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Well run and successful law firms in my experience always seemed to have a good marketing sense. Even in the days before the "M" word came into vogue, these firms had a rainmaker (usually a founding partner) or two good at bringing in business. As the legal industry became more competitive, more firms have recognized… Continue Reading
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Increase Value by Making Clients' E-mail Lives EasierPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
We hear a lot today about how law firms must add more value to their client services in light of the competitive nature of our industry. Value-added services might include recognizing the value of a client's time in reading emails. It may be a simple thing and on first thought not significant in adding value…. Continue Reading
Share Bad News with the Client ASAPPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
A post on Attorney at Work by Wendy Werner suggesting ways to share bad news within the office about a member of the firm or about the firm itself, got me thinking about how important it is to share bad news with a client at the earliest opportunity. It should be self-evident that clients –… Continue Reading
What the Heck Does "Adding Value" by Lawyers Really Mean?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
There's a lot of talk these days about lawyers adding more value to their client representation. Particularly because of competition, client demands, and the state of the legal industry, adding value REALLY is important. Just providing a legal product is not enough. But it begs the question what adding value really means. Jim Calloway, director… Continue Reading
Client Letter to New Outside Counsel – Part IIPosted in Client Communications, Legal Fees, Marketing Team, Marketing Tips
Last week I wrote about the fictitious client letter sent to the recently retained outside law firm, wherein the general counsel sets forth his expectations. As noted in that post, the "letter" was brought to us by Bob Denney in one of his Legal Communiqués. 's Legal Communique, wherein the law firm is admonished/warned about… Continue Reading
Client Letter to New Outside Counsel – Part IPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Team, Marketing Tips
Ran across a fictitious letter written by a fictitious general counsel to a fictitious law firm he just retained. The letter sets forth his expectations for the new firm; and was crafted by Bob Denney of Robert Denney Associates as one of his famous Legal Communiqués. Although it is nearly a year old, it is… Continue Reading
Visit Clients, Period!Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
Whenever I get writers block, I like to look at my old standby source of inspiration, 365 Marketing Meditations: Daily Lessons For Marketing & Communications Professionals authored by my friend Larry Smith and Richard Levick at Levick Strategic Communications. As I have preached, preached, and yes preached some more over the past 10 years, the… Continue Reading
How to Seek Client FeedbackPosted in Client Communications
Well, 2015 is almost here. Time to plan your business development strategies for the coming year. One simple one (albeit a feared one by some lawyers), involves seeking feedback from clients to ensure (or improve) the quality of legal services provided. No one needs to be reminded of how tough and competitive the legal marketplace… Continue Reading
I'm a Good Listener… What Did You Say?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips, Prospecting for Clients
Actually, I'm not a good listener or at least not as good as I should be. Bad listening isn't just a malady of lawyers, as it is a common ailment suffered by many, many homo sapiens. With that said, a post by Annie Little on Attorney at Work points a finger at lawyers when discussing… Continue Reading
How To Get New Business NOW!Posted in Marketing Plans, Marketing Tips
I was intrigued by post I ran across on Attorney at Work in which several marketing consultants offered their views on what was advertised as the "the best way to get paying client work right NOW." Although there were many good business development tips provided, I was disappointed somewhat because only one consultant, Gerry Riskin,… Continue Reading
Do Your Clients "Love" You?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
If I had a penny for every time lawyers have said "my clients love me," I'd be….well you know. The problem is that often lawyers do not understand. They assume, based on their continuing to receive work and not having heard about serious concerns, that everything is hunky-dory. Richard Levick at Levick communications in a post on… Continue Reading
Who Gives a Darn If Clients Are Satisfied?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
Apparently not too many firms according to an online "Leadership Matters" survey (a collaboration of TheRemsenGroup and Sterling Strategies) reported on the Managing Partner Forum this week. The survey sought data on individual lawyer contributions to their firms in the areas of financials, client satisfaction, people development, and firm processes/procedures. What particularly caught my attention… Continue Reading
Why Clients Fire Lawyers, and The Telltale SignalsPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
Often clients don't actually fire law firms, they just walk away. Sometimes lawyers don't even know it. The client simply gives work to another firm I ran across a post that spells out numerous reasons law firms get fired on Mike O'Horo's RainmakerVT site by Pam Woldow, and the telltale signals you should recognize. Some… Continue Reading
