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Cane toads (Bufo marinus) were introduced to Australia in 1935 to aid sugar cane farmers in NE Australia. Their hope was that they would control a beetle that was damaging their crops. The cane toads had already been used successfully for this purpose in the Hawaiian Islands. At the time, cane toads were considered less destructive than pesticides and were seen as a "natural" form of pest control. But Australia isn't Hawaii. Hawaii is a much smaller contained environment compared to Australia, and Australia didn't have any native toad species at all. When the cane toads were introduced well…things didn't go that well.
Since their introduction and spread in Australia, cane toads have become a classic example of a runaway invasive species and caused great damage in Australia. But along with all the carnage, they have also provided valuable information. At first, the cane toads spread out from their initial location at a rate of 10 km per year, but scientists noted that this rate was consistently increasing until today it stands around 50 km per year. This unexpected occurrence raised the question of, "How was this happening?" Scientists looked at toads from both extremes of their range and found something interesting. The toads at the advancing edge of the population looked and behaved differently than the toads from Northern Queensland, where they were initially introduced. The advance toads have longer legs, jump farther, jump in a straight line more frequently, and have greater endurance than toads from Northern Queensland. Scientists realized that as the population spread, toads that had characteristics (like jumping farther) that allowed them to travel farther began to pull away from the rest of the population. When it came time to breed, the leading edge toads bred with each other, increasing the frequency of the characteristics that had placed them at the leading edge (it is important to note here that the characteristics for leg size, hopping characteristics, and endurance are from different genes, so there is more than one way for a toad to be at the advancing edge). They realized toads in the population were starting to differentiate from each other and that gene frequencies were changing within the population. They realized they were witnessing what might be an unappreciated mechanism of evolution.
Natural selection says gene frequency changes within a population based on breeding success. Those individuals who are more successful breeders leave more offspring and more copies of their genes in the next generation. In this way, gene frequencies in populations change through time and evolution can occur. What scientists were seeing with the cane toad was different. The gene frequency was changing in the population, but it did not change through reproductive success through time; it was changing because the population was spatially spreading out and certain traits determined who were the best dispersers. They were seeing an evolutionary mechanism acting through space instead of through time. They call this phenomena "spatial sorting."
So are there now two species of cane toads in Australia? Well the short answer is no. The populations are still connected, and they can still interbreed. But members of the population are becoming increasingly different and will probably continue to do so as long as cane toads can continue to advance into unoccupied territory. The question of species will have to wait until the toads run out of new territory. At that point, if something has happened to prevent gene flow throughout the population, then we will be looking at a new species. But if there is still gene flow throughout the population at the time their advance stops, then the slow jumpers will eventually catch up with the fast jumpers, and the gene frequency in the population will start to move back to its original point. This is because if they are in the same location, the slow dispersers have higher reproductive success than the fast dispersers, so the slow disperser genes will increase in frequency in the population while the fast disperser genes decline in frequency. If that does happen, we will wind up with only one species of cane toad, which will probably be very similar to the one that originally arrived in Australia.
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- What other characteristics can you think of that make an organism a good disperser?
- How many of the characteristics you came up with in question #1 are genetically based?
- Why is it important that more than one gene is involved in determining how far a cane toad disperses in its lifetime?
- Do you think the definition of natural selection should be changed to include spatial sorting?
- http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/wild/shows Youtube by NatGeoWild
- http://www.nasw.org/users/mslong/2011/2011_03/SpatialSorting.htm
- http://www.pnas.org/content/108/14/5708.full


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Senate rivals banded together on immigration, but hurdles remain
WASHINGTON — On the Saturday morning after 7 in 10 Latino voters helped return President Obama to the White House and deliver a crushing defeat to Mitt Romney, Charles E. Schumer, the Democratic senator from New York, scanned his daily list of phone messages and saw that Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, had called.
Schumer dialed his number. "I saw your name on my call list, and my heart skipped a beat," he said.
"We're getting the band back together," Graham replied. "Let's do immigration."
Graham sounded buoyant, Schumer said, recalling the conversation. And Graham had more news: "McCain wants in."
Schumer said his "heart went pitter-patter" when he heard Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, wanted to help broker a deal. "That meant we could get something done," he said.
Schumer and Graham had been through a lot together on immigration. They had worked with McCain on comprehensive bills in 2006 and 2007 that failed. But more recently, a push to craft another bill in 2010 never saw light, in part because McCain, who faced a tense primary challenge, spurned it.
But now, another election made it seem possible again.
What unfolded over the next 12 weeks shows just how much the political landscape has shifted on immigration, but it also reveals that significant hurdles remain. The account of how the group reached this point was related in interviews with three senators involved in the talks and more than a dozen congressional and White House aides, as well as public comments made by senators.
Republican senators, stung by the party's dismal performance with Latino voters, pushed to accelerate the work. But as the proposal solidified, one conservative senator in the group decided he could not support it, suggesting how difficult it would be to draft a plan that appealed to the right. Democrats, meanwhile, negotiated a delicate dance — trying to deliver Obama's top legislative priority for his second term while keeping him at a distance so as not to scare away GOP fence-sitters.
The senators created a five-page blueprint, but they must still write a bill hundreds of pages long filled with details that will be intensely scrutinized by lawmakers and activists on the left and the right.
Schumer and Graham spoke to senators who might be interested and arranged to meet on Dec. 4 in a stately ceremonial room in the Capitol with a dramatic view of the Washington Monument.
Schumer came with Democratic Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois. Graham and McCain brought fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
The group set an ambitious goal: to write a bill that could win support from the left-leaning Congressional Hispanic Caucus plus enough Republicans to pass the Senate by a wide margin.
It was clear to the senators that one voice could prove crucial to their hope to sell a plan to conservatives: Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and Cuban-American with conservative credentials, who could become a champion untainted by past scars over immigration.
Soon after that meeting, Durbin was in the Senate gym and spotted Rubio pedaling a stationary bike.
The two were consistently among the earliest to arrive, often showing up at 5:30 a.m., and had become friendly. Both see immigration as a humanitarian issue. Durbin is a descendant of Irish and Eastern European immigrants; Rubio's parents left Cuba for a better life in Florida in 1956.
"Marco, you got to be there," Durbin said. "I want you there because of your position in the party."
There was a catch: Rubio, like all senators in the group, had to agree that any bill would create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and would emphasize family unification.
"Are you willing to accept these two things?" Durbin asked.
"Yes," Rubio said. "Of course, I want to talk about how it's done."
Rubio had his own conditions: to ramp up border security first and make sure illegal immigrants go to the back of the line when applying for legal permanent residency, among other things.
Durbin called Schumer: Rubio was in.
"I have gotten more done in the Senate gym than almost any room in the Capitol complex," said Durbin, who described the encounter while in his Capitol office, where he keeps a copy of his Lithuanian mother's naturalization paper framed behind glass with the receipt for the fee she paid: $2.50.
As Rubio came on board, Lee stepped aside. He didn't agree with the emerging consensus on the pathway to legal status and the proposal to give agricultural workers a faster path to citizenship.
Rubio attended the second meeting on Dec. 12. The session was especially productive, as the senators homed in on a set of shared principles. Staff members were asked to clear up some technical questions.
When the senators made plans to meet in the days ahead, McCain objected.
"Why can't we meet tomorrow?" McCain said. "Have the staff do it tonight."
