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In February 2016 two Steppe Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus alboaxillaris were found in Maputo, Mozambique, drawing attention to this little-known bird that was once thought to be extinct. Their distinctiveness in the field (see right bird on picture together with "normal" Whimbrel) has led to a global taxonomy project that is re-examining the Whimbrel and its close relatives. alboaxillaris may be more than 'just' a subspecies, but it is so little known that it is hard to draw definite conclusions. Gary Allport shares recordings that document the birds in Mozambique.
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Dries van de Loock is on a roll. Three species new to XC in the last week or so: White-backed Duck, Katanga Masked Weaver and now Lesser Jacana. All from Zambia. Thanks for sharing Dries!!
hmmm, it's hard to keep up. Four species! Welcome Brown-Eared Woodpecker!
Ha, thanks! Hope to get some more (and better!) recordings of Zambian birds in upcoming months!
We will be looking forward to that Dries. Have fun recording!
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This may be a first for XC, a #nocmig or #nfc soundscape. From the French coast. Courtesy Stanislas Wroza.
I agree that this is the best NOCmig soundscape, also in length. You can hardly call it a soundscape with a mere 10 seconds.. but https://www.xeno-canto.org/287942 was also a nocmig-recording of several species..
But it's dwarfed by this great recording ofcourse!
It's always risky to single out a recording, but this one will stand the test of time :-) !
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..... feel free to upload the remainder of that night as well Stanislas.
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Jolt Productivity Award: iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition
Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass
It's hard to keep up with the latest mobile development for Android, with its plethora of devices, operating system variants, and extensions. Fortunately that's not the case with iOS. Apple's iron grip on the language, the operating system, the APIs, the devices, and the tools allows programmers to draw a line in the sand, secure that the line won't move for about a year.
The same is true with authors, who can stick to a schedule for releasing annual updates of their iOS books. Trainers like Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass are helped by Apple's "iOS Dev Center" program, which releases betas and documentation far ahead of each iteration's release. While hardware is kept closely under wraps, nearly anyone can pay $99/year for pre-release versions of both iOS and Xcode, Apple's no-cost IDE.
The Big Nerd Ranch is a training and app-dev company. Spending eighteen bucks for the Kindle version of their iOS book gives you the training course Apple should have provide to its developers. The 590-page (in print) tome is thorough, and written in a breezy style that feels like you're in the classroom. It's more of a tutorial than a reference. To get the value, you can't just sit and read the book, you must program through the examples and grok the lessons. A generous set of downloadable resources helps. New for this version — focused on iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 — are buffed-up sections on iCloud and regular expressions. Otherwise, this is a straightforward iteration of a solid book.
Bear in mind that the Big Nerd Ranch book was published in March 2012 — and rumor is that iOS 6 (and Xcode 4.5) will be released late this year, which will surely spur another revision to this volume. In the meantime, if you are looking to learn iOS programming and develop real apps, this is the book to get. Not that much will change with iOS 6 that you will lose time jumping into this edition.
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This headstone is in the graveyard at St. Michael and All Angels Church at Linton in the Yorkshire Dales. I took this photograph about three weeks ago.
Buried here is Thomas Paley, his wife Harriet and their daughter Martha Jane.
Thomas is my 2nd great grand uncle. He was born sometime in 1825 to William Paley (1797-1882) and Mary Blackey (1794-1877) and was the first of five children.
On both the 1841 and 1851 census returns Thomas is living at home with his parents and siblings. In 1851 his occupation is described as a collier. His father and brother Francis were also working as colliers – presumably in the coal mines on Threshfield Moor.
In Q1 of 1853 Thomas married Harriet Richmond. I haven't researched Harriet's family so have no information about her parents. I know that the census returns show her as having been born in Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Thomas and Harriett had at least five children between 1855 and 1865
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In the census returns for 1861 and for 1871 Thomas is described as a coal miner. So it appears he stuck to that dangerous occupation all his working life.
Thomas died at the fairly young age of 49 on 22 November 1873.
Unfortunately Harriet only lived for a further five years and died at the age of 51 on 9 August 1878.
Their daughter Martha Jane had died on 30 June 1866 aged just 9 years.
I was surprised to discover that coal mining took place in the green pastures of the Threshfield Moor and the Yorkshire Dales. In fact coal was mined on Threshfield Moor as long ago as the early 17th century. A document dated June 1607 records Lancelot Johnson sinking a coal pit at Threshfield. From the mid-19th century the colliery had a succession of owners. The last, John Delaney, built a washery at the pithead in an attempt to improve the quality of the coal. His aim was to produce coal to burn in his new lime works in Threshfield. The mine worked an area full of old workings and in the end the miners simply ran out of coal. The colliery was abandoned in 1905, although Delaney's company continued to run Threshfield Lime Works until well into the 20th century.
