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Why Having A Winning Domestic Violence Lawyer Is The Secret To Winning Cases

To help you with the law when dealing with a legal issue, you need a legal representative at your side. Because there is constantly a great deal of documents included, you will need legal therapy. Here are our recommendations on the best ways to find the legal counsel that's best for your requirements.

The Role and Responsibility of a Criminal Defense Lawyer

The criminal justice system is viewed as a three-part system consisting of the judge and jury, the prosecutor, and the defense lawyer. Each part of this system has a specific role. The role of the judge and jury is to render an impartial decision based solely on the facts presented and the laws applicable to the charged offense. In order to decide impartially, the judge and jury must be able to hear arguments from both sides. The prosecutor's role is to argue the side of the state that seeks to prove the defendant's guilt. The defense lawyer's role is to argue on behalf of the defendant. The defendant has no burden of proof. That is, the defendant need not prove his innocence. It is enough simply to point out ways in which the state has not established guilt (e.g., an eyewitness has poor eyesight or an accuser has a motive to lie). The Role and Responsibility of a Criminal Defense Lawyer

A legal expert who understands what he's doing will constantly safeguard his client's rights even if he's guilty. A fantastic legal consultant does not pass judgement on your innocence or guilt; rather, she or he manages your legal case and defends your rights. It is really the job of your defense attorney to assist you. If you are shown innocent, she or he should make the most of your advantage. If you are proven guilty, it's his/her task to alleviate the damage. Whenever you are in need of strong legal aid, a skilled attorney will most likely be your absolute best property.

It's necessary that attorneys have their license allowing them to practice their profession. Confirm that your legal expert has actually been accredited to practice law in your state. The license ought to constantly be hung on their wall for customers to see. To examine attorneys on their knowledge about law, you could always ask particular concerns.

Nothing is a lot more crucial to your legal case than remaining in a position to communicate openly and openly with your legal specialist. If she's a specialist in her field, she won't let you leave a meeting or hang up the phone up until you understand everything that she's said. Share every single detail relating to your legal case with your defense attorney to increase your chances of winning. The most typical reason people win their cases is that they continued to communicate with their legal consultant and communicated well throughout the entire process.

David H. Johnson, Attorney at Law
419 Canyon Ave #226, Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 829-1221

Some defense lawyers will deal with any sort of case to make money, whether they're familiar with your case's location of law. However not all legal representatives are deceitful, and numerous pride themselves on their honorable and trusted reputations. What does it cost? monetary acquisition they can receive ought to come second to providing clients an exceptional level of representation. A trusted, trustworthy lawyer will devote lots of time to your case, so that your opportunities of winning increase.

If you have a case in court, make sure to pick a reliable legal consultant that has the understanding, skills and abilities to represent you. When a legal consultant feels he lacks certain set of abilities entailing your case, they may refer you to a colleague. If the defense attorney you were set on refers you to another person, simply continue with your search.
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CASA Receives 2018 GSK Impact Award!

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Yesterday was a special day for CASA Youth Advocates.

GlaxoSmithKline selected CASA Youth Advocates for the 2018 GSK IMPACT Award of $40,000 for efforts to improve community health. Our amazing volunteers and case supervisors make sure the abused and neglected children we serve receive adequate medical and dental care, participate in recommended therapeutic services, and that their medications and medical records follow them from placement to placement.

We are so thrilled to have received this amazing award yesterday and be recognized for the work of our incredible staff and volunteers.

Check out some photos from the ceremony and learn more about the award here: http://us.gsk.com/en-us/about-us/us-community-partnerships/gsk-impact-awards/

Strategic Director Anne Shenberger with Executive Director Leigh Anne McKelvey.

CASA Volunteer Carole Cavanaugh and Executive Director Leigh Anne McKelvey.

CASA Board President David Cramer, CASA Volunteer Carole Cavanaugh, Strategic Director Anne Shenberger, Executive Director Leigh Anne McKelvey

Left to right: Pedro Ramos, CEO the Philadelphia Foundation, Patrick Desbiens, Senior Vice President, US Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals, GSK, Dave Heller, WHYY.

CASA Executive Director Leigh Anne McKelvey speaks at podium.

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Delmarva Christian Schools, both the Milton campus for grades PreK-8 and the high school campus in Georgetown for grades 9-12, is accepting student applications NOW for the 2019-2020 school year. For students who file their applications by February 28, 2019, $50 of the $100 Application Fee will be reimbursed back to the family once the student has been accepted and begins the 2019-2020 school year at DCS. Reimbursement will be made in the fall of 2019.

So, get your applications in early to avoid being placed on a waiting list and to be eligible for this application fee reimbursement!

Applications for kindergarten through grade 8 may be found HERE. Applications for grades 9 through 12 may be found HERE.

Additionally, students who want to learn first-hand what it’s like to be a Delmarva Christian High School student are welcome to spend a day at the school as part of their Shadow-For-A-Day program typically held every Wednesday. Register HERE to participate.


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Link Between Periodontal Disease and Oral Cancer

By April 10, 2018Uncategorized

The Dental Air Force is a home dental cleaning system that replaces tooth brushing and oral irrigation.Learn More

There is a strong relationship between periodontal disease and oral cancer.  In patients with tongue cancer, the periodontal disease preceded the tongue cancer.

Although periodontal disease and oral cancers are both located in the mouth, until recently, there was never thought to be a connection between the two. New evidence is coming to light to show that those with periodontal disease increase their risk of tongue cancer.

There are many causes of oral cancer – unhealthy diets rich in sugars, poor diets, large consumption of tobacco, heavy alcohol consumption and heredity. In addition, there are different types of oral cancers – lip, tongue and really anywhere in the mouth. Tongue cancer is the most common and the most dangerous. The chance of this disease is high in men who over age 60, less in those below 40 years of age and less in women.

In the primary stages of tongue cancer, a small lump or thick white patch appears on the tongue and later is converted into an ulcer. If it is not treated properly, cancer spreads to other places in the mouth, such as gums, lower jaw, lymph nodes and neck. When the tumor enlarges the tongue also becomes more rigid and the ability for the movement of the tongue is reduced. The tumor may also affect speech and swallowing.

Common Symptoms of Tongue Cancer

The common symptoms of oral cancer are patches inside the mouth, lips that are white, lips that are both red and white, a sore on the lip or in the mouth that won’t heal, bleeding in the mouth, difficulty in swallowing, a lump in the neck, or loose teeth.

Treatment Methods for Oral Cancer

The treatment methods for oral cancers are surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. The combination of treatments may vary depending on the patient’s stage. A pain relieving treatment is recommended for patients to decrease the side effects.

Surgery is used to remove the tumor in the mouth. This is the standard treatment for oral cancer. Radiation therapy is also an essential method of treatment. This is given only in the affected area. This treatment is given for those who have small tumors and surgery is not indicated. Radiation may be used before or after surgery to kill the cancer cells.

2 Types of radiation therapy to treat oral cancer

There are two types of radiation therapy used to treat oral cancer – external radiation and internal radiation. In external radiation, the radiation comes from a machine. In internal radiation, the radiation comes from radioactive material placed in seeds, needles or thin plastic tubes put directly in the tissue. Chemotherapy is another method of treatment. In this method, anticancer drugs are used to kill cancer cells.

