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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
3:00 - 4:30 pm
407 Levis
Lynne Rudasill presiding for Paula Kaufman
The meeting began at 3:04. The minutes were approved as submitted by a motion from Gail Hueting and seconded by Mary Laskowski. Minutes passed.
No new faculty were
There was no report as Paula was not in attendance.
Executive Committee - Lynne Rudasill provided a report to the faculty. See EC website for a
complete report. (
Tim Cole remarked that two of the position requests approved by EC were for temporary appointments. A portion of the collections budget will be used to hire staff to care for collections with a particular focus on digital collections. There is much more demand for positions than there is money, but the situation is not as dire as last year.
Lynne Rudasill thanked all of the members of the EC.
Bill Mischo was invited to the podium to talk about Linda Ackerson who had recently passed away. He said the Library had received a very nice letter from Gary thanking the faculty and staff for their support throughout Linda's illness. She was very courageous and spent most of her time at work while she was still ill. We received many letters from people around the country about Linda and particularly graduate students who worked with her. Linda's legacy lives on through them. If you want to make a contribution in her honor it can be made to Carle Hospice. Her book project was nearly complete before she passed away. Bill and Mary are working on completing this book which will represent a capstone to her career.
Lynne reminded everyone that we will adhere to the time constraints of today's agenda.
Bylaws Committee (Nancy O'Brien, Paul Healey, Bill Maher)
The April 26 Bylaws recommendation submitted by Al Kagan were taken up by the Group and the proposed changes were sent out to the faculty for review prior to this faculty meeting. Nancy reminded the faculty that these revisions represented the views of Al and did not represent the views of the Committee. She then opened the floor for discussion and said the faculty could ask to have all of the changes to be put to a ballot, some of the changes put to a ballot, individual changes put to a ballot or chose to take no action on the proposed revisions.
Kathleen Kluegel asked the faculty whether it was necessary to have a motion in order to focus the discussion. She then motioned that each issue be separately discussed and voted on. Her motion was seconded by Mary Laskowski.
Al Kagan thanked the Bylaws Committee for their work and asked the faculty to have his proposal decided by an electronic ballot.
Kathleen Kluegel reminded the faculty of the need to discuss and vote on each separate revision included in Al's Bylaw proposal.
Tim Cole reminded the faculty that all bylaws should be submitted to faculty for a vote.
Kathleen Kluegel's motion was accepted by the faculty.
The first issue related to faculty governance was brought to the floor. Bill Maher reminded the faculty of the need to get something on the record about faculty governance. However he wasn't sure of the need for such a proposal since shared faculty governance has always been at the core of how the University has operated over the years.
Al Kagan then explained that there was nothing in the Library's Bylaws that explicitly stated that the Library adhere to a system of shared governance. It was our responsibility to have such a statement in the Bylaws so new people coming in will have some sense about what we're doing in terms of governance. He said that there has been a de-emphasis of shared governance at the campus level over the past years.
Tim Cole remarked that the minutes should reflect that the educational and governance roles of the Library should be expressed through ancillary documents and not the Bylaws. Tim said that such a proposal would not produce the desired effect related to faculty governance.
Bill Mischo said we had a similar initiative in the 1980s. We spent a lot of time looking at statutes in the past. Is this proposed to the Library's Bylaws a continuation of that effort?
Al Kagan pointed out that he was not on the faculty at that time. However there is nothing about shared governance in Library's current Bylaws. The University Statutes do include such language related to shared faculty governance.
Tim Cole said that in the 1980s the University President said such a statement on governance should be included in the University's statutes rather than the Library's Bylaws. He said that it doesn't matter what we put in the Library's Bylaws because it would be trumped by University Statutes.
Bob Burger said that he was on the committee that drafted the Library's first set of Bylaws. Brevity was the guiding principle behind these bylaws and other ancillary documents could provide further explanation and interpretation of these bylaws. The committee chose not to include rules that were already included in the University's statutes.
Janice Pilch asked about the wording of the Library's original statutes and how the language of this proposal fit into these statues.
Al Kagan said that he had a copy of these statutes but there was no simple answer to this question.
Janice Pilch said that if the Library's statues obscured this governance issue then we should look at these statues.
Al Kagan remarked that a change to the Library's statues would eliminate the need to change the bylaws.
Kathleen Kluegel asked the faculty if a bylaw should refer to itself as a governing document.
Lynn Wiley proposed the Library faculty drop the term governance from the Library bylaws revision. She made a motion and Kathleen seconded it.
A vote was taken and the motion to remove the portion of the text from the proposed Library bylaws amendment passed.
Chris Prom made a motion to table the proposed changes. He said that we're replicating what was already stated clearly in the current Library Bylaws. Bill Maher seconded this motion.
