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You can target the iPod touch as well as the iPhone, and can develop on the iPod touch as well as the iPhone ($220 development platforms with no per-month cost).
You have some very interesting features (accelerometer, GPS, camera) which make for some particularly interesting ideas
You have a large installed base thats still growing rapidly.
And apple takes only a 30% cut of revenue, in exchange for a nice distribution mechanism.
"And apple takes only a 30"
Except with many smartphones you aren't locked into a single point of sale. There are plenty of very good Windows Mobile applications that vendors sell directly to the consumer, for example.
Plus, if you are already a
Eh, the mods must be crazy.
You must be new here.
Says the guy with the UID 30% bigger than mine.
Slashdot must be the only instance where men compares sizes, and smaller wins.
I do not have an iPhone, Windows Mobile Smart Phone, or Blackberry. I have a Nokia phone, and in the past i had a Motorola phone with Java.
The thing is, as a user, I dont know where to shop for Windows Mobile apps or Symbian Apps. The only app i ever downloaded was google maps on my Razor.
On the other hand, I do know where to shop for iPhone apps.
I'm sure there are thousands of places to buy or get mobile apps for the other platforms, but the thing is nobody is really promoting them to the consumers.
Apple is promoting its App Store directly to consumers, so if I was a developer trying to make money by selling to consumers, I would probably choose Apple.
But Microsoft, RIM and Symbian probably offer have better services and tools for developers (such as no stupid NDAs). If I wanted to make money by selling mobile enterprise apps, I might consider RIM or Microsoft instead, and target my advertising directly to potential customers.
That depends a lot.
I don't know of any off the shelf software distributor that take 30%.
well, Android Market takes 30% as well. according to Google [blogspot.com], developers are required to pay a one time $25 application fee when they register, after which they're free to upload their applications without any need for validation or approval. so instead of having to go through Apple's block box approval process, quality control will be implemented through a collaborative filtering system (user ratings) similar to Mozilla's extensions library.
it's been stated that developers will receive 70% of the revenue from each purchase, so that's inline with Apple's 30% service fee. though apparently Google doesn't receive any of the money made from Android Market:
developers will get 70% of the revenue from each purchase; the remaining amount goes to carriers and billing settlement fees--Google does not take a percentage. We believe this revenue model creates a fair and positive experience for users, developers, and carriers.
so again it looks like the cellphone carriers are trying to get their grubby little fingers on other people's money solely on the basis that they control the proprietary cellular networks the public depends on. well, at least it's good that Google is encouraging innovation and opening the platform to independent developers.
with the collective weight of the Open Handset Alliance [wikipedia.org] (which is composed of pretty much all of the major players in the mobile phone/smart devices industry) behind the Android platform, it has a good chance over overtaking Windows Mobile and dominating the mobile devices market. i mean, Android has pretty much vertical as well as horizontal integration. they've got all the major mobile carriers, software developers, handset manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, and handset manufacturers. the only big names companies that aren't behind Android are Apple, Microsoft, and Verizon. personally, i don't think they stand much of a chance against the OHA.
Apple gets their iPhone processor/chipset from Samsung and Marvell, both of who are now member of the OHA. and HTC, a major Taiwanese ODM that develops many popular Windows Mobile-based carrier-rebranded handsets has also joined the OHA. we know that their recently released T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream's Qualcomm MSM7201A processors (shared by the Palm Trio Pro) supports Android, so it's likely that other Qualcomm MSM line processors will also run Android. and it's reported that the HTC Vogue/Touch (Vodafone VDA Touch, Okta Touch, O2 XDA Nova, T-Mobile MDA Touch) can also run Android on is TI OMAP 850 processor. so chances are, other handsets based on the OMAP line will also support Android.
in fact, _all_ of HTC's smartphones [wikipedia.org], which represent a major segement of Windows Mobile handsets, use CPUs designed by other OHA members, including Texas Instruments, Intel, Samsung, Marvell, and Qualcomm. and if the one of HTC's Windows Mobile-based devices already runs Android, then the rest may will likely follow.
and a look at other Windows Mobile Smartphones [mobile-sg.com] shows that they all pretty much run on the same TI, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm CPUs. so it seems these OHA members produce the vast majority (if not all) the CPUs used in mobile devices--or at least those currently running Windows Mobile. under these circumstances, i would not be surprised at all if Android starts supporting replacing Windows Mobile as the dominant mobile operating system.
Considering that they are taking care of all the billing, credit card processing, accounting and running the distribution/download site, yeah. I'd call that "only".
"And apple takes only a 30"
He covered that with the bit about the 'nice distribution system'. Apple's training their customers to pay for apps. The real question is: Despite the 30% cut, would a developer still make more money? The amount Apple makes is immaterial.
Only, including the cost of development tools, distribution, credit card processing, bandwidth, etc.
You write your app and upload it, and then Apple sends you a cheque. Sounds like a pretty damn good deal to me.
You're practically self-parodying here...
You can target the iPod touch as well as the iPhone, and can develop on the iPod touch as well as the iPhone ($220 development platforms with no per-month cost).
Excluding, of course, the per-month AT&T contract.
You have some very interesting features (accelerometer, GPS, camera) which make for some particularly interesting ideas
All of which exist on other phones.
You have a large installed base thats still growing rapidly.
vs, say, J2ME, which has a huge install base that shows no signs of collapsing.
And apple takes only a 30% cut of revenue, in exchange for a nice distribution mechanism.
"Only" 30%? And they can pull the plug on your app any time they want.
All you've managed to do so far is to show that it could work, not why it's better than anything else.
Excluding, of course, the per-month AT&T contract.
That's why he said to develop on the iPod Touch. You don't need a contract with AT&T for that, and it can do everything the iPhone can (except it doesn't have a microphone).
All of which exist on other phones.
But it doesn't exist on *every* other phone. One of the huge advantages of targeting the iPhone is that you are guaranteed to have a specific feature set that you can rely on.
vs, say, J2ME, which has a huge install base that shows no signs of collapsing.
J2ME ain't that great to develop for, because you have no idea what sort of hardware you're targeting. Of course, it totally depends on what sort of applicat
That's why he said to develop on the iPod Touch.
Actually, he said "You can target the iPod touch as well as the iPhone" -- and how many of the other toys (GPS, etc) are available on the touch as well?
But it doesn't exist on *every* other phone. One of the huge advantages of targeting the iPhone is that you are guaranteed to have a specific feature set that you can rely on.
That is, it's one of the huge advantages of targeting one specific machine.
That's like claiming Apple's homogeneous hardware is a good reason to target Mac instead of PC. Leaving aside the possibility that you might want to actually avoid vendor lock-in, and be able to choose a different manufacturer... If you really want to use exactly one line of computers
You're practically self-parodying here...
You can target the iPod touch as well as the iPhone, and can develop on the iPod touch as well as the iPhone ($220 development platforms with no per-month cost).
Excluding, of course, the per-month AT&T contract.
You have some very interesting features (accelerometer, GPS, camera) which make for some particularly interesting ideas
All of which exist on other phones.
You have a large installed base thats still growing rapidly.
vs, say, J2ME, which has a huge install base that shows no signs of collapsing.
And apple takes only a 30% cut of revenue, in exchange for a nice distribution mechanism.
"Only" 30%? And they can pull the plug on your app any time they want.
All you've managed to do so far is to show that it could work, not why it's better than anything else.
Excluding, of course, the per-month AT&T contract.
Yep, last time I used my iPod Touch I had to pay AT&T. Learn to read, please. You have some good points about J2ME, but spouting off non-sense doesn't help.
vs, say, J2ME, which has a huge install base that shows no signs of collapsing.
Well, now, I wouldn't say that.
Looking at the smartphone platforms, iPhone doesn't support J2ME. Android doesn't natively support J2ME, though some folk are working on a J2ME compatibility layer. Windows Mobile supports J2ME, I think, but you have to believe that Microsoft would really rather you build apps using
A little unclear from your post if you are trying to sell an application or if this is for your own house that you are building.
If you want to sell an application, Apple provides a great distribution mechanism albeit a currently buggy suite of tools to get your application onto the store.
If it's for personal use, they also provide an ad hoc means for loading applications on specific devices without having to post it to the application store.
Something to keep in mind is that if you want to develop on the iPh
You have a large installed base thats still growing rapidly.
