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Franny Syufy of cats.about.com admits she was one of the many advocates who repeated this number as an argument for spay/ neuter, but didn't know where it came from and hadn't thought about how it could actually be harmful 420,000 Cats in 7 Years : True or False?
There are now many sources saying it's a myth , giving links or quoting the earlier articles, but unfortunately it's one of those things that is hard to get rid of. I just wish we here at TCS could stop contributing to it.
But I guess I am part of the problem because I should have said something before ; not just when it's someone using this along with other false claims about feral cat population and predation, but when it is someone using it for what was probably the original intent -- promoting spay/ neuter. Yet it is certainly possible to point out that this is incorrect ,but frame that in a way that is still an argument for getting your cats altered.
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I had not really thought about it other than it sounded very unrealistic. I grew up on a farm so there were a lot of ferals or strays that had gone feral and that was a time when there was no TNR done. If that number were realistic there would've been huge numbers of cats running around. I had also not thought about the negative impact caused by that number being repeated so often that people have accepted it as true. I think that difference in thinking is the difference between being a cat lover and not being a cat lover. Cat lovers would be more determined to try to get all cats spayed/neutered. People who aren't cat lovers would think in terms of more drastic solutions.
That is a really well-thought out and comprehensive post, maewkaew, and now we have something to link to if needed.
I know where that stat comes from--it's from math, rounded off.
You start out with one cat having kittens as often as she comes into heat, plus one tom to fertilize her. After a year, you have X cats, which you divide into pairs and apply the same calculation to.
Seven years is as long as you could reasonably expect the first cat to survive feral.
So, yeah, after seven years, if every cat survives and reproduces, you do have that many cats.
The reason this doesn't play out in reality is that most of those kittens don't survive. Say Generation 0 has twelve kittens the first year. If she's feral, none of the kittens might survive. Then the cats breeding during Generation 1 would still be just the first pair.
Or say Generation 0 is an indoor-outdoor housecat. Say she has her two or three litters that first year. Most of those kittens end up at shelters before they reproduce themselves, or they get dumped on the street, where they die. Instead of having twelve cats in it, Generation 1 might have only four cats.
The idea of thousands of cats is theoretical and meant to be purely theoretical, but it still works as an argument about why cats need to be neutered. If you don't get your cat neutered, then in order to stop those thousands of cats (long before they become thousands, because even five cats are a handful), some of those kittens must die.
Everyone knows that we aren't surrounded by cats to the extent that the math tells us we would be if they all survived. The logical conclusion: Some of those cats die. In order to prevent needless deaths, neutering is the only humane option.
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Rotten Tomatoes gives it 4.3/10, IMDb users give it a 5.7/10. I give it a ‘Sleeping with the lights on tonight’. But then again, I’m a scaredy-cat with an imagination that’s too big for my own good.
It was a good effort by all the cast. The scary bits start right from the beginning- so take one friend, or more, if you want to watch it.
One thing though- why the hell does Bart Allen Kyle Gallner play in so many creepy movies?
David Beckham got his 109th ‘cap’ for England, family cheers him on. I have no idea what that means (but apparently it’s something record-breaking). I just love the Beckhams.
Kevin Richardson, the lion man. He’s got the same attraction as Steve Irwin.
Yes, I totes had a crush on Steve Irwin.
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Securing Event Sponsorship: What are sponsors looking for and how do you deliver it.
From the music industry to sports and everything in between- I’ve had the opportunity to help others create, build, organize, and plan events on multiple levels….BUT, if there is one essential EVERY Event Organizer wants, it’s SPONSORSHIP.
With over 8 years of experience in event planning, promotion, marketing, PR, and so on, I can honestly say it wasn’t until maybe 2 years ago that I fully understood exactly how event sponsorship works. With that being said, I’ve decided to write this blog and share my knowledge and insight that I’ve gained over the years – to better help you understand what it takes to secure sponsorship, what sponsors are looking for, and how to deliver what they want.
SPONSORS: WHY DO THEY SPONSOR? AND WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR IN SPONSORSHIP?
Event Sponsorship is the act of a person and/or company giving support to an event through the provision of products, services, or monetarily – with an expectation of their business goals/agenda being met, primarily by reaching their target audience.
