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What to Do if You Suspect an Animal Is Being Abused
The good news: all fifty states have laws against animal cruelty. The bad news: the law is only as good as the people who report animal cruelty. If you witness an animal being abused or suspect cruelty, it's imperative you report the abuse. More likely than not, you're the only hope for the animal to get help, as well as for charges being filed against the abuser.
And animal abuse is not something to take lightly, by any means. Animal abuse typically signifies other types of abuse. For instance, one study found that animal abuse occurred in 88 percent of homes where child abuse had been discovered. Another study found that up to 83 percent of women entering domestic violence shelters report that their abusers also abuse the family pet. In fact, animal abusers are five times more likely to abuse people.
If you do witness animal abuse, what exactly are the steps to take? Who should you call? Seeing an animal be abused is traumatic, but being prepared helps. Here is a handy breakdown of what to do. Remember it's important to always speak up but please be prepared so you don't put yourself (or others) in dangers!
First, Call Your Local Animal Control Agency
Always contact a professional first. If you are unfamiliar with local organizations, dial 911. Animal control agencies are required to investigate if a report of alleged animal cruelty is made, according to the Humane Society of the United States. One Green Planet also offers the largest database of local hotlines to help rescue abandoned, injured, stranded, sick, and lost animals in need. It's important to contact a professional first before you potentially endanger yourself. While it's hard to see animal abuse, don't try to steal the animal because then you could be charged with trespassing.
Document the Abuse
Documenting the abuse in as much detail is crucial. Take note of dates, times, any specific details. Any photos or videos can also be helpful when agencies conduct an investigation. But please don't put yourself in danger. Don't enter someone else's property and use caution when approaching an animal who may be frightened or in pain, according to the ASPCA.
Be persistent! If you're not getting answers from law-enforcement officers, ask for their supervisor's contact information. According to PETA, if you have personally witnessed an act of animal cruelty, you can go directly to your local magistrate or police commissioner and ask for a warrant to summon the abuser to court. The animal rights organization also notes that expert witnesses can be helpful, such as a veterinarian signing a statement that in his or her "expert opinion".
And what exactly is animal cruelty?
The ASPCA also offers a comprehensive list of physical signs, as well as environmental signs of cruelty to be on the look out for. Be sure to review the below lists so you know animal abuse when you see it!
Physical Signs of Cruelty
Tight collar that has caused a neck wound or has become embedded in the pet's neck
Open wounds, signs of multiple healed wounds or an ongoing injury or illness that isn't being treated
Untreated skin conditions that have caused loss of hair, scaly skin, bumps or rashes
Extreme thinness or emaciation—bones may be visible
Fur infested with fleas, ticks or other parasites
Patches of bumpy, scaly skin rashes
Signs of inadequate grooming, such as extreme matting of fur, overgrown nails, and dirty coat
Weakness, limping or the inability to stand or walk normally
Heavy discharge from eyes or nose
An owner striking or otherwise physically abusing an animal
Visible signs of confusion or extreme drowsiness
Environmental Signs of Cruelty
Pets are tied up alone outside for long periods of time without adequate food or water, or with food or water that is unsanitary
Pets are kept outside in inclement weather without access to adequate shelter
Pets are kept in an area littered with feces, garbage, broken glass or other objects that could harm them
Animals are housed in kennels or cages (very often crowded in with other animals) that are too small to allow them to stand, turn around and make normal movements
Animal Cruelty Seen on the Internet
The Internet can be a wonderful place for helping dogs find homes, get cat care tips and more but unfortunately, the Internet also always for many dangers for our furry friends.
First, you'll have to find the background information for the particular website. You can visit WhoIs and perform a search of the site. Then, contact the website's ISP (Internet service provider) to report the animal abuse. If you believe the animal is an immediate danger, contact the offender's local FBI branch, based on the WhoIs search.
You Are Their Voice
Just the thought of animal abuse is enough to bring any animal lover to tears. Tragic stories involving humans abusing animals seem to make headlines on a daily basis. Reading these stories can be difficult and make you feel as if no progress is being made to save and protect all the animals humans interact with or take responsibility for. Without voices to speak up for themselves or proper laws (and enforcement of the laws that do exist) to shield them from neglect or physical abuse, it is up to us to step in and do all we can to end the violence. This involves speaking out and raising awareness for animals who are the victims of abuse and also even working help get laws changed or improved on a state or national level.
Please share this article within your network so others can also learn what to do if they see animal abuse! It's important to always speak up for those we cannot.
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If you believe an animal is being cruelly treated…
REPORT CRUELTY
The Houston SPCA has nine full-time, highly-trained animal cruelty investigators and responds to over 7,000 cases primarily in Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties. If you believe an animal is being cruelly treated, please contact us and complete the Online Animal Cruelty Report or call 713-869-7722.
Accurate information is critical to our response. You can help us by providing the following information:
Nearest major intersection.
Suspect address, city, zip code and county.
Apartment complex name or subdivision name.
Major concern (lack of food, water, shelter, no medical attention, etc.).
Animal species, breed, color, number of animals on the property and their location.
Your contact information if we have any questions about the report.
What is animal cruelty? Penal Code Sec. 42.09.- 42.105.
To report animal cruelty, complete the Online Animal Cruelty Report or call 713-869-7722.
If the county or state you're contacting us about is outside our jurisdiction, please contact the animal control organization, animal shelter or local law enforcement agency for that area. We cannot respond outside our jurisdiction unless requested by law enforcement.
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More states say 'yes' to breaking into cars when a dog is at risk
by Wayne Pacelle
Sixteen states now allow certain public officials to rescue animals in hot cars and 10 states allow members of the public to rescue animals in hot cars, provided certain steps are taken. Photo by iStockphoto
Yesterday, I wrote about Chinese authorities stopping a truck jam-packed with 800-plus dogs bound for slaughter. Today, I read a story about a truck with nearly 1,000 small animals crammed inside — including birds, chickens, bunnies, and guinea pigs – and left in the searing heat in Fresno County, California. The temperature inside the truck surged to 107 degrees. By the time the police arrived, notified by neighbors who reported an odor coming from the truck, the heat had claimed 18 animals. Ten more died after authorities got into the vehicle and started pulling them out.
These animals were not bound for slaughter, but for sale at pet stores. It's a reminder of our home-grown problems here in the United States.
It's also a reminder that with the first day of summer coming tomorrow, there are acute hazards for animals in transportation. Cars and trucks heat up extraordinarily fast, even with the windows down, as temperatures soar outside. Even on an 80-degree day – which residents of many parts of the country would beg for this time of year – the temperature inside a car can climb to nearly 100 degrees within 10 minutes.
Summer after summer, we shake our heads as we see a cascade of news stories about dogs dying after being left in hot cars. First responders on the scene to rescue animals left in hot cars make heartbreaking discoveries: claw marks left on the door, ripped seats, nail particles strewn in the vehicle.
In addition to building awareness that prompts better behavior, we are also attacking the problem from a policy angle. In recent years, we've convinced more than half of the states to pass laws to allow private citizens to break into cars and free animals from life-threatening circumstances. This year, lawmakers in Arizona, Colorado, and Indiana took final action on these so-called "Good Samaritan" measures, and Oregon Governor Kate Brown can sign the bill on her desk to do the same. Sixteen states now allow certain public officials to rescue animals in hot cars (Nevada passed a bill this year to improve and expand their provisions) and 10 states allow members of the public to rescue animals in hot cars provided certain steps are taken. Even more states grant immunity to first responders who must rescue animals in distress or prohibit leaving pets unattended altogether.
Intervention is carefully defined and kept as a last resort only to be used when all other options have been exhausted and the animal is in visible distress. But all responsible pet parents would sacrifice a car window to save the life of their animal. When it comes to property versus the life of an animal, that's not a close call.
The safest thing you can do for your pet this summer is to leave him or her cool at home while you run errands. Take the pledge to never leave your pet in a hot car.
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January 3, 2017 · 11:00 am
The Dog Factory: Inside the Sickening World of Puppy Mills
An investigation into the underworld of America's overcrowded
dog farms, the secret shame of the pet industry.
Every year, tens of thousands of dogs are born into the filthy conditions in unregulated puppy mills nationwide. Amiee Stubbs
The house on Hilton Lake Road was unremarkable, a brick one-story with an under-watered lawn and a scrimshaw of patchy shrubs. It was flanked by bigger and smarter homes on a two-lane strip in Cabarrus County, 25 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina, but nothing about it suggested to passersby that inconceivable cruelty lived at this address. It wasn't till we opened the side-yard entrance that the horror inside announced itself. A stench of complex poisons pushed out: cat piss and dog shit and mold and bleach commingled into a cloud of raw ammonia that singed the hair in our nostrils. Twenty of us – blue-shirted staffers from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS); several members of their forensic camera crew; the sheriff of Cabarrus County and his deputies; and a contingent of veterinarians from a local animal hospital – tiptoed around the filth underfoot into a house caked in pet fur and waste. Damp laundry draped across every flat surface; the floor was a maze of cat crates and garbage. From somewhere in the house, we heard the howling of dogs, but they weren't in the bedrooms or the tumbledown john or the kitchen piled high with dishes.
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Then we found the door that led to the basement. Down there, dozens of puppies in dust-cloaked cages stood on their hind legs and bawled. There were Yorkies and poodles and Maltese mixes, but their fur was so matted and excrement-mottled it was hard to tell which from which. Bred for profit, most of them would have been sold in pet stores or on websites by their third or fourth month of life.
HSUS staffers had gathered evidence that the breeder, Patricia Yates, was selling puppies on multiple websites without a license, and had a stack of buyer complaints lodged against her. But it took a tip from an anonymous source to alert the Sheriff's office to the scale of Yates's operation. "We'd been out there before, but had no idea it was this severe," says Lt. David Taylor, an animal-control cop who helped launch the investigation. Obtaining an arrest warrant was the least of it, though. When you bust an illegal kennel, you're suddenly swamped with sick dogs, often double what had been reported. It took Taylor a month to coordinate with HSUS – the rare non-profit with the money and equipment to house and treat puppy-mill rescues – before launching the raid on Yates's kennel.
Watch footage from inside Patricia Yates' illegal kennel.
Back up the stairs, we followed more barking to a porch bricked in by the owner. It was pitch-black inside, and the smell was a hammer. Here were the parent dogs in desperate shape: blinded by cataracts and corneal ulcers; their jaws half-gone or missing entirely after their teeth had rotted away. Some were so feeble they couldn't stand erect; their paws were urine-scalded and their wrists were deformed from squatting on wire their entire lives.
Out the back door and up a dirt trail, the worst was yet to come. A cinder-block kennel, hidden from the street, housed the bulk of this puppy-mill stock: 50 or 60 more parent dogs who'd likely never seen sunlight or spent a day outside this toxic room. They wept and bayed and spun in crazed circles as we toured the maze of cages. Some went limp as the rescuers knelt to scoop them. Each was photographed, then carried downhill to the giant rig at the curb. There, teams of vets from the Cabarrus Animal Hospital worked briskly to assess each rescue. Once triaged and tagged, they were loaded into crates on the Humane Society's mammoth truck, an 80-foot land-ship with clean-room conditions, and taken to a staging shelter. One hundred and five dogs came out of that house, many of them pregnant or in heat. I turned to John Goodwin, the director of the puppy-mills campaign for HSUS, and asked him how many puppies sold in this country – at Petland and Citipups and a thousand other pet stores – come from puppy mills as dire as this one.