Fire that Annoying Client – NOT So Fast!Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
We've all had clients we would like to fire, but may not have had the nerve or want to lose the revenue. I remember a story told at a conference I attended about the small law firm that spent hours at its weekend retreat discussing firing a client that provided 25% of their revenues. Many… Continue Reading
How To Treat Prospects (and Clients) When They Contact Your FirmPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Team, Marketing Tips
Your success in landing new clients, or retaining existing clients for that matter, can relate directly to how they are treated when they contact your firm. I have commented in the past on this blog about the role of the receptionist and how important he or she is in terms of the impact it makes… Continue Reading
Client Communications are Still Critical to MarketingPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
There are many ways lawyers communicate with clients. Whether subtly or otherwise, they do so through their actions, as well as inactions. And either way, these "communications" (or lack thereof), all have a direct impact on the firm's marketing success. Brian Callan, a practice management advisor with AbacusLaw, sent an email article, with a play… Continue Reading
Marketing Includes Handling an Angry ClientPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
As the saying goes you can't win 'em all. Some cases or transactions are not going to end well. Don't beat yourself up over it. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be concerned over a disappointed, or worse, angry client over the outcome of a matter. A post by Ryan Sullivan on Attorney at Law… Continue Reading
Client Service: Why It Is More Critical Today!Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
In the good olde days, "legal services" was consider one word. And it meant the legal product(s) produced by lawyers; that is, the complaint, contract, employment agreement, closing documents, etc. etc. In other words it was all about the "legal" and had less to do with HOW the legal "services" were delivered or how the… Continue Reading
What's Important to Your Client – Today?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
If you don't know you're not paying attention. Further, you probably are not communicating with them often enough. Since communications is the biggest problem in all phases of life, it can result in disaster in business. Corporate America is constantly talking to consumers in one form or another, and always assessing their markets. It should… Continue Reading
Good Client Surprises, Good For BusinessPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
Okay all you rocket scientists out there, you know that "good" is better than "bad." So, why do some law firms still surprise their clients in bad ways. By that I mean, fail to meet deadlines, fail to attend to and keep clients informed about their matters (the basis of 80% of grievances filed against… Continue Reading
Don't Surprise Clients, Except…Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
It should come as no surprise that clients don't like surprises. Who does? Well, most of us wouldn't mind being surprised with a nice Hanukkah or Christmas present about now. But, you get the point. I have written a number of posts (three listed below) over the past eight years regarding the dangers (and benefits… Continue Reading
Avoid Client RFPsPosted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
A recently released survey by LexisNexis® reported on an increased level of RFP activity by law firms of various sizes. (See Summary here). The results surprised me somewhat for a couple of reasons. Some results: Close to half the 359 survey participants (41%) couldn't tell how many RFPs they dealt with on a monthly basis… Continue Reading
Do You Know Why A Client Handed Your Firm a Pink Slip?Posted in Client Communications, Marketing Tips
If your firm has ever lost a client (yeah, I know), I hope you know why. Not think you know, BUT really know the reason(s). My guess is that it was due to poor client relations and/or failure to produce value, or a combination of both. An article by Aric Press, editor-in-chief of The American… Continue Reading


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– After Tuesday night's WWE SmackDown tapings from Albany, NY went off the air, The Shield came out and beat down Randy Orton and Sheamus. Ryback ran down and made the save and then it became a 6-man tag match. The match ended in a disqualification after Roman Reigns brought in a chair. All the babyfaces hit their finishers to send the fans home happy.
– WWE confiscated several "Jack Swagger DUI" signs at this week's RAW, according to f4wonline.com.
– The following matches will take place on tonight's episode of WWE Main Event:
* WWE Intercontinental champion Wade Barrett vs. Randy Orton (non-title match).
* Cody Rhodes vs. Zack Ryder.
* VIDEO From AFTER RAW: The Shield Beats Down Big Show
I Lol'd.
Y'know, I believe that Randy Orton should be allowed to marry that Skinhead girl who is in love with him! Thats my opinion, man.
del rio/swagger will be 2nd or 3rd on the card because nobody gives a flying flunk about swagger. i actually think the DUI helped him. at least now people shout at him instead of going to the bathroom when his music hits.
of course del rio is a total flop as well.
Boring as f**k!
Would prefer to watch Orton deliver a beatdown on The Shield, Sheamus and anybody on Raw or SD he doesn't like!
