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"I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather than put the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall Bobcat on the Prowlrepeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it."

Randy Glasbergen is one of America’s most widely and frequently published cartoonists and humorous illustrators. His freelance and syndicated cartoons are seen all over the world in newspapers, magazines, greeting cards, books, calendars, advertising, blogs, and websites. His work has also been used in projects as diverse as scratch-off cards for the UK National Lottery, refrigerator magnets, boxer shorts, dog raincoats, restaurant menus, public plasma displays, and taxi cab TV screens.

PERSONAL INFO: Randy began his professional cartoonist career at age 15 and began freelancing full-time after a year of journalism studies in Utica, New York. Aside from a year spent as a staff humor writer at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, he has been a full-time freelance cartoonist since 1976. Randy lives in a small town in rural New York State with his wife and an assortment of dogs, cats, guinea pigs and fish. He works at home in a cluttered studio that occupies the third floor of his creaky old Victorian home (formerly a boarding house for local school teachers). When he’s not at the drawing board or computer, Randy enjoys walking his basset hounds and spending time with his family. He is a collector of Popeye, Monkees, and GI Joe memorabilia and a fan of amateur women’s roller derby.

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This is a discussion on The definition of cute - Puppy howling within the General Dog Discussion forums, part of the Keeping and Caring for Dogs category; Don't know if this has been posted already.For the 1920s there’s Juliette, the imagined companion of Coco Chanel resplendent in pearls and a tweed jacket; the 1940s envisages a pug called Sydney dressed in a tuxedo complete with bow tie as Charlie Chaplin’s ideal pooch, and 1990 sees Fernandez the dog wearing a polo neck jumper as the companion of the late Steve Jobs. However they are classified, it is accepted that the NGSD is the most primitive "domestic" dog, brought to the island by humans at least 6,000 years ago. Kept pure due to isolation from other types of dogs until the 1950s, they are like a living fossil. Almost all of the NGSD in North America have descended from the original Taronga Zoo pair. Offspring of this founder pair were widely distributed to zoos in America and Europe.In this sense, 2013 got off to a good start in Europe and the United States. On January 1, a European Union directive came into effect banning the use of individual sow stalls from the fourth week of pregnancy until one week before the sow gives birth. Millions of sows must now have the elementary freedom not only to turn around, but to walk. Nor can they be kept on bare concrete without straw or some other material that allows them to satisfy their natural instinct to root. By the end of January, 20 of the 27 EU member states were at least 90% compliant with the directive, and the European Commission was preparing to take action to ensure full compliance.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphMeanwhile, in America, active campaigning by the Humane Society of the US has led to about 50 major pork buyers announcing that they will phase out their purchase of pork from suppliers who use sow stalls. (Some, including Chipotle and Whole Foods, already have.)

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphStill, Europe is far ahead of the US on farm-animal welfare. The ban on sow stalls there continues the progress made to ameliorate the most extreme forms of animal confinement.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphIndividual stalls for veal calves were the first to go, in 2007. Last year, the standard battery cage for egg-laying hens was banned, ensuring somewhat better conditions for hundreds of millions of hens (though they can still be kept in cages that severely restrict their movement).

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphThe new standards are compromises that are premised on the assumption that Europeans will continue to eat animal products and do not wish to see a sharp rise in the cost of their food. Predictably, therefore, animal-welfare advocates are not – and should not be – satisfied, even if, as the European Commission’s scientific and veterinary advice indicates, the new standards will reduce animal suffering.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphAnother European directive came into effect on January 1, banning medical research on chimpanzees. It went unnoticed, because there has been no European medical research on chimpanzees since 2003. During the past 20 years, other countries have also stopped using chimpanzees for medical research; indeed, only the US and Gabon continue to do so, with the US by far the larger user.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphLast month, the National Institutes of Health, the US government agency responsible for biomedical research, approved a report recommending the cancelation of the majority of NIH-funded projects involving invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees. The report also recommends that most of the chimpanzees owned or supported by the NIH should be “retired” from research and moved to sanctuaries.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphThe NIH will retain only one colony, comprising roughly 50 chimps, and any research carried out on these apes will have to be approved by an independent committee that will include public representation. The report also recommends special requirements for keeping the remaining chimps: housing in groups of at least seven, with a minimum of 1,000 square feet per chimp, room to climb, and opportunities to forage for food. The NIH action still needs to be ratified by the director, Francis Collins.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphWith billions of animals still leading miserable lives on factory farms, more space for pregnant sows and the release from labs of a few hundred chimpanzees may not seem like much to cheer about. But the larger picture is worth celebrating. For centuries, humans in industrialized countries have treated animals as units of production, rather than as sentient beings with a moral status that requires us to take their interests into account. (In more traditional societies, relations between humans and animals have often been closer, but not always better for the animals.)

