Clustrmap Update – 10th March 2010.

Dear all;

you may have seen that our ‘site visitors’ map (global map on the left) and associated national index has changed in the last 24 hours.  Now it appears very sparse with red colouring.

This is a normal procedure as the system archives all the visitor data on an annual basis, and 10th March is ‘our archive’ day.

The great news is that we have had over 25,00 vistis to the site since 2008, and this last year (12 month period) alone saw in excess of 15,300 visits.

We will continue to update news and put out campaign data as often as possible.  SAV is an entirely volunteer run site and has to fit around other animal investigation work and also some specific things which are undertaken on behalf of other (Uk based) animal welfare organisations.

We welcome your comments, so please keep them coming !

With hopes that you will stick with us and be a real voice for the animals.

Looking forward to even bigger visitor numbers in the coming twelve months. Lets paint the map red with visitor ‘dots’  !!

Regards Mark – SAV; London Uk.

Romania: Your assistance is needed to submit email letters to the Prefect of Dolj

   

 

 

 

 

 

Romania Animal Rescue, Inc.
8000 Morgan Territory Rd.
Livermore, CA 94550Nancy@RomaniaAnimalRescue.com
Tax ID: 72-1546354

‘We don’t have money to invest in solving the problem.’

–Eugen Georgescu

Your assistance is needed to submit email letters to the Prefect of Dolj, Romania.

 The prefect is offering to propose or amend some articles of the Animal Protection Act. Unfortunately the only options being offered to “solve” the problem of stray dogs are adoption and euthanasia. In Romania, “euthanasia” is not reserved solely for the humane vet-administered means of ending a dog’s life; leaving poisoned food in the streets, clubbing dogs in a burlap bag, and shooting them are all considered “euthanasia”.

 

‘There are only two alternatives: Either [people] adopt them, or, if [the strays] become a social danger, should be eliminated. What is the problem?’

–Eugen Georgescu

Irresponsible actions must be stopped. It is not true that there is no funding. Authorities can reallocate money spent on euthanasia campaigns to more humane and responsible campaigns, like spay/neuter. We have included two sample letters that you can use to email the Prefect of Dolj County. Please copy one of these letters (or write your own original statement) and paste it into an email addressed to either

office@prefecturadolj.ro  

or drp@gov.ro.

Thank you very much for taking action now.

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SAMPLE LETTER 1 (office@prefecturadolj.ro or drp@gov.ro)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We, citizens of the world, many of whom are your co-nationals, kindly ask you to give a moment of reflection to our letter and our suggestions.

It has come to the attention of the entire international community (the whole world) the atrocities committed in your country against animals and because you are a Kennel Club we should underscore: against DOGS. It is of the utmost importance to remember that all dogs have a common ancestor.

Discrimination against non-pure breed dogs is as outrageous as discrimination against people. For the restoration of the image of your country and your people (excluding those extraordinary people who dedicated their lives to save and protect animals) which has been tarnished by the barbaric acts of cruelty please consider the following.

1. Please join all rescue groups in your country, all animal welfare associations, all good people to lobby your government to introduce better laws for the protection of animals and to IMPLEMENT it.

2. Please suggest to all your affiliates (national groups, local, regional associations) including individual members to adopt a stray dog (in their hometown). Where one pure breed dog can find love, food and shelter, there should be enough Love, Food and Shelter for just one more Dog. (Remember how we used to feed our pets during the communist regime: leftovers from our meals and we all were happy?)

3. Please consider donating a percentage of the revenue from Dog Shows to Romanian Animal Welfare Associations.

4. Please edit and publish a pamphlet and distribute it to the public attending dog shows in Romania, advising people to adopt a dog, (regular dog) to spay/neuter.

5. Please advise your international guests to also adopt a dog after a dog show. This could be the most rewarding “souvenir” from Romania–a dog who will love you unconditionally.

6. Please, as an internationally recognized association, start a petition to stop your government from killing stray dogs and to (again) introduce and implement better laws for the protection of animals and implicitly harsher punishments for the violators of this law.

When the image of your country and people have been tarnished so badly world wide, it will look like some kind of quiet complicity, which we hope is not the case.

Be a pioneer in this noble world- wide struggle to improve the life of animals in your country, and your example will be followed by other countries and you will have the entire world on your side.

We thank you very much for the time you accorded to our letter. We hope that you will join us, be a voice for the voiceless, as we are a voice for the voiceless who have the same rights as all human beings: To live in peace on our planet.

Sincerely yours,

[Your Name]
[Your Country]
[Your Email]

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SAMPLE LETTER 2 (office@prefecturadolj.ro or drp@gov.ro)

To Whom It Concern,

It has come to my attention that your community officials have proposed a decidedly cruel and exploitative manner to reduce “homeless” animal numbers. In efforts to curtail a stray population, you are challenging any security extended to animals as stipulated in the Animal Protection Act, and are instead recommending an immediate and public slaughter to address this issue. I am asking that you cease such a barbaric plan.

Please allow me to elaborate. While all countries engage in animal production, distinguishing animals as commodities rather than sentient beings, progressive governments are promoting greater visibility to preclude allegations of misconduct and brutality. Unfortunately, you are asking that the global audience apathetically regard this proposed killing as a necessary and logical solution. Addressing animals as targets of abuse is inherently inhumane and barbaric, given that it substantiates the precept of animals as products, speciesism, rather than fundamentally equal and deserving of compassion, free from exploitation and suffering. To aspire to such a principled and equitable foundation should be the goal of all societies, and you should thus refuse participation in any event that incurs such cruelty on animals, and in this situation particularly cats and dogs who hold such international recognition, respect, and compassion.

Rather than choose complicity in the savage treatment of animals, your communities can avoid any potential global boycotts of tourism within Romania as well as Romanian exports, by observing compassion instead. This can be achieved by establishing and practicing humane animal welfare standards, including the immediate cessation of random and vicious poisonings, law enforcement freedom to investigate perpetrators of crimes against animals, strict penalties for those guilty of harming animals, and shelters for spaying, neutering, and medical purposes. Furthermore, I ask that you be willing to accept volunteer and international assistance, and to cultivate an ideal societal philosophy with regard to animals: One that acknowledges animals as sentient beings, like humans, and worthy of empathy, compassion, and respect.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.