Signs & Causes of Periodontal Disease

Periodontal disease is a chronic infectious inflammation of the tooth and gums. Signs of periodontal disease are bad breath that won’t go away, red or swollen gums, tender or bleeding gums, painful chewing, loose teeth or sensitive teeth. Although late stages of periodontal disease show signs, early stages do not, so regular six-month visits to the dentist are recommended. Causes of periodontal disease are poor oral hygiene, smoking, some medications, some illnesses and genetic susceptibility.

A regular toothbrush breaks down after each us and harbors bacteria. The Dental Air Force is a complete dental cleaning solution available in the home. Dental Air Force eliminates hard-to-remove plaque and kills bacteria which causes periodontal disease.
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Recent Study Concludes that Periodontitis was Associated with Tongue Cancer

In a recent study, the gum disease periodontitis was associated with an increased risk of developing tongue cancer. Dr. Mine Terzal, from the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in New York, and colleagues compared 51 white men with newly diagnosed cancer of the tongue to 54 cancer-free “controls” who were seen during the same period. The study excluded people younger than 21 years, those who lacked teeth, had any previous malignancy, and those with a weakened immune system.

The Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reported that each millimeter reduction in bone was associated with a 5-fold rise in the risk of tongue cancer.

“Periodontitis is a chronic disease that progresses very slowly,” Dr. Terzal noted. “Seeing alveolar bone loss on X-rays indicates the infection has existed for decades, making it clear that periodontitis preceded the cancer diagnosis, and not vice-versa.”

Decreasing the risk of periodontal disease will decrease the risk of tongue cancer

Periodic self-examination of your mouth is the best way to detect the early signs of oral and throat cancer. Cleaning your teeth at least 2 times a day and visiting the dentist 2-3 time a year are recommended for good oral hygiene and decreasing the risk of periodontal disease. Since the studies concluded that there is a strong relationship between periodontal diseases and oral cancer, decreasing the risk of periodontal disease will also decrease the risk of tongue cancer.

Dr. Piero, a practicing dentist for over twenty-five years, is the inventor of Dental Air Force®. Call 616-399-8511 or visit www.dentalairforce.com. Interviews or articles are available on periodontal health related to heart disease, respiratory health, diabetes, strokes, and other systemic diseases.

Once you’ve used Dental Air Force, you’ll know you’ve found the best way to keep your teeth clean and white between visits to the dentist. Here’s what some of our clients have had to say about their experience with the total cleaning power of Dental Air Force.

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Caring for Incontinent People

Are you helping someone who is living with incontinence? Below is a library of useful information and advice for carers of people with incontinence, as well as tips for stocking a carer’s kit.

Caring for Someone with Incontinence

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If you are a caregiver for someone with incontinence, there is lots of help available for you. Learn about your options and the steps you can take to effectively manage incontinence in our fact sheet.

Caring for Yourself

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Carers Tips and Hints

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There are many things that can assist you in caring for a person with incontinence - from choosing the right type of clothing to planning a trip in advance. Find out more helpful tips and hints here.

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Having the right tools for the job can help make caring for someone with incontinence a little easier. Check out our Carers Kit brochure to find out about the everyday tools and equipment you can use.


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This classic mockup for Photoshop features a regular fit, adjustable color cotton t shirt with screen print design. This simple high resolution tee mock-up is perfect for anybody looking for quick and easy way to showcase their custom designs.

When you download this package you will find a single .psd file for the mockup and a displacement map file. After you open the mockup in Photoshop you can replace the sample graphics on the t-shirt with your own custom design and change the color of the hoodie material to literally any shade you want.

How to update the design

  1. Open 'Regular T-Shirt Mockup.psd' in Photoshop CS6 or newer
  2. Double click on the [YOUR DESIGN HERE] layer thumbnail
  3. Replace the placeholder artwork with your own graphics
  4. Save and close the Smart Object
  5. If you get an error in step 4, find the layer [YOUR DESIGN HERE] smart object and expand the fx dropdown
  6. Double click on the Displace filter
  7. Click OK and manually locate the Displacement Map.psd file

Note on Displacement Maps

If you get an error when updating the smart object, or if the design is not conforming to the texture of the t-shirt, you probably need to tell Photoshop where the displacement file is located. Expand the fx dropdown on the T-Shirt smart object layer, double click on Displace and click OK, then open the displacement map file included with the download.

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Advanced Performance

Mobile nativeWearable native

  • Tizen 2.4 and Higher for Mobile
  • Tizen 2.3.1 and Higher for Wearable

The following general principles can help you to resolve performance problems on Tizen devices. (Some principles are valid for general embedded systems.)

The first 2 principles are very basic, but still quite important, since the CPU-GPU bandwidth and memory capacity of embedded systems are limited in general.

  1. As presented in Polygon Mesh in OpenGL® ES, although the vertex array is intuitive, it is inefficient to use only the vertex array. It is almost always recommended to use an index array and the glDrawElements() function. This reduces the amount of data transferring from CPU to GPU. The bigger the model is, the more efficient the index array approach is.
  2. If the polygon mesh is not frequently changed, you can use vertex buffer objects (VBO) in order to cache the data into the GPU memory, as illustrated in Uniforms and Attributes in OpenGL® ES.
  3. In general, you do not need to call the glFinish() function. As drawing commands are requested by the draw_glview() callback and are executed in the background, it is enough to call the glFlush() function at the end of the draw_glview() callback.
  4. You are not required to clear every buffer, or to clear them at the same time. Instead, you can obtain the best performance by calling the glClear() function once per frame with all the buffers to be simultaneously cleared.
  5. Do not create and destroy the graphic resources (such as textures and FBO) per frame. You can create and store them in the app_data structure in the init_glview() callback and reuse them later.
  6. Try to avoid using the if statement in the shader code. Since the vertex and fragment shaders are executed in parallel (in batches) on most GPU architectures, if-then-else statement can block some other batches to determine which one can be run next. It means that parallel processing cannot be fully implemented.
  7. Try to avoid writing a heavy fragment shader. If the same data apply to all fragments, do not compute the data in the fragment shader but compute them at the CPU side and provide them as uniforms. On the other hand, whenever the data can be computed at the vertex shader, use it.
  8. In general, the glReadPixels() function is quite slow, because it reinforces CPU-GPU synchronization, drastically decreasing the overall performance. In most cases, it is possible to obtain the desired result with the framebuffer object (FBO), avoiding the use of glReadPixels(). With FBO, you can access the pixels of the framebuffer (the output of GPU processing) through a texture object (render-to-texture). Since it uses texture data from a GPU stage to another GPU stage, CPU does not have to be synchronized. If the application must use the glReadPixels()function, use another thread to avoid blocking the main thread.
  9. With FBO, various effects can be made. Consider an application requiring a number of rendering chains for making a complex effect: A framebuffer is mapped to a texture, the texture is used to render another framebuffer, the framebuffer is mapped to another texture, and so on. This enables you to create a very complex scene, but unfortunately the rendering chain cannot be parallelized. Make the rendering chains as small as possible.
  10. According to the application life-cycle, the application gets the app_pause() callback when the application runs in the background. Then, you must stop calling drawcalls during the pause state.

    As presented in Interactive UI, the application can control the rendering loop by using an animator internally and then stop the animator in the app_pause() callback.


