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Clifford Lynch recently wrote a piece in which he describes the broken promises to libraries surrounding the introduction of e-books. Instead of a cornucopia of books that would be available at lower prices than print and with various new features enabled by digital technology, we have a peculiar situation where many publishers are refusing to sell books to libraries at all, and often when they do indeed sell them, the books are priced higher than their print counterparts and with various new usage restrictions imposed upon them. So the promises of e-books for libraries remain unfulfilled.
Putting aside the question of who made those promises and how they proposed to hold themselves accountable for their fulfillment, Lynch's comments lead me to wonder if the advent of e-books has been a good or bad thing for university press publishing, a segment in which I have long had a special interest. On balance I would have to say that as dramatic as the introduction of e-books to the academic sector has been, by and large the fortunes of the press world are not appreciably better than they were four years ago -- or six years ago, to begin the count with the launch of the Amazon Kindle, with apologies to Ronald Reagan and his famous (if misleading) four-year formulation. Indeed, university presses seem to be operating under snugger strategic conditions than even a few years ago. E-books haven't made all that much difference.
Before saying another word, I must make the qualifying remark that there is great diversity among university presses and that generalizations inevitably introduce distortions. The university presses at Cambridge and Oxford are as large as many commercial firms, possess a global footprint, and manage a broad product portfolio. American presses range from under $1 million in revenue to tens of millions; some publish journals while others do not; and some, despite their small size, are healthily profitable. My comments here put Oxford and Cambridge to the side and talk of the other presses in the aggregate -- that is, there may have been winners and losers among them, but what have their fortunes been as a whole?
University presses have a complex business model, unique in the university world as far as I know, that combines earned revenue with various forms of funding that is not derived from the market place. The earned revenue of these publishers is something of a three-legged stool: books, journals and services. Services can take many forms, but the largest service by far is in the distribution of physical goods on behalf of other, smaller presses. Let's dig into the earned revenue one leg at a time, putting books last.
1. Services. A number of presses distribute books on behalf of other academic publishers, both domestic and international. Historically this has been a good business, as distribution is a game of scale and a small press has anything but scale. This service lowers the cost of distribution to the small-press client (that is, in comparison to having to provide this service for themselves) and provides a profit for the larger press providing the service.
Unfortunately, this activity is now under stress. Sales of printed books are not growing and in many instances are declining. This leads to excess capacity at warehouses and slow-moving inventory (partially offset by the introduction of digital SRP -- short-run printing). On top of this is the entrance into the sector of commercial players, who change the competitive landscape. It is difficult to be optimistic about the long-term prospects for this service.
Presses are also seeking to provide other services, especially digital services, but this will be a steep hill to climb. The problem here is that the competition is everywhere. Do you want to provide print-on-demand services for third parties? Well, you and a dozen other outfits. How about digital asset management, where the provider warehouses digital files that can be accessed and manipulated by clients? Well, you and two dozen other outfits. We needn't get into file conversion, the creation of ebook apps, or pretty much anything digital. The competition is too keen.
Some presses attempt to provide publishing services to other departments within their institutions. This is a good idea (there is no point in having 20 different people trying to figure out how to convert a PDF to an EPUB file), but the scale is small. Overall, it's hard to escape the conclusion that income from third-party services will not be an ensured source of funding for presses in the future. And this problem has intensified over the past 4 years–or 6–as print books migrate to digital formats.
2. Journals. Journal publishing over all is a very good business for certain large publishers, and it is still a good business for many university presses. By my estimate, the American presses, taken together, publish about 200 journals; adding Oxford and Cambridge to the mix would add perhaps 600 more. This is out of a universe of approximately 25,000. There is a clear hierarchy in journals publishing. The commercial firms Elsevier, Springer, and John Wiley sit at the top, followed by such firms as Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and Sage and the major not-for-profits (e.g., ACS) — and of course Oxford and Cambridge. Below that group are many university presses and professional societies (e.g., AIP, APS). Smaller still are many other professional societies, which may have a tiny portfolio of journals.
The problem for university presses is that the journals business is all about scale and the one thing the presses do not have is scale. Scale permits a publisher to establish a global footprint, to invest in technology, to pay large guarantees to attract professional societies to the roster, and to market the publications into every corner of the marketplace. The journals market is not growing as rapidly as it once did outside of a few notable Gold OA publishers (e.g., PLoS), which in turn has put even greater pressure on publishers to achieve a greater and greater scale, the better to dominate academic library budgets and squeeze out the publications of smaller firms (which are likely in turn to sell out to the larger publishers, thereby increasing the latter publishers' scale still further, a cycle that is vicious or virtuous depending on which side of the table you sit on).
The race for scale has resulted in the larger publishers poaching the journals formerly handled by many university presses. Thus we have seen a collection of anthropology journals leave the Unviversity of California Press for John Wiley, and Elsevier come bidding for a journal formerly managed by Chicago. Even Oxford is big enough to act as a poacher, sometimes bidding for the publications handled by the smaller presses. Thus the journals segment for university presses (always excepting Oxford and Cambridge) is a less reliable source of income today than it was even a few years ago. Barring a bold new strategy for journals, it is difficult to make a case for growth for any but the largest publishers.
