where this has been included in other trade agreements, it has allowed big corporations to sue governments before secretive arbitration panels composed of corporate lawyers, which bypass domestic courts and override the will of parliaments.
Thismechanism could threaten almost any means by which governments might seek to defend their citizens or protect the natural world. Already this sort of mechanism has been included in trade treaties. It is already being used by mining companies to sue governments trying to keep them out of protected areas; by banks fighting financial regulation. In Australia, the huge tobacco corporation Phillip Morris is suing the government , challenging its tough anti-smoking laws. The German government is being sued by Vattenfall, a Swedish nuclear power group, for wanting to phase out nuclear power.
The corporations have most of the power over decision-making already, and their power is increasing almost daily.
3 Cost reduction
Especially since the 1970s,companies have outsourced operations –especially manufacturing – from developed to developing countries primarily to increase profitability by lowering employment costs. This has generated huge amounts of employment in developing countries, in particular in China, which are very much to be welcomed. But the power of large companies to offer significant amounts of employment –or to withdraw it –offers companies very considerable power over nation states in relation to a wide variety of policies –from employment, taxation to environmental policies. Companies also achieve lower costs by operating in less regulated environments, and such environments may also involve increased pollution and decreased safety for workers than would be acceptable in developed countries.
The most important industry where this has happened is clothing. The biggest clothing manufacturing country is China, with India and Bangladesh growing fast. Massive employent has been created in sch countries, and rich countries benefit from being able to buy very cheap clothing. But corporations keep wages low, and resist Government regulations and trade union pressure for better working conditions. In the extreme case, this can result in the tragic loss of life which happened as a consequence of the factory collapses in Bangladesh last year.
Often, corporations negotiate with national governments, and put pressure on them to compete with other governments to offer "good terms" to secure employment for creating employment in their countries. "Good terms" for the corporations include avoiding the need to spend money on the health and safety of workers and avoiding the need to spend money on reducing pollution of the environment, and, of course, paying low wages to workers. What does that do to the democratic rights of workers in those countries to enjoy safe ,healthy and fulfilling lives?
The Headquarters of most such corporations are based in developed countries, but increasingly that are based in rapidly developing countries such as India and China. Tata, a huge Indian conglomerate, owns a vast variety of companies in 80 countries, including Jaguar Rover which manufactures luxury vehicles in Britain and Tata Global Beverages which own Tetley Tea. Tetley Tea owns tea plantations in Northern India where people, including children, are paid less than $3 a day to pick tea .they work very long hours, often have to spray noxious pesticides with little protection. Their homes are decrepit, open to wind and rain. Overflowing latrines have created cesspools in the areas where employees and their families live. The Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, which visited 17 of 24 Tata plantations during two years of its own investigation. Senior plantation managers told the researchers not to listen to the workers because they had "low IQs" and were "like cattle." These comments reflect the caste system which exists in the plantations in Assam. The tea workers come from two marginalized communities — Adivasis (indigenous people) and Dalits (the so-called "untouchable" caste). They remain trapped in the lowest employment positions on the plantation, where they are routinely treated as social inferiors, even though discrimination against lower castes is illegal in India.
Such appalling conditions are not confined to developing countries Slaughterhouse and meat packing workers are poorly paid for long hours and for tedious, dirty, repetitive work using dangerous tools. They often work in excessively hot or cold temperatures and sustain injuries from animals, other workers and their own errors in a pressurized environment in which speed is of the essence.
Is all this democracy at work?
The World Bank is launching a full investigation into what it calls the "potentially significant adverse" environmental and social impacts on plantations owned by Tata. But the influence of international organisations such as the World Bank is not generally benign. They have exerted influence in favour of low priority for expenditure on health care in relation to expenditure on promoting economic growth based on stimulating international trade. The influence of international organisations –and pressures exerted by them – have generally favoured private delivery over public delivery of goods and services such as clean water and health care, and this has generally been against the interests of poor people and especially of those living in developing countries. The World Trade Organisation believes that public services should be opened up to international capital and that this would benefit both globalization and education However, further opening up the markets of poor nations to transnational corporations is liable to create greater inequalities between rich and poor nations. Education is increasingly treated as a tradable commodity as opposed to a public good in wealthier parts of the globe, with learners increasingly referred to as customers, clients or consumers. Indeed international organisations actively promote policies which look after the interests of capitalism rather than the , intersts of people , because a high proportion of the leaders of these organisations are now committed to the mistaken belief that close co-operation with major trans national corporations is invariably beneficial to the economies of developing countries.
In addition, International organisations such as the World Bank have often backed massive programmes of dam building in developing countries so as ot stimulate economic growth. This has meant displacing millions of people from areas which have to be flooded to permit construction of dams. The displaced people have little scope to express their resistance to such projects which usually wreck their lives.
4..Allocation of Corporations' profits between the various countries in which they operate.
States compete with other to offer lower taxes to corporations to encourage them to locate in their countries. This denies the democratic rights of people.to set the taxes they pay.
5. Decisions whether services should be provided privately or not
The World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the Pan Amercan Health Organisation and the U.S, National Institutes of Health have been influential in persuading developing country governments, especially in Latin America to adopt voluntary health insurance as the best way of coping with developing countries' problems of health provision. Privatisation has not generally succeeded in improving access to health services for vulnerable groups in Latin America. Although its impact has differed among Latin American countries, expansion of private insurance has generally worsened access to needed services. Privatisation, either through conversion of public sector to private sector insurance, or by expansion of private insurance through enhanced participation by corporate entrepreneurs, has usually improved conditions for private corporations and has led to higher administrative costs.
State –run health systems are likely to offer better services to the community as a whole than systems based on private health insurance. But developing countries depend heavily on aid from external donors to provide the resources for improving health, and such donors generally exert influence in favour of private provision. This denies people living in those countries the right to determine whether private or public organisations should provide them with health care.
Do any significant areas of the economy remain where the will of the people –democracy -still has some influence on policy?