Lynne Rudasill then clarified the motion.
Janice Pilch said that we don't know what the language is so we don't know if this proposal replicates what is in the University Statutes.
Chris Prom said we needed to look at the language of the University and Library statutes to better understand the discussion.
Janice Pilch said that it would premature for the faculty to make a decision about Al Kagan's proposal without this review.
Chris Prom then put the motion forward that we should table this proposal.
Janice Pilch put the question to vote on whether to table this discussion.
The question and vote passed. No further debate.
Lynne Rudasill put forward the call to table the first proposal. It passed by voice vote.
Nancy O'Brien said that because there was no more time during the meeting for further discussion of these proposals she proposed these should be brought to the next faculty meeting. She then asked for volunteers to write up rationales for these proposals in preparation for the next meeting. Send Nancy or Bill Maher any info you have.
Tim Cole made a motion to defer further discussion until the next meeting.
Maria Porta seconded this motion. The motion to defer this discussion until the next faculty meeting passed.
P&T Documentation Task Group Report (Nancy O'Brien )
Nancy O'Brien talked about the group's work to update P&T documentation. They revised three documents: Substitute Section III, Dossier Style and Citation Guidelines, and Tips for Candidates.
The group also created two new documents: Guidelines for Selection of Internal and External Reviewers, and Sample Biographical Statement.
Tim Cole remarked that only Substitute Section III required a faculty vote of approval.
Maria Porta stated that this document was a revised guideline statement from the Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Kathleen Kluegel remarked that she was on FRC regarding the revised section III. She remarked that there was a gentleman's agreement between the Provost and Library regarding the intent of this document.
Tim Cole confirmed this observation. He made a motion to adopt the revised Section III. It was seconded by Lynn Wiley and the motion passed.
Kathleen Kluegel pointed out the current P&T documentation does not refer to this Substitute Section III.
Bill Mischo said this original section came about as a result of Hugh Atkinson involvement on the campus P&T committee. It was developed to help explain librarianship to others on campus and was used in lieu of ICES scores that are typically used for other campus faculty tenure reviews.
A call to submit the question of this section was made by Kathleen Kluegel. It was passed by voice vote.
Nancy O'Brien talked about the other two documents that will help candidates better prepare the dossiers.
Cherié Weible pointed out that there was a change in the guidelines for grant citations that was included in Provost Communication 9.
Bob Burger suggested FRC look at Communication 9 regarding when the names of external reviewers should and should not be cited in tenure and promotion applications.
Tim Cole thanked Nancy's group for their hard work.
Mary Laskowski asked if someone from PRC could serve as an external reviewer.
Bob Burger clarified that members of an individual's peer review committee could not serve as an internal reviewer.
Maria Porta asked if someone who had once served on an individual's peer review committee and then stepped off the committee, could they serve as an internal reviewer.
Nancy O'Brien said this was possible but it was discouraged.
Tim Cole pointed out these are just guidelines.
KC Coe followed up on Cherié's comment regarding the examples that were included in these guidelines. She suggested that for people going up for tenure there should be an electronic forum to help them through the process.
Nancy remarked about the sample biographical statements. She said that individuals don't need a statement as extensive as the one she provide in her examples.
Kathleen Kluegel said these biographical statements helped Paula provide evidence to UI administration in support of a particular reviewer.
Special P&T Committee Chair Report (Tim Cole )
Tim Cole introduced his report and said the faculty would have to discuss it in greater detail at a future meeting. This report identified changes that the faculty need to consider regarding the University's P&T evaluation.
The issues were as follows:
1) Including internal letters with dossiers we send down the street
2) Sending candidate statement on research goals & objectives with letters requesting outside review of candidate's research and service
3) Improving the way we describe the impact and importance of Library faculty research and professional service we do-drawing the line more directly between our research and the quality of library service we provide faculty and students.
4) Developing targeted training for paper preparers so that they better know what's expected of their dossiers at the Library and Campus levels.
5) Doing a more complete survey of what's done at our peer institutions in order to provide both us (the Library) and the Campus a better context for understanding where we stand in relation to other library faculties and how we should evaluate Library faculty here.
Tim Cole proposed that these topics should be discussed along with any additional ideas the faculty might have at a future Library faculty meeting, or perhaps more appropriately during a separate Forum on the topic to be held sometime before the end of the calendar year.
There was some brief discussion of whether the Library was again having increased difficulty getting our P&T cases through the Campus Committee. Tim confirmed that Paula had indicated to him an increase in the number and extent of questions she was being ask to respond to regarding our P&T cases. So our desire to discuss this issue with Watkins and our interest in further faculty discussion was in part an attempt to be proactive and stay ahead of the curve on this issue.
