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Active hiding of social information from information-parasites
Evolutionary ecology and behaviour
Coevolution between pairs of different kind of entities, such as providers and users of information, involves reciprocal selection pressures between them as a consequence of their ecological interaction. Pied flycatchers (
Tits brought more hair into the nest and covered the eggs more carefully after flycatcher treatment, compared to waxwing treatment. We also found that the tits in Oulu (over 600 km to north from Turku) had more hair on the top of their eggs in general.
Together, these results suggest that the counter-adaptation function of egg-covering against information parasites may be an extension of original function to protect eggs from low temperatures.
Coevolution is reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection, and is one of the most fundamental ecological and genetic processes that organize earth biodiversity
Great tits (
Flycatchers' propensity to be attracted to the vicinity of tit nest and copy the behavioural traits of successful (high clutch size) tits may lead to niche convergence
The avian family Paridae (tits and chickadees) are one of a few groups of bird species that commonly cover eggs with nesting material
Here, we explicitly test with a manipulative field experiment whether great tits enhance the egg-covering in the presence of pied flycatchers. Based on the ideas suggested by Seppänen et al.
Baseline hair samples and hair samples 24 hours after the playbacks were collected from 59 tit nests (from 41 and 18 nests in Oulu and Turku, respectively). Clutch coverages were measured from 53 tit nests (from 43 and 10 nests in Oulu and Turku, respectively). All parameter estimates for the linear mixed effect models are presented in Tables
Figure 1
Hair masses that great tits brought on the eggs within 24 hours after the playback treatments
Hair masses that great tits brought on the eggs within 24 hours after the playback treatments. Solid dots represent the mean masses of the hair that great tits brought on the eggs after the pied flycatcher and waxwing treatments in both areas together (pooled, n = 59), Oulu (n = 41) and Turku (n = 18), respectively. Bars represent confidence interval for the hair mass at a 95% confidence level. FC = Flycatcher, WW = Waxwing.
Figure 2
Coverages (%) of the hair that great tits brought on the eggs 24 hours after the playback treatments
Coverages (%) of the hair that great tits brought on the eggs 24 hours after the playback treatments. Solid dots represent the mean coverage of the hair that great tits brought on the eggs after the pied flycatcher and waxwing treatments, respectively. Sample size is 53 (43 in Oulu and 10 in Turku). Bars represent confidence interval for the clutch coverage at a 95% confidence level. FC = Flycatcher, WW = Waxwing.
We found that playback treatment (flycatcher vs. waxwing (
The pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass, i.e. the amount of hair on the eggs before the first playback, predicted the mass of the new hair brought to the nest (Table
The study areas differed (but not significantly) in the hair sample masses (Figure
Figure 3
Pre-experiment baseline hair sample masses of the hair on the great tit eggs
Pre-experiment baseline hair sample masses of the hair on the great tit eggs. Solid dots represent the mean pre-experiment baseline hair sample masses of the hair on the eggs in Oulu (n = 43) and Turku (n = 18), respectively. Bars represent confidence interval for the pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass at a 95% confidence level.
We experimentally demonstrated that the simulated presence of flycatchers affected the egg covering behaviour of great tits in two distant study areas. Tits brought more hair on the eggs and covered them more carefully after flycatcher playback treatment compared to the treatment with a neutral species (the waxwing). These results suggest that one function of egg covering behaviour of great tits could be a counter-adaptation against information use by pied flycatchers. Our results are in line with the idea suggested by Seppänen et al.
The clutch size of the great tit female reveals its competence in decision making
If there is an arms-race for acquiring and hiding information, do flycatchers have counter-adaptations to overcome egg-covering cf.
Our demonstration that egg covering behaviour functions to hide information does not exclude the other potential functions of egg covering. Egg covering in different environments and populations may initially provide different direct fitness benefits also in populations where pied flycatchers arrive only after tits have already started incubating or in populations without the presence of pied flycatchers. For example, in this study, tits had more hair on the eggs before the initiation of the experiments and brought more hair within 24 hours after experiments in Oulu than in Turku, which is located over 600 km south from Oulu. The mean daily temperature from the period 1981–2010 in Oulu in May (breeding period) is 7.8°C while in Turku it is 10.2°C
To conclude, we show here that the presence of pied flycatcher resulted in increasing effort of great tits in bringing new hair to cover the eggs, providing evidence that species being used as information sources may develop adaptations to hide information. Co-evolution between the information users and sources in different populations may involve a variable series of adaptations and counter-adaptations leading to ever more intricate patterns of social information use.
