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10 Ways You Can Advocate for Animal Welfare This Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month

Make a difference this Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month by taking action for animal welfare. Explore 10 powerful ways to advocate for animals, from supporting legislation to adopting from shelters, and be a voice for those who can't speak for themselves.

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HOLA BITCHACHOS ! it me, mini and we out here again, FINALLY ! to everyone new, i’m excited to meet you all , love you down , scare you , and plot ! hmu on discord 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐢 🔥#0644( is better ) , but if not imma try my best to get to you ASAP ! to all my old peeps . . . . 😈 😈 😈 😈

* for stats, and the past etc , if ur curious , you can read all of kylie’s intros HERE

chicago’s very own kylie castillo  has been spotted on madison avenue , with a striking semblance to Becky G ! you may know them as @kyliebby or hitting the front page of tmz as Chicago spitfire returns with a crash . according to tmz , you just had your 22nd birthday bash . your chance of surviving new york is uncertain because you’re competitive , but being confidents might help you . things that would paint a better picture of you would be acrylic nails, a lit up joint  and oversized sunglasses .

*** i haven’t rpd since we went on hiatus , soooooooooo , pray for me 😂 

* QUICK STATS !

FULL NAME: kylie valentina castillo NICKNAMES: ky, kyky, k, kybby AGE: 22 HEIGHT: 5 ft BIRTHDAY: April 15th  ZODIAC: aries HOGWARTS HOUSE: slythindor (slytherin + gryffindor) ETHNICITY: mexican NATIONALITY: american GENDER: cis female PRONOUNS: she/her ORIENTATION: bisexual RELIGION: agnostic-catholic TATTOOS: a peach on her ass, #2 tramp stamp and canon becky g tattoos

* BACKSTORY !

kylie is the first and only child of andres castillo, and third child of valentina castro. kylie’s parents had her at 20 during the time her mother lived in mexico for a year . thankfully her dad’s family were well off and could afford to take care of the child ; her parents tried making it work for about two years, her dad taking on the role even for her half brother but because of the class difference between her parents families, and the different careers, plus the stress of young kids , it didn’t work out. 

growing up, kylie lived in mexico up until she was 8, moving to LA to live with her dad’s family, but by the time she was 9 , she was bouncing between LA and CHICAGO , not really living with her parents but her family members, primarily her grandparents and uncle ( tito ) . her parents were young , and they wanted more for themselves . her dad rose to be a star soccer player in mexico , also playing for both Barcelona fc and Real Madrid fc . her mother started up a health and beauty business in Chicago called VIVA ESTHETICS  , specializing in skin care , makeup , nails , hair , etc . the company blew up with having notable clients and giving upscale service . 

needless to say , her parents gave kylie and her siblings ( mainly half , besides one ) everything they wanted materialistically , but nothing physically or emotionally . kylie didn’t even grow up with most of her siblings ( her parents bounced around a lot ) , she grew up with her cousins , whereas she’d having a couple annual meetings with her own parents and siblings .

kylie was in LA for the rest of her childhood , living in chicago just for middle school before attending 4 different high schools in a different place every year because she’d be bouncing between family ( . . . . and just getting kicked out . ) Madrid/Barcelona (gr9) , London (gr10) , Los Angeles (gr11) and Chicago (gr12)

* PERSONALITY ! 

her growing up was messy , and not consistent , but kylie has a big heart for those that have been with her since day 1 ! even when she bounced around a lot , she was always super close with her grandparents on both sides , constantly calling them , or on facetime . she even has a favourite uncle ( tito ) from her mom’s side . tito pretty much was kylie’s older brother growing up , you know , he was the teenage uncle teaching his niece to swear as a baby lol . kylie learned being bad from seeing , she’s ALWAYS been stubborn , so when someone tells her she can’t hang with the boys , or won’t steal a car - - - - you bet kylie will do what you told her she can’t , and she’ll prove it with a cake face of makeup . 

tito was a producer growing up , working with street artists and always making beats in his room . that’s where kylie got an appreciation for music . so whenever she was skipping class , she’d be in the studio , making excuses as to why she’s not in class and no one questioned her .

when she was in school , she wouldn’t listen , be that kid in the back of the class sleeping , or just not paying attention . and when she was in the halls , she’d get into SOME kind of fight , sometimes without even asking for it . 

music was the one constant for her, so while she was skipping class , kylie was producing her own music, constantly making videos and on social media promoting herself, and she was successful at 13 ! signing to a label , and being groomed by said label over the years , releasing a few eps . she gained recognition through her freestyles online and her features on songs at 18 , going on to sell arenas , win awards , and a lot of things . 

* WHAT’S GOING ON NOW . . . 

about a year ago , kylie dropped her first album , a few months after that , she kinda just disappeared from being in the public eye . this b*tch literally GHOSTED EVERYONE . she didn’t give anyone a clear reason , even her fans were confused . it’s been pretty rare to catch a photo of her , and when you do it’s weeks or months between . 

behind the scenes , she’s become a producer for her own roster of artists , creating her own minor label , a sub division of sony records , FRENCH KISS RECORDS , that no one knows she owns or is behind . she’s trying something new after being known as the spitfire . . . which she is , but she’s been chilling after dropping almost everyone . 

about a week ago, kylie dropped a teaser on her instagram for a new collaborative song , and the next day , photos of her moving back to new york were all over TMZ . . . . and that’s all folks , we’ll see what chaos this shorty createssss :) 

oh and she has a black cat named mijo , who is her child . that is all . 

[nouveauweird]

do you have any recs for learning about screenwriting / how to screenwrite? i'm one of those writers who kind of sees things like a movie and i'm wondering if things would work out better for me with a new medium. thanks in advance!

I hope you’ve got some time to read all of this because it got really frickin’ long.

I was introduced to screenwriting in a Writing Lab in college and followed suit into a Screenwriting IA (Integrative Activity, where students demonstrate what they’ve learned over the course of their studies in the Cinema and Communications program). 

So admittedly, most of what I learned was from two teachers who already knew their stuff and worked in the industry. However, I was so interested in pursuing screenwriting once I’d fallen in love with it, that I bought all the “optional” resource books my Screenwriting teacher had recommended. 

The Screenwriter’s Manual: A Complete Reference of Format and Style by Stephen E. Bowles, Ronald Mangravite, and Peter A. Zorn Jr. really has the basics for what you need to learn how to get into screenwriting. It is available on Amazon for a range of prices. 

I also read significantly through The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver: How to recognize, identify, and define screenwriting problems by Syd Field and to be honest it can actually be useful for any kind of story writer, as I perused it and applied some of its content to a few films I found were really poorly executed. 

I own, but have not significantly perused:

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee 

My uncle who is a screenwriter recommended highly, I personally haven’t dived in yet because the McKee has a stupid disclaimer about why he chose to use He pronouns to refer to the writer throughout the book which was a bit irritating so I just covered it with a sticky note and let it sit for a while.

Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters by Linda J. Cowgill

*Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark.

*Showing & Telling by Laurie Alberts

*Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (currently reading)

*Take Off Your Pants! : Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing by Libbie Hawker. 

* = not screenwriting specific, general writing.

Two other books that come highly recommended by both of my uncles who work in the industry are: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, and Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field.

Since I didn’t learn this completely on my own, I don’t have many online resources, but a quick google search of “Basic Screenwriting Format” should yield you some decent results. HERE is one I found, which has a few book recommendations in it as well. Airtable has resources for screenwriting as well but I am not as familiar with it, search “screenwriting” in the template section.

Here’s what I can recommend right off the bat, sign up for Celtx. It has free and paid subscription services, and you can keep 3 projects on your account at a time, but you can also just download them as PDF’s to free up space and reupload them later and the format will be in tact. Scrivener also has a screenwriting word processor, but it’s a (one time) paid program. 