It was a sign not only of eagerness among the Republicans to reach a deal, but also of the awareness that the political window opened by the election could slam shut.
The senators met six times. At the sixth meeting, they agreed to a list of accepted principles that they would make public before their self-imposed Feb. 1 deadline. But the next day, Thursday, Jan. 24, news leaked that Obama would deliver a major speech on immigration on Jan. 29.
The Republican senators worried that Obama would stake out territory that would alienate their party. Neither Democrats nor Republicans in the group had much, if any, contact with the administration. The White House was skeptical that the senators could reach accord, they believed, and the group did not know whether the president was preparing to unveil his own proposal.
The next day, Friday, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met with Obama at the White House. They warned that he could jeopardize GOP support for negotiations under way in the House and Senate.
Obama was noncommittal, congressional and White House aides said.
The Senate staff raced through the weekend to write up the principles that the six senators had agreed on. Two more senators — a Republican and a Democrat — came on board. And the group shifted gears, planning to unveil the package on Monday, the day before the president's speech.
On Sunday night, Durbin was at a birthday party in Springfield, Ill. He'd had a glass of wine and was thankful he hadn't had more after he found out he needed to join a conference call that was being set up with Schumer and the president.
Durbin and Schumer, who was in New York, told Obama they had decided to announce their proposals on Monday and were optimistic they could turn them into legislation by March.
"I don't care that you go first; it doesn't bother me," Obama told the senators, as Durbin recalled the conversation. "I'm going to come out with my principles. And I'm also going to put the heat on you to do something. I don't want this to drag on. I want you to do something."
Obama told the senators he had a bill ready to send to Congress, but he assured them he would stand down. But if they didn't act, he promised, he would send his bill to Congress.
Good, the senators agreed; political pressure would help.
On Tuesday evening, after Obama gave his speech at a high school in Las Vegas, the senators met again, arrayed on couches and overstuffed chairs in McCain's office suite.
McCain came in, and cheerfully said, "Well, that wasn't so bad."

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This article originally appeared in the February 27, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
At Boston University, spring is the time for first-year medical students to put their textbook learning to the test. Each week, students break up into groups of three and attend three-hour labs in which a professor straps a rabbit to a table, anesthetizes it, cuts it open, and shows the students how various medicinal injections affect the animal's heart rate and blood pressure. When the lab is over, the animals are killed.
This type of lab has been offered at BU since 1970; this year, 120 of the 200 first-year students participated in the optional experiments. What the students are supposed to walk away with is a clearer perception of the way a human's organs might function under the influence of medications like dopamine and epinephrine. "It's all for the sake of science," says Dr. Benjamin Kaminer, chairman of the medical school's physiology department.
But some students leave the room feeling that they have done a cruel and unnecessary thing. And although the labs are not required (those who opt out can "learn what they need to know from books and drawings," says Kaminer), some students say that their peers and professors seem to expect them to take part.
"I had a rabbit as a pet when I was young, and he didn't look as healthy as the ones I see cut open and killed in the animal labs," says one second-year medical student, who says he attended the labs last year because he saw professors become hostile to students who asked what the alternatives were.
Until about a decade and a half ago, this kind of experimentation on live, healthy animals — usually dogs, pigs, or rabbits — was just part of learning to be a doctor. But today, medical schools are finding ways to avoid these senseless deaths. Many students are learning in new ways: by observing real-life operations on humans, for example, and by using sophisticated interactive computer programs. In Massachusetts, according to the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), only one medical school has refused to adopt the new techniques: Boston University's.
"Live-animal labs are a relic of the past that sends a message to medical students that lives are disposable," says Dr. Neal Barnard, founder and president of PCRM. The group, a nonprofit organization founded in 1985, has sent Kaminer an instructional video on alternative teaching techniques and has taken out an ad in BU's newspaper, the Daily Free Press, calling for "medical education without the pitter-patter of little feet."
But Kaminer says the animal labs are crucial because they put what students learn from textbooks and drawings in perspective — and allow would-be doctors to observe the organs functioning as a unified system.
"When you limit a student's education to particular procedures, such as cardiac bypasses, the student is not getting a proper grasp of what reality is in the world of medicine," says Kaminer. "No one can tell me that 300 years of scientific development using animals is unproductive."
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Private Berlin is another James Patterson, Mark Sullivan novel. This one takes place in place in Germany, bet you could tell that from the title. This mystery revolves around six children who were in an orphanage pre the Berlin wall coming down. Chris, who works for Private in the Berlin branch, see where they cleverly got the name for the book, goes missing. As Mattie and the rest of Private try to find out what happened to Chris they find that it is about these six children now grown up and getting murdered. They are one step behind this mystery man who calls himself the invisible man. Some of the chapters have us following Private and some of the chapters are told by the murderer. We learn that this man likes masks and has many disguises which make it hard to find him. Everyone they talk with describes him differently but he does make a unique clicking noise in his throat when he gets excited. Most of the book has us with the murderer, describing how he gets access to an apartment and kills his victim and then we flip and follow Private on his trail and discovering the aftermath. I don't want to give too many details as this is a who could this be type novel. Enough people do get killed, usually with a screw driver to the neck and there is enough hot on the trail to keep you interested. They also dredge up the past atrocities that occurred behind the Berlin wall as this excerpt shows "They used torture and execution at Hoshenschonhausen Prison to make family members testify against one another. Starvation, sleep deprivation, mock drowning" I did find it a little difficult with some of the German names and was glad to be reading to myself and not having to read out loud and trying to pronounce these words.
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Today I woke up and my foot barely hurts anymore!!!!! I decide I won't use the cane today. I'm feeling great and we're ready for some adventure.
Our plan is to get some fresh milk at a small business called ''Island Fresh Milk'' then head to Cambughay Falls. We see the sign for the milk place and turn off the main road, we are going and going and going and don't see it at all. So we just drive and take in the life around us. We end up on a small road that goes through some farm villages then drops down to the coast. We stop at a place called Lazi Beach Club and the woman there feeds us chicken and mango soup. She wont let us leave until we see their cottages and promise to stay when we come back to Siquijor. She even gives me a handmade bag with their name stitched on it ''for souvenir and promotion''.
We finally make it back to the main road and find our way to the falls. It's about 50 stone-laid steps down to the first lagoon then goes up into 2 or 3 more sections of falls each with little pools for swimming. In the biggest one there are a bunch of local kids jumping off the top, doing dives and flips and showing off for our camera. The water is so turquoise and clear.
On our way back we drive by a huge Banyan tree (here it's called a Balete tree) that is over a century old.
We see a different turn off for the milk place and find it right away (the first turn we tried failed to tell us to make a second turn). It's closed, of course, but soon enough a girl comes out from across the street and let's us in. We buy a liter of cold milk and it is amazing (if you like milk like I do)!! We bought plain milk, but they also have mango, melon, chocolate, and something purple.


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Nine Things to Do with Kids On a Snowy Weekend
So you're snowed in, snowed out, snowed under. The kids have been out of school for a couple days now, and you're facing a long Presidents Day weekend at home. You've maybe seen "The Lego Movie" once and "Frozen" twice and the TV has been blaring far too long. What do you do next?
Here are nine ideas on how to occupy the kids–and maybe entertain yourself–on a snowy weekend.