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Innovation in Action

The Intergenerational Mobility Project

Helping families achieve self-sufficiency together

The Intergenerational Mobility Project (“The Intergen Project”), a collaborative effort between the Center on the Developing Child and EMPath*, has set out with a bold mission to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. By applying science to social service program design, the Intergen Project seeks to mitigate the effects of poverty and its associated stressors in order to support motivated low-income families as they work their way across the economic divide. This metric-based, mentor-led, incentivized intervention expands on a proven adult-focused coaching model in a comprehensive approach that supports individual family members as they identify their unique goals and aligns the whole family around a shared set of outcomes.

*Formerly Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU).

This video tells the story of the Intergenerational Mobility Project and its use of a coaching framework to strengthen families’ ability to navigate the complexities of poverty.

The Problem

What is economic mobility, and what are the skills needed to achieve it? Learn more in this video, featuring Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff.

What will it take to truly disrupt the intergenerational cycle of poverty? Many organizations and researchers have attempted to tackle specific facets of inequality—in education, healthcare, or economic mobility—but few have sought to tackle the larger issue of the transfer of poverty from one generation to the next. Current interventions that focus on either children or adults have made modest improvements on individual outcomes, but these piecemeal efforts have failed to produce sustained change. The Intergen Project aims to significantly improve outcomes for low-income children and families in educational success and economic mobility. The approach is rooted in the best academic research on poverty and its effects on the brain, and in decades of firsthand experience working with low-income families. The Intergen Project enhances the capacity of adults with limited education and low income to not only attain goals that move them toward economic independence, but also to build strong foundations for a more promising future for their children.

The questions the Intergen Project will answer include:

  • Does an adult-based goal-setting model work when it is implemented with adults and children together? Who does it work for?
  • Does this model impact executive function, economic stability, educational attainment, and family functioning?

The Theory of Change

Beth Babcock, President and CEO of EMPath, explains why addressing the whole family — not just adults — is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Members of a family are interconnected and mutually reinforcing and must be engaged together to achieve sustainable, intergenerational economic and educational success. Achieving self-sufficiency requires coordination of multiple facets that are interrelated and optimized when addressed in concert with the others.

The hypothesis being tested in this project is that families will move faster toward economic stability and educational attainment when they set and achieve individual and family-level goals together. In addition, the Intergen Project team expects that shared goal-setting will increase family cohesion and organization, and that regular meetings with other families in the Intergen Project will decrease social isolation. Read more about how theories of change guide program design and evaluation.

Intervention: The “How”

Crittenton Women’s Union program participants. Photo courtesy of Holly Ladd.
EMPath program participants. Photo courtesy of Holly Ladd.

Implementation of the Intergen Project includes a yearlong series of structured meetings during which coaches work with a family to:

  • assess each family member’s strengths and needs,
  • set and monitor individual and family goals,
  • recognize achievements, and
  • build social networks in regular meetings with other Intergen Project families.

The model is an expansion of EMPath’s successful adult coaching model, Mobility Mentoring® (MM). The centerpiece of MM is the Bridge to Self-Sufficiency™ (the “Bridge”), a visual tool that guides goal-setting across five domains critical to self-sufficiency:  family stability, well-being, education and training, financial management, and employment and career management. A developmentally appropriate version of the Bridge has been developed for children and is currently being tested. In addition, a family-focused assessment tool has also been developed to support family-wide goals. The Intergen Project is moving into its second year of piloting with families engaged in EMPath programs in Boston, MA.

What We’ve Learned

While it is early in the testing phase and the sample size is small, some lessons have been learned:

  • Setting matters. Initially, family meetings were to be held at an early education setting, but the project team learned that in order to engage all family members, meetings must be held in the home, often in evenings or on weekends.
  • Other adult family members are interested. The original model, Mobility Mentoring, targets and engages female heads of household, but through the Intergen Project testing, the team has learned that partners, adolescents, and grandparents are very interested in setting and achieving goals, too.
  • Tools and structure are very important. Families like using structured self-assessment tools to get organized and stay on track. In fact, the family-focused assessment tool was developed in response to a need that families identified. This tool now provides a visual snapshot of the road blocks that may be holding a family back, specific domains where goals can be set, and the ability for families to monitor their progress over time.

Beth Babcock, President and CEO of EMPath (formerly CWU), spoke at TEDxBeaconStreet about taking a science-informed approach to breaking the cycle of poverty. Her talk explains how poverty impairs the development of executive function in the brain, and she shares the success of new coaching models that allow clients to practice and rebuild their executive function skills.

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Governance is a partnership-based project guided and financed by a consortium of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and at all times seeks to work in that spirit. It is also part-funded by Irish Aid, the Irish Government’s programme for overseas development.

The decisions are made by consensus and the needs and agendas of all consortium members are central to the success and sustainability of the project as it overseas the governance, strategic development and delivery of the website.

The Management Committee (MC) of the consortium is guided by a governance policy and practice which is designed to shape and deliver 3 key objectives as outlined in detail in the agreed 5-year plan (2018 – 2022) specifically:

  • The ongoing development and consolidation of as a consortium-based project with an engaged and pro-active membership and partnership structure.
  • The design and delivery of the website in its key dimensions – its agreed content and approach; its sharing of Development Education practice and experience; its management and planning and its ongoing monitoring and assessment.
  • The recognition of the site as a key reference point for the Development Education sector in Ireland and its recognition by peers as a valued contributor to the overall DE agenda.

The governance policies of the project are intended to define clearly the core procedures and responsibilities that guide the project while at the same time retaining appropriate flexibility and adaptability to circumstances as they evolve within the context of the consortium and the DE sector.


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She had a yellow balloon… and green crayons

by Liam McNalley

I have a confession to make. I don’t like the Beatles. This may sound strange coming from someone of my generation, but when a Beatles tune comes on the radio, I turn it off. This dislike has nothing to do with their music; I think they wrote some amazing songs, I just can’t listen to them.

It all goes back to when I was in the first grade.  This was back when the band was really becoming popular… all the screaming girls and everything.  I had no idea what all the fuss was about; my parents listened to the Kingston Trio, and Peter, Paul and Mary. However, I heard all about them at school.

There was a little, curly black-haired girl that sat next to me. Her name was Vicky. I can’t remember my teacher’s name, or the name of a single other person in that classroom, but hers is indelibly etched in my memory.

Ah, Vicky. That girl was some kind of bat-shit crazy. She told me everything about the Beatles… whether I wanted to hear or not. She apparently knew the lyrics to every single tune they did, and sang them (very much off key) constantly. She was yelled at by the teacher more than the kid that liked to pluck buttons off of other student’s shirts. Vicky was absolutely nuts about the Beatles, especially Ringo. The girl drew stars on her hands (and everything else that would stay still long enough.) I heard how she was going to marry Ringo when she grew up at least a hundred and thirty four times a day.

But that’s not the worst of it. You see, she had another obsession. Oh hell, I’ll just come out and say it… she ate crayons. Green crayons. No green crayon was safe when she was in the room. I never saw the silly wench that she didn’t have green wax stuck in her teeth. All those decades have gone by and the Beatles and the image of Vicky joyously chomping on a green crayon are inseparable in my mind.

To this day, every time I hear the Beatles, I get a little sick to my stomach.

A Halloween Rant

by Liam McNalley

Let’s just say that Halloween is not my favorite holiday. My dislike of this bizarre cultural ration of insanity only grows worse as I get older.

The creepy, sometimes disturbing “decorations” my neighbors put out to give small children nightmares is only the beginning. The worst part is that Halloween seems to be the time that all the stores start putting out all the cheesy Christmas stuff. Seriously? Can’t I enjoy Thanksgiving before I get inundated with wretchedly bad Christmas music, and visually assaulted by over-commercialized yuletide crap?

