Sunday, May 28, 2006
It's deja vu all over again. The thought of Tony having to put on shades to view the RBT finally got to me so I restored the old template. Well, plus the fact that a recent Firefox update resulted in a small viewing problem when using that browser instead of IE. At least I think that's what did it. Egad, what a bother.
Some menu links (search and archives) were never updated into this older template. I'll fix that in the next day or so.
In other news the FOWL picnic is happening on June 17th. Fun fun fun 'til our daddy takes our T-Bird away. Info at the FOWL site under news.
Posted 10:09 AM by whatley (6) comments
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- I added a divider (the small semi-tranparent horizontal line immediately under "Post a Comment") to, along with the indentation, help visually separate comments from any existing main page posts beneath them.
- Indented the heading "Comments:" (seen in bold when comments are expanded) so it falls in line with the rest of comment indenting. Neatness counts I guess.
All of this really only applies when multiple posts (with comments) are posted on the same day. Otherwise the date separators keep everything apart well enough. We can also force comments to come up in a separate page (ala the just replaced template). Have a preference?
- I like this setup. It makes more sense vis a vis the posts and comments. The color scheme is much more relaxing. Thanks
Post a Comment- Even short lived 'tradition' has amazing tenacity ... especially among old foggies like ... [unnamed to protect the innocent]. ;-)
Friday, May 26, 2006
Forget stupid light bulbs. Photonic Crystals might take the place of electronic semiconductor devices. They can work directly on light waves.
Posted 3:21 PM by Andy (2) comments
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Post a Comment- Butterfly wings act like photonic crystals to create the bright colors we see. They block certain frequencies of light (band gap) and permit others to reflect. Some closer and closer yet microscopic views of a butterfly wing scale. Also some Google image results for Butterfly Wings.
"Imagine a TV that is not just thin like a plasma screen, but thin like a birthday card. That lives in a narrow box near the ceiling and has a string you pull to unroll it."
Organic LEDs are on the way.
Posted 9:30 AM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- Comparison and descriptions of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Organic LEDs (OLEDs) and Phosphorescent OLED's (PLEDs). From Scientific American, February 2004: Better Displays with Organic Films.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Ever hear of Haunebu? Popular among the UFOlogists, it recently popped up in the April isue of one of my BMW motorycle magazines. Flying disks, magnetic propulsion, hypersonic flight, "ray" gun weaponry, visits to the moon. And all by the Nazis in the closing days of WWII.
Posted 5:22 PM by Andy (0) comments
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At last. A nut after our own hearts. The author of web site RatbagsDotCom takes the obsession with bentthink and documents it on sites by bentthinkers. A webomorphological pathology of why the 'net must be preserved as an entirely separate state of matter (or immatter).
There is The Milenium Project.
"We all know that 'millennium' comes from the Latin words 'mille' and 'annus' and means a thousand years. The word 'millenium' comes from the Latin words 'mille' and 'anus' and means something else. This web site is devoted to the millenium of sites which don't deserve a place on the Web. We are not putting them on a pedestal - we are offering them a stool."
Then there is The Green Light.
"This site was launched in January 2003 as a companion to The Millenium Project site. People kept asking me to give some pointers to sites which I could recommend as an antidote to the hate, the lies and the nonsense in the sites listed at The Millenium Project. The Green Light is a collection of sites which I believe give reliable information and which can be used as references or to find counter-arguments."
Sample The Quintessence of the Loon. Eponymous title. The previous posting's link backtracked to "Loon". Also see an essay on extremes and skepticism titled "The Danger of Knowing for Sure", some links called Full Canvas Jacket (noteworthy unhinged lunatic rants) , and finally "the rag-tag posse of snake-oil vigilantes" that details their mission - "To run the medical quacks and snake-oil salesmen out of town. (Lynching will be considered on a case-by-case basis.) " - their favorite animal (the giant intestinal fluke) and their Honor Board (places they have been thrown out of).
Drama! Pathos! Comedy! Tragedy! Tragi-comedy! Comi-tragedy! And your little dog too!
Posted 3:06 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- Peter Bowditch is the author of RatbagsDotCom.
To perform an involuntary mental reboot, go here and read. Caution - don't read too much or too deeply. Do not operate kitchen appliances or use power tools while ingesting. Take a nice nap and wait for the friendly people to come for you.
Posted 2:57 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- This site is listed at RatbagsDotCom under the "Loon" section. Observe nature. Document wildlife where you find it.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Facts on the Cost of Health Care by the National Coalition on Health Care:
"Experts agree that our health care system is riddled with inefficiencies, excessive administrative expenses, inflated prices, poor management, and inappropriate care, waste and fraud.