I normally don't condone WWE taking signs from people but they were right in taking signs away this time. I understand that Swagger was stupid in doing that, he knows that as well as everyone else that read the report. That doesn't give us the right to ridicule him for something stupid when half of the people in that audience has done something worse. It truly pisses me off how people like to point out people's shortcomings and make jokes about them when they themselves haven't accepted their own.
So f**kin what?
Who are you and why should I care?
I am going to have to oppose you on this one chief. I think fans are just showing how nepotism is running wild (my apologies to Hulk Hogan) in the WWE. Why is Swagger and Naomi getting off on some pretty damning indictments against the wellness policy and not even receiving a handslap, while they have lowered the hammer on others with both suspensions and terminations? It's not like WWE has never punished a main event guy before ala Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton. The fans are simply pointing out the obvious that the WWE is playing favorites and it is quite difficult to take their wellness policy seriously when the WWE brass are weak to enforce it. If the WWE doesn't want to see these signs, then step up suspend those who break internal bylaws and you won't have to see them.
For those that are using Wrestlemania as an excuse as in "Well, they already have the Wrestlemania card locked it is too late to change it.." that is a comp out — All the WWE has to do is scratch one name Jack Swagger and insert Dolph Ziggler, there problem solved.
Actually the correct term that I should have applied in lieu of nepotism is cronyism – Since to my knowledge Swagger is not part of the McMahon family. Nepotism would = Triple H (being the boss's daughter's husband) everyone else it's just cronyism.
Orton should've just beat down The Shield and thereby preventing any intervention from Ryback or Sheamus who didn't have no business interfering in this match.
Orton not kicking ass sucks!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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This is to certify the fact that I'm blocked again and again by those lameass,incompetent,lowlife scumbags and mentally handicapped bunch of idiots consisting of PG tools and cheatlord Cena's worshippers who unprofessionally called themselves admins of WRESTLINGINC.COM………
Among the great people of them,there are some deformed ten-head and hands deity worshipping immigrant scums from the lowest and dirtiest places on earth that are certified pusssies with fake accounts who blocks great trolls like THE COUNT whenever they got owned as always ,and these very association of untalented scums came from different untalented backgrounds as you can possibly see.They couldn't even generate decent spoilers of their own and have to either copy or bootleg their sources from other better websites as you all know it..Its the only cult group on earth who blocks user just because of exposing the dirty and disgusting truths about the biggest backstage politician on earth and cheatlord bully called JOHN the CANCER cena,the deformed cowboy wannabe backstage politician cum Political stooge Jim -the goodfella talking from the side of the mouth-Ross,the fake Jamaican and real african PG brown-nosing chimpanzee called Kofi- the john laurinitis's real life asss kisser cum coffee maker-Kingston and the mother of all she-devil cum the BITCHH and ever failing politician wannabe HAG Linda McMahon…
They just thought that worshipping these PG clowns would cement their positive status to WWE as a whole and maybe they'd be known enough oneday in the future that they could actually land up in the WWE offices rather than maintaining this junk hole they called their own PG site..If you go to any other websites or in particular,those website where they used to obtained and bootleg their sources,I guaran-damn-tee that you will never find such pusssy like these clownshoes who worships the PG agendas like nazis and oppose anyone with the attitude era's mindset vested with truths.
And in closing,these bunch of jabronis,among the other great admins,consists of virgins who are mostly hommos, fake Christians,illegal aliens and bloody brownskin immigrants who thought supporting cena or PG makes them look more americans or respected citizens whilst in reality,you just couldn't find more pathetic wannabes even if you travel half the damn globe.
So I will be gone for now but I beg each and every great fellow anti-cenas,attitude,wcw and original ecw fans to go on exposing what you believe in.You just can't let such lowlife scums of jabronis let you bite all those PG craps they trya shove down your throat through this shitthole website..And anyone who wants more inside sources or truth about these scumbags among the good admins,plz do inform…I WILL EXPOSE MORE IN DETAIL IF YOU WANT TO,STRAIGHT TO THE BONE MARROWS
PEACE be with you all outlaws…My spirit will always be with you…see you on the other side 5
– NXT Champion Finn Balor and Baron Corbin will be attending tonight's WWE RAW taping from Pittsburgh after working this weekend's live events. They're not expected to be appearing...
