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| BIRDS KILLED with torture/mutilationsWed, 19 Nov 2008 04:42:38 -0800 by AgainstCruelty1http://getactive.pet a.org/campaign/turke y_investigationMore than 72 million of the nearly 270 million turkeys killed for food every year in the U.S. are slaughtered for holiday meals. This year, just prior to the flesh-focused Thanksgiving holiday, PETA conducted an undercover investigation lasting more than two months at the factory farms of Aviagen Turkeys, Inc., the self-proclaimed "world's leading poultry breeding company."While working at a series of Aviagen factory farms in West Virginia, PETA's investigator documented that workers tortured, mutilated, and maliciously killed turkeys.The following are just a few of the documented offenses:* Employees stomped on turkeys' heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys' heads against metal scaffolding.* Men shoved feces and feed into turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat.* A supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.* One man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads.To learn more, please read the investigator's log notes and experts' statements, view our photo gallery, and visit our blog.PETA's investigator repeatedly brought abuses to a supervisor's attention. The supervisor responded, "Every once in a while, everybody gets agitated and has to kill a bird." PETA also brought the abuse to the attention of Aviagen, and although the company made assurances and instituted some new rules, the cruelty did not stop.PETA's investigator also saw disgusting, cramped conditions. The rotting remains of about 70 hens were left amid live birds?who had to climb over the dead?for more than a day. A supervisor urinated in turkey pens, and workers spat tobacco in the pens as well. The suffering typically found on factory farms was also routine in Aviagen's sheds: Hens' beaks were cut with pliers, massive birds collapsed and died of exhaustion or heart attacks, and turkeys were thrown into transport cages.Those who eat turkeys are supporting this cruelty. Please help us put an end to this suffering by leaving turkeys off your plate and by supporting PETA's work in behalf of animals.Please also write to the National Turkey Federation and urge it to recommend that all turkey breeders implement PETA's seven-point animal welfare plan.More than 72 million of the nearly 270 million turkeys killed for food every year in the U.S. are slaughtered for holiday meals. This year, just prior to the flesh-focused Thanksgiving holiday, PETA conducted an undercover investigation lasting more than two months at the factory farms of Aviagen Turkeys, Inc., the self-proclaimed "world's leading poultry breeding company."While working at a series of Aviagen factory farms in West Virginia, PETA's investigator documented that workers tortured, mutilated, and maliciously killed turkeys.The following are just a few of the documented offenses:* Employees stomped on turkeys' heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys' heads against metal scaffolding.* Men shoved feces and feed into turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat.* A supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.* One man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads.To learn more, please read the investigator's log notes and experts' statements, view our photo gallery, and visit our blog.PETA's investigator repeatedly brought abuses to a supervisor's attention. The supervisor responded, "Every once in a while, everybody gets agitated and has to kill a bird." PETA also brought the abuse to the attention of Aviagen, and although the company made assurances and instituted some new rules, the cruelty did not stop.PETA's investigator also saw disgusting, cramped conditions. The rotting remains of about 70 hens were left amid live birds?who had to climb over the dead?for more than a day. A supervisor urinated in turkey pens, and workers spat tobacco in the pens as well. The suffering typically found on factory farms was also routine in Aviagen's sheds: Hens' beaks were cut with pliers, massive birds collapsed and died of exhaustion or heart attacks, and turkeys were thrown into transport cages.Those who eat turkeys are supporting this cruelty. Please help us put an end to this suffering by leaving turkeys off your plate and by supporting PETA's work in behalf of animals.Please also write to the National Turkey Federation and urge it to recommend that all turkey breeders implement PETA's seven-point animal welfare plan.http://getactiv e.peta.org/campaign/ turkey_investigation Related: animal cruelty bird torture mutilation | |
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| FLYSHIP 80 (part 2)Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:21:59 -0800 by flightboatThe FLYSHIP 80 is a new and highly-innovative mean of transport for passenger traffic between the city centres, the harbours of coast cities, semi-enclosed seas and big inland waters. For the first time, a flying ship is available using the ecologically and economically likewise interesting ground effect and allowing hundred millions of passengers to travel faster, more comfortable and more cost-efficient.Reaso n: the FLYSHIP 80 closes the gap in global passenger traffic between the slow ship and the fast airplane. FLYSHIP 80 can use existing infrastructure facilities in the harbours easily; additional investments are not necessary. The FLYSHIP 80 requires only a quay with a gangway or a pontoon for embarking and disembarking. Airports and streets are unburdened as well as energy is saved, because the transportation with ground effect is clearly more efficient than with all