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Boom Blox is all Wii. You throw, drag, shoot and explode blocks by moving your arm in realistic moves that are reproduced on screen. This is not a game where you must learn clever button combinations to do cool things. Here you play by learning to aim well, throw hard, keep a steady hand, and be fast to recover to progress to the higher levels, just like in real sports. After the first day of play, I woke up the next morning with a sore throwing arm as if I'd pitched a game of softball. I played some more anyway. No pain, no gain.
There are different kinds of blox. There are blocks that look like the real ones used to build glass walls and blocks that look like wood. There are blocks that explode, that disappear, that even turn into fireworks. Mostly you throw or shoot at them and cause the pile to tumble. But sometimes you need opposite skills to 'pull' blocks out of the pile which requires a steady hand rather than a powerhouse arm. If you are not very careful, these virtual tinker toys fall over. I love that they fall the way I imagine they would on Mars or the Moon. Stuff has the serious solidity of heavy mass but it takes its time deciding whether or not to topple in a delightful suspension (forgive the pun) of outcome.
One aspect of the game play that can really be frustrating is that after you pan the camera to look around, you have to relocate your sight on the screen. In situations where you have unlimited time, this is no problem. But when the clock is ticking, it can be maddening to hurry to relocate your sight. One solution is to use the nunchuck for shifting POV. But it takes some getting used to as the screen moves in the opposite direction as you toggle: when you press it to the right, the screen pans left; when you press it forward, it goes down. But at least you are not having to point the remote off the screen to look around and stop the advancing meanies.
Playing starts out very easy. In Explore mode you learn skills in the six main styles of blox destruction. Pick a style and it takes you to a menu of 10-12 practice sessions. The early ones are easy enough for any kid or computer-phobic adult. Each one you finish unlocks the next level So it is a tutorial in all the ways of Blox. Along the way, certain skills unlock new tools for blox destruction (and then makes you practice with them). Plus some scores unlock new kinds of blox you can use when you construct your own challenge field in the Create mode.
The game in the beginning may be too abstract for some people. There is a sameness as you go through levels at first. But then the designers added odd elements that make playing weirdly more fun. For example, at some point, you not only have to knock over the point blocks without knocking over the negative blocks, you have to keep the little baby cow-blox standing at the very top. If they fall, you lose. Why do I care more when I have to worry about tipping over the baby cow than just tipping over the "minus" blocks? Both make me lose. Maybe it's the pathetic sound they make as they fall. But do not worry about the littlest kiddies getting upset. The demise of the cows is a painless "poof!" and the round is over. Time to try again.
There is a Adventure mode that takes you through different landscapes. Sometimes it is just a silly setting to mix up the challenges and make them more interesting. But the spooky world with the kitten-blox is pure black humor. If you take too long destroying the evil monkey, vampire, ghost, and zombie-blox, they will kill your poor, sweet, helpless kitten-blox and you will lose.
Create mode is part of the latest new twist on gaming that allows you to design your own versions of a game. In Boom Blox you make pile of blox to destroy. Sounds simple. You can use the basic building blox plus all the bonus ones you've earned. In addition, Adventure mode has given you set pieces so that you can decorate your world with tiki huts or western saloons, graveyards or haystacks. Plus, you can then share your best puzzles to challenge others online via WiiConnect24.
In this way, Boom Blox challenge you to be a game designer, and it is a real challenge. That said, my first creations were a bit boring. Okay, a lot boring. But the great thing is that like the three-dimensional building games such as Tinker Toys, Erector Sets, and Legos, Boom Blox create mode play is infinite. And marvelously educational.
The overall design also makes some clever choices that cross age groups. When you start playing, you will be in a relentlessly cute world. But older players will quickly pick up on the acknowledged absurdity behind the oh-so-cuteness. The sounds that the blox animals make - the piteous meows of the hyper-adorable and helpless blox kittens being attacked by blox zombies, ghosts and grim reapers - are just a bit over the border of parody. Little kids will enjoy their cuteness and older players will chuckle at their too-cuteness. You get an idea of the tone from the video on the Boom Blox homepage website.
This balance of cute and comic is partly thanks to the collaboration of Steven Spielberg. He worked with EA Casual Entertainment to produce a game for the whole family.
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- This article describes the term 'positivism' as used in social sciences, especially within the science of sociology. For other meanings of this word, see positivism.
In sociology, anthropology, and other social sciences, the term positivism is closely connected to naturalism and can be traced back to the philosophical thinking of Auguste Comte in the 19th century. In Comte's view, positivism is an approach.
Structural anthropologist Edmund Leach described positivism during the 1966 Henry Myers Lecture as follows:
- Positivism is the view that serious scientific inquiry should not search for ultimate causes deriving from some outside source but must confine itself to the study of relations existing between facts which are directly accessible to observation.