"A recent study by Harvard University researchers found that ... 68 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy had health insurance. In addition, the study found that 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings were partly the result of medical expenses."
The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) was founded in 1990. It is an inside-the-beltway organization with a populist/humanist manifesto, trying to be all things healthy for all members. Its Membership List includes business (GE, Verizon, Giant Food), workers (Teamsters, Electrical Workers, Actors), health care (Blue Shield, Kaiser), educators (California, New York and Ohio State Teachers' Retirement Systems) and religion (Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Salvation Army).
I looked through Google returns for the NCHC. None had critical reviews or analyses of the group. Most contained the same lauditory language found in the NCHC's own press releases. I tentatively conclude that the NCHC seems to be a traditional lobbying group, well-connected inside the Washington power elite, and doing nothing inflammitory to date. So they may be a partial cause of the slow pace of change. Certainly, they want to preserve the status quo for all of their member organizations (means - "Cut our expenses/increase our income without cutting our power or control"). I don't think that the unions, pension funds, health care providers, or religious sects would contemplate disbanding, merging or fundamentally changing if in doing so, they could substantially reduce healt care costs for their teeming masses.
And, once again, that refocuses on self-examination. Would any of us? Would we live in different places, work at different types of jobs, voluntarily restrict our use of cars, electricity, travel, or opportunities for the sake of "better" health care? Would we engage in daily community mass exercise sessions, as seen at some Japanese companies? Would we cheerfully march to weekly "volunteer" jobs because it was a Federal law, and as a partial offset to paying taxes? Would you join the neighborhood road-mending gang to resurface the streets in your area instead of writing to the City Council to complain? Would you shovel snow out to the middle of the street in front of your dwelling to clear the roads? In your improved physical condition from the community mass exercise sessions, such work would be less onerous. And the most common response is probably "Of course I will, but not unless everyone else does too." Things change most often by nibbles and not by massive strokes from above. Massive strokes are resented and resisted, while nibbles give time for thought and acceptance. Let me see, what can I nibble today?
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Legal Debate: Assumptions on medical malpractice called into question
"This research shows that the problem with medical-malpractice litigation is not that too many undeserving people get paid, but rather that not enough deserving people get paid," says Tom Baker, an attorney at the University of Connecticut in Hartford.
From Science News Online, week of May 13, 2006.
This opens the question of who actually benefits from the practice of medicine. First, we ARE living longer and healthier until we shuffle off. Second, the medical organizations are expanding and erecting "regional health campuses". In Northern Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic is growing and mining suburbia like a mutant prospector octopus. Is this a competetive survival struggle or a way to bury excessive cash flow? Third, those without health insurance or other financial resources are increasingly shut out of this network of glittering new treatment centers, with their radiology departments, laboratories, surgical centers, orthopods, and vision specialists. Compare the scenes at these "medical campuses" with the scenes in traditional 24-7 emergency rooms and urban urgent care facilities. Fourth, individual physicians cannot survive the regulatory and paperwork environment without banding together into large administrative groups. Insurance costs and coding and Medicare billing are too complex to understand. Critical medical decisions are in the hands of clerical functionaries, accountants and lawyers. Last, costs are going up rapidly. Insurance costs, treatment costs, drug costs, everything. Are we getting value for dollars spent? Who is benefiting excessively? How do we make it equitable? Round up the usual suspects? Shrink the bureaucracy, fire the lawyers, tap the insurance companies' massive real estate and stock market portfolios? But that leaves unexamined the matter of our own basic assumptions and practices. Then we can evolve the system. Time to climb back on the stairmaster, drive slower, and replace the steaks with fruit and veggies. Sorry, fast food. You gotta go. Victory garden, here we come.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Forget about right wing Bloggers this is scary!
There's a Drug Smuggler in Florida Who Knows Everything About You
Posted 12:58 PM by A. O. (1) comments
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Post a Comment- It pays to have friends in high places. The same governor has a friend who has system that tracks CEUs needed to renew nursing licences. That certain state uses this system to determine license renewal so that nurses can continue to work at their profession and feed their families. Problem is that you have no certaintly of the data logged unless you pay a yearly fee that is almost as much as the renewal fee. You just can't be sure unless you have access to the record. No tickee, no job.
Same state has outsourced it's employment services to a company with a decidedly user unfriendly system that makes entering your weekly time sheet, applying for a jpb, and hiring an employee a hair raising screaming for valium experience. Oh and they outsourced personal data to an "off shore" company that may be selling information. Yes indeedy, we all need friends.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Couldn't pass up on passing this along--it involves a major Republican campaign donor, the Bush administration, our sick drug policy, our ever-decreasing privacy rights and yes, Jon Stewart fans, a penis pump.