3. Books. What university presses mostly do is publish books. They publish outstanding books and they publish them well. While the book segment is still primarily a print business (about 90 percent), electronic revenue is growing rapidly. There are no presses to my knowledge that are not now publishing ebooks. This is a growth segment, and the presses are understandably proud of it.
Unfortunately, the book business, whether for print or digital works, is a tough one, especially in a segment where some titles may sell as few as 300 copies and a sale of 10,000 copies is a matter of astonishment. The fixed costs of book publishing are simply too high for the small market for scholarly books, and the introduction of ebooks does nothing to whittle away at those fixed costs. Many presses lose money on the sale of books, which in turn puts more pressure to find revenue in the already challenged segments of journals and services.
Another problem for the presses' foray into ebooks is the dominance of Amazon, which exacts a significant toll from the presses for distribution. Amazon gets more powerful every day and the demands made on tiny scholarly publishers are becoming strident. A dollar taken from the operating margin of a university press is handed over to the shareholders of Amazon, a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. While exceptional editorial talent always finds a way to punch its way through a hostile distribution environment, not all editorial work is exceptional and the energy behind every punch has a cost. Ebooks, in other words, are a good and necessary move for the university press world, but they are not likely by themselves to provide financial stability.
And so all three legs of the three-legged stool are rickety, making the prospects for university press publishing not particularly bright. On the other hand, the prospects are not bleak; the presses continue to earn the bulk of their income from the marketplace (over 90 percent of press budgets are covered by earned income). This contradicts the prevailing narrative, which suggests that university press publishing is doomed, that the presses are losing tons of money, and that only a radical overhaul of the business model can "save" university press publishing. This very point was made to me by a university librarian, who noted that her institution's press had lost several hundred thousand dollars in the prior year. Good lord, what are we to do? But contrast this with the librarian's own budget, which entailed a cost to the university of over $30 million. People, some perspective, please! This bringd us back to the point that presses are set up as subsidized profit centers, whereas most university functions are set up as cost centers. Which is the bigger burden to the parent institution, the small subsidy of a profit center or the large budget of a cost center?
Using a yardstick of 4 years -- or 6, or 10 -- we would have to say that the presses' overall situation has gotten tighter; and we would conclude that the "promise" of e-books (though here again I have to ask who is making these promises) has not meaningfully changed the fortunes of the university press world. This is because electronics are not a strategy; electronics are an enabling technology that has to be put in service to a strategy. If we want to meet Clifford Lynch's challenge, let's stand up in front of the whiteboard and do some serious thinking.
Joseph Esposito is a management consultant in the world of digital media, software and publishing. This post first appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen.
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I don't think there's much more to say about Aaron Swartz. I didn't know him personally, but like many others I am a beneficiary of the work he did. And I have agreed for much of my life as an academic with the thinking that led him to his fateful act in a closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most centrally, that there are several ethical imperatives that should make everything that JSTOR (or any comparable bundling of scholarly publication) holds freely available to everyone: much of that work was underwritten directly or indirectly by public funds, the transformative impact of open access on inequality is already well-documented, and it's in keeping with the obligations and values that scholars allege to be central to their work.
Blame is coming down heavy on MIT and JSTOR, both of which were at pains to distance themselves from the legal persecution of Swartz even before news of his suicide broke, particularly JSTOR, which very early on asked that Swartz not be prosecuted. Blame is coming down even more heavily, as it should, on federal prosecutors who have been spewing a load of spurious garbage about the case for over a year. They had discretion and they abused it grievously in an era when vast webs of destructive and criminal activities have been discretionarily ignored if they stem from powerful men and powerful institutions. They chose to be Inspector Javert, chasing down Swartz over a loaf of bread.
But if we're talking blame, then there's a diffuse blame that ought to be conferred. In a way, it's odd that MIT should have been the bagman for the ancien regime: its online presence and institutional thinking about digitization have otherwise been quite forward-thinking in many respects. If MIT allowed itself to be used by federal prosecutors looking to put an intellectual property head on a pike, that is less an extraordinary gesture by MIT and more a reflection of the academic default.
I've been frustrated for years, like other scholars and faculty members who take an interest in these issues, at the remarkable lassitude of academia as a whole toward publication, intellectual property and digitization. Faculty who tell me passionately about their commitment to social justice either are indifferent to these concerns or are sometimes supportive of the old order. They defend the ghastly proposition that universities (and governments) should continue to subsidize the production of scholarship that is then donated to for-profit publishers who then charge high prices to loan that work back to the institutions that subsidized its creation, and the corollary, demanded by those publishers, that the circulation of such work should be limited to those who pay those prices.
Print was expensive, print was specialized, and back in the age of print, what choice did we have? We have a choice now. Everything, everything, about the production of scholarship can be supported by consortial funds within academe. The major added value is provided by scholars, again largely for free, in the work of peer review. We could put the publishers who refuse to be partners in an open world of inquiry out of business tomorrow, and the only cost to academics would be the loss of some names for journals. Every journal we have can just have another name and be essentially the same thing. Every intellectual, every academic, every reader, every curious mind that wants to read scholarly work could be reading it tomorrow if they had access to a basic Internet connection, wherever they are in the world. Which is what we say we want.