AJ Styles' Injury Revealed, Styles Says He's Suffering From "Overworking Himself"
Brad Maddox's Post-WWE Ring Name, WWE's Cyber Monday Sale, Bray Wyatt
Goldust Comments On Spreading Dusty Rhodes' Ashes, Extra Security At WWE Events
Jay Lethal Talks About ROH Giving Their Performers Much More Creative Freedom Than WWE
Mick Foley Continues To Vent About What's Wrong With WWE & How To Fix It
Kevin Owens On Wanting To Face Brock Lesnar, His Son Cheering John Cena
The Rock Teases Year-End Announcements, Stephanie/HHH Wedding Angle Anniversary
John Cena Added To WWE's January Tour Of India, Top Names Not Appearing
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UCF basketball's new floor at CFE Arena isn't quite the literal blacktop we were lead to believe it would be based on the designs tweeted by women's assistant coach Courtney Locke. Yet the finished product is still a nice homage to playground surface that the Knights' players — and most players in general — grew up playing on.
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It is now my pleasure to turn the program over to Cindy McCann.
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Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. On today's call are John Mackey and Walter Robb, Co-Chief Executive Officers, A.C. Gallo, President, Glenda Flanagan, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Sud, Executive Vice President of Growth and Development and David Lannon and Ken Meyer, Executive Vice Presidents of Operations.
As a reminder, all forward-looking statements on this call are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions discussed today. This may be due to a variety of factors, including the risks outlined in our company's most recently filed Form 10-Q and 10-K. Please note, our press release and scripted remarks are available on our website. We assume you have read our press release, so we will use this time to focus on highlights from the quarter and year as well as out future outlook.
Please note fiscal year 2012 was 53-weeks, with the extra week falling in Q4, making it a 13-week quarter. I will now turn the call over to John Mackey.
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Turning now to our financial results. Our Q4 performance reflected another quarter of strong sales momentum and earnings growth. On a 12-week to 12-week basis, we produced 33% earnings per share growth on 14% sales growth. We delivered significant year-over-year improvement and record Q4 results including a 76 basis point increase in gross margin to 35.3%, a 40 basis point decrease in direct store expenses to 25.5% of sales, a 117 basis point improvement in store contribution to 9.8% of sales, a 105 basis point increase in operating margin to 6%, marking our third consecutive quarter of over 100 basis points of improvement, 79 basis point improvement of EBITDA margin to 8.7% and 157 basis point improvement in return on invested capital to 12.7%.
Our comparable store sales increased 8.5%, and our identical store sales increased 8.3%. Given the continued moderation and inflation and sluggish economic data points, we were very pleased to produce an acceleration in our two and three year stacked idents. Our three year stacked ident increased 25.4% reflecting three years of 8% plus increases.
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Our robust sales and focused operating disciplines along with moderating inflation helped generate another quarter of healthy margin performance. Our 54 basis point increase in gross margin, ex-LIFO, was driven by improvements in both occupancy costs and cost of goods sold.
Sequentially from Q3, we saw an approximate 70 basis point decrease in total gross margin. This decrease is in line with our three-year average sequential drop and is due primarily to seasonality, as well as some impact from our price investment strategy to improve our relative value positioning.
The success of this ongoing strategy is reflected in our continued sales momentum and the results from our most recent competitive survey. The survey indicates we meaningfully improved our pricing position versus our competitors during the quarter, resulting in our most competitive position in more than three years.
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During the quarter, we opened seven stores in West Des Moines, Iowa, Basalt, Colorado, New York City, Charlotte, North Carolina, San Francisco, San Antonio, and Newport Beach, California. West Des Moines, Basalt and Charlotte are all new markets for us.
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To what extent population structure favours the establishment of new phenotypes within a species remains a fundamental question in evolutionary studies. By reducing gene flow, habitat fragmentation is a major factor shaping the genetic structuring of populations, favouring isolation of small populations in which drift may rapidly change frequencies of new variants. When these variants provide advantages to individuals, the combined effect of selection and drift can lead to rapid shifts in phenotypes. In a study published in BMC Genetics, Albuquerque de Moura et al. asked whether such a general pattern of population structure can be observed in Heliconius species, which could have strong implication in the evolution of colour pattern diversification in these butterflies. In this commentary we discuss the potential roles of these three processes (drift, selection and dispersal) on the evolution of Heliconius wing patterns in regard to the findings of a common fine-scale population structure within the co-mimetic species H. melpomene and H. erato. Indeed, a general pattern of population subdivision in the history of these two species may have provoked the major phenotypical shifts observed in their wing colour patterns. The suggestion that coupled environmental pressures (counter-selection of dispersal and selection on co-evolved traits) could be responsible for identical genetic differentiation profiles in H. erato and H. melpomene clearly merits further investigations using both detailed population genetic (including landscape genetic) and ecological studies.