other high speed carriers. The inventors and pioneers Alexander Lippisch and Hanno Fischer developed for the first time a total concept with which a "flying ship" is able to lift off from water and reach ground effect without the use of heavy and extensive electronics. Even bigger aircraft with much weight on board (for example large passenger numbers) can overpower the resistance of the water easily and can make the transition into the comfortable ground effect flight position, without an essentially higher engine performance than necessary for the actual ground effect flight.The lift off aid developed by Fischer Flugmechanik for the generation Hoverwing is an air cushion which is created by a part of the propeller stream under the hull between the two catamaran floats of the vessel, while a front and a stern skirt similar to those used in a hovercraft seals forward and aft. After lift off, the skirts automatically fold back. Through this principle, also the dangerous "pitch movement" can be avoided after the start. Hoverwing 2VT (FLYSHIP - 80 in the scale 1:3,35) during the first flight on the lake Baldeneysee. The two-seater prototype exists since 1996. The test craft of Hoverwing 2VT operated over 3.000 kilometres until now and proved efficiency of the concept covered by a multiplicity of measurements.For the first time, a ground effect vehicle for passenger transportation was licensed under the construction inspection of Germanischer Lloyd with the following class sign +100 A0 WIG A , WH 0,5/1,5 EXP . At the same time, the serial of the Airfish technology finished for the Airfish 8 with this admission.The FLYSHIP 80 can be used in all ports around the world to clearly ease connections between 150 km until 800 km for passengers. With travel speeds of 210 km per hour, it means travel times between 45 minutes and four hours. The route potential is enormous, whether within the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, in wide regions of the Mediterranean, between Spanish, French coasts and the Balearic, between the Greek islands, between Adriatic and Croatia, in the Caribbean, in the Red Sea or between the Maldives - for passengers enormous advantages open up because they don't need time-consuming driving to airports located outside the cities. They just board in the heart of the coast cities, the harbours. Some examples for itineraries from the Mediterranean area: Spain: Barcelona - Palma de Mallorca, France: Monaco-Cannes-St Tropez -Toulon, Greece: Piraeus-Heraklion. These are only some examples from an area in which approximately 150 million passengers per year travel between the coast cities by ferry. World-wide, this number climbs up to over 1,3 billion customers, an enormous potential from which the FLYSHIP 80 can use a not insignificant magnitude for itself long-term. Related: ekranoplan wig crafts ground effect wige acv airfoil flairboat hoverwing flyship flightship | |
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| Buy New 2009 Hyundai Accent Colonial Auto Complex DealershiWed, 19 Nov 2008 04:12:35 -0800 by ahto654765http://www.coloniala utocomplex.com The 2009 Hyundai Accent is proof that a car can be cool and safe at the same time. The stylish design is coupled with such safety features as anti-lock brakes. In fact, the Accent was given a 5 star safety rating for frontal crash testing from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Get your new Accent at Colonial Auto Complex Dealership in Ewing, just south of Burlington, New Jersey. Call 888-500-1276 or visit http://www.coloniala utocomplex.com to schedule your test drive. Related: used pre owned preowned certified cars trucks | |
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| Lease New 2009 Hyundai Elantra Colonial Auto Complex DealerWed, 19 Nov 2008 04:07:12 -0800 by ahto654765http://www.coloniala utocomplex.com When buying a car you hear a lot of figures price, low APR, MPG but heres a number that you need to pay attention to. At Colonial Auto Complex we have the all new 2009 Elantra with Electronic Stability Control. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration estimates that Electronic Stability Control ESC leads to 35 fewer single vehicle accidents and 30 fewer fatalities in these accidents. Call 888-500-1276 or visit http://www.coloniala utocomplex.com for more information. Colonial Auto Complex is conveniently located in Ewing just outside the Morrisville/Yardley area. Related: used pre owned preowned certified cars trucks | |
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| Cute Race Car DriverWed, 19 Nov 2008 03:51:14 -0800 by brandynessOne of my students wanted to demonstrate how to drive a race car while we were driving back to school from the transportation museum. Related: fun | |
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| Avoid Using a CarWed, 19 Nov 2008 03:46:40 -0800 by KentTVdotcomIf you find paying for a car too much, you can get around without one, thanks to a raft of hints and tips in this video.Part of a series of videos about sustainable transport. Click through to www.KentTV.com for more How To videos. Related: cars energy fuel green how petrol save to | |
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| SFC09 #152 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:02 -0800 by h4ck3rm1k3http://www.wikicfp.c om/cfp/servlet/event .showcfp?eventid=364 0 over the years. It is a great place for spouses and children to hang out and leave the conference delegate to do their stuff. Previously the partners program has run over two or three days, generally doing the tourist hot-spots in the host city. The program has usually been offered for a minimal price, just to cover costs, with speakers spouses and children complimentary. In previous years partners program attendees have received their own t-shirts and bags. Considerations for organising a partners program include: * Number or participants expected (the registration system can handle this) Age and weights (for children) Transportation for everyone (mini-buses or several cars, car seats, baby seats etc) Catering Program itself - places to go to keep adults and children entertained Numbers of streams Related: kosova kosovo linux gnu freedom libre software conference | |