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Gov. Paul LePage will help the Salvation Army kick off its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign at the state house today at 9 a.m. It hopes to raise $800,000 this year.
The Salvation Army will distribute more than 100 red kettles throughout the state, on street corners and shopping areas.
The funds will give support for food pantries, shelters, and various programs for more than 50,000 people across the region, and this will be the bulk of the Salvation Army's fundraising for the year.


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During an evaluation for
stuttering, a health professional will consider a
child's risk factors to help find out whether the problem is temporary (normal
disfluency) or likely to persist (developmental stuttering).
factors (things that increase risk) for stuttering include:footnote 1
Usually each risk factor taken individually is not
significant. Rather, the strength of each risk factor and how many are present
can help a health professional determine whether stuttering is likely to be a
long-term problem.
Guitar B, Conture EG (2007). The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician, revised 4th ed. (Publication No. 23). Memphis: Stuttering Foundation of America. Also available online: http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Portals/english/0023tped.pdf.
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What had promised to be one of the more sensational murder trials in St. Louis took an unexpected turn this week when the defendant used an unusual confession in the case. I suspect the defendant is setting the stage for an insanity defense. And I also suspect he won't be successful.
Kirkwood Police Sgt. William McEntee was savagely murdered in July 2005 by a man who casually walked up to his police cruiser and shot him seven times. Witnesses said the man was 21-year-old Kevin Johnson.
Police had been called to the Johnson household earlier in the day when Johnson's 12-year-old brother had difficulty breathing. The young boy died from what medical officials said was a heart condition. But the older Johnson thought police had not done enough to save his brother. So he apparently sought revenge when he spotted the police cruiser.
Johnson denied the shooting but this week - in a move that has puzzled everyone - Johnson said he was in a "trance" when he shot the policeman seven times. The officer was a married father of three children.
Johnson told the court that the officer looked at him and that caused Johnson to enter a trance and fire the weapon. When the police cruiser - still in gear - slowly moved in the roadway, Johnson approached the vehicle and fired one more shot. The officer was dead at the scene.
Johnson was on probation for an earlier assault and he feared police would arrest him as they investigated his brother's sudden death. He said the murder was not in retaliation for his brother's death although that's the story he had apparently told others.
When the smoke clears in this case, Kevin Johnson will face conviction and the death penalty. It's just another example of a street thug taking violent action into his own hands. It is not the first nor will it be the last. That much is certain.
If you believe his "trance" story, then you're a party of one. Kevin Johnson is a product of his environment and his culture. The rule of the street is strike first, seek revenge and hold no regard for human life. Kevin Johnson did just that. And for that, he should be executed.
There may be no solution to the culture of violence that marks some neighborhoods. Despite the potential solutions of more education, more resources and more jobs, the culture of violence is a separate issue. This culture is not the result of some action or inaction by society as a whole. The disease starts at the roots of that culture. And sadly, there is no end in sight.


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Think Galapagos Ltd, a family run specialist holiday company based in Yorkshire has shot to the number three ranking in the world for tour operators on an online review site, The Review Centre.
The company beat competition from international travel brands such as Kuoni, Virgin Holidays and Cox and Kings thanks to a clean sweep of top ratings and rave reviews from customers.
Think Galapagos believes its strength is down to its size - the company's founders can get to know every guest individually.
Think Galapagos, which organises tailor-made and small group trips to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador, has seen the business go from strength to strength with year on year growth throughout the recent recession and turnover almost tripling since 2011.
"We have had a fantastic few years, said Rachel Dex, who founded Think Galapagos together with her husband Santiago Bejarano, one of the top naturalists in the Galapagos Islands. Much of our growth has come from word of mouth recommendation from happy guests as well as our website.
"A trip to the Galapagos Islands is the holiday of a lifetime for most of our guests and people really appreciate the personal touch and detailed knowledge of Ecuador and the Galapagos that we can give them as a small specialist company. Because we've spent years living and working in the region, our recommendations come from personal experience rather than a computer,"
According to Santiago, who personally leads several group trips out to Galapagos and Ecuador each year for their guests, another key factor in the company's success is that all the yachts, hotels and lodges that they work with have all been handpicked for their individual qualities. The company also has a team of top notch bilingual guides on the ground in Ecuador and Galapagos who look after the guests from the moment they arrive in Ecuador." Web link:www.thinkgalapagos.com