Rapid changes of phenotypes can be observed in small genetically isolated population because drift may enhance the rate of fixation of new variants. As a result, the long-term evolution of traits with ecological importance is thought to be tightly linked to the historical population structure of species for which strong genetic isolation is a common feature. Of course, species living in highly fragmented landscapes are more prone to exhibit strong genetic subdivision because gene flow will tend to be reduced in patchily distributed habitats.
The study of Albuquerque de Moura et al. [1] published in BMC Genetics aimed at determining if such a general pattern of population structure can be observed in Heliconius species, which could have strong implications in the evolution of colour pattern diversification in these butterflies. Using a panel of genetic markers, they effectively found a widespread genetic differentiation of populations on unusually small geographic distances in the Mullerian co-mimetic butterflies Heliconius erato and H. melpomene, but no isolation by distance [1]. Populations were sampled in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot that is now highly fragmented after 500 years of human disturbance. The low connectivity of this fragmented landscape for butterflies, resulting in a steep decrease in dispersal, and hence gene flow among populations, is proposed as the main driver of the observed genetic differentiation. Dispersal depression along fragmentation gradients and subsequent population differentiations has indeed been recorded in butterflies [2,3]. However, given the huge dispersal abilities of butterflies [4], such a high genetic differentiation of populations distant from 5 km and less is intriguing. It has particularly been established that average dispersal distance in Heliconius butterflies ranges from 3 to 10 km [5,6]. Thus, the genetic differentiation as described between the neighbouring populations of Albuquerque de Moura et al. study [1] could not be due to a simple dispersal-limited explanation. We thus suggest that other factors than dispersal counter-selection due to prohibitive costs could be at work in this study system.
The use of different marker types to infer genetic population structure has now become a widespread and powerful strategy. Although dominance effects, as well as mutational processes, involve fundamental differences in marker evolution, they should all reflect the same population history [7], provided a sufficient number of loci are used. When effective population sizes are small and contrasted in the study system, genetic drift enhances the accumulation of heterogeneity within the genome, highlighting the necessity to adopt a wide locus-sampling strategy [8], more efficiently obtained with dominant markers [9]. In such cases, it is recommended to use 10 times as many loci for dominant compared to codominant markers [8]. It is noteworthy that Albuquerque de Moura et al. [1] have genotyped individuals with three kinds of marker. Indeed, they used 5 and 7 microsatellites, 81 and 15 mitochondrial SNPs respectively for H. erato and H. melpomene and 1144 AFLP for both species to properly infer the genetic structuring of each species. If all marker types revealed the presence of a fine-scale population structure within both species, inter-marker patterns within species were not correlated (Mantel tests non significant at the 5% level). This discrepancy between mitochondrial and nuclear markers may reflect different dispersal behaviours between males and females as proposed by the authors. However, the discrepancy between genetic structure inferred from microsatellites and AFLP markers is probably the result of an insufficient number of microsatellite loci preventing high enough statistical power, which is especially true when populations have not reached genetic equilibrium [8]. In contrast, the huge number of AFLP used in this study should be sufficient to properly sample genome diversity.
Thus, we think that the more reliable results concerning the nuclear genome are those obtained with AFLP. Comparing patterns of genetic differentiation obtained with AFLP, we found a strong correlation between H. erato and H. melpomene (Mantel test: R = 0.55, p = 0.012). In other words, pairs of populations harbour similar genetic divergence levels in the two species. We suggest that such strong parallel patterns of genetic isolation can be observed when species face the same environmental pressures.