We conducted a field experiment in mixed and coniferous forests in Finland near the cities of Oulu and Turku in the spring 2012. The sizes of the study areas were approximately 160 km2 in Oulu and 3 km2 in Turku and contained altogether 61 separate experimental setups (43 in Oulu and 18 in Turku).
Playback protocol and response measurements
Experiment commenced at a given tit nest when the fourth egg had been laid. The date on which the first egg was laid was ensured by checking each nest every fourth day. Experiments were done during daytime, between 10:00 and 14:00 hours.
1. Surroundings were observed to ensure the absence of the flycatchers, after which a researcher approached the nest box.
2. The tit nest was photographed in order to get the measurement of the clutch coverage i.e. the proportion of the visible clutch surface (%).
3. All the hair that covered tit eggs and nest cup was removed to expose the eggs, and placed in a zip lock bag for later measurement and the nest was photographed again.
4. Standard amount of sheep hair (c.a. 2 grams) was attached to the tree immediately below the nest box so that material availability was similar to all trials.
5. A stuffed decoy of either pied flycatcher male or waxwing (randomly assigned) was placed in the proximity (5 metres) of the tit nest and a corresponding song playback was carried out (Figure
6. A researcher returned to the nest 24 h after the playback, collected all the hair that covered tit eggs and nest cup, and repeated the procedure steps 1 – 5, using the other decoy species (thus both treatments were applied to each tit nest, but in randomized order).
7. Response data for the second playback was measured with the same procedure, again 24 h after the playback.
Figure 4
Schematic representation of the experimental design
Schematic representation of the experimental design. First, standard amount of sheep hair was added in the vicinity of the nest. Second, when tits had four eggs in the nest photo was taken from the nest in order to get raw baseline of clutch coverage rate. Third, all the hair that covered tit eggs and nest cup was removed/collected and photo was taken from the nest. Fourth, a playback in the proximity of the tit nest was carried out. The playback consisted of either pied flycatcher song and decoy, or a song and decoy of a wax wing. Playback lasted 5 minutes. Both playbacks were carried out following the same procedure in the same nest on consecutive days in random order. Fifth, response data (hair mass and coverage %) were collected 24 hours after the end of a playback.
Great tits were captured later when chicks were 13 days old by using passive nest box traps. Age was classified in the field and later ensured from the photographs of the wing and tail feathers, classifying individuals as one-year-old or old (at least 2 years old)
Masses of the collected hair samples were weighed to the nearest 0.0001 g by using an Ohaus AS120S analytical balance. Because tits may use different covering materials (hair, moss, moss sporangia, grass etc.) with different specific gravities in different nest sites, also the proportion of the visible clutch surface (interspace between eggs was not included to surface) was measured. The clutch coverage was calculated by comparing the proportions of the visible clutch surfaces from photos taken from the nest before and after hair removals using ImageJ software (US National Institutes of health,
Statistical analysis
All analyses were done using R version 2.15.1
Additional file 1
AICc values for selected linear mixed-effects models explaining hair mass.
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Additional file 2
AICc values for selected linear mixed-effects models explaining clutch coverage.
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Ethical note
Research was carried out in accordance with Finnish legislation. All experiments on great tits were done under the ringing license of JF (2975) and TL (2737) and permit from Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY-centre) (VARELY/353/07.01/2012). Bird handling was done with highest possible care. Handling or sampling did not cause any lasting harm to the birds.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
OJL made all the analysis and interpretation of data, drafted the manuscript and approved the final version. OJL and TL collected the data used in this study. All of the authors contributed to the conception and design of the experimental setup, revised the manuscript several times and approved the final version.
We thank Sami Kivelä for valuable discussions and two anonymous referees in Peers in Peerage of Science for their thorough peer review and many valuable improving suggestions to our manuscript. We are grateful to S. Torvinen and J. Lehto for helping in the field and D. Wheatcroft for valuable comments. We also like to thank the Zoological Museum of the University of Oulu for making the decoys and Seppo Rytkönen for playback songs. OJL is funded by Biological Interactions Graduation School, and other authors by Academy of Finland (TL grant no. 256067, J-TS grant no. 252818, JTF grant no.122665 and 125720).