A good fraction of said installed base has money to spend. All of them have a track record of being separated from their money with only moderate effort.
And separating other people from their money is the primary motivation for going into any business.
The devilish thing is that mobile phones today are as the personal computers were before the IBM PC and MS-DOS appeared on the market.
Not that it was the best product that took over then, and we are still waiting for the 'killer phone'.
Apple could have taken that path if they were more open but from the perspective of a developer they are a locked-up dead end.
The phones that I think are the ones that's easiest to develop for are the Windows Mobile phones (horrible thought), but I haven't seen the Android ye
Agree on the web-based. Make it work with most mobile browsers, and it can also work from a desktop. Hell it could even run from standard (or non-standard, rather) phones with simple browsers if it's friendly enough.
And fooey on you for excluding Windows Mobile...I know hating Microsoft is the popular thing to do around here, but you should give credit where it's due. It's the best OS Microsoft has ever made. Which isn't saying much, but I like it because it has the best variety of apps and flexibility
If you design your system with a web-based system, you can even go ahead and add other types of device into the mix while still properly supporting a phone. Something that works with the aging Nokia 770's web interface, or even the newer 810 would work just fine with an iPhone, or any flavor of Windows Mobile.
In my personal experience, the iPhone would be a great platform for something like this - though the cost of entry isn't so great. However, the iPod Touch would do just as well unless you really need to have cellular access to things from long distances. The Mobile Safari interface is nice and clean, and the "Sliding" paradigm used in a lot of interfaces for it seems to be quite user-friendly and not too tough to work with.
Windows Mobile might be good for development of a standard application, and Windows Mobile devices are a dime a dozen these days if you don't mind going back a few versions. Unfortunately, the underlying OS is.. Windows Mobile.
...but how long will any mobile phone technology last? Will you find yourself having to re-do it all every 5 years as phone/carrier makers obsolete what you developed for?
Web based makes sense since you could possibly transition to some other technology, or, more likely, a mobile device's web access will only get better making it in-place upgradable for a long time.
Building your software to target a specific phone technology just seems terribly shortsighted for something like a house.
(IMHO, the real answer is "none" -- home automation is of limited value past a programmable thermostat and ultimately an albatross of shit that doesn't work and is expensive and time-consuming to fix. Its frightfully expensive to maintain ordinary systems like windows, gutters, and roofs, let alone a whole complex automation system).
Web based makes sense since you could possibly transition to some other technology, or, more likely, a mobile device's web access will only get better making it in-place upgradable for a long time.
I'd teir it. A web service tier that does all the actual work. A web based front end, lowest common denominator UI for any device including a laptop, it uses the web service to get things actually done.
Then you can just build a phone UI directly against the web service for any device you want a more 'slick mobile application' for than accessing it via the web.
Technology is becoming agnostic.
Build a 'phone' ready web page and stop worrying which device will connect to it.
If you build a web app, it might not be able to take advantage of the phone's hardware, like the GPS. I originally built a web app but bit the bullet and wrote a native iPhone app for this very reason.
If you build a web app, it might not be able to take advantage of the phone's hardware, like the GPS. I originally built a web app but bit the bullet and wrote a native iPhone app for this very reason.
Fair point in general, but for the specific case of geolocation, some upcoming standards will allow pages to access that information if the user allows it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation [mozilla.org]
It's easy to write for. Not easy to get your app to where people can buy it. I know of 2 guys that cant get their apps approved for sale.
it's the one and only reason I hate the iphone.
Why not develop it for Windows Mobile? It doesn't have as many restrictions as an iPhone or blackberry, is well established, is widely available, and has a good sdk.
Though, I will say that the most flexibility would probably be from a web-based app. Then you wouldn't be limited to a phone. However, it wouldn't be too difficult to make something that could work both on Windows Mobile and desktop Windows.
Trouble with developing for windows mobile is that you end up with apps that only run on windows mobile...
If you develop for the unofficial iphone sdk you can create portable apps, same with other unix and java based phones.
Yeah, I was really wondering why it wasn't listed as one of the "obvious choices", considering it's probably the most open platform.
I definitely agree on the web-based app part. You can target the browser for whatever phone you end up dealing with -- and it wouldn't be too hard to write it for multiple different phone browsers, by just changing some of the presentation code.
Personally, having developed for Windows Mobile and the iPhone, my inclination would be to instead create a web-based UI.
The reason is simple: first, the web is pretty universal. You can (in theory) use it from almost any device with a web browser.
Second, it's going to be a lot easier to quickly prototype the control software than a custom client/server architecture with a custom protocol, which you'd get with nearly any mobile device.
And third, if you switch to a new brand of phone, you're not completely hosed; the worst thing that will happen are a few web page tweaks.
Doesn't Smart Home already have this kind of thing, only profesionally developed and tested? I was under the impression that they supported things that were flexible enough that you could do pretty much anything with it.
If you absolutely need to develope it yourself, how about making it web enabled. Then it could be accessed from any web enabled phone. You'd have to implement a certain amount of security of course, don't want some jackass next door turning your lights on and off during the middle of the
Not even a mention for Windows Mobile?
Not that I care either way (though my current phone is an HTC TyTn II), but interesting how quickly it fell in popularity over the last year.
If you make some basic assumptions about things like useable screen-size and a touchscreen, I'd think you're best served going with a web-based interface. With the latest generation of phone browsers, it's close enough to a normal web browsing that you can make something useable and extremely portable across different phone platforms. You gave only a cursory explanation of what your program would have to do, but it sounds like it wouldn't be terribly intensive, so a web based system seems to be very practic
Seriously consider using either J2ME or Web-based content. You can never rely on any one thing, but standards like these should allow you to change target platforms more easily in the future when the company you've chosen to follow either busts or, more likely, drops one of the features you've relied upon and you have a large amount of rework ahead of you.
(My fantasies always revolved around the Palm, but that was the standard when those dreams began).
The cool thing about developing for the iPhone is that you are *essentially* also developing for OS X. So its almost a twofer.
The basic principles are the same (it's all Objective-C and Cocoa), but the GUI SDK for the iPhone is not the same as that of a normal OS X GUI application.
Oh, please. You said it yourself: "The basic principles are the same"...
Of course it is not *exactly* the same in terms of the interface and some hardware specific calls, but the core code for the kernel is *essentially* the same.
...and the "easiest" solution is to go the web route. You can determine, based on the browser identifier, what is connecting to your web server and adjust the CSS accordingly. In our app, for example, I use a CSS library from Google Code to make the app look like an iPhone app when I detect it's an iPhone. I use a different CSS file when it's anything Blackberry.
Your server, therefore, is what should be the controller. I'm assuming you want to connect somehow to things like the air conditioning, lights, etc. The web server can invoke a CGI program, as an example, which talks to whatever serial lines are necessary to control said equipment.
Even better, you don't need to buy the actual hardware; get XCode and you get an iPhone simulator. Likewise, RIM has a simulator for every freaking model of every phone they've ever released (as well as for the different carriers).
Total cost to you should be zip for development purposes.
I'd go web-based or Java, since many phones support it.
Think of the problems if you develop for a specific platform and it becomes obsolete. I imagine your home will be around for many years, but I doubt any interation of Android or the iPhone will be. Unless you plan to change around your programming when you get a new phone.
Anything that has strong ties to legacy software or hardware will be supported for a longer period of time. Look at user-base, ease of installation and repair, and of course, the track
I recommend you just develop a web-based solution using Django [djangoproject.com]. (Or any other web platform of your choice, but Django is the one I have used and I love it. Django makes it easy to do whatever I have needed to do, and I have done some unusual stuff with it.)
Then, you can use any phone with a decent web browser, plus you could use a PDA, a netbook, or anything else. You likely will live in the house for many years, and technology certainly will evolve... a simple web solution is pretty future-proof.
Consumer-grade crap is crap and it'll fail.
Get a real automation system and wire your house up properly. Hell, with what you're spending on your phone "solution", you could easily get some PLC controls and wire up your house so that it will last for the life of your house.
Here's some less-expensive stuff, but still of very good quality:
http://web4.automationdirect.com/adc/Home/Home [automationdirect.com]
Of course, I'm just an EE that works in automation and control. What do I know?
Buy a G1. It has the best tools (Eclipse) and the cheapest development costs ($25, and that's only if you want to distribute in the Android Market).