(Source: Gill M C (1994) The Wharfedale Mines. (British Mining No 49) Keighley: Northern Mine Research Society)


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Karen is a 30-year-old health care professional. For close to two years, she didn't have regular periods (a condition called amenorrhea). At the same time, she was underweight, exercising a lot, and not eating enough to compensate for this exercise. Now, five years later, she's still exercising, but she's eating well and menstruating-and she is much healthier for it.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
I started getting my periods much less often-every other month or every three months. They were also very light and only lasted two to three days. Then, I stopped getting my period altogether. At the same time, I lost about 20 pounds. I had just moved back home after graduating college. And while at college, my eating habits were pretty poor; I drank beer on most weekends, and didn't exercise much. So when I came back to my mom's house where I had healthy meals, very little alcohol, and more time to exercise, I quickly lost the excess weight–and then some.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
The diagnosis was pretty simple. After reviewing my menstrual history and weighing me, the nurse practitioner in my gynecologist's office asked me about my eating and exercising habits. She also did some blood tests to rule out other conditions that can cause amenorrhea. When all of those blood tests came back negative, she determined that the amenorrhea was caused by my quick weight loss.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
At first, I was relieved not to have to deal with my period. And since the blood tests were all negative, I didn't think it was any big deal to not have my period. But then as we discussed the effects of not having my period, I became more concerned. Since I wasn't having my period, my body wasn't producing enough estrogen, which can decrease bone density. As an athlete, this worried me. It could increase my risk of injury and hinder my performance.
How is amenorrhea treated?
In the short term, the nurse practitioner prescribed me birth control pills, which caused me to have a regular period. I also took a calcium supplement daily to help protect my bones. For the longer term, I worked on gaining weight.
After almost two years of irregular periods, no periods, and periods only while on birth control pills, I was eating better and gained enough weight so that my body would menstruate on its own. For the past five years, I have been at a healthful weight and been having regular periods.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to your condition?
I made a conscious effort to eat more and to eat a little more fat. I had gotten somewhat caught up in the "fat free" craze and was eating a lot of salad, vegetables, grilled chicken, and cereal. I wouldn't eat anything that had fat in it. I started allowing myself a little more fat and more calories to meet my energy needs. This was especially important because I was working out so much; I needed more calories than a year earlier when I wasn't exercising regularly.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
This wasn't an emotionally stressful condition. I talked with my mom about it, and she encouraged me to gain weight. She, as well as my brothers, were concerned that I had lost 20 pounds in such a short period of time. My brothers were especially vigilant in trying to get me to eat more.
Does amenorrhea have any impact on your family?
Other than my mom and brothers worrying about me, amenorrhea really did not affect my family. If I was married and trying to start a family, that would have been a different story.
What advice would you give to anyone living with amenorrhea?
It is important to take care of amenorrhea quickly. The lack of estrogen can cause serious bone loss that you may not be able to regain. Although you may enjoy the freedom of not having a period and the physical and mental symptoms that come with it, it's really not a healthful way to be. Find the weight that is healthful for you-one that you can easily maintain with your usual eating and exercise patterns and one at which you have a regular period every month. If eating is an issue for you, ask your doctor for a referral to a registered dietitian (RD). An RD can help you develop healthful eating patterns that you are comfortable with.
Interviews were conducted in the past and may not reflect current standards and practices in medicine. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how this condition is diagnosed and managed today and what treatment approaches are right for you.
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MONTREAL — A decade-long feud in Outremont between a wealthy chassidic leader and a non-Jewish blogger who chronicles alleged municipal infractions by the chassidic community went to court.
Michael Rosenberg, head of the prominent commercial real estate company Rosdev, along with his son Martin Rosenberg and businessman Alex Werzberger, who heads a coalition of chassidic communities, are suing Pierre Lacerte for $375,000 for defamation, harassment and breach of privacy. The case was heard in Quebec Superior Court over four days, ending Jan. 17.
That scheduled time proved insufficient, and the hearing will resume Jan. 30.
The plaintiffs' lawyer is Julius Grey, a well-known civil rights advocate.
The elder Rosenberg, 58, openly charges that Lacerte is motivated by antisemitism, which Lacerte denies, saying he just wants the law applied equally to everyone and is exercising his freedom of speech.
Lacerte lives on Hutchison Street, facing Congregation Gate David, a small Bobover shul that has been there for more than 50 years. The Rosenbergs are leaders of the congregation.
Lacerte, 58, has run the blog "Accommodements Outremont" since 2007, using it to document and comment on perceived violations of the borough's parking, nuisance, building and other regulations.
His chassidic neighbours are a frequent topic, although the question of how often he writes about them came into dispute during testimony.
Since 2003, Lacerte has been photographing alleged violations and presenting these images as evidence on his blog. That's the year the congregation began doing construction work that Lacerte alleges went ahead without a permit.
Rosenberg and his son said they are fed up with, and unnerved by, Lacerte taking photographs as they come and go from the synagogue. The elder Rosenberg claims the blog is hurting his business, because it portrays him as someone who doesn't respect the law and lives in a ghetto. He even testified that it could adversely affect his children's marriage prospects.
