In my middle school we had a gifted program. The program separated the students into three categories: Gifted, Above Average, and Normal. Because of scheduling the History class was composed of Gifted and Normal (no Above Average). The Normals in that class did better at history than the Above Average in the other History classes. I should note that it was the students who figured this out, the Non-Gifted ones at that.
The conclusion was that interest, more than anything, governed success and the enthusiasm and interest of the Gifted had infected the Normals. Allocating resources will only go so far but spreading interest will do more. Sadly NCLB leaves little room for a teacher to do so.
Yes in that the environment has a MASSIVE effect on the dog's personality and temperament.
No in some of the details.
The common "leave the mother" age is 8 weeks. The reason is that many social and interaction lessons are taught by the mother and the siblings during that time. The biggest being bite inhibition. All the lessons can be taught by the humans but few do. Pure breed buyers are the least likely since they are getting THAT breed in the belief that it is "safe" and don't HAVE to do anything.
The breeding out of aggression in German Shepherds never happened. What did happen was a dilution of the German Shepherd breeding stock so the look of a Shepherd had to be remade. Sorta like the Shar Pei's but not as bad. The apparent decline in aggression was because the Media and the People had found a new breed to demonize.
Interestingly enough increases in bites and deaths by a breed often FOLLOWS the fear and reputation of that breed. The reason is that people who want guard dogs or mean dogs listen to what people say are aggressive dogs and get those. They then de-socialize, isolate and otherwise encourage anti-social behavior (leaving a dog out on a chain all the time, especially with kids to torment it, is a quick way to get a nasty dog).
If you want details on the history of that read "The Pit Bull Placebo: The Media, Myths and Politics of Canine Aggression" by Karen Delise. It does a great job of documenting the last 150+ years with quotes and excerpts from papers and people of the times. It can also be used as a look into hysteria, paranoia and fear for those looking to dig into their own pet social problem. "Think of the children..." has deep roots.
The first few weeks do not set or at least not permanently set their personality. The advice of giving space, not yelling, giving structure (times and expectations) and such are something that applies at all times of their lives. I've seen dogs 3+ year and older exhibit the same neurotic result. "Kennel crazy" is probably the most common example of this. Curing the crazy is fairly simple: structure, exercise (for the ones with excess energy), and their own crate to relax in.
As a purebred breeder (or involved with such) you should be concerned. Over the decades spay+neuter combined with the crazy idea that dogs breed for looks (or just pedigree!) make better pets has destroyed the "All American Mutt" population. If cloning of dogs becomes affordable and common then the same mindset that damaged the mutt and various "bad" breeds will do the same to non-cloned dogs. If the clone is a normal dog and does normal dog things then "its great because its a clone!". It would have to do bad things often or severely to either gain the notice of its starry-eyed owner or be not written off as "abnormal but still better than those BRED dogs". Even if there is a rash of bad behavior it will be written off as "just those clones, others are still better than those and bred dogs". It has happened before, few remember that Pettie on the Little Rascals was an American Pit Bull Terrier.
For the people who clone their loved pet they do run the risk of assuming that the lessons and experience of their dead dog will transfer. They might dismiss the idea that they must still protect (but not comfort) the dog during its fear stages and keep order during its challenge periods among other things. They will instead blame the problems on the cloners "they just have not mastered it, they will get it right with better tech"
Hibernate translates directly into SQL. There is even an option to have it print out the generated query so you can see how you messed up your logic. There is even a way to pass in chunks of sql to use features that either have not been implemented yet or are specific to your DB. The reason that systems like Hibernate are not in use more is the perception that they are slow and the urge of programmers to code like they always have and create SQL from concatenated strings.
If you know the theory behind SQL then the two ways of programming Hibernate (HQL and Criteria) are just different typesafe syntaxes.
It is interesting that you choose hound as your "good dog". For decades it was blood hounds that where trained and bred to hunt down and maul escaped slaves and then escaped convicts. It was only with World War II's daemonization of all things German and a brief stint for the "feared northern breeds" (Labrador and Newfoundland Retrievers) that the blood hound lost its title as Demon Dog.
When humans are involved history and reason go out the window and only perception and bias remain.
1) the evolving american: One very interesting and MEASURABLE transition in human genome has occurred right here in america, and in a geological/evolutionary blink of an eye... Our tallness (no, not fatness)... the average height and brawn of the american has demonstratably increased steadily since colonization (freaks like lincoln aside)...
You are aware that various Asian countries are achieving the SAME height change in 1/2 to 1/4 of the time it took americans? Fact is, there are more possible reasons for a person's given height than just Genetics. Nutrition and enviromental stressors are the causes you should be looking at, especially when you are comparing developing/non-developed countries versus fully developed countries (with good health care and nutrititional habits).
The University of Iowa has pretty extensive wireless networking in the buildings, but I don't know if it's open. There were a couple of students who were talking about starting a company to provide wifi coverage to the entire Iowa City area, but since I've been at Caltech for the last couple year, I don't know how that's progressed.
Bah, the only way to encode mp3s is with Xing's encoder with VBR set at normal/high. Bits used only when needed, what could be better? I personaly CDs that i encoded that do not sound good unless encoded at 320 kbit. The VBR takes gives those parts enough bits but saves on the rest. Xing's audiocatylist offers VBR at any level desired. The only drawback is that file size varies on the complexity of the track.
well Gore isn't an option either, he can be easily bought. he is the one with campaign controbution problems *think buddha*. not to mention he is running on the economy of Clinton *see what microsoft did for us!*. doing anything to disrupt the flow of money is not in his game plan.