Halloween is also a stark reminder that autumn is slapping me in the face, and all the things I wanted to do during the summer never got done. It makes me feel old.

Speaking of feeling old, I dare not leave the house on Halloween. The idiotic tendency of people wearing dark clothing to walk right out in front of me while I’m driving makes me go bat-shit crazy. Delinquents tossing eggs on my truck makes me want to do Halloween the original way… by instead of carving a face in an oversized, vine grown, hard-skinned fruit, making a real jack-o-lantern. Originally this was done by hacking the head off an enemy, and tying it by the hair to a tree branch. “Get off my lawn.”

Sure, pumpkins look cool, but butternut squash is much better in beer, and sweet potato pie is hands-down more flavorful.

Halloween also tweaks a pet peeve of mine… Just for the record, Cider is NOT that unfiltered apple juice everybody on the planet calls “apple cider.” Cider is by definition, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting apple juice. There is no such thing as “hard” cider, since ALL cider is alcoholic. A person is either drinking apple juice, or they are drinking cider… period. Adding the word “apple” in front of cider is as redundant as saying “I made an apple, apple pie.” Just because one idiot misuses a word doesn’t mean everybody has to. I recently saw some pear juice marketed as “Pear cider.” This is a labeling abomination. Cider consists only of apples, and if the pear juice was fermented into an alcoholic beverage, it is called “Perry.” This stuff wasn’t even fermented, so they failed miserably on all counts.

My favorite memories of Halloween are not even of dressing up in a silly costume, and guilting adults into giving me candy; they are of the food my mother used to cook. Roast pork and mashed potatoes drowned in rich gravy, and my favorite: melt a half cup of butter in a big cast iron skillet. Add a half cup of brown sugar, a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon, and one of nutmeg. Let this cook for a minute, and add a bunch of sliced tart apples, and some water. Let them cook until tender. YUM!

Staying up late to watch scary movies on a black and white television set, while stuffing my face with popcorn, was pretty fun too. But I can do that any night I want now, and the television is actually in color!

So there you have it, my take on Halloween. While you are enjoying whatever fun crap you have planned, I’ll be the drunk guy muttering profanities with all the lights turned off.

Why don’t you pick up a copy of our new anthology, ECHOES & BONES, which is dark, like Halloween… and me, I guess. You can also enter to win a copy on Amazon. ‘Muricans only, because them’s the rules. Folks from other countries can go to our Facebook page to find chances to win book goodies.

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The Swearing Corner: The N-Word and other words I won’t say (mostly)

by Steve Wetherell

I’ll never say the n-word. Well, not in any official capacity. I might sing along to an Anderson Paak song, and my usual tactic of replacing it with ‘fella’ doesn’t always scan well. Also, I might write the word in the mouth of a racist character or such. Also, I might get drunk and scream it at someone’s wedding. Not the last one. That was a joke.

I wouldn’t say the word because it’s a very sensitive, contentious word, with a dark and terrible history, and it makes people uncomfortable. Saying it, to me, is far more effort that it’s worth. I mean, really, considering the fallout, I’d need a really, really good reason to say it. Maybe to prove some point about free speech and sensible conversation or such, or because Samuel L. Jackson commanded me to say it on national television. And that’s not really going to be an issue for me. I’m slightly suspicious of anyone who does think it is an issue. Why do you want to say that word? Is it because you were told you can’t? You coy little minx. Wash your mouth out. Also your soul.

Should the word have such power, though? The short answer is yes, but I may live to see a time when it loses that power. For example, when I was a young kid, referring to a black guy as a black guy was thought to be extremely crass. More sensitive people would say ‘the coloured chap’ or ‘Dave’ depending on how well they knew him. These days referring to anyone as ‘coloured’ is career damagingly offensive, and as ‘black’ is fine. Things change.

Faggot is another word I won’t say, apart from just then, obviously. Although it’s a fun word to say. (In England, a faggot is something you eat. It’s also a meat dish.) I won’t say faggot for the same reason I’ll never un-ironically say ‘cuck’, because it’s too often used by macho types with the self-awareness of a dick shaped lollipop and the compassion of an alligator. Also, it too has a pretty damned dark history. Again, not being able to say this word is really no skin off my nose.

I do miss “Gaaaaay” though. No, hear me out. We pretty much said everything was gay when I was younger, largely due to South Park. It’s got a big dumb mooing quality to it that makes it silly. Geography? Gaaaay. Newspapers? Gaaaay. Any outward sign of affection between two straight men? Gaaaay. In fact, the only thing we wouldn’t derisively call gay was actual gay people, because that would have been mean. Obviously, as we matured we realised that setting a tone where the word gay was used derisively was a problem in itself. It didn’t peter out entirely though. One of my favourite jokes in one my favourite movies- Shaun of the Dead- was the following exchange.

Shaun: We have to save Liz!

Ed: Why?

Shaun: Because I love her.

Ed: Alright… gay.

One grown man calling another grown man gay for admitting he loves his girlfriend is still hilarious to me. It’s absurd, and silly. I didn’t really stop saying gay in that way until my best friend and housemate came out to me in university. We had a frank and serious discussion about whether we were both supposed to stop calling things gay now, and he suggested that we should just carry on as normal. We didn’t though. I gradually phased it out. Now that it was more personal to me, it didn’t seem as silly.

Like retard. Remember when everything was retarded? Again, you’d call everything retarded apart from someone who was actually retarded, because what are you, a monster? Same situation as Faggot though. Phased that out. I’ve replaced it with fucktarded, but that’s still a bit dicey as the clue to its origin is fairly embedded in its structure. But here’s the problem- where I come from, flat out calling someone an idiot is a bit serious. It can be used light-heartedly, sure, but it’s also the word you use when you stop fucking around and want someone to know that they’ve sincerely fucked up. So, I sort of need a less serious word than ‘Idiot’ and less heinous word than ‘Retard.’

Answers on a postcard.

Doctor Who Has a Dick and You Just Need to Accept That

by Steve Wetherell

Listen up you mindless sheeple, ‘cause I’m about to mansplain a few things to you. I’ll happily accept that women can be doctors (providing they’re not my doctor) but I draw the line that at women being Doctor Whos. They just can’t. Because Doctor Who is a man, and has been for generations. Through his various iterations, brought to life by various actors and writers each with their own unique perspectives on the character, the unifying characteristics have always been that the Time Lord has two hearts and two balls.

A woman being a Doctor Who is just ludicrous. I mean, Doctor Who is a calm, rational pacifist, and everyone knows that women are screeching lunatics with no sense of proportion. A woman Doctor Who would probably try to claw the Master’s eyes out before breaking down and crying into a tampon. Then they’d travel back in time to when they were prettier and never come back because they’d met a nice man and settled down. And exactly how much maternity leave does a Time Lord expect? Will the world be laid to waste by Cyber Men because Lady Doctor took nine hundred years off to stay at home watching daytime TV and eating toast? FUCK THAT!

It’s time we took back Doctor Who from the Cuck Travelling Time Lord he has become (sorry, that should read Time Travelling Cuck Lord) and made him a man’s man again. Maybe have a Doctor with a beard who just continuously flaps his balls onto the table whenever he’s talking. Maybe a Doctor who finally puts a decent spoiler on the Tardis, and kits it out with a plush leather interior. Some respectable subwoofers. A Doctor that smokes cigars and once hit someone with a pool cue because that someone said something about his mum. And give him a robot dog again, for fuck’s sake! And don’t even think about substituting with a robot cat. Cats are gay, and anyone who disagrees can travel back in time to when women still knew how to make sandwiches, and make me a fucking time travel sandwich.