Lacerte, a former journalist, claims he is within his rights to take photographs of people in the public sphere and disseminate them on the Internet. He charges that the lawsuit's aim is to silence him. His lawyer, Rosalia Giarratano, told Judge Claude Dallaire that only seven per cent of some 300 articles published on the blog mention Rosenberg.
Lacerte is counter-suing Michael Rosenberg for $725,000, on the grounds that his reputation has been damaged by the businessman, who he contends has far more resources available to him. He says the accusation of antisemitism has negatively affected his employment opportunities in the communications field.
On his blog last week, Lacerte posted an illustration depicting Rosenberg as Godzilla and himself as a Lilliputian squaring off in a boxing ring.
Lacerte, who describes himself as secular, maintains he has nothing against Jews. His real beef, he says, is with officials of the Outremont borough, whom he charges are lax in enforcing the regulations equally among citizens and are especially reluctant when it comes to the Chassidim, a rapidly growing segment of the population.
He has also brought numerous complaints to municipal authorities over the years, and a number about Rosenberg in particular, and he made a lengthy presentation at the Bouchard-Taylor commission on reasonable accommodation in 2007 about the Chassidim's purported lack of respect for the rules and how life in a residential zone is being disrupted by the communities' activities.
In 2007, Rosenberg brought a $100,000 suit against Lacerte, who launched the blog soon after to "defend himself."
Lacerte is reportedly receiving financial support for his legal battles from a group called Citoyens pour l'équité réglementaire, formed in 2008.
In 2008, Rosenberg made a complaint to the police of harassment by Lacerte. He said he feared for his and his family's safety.
In 2011, Quebec Court Judge Manon Ouimet refused to issue the restraining order Rosenberg sought to prevent Lacerte from photographing activity outside the synagogue.
She characterized Lacerte as "an excessive, meticulous and impassioned person," but as posing no danger. She also affirmed that the content on his blog is within free speech and does not threaten, intimidate or harass Rosenberg.


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I like Beninati as we'll. I was just becoming a huge fan of his when they took him off of the national broadcasts. On the same token, I hung out with Steiggy outside of a music club once (guy is down with Motown). He was very nice and attentive and we talked hockey for almost 20 minutes (local, history, goaltending, how he got into the game, strategy, etc.). He was actually a real pleasure to talk to and his knowledge of the game at every level is impressive (as it should be).


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For years, builds had the simple requirements of compiling and packaging software. But the landscape of modern software development has changed, and so have the needs for build automation. Today, projects involve large and diverse software stacks, incorporate multiple programming languages, and apply a broad spectrum of testing strategies. With the rise of agile practices, builds must support early integration of code as well as frequent and easy delivery to both test and production environments.
Established build tools regularly fall short in meeting these goals. How many times have your eyes glazed over while looking at XML to figure out how a build works? And why can't it be easier to add custom logic to your build? All too often, when adding on to a build script, you can't shake the feeling that you're implementing a workaround or hack. I feel your pain. There has to be a better way of doing these things in an expressive and maintainable way. There is it's called Gradle.
Gradle is the next evolutionary step in JVM-based build tools. It draws on lessons learned from established tools such as Ant and Maven and takes their best ideas to the next level. Following a build-by-convention approach, Gradle allows for declaratively modeling your problem domain using a powerful and expressive domain-specific language (DSL) implemented in Groovy instead of XML. Because Gradle is a JVM native, it allows you to write custom logic in the language you're most comfortable with, be it Java or Groovy.
In the Java world, a remarkably large number of libraries and frameworks are used. Dependency management is employed to automatically download these artifacts from a repository and make them available to your application. Having learned from the shortcomings of existing dependency management solutions, Gradle provides its own implementation. Not only is it highly configurable, it also strives to be as compatible as possible with existing dependency management infrastructures (such as Maven and Ivy). Gradle's ability to manage dependencies isn't limited to external libraries. As your project grows in size and complexity, you'll want to organize the code into modules with clearly defined responsibilities. Gradle provides powerful support for defining and organizing multiproject builds, as well as modeling dependencies between projects.
To get started with Gradle, all you need to bring to the table is a good understanding of the Java programming language. If you're new to project automation or haven't used a build tool before, my book Gradle in Action is a good place to start.
In this two-part series on using Gradle, I first compare existing JVM-language build tools with the features Gradle has to offer and describe Gradle's compelling feature set. In the next installment, I cover installing Gradle and writing and executing a simple Gradle script.
Why Gradle? Why Now?
If you've ever dealt with build systems, frustration may be one of the feelings that comes up when thinking about the challenges you've faced. Shouldn't the build tool naturally help you accomplish the goal of automating your project? Instead, you had to compromise on maintainability, usability, flexibility, extendibility, or performance.