[Your Name]
[Your Country]
[Your Email]

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Website   http://www.romaniaanimalrescue.com/
Email   Nancy@RomaniaAnimalRescue.com

 

 

Italy: Please Take Action NOW for the ‘Canile’ Dogs – Sample Letter and E mail Addresses Included in Post

 

 

 

Update 01/03/10:

It has been noted that campaigners have been having some problems with regard the one large e mail listing originally provided.

We have been in contact with the originator of this listing and we can confirm that there should not be any problems with the addresses given; all have been checked and are ok.

But there may be a problem if all are copied en masse and sent in just one block.  So what will be seen below now is that the one original block listing has been divided into three blocks.

It is a little more work on your part, but now it is asked if the sample letter can be sent out three times; in accordance with the addresses in each block below.

It is hoped that this will make life easier and that all the mails will be delived without any comeback or failure errors.  If there are still failures, then at least the problem addresses can be traced down to one address or some of those in (any one of) the smaller blocks which make up the three. 

This three block mail route has been checked out as a trial today (01/03) and there have not been any problems.  It is hoped that you do not encounter any.

 

Please send a copy of the sample letter to all the addresses given in each of the three block listings below. 

It is hoped this will stop any error messages being returned to sender.

Block 1:

presidente@giuseppecastiglione.it, segreteriaMinistroSacconi@lavoro.gov.it, segreteria.martini@sanita.it, segreteria.frattini@esteri.it, r.brunetta@governo.it, stampa.turismo@governo.it, alfano_a@camera.it, martini_f@camera.it, urp@politicheagricole.it, Gabinetto.capo@politicheagricole.gov.it, frattini_f@camera.it, caposegreteria.ministro@interno.it, callcenter@giustizia.it, cdr@esteri.it, gabibbo@mediaset.it, segreteria.berlino@esteri.it, consolare.berlino@esteri.it, segreteria.amburgo@esteri.it, info.colonia@esteri.it, consolato@consonordresda.de, segreteria.dortmund@esteri.it, segreteria.francoforte@esteri.it, segreteria.friburgo@esteri.it, consolato@italia-hannover.de, consolato-onorario-kiel@t-online.de, italconsul.mannheim@t-online.de, italcons.monacobaviera@esteri.it, segreteria.norimberga@esteri.it, consolato@ambitaliavienna.org, coninns@tirol.com, ambasciata.berna@esteri.it, segreteria@italconsbasilea.ch, segretaria@consolato-italia-be.ch, consolato.stoccarda@esteri.it, infowolfsburg@esteri.it, italconsul.losanna@tiscali.ch, consolatosg@bluewin.ch, consolato.lione@esteri.it, consolato.marsiglia@esteri.it, consolato.metz@esteri.it, consulit.nizza@esteri.it, affariconsolari@itwash.org, segreteria.saarbruecken@esteri.it,

Block 2:

roberta.angelilli@europarl.europa.eu, alfredo.antoniozzi@europarl.europa.eu, paolo.bartolozzi@europarl.europa.eu, carlo.casini@europarl.europa.eu, silvia.costa@europarl.europa.eu, francesco.deangelis@europarl.europa.eu, leonardo.domenici@europarl.europa.eu, roberto.gualtieri@europarl.europa.eu, guido.milana@europarl.europa.eu, claudio.morganti@europarl.europa.eu, alfredo.pallone@europarl.europa.eu, niccolo.rinaldi@europarl.europa.eu, potito.salatto@europarl.europa.eu, david.sassoli@europarl.europa.eu, marco.scurria@europarl.europa.eu, antonello.antinoro@europarl.europa.eu, rita.borsellino@europarl.europa.eu, rosario.crocetta@europarl.europa.eu, salvatore.iacolino@europarl.europa.eu, giovanni.lavia@europarl.europa.eu, giommaria.uggias@europarl.europa.eu, pino.arlacchi@europarl.europa.eu, raffaele.baldassarre@europarl.europa.eu, andrea.cozzolino@europarl.europa.eu, luigiciriaco.demita@europarl.europa.eu, vincenzo.iovine@europarl.europa.eu, clemente.mastella@europarl.europa.eu, barbara.matera@europarl.europa.eu, erminia.mazzoni@europarl.europa.eu, aldo.patriciello@europarl.europa.eu, mario.pirillo@europarl.europa.eu, gianni.pittella@europarl.europa.eu, crescenzio.rivellini@europarl.europa.eu, sergio.silvestris@europarl.europa.eu, salvatore.tatarella@europarl.europa.eu, gabriele.albertini@europarl.europa.eu

Block 3:

sonia.alfano@europarl.europa.eu, magdicristiano.allam@europarl.europa.eu, francesca.balzani@europarl.europa.eu, vito.bonsignore@europarl.europa.eu, mario.borghezio@europarl.europa.eu, sergio.cofferati@europarl.europa.eu, lara.comi@europarl.europa.eu, mario.mauro@europarl.europa.eu, cristiana.muscardini@europarl.europa.eu, pierantonio.panzeri@europarl.europa.eu, fiorello.provera@europarl.europa.eu, licia.ronzulli@europarl.europa.eu, oreste.rossi@europarl.europa.eu, matteo.salvini@europarl.europa.eu, francescoenrico.speroni@europarl.europa.eu, gianluca.susta@europarl.europa.eu, patrizia.toia@europarl.europa.eu, gianni.vattimo@europarl.europa.eu, iva.zanicchi@europarl.europa.eu, sergio.berlato@europarl.europa.eu, luigi.berlinguer@europarl.europa.eu, mara.bizzotto@europarl.europa.eu, antonio.cancian@europarl.europa.eu, salvatore.caronna@europarl.europa.eu, giovanni.collino@europarl.europa.eu, luigi.demagistris@europarl.europa.eu, herbert.dorfmann@europarl.europa.eu, lorenzo.fontana@europarl.europa.eu, elisabetta.gardini@europarl.europa.eu, tiziano.motti@europarl.europa.eu, vittorio.prodi@europarl.europa.eu, amalia.sartori@europarl.europa.eu, giancarlo.scotta@europarl.europa.eu, debora.serracchiani@europarl.europa.eu, paolo.decastro@europarl.europa.eu, carlo.fidanza@europarl.europa.eu

PROTEST  CANILE  PLEASE!  – Sample Letter Below.