There are many other word processors for screenwriting, but the best for beginners is Celtx. Most processors these days do the formatting for you, unlike 10-20+ years ago when you had to figure that shit out yourself. All you have to do is get familiar with where everything goes. 

Which brings me to the next part of my answer…

A Screenwriting Crash Course 

For a whole fucking load more of information, look under the cut.

First and foremost, I think it’s important to understand that the narrative description / action / description (all terms used interchangeably) is written in present tense 3rd person, and that you should focus on describing exclusively on what can be SEEN and HEARD. You should also try to be as concise and brief as possible. I found this was quite freeing because while I do love the metaphorical descriptions in prose, screenwriting is a very snappy and visual medium to write in. 

Another thing to understand is that beyond learning the basic formatting rules of screenwriting, you can pretty much bullshit formatting you’re not sure about. I’ve read many screenplays where certain elements were not consistent, such as whether or not the writer chooses to put their characters’ names in CAPS every single time (you should at least do so when the character is first introduced).

It’s actually really easy to find scripts of your favourite films online with a quick google search, it might take practice but I’ve managed to build a decent collection of screenplays that I like to read and get an eye for certain formatting tricks that won’t be in a “how to” book. Screenplays also read very quickly. There’s a general rule of 1:1 for page:minute, meaning 1 page is usually equal to one minute of screen time, and if not, it usually averages out.

I’m going to pull some quotes from The Screenwriter’s Manual to give you a bit of an idea of where you can start: pg 25 - 44, 49 - 63

You can find photos of the table of contents HERE if you’d like to message me directly with specific questions, I’d be happy to send you photos of the section you want. 

The Staging

The first component in the scene line [or slug line] provides the most basic information about the set-up for the scene.

The staging is ALWAYS abbreviated and followed by a period. There are only two choices for a scene: 

INT. for an interior set, informing the reader that the scene takes place in an inside environment

EXT. for an exterior set, specifying an outside environment. 

1. The Location

The second component in the scene line is the location in which the scene takes place. 

The location follows the INT. or EXT. designation and is separated from it by two character spaces [most screenwriting processors will do this automatically].

Do not abbreviate any words in the location component of the scene line. For example,

INT. APARTMENT is correct, and INT. APT. is incorrect.

VERY IMPORTANT

It is absolutely essential that every specific location be distinguished from every other location. 

If Joe lives in an apartment, then you can call that location INT. APARTMENT But if, in the same screenplay, Bob also has an apartment you can no longer use INT. APARTMENT as a location for Bob’s apartment.

To eliminate confusion, one solution is to call each apartment location by the resident’s name: INT. JOE’S APARTMENT and INT. BOB’S APARTMENT

Once a specific location has been identified in the scene line, all subsequent scenes taking place in that location MUST be identified in exactly the same way.

FIRST NOTE:

The location identifies where the activity and dialogue take place…

… if John lives in a multi-room apartment and John is currently in his bedroom (so that other rooms are concealed from view), then the scene line must read, INT. JOHN’S BEDROOM or INT. JOHN’S APARTMENT, BEDROOM

[If the action moves from one location to another there are different ways to indicate it; one would be to created a new scene line to indicate the new location, or to indicate the new location in the description like “John walks out of his bedroom and into the LIVING ROOM”. ]

…

FOURTH NOTE

A scene line can take either of two common variations: 

Most often, the scene line will define a specific location, such as INT. JOHN’S LIVING ROOM which limits the field of view to the area where the “camera” is placed.

If the scene takes place in a more generalized location, you can write it as an open scene, such as EXT. COLLEGE CAMPUS … By identifying the scene in a generalized way, you are indicating that it is not important to your narrative to identify precisely where on the campus this scene takes place.

THE TIME

The third component of the scene line indicates the general time at which the scene begins. 

The time follows the location and is separated from it by a character space, then a dash, and then another character space.

[ example: INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, ATTIC - DAY ]

The time component of the scene line is most typically specified as a simple DAY or NIGHT. However, the time component can define a more precise period of the day or night. For example, DAWN, MORNING, AFTERNOON, RUSH HOUR, etc.

… You CANNOT specify an exact time, such as 3:30 PM, in the scene line. If such a specific time is required, you need to [include it in your description]…

When there is no lapse of time from one scene to the next, the time element in the scene line could simply be, CONTINUOUS. … if the time lapse is very brief, then you could use something like, MOMENTS LATER, A FEW MINUTES LAYER

AN EXEMPTION:

If a scene takes place in a location in which there is no way to gauge the visible time (DAY or NIGHT), then that element is omitted from the scene line.

ADDING SPECIFICS TO THE SCENE LINE

IDENTIFYING HISTORICAL PERIOD

[example EXT. PARIS, FRANCE - DAY (1946)

EXT. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - DAY (1920′s)]

INDICATING A MOBILE SITUATION

If a scene opens with a moving vehicle within the location, then that can be indicated in the scene line. For example… INT. JOHN’S CAR - DAY (MOVING)

2. ACTION or [DESCRIPTION]

Description imparts the necessary detail to the essentials of the scene, describing such features as the characters, sets, props, and any necessary action and sound cues. 

It is generally best to keep the level of detail focused on the actions and dialogue that comprise the narrative. That is where your attention and the reader’s interest should be directed. 

By describing the particular props and decor in a scene and how each character dresses or grooms, you can suggest such character information as personality type, emotional condition, religious affiliation, economic level, artistic taste, and for forth.

First, establish the scene, describing only what is visually apparent in the location and giving only as much detail as necessary. 

You cannot describe anything that cannot be seen… until they have been revealed. 

You do not need to itemize things that are generic and would ordinarily be present, such as furnishings, colours, arrangements, [etc]…

However you MUST specify anything that is unusual or essential to the scene. 

[ My uncle imparted me with a great tip; screenwriting doesn’t maintain traditional prose rules about paragraphs. You should try to keep your descriptions a maximum of four lines, and feel free to break them up into one-line or even one-word for emphasis.]

… 

VERY IMPORTANT: 

You can only convey what is happening at the moment… [No what has happened or what will happen]. 

You CANNOT provide any biographical, psychological, or situational information [about your characters] unless you can find visual means to do so (such as a newspaper article, a television program, [etc.])…

INTRODUCING CHARACTERS

Each character must be introduced in the description the first time [they] physically appear in the screenplay. This includes not only major characters, but also supporting characters and even minor characters and groups that function as characters. 

NAMING CHARACTERS

When a character is introduced, [their] name is ALWAYS typed in ALL CAPS regardless of whether the character is identified by a proper name, a profession, or an appearance… EVANS, AGENT ONE, DERELICT…

Once a character has been introduced, all subsequent references to that character’s name in the description should be written in a normal manner with initial caps… Evans, Agent One, Derelict… 

DESCRIBING CHARACTERS

As the screenwriter, you know who is a major character and who is a supporting or minor character because you have the entire story in your mind. The reader, however, is in a different situation.

… The amount of detail you provide about a character’s appearance and demeanor will give the reader a key to that character’s important in the script. 

As a guide, when characters are introduced, you need to make clear how important each is going to be by tailoring the description and context accordingly.

[ You should describe their appearance and what they are doing when you introduce your characters. There are many different formats to describe a character when you are introducing them, and none of them are the hard and fast rule, you will probably end up settling for your own preferred method].

WARREN EVANS, late twenties, intense, handsome with closely cropped hair and a neatly trimmed moustache, is working with cool precision at one of the hundreds of banks of wiring terminals. he is dressed in coveralls and wearing thin latex gloves.

A VARIATION:

A character’s age can also be assigned a numerical designation, such as…

WARREN EVANS (late 20s), ruggedly handsome, dressed in… 

Seated at the table is CINDY LEWIS, late 20s and very attractive…

[ Generally you should only mention eye colour, skin colour, height, weight, hair style/colour if it is relevant to the narrative. ]

WORDS THAT GET CAPPED

In addition to using CAPS to introduce characters in the description, there are established conventions for other elements that need to be typed in CAPS but only if they affect the narrative…

Those elements include: 

all essential costumes, props and decorany important action, effects, or emphasisany required music or sounds

Although some of the following instances require CAPPING, many will be judgement decisions. 