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphThe struggle to liberate animals from oppression is a moral campaign comparable to the struggle to end human slavery. Indeed, the enslavement of animals, for labor and for food, is more pervasive and more central to our way of life than the enslavement of other humans ever was. With some isolated and short-lived exceptions – for example, in India under the Emperor Ashoka and in Japan under the Tokugawa shogun Tsunayoshi – laws to protect animals from cruelty are less than 200 years old.

CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphIt is therefore bound to be a long struggle. But, if the gains made so far seem to be dwarfed by the wrongs that humans continue to do to animals, we can find hope in the fact that, as January’s developments show, the pace of change is accelerating perceptibly

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Ezili Dantò (pronounced DAN-tor) is one of the singularly important mysteries served in Vodou, and is famous throughout the country of Haiti and into the Diaspora. She is the principle of motherhood, the strong and ferocious woman who works very hard for her family with little reward. She is associated with tough country ways and is fiercely independent. Ezili Dantò is considered to be an extremely tough lady, and can be wild and difficult to control. Dantò generally considers men to be of limited use to her, and will form affiliations with them based principally on opportunity, and also for the new life they help to produce. She is known to be the protector of women's affairs and has killed many a man who has dared to abuse one of her daughters. It is Dantò who will drop everything to come to the assistance of her children. In this, she is seen as very maternal, despite her "wild" nature.

Most "official" accounts of the Bwa Kayiman ceremony, which began the Haitian Revolution, credit the lwa Ezili Dantò as both receiving the sacrifice given as an oath to fight until death, and in declaring war against the French. In fact, popular legend has it that Dantò wrote the declaration of war in hog's blood on parchment made from the skin of a White French man. Legend further has it that Ezili refused to dismount the manbo who she had possessed before the following day; such is the significance of Assumption on August 15th in Haiti, and why Ezili Dantò is celebrated on this day. It is said that, after poisoning the White slave masters in their houses, Dantò fought alongside the men during the Haitian Revolution. This is Ezili Dantò. She rages and she destroys. She can be wild and vengeful. However, often this rage is turned inward and manifests in rather startling ways. Possessions by Dantò tend to be very moving affairs. She cannot speak, as she has no tongue, but utters the staccato "kay-kay-kay- kay" all the while gesturing to make herself understood; she is also deaf. Dantò does have an extreme manifestation in Ezili Je Wouj (literally, "Red-eyed Ezili") who speaks, but not in a manner most people would be used to understanding. In possession, the violence of Ezili Dantò can emerge without warning and with the elemental force of a torrential rain, sweeping away both just and unjust alike. Because of this, her rage is often equated with the thunderstorm, and in this Dantò is associated with another little-known Ezili called Kawoulo.

Dantò can be wild at times and difficult to control, especially if she smells the blood of a black pig, her favorite food. Vodouwizan are careful when offering such a pig to make sure and calm Dantò down as quickly as possible following the sacrifice in order to avoid danger... unless of course, the sacrifice was made in exchange for a specific work, in which case, the society may wish to keep her heated.

Some Vodouwizan maintain that Dantò is a lesbian. This is false, and a misconception due to a complete misunderstanding of her nature. In reality, Ezili Dantò is a hermaphrodite, having both male and female characteristics, partaking of both natures, and this is also one reason why she is so wild and difficult to control. Because of this, she will readily marry as many women as she does men. She may present as a woman, or as a man, and is capable of taking on whatever form is most pleasing to her human spouse.