By now you probably think I’m satirising all the misogynists who can’t stand the thought of a female Doctor Who, but I’m actually not. I thought I’d just contribute something controversial, because the people outraged about misogynists being against a female Doctor Who seem to vastly outnumber the actual misogynists who are against a female Doctor Who. I rather suspect that it’s just one person living in Croydon whose mum once stamped on his model Daleck.

I don’t think there are really that many professed Doctor Who fans who also hate women, though there will be some, obviously, because chances are one in ten people you meet is an irredeemable cock-hole. (But which one? Look out, it’s the one dressed as a priest! He’s got a knife!) And as for those who aren’t Doctor Who fans, well they probably just don’t give a shiny golden fuck about your tea-drinking dimension-hopping train spotter.

I must admit, when I see people openly weeping about there being a woman Doctor, I feel like I’ve gotten up for a piss and then realised mid-flow that I’m actually at a Peruvian wedding. And then I realise it’s a dream, and I’ve pissed myself, and that I’m at an entirely different Peruvian wedding. I find it weird, is what I’m saying.

Is it important? It certainly seems like it. Freud died without ever answering the question “What do women want?” If someone would have just told him it was a female Doctor Who we could have saved the guy a lot of trouble. Likewise, if we’d known that solving equality would have been as simple as gender swapping a kids TV show character, we could have demanded this be done years ago.

So, what next? Why not a woman Robin Hood? Why not a woman King Arthur? Why not a woman James Bond? There is no real answer. It doesn’t matter. And if it sells more reboots? Have at it. (So long as you don’t get a fucking American to play it, because that kind of prejudice is fine, for some reason.)

…One thing, though. If gender representation in pop culture is so important, and little girls need to be able to see themselves as Doctor Whos, and Ghostbusters and Iron Mans, then isn’t anyone a little concerned that we’ve just gender swapped the one pacifist, intellectual male adventure hero in the mainstream?

…Just gonna leave that there…

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The Swearing Corner: The “C” Word

by Steve Wetherell

I was in Newfoundland once, for whatever reason, sitting in the smoking area in their seemingly eternal winter and talking to some locals. They were curious about my English heritage, and as a bit of fun, we got onto popular swear words. What, they wanted to know, was a common swear word unique to your neck of the woods.

“Bawbag,” I said, after some consideration. It’s essentially “Ball-bag” (or scrotum) filtered through the Scots-English heritage of my hometown. It’s a nice handy put down, often said with a half smile and a shake of the head when someone accidentally throws up on his own dog. My turn done, the locals turned their attention to my sister, a Londoner then of five years or so.

She squinted into the perennial snowstorm for a moment, before answering; “Cunt.”

Unexpectedly, the tone of the gathering changed almost instantly, and I was surprised to see genuine shock on the faces of our hosts.

It seemed that “Cunt” had a little more sting in its tail across the cold Atlantic than it did on our own side.

Since this worldly revelation, I’ve been more careful about using the word in company, particularly in front of Canadians, Americans, and other weirdos. Where I come from “Cunt” is a fairly genderless put down that can be used both casually and with venom. Someone leaves his wallet at home? He’s a silly cunt. Someone runs over your cat, deliberately? He’s a proper cunt.

However, whenever I see the word used in American media (and that’s rarely) it is always a man being venomous to a woman. it seems that, in a very popular sense, it is very much a word that hates women. That’s a shame, because it’s a create word. Think of it phonetically.

There’s so many hard, visceral sounds in that word its practically pornographic. It’s a word that can be growled, spit or screamed with utter confidence. It’s a word that carries.

Is it anymore offensive to women than, say, ‘prick’ is to men? Yes, I think so, simply because of the strength of the word. The soft ‘Puh’ or prick doesn’t sand up to the hard ‘Cuh’, and while Cock has a Cuh’ sound going for it ‘ock’ lacks the deep undulating ‘uh’ and the final disapproving ‘tttt’.

You can see why we Brits adopted it as punctuation.

Still, knowing its power, and because my audience is mostly American, its a word I try to use sparingly.

Other than in this article, of course.

You cunt.

The Swearing Corner: Dicks

by Steve Wetherell

When Stephen Colbert suggested that Trump’s mouth was only useful as a holster for Vladimir Putin’s dick, there was a backlash suggesting this comment was homophobic. I am here to argue that it wasn’t.

For a start, I have a feeling this accusation is disingenuous. There’s a culture war going on right now that exist whether you acknowledge it or not, and this backlash whiffs of “Oh the left think they’re so progressive, but here they are making gay jokes!” Sadly, though, political correctness is at present such hot territory that a lot of leftists (most of them likely straight) are considering that perhaps there’s some truth to it. This is because, in this culture war, either side is united by the theory that tactics are irrelevant and targets are all that matter.

So, is telling someone to go eat a big hot dick homophobic? I’m going to say no.

To put it in context, there once was an Irish king who, when subjects swore fealty to him, would demand they suck his nipples. Now, this wasn’t because the King happened to be in a loving consensual relationship with his subjects, it was about power. He was subjugating them. When Colbert says Trump sucks Putin’s dick he isn’t implying they are two men engaging in a  completely normal sex act for their mutual pleasure, he is implying that Trump is willingly subjugating himself to Putin in a graphic and obvious way.

There’s a similar backstory to fag. In English private school history there was a tradition of older boys forcing younger boys to be their dogs bodies. This was called fagging for someone, or being their fag. No sex involved (although, being an English private school, there was bound to be at least some sodomy). It’s all about power.

Now, this theory doesn’t give carte blanche to start dishing out the gay insults, of course. There’s a distinctive difference between demanding someone choke on a dick salad, and merely showing disgust in the fact they like sucking cock. Statistically, a great deal of people must at least be tolerable of sucking cock, or agree with the act on principle, so merely saying “I bet you like sucking dick!” is a lot different from saying “I’m not surprised all you can talk is bollocks considering so and so’s dick is so far down your throat.”

It’s all about context.

But what about the casual “Eat a dick dumb shit!”? It would seem to suggest that the act of dick sucking is indeed bad, so let me try and grasp it another way (as the nun said to the vicar.) Like so much in life, it’s all about give and take, and there’s something emasculating about taking it. The process of emasculation comes with its own baggage (“Oh, so being anything other than a man is BAD somehow?”) but for the sake of practicality, I’ll focus on what is actually being said, rather than the uncharitable ocean of implication. Emasculation is a big part of social leveling in men- you can’t have someone getting too big for their boots, or taking themselves too seriously. Every bully and thug is a guy who was too big and tough to be mocked, who let all that raw testosterone go unchecked, so the process of “busting someone’s balls” is, metaphorically, exactly that. It’s a process of humiliation, and going down on someone else, whether you are gay or straight, is an act of humility and subservience. So, that’s the mechanics sorted, but down to the nitty gritty. Is it homophobic? Nah. Conversely, if I tell another guy to suck my dick, it’s not about being gay, it’s not even about sex. It’s just a gorilla thumping its chest. It’s about power.