"Most every pup sold in stores in America comes from this kind of suffering – or worse," he insists. "If you buy a puppy from a pet store, this is what you're paying for and nothing else: a dog raised in puppy-mill evil." The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals posts a database of pet shops for consumers to check before they buy. Input any ZIP code and you'll see the list of stores that sell pups rather than offer them for adoption. That vastly ups the chances that the dogs are from mills, not from reputable breeders. Another click shows you ghastly shots of the mills those stores buy dogs from. Those pictures weren't taken by animal-rights zealots, but by United States Department of Agriculture agents who inspect breeding kennels. Pet stores usually buy their dogs from federally licensed breeders, meaning kennels with five or more breeding females that breed a lot of pups. "Puppy mills house breeding dogs in small, wire-floored cages, separate puppies from their mothers at a very young age, and ship them hundreds of miles to pet stores around the country," says Matt Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA. (Both Petland and Citipups deny they sell mill dogs, but reams of evidence and buyer complaints collected by HSUS argue otherwise.)
Yates was arrested and charged with animal cruelty. (Twelve counts were filed against her; a hearing is scheduled for February.) Yates was outraged; I heard her exclaim that "these dogs are the love of my life!" That evening, I caught up with Sára Varsa, the senior director of operations for animal rescue at HSUS. Varsa, a veteran of 50 animal-welfare raids, was quarterbacking the care of those hundred-plus dogs at a temporary shelter in a warehouse. When told what Yates had said, Varsa pointed to two poodles, both of them desperately underfed. Delicately, she lifted the male from the crate and put him, trembling, in my arms. He was blind in both eyes and had thumb-size infections where his molars used to be. "Is this how you treat the dogs you love?" said Varsa. "Is this how you raise your beautiful babies?"
Dogs were found in small cages during the raid on Patricia Yates' puppy mill in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Meredith Lee
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Since dogs first crossed the Siberian land bridge and set foot in human encampments in North America, they have been much more than pets and companions to us – they made life tenable in this primal place. They chased off wolves and bears while we slept, caught and retrieved the game we ate, and dined on the garbage we left behind. Over the course of 10 millennia, a bond was forged between species that hunkered together for survival. (Early tribes survived subzero cold by sleeping beneath their dogs – hence the term "three-dog night.") It took most of those millennia to truly domesticate dogs – they lived largely outdoors till the 1970s, in those quaint addenda called doghouses. Once inside the door, though, they were in for good, to be loved and spoiled like toddlers. The number of pet dogs in America boomed between 1970 and today, tripling to almost 80 million. Pet-shop commerce boomed in tandem, from practically nothing in the Fifties to nearly $65 billion in 2015. Where once you adopted your pup from the neighbors, now there is a Furry Paws down the block with dozens of designer puppies in the window.
Of course, in America, we industrialize anything that turns a profit. Beginning in the 1950s, struggling pig and poultry farmers began breeding puppies for extra income. "It was a cheap and easy fix: You just converted your coops into indoor-outdoor kennels," says Bob Baker, the executive director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation. Baker, an animal activist for 40 years and a walking encyclopedia on the commercial dog business – he's been a senior investigator for the ASPCA and the HSUS – watched the trade evolve from a mom-and-pop sideline into a multinational behemoth. "Pups cost nothing to raise, you'd sell them for $50 a head in town, and every five months you had a whole new litter – then dozens, as the puppies began breeding," he says. What followed was a 40-year explosion of puppy mills, which are defined by HSUS as commercial kennels where profit counts more than the dogs' well-being.
There are, by HSUS's estimate, about 10,000 puppy mills in America, though the organization concedes that no one knows the real number: It's an industry born and raised in shadows. The USDA only licenses a fraction of all kennels, about 2,500 of various sizes, which can range from five adult breed dogs to more than a thousand. States also license and inspect kennels, accounting for another 2,500 breed sites that aren't registered with the feds, says Kathleen Summers, the director of outreach and research for HSUS's puppy-mills campaign. "But in rural communities, there are thousands of backyard kennels selling online and evading government regulation." A breeder only needs a federal license if he or she sells the dogs sight unseen, i.e., through a middleman like a pet store or a puppy broker. But if the seller deals directly with the puppy's buyer, either selling face to face, through classified ads or, increasingly, via pop-up websites, there is little or no oversight of their business.
Three years ago, the USDA passed an amendment requiring online sellers to get federally licensed, which would submit them to annual inspections and standard-of-care rules. At the time, the department expected thousands of breeders to step forward and comply with the law; to date, less than 300 have. When asked about sellers who disregard the law, Tanya Espinosa, a USDA spokeswoman, says, "It is virtually impossible for us to monitor the Internet for breeders. . . . [We] rely heavily on the public and their complaints." Good luck with that: Open your browser, type a breed in your state and thousands of websites appear. All claim to be local, loving and humane. Far too often, they are none of the above.
"If you ask to see their property and they say, 'Let's meet in a parking lot,' you're likely dealing with a puppy-miller," says Kathy McGriff, a reputable ex-breeder of clumber spaniels who kept a close eye on her trade while she was breeding. "And if you want to write a check but they only take PayPal, you're dealing with a puppy-miller." As a rule, she says, breeders who are even the least bit evasive are millers raising dogs in deplorable places. "Reputable breeders don't deal in volume, and we only sell to people we've checked out. It's the most basic rule in our code of ethics: Never sell a puppy sight unseen."
With dog sales, as with any commodity of late, the Internet has been the great disrupter. The HSUS estimates that roughly half of the 2 million pups bred in mills are sold in stores these days; the rest are trafficked online. The number of stores that still sell puppies has cratered over the course of the past decade, as groups like HSUS, the ASPCA and CAPS (Companion Animal Protection Society) have conducted stings of high-priced stores across the country and found them packed with sick puppies from Midwest mills. "We filmed undercover, got endless tape of purebreds in terrible shape, and followed up on buyer complaints," says Deborah Howard, the founder and president of CAPS. Howard sends investigators out to infiltrate mills, exposes the stores that do business with those breeders, and coordinates with advocates across the country to ban the retail sale of puppies in big cities. "We've got reams of complaints from people with sick puppies, and they all say it was an impulse buy," says Howard. "I mean, a dog is a commitment for 15 years – at least Google-search the seller for complaints."
In February, 2013, supporters in Minneapolis, Minnesota cheered for a bill that would regulate dog and cat breeders in the state, which is among the largest producers of puppies in the nation. Glen Stubbe/ZUMA
Given the duress in which mill pups enter the world and make their way to the stores – birthed by sick and stressed-out moms; snatched from their litters at eight weeks of age and loaded onto trucks for the hours-long drive to the next stop in the supply chain, puppy brokers; kept in a warehouse with hundreds of other pups, many of them sick with respiratory problems or infections of the eyes and ears; then again trucked with dozens of those dogs for the one- or two-day drive to distant states – it's remarkable that any of them survive the gantlet, let alone turn up well. Puppy brokers are wholesalers who buy from breeders, keep a running stock of dozens of breeds, then sell and ship the pups for a hefty markup.
The biggest of those brokers, the now-defunct Hunte Corporation, professionalized the trade in the Nineties. They bought up other brokers, made large investments in equipment, trucks and drivers, and moved thousands of dogs a month from their facility in Goodman, Missouri. "I saw tons of sick puppies – vomiting blood, blowing diarrhea – that Hunte bought in that condition from breeders," says "Pete," an undercover investigator for CAPS who worked at Hunte in 2004. "Of the 2,000 pups they'd have on-site, hundreds were in their 'hospital' getting antibiotics. A day or two later, they'd load 'em on 18-wheelers and send them, still sick, to the stores."
Per CAPS reporting, the dogs who proved too sick to sell went back on a truck to Missouri; Hunte buried the dead ones out behind its plant. In 2003, state inspectors in Missouri cited Hunte for dumping more than 1,000 pounds of dead puppies per year – the maximum allowed under Missouri law – in its back yard. Not that Missouri is an outlier in the disposal of sick and dead dogs. In Pennsylvania, two breeders shot 80 Shih Tzus and cocker spaniels rather than provide veterinary care. (Many millers prefer small breeds now; they're popular in cities, sell for top dollar, and are cheaper to feed, house and ship.) In Kansas, a breeder had to put down 1,200 dogs after failing to inoculate them for distemper.
The USDA has exactly one law to govern the care and housing of commercial dogs. The Animal Welfare Act (AWA), enacted in 1966, sets down the barest standards for breeders. Dogs, per the AWA, can be kept their entire lives in crates inches bigger than their bodies. They can be denied social contact with other dogs, bred as many times as they enter heat, then killed and dumped in a ditch whenever their uterus shrivels. We have millions of dogs on our streets, put down two million of them every year – and impose no limits on the number of dogs millers can breed. In England, by contrast, you need a license to breed even a single dog – and only 5,000 were euthanized in 2015.
"There's this gross disconnect between our feelings for dogs and the way we guard them from abuse," says Wayne Pacelle, the president and CEO of HSUS. "The USDA has a total of 100 inspectors to inspect thousands of breeders in 50 states." But they also have to inspect every zoo, circus and lab that uses animals for research testing. "We've been petitioning them for decades to improve the law – require bigger crates for breed dogs, give them access to outdoor dog runs and much prompter vet care when they're sick – but they can't even enforce the bad law on their books," says Pacelle. An internal audit in the USDA indicated as much. Per a scathing report in 2010 by its Office of Inspector General, the department chose to prioritize "education" of breeders over punishment, "took little or no enforcement action against most violators," failed to respond to "repeat violations," and collected insufficient evidence in the few prosecutions it brought against criminal breeders.
A dog skeleton discovered during a raid on a puppy mill in Blue Springs, Mississippi. Amiee Stubbs
The USDA oversees thousands of licensees nationwide with a yearly budget of about $28 million. "For perspective, the Defense Department spends the equivalent of our budget every 25 minutes," says Espinosa, the USDA spokeswoman. "Our dedicated personnel conduct roughly 10,000 unannounced inspections annually and work diligently to enforce the AWA." And what has that enforcement produced by way of penalties? Less than $4 million in fines over the past two years, a dozen or so breeders forced to turn in their licenses – and exactly none handed over for prosecution. Not the miller in Iowa who threatened to stab an inspector with a syringe and confessed that he shot a dog in the head while his girlfriend held it down. Not a fellow Iowan who threw a bag of dead puppies at an inspector. In fact, just a handful of breeders on HSUS's Horrible Hundred list – compiled every year from public records of chronic offenders – have been put out of business. And none of them have been made to answer in court for their proven mistreatment of dogs.
For weeks after the raid, I kept in touch with Sára Varsa, HSUS's rescue team director, for updates on the poodle she'd let me hold. Pollo, as the staff called him (he high-stepped like a chicken), had somehow pulled through after multiple surgeries at the Cabarrus Animal Clinic. The vet removed his right eye, which was all but useless after a long-untreated rupture; pulled his few remaining teeth; and sealed a gaping fissure in what was left of his upper jaw. Even after all that, though, Pollo bounced right up, relieved to suddenly be in less pain. "The only time he cried was when we took his little girlfriend to be seen by the vet," says Varsa, referring to the toy poodle who'd shared his cage. "They'd been together so long, they were like an old couple. He sobbed and shook while she was gone."
Heather Seifel, the clinic administrator, brought him home till she could match him with an adopter. She took him outside and set him down in her yard; he'd no clue what to do with himself on grass. That trepidation is common to mill survivors, she says, the "weirdness of 'What do I do now, now that I can finally be a dog?' "
Weeks before, I'd heard essentially the same words from a man named Wes Eden, whose family runs a boarding barn, the Lone Star Dog Ranch, near McKinney, Texas. Eden is a devotional rescuer of dogs whose methods make other advocates queasy. Each year, he saves dozens of breeding dogs by buying them, for top dollar, at puppy auctions, where millers "sell each other their trash," says Eden. There used to be dozens of places to get unwanted dogs for a price. But after HSUS staged raids in several states, the ranks of the auction sites shrank to just a handful – two of them in the state of Missouri. It was at the bigger of the two, Southwest Auction Services, that I observed Eden in action one obscenely hot Saturday in early September. A tall young man with an artisanal beard and a crown of kohl-black hair, he was bidding on French bulldogs that were battered and sick after eight or nine years of being bred. Not that they came cheap: Bulldogs are prized these days, and as long as "they've still got a couple of litters left," someone was going to bid them up, Eden says.