Ezili Dantò is said to have several children. The first is her daughter who she carries in her arms. Most authors identify this child by the name Anaise, though this is not her "true" name. The child is also an hermaphrodite and is often said to be more fearsome than the mother. Many people overlook the child when dealing with the mother, not realizing that, since she is both mute and deaf, it is the child who is translating the prayers and demands of the servitor for the mother to begin with. Dantò has a son Ti-Jan Petwo who is also said to be her favorite lover. She is also the mother of several sets of Marasa, both twins and triplettes. Besides Jan, Ezili Dantò is known to have relations with Ogou Ze Wouj (who is himself a form of Ogou Badagris), Ogou Feray, Simbi Makaya, and the Bawon. Though served in the rites Petwo, her origin, like all lwa bearing the name Ezili, and most of the lwa of her family, is actually Dahomean, descending as she does from the spirit Aziri and similar entities of the Mami Wata cults of West Africa. Most notably, Ezili Dantò bears a great resemblance to the West African deity called Mami Tchamba. However, because she is considered to be so hot and wild, it is the rites of Petwo, not Rada, which contain her. Some people also claim her origins are in the traditions of the Native Tayino. While this is not impossible, there is no real evidence to support this. Contrary evidence of her origins being in Africa is plentiful, however.

Many people mistakenly confuse Ezili Dantò with other spirits surnamed Ezili who are served in the Petwo rites such as Ezili Balyan, Ezili Kè Nwa, or Ezili Mapyan, but this is erroneous. These are all her sisters; they are different lwa. However, Ezili Dantò does have an even more extreme manifestation in Ezili Je Wouj, and this is her most violent and dangerous manifestation. In some lineages, Ezili Dantò is known under a different name and by a slightly different manifestation called Manbo Zila (sometimes simply Manzila). Vodou adepts see this manifestation in the lithograph of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. When she arrives in the peristil she utters, not the rapid staccato "kay-kay-kay-kay", but a more guttural "ep— ep— ep" or "de-de-de-de". This particular manifestation has been traced by some houngan and manbo as having immediate roots on the Kongo.

The feud between Ezili Dantò and her sister Ezili Freda Daome is legendary.

They are considered to be mortal enemies, and Vodouwizan take great pains to separate their services, even to the point of not making offerings to them on the same day, if possible. Oral legend points to the long-standing hatred between these two powerful female spirits as the origin of Dantò's facial scars, her twa mak (three marks), which were made by Freda's jeweled dagger during one of their many battles.

Her colors are dark blue, red, and also multi-colors; the manifestation known as Manbo Zila is known to wear red and green. Dantò's day of the week is Tuesday, and she is feasted on several dates annually including July 16th (Saut D'eau), August 15th (Assumption), and December 24th (Christmas Eve) Her Catholic saint associations are with the following: Our Lady of Czestochowa (promounced "Chezo-ho-va") or Mater Salvatoris (the Black Virgin Mary who the Cubans call Santa Barbara Africanis), Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. With the exception of Our Lady or Lourdes, Ezili Dantò is most frequently associated with images of the virgin holding an infant, the Christ child, though Vodouwizan do not so identify this child. Rather, he is understood to be a she -Ezili's child Anaise. In the diaspora, Dantò may be found associated with Our Lady of Prompt Succor, and with the image of the Hindu divinity called Kali-Ma.

Ezili Dantò drinks kleren, dark rum, trempe, dark crème de cacao, dry red wine, and some kinds of beer, ginger tea, and black coffee. She is not offered sweetened drinks, as this calms her disposition to much. She is offered roasted peanuts and corn, rice and various beans, black beans and corn meal, rice with mushroom (djon-djon), boiled corn meal mush with peppers, and kasava bread. Dantò receives red or black (but not red and black) hens and the Kreyòl black pig (an indigenous pig, which, at one time, was all but wiped extinct by Americans). -It should be noted here that her real food is pork. Poultry, while exceptable as a substitute if pig is not available, is not really her food, being as it is considered more of a "snack" than a meal. Dantò carries a sharp dagger (sometimes several), and smokes a pipe with tobacco, cigars, cigarillos, and/or dark strong filterless cigarettes. She receives Florida or Kinanga Water (both common skin bracers), or in some houses, the perfume called Rev d'Or. She also greatly enjoys all sorts of dolls, especially twin dolls being as she herself is a mother of twins. Just as Freda's metal is gold, so Dantò's is silver. Unlike most Petwo lwa, she can be served in kwi bowls, just as on the usual wooden or tin-plates otherwise offered Petwo mysteries.