Posted 6:32 PM by A. O. (1) comments
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Post a Comment- I envision the scene from Bridge Over the River Kwai where Major Clipton (James Donald), overlooking chaos, can say only "Madness! MADNESS!!"
The Tejon Ranch Company got approval to expand the Tejon Ranch Industrial Complex in March, 2006. The ranch is home to the California Condor, has existed since an 1842 Mexican land grant, controls 280,000 acres of land between LA and Bakersfield, California, and is primarily a real estate development and agribusiness company. The court rejected arguments by the Center for Biological Diversity that development would affect native species and the recovery of the California Condor. The court and Kern County officials cited added jobs, increased tax revenue and the replacement of existing "dirty" diesel engines with "cleaner" diesel engines as positive indicators that the industrial site would be good for the area. See the MSN Money business/investing article dated March 27, 2006.
Posted 9:51 AM by Andy (0) comments
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And the waters get even murkier. Say hello to Astroturf sites.
Posted 7:11 AM by whatley (4) comments
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- Here's a real beauty called Handsoff.org. A groundswell of popular opinion? Nope. It's really these guys.
- That's very interesting. I wonder who their client is for this one? Or perhaps they are defending the medium that makes it possible for them to do businesss? Nah. It's all about money and assembling a "grass roots" supporter base from people who log onto the "handsoff" site out of curiosity or via accidental links from other sites. Go and look at one of the clients on their (Mercury Group's) web site - Tejon Ranch. They pitched it as condors vs giant energy. But the landowner is a huge land developer, after all. And the energy giant? Enron Wind, of course (as in "the answer is blowin' in the").
Post a Comment- Tejon ('badger") ranch, Mexican land grant 1842, 164 years of history, tradition of continuing stewardship ("carrying on the pioneering spirit of their forefathers"), conservation (up to 100,000 acres of sensitive habitat, condor preserve, environmentally sensitive development), Tejon Industrial Park, Development Plans ("The developments feature extensive areas of open space so the total acreage actually built upon during that 25-year period will represent only about five percent of the Ranch’s land."). So they hired the Mercury Group to mount an advertising campaign to defeat Enron Wind's plan to build a gimongous windmill generating farm. Make the Ranch safe for development, housing, industry, freeways and traffic. Heritage of ranching and farming (picture #1 at this page shows a huge double pipeline laid across the land surface). I wouldn't mind so much if they were more honest about the changes wrought on the semi-desert landscape by the traditional ranching and farming over the past centuries: soil loss, erosion, flooding, fires, species diversity reduction, pollution. Wherever humans go, these changes will occur. Be forthcoming about it.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Well, back to parlor-tricks. This here flame site reminds me a lot of what the North American pioneers said about the Platte River: "Too thick to drink, too deep to plow." Russ Limbagh meets John Kenneth Galbraith on a hangover day. The cabal of the Rockefellers is the whipping boy against which the writer directs his logorreah. At least the writer has not reverted to prior type and pinned the blame on religious or ethnic characterizations. But if, for "rich greedy rapacious economic carnivore" you substitute "non-majority ethnic or religous faction", it still scans. Thank Goddess, or Gaia, or the Patriarchal OverLord for Hyde Park and all of its ilk. It gives us a chance to build up a bit of a callous to cavalier diatribe (Latin derivation).
Posted 7:32 PM by Andy (2) comments
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Post a Comment- I looked at the resume of the site author. The large number of relatively minor educational positions speak to your point exactly. To put it kindly, this prohet is without favor in his own milieu.
We interrupt our symposium on construction materials for the following news bulletin: "Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling."
P.S. If you think the article's scary check out some of the comments below it.
Posted 4:26 PM by whatley (5) comments
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- Is it just me, or is there a thick vein of red brick concrete or red-brick asphalt running through the collective public psyche. One of three things perhaps: 1) Public perception is so skewed by spin-doctoring and advert-reporting that people think we are safe and sane 2) Public brain power and reasoning capabilty has been so eroded by tolerance for laxity (symptomologically shown by tracking TV content over several decades) that knee-jerks fill most of the potato couches, or 3) The thoughtful and reasonable are so morose and hopeless that they don't care to waste their words any more. Come to think of it, all three probably apply. Archie bunker-land has moved from satire to actuality. Welcome to the fruition of our hopeful youths.
- I can't help but think that some of those comments were posted by trolls trying to start a flame war. Either that or paid shills ala Donald Segretti of Watergate infamy.