However, you don’t get to choose who takes offence, so do I force a future where telling someone to go and eat a dick is a progressive no no? Yeah, it’s possible. So what I intend to do is what I do in most situations- destroy any serious implication with ridiculous hyperbole. With this in mind, here’s a few examples that can’t possibly be interpreted as homophobic by anyone who actually understands what a gay is. Enjoy!

“Drown in a tsunami of dicks.”

“I hope you are slapped a million times in a hurricane of dicks.”

“I hope that when you die the ghosts of every dick you thought about sucking but didn’t because you’re a fucking coward is waiting for you with your mom.”

“Dine out on a dick salad. An over priced, low-calorie dick salad.”

“I hope they throw you out of the all you can eat dick buffet before you’re even full.”

The Swearing Corner: Why Swear?

by Steve Wetherell

Swearing is fucking great. I mean, some people don’t think so, and that’s fine, but you can’t deny swearing has power. No really, you can’t, science fucking says so. Studies show that your pain management greatly improves when you swear. It’s purely psychological of course, you can’t just substitute the swear word with an angry noise and get the same effect. So, when you hit your thumb with a hammer, you call the hammer a cunt, and then throw it through a cunting window and then scream at your bastard wife when she asks you what the cunt you think you’re playing at.

Swearing has power, and that’s why it’s a useful tool for the writer. The right swear word at that right time can amplify a threat, lend further weight to despair, or sharpen the edge of spite. And that’s not even getting into the comedic potential, where a swear word can act like a punch line in and of itself (if you ever need to end a scene on a high note, have a sweet old lady say “piss flaps”.)

This is not to say, however, that a writer shouldn’t exercise restraint. Not for any kind of moral reason, but to increase the impact. Just like violence, sex and humorous ethnic comic relief, too much of a good thing can lessen its value. Saving your big guns for the right moment can give you some vital muscle when its needed, which might otherwise be lost in the static of a dropping an f-bomb every paragraph.

Of course, that’s no iron clad rule. Casual swearing can be hilarious, or it can set the entire tone of your piece. Think about any Tarantino movie, for example, or anything by Irvin Welsh. Your book may want to reflect a type of social environment where everything is expressed through enthusiastic genital references. That’s fine and perfectly valid.

You may, however, want to write a book where no on uses any foul language at all. It’s perfectly possible, I’ve done it myself (if you don’t count crap, bugger, arse and hog-shagger which… I guess are swear words, actually, now that I think about it.) But you will be depriving yourself of some of the most creative, historic and powerful words known to the English tongue. These words have weight and history, and no, I don’t mean internet puffery like “twat waffle” and “cum burglar”, I mean the classics. Stuff that goes right back to Chaucer. You shouldn’t be ashamed of them, or to admit they have power. Break ‘em out like a surgeon breaks out the bone saw now and then.

 Fuck it.

Five Thoughts with Renee Miller

  1. If we have lived past lives, and this reincarnation thing is true, I’m kind of worried about my dog. Do we remember our past life on some level and does it affect who we are and what we do in the next one? (Actually, this would explain a lot if it’s true.) But back to my dog. Sometimes he watches me like he knows things, and I’m all “Stop that.” He doesn’t, of course. Anyway, what I’m asking is; Have I ruined his next life with the shit he’s seen?

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  1. We only know our life through our eyes. Think about that. All you know, experience, etc. is only in your head and when you’re gone, so is your truth, because no one experienced these things the same way or saw what you saw and how you saw it. And even when you write it down, it’s still never going to be the same for anyone else, because they were never in your head, so they can’t see what you’re describing the same way you imagine it. I don’t like that idea.split.gif
  2. What if we’re just a giant science experiment? Maybe we’re just something cooked up by some advanced alien race in another universe. Like, we’re not even real. This whole life, planet, everything that’s happening is just a massive virtual reality thing and when we die, it’s because someone deleted our character file or worse—because we got stuck with someone who is shit at playing video games? Is that a book? If it’s not, it will be.

  1. Ladyscaping is my least favorite thing to do, and yet I keep doing it. Who decided women should have no body hair and why did everyone else agree?angry.gif
  2. Sometimes I think I’d like to go back in time, but only if I can control where I go and who I get to be. I’d hate it if I was some medieval tavern whore accused of witchcraft or whatever, or worse, the girl who has to dump the chamber pots or give her warty, overweight lord a sponge bath. Gross. If I went back in time, I’d like to go way back, but as a wealthy (or at least titled) person, so I would have nice things and could boss people around and then wow everyone with the things I know. Yes, I’d totally mess with that shit. Screw you, time-space continuum or whatever I’d fuck up. We’d have plumbing way earlier. Bite me, Romans. And I’d find the bitch who started the ladyscaping thing and get rid of her before she fucks us all for the rest of time. Yeah. That’s what I’d do.evil-laugh.gif

Five Thoughts with Steve Wetherell

by Steve

1: The scientist man on the radio laughs as he suggests that our existence is likely a computer simulation. He raises some compelling arguments about the technological event horizon and the inevitability of a computer powerful enough to simulate our existence. He misses the crux of the argument, though, which is, as usual, who fucking cares? If we’re in a simulation then we are the simulation. We could no more escape or influence it than could an NPC in a video game. And really, why would you want to? “Oh yeah, it turns out your existence was a simulation, but, as it happens, you are only the sum of your experiences anyway, so, there you have it.” A perfect simulation of a thing is the thing, and we are all phantoms screaming towards oblivion.

Fuck you, radio man.

2: Justice is an idea, and law is a construct. Ideas may develop the construct, but outside of the construct they are just an opinion. It is not romantic, but buying into it is the only thing that keeps us all from doing as we please. It is important to remember that, as cool as Batman is, he is basically a psychotic power fantasy. I can’t push this guy into the traffic no matter how much I hate his t-shirt.

There is no justice.

3: I am increasingly terrified of young people as I get older. This is because I can’t just run them down with my car. I am supposed to know better. And they know that I’m supposed to know better. Slags. One day you’ll have too much stake in society to run over people who intimidate you, then we’ll see who’s laughing, You might lose your hair as well.

I hope so.

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4: By the time we have commercially available flying cars, we will already have developed the technology to make a human pilot utterly redundant.

This is why I drink.

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5: What if I’m lifting all these weights and I never have the opportunity to hammer throw a terrorist through a window? Worse, what if I do get the opportunity, but freeze, and some other person gets there before me, and is a hero?  “Oh, I just did what anyone would do,” he or she would say. “Providing they lifted enough weights and weren’t a coward. An utter coward.” Then he or she would look at me. Right at me.

How did they know?

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What Bugs You?

Everyone’s got something that annoys the shit out of them, right? I think sometimes creative types are a little more in tune with such things, because some of us pay a little too much attention to people and what they do. So, we thought, why not share our peeves, and then invite you all to share yours. Once a bad thing is out, it’s not so bad, right? Maybe. Here goes.

Liam: Autocorrect is evil.

(Agreed, but sometimes it’s also funny)

Steve: Publishing pet peeve – Writers who point out other writers’ typos publicly on social media (without invitation to do so). You’re laying down a gauntlet there, and you’d better be pretty fucking good before you feel you have carte blanche to call out other writers based on a typing error. And in most of the writer groups I’ve been in, nobody’s that good.

Other Pet Peeves – People who assume moral superiority for having the “right” opinion. I’ll take a brash cunt that does the good in front of them over a prick that loudly moralises from an unchallenged high ground any day of the week.

(I love it when you use the C word, Steve.)