Let's say you want to copy a file to a specific location when you're building the release version of your project. To identify the version, you check a string in the metadata describing your project. If it matches a specific numbering scheme (for example, 1.0-RELEASE), you copy the file from point A to point B. From an outside perspective, this may sound like a trivial task. If you have to rely on XML, the build language of many traditional tools, expressing this simple logic becomes fairly difficult. The build tool's response is to add scripting functionality through nonstandard extension mechanisms. You end up mixing scripting code with XML or invoking external scripts from your build logic. It's easy to imagine that you'll need to add more and more custom code over time. As a result, you inevitably introduce accidental complexity, and maintainability goes out the window. Wouldn't it make sense to use an expressive language to define your build logic in the first place?
Here's another example. Maven follows the paradigm of convention-over-configuration by introducing a standardized project layout and build lifecycle for Java projects. That's a great approach if you want to ensure a unified application structure for a green-field project a project that lacks any constraints imposed by prior work. However, you may be the lucky one who needs to work on one of the many legacy projects that use different conventions. One of the conventions Maven is very strict about is that one project needs to produce one artifact, such as a JAR file. But how do you create two different JAR files from one source tree without having to change your project structure? Just for this purpose, you'd have to create two separate projects. Again, even though you can make this happen with a workaround, you can't shake off the feeling that your build process will need to adapt to the tool, not the tool to your build process.
These are only some of the issues you may have encountered with existing solutions. Often you've had to sacrifice nonfunctional requirements to model your enterprise's automation domain. But enough with the negativity let's see how Gradle fits into the build tool landscape.
Evolution of Java Build Tools
Let's look at how build tools have evolved over the years. Two tools have dominated building Java projects: Ant and Maven. Over the course of years, both tools improved significantly and extended their feature set. But even though both are highly popular and have become industry standards, they have one weak point: build logic has to be described in XML. XML is great for describing hierarchical data, but falls short on expressing program flow and conditional logic. As a build script grows in complexity, maintaining the build code becomes a nightmare.
Ant's first official version was released in 2000. Each element of work (a target in Ant's lingo) can be combined and reused. Multiple targets can be chained to combine single units of work into full workflows. For example, you might have one target for compiling Java source code and another one for creating a JAR file that packages the class files. Building a JAR file only makes sense if you first compiled the source code. In Ant, you make the JAR target depend on the compile target. Ant doesn't give any guidance on how to structure your project. Though it allows for maximum flexibility, Ant makes each build script unique and hard to understand. External libraries required by your project are usually checked into version control, because there is no automated mechanism to pull them from a central location. Early versions of Ant required a lot of discipline to avoid repetitive code. Its extension mechanism was simply too weak. As a result, the bad coding practice of copying and pasting code was the only viable option. To unify project layouts, enterprises needed to impose standards.
Maven 1, released in July 2004, tried to ease that process. It provided a standardized project and directory structure, as well as dependency management. Unfortunately, custom logic is hard to implement. If you want to break out of Maven's conventions, writing a plugin, called a Mojo, is usually the only solution. The name Mojo might imply a straightforward, easy, and sexy way to extend Maven; in reality, writing a plugin in Maven is cumbersome and overly complex.
Later, Ant caught up with Maven by introducing dependency management through the Apache library Ivy, which can be fully integrated with Ant to declaratively specify dependencies needed for your project's compilation and packaging process. Maven's dependency manager, as well as Ivy, support resolving transitive dependencies. When I speak of transitive dependencies, I mean the graph of libraries required by your specified dependencies. A typical example of a transitive dependency would be the XML parser library Xerces that requires the XML APIs library to function correctly. Maven 2, released in October 2005, took the idea of convention over configuration even further. Projects consisting of multiple modules could define their dependencies on each other.
These days a lot of people are looking for alternatives to established build tools. We see a shift from using XML to a more expressive and readable language to define builds. A build tool that carries on this idea is Gant, a DSL on top of Ant written in Groovy. Using Gant, users can now combine Groovy features with their existing knowledge of Ant without having to write XML. Even though it wasn't part of the core Maven project, a similar approach was proposed by the project Maven Polyglot that enables you to write your build definition logic, which is the project object model (POM) file, in Groovy, Ruby, Scala, or Clojure.
We're on the cusp of a new era of application development: polyglot programming. Many applications today incorporate multiple programming languages, each of which is best suited to implement a specific problem domain. It's not uncommon to face projects that use client-side languages like JavaScript that communicate with a mixed, multilingual back end like Java, Groovy, and Scala, which in turn makes calls to a C++ legacy application. It's all about the right tool for the job. Despite the benefits of combining multiple programming languages, your build tool needs to fluently support this infrastructure as well. JavaScript needs to be merged, minified, and zipped, and your server-side and legacy code needs to be compiled, packaged, and deployed.
Gradle fits right into that generation of build tools and satisfies many requirements of modern build tools (Figure 1). It provides an expressive DSL, a convention over configuration approach, and powerful dependency management. It makes the right move to abandon XML and introduce the dynamic language Groovy to define your build logic. Sounds compelling, doesn't it?