The auction was held in a hangar-size warehouse in the blink-and-you've-missed-it town of Wheaton, Missouri. HSUS's Goodwin and I had flown in that weekend to watch several hundred people buy and sell breed stock to one another. Everyone was white, and almost everyone middle-aged. The mood in the room was church-fair festive; the breeders chatted convivially when not engaged in the bidding. One by one, some 300 dogs were placed on a table and sold. Their crates were stacked in an uncooled space in the walled-off half of the warehouse. It was stifling back there, and the air unbreathable from the waste of unwell dogs. "I saw dogs with stomach hernias and bleeding rectums and ears rotted off from hematomas," says Eden. Each time the door opened and a dog was brought in, the stench would funnel in with her. It mixed with the aroma of pork-belly tacos that were sold in heaping bowls at the concession stand behind us and were lapped up hungrily by the crowd. From a dais, two auctioneers called out bids while touting the dogs' untapped value. "She's a 2012 model and showin' a belly; she'll work hard for you!" (One of those auctioneers – Southwest's owner, Bob Hughes – defended the dogs' health over the phone to me, saying they had "imperfections like all of us do," but had been cross-checked by Hughes' vet before he sold them. "If [the vet] thinks they're at risk of suffering, we return them to their breeder or give them to rescue groups, free of charge," he said. But neither Eden nor any of his rescue group peers have ever seen or heard of Hughes adopting out dogs. "He's certainly never offered one to me," says Eden.)
Unwanted dogs are often sold at auctions like this one, circa 2014.
On that day, at least, the issue was moot: all 300 dogs were sold. "I spent everything I brought there – $60,000 – and cleared three tables of dogs," says Eden, who raises all his buy money from small donations online. Twenty-one dogs went off in his van for the six-hour ride back to Texas. Once back at his boarding barn, they were swiftly seen by vets; many required costly operations. All the money for those surgeries – $1,000 to fix a hernia; a couple of thousand dollars for sedation and an MRI – came from Lone Star's donors. Eden has a waiting list for every rescue, a pool of people ready to roll up their sleeves for the complex needs these dogs present. "Some of 'em have to be taught to walk and climb stairs – they've never taken a full stride in those cages," says Eden. Asked why he seeks out the oldest, saddest dogs, he says, "If they don't deserve happy endings, who does?"
But Eden, for all his fervor, is derided by groups like HSUS. They accuse outfits like his – I counted at least three at the auction – of putting blood money into the pockets of the breeders. "That 60 grand he spent will buy a lot of new breed stock – for every dog he saved, dozens will suffer," groused Goodwin. Eden concedes the point, but won't back up an inch. "Look at the faces of these dogs," he says. "How can you deny them?"
Other grassroots groups use different tactics to bring down puppy mills. Some take to social media, building Facebook pages around graphic photos and pleas to spread the word. Then there are street warriors who picket pet stores, some with stunning results. Mindi Callison, a young schoolteacher in Ames, Iowa, formed Bailing Out Benji six years ago, and has recruited countless students from Iowa State to protest with her. Callison tells me about a local pet-shop owner who "used to have dozens of pups in his window; now he sells two or three a month." At first, she got flamed by furious millers. Then, to her shock, a few quietly reached out, asking if she'd take their used-up dogs. "This year alone, they've given up almost 100, and we don't pay a cent," says Callison. They call her, she says, not out of charity, but to avoid the cost of euthanization.
For better than 50 years, the state of Missouri has been the Bermuda Triangle of dogs. The perfect landscape for breeders – small farms that weren't bought by agri-giants; vast swaths of plains between its two major cities; and a live-and-let-live ethos in flyspeck towns – it has long been the number-one state in the nation for licensed operators. It also has one of America's strictest dog laws: the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act of 2011. Enacted after a bitter, and expensive, battle over a ballot measure called Prop B, the law shines a light on the intractable problem of policing puppy-millers. When the act came in, it improved the lot of breed dogs – tripling their crate size, granting them annual vet checks, and providing money for stricter enforcement by state agents. Its rules have driven hundreds of commercial breeders out of business. There were 1,414 in 2010; now, there are 844.
With no movement in Washington to toughen federal rules, the law suggested a possible path forward: to mount ballot drives in farm states. But just five years after it took effect, Missouri's dog law seems to have lost its teeth. Prosecutions have fallen, the number of licenses pulled has tanked and egregious breeders are breaking the rules and paying little or nothing in fines. A spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Agriculture insists that "the number of [disciplinary] referrals has decreased because the majority of breeders have fallen under compliance," but the state predominates the HSUS Horrible Hundred list. In 2016, almost a third of the kennels that made the list were located in Missouri.
A dog found with an infected ear at a puppy mill in Blue Springs, Mississippi, in July 2015. Amiee Stubbs
Six months ago, Kristin Akin bought a goldendoodle from a notorious puppy mill called Cornerstone Farms. Akin is a St. Louis mom who'd lost two small children to a rare immune disorder eight months apart. Last June, she went online to find a puppy companion for her young dog. She came across a website that sold pups from Cornerstone; it purported to be a local and loving kennel that bred show dogs and kept high standards. Akin asked about a puppy depicted wearing a pink bow. She was told, via text, to make a deposit. "It was a total impulse buy – I offered to drive right over," says Akin. "They texted, 'No, we're coming up your way tomorrow.' " The next morning, she sat in a mall parking lot; a filthy brown conversion van pulled up alongside her. A door slid open, but instead of a four-month pup, out came a cowering, full-grown dog that wouldn't look up when Akin stroked her.
Stunned, Akin took the dog home for a bath. Her legs were covered with scabs and both ears were badly infected; she had explosive diarrhea for a week. Akin kept the dog, filed a complaint with the state, and went public with her story about the breeder, Debra Ritter. "We found 11 straight years of state violations, including a bunch that were issued just before we drove out there – but zero fines paid to the [Missouri] Department of Ag," says Chris Hayes, a Fox reporter who interviewed Ritter and aired two stories in St. Louis. Ritter, in a rambling phone chat in which she name-checks the Lord and cites him for her decision to adopt 22 kids, some with special needs, denies to me that she sold sick dogs, just the "occasional" puppy with worms. She explains that she and her husband had quit jobs to become breeders so they could stay home with their kids who were chronically ill. "These animal-rights crazies say we abuse our dogs – but I don't see them adopting kids," she says.
As for the violations, those were "nuisance charges" that she resolved before the inspector drove away, she says. "We Ritters aren't perfect, but I have a great reputation for never cheating customers or causing vet bills." Not according to Yelp, which is littered with posts from people who bought her sick pups, or the Horrible Hundred list, where Cornerstone Farms made the 2015 edition. Meanwhile, the website is still posting photos of the "puppy" Ritter sold to Akin. "I had two friends contact her by text," says Akin. "They were told she was available."
What sets Ritter apart isn't her brazen conduct or a trail of heartsick buyers; the difference between her and most online sellers is you can actually find her on a map. "Websites give no clue about where a breeder's based – a lot of the time, you can't even get their name," says the HSUS's Summers. They hide behind sites like puppyspot.com, a huge Web broker that sells many breeders' dogs out of its call-center office in Florida. In 2011, a lawsuit filed in part by HSUS claimed that the company (which was then called purebredbreeders.com) used roughly 800 domain names to lure buyers into thinking they were purchasing puppies "from quality, responsible breeders." Instead, "we found puppy-millers with USDA violations," says Kimberly Ockene, an attorney for HSUS. A Florida judge dismissed it as a jointly filed suit, and a subsequent ruling forced the buyers of sick dogs to either re-file individually or drop the matter. Still, says Ockene, "we've had success in some cases. Litigation can be [an] effective tool for combating the puppy-mill problem." (A representative from puppyspot.com declined to participate in the reporting for this story.)
In short, online dog sales is the perfect crime. Courts don't care about out-of-state victims, and the feds don't even fine breeders, much less arrest them, for selling sick pups on bogus sites. Any amateur can do this out of his or her basement and make good, steady money for years. A prime example: Patricia Yates, the miller in North Carolina whose dogs were seized in the Cabarrus County raid. With no license or bona fides from a purebred club, she'd supported herself for years on the profits from her kennel. She might have gone on indefinitely were it not for Lt. Taylor, the Cabarrus County cop who brought her down. "Unfortunately, the laws aren't what they could be in this state, so all we could charge were misdemeanors," says Taylor. (Yates' attorney, Benjamin Goff, says he is weighing "a plea deal that involves no jail time for my client.") "But our target," Taylor says, "is that she never has animals again, and pays back every dime the Humane Society spent to treat those dogs and find them homes."
Animal-welfare advocates and local law enforcement rescue dogs at a puppy mill in Pender County, North Carolina. Kathy Milani
The HSUS expects to spend at least $100,000 on the raid, most of it for medical costs. That's actually on the low end for post-raid outlays. Yates yielded custody of her stock to HSUS, which allowed it to quickly disperse the dogs to animal-adoption groups around the state. "There are cases where we have to hold the dogs for months because they're bargaining chips for the miller – they trade them in exchange for dropped charges," says Goodwin. There's the occasional fine and suspended sentence; in rare cases, someone goes to jail. "These people should be in prison, but that won't end the problem," he says. "The only way you end it is choke its blood supply: Stop buying purebred dogs, and adopt one instead." Thanks to intense pressure from animal advocates like HSUS, Petco and Petsmart – the twin behemoths of the trade, with roughly half its total income – have stopped doing in-store sales of dogs, and feature rescue adoptions instead. The website Petfinder.com, a network of rescue groups, posts tens of thousands of dogs for adoption, many of them rescued pure breeds. There, you can find any breed you like – or would buy in a store that sells dogs. The difference, says Goodwin, "is these dogs are healthy," and won't cost you thousands in vet bills.
Of the 105 dogs relinquished by Yates, all but two survived. Pollo, the tiny poodle, succumbed to a stroke just a month into his new lease on life. "I hand-fed him meals and wrapped him in a blanket, but he'd been through too much," says Brenda Tortoreo, a receptionist at the Cabarrus Animal Hospital, who'd adopted him and renamed him Kip. Tortoreo, who has a pair of older dogs, adopted a second poodle from the raid. Bebe is a couple of years younger than Kip, but no less rabid for affection. For the first two weeks, she wouldn't leave the bedroom except in her owner's arms. Now, she gobbles up the other dogs' breakfasts and steals their small stuffed toys. Dragging them to her daybed, she nuzzles and turns them like the puppies she's birthed and nursed. "We love her to pieces, but cry for Kip a lot," says Tortoreo. "I'm so sad I didn't save him years ago. He got to feel some kindness for those few short weeks. I just hope, wherever he is now, he'll forgive us."
How to Help the Dogs
Solving the puppy-mill problem will be an expensive and long-term struggle. Spreading consumer awareness of the conditions in the mills is only half the battle – the other half is bringing sustained political pressure on the stores and websites that sell pups. Whether it's passing ordinances to ban the sale of pet-shop dogs, staging puppy mill raids, or pushing to toughen the national dog law, the efforts of animal-welfare groups are the best hope for dogs. Readers who wish to support their efforts can do so at the websites listed below.
K-9 Angels Rescue (Houston TX)
The ASPCA
Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS)
The Lone Star Dog Ranch
Bailing Out Benji
Filed under animal abuse, animal cruelty, education, health
Tagged as ASPCA, AWA, Bailing Out Benji, Cabarrus County raid, Canine Cruelty Prevention Act 2011, CAPS, Cornerstone Farms, Debra Ritter, HSUS, Hunte Corporation, Patricia Yates, puppy mill, Wheaton Missouri
Some states step up to prevent dog deaths in hot cars
It's dangerous to leave a dog in an unattended car.
On an 80-degree day, it takes just 10 minutes for the interior of a car
to heat up to 99 degrees.
Hundreds of dogs each year perish from searing heat in unattended cars, left there by individuals who don't understand what a risk to the animal's life it is. With the car windows rolled up, even on a comfortable day, temperatures can spike in a flash and a life-threatening situation can develop. On an 80-degree day, it takes just 10 minutes for the car to heat up to 99 degrees. It doesn't help much to roll down the windows, and animals don't have sweat glands to release some of that heat.
Compelled to act by substantial numbers of animal fatalities, more than 20 states and many municipalities have made it a crime to leave an animal in a hot car as part of their anti-cruelty laws. Now, a growing number of states are fortifying their laws by allowing good Samaritans to enter vehicles to remove animals under certain circumstances.