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| SFC09 #150 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:27 -0800 by h4ck3rm1k3http://www.wikicfp.c om/cfp/servlet/event .showcfp?eventid=364 0 to delegates, organisers and speakers, but we do ask you to respect that they may not be willing or available to speak or be photographed at any particular time. We plan to provide a dedicated media room for quiet work or interviews (to be confirmed). --lca2005 Regional Delegates Program In the past few years this program has been funded by a sponsor. Essentially this program allows worthy recipients to attend the conference, who otherwise would not be able to afford to attend. There are 8 - 10 winners per year, one National winner and one winner from each Australian state and territory (extended to NZ in 2006). Winners receive * transport to LCA 2005 accommodation professional registration at the conference (including all the normal things which come with that) special recognition Related: kosova kosovo linux gnu freedom libre software conference | |
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| SFC09 #147 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:31:05 -0800 by h4ck3rm1k3http://www.wikicfp.c om/cfp/servlet/event .showcfp?eventid=364 0 come up with all sorts of additional items to add to badges. Conference bags are usually emblazoned with the current year's logo. Conference bags are generally the same for Concession and Hobbyist delegates. In previous years the Professional Delegates have received a few extra items in their conference bags. Other useful ideas for the bags are t-shirts/business shirts, cups, pens, pads,etc. Conference handbook The conference handbook is the place that all the information delegates may want to know should be. It may include: * abstracts, speaker bio's map of venue / campus conference program locations of toilets restaurants local pubs and clubs transport information emergency numbers closest hospital location list of professional delegates other pertinent information, Related: kosova kosovo linux gnu freedom libre software conference | |
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| SFC09 #134 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:20:56 -0800 by h4ck3rm1k3http://www.wikicfp.c om/cfp/servlet/event .showcfp?eventid=364 0be checked by LA's counsel. * Organise their own venue and speakers. May wish to be at a hotel or convention center rather than at the LCA venue. May wish to pay or transport their speakers. * May wish to run their own dinner or evening event. * May wish to cater lunch/tea, which they must organise themselves. * Have their own web site, mailing addresses, etc. Are mentioned on the LCA web site; perhaps LCA has a page about them. * Run their own CFP. * May (will?) charge their own registration fee. Registration is available either for LCA alone, or the co-conference alone, or as a combined fee, less than the sum. * In the case of combined registration, an equal percentage discount will be internally applied to both conferences. For example, if LCA is Related: kosova kosovo linux gnu freedom libre software conference | |
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| SFC09 #128 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:15:44 -0800 by h4ck3rm1k3http://www.wikicfp.c om/cfp/servlet/event .showcfp?eventid=364 0 organisers. The general point of mini-confs is that LCA provide the space, but the LCA committee does not organise them. Finance * Mini-confs must be basically zero-budget. They absolutely can not accept sponsorship or registration fees as this can interfere with the sponsorship arrangements of the main conference * Attendees and organisers of the mini-confs must register with LCA to attend. * The mini-conf may not impose additional charges. * Attendees may not register for just the mini-confs. * Mini-conf speakers do not get free registration or transport / accommodation assistance, unless, of course, they are also speaking in the conference proper. Speakers MUST be registered for LCA. Guidelines Below are some guidelines determined by the LCA2005 committee in regard to mini-confs. These are Related: kosova kosovo linux gnu freedom libre software conference | |
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| Ph37.5 Outdoor Fullcolor LED Display/PanelWed, 19 Nov 2008 02:59:13 -0800 by alanxue2008Our company integrated high- tech which engages in teh development, production, sale and service of all kinds of indoor & outdoor LED display, led panel, led billboard, led advertising board, led display sign, led video display, mobile display, perimeter led display. CreatelED displays: superior uniformity, Multiple communication options and multiple input options, Extra-high brightness, Low cost, High refresh rate, Waterproof design, Easy and fast installation, Free addressing, Brightness calibration, Light weight, Easy connection, Support different solutions, Waterproof, Specially suitable for broadcast, Portable and easy transport, Adjustable view angle. CreateLED uses high quality materials, advanced instructions, technology and management expertise initiated from skilled team while recruited highly trained staff and the