Figure 1: Gradle combines the best features from other build tools.
Why Choose Gradle?
If you're a developer, automating your project is part of your day-to-day business. Don't you want to treat your build code like any other piece of software that can be extended, tested, and maintained? Let's put software engineering back into the build. Gradle build scripts are declarative, readable, and clearly express their intention. Writing code in Groovy instead of XML, sprinkled with Gradle's build-by-convention philosophy, significantly cuts down the size of a build script and is far more readable (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: Comparing build script size and readability between Maven and Gradle.
It's impressive to see how much less code you need to write in Gradle to achieve the same goal. With Gradle you don't have to make compromises. Where other build tools like Maven propose project layouts that are "my way or the highway," Gradle's DSL allows for flexibility by adapting to nonconventional project structures.
Never change a running system, you say? Your team already spent a lot of time on establishing your project's build code infrastructure. Gradle doesn't force you to fully migrate all of your existing build logic. Good integration with other tools like Ant and Maven is at the top of Gradle's priority list.
The market seems to be taking notice of Gradle. Popular open source projects like Groovy and Hibernate completely switched to Gradle as the backbone for their builds. Every Android project ships with Gradle as the default build system. Gradle also had an impact on the commercial market. Companies like Orbitz, EADS, and Software AG embraced Gradle as well, to name just a few. VMware, the company behind Spring and Grails, made significant investments in choosing Gradle. Many of their software products, such as the Spring framework and Grails, are literally built on the trust that Gradle can deliver.
Gradle's Compelling Feature Set
Let's take a closer look at what sets Gradle apart from its competitors: its compelling feature set (see Figure 3). To summarize, Gradle is an enterprise-ready build system, powered by a declarative and expressive Groovy DSL. It combines flexibility and effortless extendibility with the idea of convention over configuration and support for traditional dependency management. Backed by a professional services company (Gradleware) and strong community involvement, Gradle is becoming the number-one choice build solution for many open source projects and enterprises.
Figure 3: Gradle's compelling feature set.


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Dr. Lowell Catlett had FPA members laughing as he closed the organization's 2013 Retreat in Palm Springs, Calif., on Monday afternoon.
Catlett, a futurist and dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University, began by noting his age.
"I was considering the short time I had left and said, 'Whoa, I better do all I can to extend it,'" he said.
He noted the "marriage premium" men have over women when it comes to their life spans, "although some married men would rather die."
He also said he thought the fact that he drank red wine would help him, until his doctor explained what moderation meant, "and I had to give those years back."
Lastly, he discovered men in Canada live to an average of 78 years, so he decided to move there, "until I realized you need a marketable skill before I could move to the country, so that didn't help."
Cattlett then noted that the accuracy rate of the financial industry in predicting market outcomes was just 47%, despite increases in expertise and technology.
"Just 47%, can you believe that?" he asked the audience. "That means you could flip a coin and we'd still be behind by 3 percentage points."
Catlett noted that the amount it costs the average American to eat as a percentage of disposable income has never been lower. He also said he is now able to tell college graduates the price of owning a home has never been lower.
"When I bought my first home in 1979, the interest rate on my 30-year fixed was 11%," he related. "A colleague at the time said, 'Stop bragging, mine's 17%.' Think we were underwater? A little bit, we just weren't bright enough to do the calculation and figure it out."
He noted that when he added up food, homeownership, utilities and Internet access, it accounted for 31% of the average American's income.
"That means 69% of their income is left over," he explained. "Think they'll have any for you?"
So what are they doing with all that's left ove?r
"Buying crap, which I call the crap factor. We could call it economic democracy and economic freedom of surplus or whatever. But you forget those terms. Crap factor is harder to forget."
He noted the rise of "organic this and gluten-free that" has resulted in more segmented markets, and consequently, more jobs.
"I met with the producer of organic vodka," Catlett said in disbelief. "I thought 90 proof would kill any impurities anyway. The owner looked at me and said, "Laugh at me all you want, but I can sell 10 times more than I can currently produce."
Catlett closed by noting the 30% increase in developing countries as a result of women increasingly entering the marketplace.
"Women in developing countries get more money and spend it on food and education for their children. Men in developing countries typically spend it on protection, because it doesn't matter if you have 30% more if your neighbor steals it. And yet we have organic vodka. As my father once told me, people afford what they want."
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Why does one cat go crazy for chicken, while another craves beef? Or why does your cat only lick the gravy off of one wet food but gobble down another? As it turns out, your cat's nose often knows. The smell of cat food may not whet your appetite, but aroma is nearly everything for your feline when it's deciding when and what to eat, according to recent research.
Last year, a group of Hungarian scientists conducted a study on how cats decide which food to consume when given a choice of cat foods. The results, which were published in the Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, found that if cats determine the scent of one food is more attractive than another, they will eat that food without even tasting the food with a less attractive odor. Cats resort to sense of taste only if none of the meals they are offered has an agreeable smell.