FIRST NOTE:

You CANNOT identify every costume, prop, or decor on the set. Ordinary objects that have no special significance to the narrative should be left [ in normal text].

SECOND NOTE:

… if a certain prop is important to the story, you should CAP it when it first appears, regardless of whether it is important to that particular scene.

WHEN TO CAP AND WHEN NOT TO CAP

CAPPED words can be effective only if they are used sparingly and appropriately, if CAPPED words are used too frequently, their significance will be lost.

3. THE DIALOGUE-BLOCK

The dialogue element, [also] called the dialogue-block, of the screenplay format consists of three components:

the character-name specifies which character is speaking…the dialogue reveals what is being said by that charactera parenthetical, when necessary, instructs [or indicated an element of] how or to whom the character [is speaking].                           EVANS                 (to the group)   Sorry I’m late. This round’s on me.

GENERAL RULES

ALWAYS contains the character-name and dialogue, and it MAY, if helpful, also contain parentheticals.is ALWAYS single spaced with no blank lines that internally separate the individual componentsis ALWAYS preceded and followed by a single blank line

[ Parentheticals should not be used too often, you should be attempting to provide context for how the character is delivering their line in the description by providing adequate mood/intensity/emotion.]

CHARACTER NAMES

A character-name is the designation used for the speaker…

… Once a character-name has been established, you MUST consistently use that name from that character.

For example, if you’ve introduced the character as COLIN PRYCE in the description, then you will probably want to use the designation COLIN or PRYCE in the dialogue-block.

DIALOGUE

Everything that the actor speaks that is heard by the audience is dialogue. 

[Dialogue] is ALWAYS written in basic prose with initial caps and proper punctuation. 

EMPHASIS IN DIALOGUE

To emphasize a particular word or phrase you should underline it.

OFF-SCREEN or VOICE-OVER CUES

[ Off-screen: when a character is not physically present in the scene peaks from a nearby location, close enough that they could enter the scene. Such a character might be speaking from a room out of view or from behind a concealed area.

Voice-over: (1) a voice heard from a mechanical device such as a telephone, radio, intercom, tape recorder, answering machine, walkie-talkie, etc. (2) The voice of a narrator, which is required when the dialogue is spoken by an unseen narrator. (3) The thoughts of a character, applied when a character is visually present and what is heard are their thoughts.

Usually, a character who is speaking dialogue is visually present within the scene. However, there are two important exceptions: off-screen and voice-over.

The off-screen (O.S.) and voice-over (V.O.) cues 

- ALWAYS follow the character-name on the same line- are ALWAYS enclosed in parentheses- are ALWAYS abbreviated in upper case.

PARENTHETICALS

Parentheticals are a convenient device to convey specific information about how the dialogue is being said… 

[Parentheticals] are ALWAYS enclosed by parentheses… are restricted to words, phrases, and fragments… ALWAYS apply to the dialogue that immediately follows it.

Parentheticals need to be concise and direct, indicating such brief information such as:

- to whom the character is speaking (to John), (into phone), (to himself)- a particular gesture or mannerism(raising his glass), (looking at her watch)- how the dialogue is being spoken(angrily), (coughing), (softly), (thick ____ accent)

WRITING PARENTHETICALS

Because parentheticals are limited to words and phrases, they [should always be written in lowercase and with no punctuation, for example:

(loudly)

No more than two directions should be included in any parenthetical. If two directions appear they should be separated by a semi-colon:

(to the class; loudly)

THREE SPECIAL CASES

- a (beat)- a (pause)- an (interrupting)

[A (beat) indicates a change of thought, suggests a moment of indecision, or conveys a dramatic effect.

A (pause) signifies that a break in the dialogue occurs. This is most often used in phone conversations. 

An (interruption) indicates that the dialogue begun be the previous speaker is being interrupted by the current character (there are a few different ways you can format this). ]

I won’t go any further than this because this is already extremely long, but ultimately I invite you to take a look at some of the scripts (here and here) I’ve written and doctored as an amateur screenwriter as well as digging up your own favourite movie scripts which will give you a good idea of how to implements what formatting.

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Ways to Introduce Your Dog to Other People and Dogs

Nervous about your dog’s first play session? Is it going to be the first time they’re out of the house? Do you have neighbors with dogs and you want your dog to feel comfortable around them? Well, it can be scary. It truly can. So, what can you do then? There are ways to introduce your dog to other people and dogs. Thankfully, they are easy to follow and you should practice them sooner than later. So, read on to learn about the best ways to help your dog become a lot more social.

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Baby Steps

The best way to help your dog become social is to let them go at their own pace. Every dog is different. If you adopted one then they might not be as social as one that was born with siblings. We’ve seen the behavior changes depending on the early dogs of your dog. So, consider this before pushing them into a bigger and more scary environment for them. Baby steps are one of the best ways to introduce your dog to other people and dogs.

Do not go to dog parks - yet

Neighbors and dog owners are going to recommend dog parks for your dog’s first experience. No, don’t do this. As we mentioned, becoming social is a whole new experience for them. What we recommend is maybe looking for a neighbor’s dog so they can start exploring.

Tips

An important aspect is that you help him to share space with children.

Another tip that can help us is to socialize with other animals. Like cats, horses, and farm animals. This helps the dog to know the world and to identify smells.

As mentioned earlier, having the dog visit many places. In its formative stage will be important. So that when he grows up he feels comfortable everywhere.

The sounds: this is another important point. We must get him used to adapting to various sounds. Dogs are often afraid of loud sounds, and it is normal. It helps a lot if we help him socialize with some loud (not too loud) sounds. like loud music or the sound of drums.

Another way to make our dog socializable is to take him to the best pet grooming services in Chicago for a bath often. Bring him to our Dog Spa Chicago, we will give him the best attention. In addition, we recommend you our deluxe dog bath Chicago.

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New Pet Products, Medicine Showcased at Western Veterinary Conference

Las Vegas, – Horsing around in Las Vegas isn’t Normally like this. Dr. W. Leon Scrutchfield surrendered his secret would be to be fine ‘n simple when playing the horses, or in their own situation when playing with horses that suffer toothaches.  Dr. Scrutchfield is a professor and chief of field services for large creatures, at Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine – College Station.  He gave a talk called “Equine Dentistry,” and was among 180 introducing veterinarians revealing new research for animal care in the 72nd Annual Western Veterinary Conference, Feb. 20-24, 2000.

More than 7,000 pet care professionals attended the seminar held in the Las Vegas Hilton and Riviera Hotels in what is arguably the biggest instructional veterinary convention in the country.  In addition to the educational sessions, pharmaceutical companies, pet food manufacturers and companies which produce an assortment of pet toys and equipment for vets showed off their products.  Scalpels were exhibited using plush stuffed toy cats and dogs, kitty litter was spread, flea products sprayed and at least one daring spokesperson even ate kibble for a skeptical vet who dared to inquire, “but does it taste good? ”

Here are some highlights:Dr. Gregory Hanson of Davis, Calif. explained that vets once treated pets for pain when they literally cried out for help, yowling or howling.  “For one thing, we finally have the means to not wait long,” he explained.  In addition, he pointed out that new research indicates pets may not display distress even when they’re experiencing severe pain.  “They can’t tell us – and instinctively they just don’t express their pain.  Instead their energies are directed at recovery.  As an instance, a postoperative dog lying silently was until very recently supposed to be comfy.  However, in reality that dog might not be comfortable in any way.  As a livelihood our default must be to treat for pain unless the creature convinces us otherwise. ”

Hanson also spoke about the advantages of combining pain relief medications.  Done properly and carefully, the effectiveness will increase and the potential for side effects may lessen.