1) Turn off the screens: That's right, turn them all off. Even the iPhones. The kids will complain, they may even mount a protest or a revolution and microwave you in effigy. But it'll be okay. Get every one a book–including one for you and your significant other–and sit down and read. Tell everyone if you do it for an hour, you can go back to the screens. After about 30 minutes or so, everyone will be lost in their books.
2) Turn on an audio book: For 10-14 year olds, R. J. Palacio's "Wonder" is a good one, or S. E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," or Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." If you don't have an audio book CD around, download something good from iTunes. TV just beams pictures into kids' brains–audio books make them work to conjure up their own images, and they'll learn how to pronounce a few new words too. I've found my 11-year-old son will listen to audiobooks for hours.
3) Draw. Get out some pens and pencils and and paint and paper and do some artwork. Let the kids draw what they want–sneakers and houses and neighbors and each other. Let them put on an art show and explain their work when they're all done. My 8-year-old daughter loves this one.
4) Break out the Boardgames: You'd be surprised how much fun kids actually have playing chess and Monopoly and virtually any old-school game you have on hand. It's much more of a family and cerebral experience than playing video games. I'll admit I don't do this one as often as I should.
5) Go to the Gym: If you have access to a gym, take the kids. After an hour of playing around at the local college or YMCA, they're going to be much more settled down when you bring them back to the house. We did this just the other day and it was a hit.
6) Watch a Hayao Miyazaki movie: The recently retired Miyazaki is one of the greatest animators ever but he's still little known in the U.S. Make that work for you. Show your older tweens "Castle in the Sky," "Howl's Moving Castle," "Spirited Away" or "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"; let the younger kids see "My Neighbor Totoro," "Ponyo" or, one of my favorites, "Kiki's Delivery Service." All of these films can be enjoyed by all ages–including you. And if you don't have access to any Miyazaki films, here's a fallback–download the animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender." (Skip the live action movie made from the same material).
7) Bake: Okay, I'm not good at this one, but my wife and our neighbor's daughters have had loads of fun with my kids getting them to bake things like brownies from scratch. Kids love the process and everyone loves the results. You might want to do 5) when you're all done eating.
8) Play video games: That's right, I said it. Don't let the world of video games be a completely foreign experience. Find out what the kids are playing and join in. If you don't get it, that's okay. Sometimes kids are happy just to have everyone in the same room. And you should know what's in the games your kids have been spending so much time exploring.
9) Invite over friends: Being snowed it turns into a party when you have friends over. Don't suffer in the house alone if you can help it. Schedule a playdate (if your kids are still young enough for you to call it that). Watching a kid play with friend is far less taxing than trying to entertain the child yourself.
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Local Kombat, December 7: Romania's Upcoming Talent
- Written by Rian Scalia
Local Kombat, powered by SuperKombat, will hold an event on December 7 in Romania, where Romania's upcoming talent, scattered over all weight classes is featured. The stars of SuperKombat aren't on the card, they'll be on December 22, but Local Kombat is to build talent for SuperKombat.
At 64kg, a WAKO Pro title will be on the line as popular Romanian fighter who's been featured on SuperKombat before, Ionut Atodiresei, fights Aitor Eguzkiza from Spain. Atodiresei is coming off a win over Sasa Jovanovic at SuperKombat's Bodyguard Final in June in front of 15 000 fans in Craiova.
Five Local Kombat national titles will be on the line, featuring some of Romania's best and up and coming talent at other weight classes.
As well, there's also two super fights. Philippe Salmon of France fights Romania's Adrian Mitu, who fought for SuperKombat in October and was in a very good fight. At 75kg, Miodrag Olar, who fought Mitu at that October fight, takes on Yasin El Hana, also from France.
1. Local Kombat National Title (-60 kg)
Marius Grăunte vs Florin Lupu
2. Local Kombat National Title (-69 kg)
Amansio Paraschiv vs Alin Şpan
3. Local Kombat National Title (-72 kg)
Cristian Milea vs Claudiu Bădoi
4. Local Kombat National Title (-85 kg)
Cristian Ristea vs Alexandru Nedelcu
5. Local Kombat National Title (-95 kg)
Dănuţ Hurduc vs Gabriel Flutur
6. MMA (+96 kg)
Zsolt Balla vs Adrian Stoiţi
7. Super-fight (-75 kg)
Phillipe Salmon (France) vs Adrian Mitu (Romania)
8. Super-fight (-72,5 kg)
Yasin El Hana (France) vs Miodrag Olar (Romania)
9. WAKO Pro World Title (-64 kg)
Ionuţ Atodiresei (Romania) vs Aitor Eguzkiza (Spain)
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Easels Put Ideas and Artistry on Display
Easels are all about display. In the office environment, easels that adjust for tilt and height allow you to direct your message with optimal visibility. Rolling classroom easels come with storage bins to hold school supplies. For the artist, an adjustable easel holds the canvas at a comfortable painting level.
Easels in the Boardroom Give Presentations a Punch
Drum up support, engage your team and add dimension to a dry presentation by making your pitch on a boardroom easel. Large whiteboard easels have enough display area to provide visibility for everyone in the boardroom, and small tabletop easels work well for one-on-one proposal meetings. For conferences and trade shows, use a set of paperboard easels to scatter displays around the presentation area.
Classroom Easels as Teaching Assistants
Learning center easels have what it takes to help teachers in the classroom. Dry-erase boards provide the ideal space for real-time written lessons, and accessory trays keep markers and erasers close at hand. Hooks hold flip-board nursery books in place and give kids a good view in the story-time circle. After class, it's easy to roll away the learning center easel for a lesson in the next classroom.
Easels for Creating and Displaying Art
Make sure your art supply store is stocked with a wide variety of easels to give artists, teachers and gallery owners plenty of choices. A wooden easel is a good option for painting in the artist's studio, but for an out-of-town course in plein air painting, an easel that collapses to fit in a suitcase is a more versatile choice. Tripod easels are perfect for displaying pieces in temporary exhibits in galleries or traveling shows.


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since you asked; i'm a member of Shoreline and Yankee Waterfowlers. i do the equipment manager/bird steward job at the Yankee tests
i judge and run AKC, HRC and NAHRA tests and have judged a few AKC FT's, last year to the tune of 11 weekends.
i have chaired many tests for all 3 orgs in both clubs over the last 20 years and been test secretary for 2 (never again-HORRIBLE job! hat's off to anyone that takes that on). i have marshaled the Derby for Shoreline the last 2 years. i am test chairman for our Nahra test this year and have 6 judging assignments so far.
i'm not bragging either. some folks do more, i'm sure.
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The following is something I have on Pressure and has retriever training examples.
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Note:There is a phantom smilie half-way down that I can't get rid of-is somebody trying to tell me something? I also lost all my italics and underlines- I think it's tiime to go training!
The behaviour of a dog is changed (increased or decreased) when rewards or aversives are added or taken away. For our retrievers, rewards are birds, praise, food, comfort and anything that makes them feel good. Aversives are scoldings, swats, e-collar nicks, cold water, briers and anything that makes them feel bad. Both are powerful so why do we dwell on the aversive? Think about that!
Pressure is an aversive. It can be mental stress or physical pain. It can be so strong it can overwhelm clear, thoughtful responses or it can be so weak, it is barely detected. In both cases the effects of pressure can accumulate over time to have a bigger effect. One effect is to condition the dog to withstand more or ignore-that is why nagging is so ineffective.