But what could be going on in your cat's mind when it puts food to the nose test? Here are some likely explanations for the method behind the sniffing madness.
The Importance of Proteins and Fats
When your cat sniffs its food, odors linked to proteins and fats often come up winners, and for good reason. Proteins and fats are the single most important ingredients in a feline diet. That's because in the wild, cats are carnivores. They live on diets composed almost entirely of meat, with only a small amount of vegetables and essentially no grains. House kitties, however, can benefit from certain high quality grains, which serve as energy-producing carbohydrates. These may include corn meal, rice flour, grain sorghum and wheat. The smell of these ingredients, however, will not entice your cat in the same way that meaty odors can.
Only the Right Protein Will Do
"Cats are much more finicky than dogs," says Dr. Joseph Wakshlag, DMV, assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. "They like the high protein, higher fat foods, but their diet is also very driven by the need for certain amino acids." Amino acids are present in animal-based protein sources, so your feline may be sniffing out these subtle protein components too. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for both dogs and cats, there are 10 amino acids that are considered essential in the diet — histidine, isoleucine, arginine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine, and lysine. Cats also need taurine, another substance essential for felines, but one which canines can produce on their own, Dr. Wakshlag says. That is one important reason why dog food is not a nutritionally sufficient diet for cats.
Part Quirkiness, Part Science
The peculiar taste preferences of cats are familiar to many a pet owner. "Certainly you've heard the stories of the finicky cat who will only eat tuna," says Nancy Peterson, a registered veterinary technician and issues specialist at the Humane Society of the United States. Many a household with more than one cat will have different items on the dinner menu each night – one cat may be partial to dry, fish-flavored food, while another may only eat moist chicken. Like people, cats develop preferences to different flavors, but in their case, they are driven by their discriminating sense of smell.
Cats have taste buds, but only 473, far fewer than the 9,000 taste buds on the human tongue, according to Cats International, a non-profit educational organization. Cats can taste salty, sour and bitter, but new research indicates that they don't have a sweet tooth. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia published a study in 2005 in the journal PLoS Genetics arguing that cats have a genetic mutation that has made their taste buds out of order for detecting sugar. The study helped scientists understand that a cat's indifference to sugar supports their dependence on an all-meat diet, unlike humans and other animals that have more cravings for fruits and starches.
Introducing New Flavors and Foods
There are many good reasons to introduce a variety of flavors and textures into your cat's diet, experts say. Cats can easily develop strong preferences for one type of food and decline all others, which can be a problem. Canned tuna, for example, lacks some of the vital amino acids that cats need. While still kittens, Dr. Wakshlag advises pet owners to introduce not only a variety of flavors but, more importantly, textures. "The idea is to change it around so a cat doesn't develop any specific preference," he says.
As cats age, they become more prone to diseases, such as kidney disease or tooth decay. A cat that has only eaten dry food all its life may be averse to switching to a moist food. Dry foods contain only 6 to 10 percent moisture, compared with 75 percent of some canned foods, according to Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Many cats tend to avoid the water bowl and a wet food is one way of ensuring they get their daily dosage. "Look at what a mouse is and it's more close to canned food than dry," Dr. Wakshlag says, who owns two cats, ages 11 and 13.
To help an older cat transition, Peterson advises adding more moist food or food of a different flavor to your cat's preferred diet a little at a time. "By the fourth of fifth day," she says, "hopefully your cat has switched to this new food." In essence, you will have retrained your cat's nose to accept the different aroma mix.


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Unit testing is considered an essential part of software development. Through unit testing, we can evaluate each code component, find out how well it performs, and determine how well it reacts to valid or invalid input. A regression suite of unit tests is also an excellent way of detecting unexpected changes in a code base caused by refactoring or writing new code.
In this article, I examine the mechanisms of unit testing in Python, starting with the unittest module and its key classes. I examine tests individually and in suites, and I discuss how to facilitate their construction and use. Readers should have a working knowledge of Python. The sample test code requires Python 2.5 or later.
The unittest Module
The unittest module started life as the third-party module PyUnit. PyUnit was a Python port of JUnit, the Java unit testing framework. Designed by Steve Purcell, PyUnit became an official Python module starting with version 2.5.
Figure 1: Core classes in unittest.
As Figure 1 shows, there are five key classes in the unittest module. The
TestCase class holds the test routines and provides hooks for preparing each routine and for cleaning up after. The
TestSuite class serves as a collection container. It can hold multiple
TestCase objects and multiple
TestSuite objects.
TestLoader class loads test cases and suites defined locally or from an external file. It emits a
TestSuite object that holds those cases and suites. The
TextTestRunner class provides a standard platform to run the tests. The
TestResults class provides a standard container for the test results.
Out of these five classes, only
TestCase must be subclassed. The other four classes can also be subclassed, but they are generally used as is.