I once had a colleague tell me a decade ago that this shift wouldn't be a positive development because there's a digital divide, that not everyone has access to digital devices, especially in the developing world. I asked this colleague, whose work is focused on the U.S., if she knew anything about the costs and problems that print imposed on libraries and archives and universities around the world, and of course she didn't. Digitized scholarship can't be lost or stolen the way that print can be, it doesn't have to be mailed, it doesn't have to have physical storage, it can't be eaten by termites, it can't get mold on it. If it were freed from the grasp of the publishers who charge insane prices for it, it could be disseminated for comparatively small costs to any institution or reader who wants access. Collections can be uniformly large everywhere that there's a connection: what I can read and research, a colleague in Nairobi or Beijing or Moscow or São Paulo can read and research, unless their government (or mine) interferes. That simply couldn't be in the age of print. Collections can support hundreds or thousands of simultaneous readers rather than just the one who has something checked out. I love the materiality of books, too, but on these kinds of issues, there's no comparison. And no justification.
The major thing that stands in the way of the potentiality of this change is the passivity of scholars themselves. Aaron Swartz's action, and its consequences, had as much to do with that generalized indifference as it did with any specific institution or organization. Not all culture needs to be open, and not all intellectual property claims are spurious. But scholarship should be and could be different, and has a claim to difference deep in its alleged values. There should be nothing that stops us from achieving the simplest thing that Swartz was asking of us, right now, in memory of him.
Timothy Burke is professor of history at Swarthmore College.
Amherst College starts publishing unit that will feature peer review and close editing -- while also making all books digital and free.
OpenStax College, an open-access textbook publisher, introduces its first offering through iTunes -- and hopes the $4.99 charge will allow students to benefit from extras and the business model to grow.
Scholarly publishing consultants Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger recently concluded a large-scale study of how researchers navigate the flood of digitized scholarly content. Renew Training, the British company they run, will sell you the complete data set for a mere £1000 (that's $1,592), or the same information in a deluxe Excel spreadsheet, outfitted with specially designed an analytic features, for £2,500 (a cool $3,981). Anyone whose curiosity is merely idle or penniless must settle for the "survey edition" of the consultants' own analysis, in PDF, which is free.
As you would expect, it's more of an advertisement than a report, with graphs that hint at how much data they have, and how many kinds of it, from around the world. Gardner and Inger's own report, "How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals," is available in e-book format at a reasonable price – so I sprang for a copy and have culled some of their findings for this week's column.
The key word here being some, because even the consultants' non-exhaustive crunching of the numbers is pretty overwhelming. Between May and July of this year, they collected responses from more than 19,000 interview subjects spanning the populated world. The questions covered various situations in which someone might go looking for scholarly articles in a digital format and the considerable range of ways of going about it. Two-thirds of respondents were from academic institutions – with a large majority (three out of four) identifying themselves as researchers.
Roughly two-thirds of the respondents were from North America and Europe, and the interview itself was conducted in English. But enough participants came from the medical, corporate, and government sectors, and from countries in Africa, Oceania, and South America, to make the study something other than a report on Anglo-American academe. In addition, Gardner and Inger conducted a similar survey in 2008 (albeit with a much smaller harvest of data, from around 400 respondents). They also draw on a study they conducted in 2005 as consultants for another group.
The trends, then. The range and size of digitally published scholarship keep growing, and a number of tools or approaches have developed for accessing material. Researchers rely on university library sites, abstracting and indexing (A&I) services, compilations of links assembled by learned societies or research teams, social networks, and search engines both general (Yahoo) and focused (Google Scholar). You might bookmark a favorite journal, or sign up for an e-mail alert when the table of contents for a new issue is out, or use the journal publisher's website to find an article.
The survey questions cover three research "behaviors" common across the disciplines: (1) following up a citation, (2) browsing in the core journals in a given field, and (3) looking for articles on a specific subject. As indicated, quite a few ways of carrying out these tasks are now available. Some approaches are better-developed in one field than another. The survey shows that researchers in the life sciences use the National Institutes of Health's bibliographical database PubMed "almost exclusively," while the e-mailed table-of-contents (ToC) notifications for chemistry journals are rich enough in information for their readers to find them valuable.
And ease of access to sorting-and-channeling methods varies from one part of the world to the next. A researcher in a poor country is likely to use the search feature on a publisher's website (bookmarked for just that purpose) for the simple reason that doing so is free – while someone working in a major research library may have access to numerous bibliographical tools so well-integrated into the digital catalog that users barely notice them as such.
North American researchers "are most likely to use an academic search engine or the library web pages if they have a citation," the reports notes, "whilst Europeans are more likely to go the journal's homepage." Humanities scholars "rely much more on library web pages and especially aggregated collections of journals" than do researchers in the life sciences.
Comments made by social scientists reveal that they use "a much more varied list of resources" for following up citations, including one respondent who relied on "my husband's library because mine is so bad."