SAMPLE LETTER TO COPY AND SEND x3 – each letter copy to all the contacts listed in Blocks 1, 2 or 3 above.

Please feel free to copy and attach a few photographs to your mails also.

 Thanks – SAV.

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Dear  Madame or Sir,

You are representing your country and its  interests abroad. I think you might feel concerned about a serious topic which throws a negative light on Italy.

The disastrous situation in regard to abandoned dogs in the so called “canile” makes me and many people around me think twice about going on holiday to Italy, even to buy any Italian products. There is no doubt that the terrible and disgusting so called  “concentration camps” for dogs is bound to profit from thirst for money.

Catching dogs and keeping them in terrible conditions bring millions to some people who pursue this bloody business in collaboration with local politicians.

Why does Italy not spend that money on neutering or sterilization of dogs so as to stop their uncontrolled breeding ?

Any normal human being who has seen the cruelty of Italian dogs in these places can never again feel at comfort while travelling to Italy or buying Italian products.

Who would be able to still enjoy a holiday in Italy or take pleasure on eating Italian dishes and drinking Italian wine while having knowledge of incredible pain and sorrow which dogs in canile must endure?!  The only fault of these dogs is to have been born as dogs in Italy – a country that apparently does not care at all for animals.

 Italy, the land of Christianity, the residence of the Pope, the land of Canile! Canile, where unbearable suffering of dogs feeds the ever growing greed for money.

It is hard to believe that those beautiful Italian people with their beautiful culture, beautiful music and beautiful seaside, who go on Sundays to their beautiful churches and send their prayers to God are treating their dogs in a way that even an animal itself would not do.

More and more people realize what is going on and there will be accountability sooner or later. And there is  no  way  to completely hide this hell no matter how many people are involved.

They keep  the gates of canile shut for visitors, they employ foreigners who fear for their jobs, they drive away animal helpers from abroad.

I myself, am determined not to travel to Italy or to buy anything it comes from Italy until canile is replaced by animal shelters where dogs are treated well. Until then I will certainly do everything I can to let as many people as possible know what is going on in “bella Italia”.

So, if you really want to make a difference, then do it right now!

http://www.ahimsa.it/canili

www.lasaggezzadichirone.org

www.nothuman.org

www.ahimsa.it

http://chiliamacisegua.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/campagna-internazionale-contro-i-canili-lager-italiani/

Best regards

Yours sincerely,

Your Name

Your Nationality 

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Spain: Please Copy and Send a Letter In Support of Suffering Galgos

Please copy and send the following Sample Letter to all the e mail addresses given:

Send To:   cm@coe.int;

‘CC’ To:  

webmaster.assembly@coe.int;  info@zapateropresidente.comjlrzapatero@presidencia.gob.esinfopsoe@psoe.esportal.presidencia@mpr.esinfopsoe@psoe.es ; portal.presidencia@mpr.es ; buzon.oficial@londres.ofcomes.mcx.esministra@mma.es ; gabinete.prensa@mma.esjuarez@mapausa.org;  detorres@mapausa.org;  cores@mapausa.org;  jmaznar@presidencia.gob.es

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SAMPLE LETTER –  SAMPLE LETTER –  

To  – See above e mail listings.

D. Miguel Angel Moratinos

Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación

Plaza de la Provincia 1

28012 Madrid

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Complejo de la Moncloa

 Avda. Puerta de Hierro, s/n.

28071 Madrid

Dear Minister Moratinos,

once again the end of the Spanish hunting season is upon us, and what happens to Galgos who have not “performed” or otherwise fulfilled the expectations of their owners ?

They are disposed of by hanging them on trees (or whatever other means comes to hand), so their feet barely touch the ground to perish, slowly suffocating for many hours, even days.

There is a term in Spain apparently for this: “piano playing”, “piano players” – after the way the animals struggle desperately to free themselves – usually in vain …

I can assure you – have seen these horrendous pictures of hung Galgos for many years now. And I am sick of it to a point that defies description.

WHY do authorities still turn a blind eye to these atrocities, when organisations in and outside of Spain have highlighted this for many years and demanded that it be stopped ???

Is this yet another of Spain’s hallowed traditions that the populace is loath to let go, like the bull fights ? A manly ritual designed to bolster the feeling of dominance over defenceless animals in a society that still has need of such archaic “traditions” ??

Spain in the 21st century ???

I demand of you, and your govermment, Sir, that immediate steps be taken to once and for all commit this impossible outrage against all that God ever demanded of us in terms of compassion to ALL HIS CREATURES to history !!!

There is NO excuse for it, never was. Spain has much to lose from tolerating such behaviour from people that do definitely NOT represent anything a country like yours should be proud of.

Sincerely,

ADD Your name and nationality 

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For more information and GRAPHIC pictures,

visit:  http://www.sosgalgos.com/UK/uk-stop.htm

Photograph shown on this post is from same site.

 

 

Macedonia: 16/02/10 Update – Still No Change – Your MASSIVE Action and Support Now Needed – Please Read On ….

     

    

As you can see from the letter sent to us on 16/02/10, things are not changing in Macedonia, despite the wishes of the public for the authorities to show much more compassion.  The wishes of the people of Macedonia are being ignored by the Macedonian authorities.        

    

The Mayor of Skopje – Responsible for the Killings

What Can You Do to Help and Support ?