Evolutionary history and species interactions
Character displacement
The limiting similarity, convergence, and divergence of coexisting species
Resource partitioning in ecological communities
Social information use is a process across space, time and ecology, reaching heterospecifics
Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure
New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness
Observed fitness may affect niche overlap in competing species via selective social information use
Mechanisms and fitness effects of interspecific information use between resident and migrant birds
Arms races between and within species
Interspecific competition lowers fitness in collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis: an experimental demonstration
Positive fitness consequences of interspecific interaction with a potential competitor
Competitor density cues for habitat quality facilitating habitat selection and investment decisions
Evidence of information collection from heterospecifics in cavity-nesting birds
Interspecific competition for nest holes causes adult mortality in the collared flycatcher
Climate change can alter competitive relationships between resident and migratory birds
Interspecific social learning: Novel preference can be acquired from a competing species
Fitness costs of resource overlap among coexisting bird species
Learning what (not) to do: testing rejection and copying of heterospecific behavioural trait
Cognitive ability influences reproductive life history variation in the wild
Egg covering in birds: description of the behaviour in tits (Parus spp) and a test of hypotheses of its function
Effect of egg covering and habitat on nest destruction by House Wrens
A new evolutionary law
Local temperature and not latitude determines the design of Blue Tit and Great Tit nests
Latitudinal variation in blue tit and great tit nest characteristics indicates environmental adjustment
Climate change, migratory connctivity and changes in laying date and clutch size of the pied flycatcher
Great tits lay increasingly smaller clutches than selected for: a study of climate‒and density‒related changes in reproductive traits
Regression and time series model selection in small samples


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Hurricane Irene Boston, The mass transit agency in the area of?? Boston decided to suspend the service for most of Sunday due to Hurricane Irene, despite the hopes of keeping the trains and buses rolling through the storm.
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"After a careful review of the latest information from the National Weather Service, the MBTA has decided to suspend all modes of service," the agency said in a statement late Saturday. "With strong winds, torrential rains, floods and forecasts for the Boston metropolitan area, this decision has been made with the safety of customers and employees a top priority for the MBTA at all times."
The MBTA updated their statement later in the evening, saying it agreed to provide all services until 8 am – rather than closing all day Sunday – ". Before the worst of the storm hits the area" to accommodate health workers
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|← 797 →
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Barnabas, Magda and Quentin hold a seance to contact Julianka.
Synopsis Edit
- Collinwood at the turn of the century. Tonight a gypsy girl gathers herbs in the woods outside the Old House, preparing to end the werewolf curse. And two people anxiously scan the night sky, fearful she may not return until it is too late to perform the ceremony. Soon they will learn, to their horror, that it is far later than they think.
Quentin and Magda wait impatiently for Julianka to return. Quentin regrets letting Angelique leave and worries that someone may have spotted Barnabas. Magda is confident that both will soon return. A moment later Barnabas arrives and informs them that Julianka is dead.
Barnabas locates the History of the Collins family, which Victoria had left in the past, and looks up Quentin Collins. He is disappointed to find no date for Quentin's death, only a note that he left Collinsport in 1897 and sailed around the world. Barnabas tells Magda that means that something terrible happened, so terrible that the family didn't want it published.
Barnabas recounts to Magda a dream that Jamison had a few weeks ago, in which three events are foretold to trigger Quentin's death. First, a silver bullet was found; second, the one person who could save him died, and finally Quentin will be rejected by the one person he loves. Barnabas thinks it might be Jamison who will reject Quentin.
When Beth comes to Quentin in the drawing room, she's wearing the pentagram necklace which she believes will protect her. Quentin claims to see the mark on her, which means that she will die at the werewolf's hands. Quentin's impulse is to start drinking, while Beth remains blindly loyal. Quentin muses that perhaps they will put, "Loyal until the end" on her tombstone.
Magda retrieves the book from the closed up courthouse. Before 1875 ended, Magda says, Quentin left on a voyage around the world. Julianka's great grandmother used to scare them with stories of séance. Magda does not want to go through with it.
A séance is held at the Old House, and the ghost of Julianka appears, but refuses to help Quentin, who runs out upon hearing this. The ghost places the curse of loneliness upon Magda, in vengeance for Julianka's own murder and for dishonoring the nine slaughtered young gypsies, when three knocks are heard it will be the beginning but not the end; the first but not the last. All love will die for Magda. Julianka tells Barnabas she does not care about the two young gypsy children, they are not her kin but Magda's. After the ghost leaves, there are three knocks at the door.