Blackberry is free unless you want to access certain APIs that require signing, then it's a one-shot $100. Their development environment is somewhat primitive, but you can use Eclipse and command-line tools as well.
iPhone, of course, requires a yearly $99, and they can reject you or your applications. You'd better like Objective-C and Xcode.
Series 60 (Nokia) is a PITA to develop for, though with them moving over to Qt that will get better. But don't expect their phones to be upgradeable.
Windows Mobile is easy to develop for, but Visual Studio will cost you.
The BlackBerry code signing key is now only $20.
They're also serious about a new Eclipse plug-in, which is far more capable now in its second beta, with full build and debugging/profiling integration. (Seriously, no one actually uses their provided IDE)
Also, BlackBerry is a very open platform to develop for, in that you don't need anyone's permission to distribute your apps, and have a lot of power in what you can do on the device.
I just attended the BlackBerry Developer Conference earlier this week, and t
Don't do it if you ever expect to make money in the process.
For-profit software development is about as successful as being discovered in Hollywood. Millions of people out there trying to be rich and famous and only a limited few will ever make it. Write software because you are good at it and enjoy it. Don't expect to live off of it, let alone make your fortune like iD.
My advice is, developing for mobile phones is generally more fiddly than for most platforms. Eg if you're used to developing J2EE/J2SE, J2ME is going to be familiar but irritatingly different.
The low hanging fruit is definitely the iPhone. I tried to develop for it. I failed. Here are my personal pros and cons:
Great API exposing all the unique functionality quite well.
Good quality documentation, when you can find it. (See below)
That functionality itself is great too.
Easy to develop free apps and getting them into the iTunes application store is actually pretty reasonable and easy.
Objective C. I really just don't like it. REALLY don't like it. As a Java developer, it has some niggles that set my teeth on edge.
The development environment. If you're used to Eclipse for instance, you might not like XCode. I didn't.
Documentation on slightly deeper subjects is not always easy to find. I was sometimes left scratching my head at strange behaviour that seemed undocumented, with no recourse to investigation other than Google. This is poor.
Buying an iPhone is not cheap, specially with the contract. Guess you could get away with an iPod Touch for most functionality.
YMMV. I decided to use someone else's apps, who was already developing something close to what I wanted to do anyway. Pity, but it just wasn't worth the pain to me.
I put together a rocking multi-room home entertainment set up for a fairly reasonable price that required no professional installation or wiring. And it's all controlled by my iPhone, but an iPod touch would work as well.
Here's my set up:
2 macMinis - one is your streaming media server one is for synching
1 airport extreme base station (N band wifi)
1 airport extreme base station (older b/g band wifi)
2 appleTV's (1 for each movie viewing room)
3 airportExpresses (1 for each audio only room)
1 drobo with 2x1TB HD
2 macMinis - one is your streaming media server one is for synching
1 airport extreme base station (N band wifi)
1 airport extreme base station (older b/g band wifi)
2 appleTV's (1 for each movie viewing room)
3 airportExpresses (1 for each audio only room)
1 drobo with 2x1TB HDs
1 iPhone
1 iRemote app
In other words: turn your house into the biggest microwave in the whole neighborhood.
It's the granddaddy of PDA OS and it's making a comeback.
I said it's making a comeback, dammit.
Build a bare-bones web app. Works on all phones and you can tweak it as your taste in phones change.
I have to decide on a mobile phone to develop for
Why not pick the one that's a decent phone?
(or browser, or camera, or whatever the hell else you're going to use it for)
Hopefully you'll be using the results of what you've developed for longer than you spend developing it. If not, I think that you've missed the point of "automation".
Hang a crap phone off the back of your computer, and send/receive SMS through it. That's relatively simple to do. Then, you can carry a phone that you actually like instead of one that's easy to develop for. And you get to boast that your house has a command-line interface.
It isn't that much harder to get your home PC to send you MMS, should you want to see what's going on.
Don't design around a any phone that is on the market today. design around some standard interface. the you program whatever phone is popular this month to use that interface.
Solid and reliable, if a bit lacking in features.
Windows Home Server has nice add-ins and applications for houses wih automations. And there are add-ons to expose these to Windows Mobile devices. The two together ends up with a fairly interesting proposition.
Apple users are well-trained to pay premium for everything, from the iphone accessories to the software applications.
I'd go for the well-paying techno-lusting, in-love-with their device user base.
While the bberry is highly addictive, it's used almost exclusively for the simple tasks of email/calendar/phone.
May I interest you in developing a $10,000 application which will display a message saying "I am filthy rich and you are my bitch!" on said device?
Good luck!
Depends a bit on how compilicated the software will be. If it's very simple and a slow interface is not a problem, WAP + server-side PHP would be nice and the customers could choose any phone that supports WAP and GPRS (or whatever 3rd generation tech is used in the US) - which is practicaly any new phone in the market.
If you want to write the bulk software to run on the phone, I'd say Nokia's Symbian S60 line on Java, C/C++ or Python is a very good choice. It seems the C++ they use is a bit non-standard,
I've developed for both Blackberry and Windows Mobile. You can develop for both platforms for free, and do not even have to sign applications. With Blackberry you do have to sign your application to use certain Java classes deemed "secure". It costs $100 for a license allowing unlimited signing. However, you can do full J2ME (plus some BB APIs) for free. Blackberry UI, processing speed and graphics capability is very, very poor. I have recently been experimenting to push Blackberry graphically, and have hit nothing but dead-ends (for example, the native display is 16 bit RGB-565, but all APIs to push raw image data are 32 bit ARGB 8888, so a very slow conversion is done by the system). However if you stick to API-supported rendering (basic font rendering, blitting with alpha channel, simple drawing primitives) then you can do quite a bit with good performance. Just don't expect to be able to do your own bitmap-level rendering in realtime (like rotozoom, bumpmapping, texture mapping, etc). All development must be done in Java.
Windows Mobile offers a ton of CPU power and RAM (I've ported both Quake I & II for example). Devices are available with 3D accelerated GPUs, touchscreens, VGA-resolution displays, CF, SD, Wifi and Bluetooth (all in a single device even). So as far as raw options in hardware capability and form-factor, Windows Mobile gives you the most choice. If your app will do some really heavy lifting graphically then Windows Mobile is the better choice. You can develop in the widest variety of languages for this platform - C, C++, C#, Java, ARM assembly, Pocket C, and Visual Basic (just to name some off the top of my head). With both iPhone and Blackberry you are restricted to a single language.
As far as iPhone goes, I've not delved there at all. Things I've heard that concern me are a non-standard programming language, restrictive distribution policy, and whether or not you can simply write and build an app and stick it on your own phone or not without having to sign it or otherwise register it with Apple.
Things I've heard that concern me are a non-standard programming language,
Non-standard programming language? Come on, if learning a new language puts you off, then you really need to work on your programming skills. What is a 'standard' programming language, anyway? C#? Objective C is 100% backwards compatible with C, and will take you an afternoon to learn. Your much bigger problem will be figuring out the API, since it is significantly bigger.
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.


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Got Calcium?
"Got milk?" For a group of Hamilton student researchers, the well-known slogan might be modified to "Got calcium?" The most abundant metal in our bodies and a valuable component of milk, calcium serves functions well beyond building strong teeth and bones. Hamilton research students, working with Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology, are examining how our mental processes depend on calcium. The compound performs lesser known, but essential, roles in blood clotting, chemical signaling and action potential firing.
Daniel Lustberg '14, Christopher Holm '15, Freymon Perez '14 and Stephanie Hruza '16 are researching calcium-binding proteins, like calretinin and calbindin, in rats to find how elevated synaptic stimulation in brains affects our dopamine chemical pathway. Dopamine is a central compound involved in the brain's reward circuitry, the connections responsible for humans and animals experiencing pleasure. The binding proteins are also necessary for regulating many other signaling enzymes that regulate our bodies. Irregular dopamine production results in degenerative disorders like Huntington's and Parkinson's disease.
Cells communicate motor and cognition information by firing signals between neurons. They hypothesized that increased stimulation should enhance calcium-binding protein synthesis. The group is artificially stimulating this communication in rat brains and studying how the transmission efficiency increases with practice, also known as longterm potentiation (LTP). Holm described LTP and said, "It's like learning how to ride a bike for cells." Once the cells learn to fire signals more efficiently, they do not lose their competence over time.