   

Please support all of our campaigner friends in Macedonia by taking actions as we have published on the following link;         

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/macedonia-actions-for-vardariste-pound-skopje-campaign-%e2%80%93-part-3-of-3/ 

 This link includes a sample letter to copy and paste, addresses (e mail) of where to send them, and a full list of Macedonian embassies around the world which can also be sent the e mail letter. 

The following is a direct copy of the letter received on 16/02/10 by SAV, from Macedonian campaigners: 

Dear friend of animals,We ask for your help again in order to stop the massive killing of the homeless dogs and the inhuman treatment in Skopje, in the holding facility Vardarishte.  

Despite all efforts to change the condition, nothing has been changed for better, there is no consideration for the reactions by the Macedonian citizens who are disgusted from the principle of massive killings, disgusted from the standards for the dogs stay in the holding facility Vardarishte, disappointed from the functioning of the facility.   

   

Although as a public institution it is obligated to operate transparently in front of the citizens, it hides public data, it is closed for public and for visits, except for the total 6 hours per week (of which 3h on Friday, from 9-12h when people are at work), there is prohibition of free movement within it, the recording and photographing are the most strictly prohibited in order for the glamorous camp photo of the 21st century not to be seen.  

1. Currently, in the holding facility almost all small puppies are dying from freezing, pneumonia, viruses, because it is very cold and temperatures are below 0, and the holding facility is half closed type of facility, without any possibilities for working in winter!  

And the few dogs that have surgery done / sterilized, die because they are outside, freezing. The dogs lie on frozen water, frozen concrete, with no place to hide or get warm even for a moment. They continue washing the cages with heavy flows of water, without removing the dogs from cages. The dogs stay in the cages and die in tremendous torments!  

Simultaneously continues the practice of massive killing, officially around 70%, unofficially much more.  

 

2. People who catch dogs are completely incompetent, rude bullies (with the exception of maximum 5 out of 36 dog catchers). Hunting massively, saying that there won’t be any dog on the streets, not even leaving the dogs that are quiet and for whom the people take care of, vaccinated, sterilized….They say that it has been ordered and that every stray dog is to be caught – believe it, there is massacre and genocide, and only in Skopje there are around 10 000 homeless dogs! 

 

3. The dog-catchers also carry bats while catching, going in 8 teams, in three shifts, with unmark vehicles, massively and roughly catching a part of the dogs, and part of the dogs they don’t even take them to the holding facility but surely kill them in other places – for this we testimonials by citizens whose dogs have been caught and who had gone the same day to look for their dogs.However, the dog-catcher have been telling them that their dogs had not been caught (despite the photographs of the dogs being caught) or that they have been adopted, of course, without giving them information about location!  

4. The latest strategy in the holding facility is that on every cage they put papers on which it is written that the dog is too aggressive – we claim that it is a disgusting lie in almost all cases, because they never want to say who concretely (including name, analysis and evaluation) has put the paper.Believe me, almost all dogs marked like this, even those who are so dear, peaceful, social, with randomly written label – ‘AGGRESSIVE’  to justify the killing, declared without any official document to show, official evaluation by competent person.  

 
    

  

    

 This is the main excuse for the death of almost 90% of caught dogs, dogs that we didn’t manage to save.
  

Despite all our reactions, calls, meetings with the authorities, organized protest (under the slogan No to Bloody Skopje), we fail to stop or change anything, we have never succeeded anything because obviously this is a fixed defined “strategy” for solving the problem of excessive dogs population.  

 There is no holding facility on the entire Macedonian territory, where the CNR program should performed! Instead, here rules the system of massive poisoning, dog tournaments, torture, murder with guns.  

Please help us in any way, please start to put pressure once and for all to put an end to the violent and extremely cruel principle – we will do everything for this to be stopped, everything that you think that could and should be done. We ask for your support because without assistance from abroad, the struggle for salvation and life of over 10 000 dogs in Skopje, and many more in other places in Macedonia, is lost in advance. 

 THANKS !  

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Past SAV Posts including many photographs:    

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/macedonia-dogs-being-hunted-with-baseball-bats-killed-and-dumped-on-local-landfill//01/09/macedonia-dogs-being-hunted-with-baseball-bats-killed-and-dumped-on-local-landfill/      

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/macedonia-sav-now-supports-eu-eurogroup-for-animals-by-formally-writing-letter-to-eu-commissioners-expressing-concerns-about-conditions-and-animal-suffering-at-vardariste-holding-facility-skopje-ma/     

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/macedonia-no-change-at-skopje-now-the-eu-animal-welfare-intergroup-president-writes-to-the-eu-commissioner-asking-for-actions/     

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/macedonia-vardariste-pound-skopje-campaign-part-1-of-3/     

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/macedonia-vardariste-pound-skopje-campaign-%e2%80%93-part-2-of-3/     

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/macedonia-actions-for-vardariste-pound-skopje-campaign-%e2%80%93-part-3-of-3/         

Italy: Protest Campaign Against the New Proposed Hunting Law

Italy:

Protest campaign against the new proposed hunting law

Say NO to extension of the hunting season in Italy

Since Silvio Berlusconi‘s (photo right) re-election as ItalianPrime Minister in 2008 his hunting-friendly government has attempted to emasculate the country’s hunting law on a number of occasions. To date three such initiatives have been stopped as the absurd draft proposals have led to a storm of protest and substantial resistance by politicians and the public. In summer 2009 we managed to stop new proposals by Senator Orsi. His draft law included an extension of the hunting season, hunting in nature reserves, more huntable species and hunting licences for 16 year olds.
As a ‘frontal assault’ by the Berlusconi administration is clearly doomed to failure, they are now turning to salami tactics. In December 2009, Senator Giacomo Santini from Berlusconi‘s PDL party has submitted a proposal for a new law which would lead to an enormous extension of the hunting season.

Present regulations permit hunting from the 3rd Sunday in September to the end of January – one of the shortest hunting seasons in Europe at present! The Santini proposal foresees permitting hunting of Turtle Dove and Quail from the beginning of August, and the shooting of Blackbirds and other song birds until the end of February.