Memorable quotes Edit
- Barnabas: Do not concern yourself with them, Magda. They are shadows. Shadows of my past and your future.
- Quentin: All you're gonna' get at Collinwood are dreams... and one last nightmare.
Dramatis personae Edit
- Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
- Grayson Hall as Magda
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
- Terry Crawford as Beth
- Diana Davila as Julianka
Background information and notes Edit
Production Edit
- The original color version of this episode is lost, but a black-and-white kinescope copy exists.
- This is the sixteenth episode, and the third of three consecutive episodes, with no pre-Barnabas cast members.
Story Edit
- This episode features an interesting take on how the mechanics of time travel work within the Dark Shadows universe. Victoria Winters took the Collins family history book with her when she was sent back in time to 1795. The book was then retrieved by Eve when she travelled back to 1796 from 1968. Barnabas theorizes that Eve has yet to travel in time and take the book as the future date she travelled from, 1968, hasn't happened yet. This would suggest that Eve's travelling in time changed the timeline in a small way and that the version of 1897 that Barnabas is living through is one unaffected, or at least yet to be unaffected, by Eve's meddling.
- The Collins family history book was printed in 1965.
- Part of the old colonial courthouse collapsed a few years ago. It was never fixed, a new one was built.
- The Collins family history book states that before 1897 ended, Quentin left Collinsport for a voyage around the world. Barnabas suspects this is a cover story for something terrible having happened to Quentin.
- Julianka's grandmother was scary, and used to scare Magda when she was a child.
- Beth has always wanted to go to Vienna, and wear a silk gown and diamond earrings.
- GHOSTWATCH: Quentin, Magda and Barnabas hold a seance to contact Julianka, causing her ghost to appear.
- TIMELINE: It was a few weeks ago when Jamison had the dream prophesizing Quentin's death, (as recounted in 767). From Barnabas' perspective, it was "not too long ago" when Eve time travelled to the past from 1968, (occurred in 623). The seance to contact Julianka must take place before dawn.
Bloopers and continuity errors Edit
External Links Edit
Dark Shadows - Episode 797 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 797 - Meanwhile, in the Present


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EDIT: I have a better way of doing this. Please check out the post New Plugin Function to Populate Hierarchy From URL in Omniture SiteCatalyst. You can still glance at what I have here, but that new post is really much better.
In many organizations, trying to get the development team to implement any enhancements to your SiteCatalyst implementation is not always going to be the top thing on their to-do list. After dealing with trying to work around their schedule, and working with smaller sites that don't have the best resources, I have come up with quite a few tricks to get as much done in the s_code file as I can. Here is a neat trick to grab folders from the directory structure to fill them in to the Site Sections or any prop or evar you would like. Check out this piece of code:
var folders = new Array(); var path = window.location.pathname; path = path.replace("http://", ""); path = path.slice(path.indexOf('/') + 1, path.lastIndexOf('/')); folders = path.split('/'); for (var i = 0; i < folders.length; ++i) { if (folders[0] != ""){s.channel =folders[0]}; }
What this does is takes the first folder from the URL, and plugs it right into the s.channel variable. It will not take the first file, just the folder. For example looking at the URL:
We would end up with s.channel=channel-name
Most sites 'should' have a good directory structure:
so that first folder can usually be considered a channel of the site.
EDIT: Again, I would ignore this following section. There are some errors with my logic, and I can admit when I made a mistake. I really do recommend you check out the new post I have shown above.
If your site is laid out a little differently, another neat use of this code, is if you want to use it to populate the Hierarchy variable (s.heirN). By making a few changes to the code, you can set the heir1-heir5 variables right in the script:
var folders = new Array(); var path = window.location.pathname; path = path.replace("http://", ""); path = path.slice(path.indexOf('/') + 1, path.lastIndexOf('/')); folders = path.split('/'); for (var i = 0; i < folders.length; ++i) { if (folders[0] != ""){s.heir2 =folders[0]}; if (folders[1] != ""){s.heir3 =folders[1]}; if (folders[2] != ""){s.heir4 =folders[2]}; if (folders[3] != ""){s.heir5 =folders[3]}; } s.hier1="home";
This assigns the value of 'home' to any page with no folders, basically your home page any any files directly attached to it, and counts each folder after that as one more step in the hierarchy. Looking again at that example URL:
The code would populate the variables like:
Give it a try. Any time you can save your developers is just a bonus for you. It is so much easier to get a new s_code file pushed live, than to get coding done on the site.