"The shock treatments are similar to what happens during the natural activation of neural circuits," Lustberg said. They are simulating a realistic level of activation, like what occurs after eating food or experiencing other reward stimuli. Similar work has been done with the hippocampus, but this group is examining the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a brain region associated with the dopamine reward circuitry.
Slices of the brain thinner than a strand of hair are collected, stained with antibodies and viewed under a microscope after the experiment. A cryostat cooler is used to freeze and maintain cell samples, which are needed to observe the brain's conformational changes in response to stimulation.
The group is also investigating prepulse inhibition (PPI), a neurological observation where an organism has smaller reactions to stimuli when a weaker stimulus occurs before it. For example, you may be startled by a loud noise, but your reaction would be diminished if a quieter sound preceded it. Many bodily processes and chemicals are being studied within this research, but the phenomenon's causes are unknown.
For their procedure, the group injects rats with various drugs before performing trials with and without prepulses. They then measure how high each rat jumped in response to the stimuli. Some rats were unruly or shocked by the experimental environment, and Hruza recognized that the group needed to make the animals comfortable to remove confounding variables.
Perez stressed how this concept of PPI is important in fundamental brain science and fosters numerous broad applications. Hruza and Perez are especially interested in the fact that schizophrenic patients have a PPI deficiency. If the group finds what neurotransmitter is responsible for this deficit, they will develop a better understanding of schizophrenia and explore potential drug treatments.
This experience has reaffirmed the group's interests in animal research. Lustberg will continue similar work for his senior thesis, and Perez hopes to uncover calcium's role in other degenerative diseases.
Holm is a graduate of Brighton High School (N.Y.), Lustberg is a graduate of Weston High School (Conn.), Perez is a graduate of Ethical Culture Fieldston School (N.Y.) and Hruza is a graduate of Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (Mo.).

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To the editor:
As to the poll that appeared in the Saturday Breeze which cited the opinions of four uninformed young people, one of whom is from Lehigh, they seem not to spend much time at KC'S Riverstop.
That place has been a thorn in the city's side since the city lost the lawsuit to award the contract to an un-named Naples businessman.
I have lived in Cape Coral more than 22 years and have spent many, many hours relaxing in the sun with my family. KC's is a great, casual and inexpensive place to eat and enjoy the view. This city has enough high rise and high priced places for the affluent to go.
Don't let the city close another waterfront access to the people of Cape Coral. Absent the local political scheme between the city, developers and Realtors, this city could and should be the Shining Star of the west coast of Florida. Please let your voice be heard. Sign at petition at KC's or go on line at www.change.org
Umberto Rizzi
Cape Coral


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'Dear heavenly Father," someone is saying to the silent room, "please give us the ability to touch this crowd." All thirty-six members of D'Angelo's touring band and crew are stuffed into his dressing room, hands linked, heads bowed in a large prayer circle. "And when our ability fails, Lord. Please. Take over." The room answers with a loud "mm-hmm."
Prayer ends, and the entire group collapses into a giant moving hug, all yelling at once in a joyous din – "Soultronic force! My re-deeeeem-er!" It seems they're gearing up for some high-energy smash-mouth football. Or a musical mission.
As the scrum disperses, D'Angelo turns to you and slaps you five. And nearly breaks your hand. D, as they call him, gives pounds with injurious intent – stiff-handed smacks that make a firecracker pop and then meld into a tight clamp, a finger snap, two fist bumps and another clamp, or some such combination. The more he likes you, the more he uses the strength in his bulky shoulders and arms for some hand-cracking friendly force, an immediate, tactile, visceral way of saying, "You're family." "It's just a camaraderie between the family, between all the soldiers," he says of the pound thing later. "I'm lookin' at this like an army of musicians and free spirits and music. It's very much like a war."
D turns from you and gives a pound to every soldier in the room, some of them quick, hard slap-grip-snaps, many of them long, choreographed affairs with fourteen or fifteen stages. Backstage, or in the hotel, or just about anywhere, you can hear him coming because of the firecracker slaps and loud-ass finger snaps as he moves down the hall dapping up everyone he loves.
The band members leave to find their places onstage, the room clears, and D is left alone, his Shaft-like black leather coat stretching past his knees, his cornrows tight and clean, every last wisp whipped into place, his skin brown like chocolate Häagen-Dazs. He is shortish, maybe five feet six, but his shoulders and biceps are thick and glistening from the baby oil and defined to a hair's breadth of perfection, the protruding veins of a weight lifter evident in his forearms. His lips are big pillows, the top one a bit larger with a thick line running down its middle. They stay moist. His lashes are long, the eyes deep-set, large and intense, staring piercingly into you.
With three bodyguards around him, he smooths from the dressing room down the stairs, not rushing, moving with the muscular grace and power of a panther, strutting his macho-pimp stride, shoulders swaggering, exuding the masculinity and bravado of a champion prizefighter ready for combat. He reaches the curtain shielding the stage and stands still as a soldier, feet spread wide, head bent, his hard breathing betraying a touch of nerves. He is motionless for a full four minutes until the lights go dim and the standing-room-only crowd at L.A.'s House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard begins to scream, a mostly female scream, and the drums, bass and keys slide into the groove of "Playa, Playa." At seven after ten, the curtain opens and D'Angelo cools his way out to the place he was born to be: center stage.
Two days later, on an afternoon in New Orleans, in the ultrahip W hotel, room number 1725: This is the room of ?uestlove, drummer for the Philadelphia hip-hop band the Roots and D's co-pilot for Voodoo, D'Angelo's five-years-in-the-making second album. Large and cuddly, charismatic and exuberantly Afro'd, ?uest is a real-life version of South Park's Chef. He slouches on one edge of the bed, his best pal D on the other edge in a black Tonight Show T-shirt, black sweats and black Nike Air Flightposites, with a black do-rag tight over his head. They are watching a black-and-white videotape of James Brown performing in 1964. This is what they call a treat – something that gives knowledge of the Yoda figures. Mostly videotapes of shows, but also albums and books. A Yoda figure is one of the masters they revere: James, Prince, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Marvin Gaye, Fela Kuti, Al Green, Joni Mitchell, Sly, Jimi. One day, ?uestlove asked D, "What would your life be like if you hadn't seen that George Clinton tape?" D replied, "Totally different."
In their pursuit of knowledge about the Yodas, the two have acquired hundreds of treats. "We got bootleg-concert connects like fiends got drug-dealer connects," ?uest says. "During Voodoo, there was at least thirteen people providing us with stuff." "They're the ultimate collectors," says D's manager, Dominique Trenier. "Anytime I see them, they got at least thirty tapes on them. I could say, 'I'm bored. You got some old Soul Trains I haven't seen?' They'll be like, 'Yeah. You see the one where Michael Jackson fell?"' They study the treats the way Mike Tyson studied tapes of legendary fighters, enraptured by genius, hungry to learn.
The knowledge is inspiration and ammunition for the war that D considers modern music. The war is over the future of music. Voodoo is an ambitious record that seeks nothing less than to unstick black music from commercial considerations and leave it free to seek its muse. It is an album of loose, long, dirty grooves, finger snaps, falsetto serenades, gruff mumbles and bottom-dwelling bass. It is soul music for the age of hip-hop, which is to say it swaggers even when it is tender. In the video for the single "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," D appears to be naked, the camera licking him down. The video would be equally at home in a museum piece on black males and on the triple-X rack, and it provides a striking visual analogy for the music itself: raw, intimate, naked, intensely black. Like Sly Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On or Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear, Voodoo is purposefully difficult music. It does not bother often with melodies, and some of those it does bother with seem to come directly from old Prince records. But it is also the complex and rewarding work of a multi-instrumentalist struggling, by his own admission, to find his own voice through intensive study of Prince, Hendrix, P-Funk and, this afternoon, James Brown.
The James Brown treat we're watching is from The T.A.M.I. Show, a concert film featuring Marvin, the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones. James had been slated to go on last, but, ?uestlove explains, "the Stones management wanted them to go on after James. So he decided to make them pay by killing it, so they couldn't go on after him. This is his moment of Zen."
?uestlove and D watch silently as James dances hard and fast, his ankles on the verge of breaking, his feet a blur, his singing wafting up from the bottom of his soul – "Are you ready for the Night Train?!" James dances toward the mike, stops sharp, and somehow, at the exact same second, the band stops. ?uestlove rewinds over and over, amazed at the band's tightness.