When browsing around the journals in their field, researchers in the field of education "are greater users of academic search engines and of web pages maintained by key research groups" than are people working in other areas. "Social scientists appear to use journal aggregations less than those in the humanities for reading the latest articles." And all of them rank "library web pages and journal aggregations more highly" than do people in medicine and the physical and life sciences. One respondent indicated that it wasn't really necessary to look through recent issues of journals in mathematics because "nowadays virtually all leading research in math is uploaded to arXiv."
Specialized bibliographical databases "are still the most popular resource" for someone trying to read up on a particular topic, "and allowing for a margin of error [this preference] shows no significant change over time." The web pages compiled by scholarly societies and research groups "have both shown a slight upward trend" in that regard, "which may be due to changes in publisher marketing strategies resulting in readers becoming more familiar publisher and society brands."
The rise of academic search engines is a new factor -- and while there are others, such as Microsoft Academic Search, the bar graphs show Google Scholar looming over all competitors like a skyscraper over huts. And that's not even counting the general-purpose Google search engine, which remains a standard tool for academic researchers.
One interesting point that the authors extract from the comments of participants is that many scholars remain unclear on the difference between a search engine and, say, a specialized bibliographical database. Unfortunately the survey seems not to have included information on respondents' ages, though it would be interesting to know if that is a factor in recognizing such distinctions.
As I said, the e-book version is reasonably priced, and well within reach of anyone intrigued by this column's aerial survey. The publishers and information managers who can afford the full-dress, all-the-data version, which will allow comparison between the research preferences of Malaysian physicists and German historians, and so forth, will be able to extract from it information on how better to engineer access to their content by the specific research constituencies using it.
For the rest of us, it's a reminder of how many methods we have available for gaining access to the labyrinth of digital scholarship -- and, perhaps, of how much we take them for granted.
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September 15: David Offner (University of Illinois-Chicago) Discrete Aleksandrov solutions of the Monge-Ampere Equation
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Title: Polychromatic Colorings of the Hypercube
Abstract: Given a graph G which is a subgraph of the n-dimensional hypercube Qn, an edge coloring of Qn with r ≥ 2 colors such that every copy of G contains every color is called G-polychromatic.
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Lazio defender Stefan Radu has signed a new contract that will keep him at the club until 2015.
The Romania international agreed the deal a couple of weeks ago and waited for it to be ratified.
Radu joined Lazio from Dinamo Bucharest in 2008 and has become a fixture in the side.
Earlier this week, Lazio boss Edy Reja gave his reaction to Radu's commitment.
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Samsung modifies, rebrands & relaunches Galaxy Tab 10.1 in GermanyIn an attempt to bypass claims of patent infringement from Apple, Samsung has modified the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 touchscreen tablet, slightly renamed it, and re-released it in Germany.
The new product, known as the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, attempts to avoid design-related intellectual property owned by Apple. As noted by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, the newly redesigned tablet has a metal frame that wraps "all around the edge to the extent that a part of it covers the margins of the front side."
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Would you, or do you, trust a CF rigid fork? I've searched this forum and didn't find anything definite.
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I have seen people bomb some serious terrain with them.
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I've got ebay CF forks on two of my bikes. One's a commuter so nothing really rough on it. The other one I do take offroad into singletrack. I still cringe when I take it in gnarlly stuff but so far, it's held up. *knock on wood*
i ride a carbon fork everyday...course it is on my road bike......
Thx for the 29er option!
I race a Bontrager carbon fork on my 29er and for XC on a rigid bike you can't beat it. Along with the attack angle of the wheel you can't beat it. In the series I race in there are a lot of rigid bikes that have CF forks. There is a lot lets vibration and feedback from CF than the stock steel fork that was on my bike when I bought it.
i would ride one, almost got one for the bike im building now just found some squish for cheaper. I have yet to see any significant failings in carbon without direct smashing which would hurt other materials also.
My Bontrager Switchblade carbon fork has held up well on my Gary Fisher Rig single speed bike. XC riding and racing. I worry more about myself making a mistake that results in a crash than my carbon fiber bike components breaking.
If the fork was property designed for the purpose I am using it for, the material of construction is not a factor for me.
I've never had a CF part fail. In possibly a related story, I have never installed a CF part that weighed significantly less than the metal part it was replacing.
