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The AdSense/AdWords Referrals changes that I reported here yesterday are official with an announcement today on the AdSense Blog. Not only can you now earn up o $255 for an AdSense referral - you can also earn a $2000 bonus for referring 25 publishers who earn over $100 within a 180 day period.

There’s also a bonus for referring 20 advertisers to AdWords who spend more than $100 in a 180 day period. That bonus is $600.

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Is there really such a thing as a dumb dog?

I was having a conversation with a dog-training friend last night about a dog she had tried to train a few times for agility, which is a sport that involves having your dog do an obstacle course. She was telling me how incredibly dumb this dog was. She didn't go into detail, but one of her reasons for thinking the dog was dumb was because it was too excited to learn anything in the presence of food. So when she used food to lure the dog into position, for example, the dog was unable to move into that position because she was too busy thinking about/trying to get the food. Of course, my friend could never move to the next step, fading the lure, because the dog never had a clue that it was doing anything other than following the food. This was a very different response than she had gotten from her own dog, who could follow the food and learn at the same time.

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