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Gilad Neumann wants to be clear: He does not want to turn your dog into a couch potato. But if you're going out for a few hours, he hopes that soon you'll leave your television on and tuned to his new cable channel, Dog TV, the first channel directly targeting canine viewers.
"Veterinary associations like the Humane Society and the ASPCA have been recommending for dog owners to leave the TV or radio on when they leave their dog home alone for many hours," said Neumann, Dog TV's founder and chief executive officer. However, he said, "not every video that you leave your dog with is appropriate." Anything that contains fireworks or gunfire could scare your dog and "create more stress than no TV."
Dog TV's programming, on the other hand, is meant to soothe your dog's abandonment anxiety - and spare your furniture - while he or she is alone.
Dog TV went live Feb. 12 after four years of dog-market research and several hundred thousand dollars of pre-seed money (Neumann won't give a specific amount). For now, it's available only to Time Warner Cable and Cox Media customers in the dog-loving city of San Diego, a test market of about 1 million cable subscribers.
Jasmine Group, the Israeli production company behind Dog TV, hopes to expand across the United States by the end of the year, and start charging a premium of $4.99 per month. The company believes this is a small price for absentee dog owners to pay to assuage their guilt - especially compared with doggy day care rates, which can range from $40 to $50.
Watch a few minutes of Dog TV - a beagle and a Pekingese cavorting in a field set to cheery Muzak, say - and you'd be forgiven for confusing it with the Puppy Channel, the terminally cute, all-puppies-all-the-time experiment that hit its peak in the late '90s before becoming a casualty of the dot-com bust and setting a daunting precedent for other dog-centric programming.
But a lot has changed in the last decade, both in entertainment and in man-pet relations: There are an increasing number of pampering products and services that extend human comforts to dogs, from gourmet food to therapy. And Dog TV, after all, isn't for humans. For one thing, the colors will seem off, because they've been calibrated to suit dogs' limited vision. (Essentially color-blind, dogs can only see shades of blue and yellow.)
"We're constantly doing ... you can call them focus groups for groups for dogs," said Neumann. "We've noticed, for example, that dogs are not thrilled about barking on the channel, so we've removed almost all barking."
The content is relatively cheap to produce: Videos are shot largely in San Diego and Israel, canine actors don't need to be paid, there are no elaborate sets, and the veterinarian-approved music is written and performed in-house. Short segments play throughout the day and are designed to alternately soothe and stimulate the viewer.
There are, as yet, no plans to air dog sitcoms, dog procedurals, or any form of narrative content.
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03-03-2012 05:19 UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for "illegal downloading" after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill. It is the first time such a move has been made against Internet users in the UK. The British government introduced regulations in 2009 enabling Internet providers to track users who downloaded illegal content from the web and disable their connection if warning letters had no effect. But signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has brought the conflict to a whole new level. In Europe, people are taking to the streets in protest at the contradictory Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, with some countries refusing to sign it. After hackers from the activist group Anonymous attacked practically all US government websites in retaliation, the authorities are now considering adopting their own home-grown anti-counterfeiting laws like PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) / SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com
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Your middle-schooler just got her first D. What's an appropriate response?
Parent advice:
Try not to overreact and then try to find out the reason by calmly discussing it. If the reason is vague, request a conference with the teacher as soon as possible to find out what's going on from the teacher's perspective.
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Expert advice:
An appropriate response is to step up your own game, says pediatric neuropsychologist Karen L. Schiltz, author of "Beyond the Label: A Guide to Unlocking a Child's Educational Potential" (Oxford University Press).
"Now is the time to be your child's advocate," says Schiltz. "Report cards only give a portion of the story."
Your job is to get the rest of the story by starting a regular dialogue with your child.
"A lot of parents say, 'My child never wants to talk to me when I get home,' " says Schiltz. "She's probably picking up that you're forcing a conversation. Take her outside and throw the ball around. Take a walk. Go skating with her. It's amazing how much she's going to tell you over time when you take the time to be in the moment and have fun with your child.
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LIMA, Ohio It wasnt just the White House, the editorial boards and the entire Democratic establishment that lashed Rick Santorum over the last week for calling President Barack Obama a snob for wanting young people to go to college.
Santorums wife did, too.
Karen Santorum, guarded in public but blunt in private when counseling her husband, advised him to pull back. By Friday, her husband did just that, expressing regret for the controversial comment.
He knows you always separate what you say from the person, said Karen Santorum in an interview Saturday with POLITICO, her first of the presidential campaign with a print media outlet. He should have said what (Obama) said is snobbish. It was a snobbish comment, not he is snobbish. There is a big difference. And he knows that. But everybody makes those mistakes along the journey.
This is the hidden side of Karen Santorum, who is always sketched in the same broad strokes as her husband: parent of seven, devout Catholic, doting spouse, crusader against abortion rights, champion of home-schooling. Rick Santorum described his wife of more than two decades during a speech here to Republican Party activists as my conscience on conservative convictions.
She is all those things and proudly so.
But Karen Santorum most often a silent, if visible presence on the campaign trail compared to other candidate spouses can also be one of her husbands toughest critics. Shes a long-time adviser on issues, messaging and tone who doesnt hesitate to tell him when he screws up.
When youre married, it is everything. Your hair is out of place. You didnt say that right. You shouldve said this. You didnt say that, Karen Santorum said. Before a speech, well talk about the message. Before a debate, What are going to say, how are you going to say it? It is about the kids. What is happening at home.
The day after the Michigan primary, Karen scolded her husband for answering too many questions on the stump about birth control, rather than focusing on how, at that point, he had picked up as many delegates as Mitt Romney.
My advice to him was stop answering the question, she said. Tell em, Im not going to answer this question, let me tell you what I know about national security. I know a lot about national security.
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