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The Monks of New Skete THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY The authors of the classic guide How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend now tell you everything you need to know about the crucial first months of your puppy's life. From the decision to adopt a pup through the practical steps of choosing the right breed, preparing your home, caring for your new charge, and practicing basic… See more details below
The Monks of New Skete THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY The authors of the classic guide How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend now tell you everything you need to know about the crucial first months of your puppy's life. From the decision to adopt a pup through the practical steps of choosing the right breed, preparing your home, caring for your new charge, and practicing basic obedience exercises, the Monks of New Skete offer clear, compassionate guidelines for raising a puppy. Renowned for breeding German shepherds, the Monks train their own beautiful dogs, and dogs of any breed, according to a unique program based on understanding canine behavior and enhancing the bond between dog and owner. This communion begins in puppyhood and is based on deep respect and affection. Improper care, poor training, or a lack of attention during the early months can lead to problem behaviors that become increasingly difficult to alter as your dog matures. By learning to gently assert your dominance from the start, you'll build a lasting and loving relationship with your pup. This complete guide, illustrated with more than eighty black-and-white photographs, explains the stages of puppy development, how to communicate with your pup, how to begin a complete training program, and how to deal with common problems like chewing, jumping up, and paper-training. The kind of fulfillment a solid relationship with your pup can bring is demonstrated in the stories of three dogs who have assumed special places in their owners lives. The Art of Raising a Puppy is an essential source of wisdom, information, and inspiration for anyone who loves and cares for a puppy. As a community, the Monks of New Skete have been breeding, raising, and training dogs for more than twenty years. New Skete Monastery is located in Cambridge, New York.
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My husband and I just purchased our first puppy; a yellow lab. The breeder recommended this book to us and we quickly went to the bookstore and purchased it in preparation of our new puppy. What an exceptional and informational read. Although the monks train German Shepards the principles used can be applied to any breed of animal. The book is very easy to read, goes into detail about the birth of the puppies, how the mom reacts and intuitively knows what to do, and then proceeds to discuss the life stages the puppies go through as they grow and mature. It talks about training methods and how essential it is to start working on the role you¿ll play in the puppies life immediately. I recommend this book to anyone that will be brining a new puppy home!!!
The Art of Raising a Puppy and Richard Wolters' Water Dog (or Gun Dog or Family Dog) are all you need to raise a happy, healthy, well-trained dog for your family. The Art teaches you the basics of prepping your house, choosing a dog, early puppy life and how the two of you will get along. Its about relationships, and you will probably learn as much about yourself as your puppy with this book (the Monks' book "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" addresses issue you may encounter later in your dog's life and is excellent as well). Wolters' books, likewise, are the simplest, most effective way to teach sit-stay-come-heel. Once you and the puppy have those four commands down, its smooth sailing with your dog for many years. Wolters is funny, smart and aware that you only have 10-15 minutes twice a day for training. You don't need to be a hunter to use these books, but dogs love the straightforward drills and skills Wolters teaches in addition to the basic commands. Go get'em and enjoy life with your puppy.
this book was recommended to me by the breeder of my new dog. it is an excellent book and has much of Cesar Millan's pack leader type information in it. Stuff i was completely unaware of until just recently, and so important in the first 8 mos of a puppy's life...not allowing them to become the dominant creature in the household, and not petting them when they're doing something you wouldn't want the adult dog this puppy will become to do (jumping on you, pulling on the leash...stuff that's cute when the puppy does it but annoying when the 90 lb Lab is jumping on your guests)
My once problematic chocolate lab is now a wonderful dog thanks to this book. I followed this book to the letter and it made all the difference in the world. The methods are very gentle. The begining is a little slow. I was at my wits end and this really helped.
Excellent advice for all around dog training. It's better for more than just training puppies! We used this on a rescue dog that was scared of my husband because a previous male owner had abused her. She would get scared and litter in the house rather than outside, and after reading the tips in this book and a little creative tweaking to fit our situation, it proved a most EXCELLENT resource to turn her into an AMAZING AMAZING dog!!! :)
The Monks do such a wonderful job of teaching you how to raise your new puppy so that it a nice, well behaved dog who is pleasant to be around. It should be given to every person who wants to have a puppy. Puppy psychology and how the important stages....week by week....are so important for a new owner....I have sled dogs...30 of them....and I have used this for everyone of the puppies that I have raised. Every dog is a great companion, good on the trail, good in the house.... Thank you Monks of New Skete.....
I saw the Monks of New Skete in the early 2000s on the Discovery Channel. I enjoyed the show and was delighted when I saw that they had published books on dog training. They provide very sound advice in raising and training your puppy. I bought both this book as well as "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" as I thought Divine Canine didn't provide as much training information as I'd have liked. The best thing about this book (aside from the training advice) is that the Monks tell you about how puppies grow and the critical stages of their lives. This is great information if you're considering adopting a puppy as opposed to getting one from a reputable breeder at 8 weeks of age. It allows you to consider what critical stages you've missed and how much work you'll have ahead of you. There are also "tests" that the Monks describe in how to choose a puppy that's right for you.
Don't waste your money on any puppy/dog training book other than those by the Monks of New Skete! I purchased this and a few other books on dog training when I bought my first dog (a pure-bred male papillon) five years ago, and by far, found this one to have the most information and easy-to-follow guildelines of any. I can't tell you how often we hear the comment, "what a well behaved dog!". I/my family am currently training our four-month, female Pom/Chi using these same techniques. Having been warned by the vet that since she's female, and a small-breed dog, she will try to be dominate, I'm proud to say that she is showing him the respect he deserves. (There is a section in the book for introducing new puppies to other members of the family.) We've had her about six weeks and we immediately took to heart the advice of the Monks to begin training her the moment she came home. She is too young yet for training classes (which I think are invaluable and recommend everyone get) since she hasn't had all her booster shots (vet requirement & I agree), but already is crate trained, knows how to walk on a leash, sit, lay down, and house-training is going much better this time around. One of the things you'll learn is how dogs think, and how to begin making puppy a healthy, happy, and well-behaved part of your life and home. Especially helpful is the section that asks you to perform certain "tests" to determine the puppy's personality, and highlight any areas in training that might become a challenge. Invaluable. Good luck with training your pup to be a well-behaved part of your life and home!