Post a Comment- "National Security Letters"? The Sagretti meat-ball dirty tricks are legitimized by Executive Branch fiat. You want to expose your rival to the world? Label him or her a "security risk" and let slip the dogs of war. The tax agencies have been able to hog tie and impoverish anyone at any time without just cause for decades. Now the politicos are "legalizing" the same powers. It seems to me that the administration jams a bill through Congress that permits a tiny little erosion of liberty under very limited circumstances. The administration lawyers then apply this minor feature by stating "the obvious intent of Congress was to let us make things safer and more secure, so that is what we are doing" (applying the supposed intent rather than the actual written law). Then the Justice Department uses the unchallenged actions as "precedentss" to justify additional expansions of the original limited statute. Kind of like the McCarthy investigations, using fear and threats and propoganda to cut down due process. The lure of such power must be like crack cocaine to the Feds: easy to get, addictive as all get out and impossible to kick.
It's about the environment, after all. Use it we will, so use it better, use it lighter. Just for you, Russ, look here.
Posted 1:28 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- No no no. The "five steps needed to make bricks" are as follows:
The first step is called CULTIVATING, or growing the material.
The second step is HARVESTING the material.
The third step (their fourth) is DRYING.
The fourth step (their third) is MOULDING.
The fifth step (we heartily agree on this one) is BURNING.
The bottom photo, two ten-year olds happily making bricks, is obviously staged as the aforementioned ten-year olds are clearly not of Latin or South American lineage.
And the moral of the story? Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Concrete? Multiple posts (with links yet) about concrete? Then asphalt? What the fuck? Gotta admit it makes for a logical segue but, damn.
Is this the Red Concrete Times? No. The Red Asphalt Times? Perish the thought. It's The Red Brick Times mookies.
Posted 6:06 PM by whatley (1) comments
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Post a Comment- Amen to that, Brother! But, hey, at least we have an actual discussion going bring information and enlightenment to all who care to imbibe.
Porous asphalt paving installations that can store and control runoff of storm water has been in use for 20 years in some areas. Check out an article published by Stormwater (a journal about surface water quality) describing Porous Asphalt to see how parking areas and retention basins are combined into one system.
Also see an article about Pervious Concrete at the Concrete Parking organization web site.
Another article at Stormwater illustrates issues and concerns when installing pervious concrete at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Posted 3:10 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- I would still favor concrete over asphalt for two reasons.
1) The lime content of concrete makes it act as a preliminary water softener. New Englanders would coat the inside of cisterns with cement to sweeten the water.
2) Asphalt is a petroleum product and leaches distillates which are carried in the runoff. I would think that is this the with porous versions also. It seems that the greater surface area in contact with the water due to fact of its porosity would exacerbate this characteristic.
Any step to eliminating the artificial sluices that streets and parking lots become whenever it rains (like the last week here)and utilizing natural filtration by the sub-soil is a step in the right direction.
PS - I'm actually enjoying this exchange. We should have more like it.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Tony's posting has a link that leads to LiTraCon, a company that makes concrete that transmits light. I found a description of the process at Science News Online from an article titled Concrete Nation published on January 1, 2005. The article also describes a stronger, more flexible concrete called Ductal and a self-consolidating concrete called Agilia developed by the French company Lafarge. Self-consolidating means that it doesn't require vibration or a lot of surface troweling to flow into a smooth, air-bubble-free slab. Saves time and personpower for installation. Ductal has small non-metallic or steel fibers that spread throughout the mix instead of reinforcement bars or wire. These are less likely to corrode and separate from the concrete that surrounds them than are the traditional steel bars, so the fiber-filled homogenous mixture can flex more than can a traditional slab.
On the home construction concrete front, my garage floor concrete was mixed with fiberglass strands when it was poured 10 years ago. No cracks yet. You can ask most concrete contractors to include fibers in the mix. Small cost, higher strength and longer durability. The only thing is that when the concrete cures, and you get down on the floor to look across it, it initially looks like it needs a shave. That disappears with time and use.
LiTraCon construction description:
"To ensure that the ends of each fiber make contact with the surfaces on both sides of the material, blocks of concrete are built in stages. First, a thin layer of concrete is poured into a long, narrow mold. Then, a layer of optical fibers is laid along the length of the mold. After several repetitions, the resulting long beam can be cut into short, rectangular building blocks riddled with the thin light pipes, says LiTraCon's Andreas Bittis.
The fiber diameters range from 2 microns to 2 millimeters. By using fibers of different diameters, LiTraCon designers can achieve different illumination effects. Varying the size of the blocks, however, doesn't change the effect. So far, LiTraCon has made continuous concrete beams up to 20 meters long, and the fibers transmit light the entire length.