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Matt Hasselbeck is staying with the Seattle Seahawks.
Team president Tim Ruskellsaid Thursday the Seahawks will not consider jettisoning Hasselbeck in favor of backup Seneca Wallace.
"Do I have to address that one? Matt's our quarterback," Ruskell said. "We're very happy that he is."
Hasselbeck was limited to just seven games this season, when the Seahawks ended their four-year run atop the NFC West with a 4-12 record.
Ruskell said he doesn't expect Hasselbeck's back injury to linger into next season, and that the Seahawks want to get more time out of Hasselbeck as their franchise quarterback. It was only in 2007 that Hasselbeck threw for a career-high 3,966 yards and 28 TDs.
"Matt is not going to play forever," Ruskell said when asked if the team considers Seneca Wallace a potential replacement. "He is still playing at a high level and he is still our quarterback and we feel really good about that. At some point you will have to plan for the future and we are cognitive of that."
On Mike Holmgren: Before he left the Seahawks, as scheduled, after the regular season completed, former coach Mike Holmgren hinted that he had second thoughts about leaving the team that the team shot down.
Ruskell said Holmgren did not come to him and say he wanted to continue as the Seahawks head coach:
"The way he put it in the press conference, I thought, was perfect. You've made this decision, and now you think that we're going to have a really good year, and there's no distractions, and here we go, and we like our football team. And then boom, it's not going well. And you say, 'I don't want to go out like this.' That's how he explained it, and that's how I took it. He never expressed that to me, but I can understand that. Jeez. This is not how this was supposed to be written! But I don't think it was anything more than that. He said, in his quiet moments and in his time of reflection, that he knew absolutely it was the right decision."
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This is the photo record of three people who set out on an adventure and became fast friends while traveling through Hood River from September 18th through the 23rd of 2008.
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Born in Saint-Omer in 1979, Leo Galamez lives and works in Lille. He has been showing his work since 2009 in Lille, Lyon, Saint-Omer and Clermont-Ferrand .
His artistic approach takes as in an abstract universe. It allows him to express himself with great freedom while drawing inspiration from reality.
The artist lets us guess an urban universe, characters, but most of the time he works with the dynamics of a motif. Always different in its expression, in its nuances, the motif seems to reinvent itself to infinity like the melodic variations of a fugue or these countless strange cells that we are made of.
Impressed by the extravagant vitality of some of his paintings, or touched by the poetry that emerges from some others, our gaze is surprised and asks questions. It tries to understand, then it gives up and finally starts to play with the lines, the forms, the black, the colors which emerge suddenly or melt softly.
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It is no secret that I have become an unabashed cheerleader of chip stocks lately for no other reason than their association with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Aside from my love affair with names such as Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Atmel (NASDAQ:ATML) the one chip that I can't seem to get eyes off of is Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN). Over the past five months, you would be hard pressed to find a hotter stock - not named Apple. It's no coincidence that each of the names so far in this article have been trending higher during that same span. For Texas Instruments in particular, the stock has surged 33% since early September to where it sits now at $33 per share.
This has caused many to ask, is the stock now expensive when taking into account its recent earnings and free cash flow valuations? However, when I look deeper into the company's business and supported metrics, I continue to see considerable value. And recently, it demonstrated precisely what I have previously uncovered during its recent earnings announcement. Now I say this with some hesitation because it is also fair to say that its numbers had been previously guided down due to weakness in technology spending.
However, (and more importantly) the fact that other tech companies outside of the sector - such as Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), which does a lot of business within chips - had also shown sharp declines in sales due to similar reported weaknesses, this sent a signal to me that the issue was not entirely specific to TI but rather an issue involving the broader sector as a whole. But today, seeing as there appears to be a slight uptick in IT spending, it might be time to anticipate that a bottom on both issues has been reached.
The fourth quarter included additional revenue from the acquisition last year of National Semiconductor, which was completed for $6.5 billion. Analog chip sales, where it leads in the market, continued to account for the majority of the top line and climbed a respectable 7% to $6.4 billion. But it was not the fact that it exceeded those numbers that should excite investors, but the fact that it put forth an outlook that implies that the company should be able to rebound from a disappointing 2011. And several analysts agree and cited the fact that inventory correction within the overall chip industry is now over.