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Hanna: Someone chewing with their mouth open, which makes me want to scream, For fucksakes, close your damn mouth when you chew!

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Katrina: Publishing-wise, when a writer is convinced they’ve nothing left to learn or refuse to edit beyond grammar mistakes. Makes me stabby.

(Like, one time I said I wasn’t making the edits. ONE TIME. Jeeze.)

Christian: (Are you all ready for this?)

1. Cunts who block me on Facebook for no reason.

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2. Snowflake pretenders who spend a lot of time whining about how hard writing is instead of, you know, writing.

3. People who have multiple online profiles. I don’t mean pseudonyms for writing. That has a purpose. But I’ve recently learned that some weird fucks maintain multiple profiles just for the hell of it.

(We’ve contacted his doctor and he’ll be receiving stronger medication in the future.)

Renee: Oh, the list is so long. I let too much annoy me. First, I cannot stand know-it-alls, so I guess that’d fall into snowflakes who think they don’t need editing or have nothing left to learn, and moral high ground assholes, as Steve mentioned. Second, loud eaters. Really hate those. And close talkers. Mostly because they breathe on me and I hate when people breathe in my face.

Publishing: Whiners bug me. Do your bitching in private, not on social media. Kay? Thanks.

Finally, just in general, I also can’t stand sniffers. By that I mean, people who constantly sniff and snuffle. Get a fucking tissue and blow your damn nose. I think that’s enough for now.

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Now it’s your turn. What bugs you guys? Come on, share and we’ll judge you for it.


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January 29th – Potty Training and Rugby

1999:  Apparently mummy didn’t go to bed until midnight last night and awoke at 2 o’clock to hear me calling ‘Mum, Mum’.  She found me on the floor between her bed and her chest of drawers.  I’d sneaked in but then fallen out again!  I woke up at 8, in mummy’s bed, but no mum.  She must be up before me again.  I called her and she called back, I followed the sound of her voice only to find her tucked up in my bed.  Bonus!  Mum’s not going to work today as she’s not feeling well – she did have a late night after all.  We had a lazy, relaxing morning with lots of cups of tea.  Mum lay on the settee and I was really good, although I think she tended to find my continual ‘No’ a bit annoying.  Well she’s ill; I’m only giving her a bit of her own medicine.  Mum decided to go and have a relaxing bath, which she had, with one addition – me.  I thought I’d give mum a rest beings she’s poorly and had an afternoon nap.  I even got her out of the house this afternoon – I woke up soaked and so did the bed, and so we spent the rest of the afternoon at the launderette.

2019: Another day working whilst mum continues to rest in Lincolnshire.  Apparently today she bumped into the mum of an old school and football friend. Yes I played football but much preferred my rugby, playing wing and fullback for Boston for several years and training with Leicester Tigers  who mum follows to this day. We also had training with Southern Hemisphere coaches and learnt the Hacker which was awesome. Unfortunately, I had to give up rugby aged 15 due to two airlifts, hyper flexibility and no longer wanting the pain but it still calls me …….


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LATTE – Mexi-mix / 10 months / approx  9kg / F-spayed / $450

Latte is one of five “coffee pups” that were found running through the streets in Mexico, and was rescued as a baby.

She is the most active of her siblings and is always on the go. She will need an active home to keep up with her love of walks and hiking. Latte’s leash manners are already smooth as silk and, with just a little training; she would make an excellent jogging companion. She’s very smart and learns quickly although she’s struggling with “personal space”. She just has too many kisses to give and so little time! She loves meeting new people so “down” is something she frequently gets to practice.

No surprise: this girl rocked her cat test!  Latte also loves to burn off energy playing with her dog friends and is being fostered with her sister Cappuccino. She would be cool to go to a home together with Cappuccino (who quiet and easy going), but Latte not-so-secretly dreams of being the only dog in her new home to satisfy her love or attention.

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Donghui Li, PhD

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James Abbruzzese, MD

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Robert Wolff, MD

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Razelle Kurzrock, MD

The plasma membrane xc- cystine/glutamate transporter mediates cellular uptake of cystine in exchange for intracellular glutamate and is highly expressed by pancreatic cancer cells. The xCT gene, encoding the cystine-specific xCT protein subunit of xc-, is important in regulating intracellular glutathione (GSH) levels, critical for cancer cell protection against oxidative stress, tumor growth and resistance to chemotherapeutic agents including platinum. We examined 4 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the xCT gene in 269 advanced pancreatic cancer patients who received first line gemcitabine with or without cisplatin or oxaliplatin. Genotyping was performed using Taqman real-time PCR assays. A statistically significant correlation was noted between the 3' untranslated region (UTR) xCT SNP rs7674870 and overall survival (OS): Median survival time (MST) was 10.9 and 13.6 months, respectively, for the TT and TC/CC genotypes (p = 0.027). Stratified analysis showed the genotype effect was significant in patients receiving gemcitabine in combination with platinum therapy (n = 145): MST was 10.5 versus 14.1 months for the TT and TC/CC genotypes, respectively (p = 0.013). The 3' UTR xCT SNP rs7674870 may correlate with OS in pancreatic cancer patients receiving gemcitabine and platinum combination therapy. Paraffin-embedded core and surgical biopsy tumor specimens from 98 patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma were analyzed by immunohistochemistry using an xCT specific antibody. xCT protein IHC expression scores were analyzed in relation to overall survival in 86 patients and genotype in 12 patients and no statistically significant association was found between the level of xCT IHC expression score and overall survival (p = 0.514). When xCT expression was analyzed in terms of treatment response, no statistically significant associations could be determined (p = 0.908). These data suggest that polymorphic variants of xCT may have predictive value, and that the xc- transporter may represent an important target for therapy in pancreatic cancer.

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Dihua Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

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Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D.

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Liuqing Yang, Ph.D.

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Pierre D. McCrea, Ph.D.

Protein modifications of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) intracellular domain are well known regulators of EGFR functions whereas those of its extracellular domain remain relatively unexplored. Here, we report that methylation at R198 and R200 of EGFR extracellular domain by protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) upregulates its binding to EGF and subsequent receptor dimerization and signaling activation. Methylation-defective EGFR mutant reduced tumor growth in mouse orthotopic xenograft model. Importantly, increased EGFR methylation sustains its signaling activation and cell proliferation in the presence of therapeutic EGFR monoclonal antibody, cetuximab. EGFR methylation level also correlates with higher recurrence rate after cetuximab treatment and poorer overall survival in colorectal cancer patients. These data suggest that R198/R200 methylation plays important role in regulating EGFR functionality and resistance to cetuximab treatment.

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This study compares the reproductive potential of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) at artificial and natural habitats. Natural habitats are areas of vertical relief created from biogenic/geologic processes that are thought to be the historical centers of abundance for red snapper in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Red snapper were collected from 2011 to 2013 at three natural habitat sites and two artificial habitat oil and gas platform sites. The mean gonadosomatic indices (GSI), maturity at size and age, spawning indicators, batch fecundity, spawning frequency, and annual fecundity for red snapper at each habitat were analyzed to examine reproductive potential among sites and habitats. Results indicate red snapper on natural habitats exhibited higher mean GSI than those on artificial habitats during peak spawning season. Female red snapper on natural habitats showed 98% maturity, compared to 52% maturity of females on artificial habitats. These data support previous observation of demographic differences in red snapper reproduction between natural and artificial habitats. The differences observed may be due to red snapper at natural habitats being in better nutritional condition than red snapper on artificial habitats, thus allowing red snapper on natural habitats to invest more energy in reproduction and less energy towards rapid growth early in life.