Positivists are guided by five principles:
- unity of scientific method - logic of inquiry is the same across all sciences (social and natural)
- the goal of inquiry is to explain and predict. Most positivists would also say that the ultimate goal is to develop the law of general understanding, by discovering necessary and sufficient conditions for any phenomenon (creating a perfect model of it). If the law is known, we can manipulate the conditions to produce the predicted result.
- scientific knowledge is testable. Research should be mostly inductive, i.e. inductive logic is used to develop statements that can be tested (theory leads to hypothesis which in turn leads to discovery and/or study of evidence). Research should be observable with human senses (arguments are not enough, belief is out of question). Positivists should prove their research using logic of confirmation.
- science does not equal common sense. Researchers must be careful not to let common sense bias their research.
- relation of theory to practice - science should be as value-free as possible, and the ultimate goal of science is to produce knowledge, regardless of politics, morals, values, etc. involved in the research. Science should be judged by logic:
- universal conditionals -> for all conditions of x, if x has property p and p=q, then x has property q
- all statements must be true for all times and places
- research can be proved only by empirical means, not argumentations
Positivistic assumptions about the real worldEdit
- Nature is orderly, there is an underlying causality and pattern.
- We can know nature (discover and understand all causes, patterns, etc.).
- Knowledge is always preferable to ignorance.
- Natural phenomena have natural causes.
- Knowledge comes through sensory experience.
Positivists' self-critiqueEdit
Positivists have themselves raised questions and doubts about positivism, questioning whether anyone can follow the ideal described above. The most often raised points are:
- forms of controlled inquiry - there is a narrower range of possibilities for social science study compared to natural science study. Issues of ethics, control and of experimenters involuntarily influencing their subjects limit how we can experiment on humans. It is also difficult to test some predictions other than in time.
- knowledge is a social variable - knowing one is a subject of a study changes one's behaviour and results can modify the future (self-fulfilling prophecy).
- generalisations are limited by the complexity of culture and history; i.e. it is impossible to create statements that are true for all times and places.
- subjectivity and value orientation. Research is often subjective. Researchers always have their own motives, goals, ethics and values, some deeply unconscious, and it is thus impossible to be a completely objective observer.
Contemporary thinkingEdit
Today, although many sociologists would agree that a scientific method is an important part of sociology, orthodox positivism is rare. Social scientists realize that one cannot identify laws that would hold true in all cases when human behaviour is concerned, and that while the behaviour of groups may at times be predicted in terms of probability, it is much harder to explain the behaviour of each individual. In some quarters of contemporary sociology, positivism has been replaced by a contrary view, antipositivism. Many sociologists today operate somewhere between positivism and antipositivism, arguing that human behavior is more complex than animal behavior or the movements of planets. Others reject positivism as a fundamental misunderstanding of social reality, that it is ahistorical, depoliticized, and an inappropriate application of theoretical concepts. A similar distinction is often made in the critique of analytic philosophy made by continental philosophers. Humans have free will, imagination and irrationality, so that our behavior is at best difficult to explain by rigid "laws of society".
The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) developed a secular religion known as positivism, which emphasized reason and logic. He later systematized it as the Religion of Humanity, complete with priests and a calendar of saints.
Comte divided the progress of mankind into three historical stages:
- Theological: relies on supernatural agencies to explain what man can't explain otherwise.
- Metaphysical: man attributes effects to abstract but poorly understood causes.
- "Positive": because man now understands the scientific laws which control the world.
Comte also founded the social sciences, and it is important to remember in our more cynical times the ideals to which they aspired. Comte and other early social scientists assumed that human behavior must obey laws just as strict as Newton's laws of motion, and that if we could discover them, we could eliminate moral evils -- in exactly the same way that medical scientists were then discovering how diseases worked and were eliminating much of the physical suffering which had always been an inevitable part of the human condition. In his earlier, less systematic works he influenced such figures as J.S. Mill, T.H. Huxley, George Henry Lewes, and George Eliot; all gradually fell away as his philosophy became more rigidly systematic.
Major Works Edit
The "Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiser la société" (1822 — the "fundamental opuscule").
The (1830-1842); English translation & condensation , by Harriet Martineau (1853).
The complete (1851-1854); English translation, , by J.H. Bridges, Frederick Harrison, et. al., 1875-77.
The , of which he completed only the the first volume before his death in 1857.
Also crucially important to his influence in Victorian England was John Stuart Mill's
See also Edit
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Berklee Launches Berklee Latino
Berklee Latino, Berklee's first-ever program to be taught in Spanish, will be held January 13-18, 2014 at the Mexico City campus of Tec de Monterrey.
The program will be led by Latin Grammy winner Javier Limón, producer for artists including Diego El Cigala and Bebo Valdés, Paco de Lucia, and Andrés Calamaro, among others; and Grammy Award-winner Oscar Stagnaro, who has worked with performers such as Paquito D'Rivera, Jorge Drexler, Rosa Passos, Ivan Lins, and Isaac Delgado.