The Italian nature and wildlife protection organisations are targeting three of Berlusconi’s ministers. They are all in key positions (EU Legislation, Environment and Deputy Prime Minister) and their actions could be decisive in determining the success or failure of the new proposals to make the law books.

Do your bit now – 3 mails for 3 ministers

 This new protest campaign targets three ministers in key positions who could help to determine the success or failure of the new proposals for extension of the hunting season.

You are now only two clicks away!   Please send all three pre-drafted protest mails (in Italian and German) to :

Andrea Ronchi, Minister for EU Legislation …. click here »»

Stefania Prestigiacomo, Minister for the Environment …. click here »»

Gianni Letta, Deputy Prime Minister …. click here »»

The texts in English:

Dear Minister …,Yours sincerely

As a European citizen I wish to express my indignation about the new draft hunting law proposals and ask you to do all in your power to prevent them becoming law. Hunting in Italy has had a long term negative effect on wildlife and the environment. If the government introduces legislation to extend the hunting season migrant birds, which are part of our common natural resource, will be even more endangered. A powerful argument against the new proposals is that 90 % of your countrywomen and countrymen oppose such changes.

USA (Alaska): Take Action for the Iditarod Dogs – Sample Letter and block e Mails

 

 

 

” A dog is being dragged on the ice. He may be dead or unconscious. The musher may be sleeping.
Read about mushers sleeping while dogs race” 

Please send protest emails and forward this alert widely.

From the Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org

Sled dog puppies may die in the Iditarod or during training.

Contact information, blocks of email addresses and SAMPLE LETTER ARE BELOW.

Please help end the horrific treatment of dogs by sending protest emails to organizations that support the Iditarod.   Six dogs died in the 2009 race, including two dogs on Dr. Lou Packer’s team who froze to death in the brutally cold winds. What happens to the dogs during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains. 

During training runs, Iditarod dogs have been killed by moose, snowmachines, and various motor vehicles, including a semi tractor and an ATV. They have died from drowning, heart attacks and being strangled in harnesses. Dogs have also been injured while training. They have been gashed, quilled by porcupines, bitten in dog fights, and had broken bones, and torn muscles and tendons. Most dog deaths and injuries during training aren’t even reported.

Dog beatings and whippings are common. During the 2007 Iditarod, eyewitnesses reported that musher Ramy Brooks kicked, punched and beat his dogs with a ski pole and a chain. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, “A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective.” He also said, “It is a common training device in use among dog mushers…

Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed large numbers of dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged, drowned or clubbed to death.

Most Internet service providers allow people to send up to 40 email addresses at a time. For your convenience, the addresses have been divided into groups of 40.

Please email the first group first. Individual email addresses are given under the sample letter.

The groups contain addresses for the 2010 Iditarod sponsors, promoters, and musher sponsors.

Email blocks with semicolons and commas are on http://www.helpsleddogsorg/sponsors.htm.

BLOCK ONE OF FIVE:

Martha.LaGuardia@uscg.mil, Christopher.Gay@cabelas.com, joe.arterburn@cabelas.com, car8@chrysler.com, rick.deneau@chrysler.com, richard.d.levy@wellsfargo.com, Dana.L.Rogers@wellsfargo.com, investorrelations@wellsfargo.com, capital.markets@exxonmobil.com, craig.a.haymes@exxonmobil.comelizabeth_hillman@discovery.com, investor_relations@discovery.cominvestorrelations@target.com, susan.kahn@target.com, newsroom@alaskaair.com, Susan.Bramstedt@alaskaair.com, jodom@odomcorp.com, sustainability@na.ko.comInvestor.Relations@ab-inbev.com, DaveScott@KLDistributor.com, billing@roadpost.com, investor.relations@iridium.com, info@vitecgroup.com, Marketing@ElectrochemSolutions.cominfo@margaritaville.com, keywest@margaritaville.com, info@westernplows.com, glparsky@auroracap.com, info@visitjamaica.com, investor_relations@westjet.comjeanne.jackson@nike.com, asilverman@npr.org, David.Bittler@nick.com, jobs@wellpet.com, skenyon@mill-usa.com, david.curtis-brignell@mill-cop.comPDoyle@adn.com, ptira@mcclatchy.com, jstorey@horizonlines.com, investor_relations@trimble.com, corpcsf@wellsfargo.com

BLOCK TWO OF FIVE:

espence@nea.org, danya.proud@us.mcd.com, info@mychukka.com, dmorris@gci.com, resumes@crowley.comcburchfield@alaskanbeer.com, dwspencer@microlinetc.comenisson@nacargo.com, jo.norton@providence.org, kroger.investors@kroger.com, Alyson.Johnson@wyndhamworldwide.com, sparmelee@outsidemag.com,  dhibbler@depaul.edu, desa@diabetes-exercise.org, investor.relations@blockbuster.com,  lailani@kotowski4senate.compublicrelations@arizona.aaa.com, info0808@striker.comdavid_peikin@choicehotels.com, investor_relations@choicehotels.com, ir-newyork@shell.com,  mjordan@invictalaw.com, rcotton@hawkpointegolf.com, hbspcs@harcourt.comTGallagher@carnival.com, greg.lee@livestrong.org, jgooding@tiff.net, info@chempetitive.com,  oberlander@topnotchresort.com, frank.hazevoets@tigenix.com, rene.reichenbach@t-online.de, board@rei.com, raphaela.neihausen@gmail.com, thom@sugarpictures.cominformation@RSSC.com, kgood@scholastic.com, csinger@fpdwc.org