For the coming year, analysts are projecting modest sales growth and total sales of nearly $13.9 billion. The consensus earnings projection for 2012 is currently $1.89. This trend may likely pick up by the end of the year leading into 2013. By then totals are expected to approach the area of $15 billion for annual growth in excess of 8%, with earnings per share growth of more than 31% to $2.48 per share. As noted previously, the company is well in position to capitalize from its partnerships with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Research In Motion (RIMM) and more importantly Apple.
For further evidence of why Texas Instruments should be considered, recently Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Bobby Burleson noted that he expects to find more evidence of recovery in the semiconductor field. Mr. Burleson also added the following:
- "Based on improving conditions in the supply chain, we believe semiconductor stocks are likely to trade higher near term as investors begin to bake in a more substantial recovery by Q2. We are overwhelmingly BUY rated on the group, with a particularly positive stance on names with potential for rebounding margins, improving dividends, and product cycles in counter cyclical drivers like."
I have no choice but to agree with Mr. Burleson on this. But I can also concede while I am pretty bullish about the company's prospects, it is not entirely void of risk - and that really goes for all semiconductor stocks.
However, investors who were aggressive and bet correctly when the company issued its warning in the fourth quarter of 2011 are glad that they did as 2012 looks extremely promising. Though the company continues to be on an impressive run by climbing almost 33% over the past five months and 20% so far on the year, there is plenty of room left for the stock to continue its surge upward. Texas Instruments remains a buy and should see the $40 at some point during the year.


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I thought so far I have taken care of the smell that is omnipresent in Indian homes by keeping doors, windows, fans open/on during and after cooking. But recently I moved to a million dollar home that was beautiful. But from day 1, I found the carpet to be smelly. My earlier home had carpets too but was not smelly. I had decided to do a carpet cleaning before moving in, but my realtor said - why waste money as it has already been cleaned once by the seller ( I doubt that very much now). I kept my travel bag in a closet downstairs (where the carpet smells). When I travelled from CA to FL (in a long flight) for work - on opening my luggage at the hotel I found that all my new and expensive clothes got the typical smell. I travelled next week with another set of clothes and they all got the smell again. I treid to take care of them by keeping the closet door open in the hotel room, and turning on the fan and cooler. I still can smell them and all my nice clothes are spoiled. I do not wash my good clothes - as they lose their new texture and fall.
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I have a "grated cheese"jar always filled w.plain of Baking Soda.At night b-4 retiring, I sprinkle the carpets w/BS,next day it all gets vacuumed. I also find small boxes and fill them w/BS and they're in each of my closets. Does anyone else notice the smell? I only ask because most everyones home smells different. Hope it works for you. Keeper
Hi Keeper,
Thanks for your reply. I will try that. I also read in another blog that to remove odor from clothes, she is recommending to stuff stockings with BS and run it with the garment in the dryer in fan mode. I will try that with one garment at a time and see.
BTW is baking soda hazardous by any means?
I have two dogs and a cat so my carpets tend to get some pretty funky smells. I recently discovered that if you sprinkle 20 Mule Team Borax lightly on the carpet and let sit overnight (or as long as you can) then vacuuum thoroughly it neutralizes odors and helps inhibit mold and mildew. This also works extremely well for urine odors! One recipe I have come across is 1 cup 20 Mule Team borax mixed with 2 cups Cornmeal. I haven't tried with the cornmeal yet. I just sprinkle the Borax and it seems to work fine.
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reality check ! I hate to be the one to have to tell you but you, your clothes & your house all smell ! ;)
(just kidding but you said it first & at least I see honesty !) If none of the other things help - MAYBE if you cut out the section of rug that you believe is the offensive section (lucky you, you seem to think it's in the closet - so thats a BLESSING) you can replace it easily enough & because it's in an out of the way space - (at LEAST not right in the middle of your front door!) Getting a section of carpet to fit into the part you remove & splice it in would be EASY ! Good luck
I thought so far I have taken care of the smell found the carpet to be smelly. My earlier home had carpets too but was not smelly. I kept my travel bag in a closet downstairs (where the carpet smells). next week with another set of clothes and they all got the smell again. I still can smell them.