Rex Carr said the pressure of the correction must exceed the pressure of the cause. Example: The correction for creeping must be stronger than the reward of getting the bird. Unfortunately, when we do use extreme pressure in training not only can it be inhumane BUT we invariably have bad side-effects such as poor marking, poor attitude, loss of style, no-goes, bugging, popping. Direct pressure is powerful and widely used in Basics where we have a clean controlled situation. Back nick and Sit:stick and Fetchinch are examples of Direct pressure.
Rex and some other early retriever trainers discovered a method of using pressure that had fewer side-effects. It is called Indirect pressure a term which is not normally used by learning scientists or behaviourists. In retriever training we use Indirect Pressure to either increase a desired behaviour or decrease and undesired behaviour. The pressure is applied directly on some well-known and understood behaviour. This has an Indirect effect on the behaviour we want to change but because it is applied on something previously well reinforced and understood there are usually fewer side-effects. Indirect pressure acts like starting a new chain of behaviours. It's like putting Johnny back in school! It gets their attention
Example 1. Dog prone to creep and be on it's own at the line. Trainer has an obedience session on sit, here and heel using corrections until dog is soldier-like and thoughtful and paying attention. This Direct Pressure carries over Indirectly to pay attention at the line.
Example 2. Dog prone to slip whisles and go out of control on blind. Trainer takes dog back to swim-by pond or pilework and forces dog on back, reinforces sits and "here"s. This Direct pressure has an Indirect pressure affect on dog's behaviours during the next cold blind.
Example 3. Dog doesn't take cast given-scallops back when an angle cast is given. Trainer stops dog with sit whistle and gives a nick with e-collar and repeats cast. The Direct pressure on the sit has an Indirect Pressure effect on the dog who now takes the angle cast more accurately.
This latter example is the most commonly used example of Indirect pressure by retriever trainers. It uses negative reinforcement on the sit to improve casting. The dog has learned to sit quickly because the nick is removed after the whistle if he sits quickly. Note: We have learned that dogs understand this sequence and respond well even when we are slow and the nick is delayed (this can become positive punishment if the sit becomes slower).
Like it or not, the mainstay of much of today's retriever training is the use of pressure. Much behaviour is shaped by using pressure even though wise use of praise coupled with pressure is very effective. Shaping is gradually reinforcing actions towards a desired behaviour. Example: think about a loopy sit gradually being shaped to a sharper and sharper quick sit on the whistle. You can use praise and an aversive to help the dog understand when he is doing better or not.
Take Home Lesson: All of this "learning" and all of the principles of learning theory are happening constantly while we train whether we can label it or not. Fortunately, you don't need to understand the labels to use them. What you do have to understand is the following.
The dog's behaviour at the instant that he gets praise or an aversive is the behaviour that is increased or decreased. You may be thinking four behaviours behind or ahead (dreaming of the ribbon) but the dog is simply reacting to the here and now! This why we always hear that timing when using the e-collar is so important. But this doesn't mean that you have to be fast necessarily. It means that you have to be applying pressure or praise to the behaviour that is occurring not to some anticipated behaviour or to some older behaviour. Reading your dog is all about understanding and reacting the instant your dog is making a decision. What behaviour is in your dog's mind?-that is what you are influencing.
So with all this Science,
"Reading your dog involves a lot of art"


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(HRCH UH CH Cursans Plan-O-Bud SH OFA/CERF x Caroway's Tasha WD OFA/CERF). Neg brucellosis required. JoAnn Stancer, N8767 Larson Rd., Cambria, WI 53923 608-429-9098 E-mail: email@example.com
HR SAND SPRING NORM OF CAROWAY MH WDQ, call name "Norman" started his career in AKC hunt test trials on May 25, 2001. He was only six months old (the youngest in his class) when he competed and passed! Norman received the first of four legs towards his JH title. During the summer of 2001 Norman finished his obedience classes and competed in four more JH tests. September 2, 2001, in Madison, WI, Norman received his Junior Hunter title at the age of 10 months! In the fall after the hunt test competitions Norman hunted upland game and waterfowl with John and I. On April 4, 2004 Norman was sent to Mike Lambrecht of Woodland Bay Chesapeake's, a professional trainer, and after only eleven weeks, he passed his first Senior Hunt test. He was very quick to catch on and loved to train and compete. That summer Norman ran and passed four of five Senior Hunt tests. He was awarded his title at the end of August, 2004 again in Madison, WI. At this competition Norman landed his last blind retrieve without any help from Mike. What a way to end his Senior Hunter work! Norman went on to start competing for his Master Hunter title. In the summer of 2005 Norman passed two Master Hunter tests, as well as two UKC finished tests. Norman went back to Mike in 2006 for more training and passed two more Master Hunter tests. He also competed in UKC hunt test events and received his HR title as well as passing two finished events for a total of 75 out of 100 points needed for UKC HRCH title. On May 27, 2007 Norman completed his Master Hunter title.
When Norman is not in training or competing in hunt tests he is running around on our 70 acre farm with our two other Chesapeake's (one of which is his daughter). He has his own pen of ducks and pheasants to play with when we want to get some training in. Norman has proven that he is able to adapt to unique situations, from being at our house one day to staying at the trainers the next, riding on the back of our 4-wheeler through the marsh, sitting in the canoe when duck hunting and riding in the front of the boat while hunting on the lakes. When Norman isn?t hunting or playing outside he is inside curling up on our bed for a good nights rest so he can get up and do it all over again! Norman has many great qualities, besides coming from show and field trial lines and proving himself with his own titles to being a loving family dog and faithful companion. This is why we decided to start SAND SPRING CHESAPEAKES and use him as a stud dog to contribute to the wonderful breed of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
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Spokane police shut down Knitting Factory
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane Police Department has temporarily shut down the Knitting Factory in the wake of two separate shootings that injured four people early Monday morning.
Police have responded to four shootings at the Knitting Factory in the last year, including Monday morning's shooting. Police report that just after 2 a.m., two people were shot at the Knitting Factory, where a private party was held Sunday evening. Then, just before 3 a.m. Monday, two more people were shot near Maple Street and Nora Avenue in Northwest Spokane.
The Knitting Factory says they are working with the Police Department and plan to cancel Friday's event as a "cooling off" gesture.Spokane police shut down Knitting Factory
"The actions of a very, very few people—and incidents like this—tarnish by extension the reputations of venues like ours. This Knitting Factory and its predecessors have operated a concert venue at this location for nearly ten years. Over one million patrons have safely enjoyed world-class entertainment at our venue over years of operation," Greg Marchant, Knitting Factory COO, wrote in that statement.
"We've spoken to Police Chief Straub and Mayor Condon's offices to offer our support in the investigation and to redouble our commitment to the safety of our artists and guests. We hope for a speedy recovery to all involved and to justice for the alleged perpetrators. We are looking forward to continuing our cultural contributions to the Downtown Arts District at the highest level of quality," Marchant added.
Scratch Restaurant and Rain Lounge are located near the Knitting Factory. General Manager Steve Kessler says he's not worried about the incident hurting business at his two restaurants.
"I don't think it will affect us as much necessary in the short term, it's definitely going to put a lot of people up in arms about shows," Kessler said.
Police report crime so far this year is down 10.5-percent in the downtown area, and Straub said it is community involvement that will keep those numbers going down.