quality management system of ISO9001:2000, all of which provide firm assurance for our quality.Here attached our Ph37.5 outdoor video clip to you. Any inquiry about indoor & outdoor LED display, led panel, led billboard, led advertising board, led display sign, led video display, mobile display, football led display, welcome here. CreateLED Look forward to cooperate with each other. AllenShenzhen CreateLED Electronics Co., Ltd Address: E Building,JinXiongDa Industry Area,GuanLan Town,Shenzhen City,China Tel: +86 0755 29588968-8043Fax: +86 755 29588600 Mobile: +86 13423743163 Email: createled.allen@gmai l.com MSN: allen_xueyongjie@hot mail.com Yahoo Messager: allen_xueyongjie@yah oo.com Skype: allenxue23web: www.createled.com www.createled.netNot iced: Please send your detail contact information with your specific display requirements. Related: ?? ???? ?? | |
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| TransportationWed, 19 Nov 2008 02:54:08 -0800 by 0214273125Transportation of Irish convicts to Australia was a political decision to solve the problem of the overcrowded penal system in Ireland. During the period of transportation (1791-1853), Ireland was in a state of almost continuous civil war, so there was great urgency to transplant criminals and political prisoners.The vast ships transporting prisoners from Ireland to Australia departed from the Port of Cork. Convicts from throughout Ireland were brought to Cork for their onward voyage, most of whom were held in a depot in Barrack Street, in hulks anchored at Cork harbour or at Spike Island while awaiting departure.By the time the first convict ship left, the Port of Cork was already well established in commercial and military terms, and was capable of facilitating such large vessels. In all, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of this number, 30,000 men and 9,000 women and children were sent from Cork Harbour, making Cork one of the most significant points of transportation in the British Isles. Related: convicts irish emigration criminals politics history | |
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| FLYSHIP 80 (part 1)Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:06:07 -0800 by flightboatFLYSHIP 80 uses a peculiarity of the physics: the almost weightless hovering - like an Albatross, over the water, -. The revolutionizing realization of the concept to a transportation will change the passenger traffic between the coasts of the Mediterranean, from north- or Baltic sea, the Caribbean the red sea and other big waters.Because on basis of the guidelines of the IMO (International MaritimeOrganization ), and the MSC, Maritime Safety Committee, the FLYSHIP80 is regarded as a ship. The first FLYSHIP 80 probably enters operation in 2011 for distances between 150 km and approximately 800 km in order to transport up to 80 passengers between the coasts of inner seas and selected big inner waters.Under leadership of the engineer Dr.-Ing. Ulf-Dieter Ulken, who is well experienced in shipbuilding and financed through private investors, FLYSHIP 80 converts an idea as license taker of secured patents that were developed worked out and approved for more than 30 years. This idea of a transportation, that uses the so-called ground effect, needs only approximately two third of the energy, that is necessary for flying in higher regions.Dr. Ing. Ulf-Dieter Ulken made his passion - flying and shipping - to his occupation. Already in 1981, he received his private pilot license and began to study aircraft engineering 1982 at the technical University in Braunschweig. 1985 Dr. Ulken shifted to the technical university Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) which was newly established at that time, and continued his study in ship mechanical engineering.Hanno Fischer, former technical director of RFB (Rhein Flugzeugbau), is the inventor of the Hoverwing principle which is taken as a basis for the production of FLYSHIP 80.Hanno Fischer designs his colourful "Airfish" as a result and advanced it with several models. His newest throw is the "Hoverwing 2VT", a vehicle that is, thanks to a refined starting system, the most modern WIG in the world. With this new design the contact with the water is reduced as far as possible. The propeller is mounted on a pylon with a door that can be opened and closed. A small part of the propeller stream is caught with it. Through two skirts, one at the bow and one at the stern, an air cushion is created under the hull. It lightens the vehicle about round 80 percent.Hanno Fischer has licensed his patents to FLYSHIP 80 and therefore allows the conversion of the best WIG-concept and the realization of a revolutionary passenger transportation system.The ground effect allows an extraordinarily economic as well as thrifty flight with considerably lower fuel consumption as in free flight. The ground effect frequently was used already during the Second World War by pilots returning home, if they had only little fuel left. They flew back very close above the ground.The ground effect is an especially economic and ecological possibility of swift and comfortable locomotion. However, special construction characteristics are necessary in order to solve the physical problems which threaten the utilization of the ground effect. The problem is that the balance point of lift in free flight is located relatively far in front of the wing. It lies approximately within 1/3 of the so-called cord length. With maximum ground effect, however, this moves backwards to the centre of area located approximately 1/2 of the cord length. Related: ekranoplan wig crafts ground effect wige acv airfoil flairboat hoverwing | |
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