BLOCK THREE OF FIVE:

hotelrep@fdifairbanks.com, tmarkley@catawba.k12.nc.us, admin@krokodil.be, marketing@baffin.com,  abement@nsf.gov, ted@pacifictugboats.com, neos@overshoe.comenquiries@freshcatch.comchris.deets@activeion.com, loki@lokiusa.com, unicorn@mcphee.com, info@doubleupfarms.com, jrotepel@tahsinusa.com, info@oceanbeauty.com, info@freedscoffeetea.comRichard.Salmons@lssi.com, chairman@arts.gov, bcumming@cmnh.orgInvestor_Help@edmin.com, jh@desplainesparks.org, webmaster@equinedirect.netinfo@foresightmultimedia.com, bob.klein@harley-davidson.com, ablank@gpworldwide.comian@brander.co.uk, circles@pandora.be, catchg.glassandstone@runbox.com, kco@verdepr.com, brian@wildthingsgear.com, stay@diamondmranch.com, ken@zolfeeast.com, buschk@billings.k12.mt.us, joni@doxafestival.ca, rabbikahn@torahacademy.org, pastor@calvaryws.com, JJohnston@udelhoven.com, info@greatriverjourney.comreach@plaidfish.com, sales@tunnock.co.uk, info@inlettower.com

BLOCK FOUR OF FIVE:

lynne@boulderdigitalarts.com, swmoore@cbs.com, jfipp@ncs-nj.orgmccabel@kaukauna.k12.wi.us, cs@darntough.ca, garthdeesports@btconnect.com, owner@adventuresakrv.com, secretariat@41clubs.be, admin@k9hydrocentre.com, plampi@alaskazoo.org, info@annamaet.com, rambler@cariboucreekgold.com, ma@goathleticapparel.com, tlange@tcinc.us, fsb@1stsecuritydl.com, info@brcomm.com, robert@100sportingevents.com, Mary-Michael@RiverviewCC.com, info@schadevineyard.com, joel_dvorak@natronaschools.org, pmroden@hsco.org, info@penair.com, mayor@muni.org, manager@ci.nome.ak.us, gwells@simon.com, vrupright@ci.wasilla.ak.us, AskMLP@muni.org, alcansigns@alaska.net, dpowers@akserigraphics.com, Luke.Welles@lifemedalaska.com, info@worksafeinc.com, rentme@valleycarrental.com, anchorage@alaskapain.net, bgabriel@biggelectric.com, jimb@harborent.com, info@10squaredracing.com, yum.investor@yum.com, info@trapperscreek.com, info@trabitsgroup.com, info@canada-goose.com

BLOCK FIVE OF FIVE:

sdean@jjkeller.com, customersupport@batteriesplus.com, larry@altitudetraining.com, information@lynden.com, contact@redpawfeed.com, orders@motosolutions.com, Macgellan@mac.com, orders@motosolutions.com, info@lake-rescue.org,  info@alaskadirectbusline.com, pressroom@atk.com, dax@polarcom.com, info@yukonzinc.com, prints@alaskastock.com, ewaite@sbsalaska.com, ruediger.henke@queo-media.com,  kbernier@mta-telco.com, sean.karin@alaska.net, amanda.fowler@warmers.comwiggys@wiggys.com, eldorado@yknet.ca, info@janssenfuneralhomes.com, qiviut@gci.net, info@usibelli.com, ccampbell@wmcnet.org, bwalker@mcmurry.net, info@sylmardogwear.com, tours@atlastravelweb.com, newsmedia@Exploritas.org, jmcfarland@fpdwc.org, balch@wvwc.edu, lance@cebridge.net, duane.dunn@sccc.edu, director@lmlibrary.org, jwomack@rcs.k12.va.us 
        
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Dear Iditarod Supporter:

For the dogs, the Iditarod dog sled race is a bottomless pit of suffering. Please end your organization’s support of this event. Six dogs died in the 2009 Iditarod, including two dogs on Dr. Lou Packer’s team who froze to death in the brutally cold winds. What happens to the dogs during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it  hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains. For more facts, visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website, http://www.helpsleddogs.org .

During training runs, Iditarod dogs have been killed by moose, snowmachines, and various motor vehicles, including a semi tractor and an ATV. They have died from drowning, heart attacks and being strangled in harnesses. Dogs have also been injured while training. They have been gashed, quilled by porcupines, bitten in dog fights, and had broken bones, and torn muscles and tendons. Most dog deaths and injuries during training aren’t even reported.

Dog beatings and whippings are common. During the 2007 Iditarod, eyewitnesses reported that musher Ramy Brooks kicked, punched and beat his dogs with a ski pole and a chain. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, “Nagging a dog team is cruel and ineffective…A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective.” He also said, “It is a common training device in use among dog mushers…”

Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed large numbers of dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, including those who have outlived their usefulness, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged, drowned or clubbed to death. “Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don’t pull are dragged to death in harnesses…..” wrote former Iditarod dog handler Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska’s Bush Blade Newspaper.

Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, “He [Colonel Tom Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or dragging them to their death.”

During the race, veterinarians do not give the dogs physical exams at every checkpoint. Mushers speed through many checkpoints, so the dogs get the briefest visual checks, if that. Instead of pulling sick dogs from the race, veterinarians frequently give them massive doses of antibiotics to keep them running.

Please end your organization’s association with this horrific race.

Sincerely,

___________________________________________________________________

IDITAROD RACE SPONSORS:

Chrysler Group LLC
Emails: car8@chrysler.com, rick.deneau@chrysler.comCoca-Cola – Odom Corporation
Emails: jodom@odomcorp.com, sustainability@na.ko.comMillennium & Copthorne Hotels
Emails: skenyon@mill-usa.com, david.curtis-brignell@mill-cop.comWells Fargo & Company
Emails: richard.d.levy@wellsfargo.com, Dana.L.Rogers@wellsfargo.cominvestorrelations@wellsfargo.comKroger Company (Fred Meyer Stores)
Email: kroger.investors@kroger.com

Exxon Mobil Corporation
Emails: capital.markets@exxonmobil.com, craig.a.haymes@exxonmobil.com

Anchorage Daily News (Mc Clatchy Company)
Emails: PDoyle@adn.com, ptira@mcclatchy.com

Providence Health System
Email: jo.norton@providence.org

Alaska Airlines (Alaska Air Group)
Emails: newsroom@alaskaair.com, Susan.Bramstedt@alaskaair.com