(We ended up ordering the memory from Gateway. - Thus, I can't give any hints as to what to use.)
here is could be your problem. If you bought the Athlon as a package from Gateway then the motherboard probably is a custom job that only lets Gateway memory to work. I have heard that Compaq still does this type of thing.
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In my middle school we had a gifted program. The program separated the students into three categories: Gifted, Above Average, and Normal. Because of scheduling the History class was composed of Gifted and Normal (no Above Average). The Normals in that class did better at history than the Above Average in the other History classes. I should note that it was the students who figured this out, the Non-Gifted ones at that.
The conclusion was that interest, more than anything, governed success and the enthusiasm and interest of the Gifted had infected the Normals. Allocating resources will only go so far but spreading interest will do more. Sadly NCLB leaves little room for a teacher to do so.
Yes and no.
Yes in that the environment has a MASSIVE effect on the dog's personality and temperament.
No in some of the details.
The common "leave the mother" age is 8 weeks. The reason is that many social and interaction lessons are taught by the mother and the siblings during that time. The biggest being bite inhibition. All the lessons can be taught by the humans but few do. Pure breed buyers are the least likely since they are getting THAT breed in the belief that it is "safe" and don't HAVE to do anything.
The breeding out of aggression in German Shepherds never happened. What did happen was a dilution of the German Shepherd breeding stock so the look of a Shepherd had to be remade. Sorta like the Shar Pei's but not as bad. The apparent decline in aggression was because the Media and the People had found a new breed to demonize.
Interestingly enough increases in bites and deaths by a breed often FOLLOWS the fear and reputation of that breed. The reason is that people who want guard dogs or mean dogs listen to what people say are aggressive dogs and get those. They then de-socialize, isolate and otherwise encourage anti-social behavior (leaving a dog out on a chain all the time, especially with kids to torment it, is a quick way to get a nasty dog).
If you want details on the history of that read "The Pit Bull Placebo: The Media, Myths and Politics of Canine Aggression" by Karen Delise. It does a great job of documenting the last 150+ years with quotes and excerpts from papers and people of the times. It can also be used as a look into hysteria, paranoia and fear for those looking to dig into their own pet social problem. "Think of the children..." has deep roots.
The first few weeks do not set or at least not permanently set their personality. The advice of giving space, not yelling, giving structure (times and expectations) and such are something that applies at all times of their lives. I've seen dogs 3+ year and older exhibit the same neurotic result. "Kennel crazy" is probably the most common example of this. Curing the crazy is fairly simple: structure, exercise (for the ones with excess energy), and their own crate to relax in.
As a purebred breeder (or involved with such) you should be concerned. Over the decades spay+neuter combined with the crazy idea that dogs breed for looks (or just pedigree!) make better pets has destroyed the "All American Mutt" population. If cloning of dogs becomes affordable and common then the same mindset that damaged the mutt and various "bad" breeds will do the same to non-cloned dogs. If the clone is a normal dog and does normal dog things then "its great because its a clone!". It would have to do bad things often or severely to either gain the notice of its starry-eyed owner or be not written off as "abnormal but still better than those BRED dogs". Even if there is a rash of bad behavior it will be written off as "just those clones, others are still better than those and bred dogs". It has happened before, few remember that Pettie on the Little Rascals was an American Pit Bull Terrier.
For the people who clone their loved pet they do run the risk of assuming that the lessons and experience of their dead dog will transfer. They might dismiss the idea that they must still protect (but not comfort) the dog during its fear stages and keep order during its challenge periods among other things. They will instead blame the problems on the cloners "they just have not mastered it, they will get it right with better tech"
Hibernate translates directly into SQL. There is even an option to have it print out the generated query so you can see how you messed up your logic. There is even a way to pass in chunks of sql to use features that either have not been implemented yet or are specific to your DB. The reason that systems like Hibernate are not in use more is the perception that they are slow and the urge of programmers to code like they always have and create SQL from concatenated strings.
If you know the theory behind SQL then the two ways of programming Hibernate (HQL and Criteria) are just different typesafe syntaxes.
It is interesting that you choose hound as your "good dog". For decades it was blood hounds that where trained and bred to hunt down and maul escaped slaves and then escaped convicts. It was only with World War II's daemonization of all things German and a brief stint for the "feared northern breeds" (Labrador and Newfoundland Retrievers) that the blood hound lost its title as Demon Dog.
When humans are involved history and reason go out the window and only perception and bias remain.
You are aware that various Asian countries are achieving the SAME height change in 1/2 to 1/4 of the time it took americans? Fact is, there are more possible reasons for a person's given height than just Genetics. Nutrition and enviromental stressors are the causes you should be looking at, especially when you are comparing developing/non-developed countries versus fully developed countries (with good health care and nutrititional habits).
The University of Iowa has pretty extensive wireless networking in the buildings, but I don't know if it's open. There were a couple of students who were talking about starting a company to provide wifi coverage to the entire Iowa City area, but since I've been at Caltech for the last couple year, I don't know how that's progressed.
Bah, the only way to encode mp3s is with Xing's encoder with VBR set at normal/high. Bits used only when needed, what could be better? I personaly CDs that i encoded that do not sound good unless encoded at 320 kbit. The VBR takes gives those parts enough bits but saves on the rest. Xing's audiocatylist offers VBR at any level desired. The only drawback is that file size varies on the complexity of the track.
well Gore isn't an option either, he can be easily bought. he is the one with campaign controbution problems *think buddha*. not to mention he is running on the economy of Clinton *see what microsoft did for us!*. doing anything to disrupt the flow of money is not in his game plan.
here is could be your problem. If you bought the Athlon as a package from Gateway then the motherboard probably is a custom job that only lets Gateway memory to work. I have heard that Compaq still does this type of thing.