Gail Hueting asked Tim if he was doing literature research on these topics by asking peer institutions for their guidelines on P&T.
Tim Cole and Bob Burger said yes.
Kathleen Kluegel said that once again the University was questioning the scholarship done by the University's librarians.
Tim Cole said Ruth Watkins and the Provost were not challenging our librarianship. Paula was the one who suggested we focus on these issues.
It was determined that a forum would be presented later in the year.
FRC Committee Report (Barb Henigman )
FRC met with the Executive Committee in May to talk about the Annual Report process. Some of the goals that came out of that discussion were:
1. Revise reporting process by considering the relationship between faculty performance outcomes and the Library's strategic plan.
2. Help untenured faculty by not asking them to write two documents - dossier and annual report
These changes would not take effect until the 2007 reporting year.
It was suggested that the committee come up with "tips for writing an annual report" and "tips for writing a dossier" guidelines. FRC would like to know what kind of feedback would be expected from the faculty.
Bill Mischo thought this was a good idea because it helped Associate Professors create their dossiers and put them in a better position for going up for full professor.
Other reports
Library Web Content Group (Lynne M. Rudasill
)The url for the websites are
<http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/web_designs/25c1optional.htm> and <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/web_designs/18m1optional.htm>.
Lynne asked the faculty to take a look at these sites and tell her what you like and/or dislike about them. Remember, the pages are prototypes and do not link to actual resources. If you have suggestions for wording, navigation or other aspects of the pages, please don't hesitate toshare them.
For guidelines for the new home page go to <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/wcg.
Bob Burger announced Emily Love as the new Outreach Librarian for Multi-Cultural Services. She will be joining us in August.


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Pirates Collect 20 Hits in Win Over Astros
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- The Pittsburgh Pirates won 9-7 to the Houston Astros at Osceola County Stadium on Sunday. The club combined for 20 hits off the Astros arms.
"We were able to go to the plate and really ground out some at-bats well," Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle said. "We were taking what was given to us. We hit most of the balls where they were pitched. Not some big swings, not much out of control, aggressive pepper a lot of times…The at-bats were much cleaner today. We kept pounding away. We haven't had the shutdown innings we want to have throughout this week. Today we were able to on the offensive side stay relentless and keep putting runs on the board."
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Midwest Philosophy Colloquium to Host Michael Huemer and Russ Shafer-Landau
Posted by Jenna Ray on Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2012
Event Date/Time: Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 3:30 pm
End Date/Time: Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 4:30 pm
Location: Imholte Hall 109
The Philosophy Discipline invites the Morris community to the 37th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium. This year's colloquium will explore the topic of moral realism: the idea that there are objective moral facts independent of cultural or personal beliefs, preferences, and values. The colloquium will feature two of the most notable moral realists in philosophy today: Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Russ Shafer-Landau, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The first lecture, Huemer's "Moral Intuitionism," will take place on Friday, October 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Imholte Hall 109. Professor Huemer has written on such topics as philosophical skepticism, the problem of induction, ethical intuitionism, free will, and philosophical anarchism.
The second lecture, "Skepticism about Morality and Religion," will be given by Shafer-Landau on Friday, November 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Imholte Hall 109. Professor Shafer-Landau has published widely on topics in ethics, metaethics, and philosophy of law.
These lectures are held under the auspices of the Midwest Philosophy Colloquium (MPC). For nearly four decades, the MPC has brought some of the foremost figures in philosophy to the Minnesota prairie.
For more information, please contact Dan Demetriou, assistant professor of philosophy, at 320-589-6291.


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These two sea creatures are from Hansi's etsy
(none of these images are mine. they belong to their designers.)
Lantern Moon ebony US1's, soo yummy!
2 skeins koigu in a very lovely colourway and Favourite socks!
thank you so much Veronica!
so just incase there are others out there, who do not know about weasels and crafty aliens.... click on the links! :-)
PS the monster on the previous post is and old knitty pattern, archived.
i love this roving. i still have some left after a novelty i made withthe sparkley stuff ( a few posts back at the threshing bee) and this sock weight yarn. i will try to match the weight/WPI of this one and make some socks :-)
mmmmm yummy! this is the second? or third? that i have got from natasha. she dyed some sock yarn for me too. i love her colours and creativity!
and just because it is cute. Jaden's monkey in the seamonkey socks.
a pool with a built in bench. perfect! not quite the princess castle pool my aunt had built :-) but perfect for the hot weather! ( you can check out mom's trip to LA and swimming in the pool on her blog)
lastly, have you seen these! sock needle kits from knitpicks! drooling!!! size 0-3, inc both size ones and twos
This "girl" is now a HS grad. whoohoo! so proud of her!
next up on my que Aurelia Socks, in mountain colours. i have alot to get done before i get to do those tough.