“Ooops, missed that litter box,” is the number one pet behavior complaint, but little research has trickled out to ascertain why some cats think outside the box.  Dr. Sharon Crowell-Davis and Dr. Wailani Sung of the University of Georgia – Athens are now in the process of compiling results from their still-to-be-published study.

At a sneak preview of her results, Crowell-Davis showed of these cats with box issues, four of ten pay their eliminations, in comparison with all the squeaky management group where seven of ten covered their excrement.  Also, problem cats don’t invest as much time at the box sniffing about compared to cats that consistently reach their targets.  This means if your cat isn’t covering up and isn’t sniffing its bathroom, see, you will soon have a kitty with poor aim.  Crowell-Davis and Wailani additionally found most litter boxes to be too small.

Dr. Ken Bartels is on the frontier of laser medicine.  He explained new tactics to deal with cancer without traditional chemotherapy or surgery.  A special drug (called a photosensitzer) is injected intravenously to the pet and also manages to travel to the cancerous tumors where the vet points a laser light, aims and fires.  The laser light activates the cancer fighting drug, and “bang zoom” the cancer cells have been blasted away.  This treatment has been used with success on cancer of the nose cats and with skin and esophageal cancers in both dogs and cats.

Bartels, of Stillwater, Okla. is the president-elect of the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, and also a long-time proponent of laser operation.  He said in 1990 less than two dozen practices around the nation had laser engineering, and they were largely at veterinary teaching associations.  Nowadays, there are approximately 700 lasers in practices across the nation.  He supposes that the moment the year 2010, 90% of all veterinary clinics will share the cutting edge technologies, that's the ability to perform surgery without actually cutting with a scalpel.

Bartels suspects even elective surgeries, such as spay/neuters, will increasingly be performed utilizing lasers.  “There’s less trauma to the body because the operation is less invasive, there’s less pain to the animal and normally a faster recovery,” he says.  Possibly the most immediate and pressing use for laser surgeries can be for reptiles or birds.  These critters are expert at masking illness, so often by the time that they ’re diagnosed, they might be severely sick.  It’s no operation that necessarily kills birds or reptiles, it’s the strain of prolonged recovery – using laser gear, this becomes much less of a problem.

Unfortunately, since the average laser operates anywhere from $25,000 to $50,000, the cost of laser surgery is at least for now somewhat costlier than traditional surgery.

Even vets were tangled in a web of confusion, seeing private boxes in which 12 company reps pitched their sites.  Some sites focused exclusively on veterinary clientele, others – like pets.com – are for e-commerce attractive to the public.

Brand-new is petplace.com, a virtual veterinary medical dictionary plus a source for preventative medicine and wellness programs, launched by pets.com.

Another new website, goodnewsforpets.com is really targeted to members of their pet press.

Chemical behaviorist Dr. Karen Overall from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine – Philadelphia, talked in Good detail concerning obsessive-compulsive disease (OCD) in puppies.  She introduced evidence that dogs may have hallucinations, demonstrating a videotape of a dog pouncing on fanciful mice.  Dogs can also present OCD by chasing their tails, self-grooming, or pursuing imaginary flies.  Overall additionally clarified separation anxiety, sound phobia and thunderstorm anxiety in dogs.  She says in all situations, the evidence seems clear that the brain chemistry has been altered.  She and other investigators are compiling evidence that indicates when medication or behaviour modification is demonstrated to be helpful, the brain chemistry returns to normal.

Just as brain chemistry levels may impact a pet’s psychological well being, there might soon be medical means to actually measure dominance aggression in dogs.  Overall says pee display data shows different amino acid measurements in dogs that are aggressive.  If nothing else that is evidence that something neurochemical is happening in these competitive dogs.

Dr. Thomas Goerblich of Munich, Germany was covering the conference for what amounts to the German version of Dog Fancy and Cat Fancy.  He clarified , in Germany veterinarians are reluctant to be interviewed since vets aren’t permitted to advertise their practices, so that they ’re exceedingly cautious to not misconstrue anything they say to the press as self marketing.  “It’s convinced not that way in the states,” he states.  Goerblich, who's a veterinarian, was schooled in Germany but trained at the Chicago region.  He states despite the fact that there are more pets in Germany than before (5.6 million adults and 5 million dogs), there are also more vets than previously, and lots of trained as vets simply can’t find a job.

Dr. Andy Eschner, manager of professional services at Iselin, N.J.-based Merial (manufacturer of animal health products, such as Frontline) talked about how synthetic pyrethroids (most often labeled permethrins) are potentially deadly to cats.  All these are place on flea control products for dogs, that are mandated by legislation to have labels warning against usage on cats.  The dilemma is that the packing might have that warning in small print, but resemble the packaging of Frontline or Advantage.  Don’t be fooled.  When used anywhere near cats these products are potentially very hazardous.  Eschner points it out ’s potential that a chummy cat rubbing up against a medicated dog might be adversely affected.

Note: This guide is copyrighted by Steve Dale and can be applied as source material and for reference only.  It can't be reprinted verbatim.  Please contact Steve Dale at petworld@aol.com if you have any questions.

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Master Post of OCs

Hell Hostel Edition

Hell Hostel

Ruby Hulme: A human who left her family and home town to seek fame and fortune in New Chicago. However due to the racism of the times, she was turned down from nearly everything; but found work at the Hostel thanks to Sheeper. She's currently a Dancer; but she also is doing the Hostel's every other errand as a part of her Induction.

Grimhold 'Grim' Sheeper: Half Reaper, Half Succubi, All friend shapes, he is a lanky being who only wishes to sing and dance than reap the souls of the dead. He only does so to win his father's approval. Ruby is the first friend he's had in years and he considers her his musical partner.

Grimwald: Sheeper's usually stern, silent and annoyed looking father and Lamby's currently seperated husband. He's the embodiment of 'Im going to WORK MYSELF TO FUCKING DEATH.' He's usually smoking and has a dead lilly in his buttonhole. Sheeper desperately wants his approval.

Lamby Sugars Sheeper: A Buxom busty beautiful Succubi noted for her prominant sheep like features. She's the Grim Sheeper's husband and Grimwald's currently seperated Wife. She's the head liner of the Dante Lounge in the Hostel

The Brothers Black: Lamby's musicians, a group of black cat brothers who came up to New Chicago with Lamby from Louisana. They'd do anything for their girl

Cho: A chinese American Succubi who dyes her hair blonde. She's very dedicated to dancing and does burlesque to save money so she can one day attend a ballet school

Tina: A Very timid Succubi with a cute little nose, she's still very hesistant of the whole exhibitionism thing even though she's been doing it for over a year. She's eager to do her best and doesn't speak up much.

Bella Bell: Lamby's prodigee, she's being groomed to be a headliner one day like a lamby. She's rather naieve about things, but a geniunely sweet person. She's best friends with Charlotte.

Charlotte: Retired the day Ruby showed up because she was in the bathroom vomiting from morning sickness. A very beautiful succubi and the southern belle type, she wants to try and get married to her boyfriend and baby daddy next spring.

Billy the Bull: The Bouncer for the Dante Lounge, no humans get in without a pass. He's apparently Charlotte's baby daddy and plans to marry her as soon as they get enough money together.

White Widower: A FtM Spider monster who runs the bar on his own. He's apparently Kelly's Stepbrother and they are the best of friends. He's the sympathetic ear for all the drunken patrons.

　

-The Heathens: A group of murderers for hire that seem to operate from out of the hostel.

Kelly Rosie Marple: A pink mothman who aspires to be a musical comedian; but sticks to gunning people down to keep himself in the latest of fashions. He can switch very fast from joking to killing

Johnny Thompson: A church Grim who was raised by a mobster after his church was torn down as a puppy. He has very sociopathic tendancies and has manipulative behaviors beneath a layer of innocence.