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I spent a good deal of Saturday reconnecting with cousins on Facebook.
Forget the games and surveys! I've found FB to be a good resource to track down family and friends who have dropped off the radar (or am I the one who dropped off the radar?) and to re-establish a dialog after too many years.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Woke up early to go to a cross country meet in the Land of Lincoln. Other then the usal eating, reading and some tv watching that was my Saturday.
Spent a good portion of it sleeping. I'm a bit under with weather with sinus problems in general and vertigo in specific. No fun having the world spin around. I'll be happy when the ear pressure equalizes....then the world will stabilize.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Did the open race at my old high school's annual invitational cross country meet. Ran 62 seconds faster than last year, and my best time there since 2004.
Helped mom set up for another community yard sale (she didn't sell as much this month, and it was hotter and less cloudy; bummer ), then on my way to a writing meeting in Riverside (oddly, it was cooler there than back home, and that part of the area is almost always hotter). Watched football on the televisor, plus some Comedy Central shows (new Jeff Dunham again, Weird Al's). Did a little (the easy stuff) grading and planning. Had a local pizza place as dinner (their pizza, not the store itself ).
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
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Kotobukiya Vader centerpiece
Aunt Beru's blue milk punch
Trash compactor cake by Laura Blake
Character cookies
Two of the Death Star pizzas
We usually have a statue of Buddha sitting here, but Yoda subbed quite nicely!
Corky the Very Special Bantha and Willie Wampa and their friends
Cool, nice work there JP! #wonderifI'llgetaninvitetothenextparty?
As for myself, ran, went to a cross country meet with my team, watched the Brewer and Badger victories and prepared for Sundays Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon (which I ran).
Thanks, man!! I invited everyone who was local. Everyone else had a virtual invite and I wish they really could've come. It was crazy fun.


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The Pirelli, 'Autostrade per l'Italia' and 'Telepass' presented on 16 June 2010 the summer highway safety campaign, "Safe&Go", with Italy's Minister of Infrastructure and Transport.
The prevention and awareness campaign is aimed at all drivers who use the Autostrade per l'Italia network with the objective of making the holiday period safer for everyone. The project will begin on the weekend of 19-20 June and end on the weekend of 28-29 August.
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|Art of Casting Analysis, refinement of the cast
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Sounds good Jim!
If you troll with flies is it still considered FLYfishing?
I'm hoping to do some more run&gun now that I have replaced my intermediate. The sinker just didn't cut it at high speed.
When you used the word "fatigue" you reminded me of another issue I have which is that casting and fighting fish for 12 hours without a break is taking it's toll on my aged body. As I approach the half century mark I'm gonna have to consider cutting back some.
NAAAH! That'll never happen. I'll just save my pennies and get a new rod!
Don't worry Mike come boneclave, jump on with me for a day and we'll troll.
If it is fatigue I'm willing to bet it's not casting that did it in but those cows you catch.
Worst case we break it up into pieces and send it back to Sage. My T & T is unfortunately not going to make the clave, broke the tip high stickin' again. I was just landing a damn schoolie too.
I do have a spare 10wt. I'll bring along if you want to try that with your line.
|I wish I had the problem with albies stretching out my new line!!!! Obviously you got the fly where it needed to be, when it needed to be there and the fly looked good!!! You also might experiment with leaving a little of the head "on the rod" and see if that works. The idea of swapping rods with a fishing partner, especially if you both cast about the same, might give you an idea whether it is operator or equipment malfunction.
I regret not asking to try one of the rods my buddy had on board that day. At that time it didn't occur to me it was the rod.
Either that or given him my rod to try. Truthfully I was too ready to accept that it was my shortcoming and never thought of the gear.
I like the theory that the lines have changed over the years. Makes perfect sense. Too bad the albies and big blues stretched out that new line today. Maybe I coulda exchanged it for a 9 weight.
The fishing fund is expended for this season so I'll have to live with the gear I got for now. Actually, that's what I said last year, and the year before and the year before...
Sheesh! I gotta start puttin some of these kids to work!
A number of years ago, my partner and I purchased a half dozen top quality freshwater spinning rods. After one year of hard fishing we noticed that all of the blanks had fatigued considerably. We did not notice it casting as much as fish turning and control capability.
Also, run & gun boat fishing can certainly throw you off kilter abit. If you are used to fishing on foot and you don't wait till the boat stops to cast it can certainly throw slack into your shore stroke. Adjustments can be made for the residual boat motion, but it is certainly a different stroke than a shore stroke. Wind direction and required casting direction is also more variable on a boat.
Try someone elses rod and see if you stroke comes back for starters.
Wore Out?
I am nothing more than, at best, an advanced beginner, in the art of fly casting but I suppose anything is possible. There may be some breakdown in the fibres in the rod. I wonder though, have you tried casting a 9wt line on it? There has been so much "improvements" (so say the mfgr's) in lines in the past 3 yrs that you may find the rod handles todays 9wt line like it did "yesterdays" 10 wt. Many head lengths, of WT Fwd lines, have changed, to deal with the "faster" rods of today. If you still have an old line that you felt comfortable with, try grass casting it and then try new line...just a thought. Sounds as if you are in the market for a new rod, so justify it by declaring the old rod an antique, ready to be relagated to the corner of the closet!
I'm starting to think I wore my rod out!
No wise cracks please!
Seriously, I've been struggling for awhile with what seems to be declining casting ability. It seems I have developed bad casting habits somehow and I actually cast more like a beginner now than when I was a beginner [a looong time ago]. Lack of distance, trailing loops, wind knots, casts that just pile up in a heap all make for frustrating effort.
Today it occured to me that maybe it's not all my fault. I throw a nine weight Sage which is over ten years old. I don't remember what model it is and the writting is faded on the blank. When I bought it, I was told that it would throw better if I went up a line size from the rating. That seemed to be true and I have always bought ten weight lines ever scince. For a long time that was fine. Then I started developing casting issues. I have mostly just limped along and lived with it. I got away with it because so much of my fishing is close range. A recent embarassing experience running & gunning tunoids from a boat brought it to the fore front however.
Anyway, today I was throwing a brand new line, a ten weight, and having some difficulties. I started thinking the rod was being overloaded which got me thinking maybe the rod is getting played out.
Is that possible? Do rods decline over time? anyone ever encounter this?
I know I do have casting issues I need to address but now I'm wondering if there's more to the story. Any opinions?
Also, can anyone refer me to a book or website that might give me some help with my casting problems?
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Peptides are short sequences of amino acids. Amino acids are also the building block of proteins, but proteins consist of much longer sequences of amino acids, usually fifty or more. Peptides are much shorter in length, as little as two or three amino acids linked together. Peptides are found naturally in the human body where they serve a variety of functions. Some peptides alter bodily functions by serving as hormones while others act as signaling molecules, allowing cells to communicate with one another. Peptides are also increasingly being used in cosmetic and skin care products for their skin anti-aging benefits.
Peptides act as signaling molecules in skin just as they do in other parts of the body. One type of peptide called palmitoyl oligopeptide signals cells in the dermis of the skin called fibroblasts to produce collagen. Collagen is the primary protein that gives skin its support and youthful firmness. Collagen levels decline with age and with sun exposure, and this accounts for the loss of firmness and skin wrinkling that appears as people age. Palmitoyl oligopeptide also appears to increase the amount of hyaluronic acid in skin so that skin retains more water. That's why palmitoyl oligopeptide is an ingredient in some moisturizers and anti-aging products formulated for more mature skin.