Watch Berklee Latino academic director Oscar Stagnaro discuss the program (in Spanish) below:
A Berklee Latino presentation, held at La Fonoteca Nacional (National Record Library), was attended by distinguished musicians Maestro Armando Manzanero, Tania Libertad, Magos Herrera, and Roberto Cantoral Zucchi. They highlighted the significance of Berklee choosing Mexico as the location for its first program taught in Spanish, recognizing young Mexican talent. "My presence here is to promote the idea that we have this level of institution to supplement what we are already doing in Mexico. It is us who must make this happen," said Manzanero.
Zucchi added, "It is a great opportunity for Mexico to have this model of teaching, which is so important for the new generation. It is great that Berklee is here in Mexico."
Berklee Latino will allow students to explore the essence of Latin music—from sharing basic tools to take students' knowledge of the genre to the next level, to helping them discover and achieve the potential of their strengths. A series of lectures and master classes will center on three major areas of study: musical composition, performance, and basic production skills. Through these, participants will also gain insight into recording, editing, mixing and mastering, as well as analyze Spanish lyrics to understand the fundamentals of a masterpiece.
Other program highlights include visiting guest artists, participation in jam sessions, and an end-of-program concert.
"The importance is to project the quality of Latin music and give it the international diffusion that it deserves," Limón said. "Great things will come from Berklee Latino."
Watch Berklee Latino artistic director Javier Limón discuss the program (in Spanish) below:
Berklee Latino will showcase all the rich facets of Latin music, said Stagnaro. "Latin music is the result of a combination of marvelous factors and this program will focus on all of these; with a special emphasis on interpretation, production, and composition. The objective of Berklee Latino is to prepare students to succeed in the Latin music industry," he said. "See you in Mexico City—the door through which Berklee is entering into Latin America."
Alejandro Ramos, director of the engineering career program in digital musical production from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City campus, is looking forward to the partnership. "I, as well as my students, know that Berklee College of Music is the Mecca for the study of music and as such, we are proud to collaborate at this level."
Among the Berklee professors who will be teaching the program in Mexico are Grammy winner Mark Walker, Sofia Rei, and Emmy nominee Claudio Ragazzi.
The program is open to the most talented, Spanish-speaking international musicians over the age of 15 with at least six months musical experience. Applications to attend must be submitted, along with supporting materials demonstrating musical experience and talent, online at: berklee.edu/latino/application by December 1, 2013. Accepted musicians will be announced on this same webpage on December 9, 2013.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 246 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
ICONOCLAST(tm) is an independent brand for people who believe that conscious art, urban culture and self expression can be the means for change. We are tired of government propaganda and soulless corporate brands telling us how to think, so we are taking matters into our own hands.
An ICONOCLAST is someone who is not afraid to challenge the norms of a society in their pursuit for the truth. They might be seen as subversive, rebellious or dangerous. But it is their fearlessness in the face of resistance and propaganda that brings change.
By producing socially aware graphics, sourcing ethically and giving 10% of the proceeds to child poverty projects we demonstrate the power of global urban culture to liberate people from exploitation and universal mind control.
Brands we love: Obey, The Hundreds, Mahahrishi, Addict, Original Fake, Neighborhood, Undercover, Alife, Bape
Artists/creatives we love: Hiroshi Fujiwara, Ben Drury, Kaws, Futura, Obey, Banksy, Nigo...
People who inspire us: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, J-Dilla, Mos Def, Common... [the list goes on]
Cities that influence us: London, NY, Dubai, HK, SF, Paris, Barcelona, Tokyo, Shanghai...
Design styles we love: typography, calligraphy, pattern, geometric art, arabesque,stencil art, freehand graffiti...
Publications/blogs we love: Hypebeast, High Snobiety, honeyee, Wired, Ctrl.Alt.Shift
This is more about attitude than demographics. But primarily 18-30, male, fashion forward (brands like OriginalFake, Bape, Obey, The Hundreds, LRG, Mecca USA etc), politically and socially aware and outspoken. Believes in social justice and opposed to exploitation and 'universal mind control' syndrome (i.e. indiscriminately believing everything we read in the news or see on tv)
- designs need to adhere to the brand messaging... i.e. subversive, urban, street smart, political and a little rebellious. Pls refer to attached ppt for style guidance
- practical considerations. Will be screenprinted so can fill up whole space of the tee. Ideally limited to 3-4 colours (max 6), digitally layered. Vector files are best. We have access to a wide variety of specialty inks and can also embroider designs
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2) urban graphics/pattern. Stencil style preferred, other styles acceptable. Designs should make a witty observation relevant to iconoclast. However it needs to be in a style relevant to streetwear too, and we want to avoid cliches so no skulls, no pictures of famous people (or any people), no animals, and no cute monkeys etc! We want to see originality. Pls see the ppt attached for examples.


