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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

10,000 Birds

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

Austria 297
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff.

Industry 119
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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

And when I spoke about a continuum over a year ago as a result of a workshop with Rae Sikora, who demonstrated that there was a continuum, there was some discontent. Hence the psychological continuum described (below) by Austria's Association Against Animal Factories from about a year ago. How about this? What do you think?