Boosting collagen production isn't the only skin care benefit that peptides have. Some types of skin peptides called neuropeptides have benefits similar to Botox, an injectable protein used to treat dynamic wrinkles, those which are visible with facial movement, by relaxing the underlying muscles involved in forming the wrinkles. The problem with Botox is it has to be injected underneath the skin by a professional to have benefits, and this can be expensive. A neuropeptide called argireline appears to be absorbed through the skin where it reaches the muscle and exerts a Botox-like effect on the muscle. This reduces the appearance of dynamic lines and wrinkles, creating a more youthful-looking face without the requirement for needles or injections. Argireline is currently available in some wrinkle creams.
Some of the oldest skin peptides are copper peptides. Copper peptides consist of a peptide with a copper molecule attached. Peptides are short sequences of amino acids and are therefore small in size. This means they can easily penetrate the skin and carry copper along with it. Copper peptides have several benefits when they reach the dermal layer of the skin. They promote wound healing, act as antioxidants, reduce inflammation and stimulate the production of collagen. Delivering antioxidants to the dermis may help to offset damage due to sun exposure and increased collagen production increases skin firmness and reduces the appearance of lines and wrinkles. Copper peptides can be found in facial moisturizers, eye creams and other anti-aging products.


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Passionate about the environment? Tour Israel's nature reserves, learn about farming in harsh conditions and visit sustainable-agriculture communities
Leave Jerusalem and drive to the Dead Sea. Stop at Qumran and view the archaeological remains of the community that once lived here, The Essenes, according to ancient records, were excellent farmers, spending their free time studying the Bible and meditating.
Proceed to the Ein Gedi oasis where you can walk along the trails of Nahal David to a refreshing waterfall. Visit Kibbutz Ein Gedi's botanical garden, with trees and plants from tropical and other regions around the world.
Ascend to Massada by cable-car to explore the fortress that was the scene of the epic stand by Jewish rebels at the end of the Great Revolt against Rome nearly 2,000 years ago. The new museum at the visitor's center reveals the secrets of daily life of the rebels, the story of the excavations, and how the site became one of Israel's most important symbols.
End the day with a health treatment and a dip in the saltiest, lowest body of water in the world. Spend the night at one of the fine hotels along the shores of the Dead Sea, or chose a simple close-to-nature overnight experience also offered in the Dead Sea area.
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H1N1 flu vaccines offered for eligible students and employees
Posted November 18, 2009; 10:51 a.m.
University Health Services will hold a H1N1 flu vaccine clinic on Tuesday, Nov. 24, in Multipurpose Rooms A and B of the Frist Campus Center for eligible students, faculty, staff and dependents.
The clinic will start at 10 a.m. and will remain open until available doses of the vaccine have been given or until 5 p.m. No appointments are necessary, and vaccines will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis.
The following students, faculty, staff and dependents are eligible to receive the vaccine at the clinic, according to the health priority guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Students, faculty, staff and dependents 10 to 24 years old.
- Students, faculty, staff and dependents who are pregnant. Women must present documentation from a health care provider confirming their pregnancy.
- Students, faculty, staff and dependents who are caregivers of babies less than 6 months old. Caregivers must present the baby's birth certificate as confirmation.
- Students, faculty, staff and dependents 25 to 64 years old with pre-existing medical conditions that may put them at higher risk for flu complications. In order to be vaccinated, individuals must present documentation of their pre-existing medical condition in the form of a prescription or a note signed by their health care provider. Students who have already identified themselves to UHS as high risk do not need to provide additional documentation.
Dependents who are eligible to be vaccinated at the clinic are spouses, domestic partners and children of students and employees in the above health priority groups.
In order to be vaccinated, individuals must bring their University ID card and their insurance card to the clinic, as well as cash or a check to cover the administrative fee for individuals who are not covered by a University insurance plan.
The federal government is providing doses of the H1N1 vaccine free of cost; however, there are administrative costs associated with distributing the vaccine. Individuals covered by the following University health insurance plans may receive the H1N1 vaccine at no cost: the University's Student Health Plan, Aetna employee insurance plans and United Healthcare employee insurance plans.
Individuals who are not covered by a University insurance plan may be charged a $15 fee to cover the administrative costs of distributing the vaccine, depending on their insurance. Students and employees may submit a receipt to private insurance companies for reimbursement, and financial assistance is available from UHS for students who are unable to pay the fee.
More information about H1N1 vaccines is available on the University's H1N1 webpage.
A small quantity of vaccine doses first became available to the University in late October, and UHS held H1N1 vaccine clinics on Nov. 4, 10 and 16 focused on students and student dependents in the CDC's highest health priority groups. Following the Nov. 24 clinic, the University must await more information from the state about when further vaccine shipments may be distributed in order to determine when additional vaccine clinics may be scheduled.
The state is overseeing distribution of H1N1 vaccines to providers in the state. Because limited doses of the H1N1 vaccine will be distributed in staggered shipments, most providers, including the University, are not able to provide vaccinations to all eligible groups during the same time period. Also, given the limited quantities, the University is not able to offer the H1N1 vaccine to all members of the community at this time.
In order to be eligible to receive the vaccine from the state, providers had to agree to distribute vaccinations according to the CDC prioritization guidelines.


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In the distance, approaching the camera, a work in progress bi-directional path becomes a sidewalk and a danger for all path users, Bayview at Pottery.
There are no words to describe my disappointment and disgust with a recently installed "major multi-use path" along the Bayview extension, but I'll try.
According to the Toronto Bicycle/Motor-Vehicle Collision Study (2003), cyclists who ride on the sidewalk are more likely to be involved in crashes and collisions. To those who commute by bicycle daily, or are "avid" bicycle riders, this risk is immediately apparent. Riding on the sidewalk makes a rider less visible to motorists and the rider's behaviour cannot be easily predicted. A driver has to ask themselves, "Is that cyclist on the sidewalk coming to a stop at a storefront? Are they heading into a park or driveway? Are they just looking for parking at an empty post an ring?" And, if that same bicycle rider is completely overlooked by the parallel driver, then an even larger problem arises, especially once their paths inevitably cross.
When and where the cyclist may or may not enter a road from a sidewalk cannot be determined by simply watching them. On roads, we have painted lines and signalled or signed intersections, all designed to increase the predictability of all road users. This lack of predictability is the major danger a cyclist entering a road from a sidewalk and into a crosswalk faces. On the road a cyclist's behaviour is more predictable as many riders will conform to street directions and make turns at expected areas and while collisions do occur they are less frequent in these cases.
However, to more novice bicycle riders, the risked posed by cycling on the sidewalk may not be as easy to recognize. Sidewalks are separated from faster moving vehicles and curbs prevent motorists from driving on sidewalks at high speeds. To a novice cyclist the sidewalk appears to be a safe haven.
Recently, the City of Toronto has undertaken a project to connect the isolated Evergreen Brick Works for pedestrians and cyclists. An almost unknown section of the Don Trail has been repaved, a bridge resurfaced and jersey barriers are to be installed to separate this major multi-use path from high-speed traffic as it follows Bayview Avenue between Rosedale Valley Drive and Pottery Road. The path is bi-directional and approximately 3 metres across in width to allow pedestrian and cycling traffic to pass safely.