"Even the light guy is on point!" ?uestlove says. "It's luck."
"It's not," D says, sucking on a Newport. "They're lookin' at him, they know his every move." His speaking voice is a deep, lazy sound syruping from the back of his throat, a bass-y, Virginia-accented near-mumble.
While making Voodoo, the two pored over one treat or another every day – "If I wasn't bringin' treats every week," ?uest says, "you'd probably have had Voodoo in '98." What started as the follow-up to D'Angelo's 1995 platinum debut, Brown Sugar (written and recorded entirely by D'Angelo in his mother's house in Richmond, Virginia), became five years of study at Soul University, complete with classes, pranks, gossip and equal amounts of discipline and laziness. "You know how some students are afraid to leave school?" ?uestlove says. "There was a comfort in knowing you go to the studio and walk into a whole new world. The engineers come in and talk about what Foxy did this week or how someone wrote graffiti on the bathroom. Or me and Rahzel would call D pretending to be Chico DeBarge talkin' shit – it was like school. That's why it took four years. There was no loose women – I wish. No orgies, no drug madness, no trouble with the law. I mean, he got into a scuffle with somebody, but that didn't hold things up."
"It was definitely school, man," D says. "I ain't never went to college, so this was my equivalent. It was a return to what we love about music. After Brown Sugar, I lost my enthusiasm to do all this. I coulda done without goin' to 7-Eleven at three o'clock to get a pack of cigarettes and find yourself swarmed, signin' autographs. I had to reiterate why I was doin' that in the first place, and the reason was the love for the music. I was gettin' jaded, lookin' at what go on in the business. But, I had to say, even if I didn't do this, I'd still be fuckin' with the music. So I'm cursed, and I'm gon' be cursed till the day I die. So this is what I'm gon' do."
Each day at Electric Lady, the studio on Eighth Street in lower Manhattan built by Jimi Hendrix, began around four in the afternoon, when D'Angelo, ?uestlove and all those who worked for years to develop the album would gather. A crucial influence was Jay Dee, from the group Slum Village. "He's the zenith of hip-hop to us," ?uestlove says. Jay Dee helped to bring out the album's dirty sound and encouraged the false starts and the non-quantized sound of the record. ("Quantized" is D-bonics for being in perfect rhythm, while "to slum," ?uest explains, "is the art of totally dragging the feel while being totally quantized. So, musically drunk and sober at the same time. Also called 'to Jay that shit.'")
From four until seven in the evening, the crew would watch the treat of the day and eat. Then they'd turn on the recorder and begin playing an album or an entire catalog by one of the Yodas – the dominant influence of '96 was Prince, in '97 Jimi and Rev. Al, '98 Gaye and George Clinton, '99 James and Nigerian star Fela Kuti. They'd jam and wait to see what the groove inspired. One night they played Prince's Parade until they flowed into a new groove that became "Africa."
At 1 A.M. they'd break for dinner at the extremely untrendy, very dive-y Waverly diner on Sixth Avenue. "One of the marvels of life," says ?uestlove, "was how this mafucker could eat all these eggs and twelve pounds of turkey bacon and be fit for 'Untitled.' Money was definitely overweight by '96, so they got him a drill sergeant [physical trainer Mark Jenkins]. This guy didn't take no shit. I cannot see D running in Central Park, but he did. If it was rainin', extra parka, your ass was runnin'. Push-ups, weight room, sparring every day for three hours. He wouldn't take no shit." (Jenkins, who's trained Mary J. Blige and Johnnie Cochran, hits the road with D to help him through three to four workouts a week.)
The gang would return from the Waverly around 2 A.M., watch the treat of the day one more time and work on the new song until around 4:30 or 5. Then D would drive people home in his black Range Rover 4.6. At this pace, they created 120 hours of original music that the public has yet to hear.
"But the biggest influence on the record," ?uestlove says, "was someone who never came to the studio: Prince. Way after Voodoo was finished, D and I sat down and listened to it, and we both admitted that this was our audition tape for Prince. I think this album was made to show him that we're capable of collaborating with him. And I don't know if it's some bold-ass shit to say we know what he needs, but we wanna work with him."
"I really, seriously wanna co-produce his next joint," D says. "Like, me and Ahmir [?uestlove] wouldn't even have to use our names. We'd just be on some pseudonym shit. That's what he meant by audition. Just, like, we wanna do his next shit."
Back in L.A., two hours into the show, and the roof is on fire. We've gone from smooth soul to rock funk to Pentecostal church, the grooves shifting without a moment's pause in a breathtaking musical assault. Five years ago, during the Brown Sugar tour, D was a shy twenty-one-year-old Virginia country boy who hid behind his keyboard onstage. Now he's confident and worldly, a father of two – a three-year-old son, Michael D'Angelo Archer II, and a five-month-old daughter, Imani Michael Michelle – as well as a soul-music historian. No wonder he's alive onstage now, dancing, touching the audience, slamming his microphone down, lying on the ground at the lip of the stage to sing "One Mo' Gin" while girls grab his legs, his stomach, his crotch. He's the musical counterpart to Vince Carter and Randy Moss: a young icon, abundantly gifted, eye-poppingly spectacular, embarking on a Hall of Fame career.
He returns for the first encore in a tight black tank top, yelling, "I got the baddest band in the world! The Soultronics!" And he's right. The thirteen-piece Soultronics, a group he pieced together from the worlds of jazz, soul and the church, are light-years ahead of your average backup band. On keyboards is the renowned producer James Poyser, who co-piloted The Mis-education of Lauryn Hill. Bassist Pino Palladino left B.B. King's side to be here (he's also played with the Staple Singers, Phil Collins, Elton John and Eric Clapton) and is, ?uestlove says, "one of three bassists left that can begin to emulate James Jamerson, bass god from the legendary Motown house band." Trumpeters Roy Hargrove and Russell Gunn are young jazz stars who've played with Wynton Marsalis. Trombonist Kuumba Frank "Roots" Lacy played with Art Blakey and holds a degree in physics. ?uestlove himself is a recent Grammy winner with the Roots. Even the backup singers have impressive résumés: Anthony Hamilton has a record deal with indie label Soulife Recordings, and Shelby Johnson was on her fourth callback for Rent when she opted to travel with D.
"A lot of my fellow vocalists were scared of this gig," Johnson says, "because singing his stuff is so complex. But he brings you up to another level and makes you better as a musician if you're willing to work. Bein' down with D has made me a better me."
The Soultronics begin each show in all black, but beyond that one requirement, each looks completely distinct. One man is in a deacon's robe, another in a long cape with a knit ski cap that says FBI. There's a feather boa, a few badass leather coats, and ?uestlove's mighty Afro. There's a P-Funkish freaky flair to the Soultronics' look.
"In the beginning we kept asking, 'What should we wear?"' Johnson says. "And D kept saying, 'Just be you.' It's rare you have an artist who's secure enough to let you be the rare motherfucker you can be. And if I'm up there feelin' like I wanna feel, wearin' my shit and my shoes, then he's gonna get the best out of me."
One day in Richmond, Virginia, ten-year-old Luther Archer came home to find his little brother playing the piano. "Mike was three – and it was not banging," Luther says with awe. "It was a full-fledged song, with melody and bass line. Shortly thereafter, he started playing for my father's church. My father had a Hammond organ, and he had to slide down to reach the pedals, but he did that very well."
"This is really the only thing I ever could see myself doin'," Michael D'Angelo Archer says. "I knew when I was three. My brothers knew. They geared me for that. I always knew this is what I was supposed to be, what I was gonna do."
There are family stories of his early promise: of the kindergarten talent show he won so convincingly that they wouldn't let him participate in school talent shows after that, and the time seven-year-old Mike taught ninth-grader Luther how to play Prince's "Do Me, Baby," and the time Luther and middle brother Rodney took the little one to the mall, stopped in an organ store and let him sit down at the keys. Within minutes he'd stopped traffic in the place.
"My mother had a little room set off for him where he had all his equipment, and he was in there every day for hours," says Luther, who co-wrote "Africa," "The Root" and "Send It On." "There wasn't a day for sixteen or seventeen years that he didn't touch the music."