Preparing a Test Case
Figure 2 shows the structure of the
TestCase class. In it are three sets of methods that are used most often in designing the tests. In the first set are the pre- and post-test hooks. The
setUp() method fires before each test routine, the
tearDown() after the routine. Override these methods when you create a custom test case.
Figure 2: The structure of a TestCase class.
The second pair of methods control test execution. Both methods take a message string as input, and both abort an ongoing test. But the
skipTest() method cancels the current test, while the
fail() method fails it explicitly.
The third set of methods help identify the test. The method
id() returns a string containing the name of the
TestCase object and of the test routine. And the method
shortDescription() returns the
docstr comment at the start of each test routine. If the routine has no such comment,
shortDescription() returns a
Listing One shows the sample bare bones test case
FooTest has two test routines:
testA() and
testB(). Both routines get the required argument of
self. Both have a
docstr comment for a first line.
Listing One: Code to show the sequence of unit test execution.
#!/usr/bin/python import unittest class FooTest(unittest.TestCase): """Sample test case""" # preparing to test def setUp(self): """ Setting up for the test """ print "FooTest:setUp_:begin" ## do something... print "FooTest:setUp_:end" # ending the test def tearDown(self): """Cleaning up after the test""" print "FooTest:tearDown_:begin" ## do something... print "FooTest:tearDown_:end" # test routine A def testA(self): """Test routine A""" print "FooTest:testA" # test routine B def testB(self): """Test routine B""" print "FooTest:testB"
Figure 3 shows how
FooTest behaves when executed.
Figure 3: FooTest behavior.
Note the same
setUp() and
tearDown() methods run before and after each test routine. So how do you let
setUp() and
tearDown() know which routine is being run? You must first identify the routine by calling
shortDescription() or
id() (See Listing Two). Then use an
if-else block to route to the appropriate code. In the sample snippet,
FooTest calls
shortDescription() to get the routine's
docstr comment, then runs the prep and clean-up code for that routine.
Listing Two: Using test descriptions.
import unittest class FooTest(unittest.TestCase): """Sample test case""" # preparing to test def setUp(self): """ Setting up for the test """ print "FooTest:setUp_:begin" testName = self.shortDescription() if (testName == "Test routine A"): print "setting up for test A" elif (testName == "Test routine B"): print "setting up for test B" else: print "UNKNOWN TEST ROUTINE" print "FooTest:setUp_:end" # ending the test def tearDown(self): """Cleaning up after the test""" print "FooTest:tearDown_:begin" testName = self.shortDescription() if (testName == "Test routine A"): print "cleaning up after test A" elif (testName == "Test routine B"): print "cleaning up after test B" else: print "UNKNOWN TEST ROUTINE" print "FooTest:tearDown_:end" # see Listing One...
Designing a Test Routine
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Table 1: Basic asserts in unittest.
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False, use
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assertFalse(), as in Listing Three:
Listing Three: Checking for True or False.
self.assertTrue(argState, "foobar() gave back a False") # -- fires when the instance method foobar() returns a True self.assertFalse(argState) # -- fires when foobar() returns a False # Notice this one does not supply an assert message
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assertEqual() and
assertNotEqual(), these two
asserts examine both argument values and type. To check if an argument is an instance of a specific class, use
assertIsInstance() and
assertIsNotInstance() as in Listing Five.
Listing Five: Checking if an argument is an instance of a specific class.
argFoo = Bar() # checking against class Bar self.assertIsInstance(argFoo, Bar, "The object is not an instance of class Bar") # -- this assert will succeed # checking against class Foo self.assertIsNotInstance(argFoo, Foo, "The object is an instance of class Foo") # -- this assert will fail
asserts get a class name as a second argument. Both behave similarly to the library function
isInstance(). Finally, to check for a
nil, use
assertIsNone() and
The second set of
asserts are comparative (see Table 2).
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Table 2: The comparative assertions.


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Shoulder replacement surgery replaces a worn, painful shoulder joint with a new, functional joint made from metal and plastic.
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Reasons for Procedure
The surgery relieves debilitating shoulder joint pain caused by a shoulder condition or injury that interferes with daily life.
Total shoulder replacement is a surgery done to treat different shoulder conditions and injuries, such as:
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- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Avascular necrosis
- Rotator cuff injury resulting in joint arthritis
Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
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Ortho Info— American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons http://www.orthoinfo.org
Sports Med—American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine http://www.sportsmed.org
Canadian Orthopaedic Association http://www.coa-aco.org
Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation http://www.canorth.org
Arthroplasty. John Hopkins Medicine website. Available at: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/test%5Fprocedures/orthopaedic/arthroplasty%5F92,P07677. Accessed November 13, 2017.
Joint replacement—shoulder. Cleveland Clinic website. Available at: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments%5Fand%5Fprocedures/hic%5FTotal%5FShoulder%5FJoint%5FReplacement. Updated July 21, 2009. Accessed November 13, 2017.
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the glenohumeral joint. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115752/Osteoarthritis-OA-of-the-glenohumeral-joint . Updated November 28, 2016. Accessed November 13, 2017.