Miss Jackson: A gorgous Were-Cat, Miss Jackson is a paid gun for the highest bidder. She often prefers stabbing her victims over shooting them.

Nobody Noone: A shapeshifting being whose default form is unstable and lacks a nose. He spends his days either being a cheap but damned good lawyer for hire and an agent for talent. He seems to work with the Heathens.

Ida 'Itsy Bitsy' Bitten

Glasgao: The Mysterious silent smiling Kunoichi get away drive for the Heathens. She operates a cab service out of her modified hearse; most rides end in her eating her fares.

　

Hostel Management and Workers

Helena: The Hostel's owner. She was in a very terrible car crash when she was young to the point where she is wheelchair bound and horribly scarred. She refuses to leave her room because of this, but still manages to operate the hotel to maxmium efficencey.

Nurse: Apparently, the being who takes care of the beloved owner of the hostel, Nurse is a Shadow, a symbiotic being who forms an intense bond with a human. Nurse is the eyes and ears of Helena, so she knows everything that goes on in the Hostel. It's possible she's big enough to cover the entire vent and pipe work of the Hostel.

Salvador: A dead small time mobster who was gunned down in the very lobby of the hotel, he lingers around still and acts as the Consierre. He's responsible for making sure everyone is doing what they need to be doing.

Sexy Knickers: A notably purple lust demon who has abstained from following her predcessor's job choices. She runs the elevator and is well known for her dry british accent.

Walled Up Wally: A BellHop who died in the hostel for spying on a mobster's girl thru a peephole. His body is still stuck in the wall and he still spies on people

Boucher: The head of the kitchen and chef, Boucher is actually the first monster brought into the Hostel when Helena was a little girl. He was a Gluttony demon traded in and is actually very depressed over this still. All the vampire waitstaff answers to him and Dimitri is his favorite boi.

Carrigan, Edmund,Killroy and Arthur- Vampires, Waiters, and a Colony, they dutifully serve the Hostel's residents their meals. They do tend to suck dry the steaks which upsets Boucher greatly. They all rag and sort of bully each other around in a 'bro' way.

Dimitri-Damphire and busboy, he's Boucher Favorite. As a Damphire, he is fated to live a half life and will most likely not live long enough to see adult hood. He aspires to be great chef like Boucher

　

-Hostel Inhabitants/ frequent visitors

Ledago LeDago: a Voodoo Priest who apparently has the money to afford the top penthouse apartment on the top floor. He hosts lavish parties for his godly sponsers and often works as a tailor for the mob.

Mimi Dregwood: the Hostel's Necromancer, she has an entire floor to herself so she can expermint. A cross between a mad scientist and a whore, Mimi is a woman of the world and of science.

Asmodeus Luxuria: A very extravagant Lust demon who no one is really sure what he DOES, but he has money to spare and he spends it very liberally.

Goodhuman: A boogeyman who plays the Piano in the Lobby in the evenings. Is a real gentleman and class act; is somehow related to Asmodeus

Jina: an Ouija board headed spirtualist, she runs a racket doing tarot readings, crystal ball scryings and connects people to the realm of the spirits via spirit skype.

William Peartree: One of the police's top investigative detectives, Peartree is actually a blood slime, capable of identifying any kind of blood. He is a very neat and tidy individual and leads a quiet romantic domestic life with Hackles that he will laugh off if anyone brings it up.

Hackles: A Were-Corgi with temper to spare, he works with the police and is one of their best officers because of his sensitive nose. Although he's the embodiment of literally 'vibrating with anger' he leads a quiet romantic domestic life with Peartree that he will absolutely deny if anyone asks.

Maxim Tentrill: A hardboiled PI who has been recently Inducted into monster society by force. A Shadow being's essance has been tattooed to his arms which will peel of and form defenseive tentacles. Usually works along side Peartree and Hackles; but is unaware of their relationship

Skoll Wilder: Apparently a priest and spiritualist for a church called New Hope. Although fully human, he was inducted into monster society as a child.

Sin: A tiny nun who follows Skoll around constantly. She is actually a Sin Eater, which is an ancient beast capable of purging sin from someone's soul. She was brought down from the mountains to the city by Skoll.

Father Garrett: The head of New Hope Church and Orphanage, he is a kindly werewolf who wishes to help all those in need. He and Skoll have worked together to find homes for Vampires who have been rejected or had to leave the vampires who bit them.

　

-Two Tailed Yakuza: CAT MOB

Mr Deuce: The leader of the Two Tail Yakuza (basically the Nekomanta mob.) He is immensely ruthless and will kill anyone who gets in his way. His first name is apparently Egg. He runs his operations out of Worth Manor.

Natalia Deuce: Deuce's devoted big wife, when Mr. Deuce is away, she runs the show.

Kristen Worth: Apparently, she's the human who saved Mr Deuce as a kitten from drowning in a bucket. She was in an abusive marriage for the longest of times until her husband mysterious dissapeared and Mr. Deuce became her benifactor. Now she and her daugter are members of the New Chicago Elite

Anna 'Babe' Worth: Deuce's human ward, she's the one who named Mr. Deuce 'Egg.' She doesn't remember her birth father clearly, but sees Mr. Deuce as her father figure (although she doesn't know he's a cat.) She lives on a cat covered house with her mother and is extremely happy with all the kitties.

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Zagat, Explained

What’s old is new again: Burgundy Zagat guidebooks are back in print. The New York Times reports that a 2020 edition of the Zagat guide to New York City restaurants will appear in stores this fall. The last Zagat guide to New York City was the 2017 edition published in 2016.

In March of 2018, after shopping around the brand for months, Google successfully unloaded Zagat to the Infatuation for an undisclosed sum. “When you think about its history and what Zagat means to so many people, it’s a huge opportunity,” Infatuation co-founder Chris Stang told the New York Times of the purchase a the time. Though Stang said Zagat would remain its own brand, it was unclear how exactly the Infatuation, perhaps best known for its ubiquitous Instagram hashtag #eeeeeats and sometimes racist restaurant reviews, would “apply its technological expertise,” to grow Zagat, as the NYT described it. He says now that putting the guide back into print was always a part of the plan.

Since the 1980s, Zagat has published an annual survey of restaurant reviews. And although it was once considered one of the most reliable sources of restaurant recommendations, today, with so many restaurant reviews, ratings, and guides to choose from, Zagat doesn’t carry quite the same weight.

Zagat predated the internet age, and those that came up in it might not know much about the brand, including how it’s pronounced (it’s Zuh-GAT, rhymes with “cat”). For those people, here’s a primer.

The TL;DR

Historically, Zagat is a restaurant guidebook that assigns numbered ratings to dining establishments across four different categories: food, decor, service, and cost. Unlike other published dining guides, like Michelin, Zagat’s restaurant ratings and reviews are crowdsourced: They’re based on a survey of thousands of people. A restaurant’s final numbered rating is an aggregate of survey data, and Zagat pulls from the survey’s comment section to fill out its distinct review blurbs, filled with those “iconic” “partial” quotes.

The Zagat origin story

Zagat was founded by two married lawyers who dined out as a hobby. As the story goes, in 1979, Nina and Tim Zagat were hosting a dinner party at their New York City home when their friends — also serious diners — started complaining about professional newspaper restaurant critics. Tim Zagat was struck with a lighting bolt of an idea: instead of relying on just a few opinions for restaurant recommendations, he would poll his friends.

He issued a typewritten survey to 10 of the couple’s friends. They then passed it along to their friends, chain mail style. For the first survey of New York City restaurants, called the 1980 NYC Restaurant Survey, 200 amateur critics rated 100 restaurants on food, decor, service, cleanliness, and cost. (Cleanliness was eventually dropped as a category.) They also provided the comments that Tim and Nina Zagat used to form collectively written, paragraph-long restaurant reviews.