"I played everywhere I could," D says of his childhood. His father is a Baptist preacher, and he began playing music in his father's church, then went to live with his mother and played in his grandfather's church in Powhatan, in the Virginia countryside. "That's the real stomp-down, Pentecostal, holiness church," he says. "Shoutin', speakin' in tongues and just fire. That's where I really grew. That's where I really was playin'."
D and two cousins started a group and began tearing up local talent shows as Three of a Kind. Talent show after show they played covers off the radio and won or placed high. Luther and Rodney were local high school football heroes, on TV and in the newspaper every week, and Mike played a little, too, but no one in the family would come to his games: "'Cause they knew it was about music for me."
Luther did support his little brother's love of Prince. Their father is a preacher, as are an uncle and a grandfather, so they couldn't just bop into the house with Lovesexy in hand, but the boys found ways to sneak the music in. "My love for Prince was definitely influenced by my older brother," D says. "We always had every new album the first day, and we would dissect that shit and study it, and after we listened to it, we'd have a discussion about it. We always did that."
"We used to get in my car," Luther says, "and we'd ride around the city with nothing to do and listen to Prince tapes. It was a red Ford Probe with a nice system in it. We'd hang out and listen to the music real loud."
Mike was sixteen when he got a slot on Amateur Night at the Apollo. He sang "Feel the Fire" by Peabo Bryson, but the audience could see his fear before the song started: "They booed before I even came onstage." He placed fourth.
The next year he went back to the Apollo. "I did 'Rub You the Right Way' by Johnny Gill, and I came out dancin', doin' splits and shit. I had mad energy. I wasn't intimidated.
"When they said I won, I went off," he continues. "I'd been doin' talent shows forever, and that was, like, the talent show. I went off, my family went off, my brother was runnin' down the aisle, my cousins were jumpin' up and down. We got back on the bus and went right back to Richmond. Everybody went to sleep; I stayed up the whole time. I was smoking cigarettes. That's when I started. I was sneakin' cigarettes, and I had the window cracked, and I was lookin' out the window just thinkin' about everything. I got a check for $500, bought a four-track and started writing. I wanted to make an album." He went into his little music room, and wrote and recorded most of the songs that would, make up Brown Sugar. Two years later he had a record deal.
At five past midnight in L.A., the crowd begins screaming in unison: "Take! It! Off! Take! It! Off!" D resists, but around quarter past, the tight black tank top comes off and he's onstage in nothing but his very low-slung black leather pants and his boots. No drawers, no boxers, no briefs, no belt. He's singing "Untitled" on the lip of delicious obscenity, giving you more than a sliver of his ass crack, his bare hips, his waist, his pubic bush, and the deep grooves separating his torso from his thighs, grooves that have come to be known as the D'Angelo Knuckles. A solid wall of soprano screams rises up. It's the most electric moment of the show, but D is not happy.
"It feels good, actually, when I do it," D says later. "But I don't want it to turn into a thing where that's what it's all about. I don't want it to turn things away from the music and what we doin' up there." He says that once or twice women had thrown dollar bills and embarrassed him. He says that he was a chubby kid in middle school who lost thirty-five pounds in ninth grade, a kid who got chubby again during the Brown Sugar tour. He's worked hard over the past four years to transform his body and has made a video that incited audiences to demand nudity, but the artist in him takes little joy in showing off his body, and he struggles with the meanings of being a musician and an entertainer.
"He does it 'cause women want it," ?uestlove says, "but he really doesn't wanna do it. We do all this preparation to give a balanced show, and he goes out and gets treated like women get treated every day – like a piece of meat." D concurs. "Sometimes, you know, I feel uncomfortable. To be onstage and tryin' to do your music and people goin', 'Take it off! Take it off!' 'Cause I'm not no stripper. I'm up there doin' somethin' I strongly believe in."
It's almost 12:30. The band keeps on carving out the rock-tight groove, and at center stage the struggle between artist and entertainer – for D, it is like good and evil – reaches an apex: It is almost impossible to look at him, nearly naked, and not somehow think about that. The band keeps on carving. And D keeps on dancing, a single silver button the only thing keeping him from nudity. The most nahstay tease since Prince stripped to his Dirty Mind bikini.
This story is from the May 11th, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone.


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Perhaps a healing pic for Denards knee? Also don't forget ff power rankings. Big HT to Andy for the big ten network app knowledge. Listened to my first M game broadcast on the radio. Took a little work with the pause button to synch it with tv but a good 7.99$ purchase. I hope that's not per game cause the wording was a little odd.
Congrats on the win - and happy anniversary to you guys - 2500 days since you last beat OSU today. Amazing that there are 1st graders out there on each side that have never celebrated a Michigan victory or suffered an Ohio State defeat.
way to ruin my sunday sru....
TP actual had "Denard"kind of game
GO BLUE....UofM has such a fun offense....
Expanding on sru's comment, I should point out that a tUOS 1st grader would be eligible for an Ohio State University diploma while the Michigan 1st grader would actually have to successfully complete 4 years at the University of Michigan to get a college diploma.
actually, their fascination w/ the "count down" is sadly entertaining. it truly demonstrates just how insecure they really are.
no matter how much they win, they pathetically seek approval & affirmation from others (even negative feedback). they simply lack the confidence to be satisfied w/ their own opinion.
of course, trolling here, on a post about the BG game, and bringing up Michigan's record against tosu is pretty sad in and of itself, so i guess i shouldn't be surprised.
I'm pretty confident that it will take more than the required 5000+ days for uos to pull even in the series with UM.


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Canada, eh?
The summary title isn't so great either. Is the iconic study in peril or is the iconic study population in peril?
Wrong. If they population leaves the study is concluded, and the fact that the population is gone is in and of itself meaningful data for said conclusion. It doesn't just end nor is it in peril, and artificially intervening as suggested makes any such study invalid.
What do you mean that's not English - it made perfect sense to me. Let me offer a translation:
Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient. Mercedem aut nummos unde unde extricat, amaras.
If new wolves to not appear, or all of the current wolves lead
Wow, have we given up all semblance of trying to be editors and know the English language? Or are we just throwing words at it?
I can only assume that should say If new wolves do not appear, or all of the current wolves leave
Pretty sad, guys.
Maybe the author had a cold.
If new wolves to not appear, or all of the current wolves lead, the moose would end up destroying the native Fir population. The wildlife service is considering introducing new wolves as part of a genetic rescue, or reintroducing wolves should the population reach zero on its own.
Quite honestly, my English is awful. But given that it is my third language, I do not feel bad about it. I would neverthless feel very bad about it if I was an Editor on a supposedly reputable site like Slashdot.
So....natural processes occurring pretty much exactly as they have for thousands, if not millions of years. And humans, feeling they know how things "should" be, are going to interfere. Brilliant!
Prediction: we'll cock it up.
So....natural processes occurring pretty much exactly as they have for thousands, if not millions of years. And humans, feeling they know how things "should" be, are going to interfere. Brilliant!
It's worse than you think. I live in Michigan. We're worried about the Isle Royal wolves but the legislature authorized a wolf hunt this year to combat the nearly non-existent depredation [discoverycenter.net] "problems" from wolves. (181 total incidents over 15 years, most related to cattle and about a third of those are suspect claims from a single farm) Total economic impact most years is around $5000 for the entire state. This despite the fact that wolves account for a minuscule fraction livestock deaths. You also hear
There have been several significant non-human caused icy climate events in the past - most of them less pleasant than some ice-bridge melting.
The presumed difference between now and then is that we have some concept that our actions affect the future course of the climate, and maybe we should be doing something to keep the climate in a good state for us.
But, who really knows? Maybe there was some planet-wide communication among the dinosaurs, and some of them saw the problems coming and a way to avert them
The bigger impact so far is simply the fact that we're everywhere, hunting big game to extinction
If that were true moose could not overrun the island.
The ice bridges aren't the sole human-related reason for decline of the population.
Disease from domestic dogs and human-created changes to the environment have also directly diminished the number of wolves.
From TFA:
"Many scientists familiar with Isle Royale support genetic rescue, especially because human activity has contributed to the current population crash. Climate change has led to the decreasing frequency of ice bridges. Canine parvovirus, probably caught from a domestic dog, caused the wolf populati
I don't think so. I think that even if all the wolves leave with this ice bridge that the moose population will boom, but then when the next ice bridge comes it means the wolves will move back there en-masse due to the utter abundance of prey.