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The emergence of Dustin Hoffman in 1967 heralded the arrival of a new era of Hollywood stardom. Diminutive, wiry and unassuming, he was anything but the usual matinee idol, yet he quickly distinguished himself among the most popular and celebrated screen performers of his generation. A notoriously difficult talent famous for his battles with directors as well as his total immersion in his performances, Hoffman further battled against stereotypes by accepting roles which cast him firmly as an antihero, often portraying troubled, even tragic figures rarely destined for a happy ending. By extension, he broke new ground for all actors -- not only were stars no longer limited to heroic, larger-than-life characterizations, but in his wake virtually anyone, regardless of their seeming physical limitations, could attain success on the big screen. Born August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, Hoffman originally studied to become a doctor, but later focused his attentions on acting, performing regularly at the Pasadena Playhouse alongside fellow aspirant Gene Hackman. Upon relocating to New York City, he worked a series of odd jobs, landing the occasional small television role and later touring in summer stock. Frustrated by his lack of greater success, Hoffman once even left acting to teach, but in 1960 he won a role in the off-Broadway production Yes Is for a Very Young Man. After 1961's A Cook for Mr. General, however, he continued to struggle, and did not reappear onstage for several years, in the meantime studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio and becoming a dedicated Method actor. Finally, in 1964 Hoffman appeared in a string of theatrical projects including productions of Waiting for Godot and The Dumbwaiter. Two years later he won a Best Actor Obie for his work in The Journey of the Fifth Horse. In 1967 Hoffman made his film debut with a tiny role in the feature The Tiger Makes Out, a similarly brief appearance in Un Dollaro per Sette Vigliachi followed later that same year, as did a highly-acclaimed turn in the theatrical farce Eh? It was here that he was first spotted by director Mike Nichols, who cast him in the lead role in his 1967 black comedy The Graduate. Though 30 at the time of filming, Hoffman was perfectly cast as an alienated college student, and his work won him not only an Oscar nomination but also made him a hugely popular performer with the youth market. His status as a burgeoning counterculture hero was solidified thanks to his work in John Schlesinger's 1969 Academy Award winner Midnight Cowboy, which earned Hoffman a second Oscar bid. While the follow-up, the romance John and Mary, was a disappointment, in 1970 he starred in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, delivering a superb portrayal of an Indian fighter -- a role which required him to age 100 years. Directed by his longtime friend Ulu Grosbard, 1971's Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? was Hoffman's first outright failure. He next starred in Sam Peckinpah's harrowing Straw Dogs, a film which earned harsh criticism during its original release but which, like much of Peckinpah's work, was later the subject of much favorable reassessment. In 1973 Hoffman co-starred with Steve McQueen in the prison drama Papillon, which returned him to the ranks of box-office success before he starred as the legendary stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse's 1974 biography Lenny, a stunning portrayal which earned him a third Academy Award nomination. Another real-life figure followed as Hoffman portrayed Carl Bernstein opposite Robert Redford's Bob Woodward in All the President's Men, Alan J. Pakula's riveting docudrama on the Watergate break-in. Next, Hoffman reteamed with director Schlesinger for 1976's Marathon Man, which cast him alongside Laurence Olivier and scored another major hit. The1978 Straight Time, a pet project helmed by Grosbard, was critically acclaimed but a financial disappointment, and 1979's Agatha pleased neither audiences nor the media. The 1979 domestic drama Kramer vs. Kramer, on the other hand, was a major success with both camps, and Hoffman's portrayal of a divorced father finally earned him an Academy Award on his fourth attempt at the prize. He also won a Golden Globe, as well as honors from the New York and Los Angeles critics. Hoffman's next film, the Sydney Pollack-helmed 1982 comedy Tootsie, was even more successful at the box office. Starring as an out-of-work actor who dresses in drag to win a role on a soap opera, he earned yet another Oscar nomination as the film grossed nearly 100 million during its theatrical release. After a long absence, Hoffman returned to the stage in 1984 to portray Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. A year later, he reprised the performance for a CBS television special, earning an Emmy and another Golden Globe. He did not return to films until 1987, when he shared top billing with Warren Beatty in Elaine May's disastrous comedy Ishtar. In the wake of the big-budget project's chilly audience reception, any number of films were discussed as a follow-up, but after much debate Hoffman finally agreed to co-star with Tom Cruise in Barry Levinson's 1988's Rain Man. His performance as a middle-aged autistic won a second "Best Actor" Oscar, and helped spur the picture to become a major financial as well as critical success. The following year Hoffman again turned to Broadway to star as Shylock in a presentation of The Merchant of Venice, followed by the motion picture Family Business, in which he starred with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick. After making an unbilled and virtually unrecognizable cameo appearance in Beatty's 1990 comic strip adaptation Dick Tracy, Hoffman starred in the 1991 crime drama Billy Bathgate, the first in a string of films which saw his drawing power gradually diminishing throughout the decade. That same year he starred as Captain Hook opposite Robin Williams' portrayal of an adult Peter Pan in the Steven Spielberg fantasy Hook; after 1992's Hero proved similarly lackluster, Hoffman disappeared from the screen for three years. His comeback film, the adventure tale Outbreak, performed moderately well at the box office, but the follow-up, Michael Corrente's oft-delayed adaptation of the David Mamet drama American Buffalo, saw only limited release. Hoffman next joined an ensemble cast also including Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt in Levinson's 1996 drama Sleepers, trailed a year later by Costa-Gavras' Mad City, Sphere and Wag the Dog followed, the latter of which netted Hoffman another Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Stanley Motss, a neurotic producer reportedly based on Robert Evans. In 2002, Hoffman appeared in the poignant, psychological drama Moonlight Mile. He continued to take selective but memorable supporting roles throughout the new millennium, playing roles like a dedicated lawyer in Runaway Jury and theatrical producer Charles Frohman in Finding Neverland. In 2004, he provided audiences with laughter in the quirky existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, and in 2005 he played Ben Stiller's eccentric father in the Meet the Parents sequel Meet the Fockers, returning to the part in 2010's Little Fokkers. In 2006, the veteran actor grabbed two more opportunities to play up his trademark brand of quirkiness in the Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson comedy Stranger Than Fiction and played a 243 year old owner or a strangely enchanted toy store in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Hoffman also voiced the wise master of Kung Fu Panda in a pair of animated films. Jason Ankeny.