An interesting point is the possibility of a convergent pattern of genetic isolation between co-distributed Heliconius species due to selection pressures acting on similar genomic regions. Among potential candidate characters on which selection could generate such genomic patterns, the coloration of wing patterns, which serves as a warning signal for predators, is noteworthy. It has been shown that wing patterns in co-mimetic Heliconius species are driven by several homologous genomic regions functioning as "supergenes" [10-12]. Those regions under long-term selection have evolved independently in Heliconius lineages (among which H. melpomene and H. erato) with parallel changes in gene regulation across co-mimetic species [13,14]. They provide a remarkable example of convergent evolution. Such genetic determinism with convergent selection at several distant loci could account for the similar genetic differentiation obtained with AFLP in the two species, as AFLP are presumably scattered across the genome. However, all populations of H. melpomene and H. erato share the same wing pattern phenotype in the studied region (Albuquerque de Moura et al. pers. com.). Nonetheless, we encourage a detailed morphological analysis that could reveal subtle co-evolved changes in the wing colour patterning of populations in both species. Besides, we propose the careful investigation of ecological mechanisms that would allow the maintenance of the observed genetic differentiation, like assortative mating between individuals of the same populations or local specialization on particular host plants. Indeed, the genetic determinism of such ecological mechanisms is probably complex.
Overall, it seems that adaptive responses under particular environmental constraints may involve the same genomic regions in populations of co-distributed Heliconius species. This finding could be of great importance when trying to retrace the evolutionary history of Heliconius species. As mentioned by the author, the additional effect of drift in these small populations of Heliconius can rapidly increase the frequency of new benefit alleles, enhancing the rate of change in the genetic structuring and phenotypes in populations. In what measure drift and selection have influenced shifts in Heliconius wing patterns remains an exciting question that needs to be raised in the context of habitat fragmentation, taking advantage of the new advances in landscape genetics.
To conclude, we think that an additive or an interaction effect of (1) dispersal counter-selection in response to habitat fragmentation and (2) selection on important ecological traits (including wing traits and ecological mechanisms maintaining population differentiation) might be responsible for the genetic structuring we observe here. In this sense, the study of Albuquerque de Moura et al. [1] is the first step to our understanding of the interplay between landscape and adaptive traits shaping the genetic structure of H. melpomene and H. erato populations at a local scale. Finally, extending this population genetic study using selected loci responsible for wing pattern expression needs to be considered to determine the putative role of 'selection on the wing' in this system, and to go further in our comprehension of the long-term processes underlying co-mimicry in Heliconius.
Authors' contributions
DL, VMS and MB conceived of the manuscript, DL wrote the manuscript, all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Animal lovers who want to see an end to dog racing in Florida are a step closer to the goal with passage Tuesday in the House Finance and Tax Committee of a bill that would let dog tracks keep poker rooms, but not have to run the dogs reports the News Service of Florida. Backers of the measure, which includes some track owners, say the tracks make their money from the card rooms anyway, so why have the races? But the law requires the greyhound licenses. ?ook, these have become poker rooms that happen to have some dogs running around in circles ?with no one in the grandstands,?said Carey Theil, director of Grey2K USA, which has pushed to end racing. Passage in Finance and Tax on a 21-2 vote with Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights, and Rep. Steve Precourt, R-Orlando, against. Rep. Pat Rooney, R-Palm Beach Gardens, didn? vote, because he is president of a dog track, the Palm Beach Kennel Club. The measure (HB 1145) by Rep. Dana Young, R-Tampa, now goes to House Economic Affairs. A Senate version (SB 1954) is scheduled to be heard in Senate Finance and Tax on Wednesday.
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This is a wonderful step toward reducing the number of greyhounds bred to run in front of empty seats!
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Let the track owners have a decision about what they wish to "sponsor". The state should not mandate. Especially if the ones who may axe it are losing money.
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I don't think anyone is thinking of the dogs that will suffer from closing the tracks. Over 700 dogs in St. Petesrburg alone will be homeless. Are any of these bill supporters going to step up and adopt one?
Eric JacksonView Apr 14, 2011
Neither of these bills outlaws racing or requires tracks to close. Whether the supporters will adopt a homeless greyhound or not, these bills are simply removing the mandate to continue racing. When tracks close, adoption groups will do the same thing they have done at every other track that has closed – step in and do everything possible to make sure each and every one of those greyhounds goes to an appropriate home.
Val WolfView Apr 15, 2011
Greyhound racing is cruel and inhumane. Greyhounds endure lives of nearly constant confinement, kept in cages barely large enough for them to stand up or turn around. While racing, many dogs suffer and die from injuries including broken legs, paralysis, and cardiac arrest. And many greyhounds are euthanized every year, as the number retired from racing exceeds the number of adoptive homes.
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