In 2015, Tennessee made history by passing the first such law of its kind in the nation, and since then the states of Florida and Wisconsin have come on board. A similar bill has just landed on the Ohio governor's desk, Michigan is considering a bill allowing the rescue of dogs from hot cars, and there is a bill in California that is moving ahead with strong bipartisan support. Virginia just passed a new law in 2016 giving civil immunity to first responders.
On Humane Lobby Day in California, supporters rally for HB 797, a bill that would allow good Samaritans to enter a car to save an animal from extreme heat.
Many states have good Samaritan bills addressing the dangerous problem of children left in hot cars, and we're now catching up to make sure that pets don't face that same threat. Intervention is carefully defined and kept as a last resort, only to be used when all other options have been exhausted and the animal is in visible distress. The bills also spell out what is to be done after an animal has been removed to ensure that emergency care is provided and that pets are returned to their owners appropriately.
Most people are aware of the problem, but often don't realize that it only takes a few minutes for temperatures to mount and a dangerous situation to develop. Putting animals at risk of an agonizing and unnecessary death in a hot car is a problem we can all agree to prevent.
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Why it's Important to Recognize That Dogfighting Isn't Just a Male Crime
Meet 52-year-old longtime educator Pauline Winbush. She started her career in education in 1989 and made her way to her current district, the Palmdale School District, in 1992. Professionally she can be applauded: she worked her way from assistant principal to assistant superintendent of human resources. For a brief period, she was also the interim superintendent. Unfortunately, Winbush's personal life is allegedly a very different story.
17 Felony Counts of Animal Cruelty
As reported in the Los Angeles Times, Winbush isn't making headlines for her role in California's fourth largest elementary school district. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office recently brought "two dozen charges, including 17 felony counts of animal cruelty, four counts of dog fighting and one count of child abuse" against Winbush and her boyfriend, Kevin Ray Williams.
Ironically, Winbush and Williams can thank their own horse for leading authorities to their home. When officials tried to return the wandering horse back to the pair, what they found at the home was far worse than the lost horse. They found dogs trapped in crates covered in feces. Some of the dogs had the telltale signs of fighting with other dogs. All 19 pit bulls recovered from the property were euthanized.
Winbush was put on administrative leave when news of the raid first broke. The district launched its own investigation and is "deeply troubled" by the charges.
Winbush pled not guilty to the animal cruelty and dog fighting charges.
More Women in Dogfighting Rings
Winbush isn't the first woman allegedly involved in dogfighting. Mainline Media News recently reported how 34-year-old Laura Acampora pled guilty to operating an entire dogfighting ring with her husband from the home they shared with their five children.
26-year-old Jennifer Kelley from Alabama also pled guilty to animal cruelty charges, reports AL. Kelley was part of another dogfighting ring where puppies and dogs were found chained up with no access to clean water or shelter and clear signs they'd been used in dogfighting.
Profiling Animal Cruelty
In dogfighting cases, offenders are commonly male, according to Animal Legal and Historical Center's database profiling perpetrators. They often have a slew of other criminal offenses under their belts, including: armed robbery, aggravated assault, possession of controlled substances, fleeing from police and domestic violence.
However, as the above stories illustrate, just because women don't fit the profile, it doesn't mean they can't be responsible for these heinous crimes. It's important to recognize that women can also be perpetrators so that we don't overlook signs of animal abuse.
Women also commit other types of animal cruelty, specifically hoarding. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, women make up 72 percent of animal hoarders, and they're most likely to hoard cats.
Dogfighting is one of the vilest forms of animal exploitainment (exploitation and entertainment), regardless of who is responsible. For more information on how to spot dogfighting and steps you can take to help dogs in need, please visit the Humane Society for more information.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/why-its-important-to-recognize-that-dogfighting-isnt-just-a-male-crime.html#ixzz3OAz9pm3s
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Tagged as ALDF, dog fighting, Humane Society, Pauline Winbush
When You Find Out What These Gloves Are Made of, You Won't Be Able to Look Your Pet in the Eye
An animal rights group's investigation uncovers Chinese factories that make leather products from dog skins.
(Photo: Reuters)
The next time you go shopping for leather gloves, you might want to ask yourself an unsettling question: Did that accessory come from the skin of a family pet in China?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last week released a video shot by an undercover investigator showing dogs at a factory in China's Jiangsu province being butchered not only for their meat and organs — considered delicacies in that country — but also for their skin, which is tanned and sold as leather on the world market.
"A PETA Asia investigator has obtained a pair of dog-leather gloves, along with never-before-seen video footage in which workers in China's Jiangsu province, where dog slaughter is a regional trade, grab terrified dogs with a metal noose, club them, and slit their throats," the animal rights group announced on its website. "The animals' skin is then cut off, and PETA Asia's investigator saw workers peel the skin off dogs who were still alive. The investigator also documented that dog skin was turned into women's fashion gloves, men's work gloves, and other products that are exported around the world."
PETA said it visited three slaughterhouses and six processing plants during a one-year undercover investigation. One slaughterhouse employee told PETA that the facility kills and skins 100 to 200 dogs each day.
"Although the dog-meat industry in China is well known, this is the first time that PETA Asia has captured the production of Chinese dog leather on camera," the group said.
Most of the world's leather products, including gloves, belts, shoes, purses, and other accessories sold in the United States, are produced in China.
Ashley Byrne, a PETA campaign specialist, said the Chinese dog leather industry has been thriving for years.
"It seems like it's quite established, especially since there's no penalty for using animals killed for their skin in China," Byrne said. "Skin is an economically important part of the dog-slaughter industry."
Where do all those doomed dogs come from? Byrne said that a small number are raised specifically for their meat, skin, and fur, but the vast majority are either pets that were kidnapped from their owners or dogs rounded up on the streets of Chinese cities and villages.
Short of conducting a DNA test, there is no easy way for importers, retailers, or consumers to know exactly what type of animal any leather product is made from.
The United States Fashion Industry Association and National Retail Federation did not respond to requests for comment on dog leather products, while an official at the American Association of Exporters and Importers said the group had no information on the practice.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, meanwhile, provided a link to its website stating, "It is illegal in the U.S. to import, export, distribute, transport, manufacture, or sell products containing dog or cat fur in the U.S."
The Dog and Cat Protection Act of 2000 calls for the seizure and forfeiture of each item and penalties of up to $10,000 for each violation.
That law, however, has not stopped the import of dog fur from China passed off as raccoon fur, including a 2012 incident involving Neiman Marcus and, the following year, designer Marc Jacobs.
As far as PETA is concerned, slaughtering dogs for their skin is little different from using cows or sheep for the same purpose.
"The difference is that most people are more familiar with dogs than they are with cows," Byrne said.
Consumers who are worried about wearing dog products should not buy any leather, she added, noting that PETA has a Web page called "How to Wear Vegan."
"It's easy to find inexpensive quality shoes and accessories that are stylish and free of animal suffering," Byrne said. "Whether it's coming from dogs or cows or other animals, we absolutely have the choice not to buy them in the first place."
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Junior National Champion inspiring the next generation
23rd September 2018 by Kieran John
In August, 16 year old Lowri (Lou) Boorman from Pembrokeshire became the UK Female Topper sailboat national champion. In a very competitive mixed gender fleet of 223 boats she was 5th overall and beat 75 other girls. The result was a very just reward for 5 years of sailing and travelling throughout the UK.
We recently caught up with Lou to discuss her journey and future goals.
Lou started sailing competitively at age 11 when her elder sister Megan was also in a Topper, Lou followed her around the different competitions learning skills at many different locations around the country. One of her first regattas was in an OnBoard OptiBat at age 9 when the Welsh zone championships were held in Tenby. She recalls going out in what seemed to be very strong winds and somehow ended up sailing on the main fleet course where she was picked up by a safety boat and given a KitKat to eat.
After starting in the Optimist at Fishguard she fairly quickly moved to a Topper, sailing with the smaller 4.2m sail as she admitted she didn't like sailing competitively in an Optimist at the time. Her first outing in the topper was under her sister's instruction at Fishguard where coaches said she took to sailing the topper "like a duck to water". She entered the regatta fleet at the 2013 4.2 Topper Nationals and at the Worlds in Loctudy, France. The results achieved allowed her to qualify for the Welsh South and West regional Topper squad before progressing onto the Welsh National squad in 2014.
Then at the end of 2016 she was selected for the UK National Topper squad, after 1 year in the squad she finished 10th overall and 3rd female at the World Championships which ensured her place in the squad for the second year.
Whilst doing all the travelling and competing, she was able to spend some time last summer helping out and instructing at Pembrokeshire Yacht club in Milford Haven. This formed an important part of Lou's development and allowed her to not only think about what she has learnt but pass those skills on too.
So, in catching up with Lou we asked a few probing questions.
What has sailing given you?
The quick answer was 'Trophies, prizes' which is clearly something she is rightly proud of but after a little more thought she quickly rattled off some key skills. "Confidence with a much better mindset especially when under pressure". She had learnt to manage her decision-making process when under pressure – "I wasn't stressed at all when I sat my GCSE's because I learnt to handle pressure in races". With all the travel it has made her become more organised, she admitted to not being at all naturally organised but had to develop the skill in order to fit everything in and make sure she was prepared for anything in a long day at sea.
What has been your best experience or most rewarding moment?
"Winning races at the 2017 Worlds in Loctudy, France. Last time I was there, 5 years earlier, I finished at the back of regatta fleet, so it was crazy to go back there and win international races" she also went on to explain another great moment. "Sailing in 2-metre-high waves during the Nationals in Pwllheli, it was scary but at the same time really fun and I got amazing experiences out of it, experiences my friends at school couldn't even imagine." Clearly a moment to remember.
She stated that 'I really love the openness of the sea and the feeling of freedom because you can never really grasp how big it actually is or the surprises it can give you, I love the waves which is why I will always prefer the sea over any lake.
Like everything in life there are also those bad and life changing experiences, so we asked what experiences she would rather forget.
'In her early days in an Optimist while training at Fishguard, "I remember nosediving, the whole oppie went underwater while I desperately tried to sail back ashore.' She continued "there was also a time while training in Cardiff where everyone in the bay capsized because of a squall so a safety boat came over to help me, but the wind was pushing my Topper against the rib with me in between and I slipped under the water beneath the bow of the rib".
Lou has now come to the end of her time in a Topper and so what is next?
"I really enjoy sailing and want to stay on the Olympic pathway and see where it will take me although at the moment my options are limited seeing as I'm 5 foot tall. I am now learning to sail the 29er and spending a lot of time swimming and bruises but so far really loving it"
"In September I will be starting a Mechanical Engineering diploma at Pembrokeshire College which will be a new experience and environment but I feel that throughout my time sailing I have done so many new and scary things that I have the confidence and ability to face new challenges which I give my thanks to the coaches I've throughout my sailing career so far"
"I will hopefully get my dinghy instructor qualification soon so that I can do more coaching and eventually, I would like to help out with squads. I really enjoy coaching the next generation of sailors because it's very rewarding when you can see their progress. However, living in West Wales there is always a lot of travelling involved so trying to fit everything in is just that little bit harder.
From the interview it was clear that Lou with a lot of family support has worked hard at her sailing and the nationals win was recognition of that commitment. Sailing has helped build her confidence and give her experiences she will never forget.
If you see Lou around, then I am sure she would be glad to stop and chat.