Shoulder joint replacement. Ortho Info—American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website. Available at: http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00094. Updated December 2011. Accessed November 13, 2017.
Shoulder replacement surgery: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Hospital for Special Surgery website. Available at: https://www.hss.edu/conditions%5FShoulder-Replacement-Surgery-Diagnosis-Treatment-Recovery.asp. Updated July 1, 2013. Accessed November 13, 2017.
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Here is a video of the place where they load the trains with oil, trains which you can see passing through Fargo and on down Highway 10. I passed through the Bakken on the way home this week. It is something. Dickinson is so lit up. It is like beet harvest times 100. Gas flares and oil rig high voltage lights light up the night sky.
My rough calculations are that each train of 100 cars carries about $5 million worth of oil. It costs about $60,000 to haul it to Cushing Oklahoma for delivery.
It is encouraging that Burlington Northern is considering using natural gas for their locomotives. Rather than abandoning fossil fuels cold turkey, which I suspect will never be politically viable, we should constantly move to the better forms of energy from the massive stores underneath us. Natural gas is so cheap right now, perhaps companies will be inspired to move to it for cost savings.


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OT: Stockholm and Utrecht June 17, 2008Posted by Richard Foote in Travel.
I've just recently returned from a very hectic but enjoyable visit to Sweden and The Netherlands to do some training for Oracle University. I had two great classes and met a whole bunch of really nice people so a big thank you to all who attended and made me feel so welcome.
Stockholm is a really beautiful city that reminds me somewhat of Sydney with it's magnificent harbour. However, as with most cities in Europe, it's the history and amazing architecture of the place that made it a real joy to simply walk around and explore. The highlight for me though was visiting the Vasa Museum and seeing first hand the incredibly well preserved wreak of the massive but doomed Vasa, which sank in the harbour on it's maiden voyage in 1628. Hidden for centuries, it was only rediscovered in the 1950's and can now be seen in almost all her glory at the museum. Amazing. The highlight for the Swedes during my visit was no doubt beating Greece in Euro 2008 and it was fun being in the crowd and watching the match on a large outdoor screen.
Utrecht in the Netherlands was another lovely city to visit. You know the place has some history when the so-called "New" canal was built in the 1400s. Being Australian, anything older than a hundred years is deemed antique here so I soak up history whenever I'm lucky enough to get the opportunity. With it's narrow cobbled streets and picturesque canals, it was another great place to simply walk around and enjoy. Being a keen cyclist, this was certainly my kind of town with people on bikes just everywhere and interestingly, I saw very few overweight locals. I must have that lucky touch as during my visit, the Dutch beat France 4-1 in Euro 2008. If any country is interested, there's still time for my services if required, although perhaps not so for the host countries.
Will get back to writing about indexes and the such once my body stops wanting to sleep by midday …
- 1. Slater - June 18, 2008
Hey Richard can't believe you where in my part of the world (stockholm) and I missed you oh well may be next time. I moved here from oz 8 years ago. I love that everyone lives in the city and there ain't really a CBD like in sydney or melbourne.
- 2. Marcel-Jan Krijgsman - June 18, 2008
I've been at your session in Utrecht. It was very enlightening.
I hope your presence in the Netherland isn't mandatory for victory of the Dutch team, or you'll have to come back. The amount of Dutch goals in the last match already was half of that of the previous one 🙂
- 5. slater - June 19, 2008
Hey Richard as the locals say "No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes" 🙂
- 7. SeánMacGC - June 21, 2008
Hiya Richard, glad you got home safely to Austria (according to Burleson, and HE couldn't possibly be wrong about such an important detail). Ho Hum… Pity you couldn't have dropped by in Ireland with your magic soccer dust… but then again, we need rocks! :o) Keep her lit, as we say here in Ireland!
- 8. Herald - June 21, 2008
Hi Richard,
thanks for the great presentation. I was at your session in Utrecht, it was great. Yeah everybody (almost) knows how to ride a bike and it's very convenient in the city with all the traffic jam.
I hope to see you for another presention.
- 11. Latha - June 24, 2008
Hi Richard.
Are you having any plan to come to India?
- 13. jalaja k - June 26, 2008
Hi Richard Foote
Iam jalaja from India. Which place do you like to visit in India?
with regards
jalaja k
- 14. Latha - June 26, 2008
Hi Richard,
Thanks. We will wait for your visit. If you come to india you can see TajMahal & lot of temples other than oracle.
- 16. Latha - June 27, 2008
Hi Richard,
Thats' right. I will try my best level with Oracle university.
- 17. adam - July 7, 2008
Hi guys i just moved back to oz after 4 yrs in stockholm (working at Oracle). Will be going back regularly (being a new born swede and my partner being swedish) and could have new job in stockholm working remotely from brisbane.
Anyway was wondering if i can get your email slater or richard if you could pass it on. Didnt realize there were aussies in sweden who know oracle.