In recent years, event sponsorship has been the fastest growing marketing strategy for companies seeking to leverage their brand – increasingly enough that in 2017, according to IEG Sponsorship- it recorded 24.2 billion in sponsorship spending from companies in North America. What exactly does this mean?? It means there is plenty of money out there, and companies are ready to spend it! So how do you attract the right sponsors and secure the sponsorship?
Knowing your demographic audience is invaluable – this is an essential that sponsors want to know and that will need to go in your sponsor deck. What is it to know your demographic? Age, gender, nationality, income level, education level, etc. The more in-depth you can go with this information, the easier it will be to secure the “right sponsors”. Side Note Before companies sponsor, they need to know their marketing dollars are going directly to their targeted audience.
Develop a captivating sponsorship deck – Your sponsorship deck, from graphics to content curation is going to say everything about your event without speaking a word. It’s the first thing sponsors see (first impression is the last impression, so make it presentable.) What info goes in your sponsorship deck? 1. ABOUT YOUR EVENT- be sure to state your mission and invite them to support your cause. 2. BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP – although I like to create personal proposals for companies according to their business objectives, it’s always good to start out with a generic one. BE CREATIVE when doing this. Think as if your that company, what would you want from sponsoring an event? 3. DEMOGRAHICS – Sponsors want to know how many people attend your events and the demographics of attendee to see if it aligns with the market they are trying reach 4. Include a fact page about your event: Number of attendees, previous sponsors, press coverage links, notable people that attended, photos (photos of crowd, fan interaction, celebrities, sponsors, anything that would attract a current sponsor.) 5. Contact info and logo. Be sure full name, email, phone number, website, and social media sites.
DELIVER, DELIVER, DELIVER – Whatever it is that you said you were going to do, DO IT!! This is so important in building your relationship with the sponsor. You want them to be overly satisfied, that they have received their ROI (Return on Investment). Find out what they liked, or didn’t like, or maybe what could be done a little differently. This allows you to possibly continue your relationship for the following year.
The key to successfully securing event sponsorship is taking into consideration the needs of your sponsors and developing creative strategies that help them obtain their business goals. In turn, adding value to your event – delivering the ultimate experience to your customers.
Anne Burdick is the Chair of Media Design Practices (MDP), a graduate program at Art Center College of Design focused on designing for the future of information and communication technologies. To address the global and social dimensions of this work, the MDP recently established two tracks. In the Field track, students work on social issues in a real-world context—the first cohort just returned from working at UNICEF’s Innovation Lab in Kampala, Uganda. In the Lab track, students work with emerging ideas from technology and science—they recently worked with a neuroscientist from the Biophotonics Lab at CalTech on a project inspired by new sensing technology from Intel Research.
Anne Burdick is the author of the influential essay, “Graduate Education: Preparing Designers for Jobs That Don’t Exist (Yet)” in Adobe Think Tank in 2007. A regular participant in the international dialogue regarding research and advanced degrees, Anne believes that it is the job of graduate education to push the field in new directions and to invent new practices. “[Burdick] says that the days of being defined by your mode of output—illustration, web design—will soon be over. ‘The consideration will be more whether you are a designer who works on issues of a macro scale, such as global warming, or a nano scale, such as molecular design. Education and skills will be about the context of your work—the body, domestic policy—particularly as the boundaries continue to disappear between a physical space, an information space, a gaming space, and so on.” The Future of Design Education, Print Magazine, April 2011.
In her own practice, Anne Burdick designs experimental text projects in diverse media, for which she has garnered recognition, from winning the prestigious Leipzig Award for book design to being nominated for a Webby Award for her work with interactive texts and electronic literature. With Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Pressner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, she is a co-author of the book Digital_Humanities, “…a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production” (MIT Press). Her writing and design can be found in the Los Angeles Times, Eye Magazine, and Electronic Book Review, among others, and her work is held in the permanent collections of both SFMOMA and MoMA.
Anne Burdick studied graphic design at Art Center College of Design and San Diego State University prior to receiving a BFA and MFA in graphic design at California Institute of the Arts.
Here she is featured on a Scratching the Surface podcast episode.