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Q: Search scope is finding deleted items Using SharePoint 2010 I created a custom search scope to search for items on a specific list and it has been working great, until I deleted a ton of items from the list. Now the search scope is still finding those items and turning them up in the results. If you click on the title, it is an error message.
Once an item is deleted, I do not want it to turn up in the search but I cannot figure out how to do this.
I tried adding the recycle bin URL to the scope in order to exclude it, but that didn't help.

A: Have you tried running a full crawl again?
Also, you might want to check on your values for the ErrorDeleteCountAllowed and ErrorDeleteIntervalAllowed properties as they affect some policies. Use PowerShell to change them:
$SearchApplication = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity "Search Service Application"
$SearchApplication.SetProperty("ErrorDeleteCountAllowed", 1)
$SearchApplication.SetProperty("ErrorDeleteIntervalAllowed",0)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh127009(v=office.14).aspx

A: I decided to let it go and take a look at it the next day and found that all of the deleted items were gone so it may have just been the cache...?

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Desperados III Miniatures Trailer
Size DOES Matter: Check Out This Special Desperados III Miniatures Trailer
Actions speak more than words, so here is our trailer of real-life miniature action, staged in miniature landscapes, all 3d-printed and handcrafted, and shot on a single desk, which will morph into in-game gameplay.
In other words: Watch real-life and gameplay do the Tango!
You can't wait to try Desperados III for yourself? Well, here is your chance: A free (PC) demo with one level from our story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game is now available on GOG.com. Check it out and see, if Desperados III will be your favourite game of this summer, when it releases on June 16th 2020.
Get the demo here: gog.com/desperados_iii_demo
The series of developer diaries continues, and this time Mimimi Games is discussing innovation in episode number five. Every Wednesday, a new developer diary will be available on THQ Nordic's YouTube Channel. Here are all episodes so far: Episode one - Episode two - Episode three - Episode four - Episode five - Episode six
Desperados III is available for pre-order now at an SRP of € 49.99 / $ 49.99 / £ 44.99 (PC) and € 59.99 / $ 59.99 / £ 54.99 (Consoles) For the early adopters: The Digital Deluxe Edition is available for pre-order for the price of the Standard Edition for a limited time! Make sure to shoot first, and ask questions later.
The physical side of things always gets some love from everyone here at THQ Nordic and has been up and running for quite some time. The Collector's Edition is available for pre-order now and comes in hot at an SRP of € 109.99 / $ 109.99 / £ 99.99 (PC) and € 119.99 / $ 119.99 / £ 109.99 (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One).
For more information on the game, please visit desperadosgame.com