With these blocks, architects can design and build a large variety of structures, ranging from translucent concrete walls to floors lit from below. LiTraCon has already received a number of requests from architects interested in the material, says Bittis. One firm in New York has proposed using the new concrete in its design of a police college in Kuwait City. Because concrete is an excellent insulating material, the building would protect against the desert heat while letting through some sunshine."
Posted 12:11 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- Neat stuff. Glass and rock Forward into the Stone Age!
Ford repaved the parking lot at the Rouge River palnt with porous concrete that virtually eliminated runoff into the river. One article I read claimed that the water that reached the river was cleaner than the the rain that originally fell on the lot.
A book that might interest anyone concerned with recycling is Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Enjoy
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Check this out!
Posted 11:56 AM by A. O. (2) comments
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- Aligning the optical fibers during the pour is the part for which I cannot visualize the machinery. The concrete appears to be a very fine-grained variety, which implies very small aggregate; silica sand instead of stones or rocks. If the conrete is pumped into the mold under pressure, and is forced around and through the matrix of optical fibers that is clamped in place at both ends, it doesn't matter what entanglement of fibers occurs in the middle. As long as both ends remain aligned, the image will be assembled correctly on the shadow side. If fibers were thrown into the mix without securing the ends, very few would peek out at each side to transmit light. It is also possible that they cast long sections, keeping fibers aligned, and then cut them into blocks of the desired thicknesss.
Combining the thermal-storage capacity of masonry with light-transmission capabilities makes it easier to build passive solar structures without them feeling like grey drab prisons. The web site indicates that light transmission is unaffected at thicknesses up to 20 meters. That's a very thick wall!
Post a Comment- Very handy for that all-important underground bunker we'll all be building soon. Just think if you angle the fibers you could bring a modicum of light into a basement. Kind of like a vision impaired camera oscura.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Looks like about 35% of registered voters in Lorain County turned out for the primary yesterday. This is an estimated 67,000 voters out of 187,639 registered voters. Some 44,094 Democrats and 22,478 Republicans voted. That leaves about 428 undeclared voters who were not allowed to choose candidates, but were limited to choices on issues only. Once again, I requested the right to choose candidates from both parties, where I saw potential merit. Once again, the poll workers looked at me blankly and reiterated their question about what party I declared. In fact, when I first stepped up to the precinct table to sign the book, I handed the lady my driver's license to avoid confusion and repetitive questions about who I was and where I lived. She looked at the plastic card for a while. She then looked up at me and said: "Is this your first name or your last name?" "Yes," I answered. I don't think she even looked at the picture to be sure I was really the person who was supposed to vote.
I declared for a party once, about 20 years ago, when a particularly worthy candidate for local office was in the primary. For the next decade, I was hounded with mailings and phone calls for that party. It was not worth the dunnage. The phone calls and "party machine" grinding during the 2000 presidential election forced me even farther back into the non-partisan underbrush. There is little of thought or meaning behind the harangues. It mostly feels like third-hand preaching and fallacious diatribe. The Latin diatriba means "a learned discussion". The earlier Greek has it right: diatribe is "a wearing away of time." The Greeks knew the difference between discourse and filibuster. The Romans built hypocausts and needed both legitimacy and hot air.
Posted 2:45 PM by Andy (1) comments
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Post a Comment- I have had this bug up my ass about primaries for years now. I don't understand why the government is involved in overseeing the inner workings of what are, essentially, private organizations. The average voter "declares" a party, but very few are actually members of either party. Wouldn't it be interesting if the poll workers demanded to see party membership cards (as in: you paid dues to the party) before allowing you to vote. It would also be interesting if the parties had to arrange their own polling places and workers with the added neccessity of informing their members where those places were.That would alter their approach.
The other oddity of the system is that it allows for a very painless process of affiliation. This makes it possible for impostors to switch parties any influence the nomination of the opposition candidate. (Try to conjour up an image of Karl Rove here).
Why only the two? There are actually a whole bunch of parties out there none of which get government funding or technical support for their internal elections.
So I say we take the considerable funding that is required to promote and execute these shams and put it into, oh . . I don't know . . . education, maybe . How about public transportation. Or methanol fuel cells. Or . . . . .
What has your dog said lately?
My mother claimed that our family dog communicated by sight. Mother understood "My water dish is empty", "I need to go out", "The big person is home from work", "Time for afternoon tea" and other favorites when the dog came into the room and merely looked at her. Unfortunately, Anna Taylor, studying for her doctorate at Sussex University in England is limiting herself to dog verbalizations. She is also going to measure the dogs' heads to see if size equates to sound. Gather enough statistics and you too can matriculate.
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