Commissions Doubler Review – Should you Invest?
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Basically the program combines the traffic from Craigslist and niche products for sale from Clickbank. I personally don’t think craigslist is the best way to earn money online…. it’s better suited for finding a used couch or entertainment center. While niche marketing is an excellent way to earn money, spamming people through sites like craigslist is not a viable technique. I have built several websites in different niches and earn money from them everyday. For me, that’s the best way to start an online business that pays.
Free traffic is seldom a good way to get targeted traffic that will convert.
Who is Commissions Doubler For?
Commissions Doubler is marketed toward the newbie or the person who is looking for a quick way to make money. Often times these tactics or promises of getting rich quickly are not legit and only a few people actually make money or benefit from programs like this. If you would rather look into a program that will actually make you money and teach you the skills to be successful, then check out my recommendation.
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In my opinion, any program that promises you’ll make money within 24 hours is NEVER legit. Although I do believe certain people can make money with this program, I don’t think it’s for newbies that are hoping for financial success immediately. Hard work and consistency is the only way to guarantee success. Most of these programs are shut down within a year.
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In response to questions regarding what it takes to implement OnTrak’s premier application, SignTrak, we asked our Product Development Manager and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Rick Flagg *, to write an overview of the implementation process.
To be successful, Consumer Goods suppliers, distributors and retailers alike need marketing intelligence to determine what POS marketing initiatives work. This can be done by tracking shopper interactions with point-of-sale marketing materials, and correlating this interaction to sales results.
There is at least some evidence that beverage alcohol companies, suppliers, wholesale distributors and retailers alike, think they’re in the entertainment business. While that’s not entirely a misrepresentation, the reality of the situation is that these companies really are in the business of manufacturing, distributing and marketing their brands and products.
I'll play in 10 min.
What's this new pro club?
I think you can join it without an invite. It's called AC Goal Legacy.
Might do soon, might be going out but that can wait until it's not 505005 degrees outside.
A few people online now.
Looks like we'll be stuck in div 3/4 since the style doesn't work in the higher divisions. We need a good any. It's impossible to deal with the quick pros with the CPU defenders.
Dat feel when you think you score the game winning goal in the 85th min. to get the club promoted to div.2, but they score in the 87th min. and you tie 1-1 and stay in div.3.
Lazio will face Borussia Mönchengladbach for a spot in the last 16 of the Europa League.
Player Ratings after Lazio defeated Siena on penalties in Coppa Italia.
LazioLand.com invite you to participate in our Christmas meesage to S. S. Lazio.
The squad for tomorrow's mid-afternoon game with Siena has been released and as expected, Antonio Candreva and Mauro Zarate have been omitted.
Through the ages, as depicted in the works of many famous artists, a strong chin has been considered a sign of physical beauty.
On the other hand, a person with a receding chin is sometimes described as having a “weak” chin. Because their faces seem unbalanced to them, people with this condition often find it a source of distress and concern. Chin augmentation, or mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure that improves the appearance by altering the facial contours. It is designed to add size to or move forward a receding chin. In some cases, a chin augmentation is done in conjunction with liposuction surgery of other cosmetic facial procedures such as rhinoplasty (surgery of the nose) and phytidectomy (facelift).
The best candidate for chin augmentation is the individual with a receding chin and a normal dental bite. For those with a bite dysfunction, jaw surgery, in conjunction with mentoplasty, may be necessary.
Prior to surgery, a complete medical history is taken in order to evaluate your general health. Careful examination of your face is also conducted. Dr. Gilmer will describe the type of anesthesia to be used, the procedure, what results might realistically be expected and possible risks and complications. Photographs may be taken before and after surgery to evaluate the amount of improvement.
Preoperative instructions may include the elimination of certain drugs which contain aspirin in order to minimize the possibility of excess bleeding. Antibiotics may be prescribed for a few days prior to surgery to prevent infection. The areas to be worked on are carefully marked.
The surgery can be done in our office on an outpatient basis. Medication to relax you may be administered prior to surgery.