At the time, the survey was groundbreaking. It served as the first-ever space for critical eaters to share their opinions, and on its website, Zagat declares itself the “original provider of user-generated content.”

The evolution of Zagat

In 1983, the Zagats produced 10,000 copies of their self-published survey and distributed them to bookstores, according to an Edible Manhattan profile. For years, the couple worked as lawyers who peddled dining guides on the side, but by 1990, both transitioned to focus on the Zagat guide full time. Ten years in, the survey had expanded to cover multiple cities, including Boston and Chicago, and paperback Zagat surveys were widely available at bookstores as well as in checkout lines and coffee shops.

The survey results mattered, too. A Zagat guidebook starred in a 1995 Saturday Night Live sketch, in which a married couple, played by Chris Farley (dressed as a woman) and Adam Sandler, bicker about which Zagat-recommended restaurants to visit for their 35th wedding anniversary. While the sketch didn’t exactly make the brand seem cool, it solidified its place in popular culture. When Brooklyn restaurant the Grocery got a near-perfect Zagat score of 28 in 2003, the news appeared on the front page of the New York Times.

Restaurants, naturally, also cared about their Zagat ratings. In 2004, famed New York restaurant and drag bar Lucky Cheng’s sued Zagat for libel, trade libel, and negligence and claimed that the 2004 survey’s Lucky Cheng’s listing resulted in a 35 percent drop in business. Along with a score of 9 for food, the people at Zagat published this offending review:

God knows “you don’t go for the food” at this East Village Asian-Eclectic rather you go to “gawk” at the “hilarious” “cross-dressing” staff who “tell dirty jokes,” perform “impromptu floor shows” and offer “lap dances for dessert”;  obviously, it “can be exhausting,” and weary well-wishers suggest they “freshen up the menu and their makeup.”

The judge dismissed the case because a restaurant review — even one assembled from multiple anonymous opinions — does not constitute libel.

Zagat in the internet age

When Zagat hit the internet, it put its survey results — the very things that powered it through decades of relevance — behind a paywall. Online, not as many people cared that Zagat was the original user-generated food review outlet, when new user-generated food review outlets, like Yelp, provided content for free. According to a 2010 article from the New York Times, Zagat’s online traffic was dismal. In September of that year, Zagat had 570,000 unique visitors, compared to Yelp’s 9.4 million. Because of the paywall, Zagat’s content didn’t show up in Google search results, likely affecting the traffic.

This obviously changed when Google purchased Zagat in 2011.

Tim and Nina Zagat started looking to sell the company as early as 2008, the year they announced that they were ready to sell their stake for $200 million. After three years on the market, Google acquired Zagat for $151 million to, presumably, groom it as a competitor to Yelp, a longtime tech-world rival. As then Google VP Marissa Mayer put it on Twitter when the sale went through: “Delightful deal done; Zagat and Google now one; foodies have more fun!”

The following years weren’t as delightful as anticipated, at least for Zagat. After Google incorporated Zagat’s data into its search and map programs, it didn’t pay much attention to promoting the Zagat name or branding. Zagat’s city coverage dwindled: a 2013 site redesign stripped the number of cities Zagat covered online from 30 to nine. Today, Zagat lists 38 cities as “Zagat cities,” although it’s unclear how frequently the content is updated.

While under Google ownership, Zagat also changed its ratings system. For more than 35 years, the Zagat guides asked their survey participants to rate restaurants on a scale between one and three across four categories. The scores were averaged and multiplied by 10 to produce the published rating of up to 30. But in 2016, Zagat switched to a system that scores restaurants on a scale of one to five stars. Zagat converted all of its ratings to the new star system, which was easy enough to comprehend. A restaurant previously rated 29 points for food and 28 points for decor would now have 4.9 stars for food and 4.8 stars for decor, respectively.

Unsurprisingly, Zagat’s published guidebooks have suffered in the internet age. In 2003, Zagat published surveys in 70 different cities.

Zagat in print again

The Infatuation is only reviving the New York City Zagat guidebook, and per Zagat tradition, they’re doing it with a survey. Anyone is invited to fill out the NYC Zagat Restaurant Survey on Zagat.com. It’s open through May 5. And because this is the guidebook for 2020, there will also be a website and an app.

Update: April 2, 2019, 12:30 p.m.: This story was originally published on March 5, 2018. It has been updated throughout to reflect the latest information.

• Zagat Guide Will Reappear in Print [NYT] • Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site [NYT] • The Infatuation and Zagat Join Forces in Unlikely Media Acquisition [E]

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2019 CMYK Manifesto: Invest in Your Audience

Greeting Citizens of The Printerverse and welcome to a New Year!

My role as your Intergalactic Ambassador gives me a pretty unique vantage point since it allows me to be able to meet with, speak to and learn from so many of you out there each year. This annual post is my contribution to the bigger picture, and will hopefully give you some things to think about as 2019 kicks off.

THE MISSION FOR 2019: INVEST IN YOUR AUDIENCE

Take inventory of your offerings and messaging.

Take inventory of how your services are helping others.

Take inventory of who represents you, and how.

Take inventory of your workspace.

Getting your information out to customers is important. Getting it to the right hands, eyes, and ears of recipients is imperative. Now add in delivering a result for your customers’, customers as your most important mission in 2019. Here are a few ways to get started.

Take inventory of your offerings and messaging.

How you say things and how you deliver a message is important, but not if no one cares what you are talking about. Listen to your customers, no one else. Get more involved in subject matter with them, and less in sales matters. Deliver information without any pitch attached, follow up with how you can help, and at another point in time.

Create products and services that will resonate with customers. Name (or rename) them to sound cool and valuable. Introduce them, INDIVIDUALLY, to each customer. “Hey Deb, I’d like to talk to you about some new opportunities we have with direct mail”… or… “Hey Deb, I’d like to talk to you about our new, rapid-response direct marketing initiative”. The latter example may be a little cheesy, but I am still curious. That counts.

Take inventory of how your services are helping others.

This is a reality check moment… look in your mailbox over the course of a week. How much of what you see is an obvious use of data? How much is using variable data? How much is generic marketing?

More likely than not, generic marketing is the clear winner. The obvious use of data will be second because it’s obvious… the exact shoes you left in your shopping cart, a map to my local car wash from my house, my vet (not the office) reminding me it’s time for a check-up for my cat, Mr. Cletus Jefferson Corn (vs. “your pet”). Variable data is not so obvious. As a consumer, I may never realize the picture of a cat on my otherwise generic grooming coupon from a Pet Superstore was planned based on past-purchasing data. I certainly won’t know there are varied versions for dog owners unless I see them.

Through Project Peacock, I have met with over 600 print customers from ad agencies and brands and shared information about the new communication and execution opportunities available through digital printing. I have spoken to many of the printers out there who have adopted cutting-edge digital printing capabilities to provide data-driven print. It’s fair to say the industry push on variable data is much greater than the pull from these print customers. Did your mailbox experiment agree?

While it is imperative for marketing innovation and the future of print that we continue to share new ways to communicate with all of the end-users, don’t put all your eggs or messaging into the VDP services basket just yet. The print customers love the shorter runs and quicker turn-around. They love the ability to use funky substrates, digital finishing, and digital enhancements. They like the idea of big chunk versioning… 5000 in English, 3000 in French. Most don’t want any part of 5000 people getting their own thing. Selling on or leading with that capability is a mistake.

Project Peacock Print Fair launches in NYC on March 14 to share Printspiration, new applications, technology and more with print customers, marketers, and printers. We will hit at least 4 cities this year with a cool, 1-night only, pop-up event. While I focus on getting the industry to help me pull it off, focus your messaging, products and services on what print customers currently care about. Educate as you go along about what they don’t.