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The launch of Amarok 2.1, five months after its previous version 2.0 was announced , the all-free multimedia player developed primarily for the KDE desktop. In addition to an updated look, some of the improvements in this new version include:

Improvements in play lists: More and better filters to create them, but the biggest change is in the very form of lists, where we see only the name of the song.

Context View: Amarok Context Browser lets us have all the information about a certain song or artist when you are playing this music, and now this interface allows for greater customization.

Bookmarks: It is a very useful feature for those who use podcasts or audio books. Amarok saves them automatically to the audio track

Amarok URLs: The idea is to combine services with other podcasts or songs in order to link directly to Amarok and share those links with ease. More and better integration with a service that has become sadly fee but still has millions of followers.

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  • On Dec 28, 2009
    Jennifer from MB Asked

    What is the most cost effective way for a family of 6 to visit Disney World? We would like to stay about 10 - 14 days.

    Like you, our family is not your typical family of four!  With six of us, we find ourselves on a budget for many of our trips, but the good news is that Disney has accommodations that fit any budget and family size.

    Your most economical accommodation is going to be two connecting rooms at a Value Resort like All-Star Movies or Pop Century.  Make sure that you request connecting rooms, not adjoining rooms, or you may not have a door between the rooms.

    Your next choice is a family suite at the All-Star Music resort.  These suites are the size of two regular rooms but have a separate bedroom, two baths and a kitchenette.  They sleep six with the sleeper sofa and chair and ottoman transfoming into beds much like a rollaway.  The kitchenette has a microwave and mini-refrigerator and can help you contain your costs for meal planning.  Be aware that these rooms book up well in advance.

    Another option you may want to consider is a cabin at Fort Wilderness.  They have a separate bedroom with a double bed and bunks and a Murphy bed in the living area.  What sets it apart from the family suites is its full-size kitchen.  You may find that cooking many of your meals, rather than eating them in the park, can help you afford the upgrade to the cabin.  It has a stovetop with oven along with a full-size frig and even a dishwasher.  You'll also find a grill on its deck.  You can have groceries delivered from if you're not planning on having your own car.

    If you need any more tips on vacationing with a family of six, feel free to come back and visit me via my bio page!  Wishing y'all a magical vacation!
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    The fastpass just opened today for December 6th and the Snow White and 7 Dwarfs ride is not available. How do they go so fast and how can I get a fastpass for it? This is our 3rd trip not being able to get on.

    Hi April,
    Thanks for joining us here at the Disney Parks Moms Panel! Don't despair! I'm here to help!! I have a few suggestions on how you may be able to score the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train as one of your FastPass+ selections.

    First, don't give up! You didn't get one today....keep trying!! I've had luck (especially with this particular attraction) when I make multiple attempts. I have tried several times a day, every day when I really want to score one of these precious FastPasses! Second, try making a reservation for one person in your party at a time and try to get time slots that overlap. Even an overlap of 5 or 10 minutes between all members of your party will work. Third, once you see that there is an open FastPass+ spot, take it (even if it's not at the time you'd like)! You can always try to readjust the time of your FastPass+ selection. If you can believe it, I was able to make a selection for myself only a week prior to my upcoming trip. Last, if you can't get this attraction as one of your FastPass+ selections, be there when the park opens and walk as fast as you can to this attraction. You may find that Extra Magic Hours (if they are possible for you) may also have shorter wait times.

    April, I wish you the best of luck!

    Best Wishes,
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I’ve grown up in Central Florida and have been visiting Disney Parks for over 30 years. Now that I’m a mom myself of a blended family with four kids, I love sharing Disney’s year-round special events with my family. Some of our favorite events are the Flower and Garden Festival, Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival and Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. Let me help you plan something extraordinary for your next Disney Parks vacation! Learn More About Amy

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    Hi! We are so excited to be visiting Disney World for the first time in Sept. We're going to be there for 5 days and I was wondering how much time I should plan to spend in each park. I want to be able to use time as effectively as I can. Thanks

    Hi Shefflan:

    Congratulations on your first trip to Disney World. With five days at Disney World, my basic default for time to spend at each park would be two days at the Magic Kingdom, one full day at Epcot, a day at Hollywood Studios and another day at Animal Kingdom. However, without knowing more about your party, such as ages and interests, its difficult to give a more precise time breakdown. For example, if your party may want to spend time at one of Disney Worlds Water Parks, you could swap out for a day a Magic Kingdom. Also, you may have party members who may want to need to take breaks back at the Resort mid-day and then return to the Parks in the late afternoon. But to give you a rough estimate, you can likely spend more time exploring Magic Kingdom and Epcot than Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom.

    I would pace yourself. There is no way to "see it all" at Walt Disney World in 5 days. Here are some of my family's must-dos: among many other things: at the Magic Kingdom, we always ride the Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan's Flight, Mickey's PhilharMagic, and it's a small world. At Epcot, we take in Spaceship Earth, Living with the Land, and tour the countries of World Showcase. Our must-dos at Hollywood Studios include Toy Story Mania and Muppet Vision 3-D. At Animal Kingdom, our family always rides the Kilimanjaro Safari and visits The Boneyard and Conservation Station. As you enter the parks, pick up a Times Guide for parades and show schedules throughout the day.

    Enjoy your vacation.
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  • On Aug 13, 2012
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    We are looking to go to WDW the later weeks of Nov 2013. We would like to do Mickeys verry merry xmas party. How do I find out the dates it will be avaliable?

    Hello Karen!

    I love that you're planning your 2013 holiday vacation already!  You're a lady after my own planning heart.  Dates for the 2013 Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party will be announced in late April/Early May of 2013.  The parties typically begin the first week of November and continue through to the week prior to Christmas.  The only time you won't typically see a party is during Thanksgiving week.

    Definitely set a reminder in your calendar to check out the Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party website next Spring to see the 2013 party dates.

    Please come back and see me again if you have any other questions, Karen.

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• On Jul 29, 2018
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    Hi. We are planning on visiting at the end of Oct. We want to take the kids to see the Illumination show at Epcot, but we heard they might be ending it. Do you know when it will end and will they still have a nighttime show/ffirework show? Thanks!

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    I'm so excited to hear that your family will be visiting the Walt Disney World Resort this October! With the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, and generally mild weather and crowd sizes, it's a great time to visit!

    After enjoying all of the fun attractions, delicious dining options, entertaining shows, and immersive cultural experiences that Epcot has to offer, IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth is a magical way to end your day! There have been no official announcements that this show will be ending, and it's currently listed daily on the calendar, so you should be able to plan on enjoying this show with your Mouseketeers. Of course, all show times are always subject to change, but for the best viewing opportunities, I'd plan on finding a waterfront spot along the World Showcase Lagoon between 30-60 minutes beforehand. Or did you know that you may use a FastPass+ selection to have a spot saved for you along Showcase Plaza?

    Along with IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, another Epcot nighttime family favorite of ours is to check out the twinkling sidewalks in the heart of Future World on our way out for the evening. The ground comes to life with the magic of glowing lights that you can't feel, but you can see. My kids find them mesmerizing and love dancing around with them!

    Thanks so much for visiting us at the Disney Parks Moms Panel, Richard, and please let us know if you have any other questions as you're planning your trip. I hope that you and your family have a truly magical vacation!

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