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Denver's thriving medical marijuana industry on "60 Minutes"
Denver's thriving medical marijuana industry is the focus of a "60 Minutes" story by Steve Kroft this week, Sunday at 6 p.m. on Channel 4. The topic, already well covered by local media and national cable and broadcast networks, now gets the "60 Minutes" treatment.
With the pot-legalization measure on the ballot for November, and with "pot tourism dollars" at issue, Kroft notes that while the businesses have created jobs and helped the economy, they're still against federal law.
Kroft and his producers did a round of interviews in Denver in April and have returned several times. The camera lingers on various shops and visits marijuana products firm Dixie Elixirs.
No word on which THC-laced edibles the correspondent sampled.
Kroft interviewed Matt Cook, a former narcotics officer who was the Colorado director of enforcement on medical marijuana production and sales, in a marijuana grow facility in Denver (pictured), which the producers agreed not to identify. Among those on camera: Tripp Keber of Dixie Elixirs, Ean Seeb, prize-winning grower, and Kristi Kelly, a dispensary investor.


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Greetings, fellow naturally thin-ish people.
I'd say "thin people," but most of us are a few years past the point that the angles on our face were perfect no matter what we ate, or our asses could stop traffic. If not? We soon will be. But I'm speaking, here, to the non-fat. The wee. The svelte. The thin. The fast-metabolismed. The genetic lottery winners.
You know who you are. We don't count calories, we can spend entire days without thinking about our body sizes, and while we may feel like shit about how we look, we certainly aren't told that it's all our fault. That's who we are. If not? Quietly leave. I'm not talking to you.
Are they gone?
So hello, thinnish people.
I have some distressing news for all of us, and it comes straight from the fat horse's mouth:
We don't get to talk about thin shaming like it's every bit as bad as fat shaming.
Yes, yes, I know the argument. "Isn't making fun of anybody's body just as bad as making fun of anybody else's?"
No. Just, like, way no. All the no. There's no more "no" left, because I just took it all.
Stick with me, here.
I rejected this idea for years, myself. I wanted, very badly, for all prejudicial language, and every minimization of a group of people to be analogous and equal. As a thin (not to mention white) male, I wanted very badly for any member of any minority groups' criticism of me based on anything but my actions to be every bit as bad as every insult thrown at them for no reason. Every barb. Every discriminatory act. Every oblivious act. I wanted my resentment to be as justified as theirs. I wanted them hating on me for being white, or male, or thin– I wanted it to be just as unthinkable and obviously terrible as it would be for me to hate on them for being black, or female, or fat.
But dude, I say, hoping the colloquialism doesn't alienate…
It way wasn't.
I was just an asshole.
I have an analogy here that many haven't considered. It's obvious, which means I'm a bit of a hack. It's simplistic, which means I'm not the academic I would love to be, but it is also accurate. When people say that shaming the thin for being thin as akin to shaming the fat for being fat, here is what they are saying:
"Whites are the new blacks."
Ridiculous, right? But this is an argument that is currently being made. According to a recent survey performed by Harvard and Tufts sociologists, many white Americans believe that they are now the persecuted minority.
Speaking as a white man, we're not. We absolutely aren't. We couldn't be less the new blacks were minstrel shows about white folks to suddenly become, y'know, a thing. I can picture it now:
"Did you file those reports, Johnson?"
"No, Thomas. I was busy getting STARBUCKS!"
<Dismissive song and dance>
Almost sounds like the Big Bang Theory.
Here's the thing: there's no comparing the oppressed with the oppressor. Agents and targets of oppression, as they're known among several frameworks of social theory, will never be the same thing.
And that doesn't mean that anybody's a bad person. Nobody's suggesting that anybody should be shot for laughing at fat people. But, y'know, nobody was suggesting that many others should be shot for laughing at movie portrayals of House Mammies. And yes, I am comparing these things, and yes, I do believe they're analogous. Not on the same level, sure, but the same act. The same superior dismissal. The same subjugation and disenfranchisement of a target group.
It's unthinkable to act, consciously and publicly, as if those who are born different should be treated with malice, but it is still totally okay to treat the larger members of our country with constant disdain, and disrespect. The reason for this is the same reason you'd almost never hear somebody say "I'm fine with Mexicans so long as they're not all up in my face with it," but the same is said about gays on a fairly regular basis:
Fatness, like sexuality, is seen by many as a matter of choice. And worse yet, while a gay man can't make himself straight, nor should he, a fat person can make themselves thin, so that must mean thin is better, right? That fat means unhealthy, right? That every fat person is just lazy, right? They should be thin and healthy like us! Go health! Dog-whistles!