There are two basic procedures used in mentoplasty: one involves moving the chin bone forward by an incision that is made inside the mouth ,the other the use of a plastic chin implant. The surgeon, working through the incision, uses special instruments to cut through the chin bone. The lower portion of the bone is then moved forward and sutured in to place. Small sutures are used to close the incision, and external bandages are applied to the area.
A second procedure, a chin implant, may also be used to create a more prominent jaw. In this technique, the incision is made either inside the mouth or externally, under the chin. A plastic prosthesis, sized exactly to fit the patient, is placed in a pocket above the chin bone and beneath the muscles. Sutures are used to close the incision and pressure bandages are applied. The procedure may take from two and a half to three hours or more depending on whether other procedures are done at the same time.
Pain connected with the surgery is minimal to moderate and is controlled with oral medication. Antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection. The bandages are usually removed within a week. Most patients are up and moving around the day of surgery; however, strenuous activities must be avoided for some time. Dr. Gilmer will advise you as to when normal activities can be resumed based on the extent of surgery and your personal healing process.
Some temporary swelling and bruising of the face are to be expected. Keeping the head slightly elevated when reclining and applying cold compresses may help reduce swelling. Chewing may be difficult for ten days to two weeks and numbness around the treated area may occur for a period of time. Brushing the teeth is sometimes difficult for several days.
Scars from the incisions fade significantly with time and are, for the most part, inconspicuous because of the location. Complications are rare; however, there are certain inherent risks connected with every surgical procedure which should be thoroughly discussed with the physician. You can minimize complications by carefully following directions given by Dr. Gilmer and his staff.
If you are interested in learning more about mentoplasty, please contact our office and we will be happy to answer your questions.
The Green Giraffe 8L compostable bags are ideal for most medium kitchen caddies. Supplied in rolls of 50 bags per roll, they are fully compostable, printed with the seedling logo and certified to EN 13432.
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BEAVER — After every practice and every game, coach Greg Huston reminds his Beaver girls basketball team that everything they do on the basketball court is a learning experience.
On Thursday night, the young and inexperienced Bobcats learned again that they can compete with any team in their section.
But to consistently win games against the better teams in the section, they have to play a little bit better than they did in a 63-61 loss to Avonworth.
The bright spot for Beaver, 7-2 overall and 3-1 in the section, was how it battled back after trailing by 11 points, 53-42, midway in the fourth quarter.
From that point, the Bobcats went on a 19-8 run and tied the game, thanks to some clutch outside shooting. In the last 3 minutes, they knocked down five three-pointers.
Sophomore guards Anna Blum and Natalie Priest each made two 3s down the stretch. Freshman forward Payton List added one.
With 3 seconds left, Priest’s bomb from long distance tied the game, 61-61.
But just when it seemed like the game was headed to overtime, Avonworth guard Harris Robinson was fouled just past the midcourt line with less than a second on the clock … 0.2 seconds to be exact.
She calmly sank both free throws for a win that put Avonworth (6-3, 4-0) in sole possession of first place.
Hayden Robinson, a 5-foot-10 senior forward who’s going to Quinnipiac University on a track scholarship, led Avonworth with a game-high 22 points. Kathryn Goetz, a 5-9 junior forward, added 16 for the Antelopes.
Sophomore guard Emma Pavelek led Beaver with 20 points. Sophomore forward Maddi Weiland and Payton List scored 11 and 10, respectively.
“Huge win,” said Avonworth coach Mark D’Alessandris, an Aliquippa native who used to coach the Quips’ girls team. “We’re both competing for first place, and now we’re in sole possession. We got a big game Monday when Neshannock comes to our gym.
It was Beaver who handed Neshannock its only section loss, 47-46, on the Lancers’ home court on Dec. 13.
“Avonworth is really good,” Huston said. “I had them and Neshannock as the top two teams in the section. So I feel pretty good that we’re playing right with them for as young as we are.
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Don’t let its size fool you, this keychain tool has 7 useful functions: small flat driver, medium flat driver, cross driver, pry bar, wire stripper, lanyard hole, and bottle opener. It is light enough to carry on a keychain but tough and durable enough for everyday use.
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This U-shaped neck pillow includes a cotton cover and an inflatable filling, which are detachable and very easy to carry, store. This accessory is the perfect companion for long distance travel.

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