How can I take care of the smell this smell.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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text: 11/03/2016 Advanced Input File Techniques One of the most underused techniques when it comes to scripting with ZebraTester is how you make use of your test data to enhance your input files and vice versa. Instead of just collecting the most necessary data for your test you should think of what further data can enhance your test; if you need data for logins you might want to get a firstName and lastName column as well to make use for dynamic verification while running the test. This is necessarily not an advanced technique but something that should be adapted more to verify integrity of responses better. #userName;passWord;firstName;lastName user1;pass1;first1;last1 user2;pass2;first2;last2 user3;pass3;first3;last3 user4;pass4;first4;last4 user5;pass5;first5;last5 user6;pass6;first6;last6 user7;pass7;first7;last7 user8;pass8;first8;last8 user9;pass9;first9;last9 user10;pass10;first10;last10 User Behaviors Another technique with input files is that we can define different user behaviors like how fast – or slow – a user should pass through the test. The example below describes how this can be achieved both in the input file and then how to tie it together in ZebraTester. #step1;step2;step3 20;20;30#slow user 10;10;30#normal user 5;5;30#quick user With the above data we can connect each column in our user_behaviour.csv to the think time of the page breaks and that way enforce particular behaviors so that we in the above case have 1/3 slow users (20;20;30), 1/3 normal users (10;10;30) and 1/3 quick users that only spend 5 seconds per page until they reach the page they were looking for which they stay a minimum of 30 seconds on. But we can still make enhancements to this file by changing it so that the hit ratio on the user behaviors gets used depending on a percentage. By ensuring that we have 10 lines of user behavior in the input file we now weight how often a user behavior is used by configuring how we select a row in ZebraTester and that is achievable by simply making sure it picks the data sequentially and we can then represent user behaviors in percentages, 40% of the users will act as a slow user, 50% will act as a normal user and 10% will act as a quick user. #step1;step2;step3 20;20;30#slow user 20;20;30#slow user 20;20;30#slow user 10;10;30#normal user 10;10;30#normal user 10;10;30#normal user 10;10;30#normal user 10;10;30#normal user 10;10;30#normal user 5;5;30#quick user If we then change the behavior of the "Line order" function randomized those hard 40% slow visitors we defined earlier will now mean that there's is a 40% CHANCE that a slow user will be started. When the input files have been populated you need to configure your ZebraTester scenario to make use of the input file, to do this just click on any URL in your scenario recording to open the URL Details/Var Handler and proceed to add the input file and create a variable for each column that represents a page break in your input file. When all variables have created – for a 3 page break scenario you should have 3 variables configured – we need to map these to the think times in the test, to do this we just need to open and configure the think time values for each page break in your scenario as shown below. When these two steps have been performed for your scenario it is now configured with different user behaviors that can be changed or expanded at any time to reflect new data. User Flows By setting up an input file according to the example below we can also define what is called a user flow which is a way of setting up the test to execute different user flows in the same scenario. For our example we are using a WordPress test consisting of 3 steps or page break's as they are called; test can be viewed below. In the above example we have identified 3 different user paths we want to define, The user loads the start page The user loads the start page and performs a search The user loads the start page, performs a search and opens the first article in the list Important to note is that if a step needs to extract a value to be able to build the request or get the correct data you need to include the steps where you extract that data from, in our example we cannot extract the top search result hit if we haven't performed the search that gives us that post id. 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Wang, H. and Gao, Y. and Gong, Y. and Chen, X. and Liu, C. and Zhou, X. and Blackall, P.J. and Zhang, P. and Yang, H. (2007) Identification and immunogenicity of an immunodominant mimotope of Avibacterium paragallinarum from a phage display peptide library. Veterinary Microbiology, 119 (2-4). pp. 231-239.