Access into the Evergreen Brick Works site from this extended path is further improved by dedicated cycling traffic lights and a new traffic lighted intersection on Bayview. All of these improvements are much needed as pedestrian and cycling traffic was previously forced onto this high-speed road or left to travel along narrow, crumbling shoulders.
As the 2003 study mentioned above identified, intersections are a major area of concern and recommendations were made to improve infrastructure to make cycling behaviour more predictable to motorists. Improvements like the Bike Boxes installed on 2 major downtown routes address the problem of right hooks and work to improve cyclist visibility.
With a knowledge of the dangers sidewalk cycling and intersections can pose to cyclists and with a trail expansion in an area more likely to attract novice, weekend cyclists (the hills entering and exiting the Don Valley make this route less enticing and longer for daily commuters) then imagine my surprise to find out that at the intersection of Bayview and Pottery Road, the major multi-use path ends well before the intersection and quickly becomes nothing more than a regular, narrow sidewalk.
A dedicated turning lane appears to be a regular intersection, bicycles are not included in the equation.
For cyclists, there is no access to the path, except for the crosswalk and sidewalk, both areas illegal for bicycle riding.
The extension of the existing stretch of the Don Trail adjacent to Bayview has been part of a larger construction project in the area. Pottery Road dives into the Don Valley and until this year the pavement was crumbled and pothole infested. A narrow path previously ran along Pottery Road, though a connection to the stretch of the Don Trail that runs on the east side of the river was mostly non-existent. The construction project reduced Pottery Road to two lanes and has widened and connected this path from the intersection of Pottery and Broadview down the escarpment to the Don Trail.
The newer, wider path ends here. When I took my concerns to the City of Toronto Cycling Facebook page I was informed that the bridges at the lower end of Pottery Road are heritage designated and that there were no plans to integrate any cycling infrastructure either over them or beside them. In light of this obstacle the City choose to simply do nothing, ending the path before it had an opportunity to connect to Bayview.
While bridges are an expensive piece of infrastructure (one this city only values if it is for cars and trucks) I can understand the problem posed here when it comes to creating a connected cycling and pedestrian route. What I can't understand is why, when faced with this problem, the course of action taken was to not only ignore cyclists completely, but to also create a major conflict area in accessing the newly installed multi-use path on Bayview.
It is these vital connections that are the most important part of any cycling and pedestrian network. The straightaways are great but even when installed poorly are rarely the site of serious injury or death. Intersections, time and time again, have proven to pose the most risk to our most vulnerable road users, walkers and cyclists. As the current administration plans on installing 100 km of off-road bicycle routes then we must demand that they address intersections first and foremost. The increased safety of a separated path is only valuable if the route is connected and visibly represented in areas that provide the most risk of conflict. Never mind the idiom that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, in Toronto our current "chain" of cycling routes is completely missing links and the strength and security these could bring.
From the City's current cycling map. Pottery Road and Bayview intersection is coloured with yellow boxes as a "Suggested On-Street Route" defined as "Quiet residential streets." Since when has the Bayview extension ever been a quiet residential street? The speed limit is 60 km/h here.
UPDATE: Work along Bayview and at Pottery Road appears to have completed. The cycle path is not separated from high speed traffic on Bayview as expected and the intersection of Bayview and Pottery provides no clear routes for both cyclists and pedestrians. If you are concerned for your safety and want answers as to why this intersection is so poorly designed, I urge you to contact the local city councillor Mary Fragedakis firstname.lastname@example.com, Daniel Egan, Manager of Pedestrian & Cycling Infrastructure degan


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A group of Chapman University students last year thought it would be fun to create a computer game. As digital arts and computer science majors, they figured the game would at least look good on a résumé.
Thus, Axle was born.
Axle derives its name from an animated yellow gear that evades lethal crushers while repairing machinery in virtual factories. One member of the group, digital arts major Lauren Gragg, used the game for her senior thesis. Then, Axle won top honors in the regional Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Intercollegiate Computer Game Showcase in April, and the team realized Axle could be more.
But an idea – even an award winner – isn't a business. And no team member was a business major. The students needed to learn how to cross that bridge, so they took Axle to Chapman's new eVillage business incubator within the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics.
Within five months, team members had created a company, Fallstreak Studio LLC, laid out a business plan and launched an online crowd-sourcing campaign to bankroll their venture.
They are more than two-thirds of the way through a Kickstarter funding drive to raise at least $15,000 to release Axle for Android phones, said Liz Fiacco, who designed the game. Like Gragg, Fiacco graduated this past spring with a major in digital arts from the film school and a minor in game development from the computer science school.
If they raise $22,000, team members can complete the game for iPhone and Kindle Fire. Another $8,000 will fund an editor to create more playing levels within the game.
"They came to me in April with an award-winning game, big dreams and no business experience," said Christopher Buckstein, director of eVillage. "With the resources at the incubator and a lot of hard work, Fallstreak Studio's team members have transformed themselves from enthusiastic students to passionate entrepreneurs."
Since launching in February, eVillage has worked with 60 student entrepreneurs who have created 28 companies. Richard Sudek, head of Chapman's Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship, said students come to eVillage with ideas that are in various stages of business development.
"We want the best ideas; we don't care where they come from," Sudek said. "We can get mentors for them. We can introduce them to investors."
The Axle team members estimate they spent hundreds of hours building the game prior to the IEEE competition and many more hundreds of hours starting the business. Fiacco and Gragg, both of whom used to work at game company Obsidian Entertainment, started creating the game and mentioned it to friends Jessica Kernan, a digital arts major; Bryson Thill, a computer science major who interned with NASA; and Alex Solano, also a computer science major, who has worked with information technology companies.
"We were working with some extremely smart programmers," said Gragg, who served as producer of the game's development. "It turns out that getting the gears to interlock is very difficult. For three or four weeks before the IEEE competition I was assigning tasks (to different team members) for 15 hours a week. Bryson would say, 'That will take 40 hours,' and then he'd do it anyway."
The Axle team also drew upon the sound design talents of film major Billy Peake and music-composition skills of Adam Borecki, who had a double major in music composition and guitar performance.
Fiacco and Gragg spend full time launching Fallstreak as a business, and the others continue building out the game. Fiacco also has sought business-development help from her brother, James, a computer science major at Arizona State University who has taken a number of business classes.
Fiacco, Gragg and Kernan, who are involved in creating the business, hope their effort will be an example for others as well as paychecks for themselves. Fiacco noted that many college students are struggling to find jobs after graduation in a slow economy. "A lot of people our age are going home and living with their parents," she said. "We want to show this is an avenue to look at. You can make a job for yourself!"
Axle and eVillage have propelled the team to become entrepreneurs sooner than they had planned, Gragg said. "Liz and I had always talked about starting a business, but we thought we'd work a few years first. I wish we knew more about business going in."
Fiacco added, "We knew video games but we needed to know business. They brought in people from law, accounting and other entrepreneurs with experience starting businesses. It was exciting because we didn't have exposure to the steps to starting a business or how to make it sustainable and competitive."
The co-founders plan for Fallstreak to be much bigger than Axle, said Kernan, Fallstreak's art director, who is working full time at Obsidian Entertainment while managing Axle's Kickstarter campaign at night.
The broader concept is to create a portfolio of enriching games that are so much fun to play that people won't realize they're learning.