I eat like shit, never exercise, and spend all day sitting. My wife eats well, controls portions, exercises, and spends all day on her feet. I'm thin, she's not. I'm considered height-weight proportionate. She's not. Oh, and I'm at risk of heart disease. She's not.
Bullshit it's all choice, and the health argument is ridiculous. And I am here, in my pants that fit, gleefully doling out said ridicule.
Our differences in metabolism are ignored. People wrongly assume I'm the healthy one and she isn't, and for this reason, she can be mocked and I can sit in my bubble of oppressive social agency, secure that I'm a part of dominant culture, body-size wise. It's not okay to say "nigger," or "bitch," or "fag" offhandedly on, say, network television, but it is 100% okay to call somebody a fatass. Or tank-ass. Or lard-ass. Or bubble-gut, or even such subtle jabs as "she's let herself go."
So when somebody who is exposed to this every minute of every day lashes out and says, "yeah? Well FUCK thin people!" we don't get to act as if this the same as somebody calling a bigger guy or gal a fatass, because we are told, every time we watch television, every time we see a film, every time we look at a billboard, and every time we see a fashion magazine: "You're okay. You count. You matter."
When a gay man says, "fuck straight people," he is not oppressing, because he is not in power, culturally-speaking. He is not in the position to oppress. When a black man says, "fuck white people," he is not oppressing white men, because his group is not the dominant group. When a woman says, "fuck men," she is not oppressing men, because to oppress, your social group must be on top. That's what oppression is.
But when a fat person talks smack about the "rail thin," or the "anorexic models," or even something so naked as "those fucking thin people," they are treated, just as their oppressed contemporaries are when they retaliate, as oppressors.
They're not, dude. They're way not.
They're just being assholes.
It's a very important distinction to make.
Fat people are a persecuted minority. If you don't believe this, just take in all of your daily media with the idea in mind of how you'd feel if you had what I like to call The Big Gene; if your metabolism sucked, and no matter how healthy you were, you still just had some heft to ya'. Just pay attention for one day to how godawful you'd feel. Most of us don't even have to reach too far for this, because we're not models. We're already facing it, just not on nearly the same level.
Nobody is suggesting that there has ever been a fat-person lynch mob. Nobody is suggesting that fat people are regularly murdered for declaring their love in public. Nobody is actually comparing the plight of the fat to the historical and contemporary plight of other minorities. Nobody who matters, anyway.
But, as always, there's a "but."
Fat people are consistently mocked on television and in movies. Magazines have whole issues devoted to "Worst Bathing Suit Bodies". Fat people are told how they should (and shouldn't) dress, how they should eat. They are judged much more critically, and much more frequently than non-fat people. They are targets, because they are at the weaker end of the power dynamic. That is what makes "fat bitch" a different insult than "skinny bitch" and why fat shaming is different than thin shaming. Neither is positive, and neither should be acceptable. But thin shaming doesn't excuse fat shaming; if anything, it only continues to oppress an already oppressed minority.
So, y'know, try not to pile on by pretending to be a victim.
Don't be an asshole.
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She's one of the main antagonists in the game, but we just have trouble believing that someone so beautiful could be on the bad guys' side, but we just have to chalk it up to relativity. Selvaria is a Valkyria, an ancient and powerful race of warriors who can tap the energies within ragnite and use them to fuels abilities with devastating effects. One look at her shield and lance is enough to scare combatants into submission.
Here's returning cosplayer, Crystal Graziano, rocking it as Selvaria. You might remember her from her Ivy outfit that was featured last month. She seems to have an affinity for cosplaying silver-haired characters with strange weaponry, which is something we can definitely appreciate. She looks so legit that we haf expect her to start glowing blue!
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Researchers from the Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center have identified three novel small molecules that interrupt a crucial cellular communication pathway that regulates many aspects of development and cancer. The finding, published in the April 12, 2011 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and featured on its cover, could provide the basis for innovative therapies for colorectal cancer and other diseases associated with aberrations in this pathway.
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The Wnt pathway is complex and only partially understood. Wnt genes bind to receptors on the surface of cells, provoking a reaction (or a "signaling cascade") within the cell that ultimately allows various "downstream effector proteins" to go into action. One of these proteins, called β catenin, moves into the nucleus and oversees the activation of genes often associated with cell proliferation and other processes.
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The Friendly Bengal (part 2)
Posted in Social Behavoir, tagged bengal, breeder, cat, daddy, environment, father, female, friendliness, friendly, genetics, heredity, kitten, mother, nature, nurture, queen, sire, socialization, socialize on January 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The Friendly Bengal (part I)
Posted in Human behavoir, Social Behavoir, tagged bengal, breeder, cat, daddy, environment, father, female, friendliness, friendly, genetics, heredity, kitten, mother, nature, nurture, queen, sire, socialization, socialize on March 18, 2011| 3 Comments »
Part I: A Combination of Heredity and Environment…with the Emphasis on Heredity
Nothing compares to having a loving, friendly, kitten to place. Imagine only having to worry about the people you are placing him with—you know the kitten will be alright if you do a halfway decent job on your part. Or think of it from the owner's point of view; how many times have you heard, "My Bengal is friendly but he doesn't like to be picked up?" How many times have you heard, "My Bengal runs and hides when people come into the house—even friends?"