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The team is currently hard at work on the trailer for the completed film.
By Chris Morse
April 27, 2019, 12:30 PM EDT
3 from Hell
Today brought us another update on Rob Zombie's upcoming 3 from Hell, which was recently wrapped up after a few years of hard work. The film was unsurprisingly given an R rating by the MPAA for "strong sadistic violence, language throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and drug use," the news of which was actually worth sharing because it was accompanied by a new photo from the film.
Earlier today, Zombie shared the latest on the status of the movie, revealing that the team is currently hard at work on the official trailer and he hopes to get it out in the world as soon as possible. Hopefully, it won't be too long of a wait! You can check out the update, which also includes a new photo of Sid Haig's Captain Spaulding, in the post below.
Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell is tentatively due to hit theaters early this fall, possibly around September, and stars Bill Moseley (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as Otis Firefly, Sheri Moon Zombie (2007's Halloween) as Baby Firefly, and Sid Haig (Kill Bill: Vol. 2) as Captain Spaulding.
The cast also includes Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) as Rondo, Clint Howard (Apollo 13) as Mr. Baggy Britches, Daniel Roebuck (The Fugitive) as Morris Green, David Ury (Breaking Bad), Pancho Moler (American Horror Story), Sean Whalen (Twister), Kevin Jackson (Conspiracy Theory) as Gerard James, Austin Stoker (1976's Assault on Precinct 13), Dee Wallace (Critters, The Howling), Jeff Daniel Phillips (The Lords of Salem), Richard Brake as Winslow Foxworth Coltrane (Doom, Hannibal Rising), Bill Oberst Jr. as Tony Commando, Richard Riehle (Casino, Star Trek: Voyager), Dot-Marie Jones (The Boondock Saints), and Tom Papa (The Informant!).
Stay tuned to Dead Entertainment for all the latest news on Rob Zombie's next feature, 3 from Hell!
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Love it .Its very good and reusable. Recommended. Always buy laptop skins that r reusable so it can be sticked perfectly.
quality is gud but the glue quality isn't!!
Nice product...looks like having a rough texture in photo but it's not it is very soft....after applying this ma laptop looks good and feel like new one....and all friends likes it.
Q:Can this be used for a 13.3 inch laptop ? If yes then how ?
A:I think you can use, my laptop is hp and it fits properly.
Q:will it suits hp pavilion series??


I am going to be studying in Santander for August and September and Grananda till January, and I am planning on bringing my surfboards (two shortboards) with me from California. Does anyone know how much it costs to bring it on the plane (like more or less than the $100 i expect to pay when going to hawaii) and then how difficult it is to travel with it on the train? I am flying into Paris and going from there to Santander via train. Does it make more sense to just buy a new board in Spain? Thanks for any input.
Hi i'll go in Somo near Santander from 20 to 27 July for a surfcamp, i wish to find new surfers and there good waves.
You asked if is any decent in Santander or arounds in october, no worries, you have plenty of places, any way yf you need tour or information dont taste of ask me anything, im at santandereasy.com, send me you questions.
What up, moving to Santander to teach in La Albericia from September 15-June 15 2010. Which break should I live the closest to? I'll gladly take a bus ride everyday to live by a consistent break. Any advice on where to live/surf in Santander would be appreciated.


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Q: ¿Como meter un selector dentro de un data list? estoy intentando hacer un input/datalist cuyas opciones sean selectores o desplegables.
Referencia
Como se puede ver en la imagen, es un datalist con desplegables dentro.
¿Cómo se hace eso?, agradezco de antemano la ayuda.

A: Podría intentar configurar una solución usando el tag optgroup (fiddle):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="es">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Optgroup</title>
</head>

<body>
<form>
<select>
  <optgroup label="Opciones 1">
    <option>Opción 1A</option>
    <option>Opción 1B</option>
    <option>Opción 1C</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Opciones 2">
    <option>Opción 2A</option>
    <option>Opción 2B</option>
    <option>Opción 2C</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Si no, ¿podría agregar el link a la página que desea jugar?
Lo siento pero solo hablo italiano y utilicé el traductor de Google :)


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Seica to Participate at Semicon West 2018
June 27, 2018 | Seica
Seica Inc. will be showcasing its Pilot V8 Next> series of flying probe system at Semicon West 2018. Presented for the first time in the US during the recent IPC APEX EXPO, the Pilot V8 Next> will be managed by Viva Next> 6, Seica's latest evolution of its core management software platform, in a 64-bit version complete with a new graphical interface and a guided environment for creating test programs according to each specific requirement.
The new platform continues to leverage its open architecture, further extending the capability of integration with third party software, such as TestStand, providing programmers complete freedom to combine test sequences developed using various platforms in the same test program.
At Booth 509 in Semicon West, Seica will also exhibit semiconductor solutions from Crea, OSAI and Microtest.
About Seica
Founded in 1986, Seica S.p.A. is a global supplier of automatic test equipment and selective soldering systems, with an installed base of more than 1900 systems on 4 different continents. Seica offers a complete line of test solutions, including bed of nails and flying probe testers able to perform MDA, in-circuit and full functional tests of assembled electronic boards and modules and printed circuit boards, as well as LASER-based selective soldering systems for electronic board manufacturing and a full range of test application services. Company headquarters are located in Strambino, Italy, with direct offices in USA, Germany, China, Mexico and France, supported by a vast distribution network covering the rest of the world. Since 2014, Seica S.p.A. is supported by a sister company Seica Automation, located in Milan, and producing board handling systems and other automation equipments for the electronic manufacturing industry.
Since 2017 Seica Inc. has been a distributor of OSAI, Crea and Microtest semiconductor test and assembly products in North America.
CFX Preview at IPC APEX EXPO 2020
01/13/2020 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team
The I-Connect007 Editorial Team chats with IPC's Chris Jorgensen about the advances CFX has made in the past year and where the standard is in the standardization process. Chris also previews the CFX line that will be on display at the upcoming IPC APEX EXPO and shares IPC's plans on educating and providing support solutions to potential users of CFX to implement it more easily.
Updates on Cleaning Standards and Committees
01/08/2020 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007
Graham Naisbitt of Gen3 discusses the changes he's seeing in cleaning, including how the WP-019 white paper has caused a closer look at electrochemical reliability. As a long-time head of committees, Graham also breaks down many of the topics he hopes are addressed at this year's IPC APEX EXPO.