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Avibacterium paragallinarum is the causative agent of infectious coryza. The protective antigens of this important pathogen have not yet been clearly identified. In this paper, we applied phage display technique to screen the immunodominant mimotopes of a serovar A strain of A. paragallinarum by using a random 12-peptide library, and evaluated the immunogenicity in chickens of the selected mimotope. Polyclonal antibody directed against A. paragallinarum strain 0083 (serovar A) was used as the target antibody and phage clones binding to this target were screened from the 12-mer random peptide library. More than 50% of the phage clones selected in the third round carried the consensus peptide motif sequence A-DP(M)L. The phage clones containing the peptide motif reacted with the target antibody and this interaction could be blocked, in a dose-dependent manner, by A. paragallinarum. One of the peptide sequences, YGLLAVDPLFKP, was selected and the corresponding oligonucleotide sequence was synthesized and then inserted into the expression vector pFliTrx. The recombinant plasmid was transferred into an expression host Escherichia coli GI826 by electroporation, resulting in a recombinant E. coli expressing the peptide on the bacterial surface. Intramuscular injection of the epitope-expressing recombinant bacteria into chickens induced a specific serological response to serovar A. A. paragallinarum. The chickens given the recombinant E. coli showed significant protection against challenge with A. paragallinarum 0083. These results indicated a potential for the use of the mimotope in the development of molecular vaccines for infectious coryza.
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I'm going to London next weekend and i would like to check out some bookshops while i'm there, any tips? I'm interested in books on typography and design, especially out-of-print classics. Tips on great books to pick up are also appreciated!
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Go to Charing Cross Road. You'll find a few book shops with old titles. I bought "Printing Types", Updike, 2nd edition. Happy! Tried to find "Essay on Typography", but with no success, only the facsimile. Good fishing!
It would be worth checking out Collinge & Clark in Bloomsbury. They have an excellent selection of old specimens and type books. They're usually closed on weekends, but their schedule is a bit erratic, so you never know.
And it's a shame you won't be in town the following weekend, when the Ephemera Society has one of their big fairs. Those are an absolute treasure trove!
Foyles are good for current publications and often have recently out-of-print titles but won't have anything especially rare. They are a very big store with well-stocked departments on most subjects, and a very nice neon sign which I think dates from the 1930s.
Maggs are a specialist antiquarian dealer.
Sadly I don't think Zwemmers have any stores left in London.
I've been to Maggs a couple of times but have not found much type related material.
There is a secondhand book market outside the British Film Institute under Waterloo Bridge on the South Bank at the weekends, not particularly type based unfortunately.
Oh yes, that is the exterior of Collinge & Clarke used in the Black Books comedy series. The interior scenes, though, were shot in a studio. The real Collinge & Clarke interior is very small and cramped. But consider yourself fortunate that the booksellers have quit smoking: one used to need a gas mask when visiting the shop.
Collinge & Clarke has an incredible selection of private press books and books on printing & type: The best I have seen anywhere outside of a library. Cecil Court is a small street with quite a few specialist antiquarian books shops
I watched a bit of Black Books, and found it interesting to see how parts of the interior of the fictional shop were modelled on Collinge & Clarke but made much larger.
Just around the corner from C&C on Marchmont street is Judd Books, which is sometimes a good source for remaindered books on type.


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A Sermon Preached on Martin Luther King weekend at Laurel Presbyterian Church "When Jesus Makes Us Uncomfortable" from John 2:13-25 I can remember the first-time church going to church troubled me. It was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, 2002. I was set to graduate college in a few short weeks. I was open to visiting a new church with a friend. So, on that morning I drove to the church, I came in, found a pew and sat down moments before the service started. I began turning the pages of the … [Read more...]
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Excerpts from a sermon preached at Broadneck Baptist Church, Annapolis, MD from Luke 2:41-52 I don't know if you've participated in the social media craze called, #TBT (Throw Back Thursday) when folks post pictures of themselves from years ago on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Though some simply post pictures from last Christmas or a fun vacation a few years ago, my favorite #TBT are those that go back to childhood. Over Christmas week, while Kevin and I were visiting with my … [Read more...]
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A Sermon Preached at The Federated Church, Weatherford, OK on Isaiah 6:1-8 It's strange to put the words "good" and "death" in the same phrase as I'm doing with the sermon title isn't it? Because when we think death, we think grief, sadness, loss, and weeping. And if we're from the church, when I say death, you might think casseroles and church ladies. (Oh, I love some good funeral food, don't you?) But good AND death? Nope. Those aren't words we'd pair together at all. For, … [Read more...]
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After Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, the global community of young people turned in their mourning, fear and anger to Facebook.com, the social website that's like a universal online student union for collegians and high schoolers.
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Holly is crawling and pulling up and climbing on everything these days. So we are majorly baby proofing the house. We of course got the plug covers, a few gates, padded corner covers for a few tables, hiding cords, taking things off bottom shelves, screwing bookshelves to wall...anything I'm missing? Oh and the cabinet hooks!
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