Kernan manages Axle's Kickstarter fundraising campaign at night, and Fiacco handles it during the day.
Kickstarter is a key part of Fallstreak's marketing effort as well as its fundraising, Kernan said. Axle fans help improve the game and spread the word to other gamers. "It takes constant, full-time vigilance," she said. "You communicate and give them updates and if it gets funded, you have to make sure the money is going to the right place (to build the company), and you want to let everyone know what's happening."
The team members, while fleshing out the business, also are building more levels of play in Axle. The game has three levels and needs 21, Fiacco said.
They're also working on other games under development, some that may be released within months and others that could take years, she added.
"I suggest (potential entrepreneurs) start small, create a minimally viable product and build from there," she said.
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If it were a wine, this measured but rather obvious French melodrama would be assessed as promising more on the nose than it delivers on the palate.
It certainly confirms the versatility of the wonderful Arestrup, the Corsican hood of A Prophet, here playing Paul de Marseul, the arrogant and bibulous widower grandee of a St Emilion vineyard.
His ancient family connection to the terroir has imbued him with haughty disdain, chiefly for his son Martin (Deutsch), whose enthusiasm for the business is matched by his keen anxiety to please his father.
Martin has a head for business and plans for modernisation and expansion; Paul, who finds such preoccupations vulgar, is not letting him anywhere near the winemaking process. Instead, as the title suggests, he wants to install Philippe (Bridet), the son of his terminally ill estate manager (Chesnais), who is home on holiday from a spell on the Coppola estate in California.
Director Legrand (a veteran producer) and his debutante co-writer, novelist Delphine de Vigan, get to grips with one of the oldest tropes in drama: the disruption of the relationship between father and son that replicates itself down the generations. The problem is that they do so with no great subtlety or finesse.
The raw brutality of Paul's behaviour could have done with a more explicit motivation; as it is, it seems perverse and irrational. The same idea is repeated over and over until a climactic confrontation and its puzzling sequel.
Only Chesnais, whose character winds up playing an unexpectedly significant role, gives you the sense you're watching a real person, rather than an archetype. He knows, if his boss doesn't, that some traditions can't be interfered with.
Stars: 3/5
Cast: Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais
Director: Gilles Legrand
Running time: 101 mins
Rating: M (offensive language and sexual references). In French with English subtitles
Verdict: Classy but heavy-handed
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Adoptable dogs in Columbus are finding their permanent homes hundreds of miles away through the efforts of the Community Animal Rescue Effort, the City of Columbus Animal Care Services and the CanINE Express Transport Project. C.A.R.E. and Animal Care Services are partnering with the CanINE Express to match adoptable pets with responsible owners, reduce shelter overcrowding, and help eliminate the need to euthanize animals due to a lack of critical resources.
The CanINE Express, based in Nashville, humanely transports shelter dogs from south-central Indiana to no-kill rescue shelters in other areas of the country where there is less overpopulation of pets and a strong demand for well-socialized, healthy adoptable dogs. C.A.R.E. and Animal Care Services began partnering with the CanINE Express this year, and the second transport of adoptable dogs from Columbus left the morning of Thursday, February 28, from the Animal Care Services shelter. The CanINE Express usually transports the dogs with their own volunteers, but C.A.R.E. board members Elaine DeClue and Nicohl Birdwell-Goodin volunteered to drive the transport vans.
The transport will take 10 dogs from the Animal Care Services shelter and C.A.R.E. foster homes to shelters in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The dogs range in age from puppies to adults, including four around 3 months old, four around 6 months old and one who is close to 10 years old. All receiving shelters have been vetted and approved by Cathi Eagan, founder of the CanINE Express Transport Project. The first transport was in early February, when 12 local dogs were taken to shelters in Ohio and New England, where they were quickly connected with their new owners.
"The CanINE Express is another excellent public-private partnership that ensures the adoptable dogs in our community are finding great homes," Mayor Kristen Brown said. "We will continue our efforts to have a 100% save rate at the City's Animal Care Services shelter and eliminate the need to euthanize healthy, adoptable pets."
Three of the puppies being transported Thursday are pit bulls that will be delivered to the Miami Correctional Center in Maine, where they will be partnered with well-behaved inmates as part of the Paws in Stripes program through the Animal Welfare Society of West Kennebunk, Maine. The dogs are housed directly with men and women prisoners approved by prison officials. The puppies spend six weeks with their handlers, being house broken, learning social skills and taking obedience classes. At the end of the program, the dogs are ready for adoption and help meet the high demand from owners who are on a waiting list for the pets.
C.A.R.E. and Animal Care Services will continue to transport adoptable dogs through the CanINE Express as often as there is demand at other shelters. C.AR.E., Animal Care Services and the CanINE Express are extremely grateful to The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for their generous $17,000 grant to spay/neuter and prepare Indiana shelter dogs that will ride on each monthly transport.
C.A.R.E. is in need of volunteers to offer temporary foster homes to dogs between transports. The temporary stays are usually two to three weeks. For more information, contact Ashley Anderson at 812-350-4686. The CanINE Express is also in need of transport drivers. For more information, contact Nicohl Birdwell-Goodin at 812-343-8649.


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We slowly started to get ready for the day, and partway through breakfast we broke down and called Lisa. We were a bit nervous, because we had changed our plans with her about 3 times in the past day and didn't want to mess with her schedule. Within the first couple seconds of the conversation, we could tell that she was going to be an awesome host! We told her about our concerns for being able to complete the 30 mile ride before nightfall
Terrance, our friend from the campsite, stopped by as we were packing up and offered us some of his left over breakfast. As he was packing up for the day, he broke 7 eggs (not sure why he thought it was smart to bike with eggs) and had to cook them all. After finishing about 5 he was stuffed and brought them over to share. We talked for a bit about our plans for the day, and because we were feeling a bit guilty about catching a ride, Erika very carefully left out the fact that we would not actually be biking to our destination... We wished him luck on the rest of his trip and headed out of the campground.
As we were sitting at the campground entrance waiting for Lisa to come save us, it crossed our minds that Terrance would probably be biking out soon and he would catch us in the act of cheating! We started getting really nervous about being caught in the act and even thought about biking down the road so that he wouldn't see us as he left. We wanted to call Lisa and tell her to HURRY, but there is no cell service in Big Sur, so we just had to wait it out and take the consequences of Erika's lie
About 5 minutes down the road, Erika realized that she left her phone on the fence near the entrance of the campground. We had to turn around and were so sure we would get caught by Terrance this time. Lisa zoomed back, and Erika jumped out of the car, grabbed her phone, and hopped right back in as fast as she could. We took off, and once again, got away!
Once in Monterey, we got to meet Sweet Pea, Lisa's adorable cockapoodle. Boy, was she excited to have company. We made plans with Lisa to go to a wine tasting after we got all cleaned up (it had been days since we last showered!). We had never been to a wine tasting before, and what better place to wine taste than wine country. Lisa took us to A Taste Of Monterey where she treated us to an awesome first wine tasting. The tasting room had a great view that over looked the ocean. It was so much fun!
After the wine tasting we drove to the local animal shelter to play with some of the puppies. It was really hard for Lisa to go home without one. We even thought about getting a biking companion for the remainder of the trip. We eventually decided that this plan was impractical, but it was still fun to play with the puppies.


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