Three years ago I started working on the problem, because the Bengal can be the friendliest of cats. The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behavior,a contains discussions and examinations of studies about nature and nurture, or as I prefer to think it, heredity and environment. My current thinking on friendliness was based largely, though not entirely, on the studies presented in the book.
The reason this post has "A Combination of Heredity and Environment…with the Emphasis on Heredity" as a subhead is that heredity is the bottom line. For instance, your genes give you a certain maximum height; a bad environment can make you shorter but never taller. Your genes give you a certain maximum intelligence; your environment can make you as smart as your genetics will let you go but never more. And so it seems to be with cats—the effect of "friendliness" is first of all genetic, and only modified by environment!b
The Domestic Cat describes research and studies that have been done regarding genetics and friendliness. After describing the studies, conclusions or theories may or may not be made, based on the parameters of each individual study. These studies, as The Domestic Cat says, are "a first attempt to disentangle the interactive effects of genetic and environmental factors on [feline] behavioral characteristics."
As expected, the studies show the friendliness of the mother has an effect on the friendliness of the kittens (though it is hard to say from the report given of the studies whether this is genetic, environmental, or a combination of both). However (and a total surprise to me!), the studies show that the father has an effect on the friendliness of his kittens—even when the kittens have never come in contact with him! (For example, if the queen had had stud service at another cattery and returned home before giving birth.) This shows a clear basis for the inheritance of friendliness based on inheritance, not environment—apparently something he is passing along in his genes makes his offspring friendlier (or, as The Domestic Cat says, "it is likely that genetic factors mediated this effect").
If it is true of the father, it also seems that friendliness is likely to be (at least partly) genetic in the case of the mother as well; there just hasn't been a way to study it clearly, as there has been in males. Certainly in my experience, breeding a friendly stud to an unfriendly queen, or a friendly queen to an unfriendly stud, produces the same spread among their kittens, ranging from moderately friendly to very unfriendly. If you think about it, you will probably realize from your own program that certain combinations of stud and queen have more friendly kittens than different combinations of stud and queen.
Based on these studies and experience, it seems apparent to me that the cats with the highest genetic level of friendliness are those that are the offspring of two friendly cats. This is the theory I am applying at the moment to my breeding program.
The Domestic Cat also discusses environmental socialization (by "socialization" I mean friendliness to humans). A number of studies have shown that 2–7 weeks of age is the sensitive period for socialization to humans for cats. Socialization at a younger age has little effect and socialization at an older age has a limited effect, though of course this is somewhat dependant on the traits of the specific kitten (e.g., if it's a slow developer or a fast developer).
In addition, each kitten needs to be handled 30–40 minutes per day. Again "there seems to be an upper limit of about an hour per day beyond which further handling no longer produces dramatic effects." Also, if the mother is present and has been socialized to humans, her "calm presence may reduce the kitten's anxiety (build up its confidence), allowing exploration of the environment…and through this, may actually facilitate establishment of a relationship between the kitten and human." [Quotes are from The Domestic Cat.]
I started socializing my kittens in accordance with these principles in 2003 or thereabouts, and in doing so I began to produce an overall more friendly, but somewhat mixed, bunch of kittens. However, now that I have started breeding only genetically friendly cats, the kittens have been (almost) perfectly friendly. This method of socialization works very well as a second tier to heredity to produce friendly kittens.
An additional advantage of using heredity and environment together is that I don't have to spend as much time socializing kittens. In fact, I can socialize up to six kittens at once (rather than spending 30–40 minutes per day per kitten). Some days I don't do much more than say "hi" to the kittens and they still turn out great. The heredity takes care of a lot of socialization!
Results So Far
I said earlier that I have been working on this problem, and as anyone who has gotten a cat from me lately can attest, (I think!) I have it basically solved. I have done this by making it a requirement that any cat I add to my breeding program is friendly, and then doing supplemental socializing.
How do I know if a stud or queen I'm thinking of adding to my program is friendly? After all, "friendly" is a term that means different things to different people. For example, nearly all breeders say their cats are friendly, and perhaps they are friendly to them, but they may run and hide from someone else, they may have problems being held… I try to look for the cats that are demonstrably friendly.