The Airtech PCX positive displacement rotary claw design is air cooled, dry-running and non-contacting. These features, along with quality construction results in a pressure pump that is extremely high in reliability and a long service life. The non-contact design eliminates internal wear and maintenance. No water levels to check due to air-cooled operation and no sealing or lubricating oil is needed in the pumping chamber.
The claw shaped rotors inside the pump housing rotate in opposite directions, compressing the air and discharging through a silencer to the atmosphere. The two rotors are synchronized by gears that are oil lubricated to facilitate a long gear life.


In the March 12 episode of "Dr. Phil," the popular TV host told a struggling young couple point blank not to combine caregiving duties and romance, after Harley had become a fulltime caregiver for her boyfriend Bailey, who was quadriplegic. Here's what I want him to know.
When I watched your recent clip telling a young woman involved in a relationship with her quadriplegic boyfriend, "You can be his lover or you can be his caregiver, but you can't be both… It won't work, 100 out of 100 times this won't work," I got a little nauseous.
How dare you sit in your high and mighty place of privilege and tell families like ours what we can and can't do?
I met my husband over 30 years ago in a recovery fellowship. We were both early in our sobriety journey and the cards were stacked against us from the very beginning.
We got married a few years later and have had a lot of ups and downs. We've raised a family of four kids with a number of medical needs and disabilities. My youngest son was born with a major congenital heart defect and Down syndrome in 2001.
All four of our kids were patients at the Shriner's Hospital at one time or another. I'm familiar with just about every medical plaza in our area. It took me a while to come to terms with the responsibilities of being a mom to kids with disabilities, but I eventually learned that this was a bend in the road, not the end of it.
A few years later I was sitting at a Down syndrome conference where a speaker stated that if we lived long enough, disability would eventually affect every single one of us. I was only 47 at the time. I didn't realize just how soon it would happen to me.
During the summer of 2010 I started having horrible neck pain. I quickly became incapacitated and soon learned I had developed cervical dystonia, a neurological movement disorder that affected my neck and shoulders.
I went from caregiver to patient overnight. I couldn't even stand up to cook a quick meal. My neck was cocked and twisted to the right. I lost my ability to drive. My body shook in a way that resembled Parkinson's. This was the most devastating thing that could happen to me as a mom to kids with disabilities.
Because of the severity of my condition, we were finally able to access social services including respite. But you know what? Just because you have access to social services doesn't mean there are qualified caregivers around.
Your comment to Harley about finding alternative caregivers was discouraging. Do you have any idea of how hard and expensive it is to find quality caregivers you would have the peace of mind to leave your loved one with? Do you think any of us has the extra money around to hire the best help? I wasn't qualified to take care of a baby with a heart condition either. Guess what? I learned.
It took years of Botox shots and lifestyle changes to get me to a better physical place where I could resume being a "normal" mom. And then life happened again. Last year I got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Know what that means? Lots of poop talk, beginning with my ER visit where I discovered I crapped my pants after passing out in a restaurant.
This has meant still more lifestyle changes and regular GI updates. And from now on, yearly colonoscopies. Through it all, my husband has never made me feel like I was any less desirable than the day he met me.
When we got married in 1989 we promised to stay faithful through sickness and in health, til death do us part. We meant it. Is it always easy? No. Is the romance always there? No. Sometimes we have to hunker down at opposite ends of the house for breathing room.
Our faith, friendship and commitment to each other is what carries us through even on the toughest of days.
P.S. To those living with disability of any kind — know that you are worthy of love and sacrifice. With enduring love you can move mountains.


Are your operations on a treadmill?
Usually, when dealing with daily tasks or problems, we have a tendency to stick to tried and tested thinking patterns, and this is due to pure biology. The brain, like the whole of our body, is programmed to save energy whenever possible. No wonder then that it switches on the auto-pilot at any opportunity. Even if – in a moment of fantasy – we try to go out of the ruts, we end up on well-known tracks, although perhaps used less frequently, however, based upon familiar patterns and connections.
This is well illustrated by a simple trick with a question for three quick associations: a fruit, a colour and a poet. Here we can display our mind-reading ability, since when asked to name one of each, 90% of respondents will give identical answers: apple, red, Shakespeare. If your answers were different from this pattern – my congratulations: you have a different imprinted pattern than 90% of the population. However, this is also an imprinted pattern. In the next similar situation, your brain will quickly reach for these associations. Why waste energy?
In everyday routines this is a blessing. Can you imagine starting each morning with devising how to brush your teeth? Or discovering each day, while driving, how to operate the gears, wheel, clutch and so on – independently and simultaneously? And this is just a handling of the car. Add to this new discoveries, over and over, on traffic and figuring out how it works. Thankfully we have all that learned and trained through repetition, so we can do it, without even realising when and how.
The same rule applies to our professional activity. Individually and in teams, we have a tendency to stick to what we are good at and which ways that work best. As long as we don't face a problem, we do not even consider a different approach. And what happens when we face it? We automatically try to rebalance and quickly set things on track by falling back into routines, procedures and proven solutions. And life goes on – over and over.
And this is fine if it happens in the army, on board a ship or plane, in an operating room, during rescue, or during maintenance checks of machines and systems. Speed of finding right answer is of the essence. The main goal: preserving or regaining the status quo. People acting orderly, capably and perfectly fit here the best. But unfortunately this is not enough when we look forward to development, which always means change. So what to do then?
The vicious cycle described above reminds me of the drunk man from an anecdote, who walked around a pillar, feeling his way around the concrete surface, and shouting out: "Help! They walled me in!" But this is so simple, just turn around and walk away in any desired direction. Simple, but not with a reactive manner. What you need is a creative approach, one using your imagination and a clear vision. Wherever reactive people meet problems, creative ones see opportunities. Creativity is just a skill, and, as with any skill, it can be learned. The choice is yours – unless you see your opportunity in walking on a treadmill.


Recently, we wrote about how to prepare for your first meeting with a Portland criminal defense attorney. But when should you call them in the first place?
In this post, we'll outline scenarios when you should call a Portland criminal defense attorney like Adam Greenman to put yourself in a good position legally.
One of the most common reasons to call a Portland criminal defense attorney is when charged with a driving under the influence of intoxicants, or DUII, charge.
A DUII can happen to anyone, even those whose blood alcohol level is below a .08.
That's why it's so important to call a Portland DUII attorney as soon as possible after being charged with a DUII. In fact, a lawyer should be one of the first people you call. The actions within the first 10 days of being charged can mean the difference between a severely impacted life and a manageable situation.
Learn more about Portland DUII Law.
Field sobriety tests set you up for failure.
These tests, which have you complete a series of actions to "determine" your sobriety, is administered and graded by an officer who believes you are intoxicated (they wouldn't be testing you otherwise). This officer is not an unbiased administer.
Here at Adam Greenman Law, we always recommend clients NOT submit to field sobriety tests. Unlike breathalyzer, blood, and urine tests, field sobriety test do NOT fall under the implied consent law. You can refuse to take the test and not face an immediate suspension of your license.
Learn more about Portland failed field sobriety test law.
If you've been charged with a DUII for the first time and you've meet certain other criteria (see below) you may be eligible to enter the Oregon DUII diversion program.
Although DUII charges cannot be expunged or erased like many other criminal charges in Oregon, the DUII Diversion program spares you from having a criminal conviction on your record. This can make all the difference any time you're asked in the future if you've ever been convicted of a crime. You can answer truthfully, "No" because your record will show that you were diverted, not convicted.
A Portland DUII diversion attorney can help you take the complicated procedural steps needed to successfully enter and complete the diversion program.
Learn more about Portland DUII diversion law.
Theft and assault charges in Portland can become serious quickly when not defended properly. Given that assault and theft are so situational, making sure you have representation that is experienced in such situations and understands the complexities of the criminal justice system is paramount.
With theft charges, the maximum does not have to be what you serve. With an experienced Portland defense attorney on your side you can defend yourself against the maximums.
We'll also investigate the background of the situation to determine the best course of action for your case.
Learn more about Portland theft and assault law.
Possession charges can be serious. If you've been charged with a possession crime, be it due to possession of drugs or firearms, it's important you get the details right.
We always recommend that those charged with possession exercise their right to remain silent when arrested. Police may tell you that they can help if you cooperate, but realistically they cannot make things better for you without the DA.
With possession cases, the devil is in the details. Having a experienced attorney who knows the legal system will put you in the best position to avoid jail time and serious penalties.
With gun charges, this could mean everything from probation for concealed carry of a switchblade, to guaranteed jail time for those who threaten to or operate a banned weapon.
With drug charges, this could mean anything from a $250 fne to 10 years in jail for those having or selling large quantities of addictive drugs like cocaine, heroin, and LSD.
Learn more about Portland possession law.
Many people have been charged in the Portland area for prostitution for reasons that are hard to understand. There have been cases where someone was arrested simply for looking over their shoulder and a teacher was handcuffed for simply walking on the wrong street.
With the help of an experienced Portland prostitution attorney you could have a serious sentence reduced to a $1000, 8-hour class, and the record can be expunged immediately, instead of after the standard 3 year waiting period.
Fortunately, an experienced Portland criminal defense attorney can help you get these charges dropped. They have the knowhow of proper police procedure and can help you investigate the charges to put you in the best position in your case.
Learn more about Portland prostitution law.
Do any of these sound like you? Call Adam Greenman Law today!
Adam Greenman Law is focused on helping clients through their darkest days. Adam centers his representation around 1-on-1 attention and getting to the bottom of your situation. He'll do everything he can so you're put in a position for a positive result for you and your future.
Contact Adam today to learn more and schedule a free 1-on-1 consultation.