If Print Fair lands close to your zip code, invite your customers to join you. Follow up and talk to them individually about the technology and applications they were drawn to or had the interest to use. If you don’t have it, work that out. If you do, start selling on what THEY SAW IN IT.

Take inventory of who represents you, and how.

I get at minimum 20 or so emails a day from the “industry” that are completely inappropriate solicitations, on top of the daily barrage of non-industry spam. If you are a business owner, and/or in charge of Sales or Marketing and you are allowing useless information to flow from people you manage into the inboxes of customers or potential ones… shame on you. If you don’t know it’s happening, this is your Google alert to go and check.

Differentiation applies to all aspects of your business to truly stand out. If you send me one marketing or sales message about something I totally care about, I will give you many chances to do it again before I opt out. If the first time I hear from you or your company it’s about YOU or useless… buh-bye.

Same goes for the people who represent you out in the world. It’s time to develop a company culture that is dedicated to making every interaction count for the recipient of the message, not your sales. Repackage and repurpose your talk tracks so they sound new. Deliver your messages in a unique way. Don’t say anything, when you have nothing new to say. When you are ready to communicate something of importance, it will stand out.

Take inventory of your workspace.

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? It’s more likely that college graduates would strive to be Abe Froman, The Sausage King of Chicago, than work in a print shop. Abe drove a Ferrari and could get lunch reservations in trendy restaurants. Your print shop office area looks and smells like 6 people have died from emphysema, and in the office furniture, you are sitting in conducting interviews. No Bueno.

It’s time to invest in your image… all of it. Here is a quick test to know if you are in need of an office make-over based on some recent visits I’ve had…

Are the non-visitor areas of your office as welcoming as the customer areas? Any visible smoke or other stains on the ceiling tiles? Are your walls some shade of fading pale green to some shade of fading yellow not found in nature? Do you have desktop computers older than applicants? Is everyone sitting in cubes from 1988? Are your bathrooms CLEAN??? Have you set an office policy about what is appropriate to hang on a wall?

A college graduate who dreams of working on a Silicon Valley campus will not want to work in a space that has more in common with an institution, and an aging one at that. Invest in infrastructure, now! You don’t have to include a coffee/juice bar, big balls as chairs, standing desks or a nap room, but trust me, you should.

Take inventory of your goals for 2019 and refocus them to help your customers achieve theirs.

Take inventory of how you can give back to the industry to help it grow.

Take inventory of how you can PRINT LONG AND PROSPER!

Deborah Corn is the Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse

at Print Media Centr, a Print Buyerologist

, industry speaker and blogger, host of Podcasts from The Printerverse, cultivator of Print Production Professionals the #1 print group on LinkedIn, Head Girl in Charge (H.G.I.C.) at GirlsWhoPrint, host of #PrintChat every Wednesday at 4PM ET on Twitter, the founder of International Print Day and the founder of #ProjectPeacock. She is the recipient of several industry honors including the 2016 Girls Who Print Girlie Award, and sits on the boards of the Advertising Production Club of NYC and The Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi.

Deborah has 25+ years of experience working in advertising as a Print Producer. She currently provides printspiration and resources to print and marketing professionals through PMC, and works behind the scenes with printers, suppliers and industry organizations helping them create meaningful relationships with customers, and achieve success with their social media and content marketing endeavors.

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2018-03-28 12 NEWS now

NEWS

Associated Press

Kim, Xi portray strong ties after N. Korean leader's visit

2 officers in black man's fatal shooting won't be charged

Trump floats using military budget to pay for border wall

Biter-gate: Tiffany Haddish reports somebody nipped Beyonce

AP-NORC Poll: Trump's approval rating up from historic lows

BBC News

Spy poisoning: 'I would really like to know how they are'

Brazilian sports reporters tackle on-air groping

Nearly a million watch cat stuck up pole

Russia fire: Protester spoke on the phone to dying wife

Kemerovo fire damage seen from inside gutted mall

Chicago Tribune

Man arrested after Far South Side bank robbery

4 wounded in shootings on West, South sides

Panel taps law enforcement veteran to lead Chicago police watchdog agency

Michigan State dean who oversaw Larry Nassar charged with storing nude photos of female students

Ahead of state report, special ed advocate says Chicago Public Schools sought 'ways to reduce the level of service'

LA Times

Jim Benkert accepts head coaching job at Simi Valley

Varsity Times Insider: The latest sports news from Southern California's high school teams

Aaron Holiday is set to join brothers Jrue and Justin in the NBA

Police believe missing model's body found in shallow grave

Lakers report: Kyle Kuzma not afraid to tackle social issues

NPR News

Trump Administration Strikes Trade Deal With South Korea

Sacramento Residents Voice Their Anger Over Recent Police Shooting

FACT CHECK: Has Citizenship Been A Standard Census Question?

Designers Of 17-Story Waterslide Face Charges In Boy's Decapitation

Orange County Supervisors Revolt Against California's Sanctuary Law

New York Times

Baseball’s Unappreciated Power Duo

Op-Ed Contributor: I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.

Asia and Australia Edition: North Korea, Facebook, Vladimir Putin: Your Wednesday Briefing

Trump Secures Trade Deal With South Korea Ahead of Nuclear Talks

Recovered Body Is Likely That of Missing Actress, Los Angeles Police Say

ProPublica

Fair Housing Groups Sue Facebook for Allowing Discrimination in Housing Ads

Wilbur Ross Overruled Career Officials at Census Bureau to Add Citizenship Question

Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, NAJA or NLGJA

What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2018

Here’s One Issue Blue and Red States Agree On: Preventing Deaths of Expectant and New Mothers

Reddit News

R Kelly accused of grooming 14-year-old girl as sex 'pet'

Canada teen wins $1000 a week for life on 18th birthday

Georgia Supreme Court: schools can’t expel for fighting in self-defense

Neo-Confederate League of the South Banned From Protesting in Charlottesville

Calls to rein in antibiotic use after study shows 65% increase worldwide

Reuters

Exclusive: Spurned by top lawyers, Trump's defense elevates Washington outsider

U.S. opens probe into fatal Tesla crash, fire in California

China says North Korea pledges denuclearization during friendly visit

May calls for 'long-term response' to Russia after spy poisoning

How does Kim tell North Korea he's giving up nuclear weapons?

Reveal News

Nation’s largest janitorial company faces new allegations of rape

A group of janitors started a movement to stop sexual abuse

The Hate Report: How white supremacists recruit online

New documents about Jehovah’s Witnesses’ sex abuse begin to leak out

California is preparing to defend its waters from Trump order

The Altantic

West Virginia's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

This Average Joe Is the Most Quoted Man in News

The Unsinkable Benjamin Netanyahu?

Eric Garcetti Isn't Expecting Much From Washington

The Particular Horror of Church Shootings

The Guardian

NFL expands penalties for helmet-to-helmet contact in unexpected move

USA edge Paraguay on Bobby Wood penalty as Tim Weah debuts

Kim Jong-un paid 'unofficial' visit to Beijing, Chinese state media confirms

R Kelly accused of grooming 14-year-old girl as sex 'pet'

Amazon priest who championed land rights for Brazil's poor is arrested

The Independent

Craigslist advert mocking Trump's difficulty finding Russia investigation attorneys goes viral

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un did visit China for talks, state media confirms

Great Ormond Street will take money from President's Club dinner where women were allegedly groped

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Say Hello to House Calls

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Danielle Rothman’s beloved cat, Petey, has never traveled well. The day her family got him, they had an unexpected kitty extra-cat-ion (or just go with extrication) on their car ride home.

“My mom decided to hold him in her lap,” Danielle says. “But he crawled into the door of the car and got stuck. We had to take the car to the mechanic, and they took the door off to get the cat out.”

They laugh about it now, but they learned their lesson: Petey prefers to stay in one place. So, when he needs vet care, Danielle arranges for a house call.