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Animation is a series of still drawings that, when viewed in rapid succession, gives the impression of a moving picture. The word animation derives from the Latin words anima meaning life, and animare meaning to breathe life into. Throughout history, people have employed various techniques to give the impression of moving pictures. Cave drawings depicted animals with their legs overlapping so that they appeared to be running. The properties of animation can be seen in Asian puppet shows, Greek bas-relief, Egyptian funeral paintings, medieval stained glass, and modern comic strips.

In 1640, a Jesuit monk named Althanasius Kircher invented a "magic lantern" that projected enlarged drawings on a wall. A fellow Jesuit, Gaspar Schott, developed this idea further by creating a straight strip of pictures, a sort of early filmstrip, that could be pulled across the lantern's lens. Schott further modified the lantern until it became a revolving disk. A century later, in 1736, a Dutch scientist named Pieter Van Musschenbroek created a series of drawings of windmill vanes that, when projected in rapid succession, gave the illusion of the windmill circling around and around.

The magic lantern became a popular form of entertainment. Traveling entertainers, visiting the villages and towns of Europe, included it in their shows. In London, the Swiss-born physician and scholar Peter Mark Roget, most famous for compiling the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, was fascinated by the scientific phenomenon at play and wrote an essay entitled "Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects" that was widely read and used as a basis for subsequent inventions. One of the first was the thaumatrope, developed in the 1820s by John Paris, also an English doctor. The thaumatrope was simply a small disk with a different image drawn on either side. Strings were knotted onto two edges so that the disk could be spun. As the disk twirled around, the two images appeared to blend. For example, a monkey on one side appeared to sit inside the cage on the opposite side.

The next major innovation was the phenakistoscope, created by Joseph Plateau, a Belgian physicist and doctor. Plateau's contribution was a flat disk perforated with evenly spaced slots. Figures were drawn around the edges, depicting successive movements. A stick attached to the back allowed the disk to be held at eye level in front of a mirror. The viewer then spun the disk and watched the reflection of the figures pass through the slits, once again giving the illusion of movement.