I HIGHLY recommend this. This copy is for my 8 year old who is training our new puppy. The reading is quite dry for an 8 year old, but we're taking it a section at a time & it's making a HUGE (positive) difference in their relationship! :) This is my 3rd copy of this book, though I've bought several more for gifts. This is THE way, in my opinion, to train dogs -- and, no it doesn't just work for German Shephards. No nonsense, no corporal punishment -- very loving but firm training for BOTH the dog and the owner. As we all know, an unruly dog is usually more a reflection on the OWNER than the actual dog's temperament. Not only do the Monks explain what to expect from your dog, they also explain WHY the dog reacts the way it does (instincts) AND why their way of training, in each situation, works.
The Art Of Raising A Puppy, by the New Skete Monks, is a great book. A book with many pictures to help guide you along, it packs you with everything that you need to know about raising a puppy. The authors, who breed German Shepard puppies, explain everything to you from how to quickly house break your puppy quikly to how to crate train your puppy. The book also gives you inforomtion about when's an why's, like on when you can let your puppy inretact wih other dogs, and much more! This book is nessesary for the soon-to-be owners of puppies.
Worth reading if you are thinking of getting a puppy or older dog. All their books are worth reading.
This is, hands-down, the best book on puppy training there is. I read zillions of them for the past 10 years because I wasn't yet in a position to get my first dog. Finally, I was! My husband and I got a little Australian cattle dog mix 4 weeks ago and, because of this book's training methods, people stop and exclaim over how well behaved our puppy is. It's been a relatively painless training process too. Puppies will be puppies, of course, but it's far easier to impart good habits to them early on than it is to wait till they're 6 mo. or older when you'd have to correct bad habits. Watch The Dog Whisperer and read this book, and training up a well balanced, happy puppy is no sweat.
Great book packed full of helpful information! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with a new puppy or looking to get a puppy. It will help you know how to choose the right dog and how to prepare your home and family for the new addition.
This is such an unbelievable puppy raising book. I recommend this to anyone who is thinking of raising a puppy and doesn't know how. This book talks about from the ride home to so much more. This is pretty much the only book you'l need to raise a puppy. Don't even bother getting other books.
Next to "How to be your dog's best friend" from the same monks, this is the best reference guide for raising a puppy.


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GM:"Word is Dodgers will go five years, close to $50M on (Cuban) Miguel Gonzalez. If so, he'll be a Dodger.:
Not yet...
Although I suppose they were as close as they could be yesterday, exchanging medical information on players and something turned up on one of the Rangers pitchers that caused the Cubs to squeeze the brakes. Names have been flying around, but Neil Ramirez, C.J. Edwards and Mike Olt seem to be the hottest names of late. Jeff Passan says the Rangers also showed interest in James Russell, although no one knows if he was part of what sounded like a 6-player deal...although once again, no one knows for sure.
Rumors be the teams will continue today to try and find a fit and that nothing in Garza's medical dossier caused a panic for the Rangers.
Indians beat reporter:
Indians beat reporter:
Matt [email protected]
Source tells me that if Rangers can't get Garza done by tonight with Cubs it's not getting done at all, which could open door for #Indians
I would rather hear Cubs not
I would rather hear Cubs not willing to move Garza for jizz in balls.
Also, crunch alert. Bedard thru 6, 2-2 tie no hits.
out of the game after 6.1ip..
out of the game after 6.1ip...103 pitches.
Brian Roberts shouldn't be
Brian Roberts shouldn't be the only recent inductee into the Trades That Never Were Hall of Fame.
Jake Peavy is right up there
Jake Peavy is right up there on the list too...
Buster [email protected]_ESPN
Buster [email protected]_ESPN
Scouts are going to walk away impressed by Peavy, whose velocity reached the low-90s; two earned runs in six innings, 3 strikeouts, no walks
That's nice Buster. But the
That's nice Buster. But the GM's also know that he could be on the DL with Kerry Wood-like regularity.
That's nice Buster. But the
That's nice Buster. But the GM's also know that he could be on the DL with Kerry Wood-like regularity.
Yeah, I don't see Peavy's
Yeah, I don't see Peavy's extra year of control as a good thing. I just threw it up there since he could be viewed as a Garza alternative to some team.
after today's ross wolf start
after today's ross wolf start...garza must be looking a little better...or anyone besides ross wolf.
5 hits in a row to start the
5 hits in a row to start the 5th...awesome.
1-6, 0 outs...men on 1st/2nd.
can the cubs quit using j
can the cubs quit using j.borbon as a pinch hitter with men on?
i guess that .175 BA over the past 2.5 months is too awesome to pass up using him with men on...btw, .171 with men on total, .143 with RISP.