For friends, I may know their cats and which are suitably friendly. If I don't know a breeder's cats personally, I ask for specific pictures. If a breeder can send me pictures of both the adult parents of a prospective breeder kitten being held calmly by a relative stranger(s)—a vet tech, for instance—I accept that it's truly friendly and not just friendly with its breeder. (They have to be pictures of the adult parents, not of the prospective breeder kitten, because anyone can forcibly hold a kitten.)
Over time, I've become very hard line about this. Friendliness has become the first quality I look for in a cat, and if the cat doesn't pass I look elsewhere. If a cat is not demonstrably friendly, it does not become part of my breeding program. Period. Remember, if the theory is (as I currently believe) that a cat can never be socialized past what its genetics allow, and if the genetics are bad for friendliness, you can never make up for that. The cat will continue to have kittens that are difficult to socialize—even if just occasionally. "Occasionally" is just too much—even one kitten is too much!
I have turned over all my breeders except one now, replacing those that were not demonstrably friendly with those that are, and that "old style" cat is ready to be spayed and petted out. I've made several mistakes along the way. For instance, two years ago I bought a queen who was just not friendly enough. I had to spay her and place her in a home before she ever had her first litter. Such mistakes are a little expensive, but I feel that in the long run they are a lot less expensive than producing kittens that are hard to place because of unfriendliness.
The selection of cats on the basis of "Friendliness First" may sound as though it narrows my choice of bloodlines disastrously, but not so! There are many cats, some from the most valued lines in existence, that meet this definition of demonstrably friendly. In fact, some of the cats that win the highest awards at shows meet this definition because to be a good show cat often means that the cat has a demonstrably friendly personality.
So I'm not losing a thing and I'm gaining cats that are wonderful in their sweetness as well as their looks. "Friendly animals are relatively easy to place permanently," as The Domestic Cat says, but more importantly, superior friendliness is good for the breed in general. It will make a difference—maybe THE difference— in how our breed is viewed years from now. All it takes is a pair of demonstrably friendly parents and some socialization.
If you have one (or none!) demonstrably friendly adults, the kittens will require the maximum socialization and still there will be unfriendly kittens. But sometimes, no matter how demonstrably friendly the parents and and even if you socialize to the limits, you'll get an unfriendly Bengal. Watch this blog for "The Friendly Bengal, Part 2: Bengals, Throwbacks, Labradors, and Time!"
a The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behavior, second edition, Ed. Dennis Turner and Patrick Bateson, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
b Genetics and environment are interwoven in vastly subtle ways, making it difficult to say a trait is either hereditary or environmental. This post is my view of friendliness in cats; others may have different views.
Copyright March 2011 by Nancy Prince. All rights reserved.
Make Way For Daddy
Posted in Social Behavoir, tagged bengal, breeder, cat, colony, daddy, father, kitten, sire on February 4, 2011| 5 Comments »
The Father and His Kittens in a Small Cattery
About 15 years ago I was told by a friend who's a feline behaviorist that much of what I "knew" about cats when I was growing up was not fact at all. Instead, it was a mix of truth and lots of misinformation—extrapolations from canine studies, unscientific or flawed "research," old wives tales and myths, anecdotal observations, and even some pure bunk. It was a second shock to realize that although modern research was making up ground as quickly as it could, there were, and still are, many aspects of cat life that we know very little about. It appears that the relationship of stud cats to their kittens is one of those areas.
I left childhood with the vague idea that male cats would kill or were dangerous to kittens. But it appears from the behavior of my own studs that I was wrong!
This issue of how male cats behave towards their kittens is one of those topics that hasn't really been studied, at least in the research I'm familiar with. The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behavior,a has studies of social patterns among cats, but makes only two off-hand comments on the topic:
- "The young also recognize other adults [besides the mother] in their own group and readily accept care from them" (page 13)
- "In the absence of their mother, kittens of 12 weeks will suckle from the teats of intact adult males" (page 140)
However, the facts about males taking care of kittens (at least, their own) are given more support by such websites as Suite 101,b which says:
"Male cats, though more inclined to ignore their kittens, may also choose to be active participants in raising them. Males have been observed bringing food for the mother and young and defending them against people and other animals. Some males even take over mothering duties if the kittens are orphaned or the mother is incompetent."
This seems to be the case with stud cats in a small cattery.
The Accident
My stud and my queens live in my house, going where they want to go. The exception was that when a queen gave birth I used to keep her and her kittens in a room where they wouldn't see another cat until the kittens were 10 weeks old. One afternoon, after checking the nest of a six-day-old litter, I exited that room and did some housework. About three hours later I went in the nesting room to check on the kittens again. I took hold of the nesting box to drag it over to me. It didn't budge. I tried again—even though I expected the queen to be in it, the nesting box was incredibly heavy. I turned on my flashlight and shone it in the nest…and was greeted by the sleepy eyes of my 16-pound stud. He and the queen were both curled up in the nest and the kittens were sprawled all over them, asleep.I sat quietly and watched. Eventually the queen came out, stretched, and went off to the litter box. The male started nosing around the kittens, selected one, and pottied it! Then he settled back down and slept some more. And I settled back and began to learn.
