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Still Bearing Up in Queens

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:29:29 GMT

clipped by: rachelw

Sponge Baths and Flashlights: Still Bearing Up in Queens

If the mayor’s taut description of the extended blackout yesterday captured his own feeling of powerlessness — “It is what it is” — it did not even begin to describe the frustration of Queens residents like Monica Trevino.

What it was for Ms. Trevino, 35, was the possibility of another workweek of sponge baths using boiled water, with no food in the house, and with an increasingly edgy puppy.

“We would put the radio on when we went to work to keep the dog quiet,” she said yesterday, while getting a haircut in the dark at a Ditmars Boulevard salon. “But with no power, we have no radio.”

Ms. Trevino is one of thousands of Queens residents who have awakened each day for the last week hoping the lights would be back on, only to find themselves still in the dark. This morning, many of them will again wake up sweaty and still tired. They will sponge themselves off or take another cold shower, eat what the heat hasn’t spoiled and head off to begin another week of work, not knowing how much longer the emergency will all last.

While the weather was cooler yesterday, it had been a week of sultry nights and little sleep, ruined food and restless children, no television and dirty clothes. Some people have taken to their cars for respite, while others plunge into a cold bath for relief.

Tags: myastoria, blackout, queens, astoria, ny

Great Recipes

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:54:44 GMT

clipped by: rachelw
clipper's remarks: They have a great community set up...

Clip Source: allrecipes.com

Tags: cooking, food, recipes, community

WARNING- DON'T BUY IAMS

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:09:41 GMT

clipped by: rachelw
clipper's remarks: I am warning you in advance that this is an extremely disturbing video. But if you care at all about animals, you should know whats really going on at IAMS. I will NEVER buy another Iams product until this cruelty ends. Please visit the clipsource, and help stop this.

Clip Source: www.iamscruelty.com

Why Iams? >

Introduction

For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer: dogs gone crazy from intense confinement to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after having chunks of muscle hacked from their thighs; dogs surgically debarked; horribly sick dogs and cats languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer with no veterinary care.

Iams lied to PETA with promises to improve the conditions for animals in its contract laboratories, even assuring us that enrichment programs were already in place, but our undercover investigator saw otherwise. She fought for six months to have a single cheap, rubber toy placed in each cold, lonely kennel. This is Iams’ idea of enrichment.

Our video footage shows Iams representatives touring the facility and witnessing dogs’ endless circling in barren cells, sweltering in the summer heat. Iams knew the truth yet did nothing to protect the animals.

The dogs and cats in Iams’ tests are no different from our dogs and cats at home when it comes to deserving companionship, play, a stimulating environment, and the right not to be tormented in painful experiments.

Luckily, caring consumers know that advances in nutrition don’t have to come at the expense of animals in labs. Help PETA force Iams to end these painful and unnecessary tests, as many compassionate companies have already done.

Tags: iams, cruelty, animals, torture, suffering, cats, dogs, peta, video, pet food