...and he pops out to shallow left with men on 1st/2nd.
j.arrieta (AAA)
j.arrieta (AAA)
5ip 6h 2bb 3k, 4er for the loss
interesting tweet from Gordon
interesting tweet from Gordon Wittenmeyer...not sure how much tongue and cheek it is (ribbing his competitor beat reporter), particularly with the last hashtag.
Another close call with @PWSullivan in Denver bar. Security intervened before Police needed to keep @PWSullivan off N'Shore Cub fan #douche
KC Cougars wins in 10th, 6-5
KC Cougars beat Lugnuts 6-5 in 10th on a bases loaded single by Dan Vogelbach (after Almora strikeout)
Glad to hear he's still alive
Glad to hear he's still alive. Haven't heard much about Dan this year!
Glad to hear he's still alive
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Astro's double barrel ex-Cub
Astro's double barrel ex-Cub DFA's: Ronny Cedeno and Carlos Pena
what an arm on that Lake!
what an arm on that Lake!
Overthrew everyone, but...who cares!
At least he is not playing the infield!
Reminds me of some of AZ Phil
Reminds me of some of AZ Phil's comments about his play -- very toolsy (plus plus arm) and he'll wow you one minute, then leave you shaking your head the next. I remember a young Sammy Sosa being like that. Any coincidence that he chose to wear Sammy's old number? Didn't think so.
Junior Lake requested uniform
Junior Lake requested uniform #22 but Garza is still wearing it. He was assigned #21. He is not the first to have it since Sosa.
(Jason Marquis (2007-08), Milton Bradley (2009), Tyler Colvin (2010-11), Luis Valbuena (2012), Joe Mather (2012), Scott Hairston(2013) and now Junior Lake)
I prefer my personal theories
I prefer my personal theories to be unencumbered by inconvenient actual facts, thank you... I was actually under the impression that Junior had requested 21 after reading a Muskat article (dangerous, I know), but I may have read more into it than was there. A glass or two of wine while surfing the 'net can do that to you.
"I prefer my personal
"I prefer my personal theories to be unencumbered by inconvenient actual facts, thank you..."
It's people like you that keep my faith in human kind alive.
Saves the Cubs a few hundred
Saves the Cubs a few hundred K.
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The Braves have selected RHP Kameron Loe from Gwinnett (AAA) and will wear #40. A corresponding move will be announced prior to today's game
Speaking of #22...He's being
Speaking of #22...This time he's being written about in the NY Times:
Then another anterior capsule tear shut him down once more. He has no immediate plans for surgery, just rest, but Louisville parted ways with him June 28.
After Prior's latest setback, Baker told him he had not been that far from a return to the majors when his shoulder gave out. Several Reds relievers had been injured, creating openings on the roster. If Prior had been healthy, Baker could have recalled him.
Jesse Sanchez tweets...
Jesse Sanchez tweets...
Agent says Eloy Jimenez will sign for $2.8M on 8/1 or 8/2 at a press conference in DR. Turned down $5M from another team to stay with Cubs.
This gives the Cubs the entire trade deadline to whittle down the spending gap that leads to 2014 draft penalties.
16 years old...never played
16 years old...never played legit competitive baseball in his life...leaves $2.2m on the table to sign with the cubs...
what the hell is going on there? that just sounds insane. are the cubs buying his parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles new houses or something? =p
Pics of Mr. Cub on stage at
Pics and Video of Mr. Cub on stage at Wrigley with Eddie Vedder at the recent Pearl Jam concert
Check out the Rolling Stone
Check out the Rolling Stone review as well. Pretty damn glowing!
Kris Bryant to make pro debut
Kris Bryant to make pro debut tonight for AZL Cubs.
Bryant went 0-for-3, made 3
Bryant went 0-for-3, made 3 errors. Pulled after 5th inning.
impressive. bob brenly
impressive. bob brenly approves.
fwiw, j.gray (who's not near 100 pitch per outing stretched, though he's still starting in R ball)
2g 5.2ip 8h 0bb 5k, 4er (6.35era) 1hbp, 1 balk
Perfect. Certainly the Cub's
Perfect. Certainly the Cub's Way on both accounts.
Bring him up!!
Bring him up!!
He's already a Cub!!
Puff piece on Archer.
I see Greg Rohan showed up
I see Greg Rohan showed up this weekend with the Arizon Cubs team.
Any idea if he's been hurt, or just not playing this year?
DUSTY: Greg Rohan had back
DUSTY: Greg Rohan had back surgery last off-season and has been rehabbing at Fitch Park since Minor League Camp. He is just starting to play in games now.
Ty Ty AzPhil!
Ty Ty AzPhil!
Javier Baez scouting report.
Cool. Seems like the waggle
Cool. Seems like the waggle is something that could be worked on fairly easily. No sense giving a pitcher an extra unnecessary advantage.
This is all speculation on my
This is all speculation on my part, but I think they moved him up to AA to expose him. It looks like he had learned to overcome his weaknesses at high-A so they wanted to show him that his approach wouldn't work at higher levels.
Normally this could cause a kid to lose confidence, but I don't think Baez has that issue.