Nature is pretty good at dealing with these sorts of scenarios, each time we interfere we just fuck it up completely. We just need to get past our short term view of "OMG THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LEAVE!" - I'd wager it's not the first time wolf populations have left such a
This will just be spun into an example of how Global Warming is to blame. Despite the wolf population doesn't predate the 1940s...
Sooo, because some thing was not introduced until X moment in time you cannot blame a problem with it later on Y which correlates to the time when the thing is having a problem?
The term you are looking for is post hoc ergo propter hoc [wikipedia.org].
However it is possible, though unproven, that humans indirectly have caused this particular population imbalance through climate and/or habitat change. It think it will be extremely difficult to prove or to rule out. The only real question is whether we should get involved in supporting the wolf population on Isle Royal or not.
Global warming isn't "to blame" for this situation, but it is a factor: the infrequency of ice bridges between the mainland and the island has grown because of it. The real "blame" is more general human interference.
The summary is misleading in suggesting that new wolves have come to Isle Royale fairly often. They haven't (I think there were only two documented migrations) which is why this ongoing study has been so scientifically useful: the island has been a (mostly) closed system for decades, allowing scientists such as Rolf Peterson to track the system without too many external variables. Before the wolves arrived over the ice, Isle Royale was being deforested by its moose population (which can swim to the island). Prior to that, the apex predators on the island were humans, during the island's period as a mining, logging, and resort area. After the island was made a national park, humans left that role, which created a boom in the moose population, which led to overgrazing, which led to starvation of the moose, etc. The wolves have stabilized that system.
Before humans became a major influence on the island, it had a different predator/prey system, based on coyotes and caribou. But both of those populations have died out, and humans almost certainly played a part in that. Isle Royale is being preserved today as a wilderness, but it isn't an "untainted" one, and hasn't been for a couple hundred years. It is what it is because of human activities. Humans didn't introduce the wolves to Isle Royale, but in a very real sense, we made them necessary. Which is why I support the idea of restocking the island's wolf population, in much the same way that we restocked many of the rivers of the Great Lakes region after destroying their fish populations.
Isle Royale is being preserved today as a wilderness, but it isn't an "untainted" one, and hasn't been for a couple hundred years. It is what it is because of human activities.
As long as those human activities are merely that: human activities, I would still consider the island untainted in a way; there's nothing especially unnatural about most human actions, even if those actions often bear effects that might be described as a plague. This changes, however, when those human activities start involving actively trying to "shape" "nature", as is proposed by the ecologists this article is about. In my opinion this would instantly change the situation on this island from "nature tryi
The island is too small to represent the rest of the habitat.
To be honest I see this as a microcosm vs. a macrocosm.
I think time and money could be better used elsewhere.
Which would result in this iconic group of researchers loosing funding.
Oh, the humanity, would they prey for redemption from this peril?
The world (like my ex) is a cruel mistress.
That doesn't mean it's not useful. For one we've seen a lot of evidence that population levels on the island are too small to offer positive selective pressure. This is pretty important when designing parks or wildlife habitats, you need a large competitive population to maintain the genetic fitness of the population. That's some critically important information if we want to keep our ecosystems functional. And if we see another ecosystem showing similar issues we might know to look for some kind of island
Whether the wolves leave or a few arrive, what is going to happen is that in three or so years the excessive moose population will indeed overrun its browse, and die off from starvation.
Again. Exactly as happened the last time the moose population reached this point, and shortly popped up to over 2500 with no apparent wolf effects, from considerably more wolves.
If the moose damage is to be avoided, either NPS-hired sharpshooters or human hunters will have to cull the moose, period.
That could lower the population, if there was much money available per moose for the moving expenses. But it probably wouldn't change the ticks or deer parasites or summer heat stress killing off the moose. They would probably be transplanted to Michigan's UP where the moose population is also languishing, if not suffering the same losses as in MN.
You're missing one of the only-obvious-in-hindsight things we learned from Isle Royale in the first place. Wolves keep the forests alive not principally by controlling how many moose there are, but by controlling where the moose are willing to linger (and browse out young tree seedlings). As the forests grow, exactly where those spaces are change, but that's fine; excellent, even; keeps species and nutrients circulating through the system at a very long period.
It only takes an occasional wolf lurking in a c
Neat, yes, I wasn't aware of that effect.
I assume it will have a lesser effect with so many fewer wolves around this time, unless some are added. So the last boom/bust would have benefited more, this one likely worse.
There seems no record of wolves tolerant enough of each other for them to catch up at this point (1000 moose last winter, IIRC. With about a one-third increase a year on Isle Royale, recently.
For once we did not screw this one up. This is just nature playing the course.
And if we already know what will happen, what good is conducting the study? How is science being done if the outcome is known?
What value does maintaining the local fir population have? To who?
My thoughts are something will find a way to keep the moose population in check, even if it is starvation from a population so dense that all reachable vegetation is consumed.
Perhaps a few years ago they've named some cubs Jaime and Cersei and they wanna watch sibling breeding
Well, that remains to be proven. Not the temperature trend as such, but the attribution thereof. I don't want to get into a whole global warming debate ending in a flame war over attribution. Your suspicions would need to be proven not globally, just locally since we're only talking about a 13 mile ice bridge, whose thickness for wolves would only need to be about 3"
The climate has been warmer in the past, it would be at some point if we were there or not (and in fact it's back this year). Eventually the wolves/moose are going to have to deal with a long period of no ice bridges, so we are just delaying the inevitable trying to maintain a status quo. Nature hates status quo...
For once we did not screw this one up. This is just nature playing the course.
I'm sure it was the global warming man. And pollution. And oil companies. Mostly oil companies. Oh, and bankers! Democrats! Republicans!
This is not just nature. Isle Royale's ecosystem was disrupted when Europeans came to the region and started trying to strip it of mineral, forest, and animal resources. In the early 20th century we turned most of it back over to nature, but by then the some of the major indigenous species (and the peoples who hunted them on a small scale) had been wiped out. Most importantly, the coyotes are gone, and moose have moved in to replace the caribou. The wolves (and the foxes that remain) have filled the coyo
This microsystem is an anomaly. Let it collapse as it eventually will. This kind of thing happens all the time in nature. I watched a neat documentary of a small ecosystem along a desert shore line with mainly a plant, a beetle, and chameleons in a food chain thriving off morning dew. The animals blew in/drifted in by chance and found a niche and any fluke weather pattern could collapse it. Just part of the roll of the dice.
This microsystem is an anomaly. Let it collapse as it eventually will. This kind of thing happens all the time in nature.
Same thing I thought, I'm so glad were there to intervene. The Moose have been their for mayhaps thousands of years, as have the wolfs; it's taken care of itself quite well with no help from any body, just nature.. I'm glad we can interfere to cause problems in other unforeseen areas.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
"The Yellowstone fire of 1988 was when the error of practiced policy was first realized." What I was told and thought to be the truth, till today.
It was posting a reply to you I found it was just bad conclusion I was led to believe by the media at the time, who were blaming it on undergrowth left unattended, (among other causes) This wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... [wikipedia.org]
pretty much claims it was just bad situations coming together at the same time.
The media even got it's own section starting o
What about letting nature run its course and study that? I'm pretty sure no one was around to save all the species that went extinct a loooong time ago. In fact, the most dangerous predator has already been introduced to nature, humans...
$moose = Moose->new()
$wolf = Wolf->new()
($mutant_moose1, $mutant_moose2) = Land::split($wolf);
($mutant_wolf1, $mutant_wolf2) = Land::split($wolf);
Or is Isle Royale far away from Frostbite Falls?
If new wolves do not appear, or all of the current wolves leave, the moose would end up destroying the native Fir population.
Somehow I don't think wolves are essential to Finite Impulse Response filters.
Iconic Predator-Prey Study In Peril
This is not a possible headline on a site that boasts of "news for nerds". The subject of that sentence is "study" and the verb cluster (elided in terse journalistic bravado) is "is now in" and the copular completion is "peril".
A failed study is a study that fails to replicate. A failed meme is a meme that fails to replicate. Perhaps we should also protest ALPHA, our seemingly self-inflicted wound.
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Thomas McKean High School Assistant Principal Brian Mattix was unanimously approved as the school's new principal by the Red Clay Board of Education Wednesday night.