Studs typically sleep with mother and kittens, potty the kittens, groom the kittens, play with the kittens when they get old enough, and even protect them. (Try putting eye ointment in a vocal kitten's eye, and the queen isn't the only one who'll come to be sure the kitten is alright!) I have even seen a male bring mouthfuls of food and put them on the ground in front of a kitten that was too small to reach the feeding station! Also I routinely see males standing back and letting the queen and weaning kittens eat first. On two occasions I have seen a male pick up a kitten by the scruff (just like the mother does) and carry it back to the nest.Nervous or overwhelmed queens can really benefit from a stud's help. The queen may have too many kittens or otherwise be having difficulty keeping the kittens in line, but with the stud's assistance there is typically enough parenting to go around. In fact, the stud can do everything except supply milk—but you can do that, right? What you can't do is cuddle them 20 hours out of 24, be ready to potty them constantly, and give them the 24-hour comfort and security they need. Even if the male just sleeps with the kittens when mom wants some rest it can be a big help. I find it particularly useful to have two adult cats playing with the kittens at once, and playtime is done in about half the time it normally takes.
I would like to say that kittens who are exposed to their father in a parenting role when they are little are friendlier than kittens who don't know their father in this way. It makes logical sense that it would be so, as it means they are exposed to more adults at a young age. However, it is hard to judge how these kittens would compare to others who were not raised by two cats, and degrees of friendliness with humans may vary depending upon the individual person the kitten/cat is in contact with. Also, I don't feel that my small cattery produces enough kittens/cats to be a large enough sample for cats in general, or even just Bengal cats. But it may be that kittens raised with their father may be a little better adjusted…I just don't know for sure!
I'm on my third stud since the day I discovered one in the nesting box,c and I fully expect that the studs I had previously would also have done some parenting…I just didn't know to try it. Here are some thoughts and things I've learned.
- Except for pottying, which seems to be ongoing behavior, the male seems to become more involved with the kittens as they age.
- Fathers are particularly useful when the mother cat has too many kittens or health issues that impact her ability to care for the kittens herself. In addition, if I had a litter whose mother had died, the father would definitely be part of their raising.
- Be sure to separate the male from the queen and her litter for about a week if the queen goes into heat after she's basically stopped nursing the kittens (unless you want to get her pregnant right away).
- The Domestic Cat makes a strong delineation between the behavior of the outsider male, who lurks around a feral cat colony hoping to steal food or jump a female, and the male that is a (more or less) regular member of the colony. The outsider male, sneaking around the "extended family group" that is the colony, is the dangerous one. Even so, even the dangerous outsider male rarely kills kittens. When you have cats in a cattery, feral conditions are not present. The cats have enough food and the male is put with the female when she is in heat, and in fact may be her companion for months or years at a time. There are no outsider males, unless the queen is sent to another cattery to be bred or unless the cattery is a large one, with perhaps four or more males and a multitude of females. As long as the queen is a companion of the male, he should be at least indifferent to the kittens and probably an active parent.
- To be on the safe side, I let the male stay with the queen up to the time she delivers, then let her have three to seven days alone with the kittens—until the kittens are feisty enough to make themselves heard if the male accidentally lays down on them. I think this could happen by accident with a very young kitten.
Things I haven't tried (yet) are having a stud who is not the father of the litter take care of the kittens and having a male help two queens who are cooperatively raising their litters. I also haven't tried a neutered male in this situation.
I hope that if you have some thoughts on this or some experience of your own with studs involved in raising litters you'll share them!
a The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behavior, second edition, Ed. Dennis Turner and Patrick Bateson, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
b http://www.suite101.com/content/tom-cats-and-kittens-a122729
cLakewood Odyssey was here for a year's swap with PrinceRoyal Hunter, my wonderful Gogees Spellbinder of PrinceRoyal was here for five years, and now it's JuJuKats Johnny Kool of PrinceRoyal. All of them are wonderful fathers.
Note: This post is not about Bengals that are three generations or less from the Asian Lepoard Cat (e.g., early generation cats).
This site (text and images) is © copyright January 2011 by Nancy Prince, PrinceRoyal Bengals. All rights reserved.


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Displaced by the New Year's Day explosion and fire in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis that killed three people, members of the adjacent Dar Al-Hijrah mosque have spent the past week searching for a temporary home, so far without success.
Their building at 504 Cedar Av. S. survived the fire that destroyed the adjacent building, a street-level grocery store with apartments upstairs, but severe water damage left it unusable, perhaps for months, Abdisalam Adam, director at the Dar Al-Hijrah Cultural Center, said Thursday.
About 300 people pray at the mosque, considered the state's first Somali-American mosque.
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