That seems about right. There
That seems about right. There does seem to be something about him, one of those intangibles, but the breaking ball is always the nail in a major league career coffin.
Dont make us start him!!!
Dont make us start him!!!
-Theo dragging Garza to mound
Fingers crossed there's a
Fingers crossed there's a real workaround for Olt's eye! Guessing we'll see him soon, even if he doesn't see us. Ba dum.
Rosenthal: Olt, Edwards, and
Rosenthal: Olt, Edwards, and a third player.
Edwards! Yes!
Give us the Royal Baby Boy,
Give us the Royal Baby Boy, and we'll call it a deal.
Wow, one o-fer and three
Wow, one o-fer and three errors and Bryant already done.
I hate this trade. The guys
Heard an interesting thing on
Heard an interesting thing on 670 the SCORE today in Len Kasper's weekly visit.
HE said that the TheoJed group are remarkably patient and if they don't feel that they are getting the best deal for the Club, they will simply just make a qualifying offer and do this "all again next year".
It seems like this group may at least have a hint at knowing what they are doing? Or - maybe not. I am really curious what they saw in the Ranger's medicals...
So what is the deal with this new collective bargaining thing exactly?
I recall that should they lost the player, they would receive a n extra draft pick based on their record, ala the Pirates not signing Appel this year.
Where is AZ PHIL these days? Trying to stay cool?
[after posting I saw the "Breaking News"]
Additional confirmation:
Additional confirmation:
"Cubs starting pitcher Matt Garza was scheduled to pitch tonight against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but that is no longer the case. He's been scratched from the lineup and a trade to the Texas Rangers is close, confirms Jon Heyman."
Evan Grant via Lonestar Ball
Evan Grant via Lonestar Ball says third player could be Ramirez or Odor. And that the Cubs may get a PTBNL.
So how long before we
So how long before we actually know all 3 players and its confirmed?
The team really needs an
The team really needs an "Odor" around?
every lineup he is in stinks
every lineup he is in stinks
TR Sullivan says Rangers are
TR Sullivan says Rangers are getting a 2nd player.
Edit: It says they will "likely try to get a second player," whatever the hell that means.
We have to have a player of
We have to have a player of two in the minors that they could bring up.
Passan: Third player is
Passan: Third player is Justin Grimm.
Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a very solid haul.
"Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a
"Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a very solid haul."
Cubs also getting a PTBNL
Cubs also getting a PTBNL
Phil, when can he be brought
Phil, when can he be brought up?
I have some breaking news...
I have some breaking news...
My first TCR Scoop!! The Cubs and Rangers are nearing a deal for Garza. BANK IT!
So Olt...
So Olt...
Now I gotta find out more about this vision thing since this is actually apparently happening. I would have thought that was the hang up last time, but I guess not. I remember last year we were talking about an Olt for Garza and some of the guys here were really creaming their pants over the possibility.
Anyone know what Grimm's
Anyone know what Grimm's ceiling is? Or what his trouble has been? On name value alone, I like him more than "Tepesch".
Excitement for Garza trade
Excitement for Garza trade quickly passed over by schadenfreude for Braun suspension.
Recent comments
Everytime I recall Szcur's bne marrow donation to a stranger, it makes me smile:
If Matt is out will Kawasaki get the call-up? Or "Shane"?
"Matt Szczur will undergo an MRI on his right hamstring on Tuesday."
One of the reasons I think Maddon is a great manager -- he has changed the conversation on Baez from HR & strikeouts to great defense, versatility and an all-around good ballplayer. He rarely talks about his offense, which is the only thing anybody used to talk about with Javy. He took a lot of pressure off the kid, and he seems to have responded.
Good pitching and some nifty D tonight -- nice win.
In case you didn't see it -- it was the Little League play where the guy on first gets caught in a rundown on purpose and the guy on third tries to score. It worked.
Gotta love the Pirates pitcher intentionally hitting Zobrist, then allowing Zobrist to score on a 2-out wild pitch.
Stealing HOME?!
Also, glad to see Zobrist coming around with RISP after my remarks last week. Heh!
ESPN reporting heyward day-to-day with an injured wrist
ESPN game tonight, btw.
Cardinal way #48
"negligent transmission of STDs"
Heyward getting the night off.
Grand Slammin' Sczcur in RF - La Stella batting 2nd
Twitterverse reporting that Heyward is dealing with a sore right wrist
Cardinal way #47
See ya on parrot chat
In what was probably the last start for RHSP Jeremy Null at EXST...
Intrasquad game this morning on Field #5 at Riverview Baseball Complex:
4.1 IP, 7 H, 3 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 1 HR, 2 WP, 1 GIDP, 5/4 GO/AO, 75 pitches (50 strikes)
Next stop is likely either South Bend or Myrtle Beach (TBD)
There does seem to be something funky about closers pitching in non-save situations -- they never seem to be as effective. But, to your point, there could not have been a save situation in that game, so why not use your best reliever?
Your thought: don't pitch Rondon at all, since a save can't happen in extra innings at home.
Maddon's thought: might as well pitch him now, because there's no later.


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