Peninsula Airways, Inc. (Pen Air)
Email: info@penair.com

Trimble Navigation Limited
Email: investor_relations@trimble.com

K & L Distributors, Inc. (AB-Inbev distributor)
Emails: Investor.Relations@ab-inbev.com, DaveScott@KLDistributor.com

Alaska Brewing Company
Email: cburchfield@alaskanbeer.com

The City of Anchorage
Email: mayor@muni.org

The City of Nome
Email: manager@ci.nome.ak.us

5th Avenue Mall (Simon Property Group)
Email: gwells@simon.com

Horizon Lines
Email: jstorey@horizonlines.com

City of Wasilla
Email: vrupright@ci.wasilla.ak.us

General Communication, Inc. (GCI)
Email: dmorris@gci.com

Crowley Maritime Corporation
Email: resumes@crowley.com

Anton/Bauer, Inc. (Vitec Group)
Email: info@vitecgroup.com

Anchorage Municipal Light and Power
Email: AskMLP@muni.org

Alcan Signs
Email:alcansigns@alaska.net

Alaska Serigraphics
Email: dpowers@akserigraphics.com

Electrochem Commercial Power (Greatbatch, Ltd.)
Email: Marketing@ElectrochemSolutions.com

IonEarth
Email: dwspencer@microlinetc.com

Iridium
Email: investor.relations@iridium.com

Roadpost
Email: billing@roadpost.com

Northern Air Cargo
Email: enisson@nacargo.com

LifeMed Alaska 
Email: Luke.Welles@lifemedalaska.com

WorkSafe, Inc.
Email: info@worksafeinc.com

Alaska Toy Rental
Email: rentme@valleycarrental.com

IDITAROD RACE PROMOTERS:

Target Corporation Target Corporation
E-mails: investorrelations@target.com, susan.kahn@target.com, laysha.ward@target.com

Harcourt School Publishers
Emails: hbspcs@harcourt.com, rick.blake@harcourt.com

Carnival Corporation
Email: TGallagher@carnival.com

Discovery Network (Discovery Communications)
Emails: elizabeth_hillman@discovery.com, investor_relations@discovery.com

Scholastic Corporation
Email: kgood@scholastic.com

Chicago Park District
Email: dhibbler@depaul.edu

Lance Armstrong Foundation
Email: greg.lee@livestrong.org

Nike
Email: jeanne.jackson@nike.com

All Things Considered (National Public Radio)
Email: asilverman@npr.org

Toronto International Film Festival
Email: jgooding@tiff.net

Nick.com 
Email: David.Bittler@nick.com

Outside Magazine
Email: sparmelee@outsidemag.com

Jackson-Madison County Library – National Endowment for the Arts
Emails: Richard.Salmons@lssi.com, chairman@arts.gov

National Science Foundation Digital Library
Email: abement@nsf.gov

Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Email: bcumming@cmnh.org

Robert Tuchman, author
Email: robert@100sportingevents.com

Riverview Counseling Center
Email: Mary-Michael@RiverviewCC.com

Education World (EDmin)
Email: Investor_Help@edmin.com

Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Email: information@RSSC.com

REI and Boulder Digital Arts
Spirit of the Outdoors Film Festival
Emails: lynne@boulderdigitalarts.com, board@rei.com

Kaukauna Area School District
Email: mccabel@kaukauna.k12.wi.us

Montana State Reading Council
Email: buschk@billings.k12.mt.us

Schade Vineyard & Winery
Email: info@schadevineyard.com

Des Plaines Park District
Email: jh@desplainesparks.org

AAA of Arizona
Email: publicrelations@arizona.aaa.com

Stranger Than Fiction
Emails: raphaela.neihausen@gmail.com, thom@sugarpictures.com

Auto Show with Greg Damon
Email: swmoore@cbs.com

Catawba County Schools
Email: tmarkley@catawba.k12.nc.us

Angels Program
Email: ccampbell@wmcnet.org

Natrona Country School District
Email: joel_dvorak@natronaschools.org

McMurry Foundation
Email: bwalker@mcmurry.net

Humane Society of Central Oregon
Email: pmroden@hsco.org

Northfield Community Elementary School
Email: jfipp@ncs-nj.org

Columbus Torah Academy
Email: rabbikahn@torahacademy.org

Sylmar Dogwear 
Email: info@sylmardogwear.com

Calvary Baptist Church
Email: pastor@calvaryws.com

Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association
Email: desa@diabetes-exercise.org

DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Email: joni@doxafestival.ca

National Education Association
Emails: HR_Service_Center@nea.org, espence@nea.org

Atlas Cruises & Tours
Email: tours@atlastravelweb.com

Exploritas (Elderhostel)
Email: newsmedia@Exploritas.org

Forest Preserve District of Will County
Email: jmcfarland@fpdwc.org, jprince@fpdwc.org, csinger@fpdwc.org

West Virginia Wesleyan College (Library Services)
Email: balch@wvwc.edu

Upshur County Schools
Email: lance@cebridge.net

Seward County Community College
Email: duane.dunn@sccc.edu

Liberal Memorial Library
Email: director@lmlibrary.org

William Byrd Middle School
Email: jwomack@rcs.k12.va.us

MUSHER SPONSORS:

United States Coast Guard
Email: Martha.LaGuardia@uscg.mil

Clarion Suites and Comfort Inn (Choice Hotels International)
Emails: david_peikin@choicehotels.com, investor_relations@choicehotels.com

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville
Emails: info@margaritaville.com, keywest@margaritaville.commargaritaville@universalorlando.com

Cabelas
Emails: Christopher.Gay@cabelas.com, joe.arterburn@cabelas.com

Hawthorne Suites (Wyndham Hotel Group)
Email: Alyson.Johnson@wyndhamworldwide.com

Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Email: bob.klein@harley-davidson.com