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A Smooth Upgrade for the Mont Blanc Tunnel
Accontrol S7 programmable controller simulation software from Delta Logic played a key role in the development and implementation of a new SCADA system for the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Thanks to this software, it was possible to achieve a smooth transition to t
The Mont Blanc Tunnel provides a crucial road link between France and Italy. It is 11.6 km long and is used by around 12,000 lorries each week, plus a double number of cars, although the volume of car traffic is subject to seasonal fluctuations. The tunnel was completed in 1965 and was in continuous use until 1999 when a disastrous fire meant that it had to be closed for three years.
As part of the refurbishment following the fire, new control systems were installed for all the major functions in the tunnel including, for example, ventilation fans, toll barriers and lighting. Altogether, the tunnel's control systems used 41 programmable controllers (PLCs). A SCADA system working in conjunction with the PLCs was provided to allow operators working in the two tunnel control rooms – one in France, the other in Italy – to monitor and control the equipment in the tunnel.
By 2012, it was becoming clear that, while the PLC systems were still operating entirely satisfactorily, there was a need to update the SCADA system. The principle reason was that an update would bring the operator interface up to modern standards and provide valuable extra functionality. Another factor was that the old SCADA system was running on a version of Windows that is no longer supported by Microsoft.
After a rigorous competitive tendering process, the contract to supply the new SCADA system was won by Giordano & C Spa, an Italian company with wide experience of developing and supplying electrical systems for major civil and industrial projects. However, in devising a SCADA solution for the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the Giordano engineers faced two daunting challenges.
Getting ready for SIL2
The first was that the changeover between the old and new systems had to be accomplished without disrupting the traffic flow in the tunnel. Access for installing and commissioning the new system would only be available on 25 nights, for six hours each night. The second challenge was that tunnel operator GEIE-TMB specified that the new SCADA system should meet the safety requirements for SIL2 compliance in line with IEC 61508. This is an important step towards making the Mont Blanc Tunnel the first major road tunnel in the world with SIL2 compliant electrical systems.
To aid development of the SCADA system and to ensure that it would meet all of GEIE-TMB's requirements, including those for new functionality, and also to guarantee fast problem-free installation and commissioning, the Giordano engineers knew that they would need to accurately simulate the operation of the tunnel's 41 PLCs. Carrying out trials of the new SCADA system with the live PLCs in the tunnel was impossible because of the disruption this would cause.
Accontrol S7 can simulate 50 PLCs
Ultimately, it was found that the Delta Logic Accontrol S7 simulation software was the best match for the needs of the project. It could accept PLC programs directly downloaded from the live PLCs in the tunnel, which would save a lot of time and eliminate the risk of errors, it could also meet the timing requirements, it was intuitive in operation and it was affordably priced. There was, however, one remaining issue.
Smooth go-live ensuring maximum safety
With the new SCADA system up and running, the simulation packages are no longer routinely needed for development purposes, but they are still being used regularly to provide training for the tunnel operators. Each of the 25 operators, who between them provide coverage 24 hours a day, every day of the year, receives between one and two hours of training every week to help maintain and improve their skill levels.
Author: Thomas Hönle, CMO at Delta Logic Automatisierungstechnik
Posted on May 16, 2018 - (312 views)
Deltalogic Automatisierungstechnik GmbH
Stuttgarter Str. 3
73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd - Germany
http://www.deltalogic.de


فهرست زیر شامل ایرانی‌ها یا ایرانی تبارانی که ثروت خالصی معادل میلیون دلار آمریکا، یا بیشتر دارند، می‌باشد.
فهرست سال ۲۰۱۲ از ثروتمندترین اشخاص ایرانی بصورت زیر می‌باشد.
7001180000000000000۱۸ فرزاد ناظم $۳۰۰ میلیون ۴۹ یاهو!
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این صفحه آخرین‌بار در ۱۲ آوریل ۲۰۱۹ ساعت ۰۹:۲۸ ویرایش شده‌است.


Authorities in a Cambodian village arrested a man after he allegedly became possessed by an evil spirit that caused him to attack animals and drink their blood. The bizarre incident reportedly unfolded over the weekend in the community of Kampong Reap. It was there that farmer Run Reach decided to enjoy a few drinks after a long day of work, but the man's proverbial 'happy hour' turned out to be a decidedly unpleasant affair.
"After he became drunk, he seemed to have supernatural strength," explained a village police chief assigned to the case. Seemingly overcome by some kind of sinister force, the farmer proceeded to attack three dogs in the village by biting them and drinking their blood! After downing the dogs, the rampaging Reach proceeded to also kill a cat and a hen in the same unsettling manner. He eventually returned to his home where he fell asleep until his parents arrived and were aghast to see that he "looked very cruel and like a ghost."
Reach was arrested for his murderous misadventure the next day and the tale took an even weirder turn after authorities, at the request of the man's mother, brought him to a monk to be exorcised. According to the police chief, the application of holy water freed the farmer from what had taken hold of him which, remarkably, the monk said was a ghost that "made him cruel and drove him to drink the animals' blood while they were alive." Reach is currently recovering from the odd episode and, thanks to a strange legal loophole, is not facing any charges after all, since he had only attacked and killed his own animals.


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California Senate Passes Bill Set to Transform Gig Economy
Josh Eidelson, Lizette Chapman and Joyce E. Cutler
Bloomberg September 11, 2019
(Bloomberg) -- The California Senate passed a bill that could force Uber and other gig economy giants to reclassify their workers as employees. Such a change would secure labor protections for thousands of people across the state and deal a significant blow to companies that built multi-billion dollar businesses on independent contractors.
Under the new law, Assembly Bill 5, people in California could generally only be considered contractors if the work they're doing is outside the usual course of a company's business. Companies like Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., which rely on armies of drivers to service their customers, would likely fail that test without transforming how they do business. Employees are entitled to a minimum wage and overtime pay, neither of which is a common protection within the gig economy.
Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who's seen as friendly to both labor and technology, has said he supported the bill, a signal that it may soon become law without a special exception for the gig economy. The State Assembly has already approved a version of the bill and it's expected to pass the same legislation in a later vote.
The cost could be significant and comes at a delicate moment for the two largest companies in the industry. Lyft and Uber are struggling to staunch accelerating losses and cratering stock prices. Just hours before the bill passed, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said he was cutting more than 400 technical employees after eliminating a similar number of jobs earlier in the summer.
Shares in Uber were down about 1% in New York Wednesday morning while Lyft was up less than 1%.
"The State Senate made it clear: your business cannot game the system by misclassifying its workers," Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, the Democrat who authored the bill, said in a statement. "As lawmakers, we will not in good conscience allow free-riding businesses to continue to pass their own business costs onto taxpayers and workers. It's our job to look out for working men and women, not Wall Street and their get-rich-quick IPOs."
Read more: Uber Has Bigger Problems to Worry About Than the D.C. Shutdown
Giving employee status and benefits to workers in California would cost Uber and Lyft an additional $2,000 to $3,600 per driver annually, according to research from Barclays Plc and Macquarie Capital. That would be as much as $500 million for Uber in the state each year. California often sets the legislative tone for other states to emulate, and the costs could quickly add up if more follow suit.
The largest companies in the gig economy have been trying unsuccessfully since last year to secure concessions that would forestall a reclassification of their workers. The companies appealed to state lawmakers to shield them from the new standard and have held talks with union leaders and the governor's office.
"We are now witnessing the dashing of the American dream," Senator Jim Nielsen, a Republican, said on the Senate floor.
Read more: Uber Makes Further Cuts to Its Staff as Losses Pile Up (1)
Corporate efforts to secure a legislative deal may continue past the current legislative session, which ends this week. Meanwhile, gig companies are also setting up a fallback. Uber, Lyft and DoorDash Inc. each committed $30 million last month to potentially put the issue before voters as a 2020 ballot referendum.
The California showdown has become the leading battleground in the U.S. debate over the rights of gig workers. Several Democratic presidential candidates endorsed the California bill and are backing proposals that would replicate the approach on a national scale.
"The passage of this legislation could be a watershed in the reduction of inequality in society and the workplace," said William Gould, Stanford University law professor and former National Labor Relations Board chairman. "Some of this depends upon the willingness of organized labor, plaintiffs lawyers and government to stand up and protest. On this, we must wait and see."
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To contact the reporters on this story: Josh Eidelson in Palo Alto at jeidelson@bloomberg.net;Lizette Chapman in San Francisco at lchapman19@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Mark Milian at mmilian@bloomberg.net, ;Peter Elstrom at pelstrom@bloomberg.net, Edwin Chan
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