Thomas McKean High School Assistant Principal Brian Mattix was unanimously approved as the school's new principal by the Red Clay Board of Education Wednesday night.
The Red Clay school board voted 7-0 to applause during its meeting held in Warner Elementary School.
Mattix has been at McKean High for the last 11 years as a teacher, wrestling coach and assistant principal, with five years in the latter position. He will replace outgoing Principal Dr. Lisa Ueltzhoffer on July 1, the start of the new, 2014 fiscal year.
"I couldn't be more thrilled ," Mattix said after the meeting. "I love the McKean community, the staff. We're such a tight knit family. We've got so many exciting things going on. We've done great work together as a staff."
Mattix said McKean would continue to try to meet the needs of all its students.
He also hoped to reach out to the McKean alumni to help strengthen the Higlanders.
"We've got such a strong alumni base within the Pike Creek area," Mattix said. "I think that's a real big, untapped resource. We're going to bring a lot of folks home."
Ueltzhoffer told the Hockessin Community News that she had accepted the position of principal at Newark Charter School's new junior-senior high school. She also starts her new job in the summer.
"It was a very difficult decision to leave Red Clay Consolidated School District and McKean High School," Ueltzhoffer said. " I had envisioned spending the remainder of my career in the district ... . The prospect of opening Newark Charter Jr./Sr. High School provides a unique opportunity for me to utilize my skills while facing new challenges in the community where I live."
Mattix said he would use some of the leadership skills he learned from Ueltzhoffer.
"Lisa has been a great mentor," he said. "She and I worked side by side when I first came in. She helped me on this path to becoming an assistant principal and now principal.
"She leads with grace. She's extremely smart. And she has great poise. She knows how to make the hard decisions and also make people feel good.


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Curan Wright is biking cross-country from Nevada to New York in a most unusual way. You see, Wright is riding the wrong way, literally. He's riding backwards to move leukemia research forward.
"If I rode through town forward, people aren't going to notice me," said Wright. "I would be nobody to them. Just another guy riding his bike through town to raise money for leukemia. Now if I ride backwards, I am catching attention to my cause."
Wright started riding his bike backwards to raise money for leukemia research. This ride, his last, is specifically dedicated to his childhood friend, John Wesley Pitts, who he lost to the disease in 1988.
"Basically what makes this ride so special is I was actually doing this ride to get my friend a headstone donated so he would have one," Wright said. "Two weeks before the ride, we did get a gravestone donated by a company in Highland, New York."
Wright started this ride in El Paso, Tex., in mid April. Biking up to 70 miles a day, backwards, he says he hopes to make it to Washington, D.C., before the end of June.
Wright said his friend John is always with him.
"I know he is with me when I am riding. He really watches over me and makes sure that I am okay out there on the highway," said Wright. "But if they see me on an interstate or state highway with 4 lanes, if they could give me a little space, it does reduce a little stress."
You may make donations to Wright's cause by calling 1-800-779-2417, or you may visit his website at www.biking backwards.com for more information.


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The 31-year-old has been named in the starting line-up for the friendly clash at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, becoming the third oldest player since 1954 to make his debut for the Three Lions. The call-up is seen as a reward for a decade of hard work and loyal service to the Toffees, as well as recognition for the contribution he has made to Everton's fine start to the current campaign. Howard, who has won 82 caps for USA, has expressed his delight at his team-mate's call-up, something he says the whole Everton squad will echo.
"This could be a blanket statement for the whole team but I don't think I've been more excited for a human being than I was for Ossie," Howard told the club's official website.
"You're talking about one of the greatest guys to be around, a guy who's hard working and so deserving of that call-up.
Fingers crossed he gets an England cap because there have been a heck of a lot less deserving guys down the years to get caps.
"He's just so fantastic and he's been a rock for this Club. I was delighted for him; so, so happy."
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's justice minister says former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre will go on trial next month for alleged crimes against humanity.
The trial got the go-ahead after a vote in Senegal's parliament last month. It is to take place in a special tribunal authorized under the African Union and would mark a major step toward Africa dealing with its own alleged war criminals.
Justice Minister Aminata Toure said Tuesday that the trial is expected early next month. Belgium has offered to help finance the cost of special African tribunals within Senegal's court system.
Habre faces accusations of torture, crimes against humanity and war crimes during his rule from 1982 to 1990. He has enjoyed 22 years of impunity after fleeing to Senegal — leaving behind a country strewn with mass graves.


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11-4-04 - The Bryan County Health Deparment received 900 doses of adult flu vaccine and 150 doses of vaccine for children 6 to 23 months. The doses are intended for people in the high-risk categories.
The department will distribute the adult vaccines at the Bryan County Community Building on Tuesday, November 9th from 8:30am to 4:00pm. Children will be given vaccines by appointment only at the health department.
Late on Thursday afternoon, the Grayson County Health Department received its shipment of preservative-free flu vaccine. This vaccine is reserved for babies ages 6 months to 23 months who are residents of Texas. Babies in this age group are all at high risk for complications from influenza illness, so the CDC has designated them as a priority group to receive flu shots no matter how healthy they are.
Parents can bring their babies to the Grayson County Health Department during regular immunization hours to get their flu shots. Flu shots are free for babies who are on Medicaid and whose parents bring their Medicaid cards. The shots are $10 (cash only) for babies who are not on Medicaid. If the baby is due for other routine immunizations, those can be given at the same time at no additional charge.
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Manchester United produced a memorable comeback to defeat Braga 3-2 last night, with Javier Hernández's 75th-minute header sealing only their second win from a two-goal deficit in the Champions League. It left Sir Alex Ferguson again bemoaning his side's defending after the Portuguese club required only 80 seconds to open the scoring.
"It's been the story of our season," the United manager said, "starting badly and losing goals and fighting back to rescue games. It's the front players who are doing that for us. Some of our football was terrific tonight, some fantastic football. We created a lot of chances. But it is a concern we are losing goals.
"We came through OK. I can't understand our defending. We made it difficult for ourselves [but we] got a result most people wouldn't have expected when we were two-nil down. Credit to the players, they don't stop."
United have now trailed in eight of their 12 matches this season. "I can't get to the bottom of it," Ferguson added. "If you analyse all the goals we are losing, they are all different types, a cross and then a cutback and players free in the box tonight. It is difficult to put my finger on it. We are certainly not getting good starts to games, that's for sure.
"It's the home games we are losing the goals so early. Away from home it is not a problem in terms of early goals. We will sort it, I am sure of that."
Ferguson rested Rio Ferdinand, who was an unused substitute on the night, and Patrice Evra, with the left-back omitted from the squad. With hindsight, might the Scot have selected them? "I think we did the right thing. It wasn't Michael Carrick's fault for the first goal," he said of United's emergency centre-back. "He did his job well. You have to look at the big picture, Rio at his age, [with a] big game against Chelsea on Sunday, Chelsea on the Wednesday [in the Capital One Cup], Arsenal [the following] Saturday, we have a massive programme and it is important to utilise the squad.
"OK, at the moment with [Nemanja] Vidic out and [Phil] Jones and [Chris] Smalling not available then putting Michael back there is not the best, but he did his job well."
The only previous occasion United reversed a two-goal deficit was against Juventus in 1999, when a Roy Keane-inspired United won by the same score to reach the final of the competition, which they went on to win.
Against the Portuguese side, Ferguson's team first went behind to an Alan goal, the Braga captain then doubling his side's advantage after 20 minutes.
The first of Hernández's two headers came on 25 minutes before Jonny Evans scrambled the equaliser just past the hour. Then the Mexican sealed a notable win, to make it maximum points from three matches.
It also gave Hernandez a third goal in four starts. "He is improving all the time," Ferguson added. "He trains magnificently and has great enthusiasm. I must say he's got me thinking. He is a fantastic trainer, practises all the time and has given me a problem. That's good. His goal ratio for us is fantastic. The second, he has bent his run behind the defenders – [it was a] great ball from [Tom] Cleverley but his movement was terrific.
"I have got him, Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Danny Welbeck [to choose as strikers], and I don't know what to do with them. I've been saying it for the last few weeks – our forward play has been getting us out of hole."
Of Shinji Kagawa, who was replaced at half-time, Ferguson added: "He has twisted his knee. We will assess it. It is too early to say if there is any damage or not." The goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard has injured a thumb, moreover, and "should be OK in a week's time".


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