Jiffy Lube International, Inc. (Shell Oil Company)
Email: ir-newyork@shell.com

Blockbuster Video
Email: investor.relations@blockbuster.com

McDonalds Restaurants (McDonald Corporation)
Email: danya.proud@us.mcd.com

Taco Bell (Yum! Brands, Inc.)
Email: yum.investor@yum.com

Batteries Plus
Email: customersupport@batteriesplus.com

Oomingmak
Email: qiviut@gci.net

Kaladi Brothers Coffee Company
Email: sales@kaladi.com

Inlet Tower Hotel & Suites
Email: info@inlettower.com

Colorado Altitude Training
Email: larry@altitudetraining.com

J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Email: sdean@jjkeller.com

Western Products (Aurora Capital Group)
Emails: info@westernplows.com, glparsky@auroracap.com

Macgellan.com
Email: Macgellan@mac.com

Eagle Pack (WellPet)
Email: jobs@wellpet.com

FogTech (Motosolutions)
Email: orders@motosolutions.com

Redpaw Feed
Email: contact@redpawfeed.com

Lynden Incorporated
Email: information@lynden.com

General Physics Corp. (GP General Strategies Corp.)
Email: ablank@gpworldwide.com

National Lake Rescue Institute
Email: info@lake-rescue.org

Trabits Group, LLC P.O.
Email: info@trabitsgroup.com

Trapper Creek Smoking Company
Email: info@trapperscreek.com

Canada Goose
Email: info@canada-goose.com

The Eldorado Hotel
Email: eldorado@yknet.ca

Janssen Funeral Homes, Inc.
Email: info@janssenfuneralhomes.com

Great River Journey Inc.
Email: info@greatriverjourney.com

Queo Media
Email: ruediger.henke@queo-media.com

MTA
Email: kbernier@mta-telco.com

Usibelli Coal Mine
Email: info@usibelli.com

Udelhoven Companies
Email: JJohnston@udelhoven.com

Kenai River Seafoods
Email: sean.karin@alaska.net

Horizon Lines, Inc.
Email: boardofdirectors@horizonlines.com

Grabber Hand Warmers
Email: sales@handwarmers.com, amanda.fowler@warmers.com

Wiggy’s Outdoor Gear
Email: wiggys@wiggys.com

Jamaica Tourist Bureau
Emails: info@visitjamaica.com, groups@visitjamaica-usa.com

Caribou Creek Dog Food
Email: rambler@cariboucreekgold.com

Blackwood Pet Foods
Email: info@blackwoodpetfood.com

Senator Dan Kotowski
Email: lailani@kotowski4senate.com

Wedgewood Resort (Fountainhead Hotels)
Email: hotelrep@fdifairbanks.com

Chukka Caribbean Adventures
Emails: info@mychukka.com, info@chukkacaribbean.com

West Jet Vacations (West Jet)
Email: investor_relations@westjet.com

Alaska Zoo
Email: plampi@alaskazoo.org

Annamaet Pet Food
Email: info@annamaet.com

Chempetitive Group
Email: info@chempetitive.com

Invicta Law Group, PLLC
Email: mjordan@invictalaw.com

Striker Securities, Inc.
Email: info0808@striker.com

Topnotch Resort & Spa
Email: oberlander@topnotchresort.com

Double Up Farms
Email: info@doubleupfarms.com

Loki Gear
Email: loki@lokiusa.com

Archie McPhee
Email:unicorn@mcphee.com

Energi Tea ( Freed Teller & Freeds)
E-mail: info@freedscoffeetea.com

Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.
Email: info@oceanbeauty.com

Hawk Pointe Golf Course
Email: rcotton@hawkpointegolf.com

Pacific Tugboat Service
Email: ted@pacifictugboats.com

Neos Overshoe
Email: neos@overshoe.com

Go Athletic Apparel
Email: ma@goathleticapparel.com

Todd Communications
Email: tlange@tcinc.us

Grasso Glass & Stone
Email: catchg.glassandstone@runbox.com

Point 6 Socks
Email: kco@verdepr.com

Red Ledge
Email:jrotepel@tahsinusa.com

Equine Direct (Minnetonka Laboratories)
Email: webmaster@equinedirect.net

1st Security Bank of Deer Lodge
Email: fsb@1stsecuritydl.com

Krokodil
Email: admin@krokodil.be

Foresight Multi-Media
Email: info@foresightmultimedia.com

Bradley Reid & Associates
Email: info@brcomm.com

Darn Tough
Email: cs@darntough.ca

TiGenix
Email: frank.hazevoets@tigenix.com

Activeion
Email: chris.deets@activeion.com

Fresh Catch Ltd
Email: enquiries@freshcatch.com

Baffin, Inc.
Email: marketing@baffin.com

Brander Recruitment
Email: ian@brander.co.uk

Aberdeen Snow Sports Centre
Email: garthdeesports@btconnect.com

Tunnocks Tea Cakes
Email:sales@tunnock.co.ukReichenbach Spezialmaschinenbau
Email: rene.reichenbach@t-online.deCircles
Email: circles@pandora.be41 Clubs Belgium
Email: secretariat@41clubs.be

GoNorth Travel Center
Email: GoNorth@alaska.net

Plaidfish Communications
Email: reach@plaidfish.com

Spenard Builders
Email: ewaite@sbsalaska.com

K9 Hydrotherapy Centre
Email: admin@k9hydrocentre.com

Ten Squared Racing
Email: info@10squaredracing.com

Wild Things
Email: brian@wildthingsgear.com

Diamond M Ranch Resort
Email: stay@diamondmranch.com

Petro Marine Services
Email: jimb@harborent.com

Big G Electric & Engineering, Inc.
Email: bgabriel@biggelectric.com

Advanced Pain Centers of Alaska
Email: anchorage@alaskapain.net

Adventures in Alaska RV Rentals
Email: owner@adventuresakrv.com

Jeff Schultz Photography, Inc.
Email: prints@alaskastock.com

Yukon Zinc Corp.
Email: info@yukonzinc.com

Eldorado Logwork & Construction
Email: dax@polarcom.com

Zolfe
Email: ken@zolfeeast.com

Federal Premium Ammunition
Email: pressroom@atk.com

Alaska Direct Bus Line
Email: info@alaskadirectbusline.com

Holy Cross
Email: jleege@powercom.net

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