“This seemed like the kinder approach,” Danielle says. “He’s the classic definition of a scaredy-cat.” And the visiting vet wasn’t fazed by Petey’s aversion to strangers. “My husband had to catch him and put a towel over him to calm him down. The vet put him in the bathroom sink,” Danielle says. “The vet was really knowledgeable, answered all our questions and got down to business.”

Related: Mobile Vet Care — 4 Advantages and 1 Drawback

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A house-call comeback

Mobile pet professionals are a growing trend. The house calls of 2020 are hip, in some cases high tech, and many say that they are affordable.

You can book appointments online or via an app. A medical clinic on wheels offering minor surgeries and X-rays may roll up your driveway. And when it comes to cats, house calls are usually win-win.

“If you have ever taken a cat to the veterinarian, it is noticeable how stressed they are. In their home, the cats are relaxed,” says Dr. Karie Johnson, veterinarian and co-founder of the mobile clinic VIP Vet Visit in the south Chicago suburbs.

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Better for your cat?

House calls could even help keep your feline friend healthier.

“The vet office is a stressful environment that can cause anxiety for a cat, which can weaken their immune system,” Dr. Johnson says.

Veterinarian and owner of Vet At Your Door in the Portland, Maine, area, Dr. Deirdre Frey says she’s seen cats come into animal hospitals so freaked out they’ve vomited or had accidents.

Dr. Frey fears some owners, hoping to avoid that kind of agony, may put off bringing their cat to the vet.

“I do feel like people may forgo either concerning symptoms or vaccines because they’re weighing the stress it would put on the cat,” Dr. Frey says.

And the more relaxed a cat is, the better exam a vet can perform.

Former Army veterinarian Turnera Croom, who now runs Dr. Croom Mobile Veterinary Service in Southwest Michigan, gets resourceful on cat house calls.

“We ask that the owner close off any major hiding places,” she says.

Dr. Croom also uses a cat pheromone spray called Feliway. “It’s supposed to smell like the natural scent of cat contentment, and it does appear to work a lot of the time.”

Dr. Turnera Croom, who runs a mobile vet service, tends to one of her feline patients.

Time to say goodbye

Industry experts say in-home pet euthanasia is in huge demand.

Kelly Meister-Yetter says she was frustrated when her regular vets refused to come to her home to put her cat to sleep. “I didn’t want my cat’s last moments to be ones of fear.”

So she searched online and found a vet offering house calls. “I thanked her profusely, a number of times, for being a mobile vet because putting my beloved cat down in her own home was really important to me,” Kelly says.

Pet professionals on wheels

Vets aren’t the only pet professionals on the move.

Your cat can sit on the couch while Caitlin Isbister from Pet Acupuncture Works in the Boston, Massachusetts area, stops by for a home-treatment session.

“When I’m treating cats, usually, the pet dad or mom will stay with the cat during the treatment,” Caitlin says. “They also keep a hand on them to gently encourage them to sit with the needles.”

And Linda Schmoldt is one brave house-call pro.

If you live in Manhattan, she will come to your place and bathe your cat. Linda’s company, Spiffy Kitty House Call Cat Grooming, isn’t afraid of a challenge.

“Lots of groomers are scared to groom cats,” Linda says. “Cats move so fast and have seriously sharp teeth and claws. They’re beautiful beasties.”

If you’re thinking, “Do cats need to be groomed?” Linda says some breeds need their day of beauty more than others.

“Old cats can get awfully greasy and sad looking,” Linda says. “I restore them to their former glory.

And Persians, no surprise, need at a minimum to be groomed monthly, or you wind up with a knotted weirdo instead of a beauty queen. Siberians and Maine Coons and Ragdolls need help, a lot of help.”

Is in-home care for your cat?

Danielle says she is sold on house calls for Petey. “He is important to us, so we prioritize his care. It was not as expensive as you think,” Danielle says.

Top photograph: Elnur | Dreamstime.com

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Do you know which dog breeds originated in Tibet?

Tibet is the cradle of Zen Buddhism and a mystical place par excellence. Geographically, it is located in a region northeast of the Himalayas in Asia, within present-day China. There also originated famous dog breeds that perhaps not everyone knows that come from there, and that are very loved and popular. Do you want to know what are these dogs from Tibet? Read on.

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Tibetan Mastiff

The origins of this dog date back to almost 4,000 years ago in China. From the beginning it has been a breed of dog widely used for the work of shepherds. It was widely used in the Himalayas as a guardian of herds and villages.

Shih Tzu

In Chinese, Shih Tzu means “lion dog” but being such an independent dog, the nickname “cat dog” is not exaggerated. The Shih Tzu originates from China where it was a sacred animal in the palaces. Its ancestors are dogs from Tibet called Lhassa Apso, which the Dalai Lama would have given to the Chinese emperors around the 17th century.

Tibetan Terrier

Despite its name, this dog has nothing of Terrier except the mischievous and funny character it sometimes shows. When it arrived in Europe, the British looked for a name for it, first they called it Griffon but in the end they decided to call it Tibetan Terrier. The Tibetan Terrier is a very old breed from the mountains of Tibet. Bred basically in monasteries, monks used it as a companion dog and shepherds used it to guide their flocks.

Tibetan Spaniel

The Tibetan Spaniel has always been one of the favorite breeds of Tibetan monks, who bred them in their monasteries and used them to spin the prayer wheels. The origins of the Tibetan Spaniel are quite uncertain, in China there are some representations of very similar dogs dating back to 1100 BC. It is possible that this Spaniel comes from the first Pekingese.

Tibetan Kyi Apso

The traditional range of the Tibetan Kyi Apso is on the Tibetan plateau near Mount Kailash; the breed is said to have been present in its range since ancient times. It is believed that at some point it diverged from the Tibetan Mastiff as a distinct variety. In its area of origin, the breed was traditionally kept to protect livestock from predators, as well as to guard the homes and settlements of its masters.

Lhasa Apso

The Lhasa Apso is considered in its country of origin, Tibet, as a symbol of luck. As its name indicates, the Lhasa Apso originates from Tibet (Lhasa is the capital) and did not become known in the West until the beginning of the 20th century. The breed is supposed to have appeared around 800 B.C. from the hands of Tibetan monks and nobles. Others believe that its origin is not so ancient and speculate that the Lhasa Apso is the result of a cross between the Tibetan Terrier and the Spaniel.

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Dog training can be enjoyable or it can be a battle. How you and your puppy preceive education drastically relies upon on how you method instruction. This post shares with you three widespread errors puppy proprietors make when education their puppies and how you can stay away from them.

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For one particular matter, dogs are great for our well being. Scientific tests have demonstrated that elder citizens who have the companionship of a pet, especially if they are widowed, stay lives that are for a longer time, happier, and much healthier than a statistically related sample of elders with out animals.

Stop by PetSmart on the Near North Side at 1415 North Kingsbury Street in Chicago from 11 a.m. until finally 3 p.m. for an adoption and informational event for Chicago Pet Rescue. Examine out the pet dogs and Guinea Pigs.

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Don't Punish Your Canine- This may possibly turn into incredibly tricky to do especially if you are a new operator. But unfavorable reinforcement is not as efficient as beneficial reinforcement. Unfavorable reinforcement youtube.com/..... assistance is just counterproductive. When you scream, yell, strike or punish your pet you make him/her fearful and on edge. Your dog will by no means know what to count on from you that means regardless of whether you will be great or indicate. When he/she feels this way it interferes with his or her capability to hear, reply, and take in your teaching.

Foothills Animal Shelter lately celebrated the very first anniversary of their new developing. They are ready to use 30,000 sq.-foot facility to present substantially wanted local community services and teaching for the metropolitan areas of Jefferson County. Along with pet very first assist, they also provide Puppy trainng classes. Foothills Animal Shelter is located at 580 McIntyre Road near the Indiana Exit at 6th Avenue. To find out far more, check out their web site or phone 303-278-7575.

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