MS# update. i am at row 27 which is very sad, there are people out there waiting for the next clue already! stupid ceiling! why did you cave? i organized my stuff for the shawl though. organizing makes me happy :-)i am using skacel merino lace and changed the beads to a charcol colour.


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OGDEN, Utah – With a mid-week meeting with in-state rival Utah rescheduled due to field conditions, the Weber State University softball is ready to get back down to work this weekend.
The Wildcats will host rival Idaho State for a three-game Big Sky Conference series, beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday at Wildcat Softball Complex.
Weber State (1-5 Big Sky, 18-15 overall) is looking for a much-needed jolt to climb back into the race for one of the four berths in the Big Sky Conference postseason tournament, which will be hosted by the regular season champion early next month. The Wildcats suffered a frustrating home sweep by Northern Colorado this past weekend, and have lost five of their last six overall.
Idaho State (2-1 Big Sky, 19-14 overall) went 2-3 in non-conference action last week, defeating Utah Valley and BYU, around losses to Utah and two games to BYU. The Bengals are 1-3 in their last four games after taking 2-of-3 against defending Big Sky tournament champion Portland State on the road.
Weber State is 14-24 all-time against Idaho State, and is 5-10 since restarting the Wildcats' softball program in 2010. The Bengals are 3-0 against the Wildcats in Big Sky play, having swept the season series in 2013.
Senior shortstop Brooke Silva is one of three Wildcats hitting better than .300, with a team-leading .339 batting average. Silva has 38 hits, including 10 for extra bases, and has 18 RBI.
Senior right-hander/designated player Jasmine Ioane is second with a .333 batting average with 30 hits, including 12 for extra bases. She has a team-high 33 RBI and has scored 18 runs, while being walked 14 teams.
Sophomore third baseman Alyson Kulp is batting .324 with 35 hits, including a team-high 14 for extra bases, and has 22 RBI with a team-high 24 runs scored.
On the mound, junior right-hander MaCauley Flint is 9-4 with a 1.87 ERA in 22 appearances. She has allowed 66 hits and just 29 earned runs with 128 strikeouts in 108.2 innings pitched. Flint is just 25 strikeouts away from Weber State's single-season record of 153 set in 2012 by Sarah Clark.
Ioane and senior right-hander Kylee Colvin are both 4-4 in 17 and 16 appearances, respectively, with a 3.68 and 5.33 ERA.
After this weekend's series with the Bengals, Weber State will face in-state rival Utah for a doubleheader on Tuesday. The Wildcats were originally scheduled to face the Utes on Wednesday, but the game was postponed due to field conditions. Next weekend, WSU will travel to Grand Forks, N.D., to face the University of North Dakota for a key three-game series.


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I've always thought it would be nice to have actual paint chips for all of the different brands of paint I use. The prices, although fair, were more than I'm willing to pay
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So, I started a little project for my use. I picked up some "factory-second" minis at a convention a while back. I cleaned them up, applied primer, and have started painting patches on them with different colors. When the paint is dry I add a code so I know which paint I'm looking at.
Not only do the test paint minis let me see the final color, they let me see what the colors look like on the type of minis I frequently paint. Kevin
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Liddell, Henry George
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Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898). -- Historian, etc. Ed. at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxf., of which in 1855 he became Dean. He wrote a History of Ancient Rome (1855), and, along with R. Scott, pub. a Greek-English Lexicon (1843).


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Mission Statement
To be the advocate for the critters
Where being the advocate for your pet is our primary concern.
New Principles of Immunology-Canine
Current Recommendations for Dogs
and Parvovirus
In 1994, Ft. Dodge marketed a new high titer
Parvovirus vaccine (RF11). Testing by Dr. Ron Schultz demonstrated that this
vaccine and a new high titer vaccine from Immunovet (Proguard) provided much
better protection than all other vaccines against canine parvovirus (19,23).
When studies by Dr Schultz demonstrated that the new high titer vaccines by
Fort Dodge and Intervet were much more effective, Meriel improved their
product to match. Pfizer came out with a high titer vaccine, Vanguard
puppy. Pfizer and Biocor still market the old vaccines, Vanguard 5 and
The frustrating experiences we had prior to 1995, with vaccine breaks were largely resolved by the new improved vaccines. Attempts to improve the efficacy by more frequent administration of the vaccine are no longer necessary.
According to Dr. Schultz in the Journal of the AVMA Aug. 15. 1995, when a vaccination series given at 2, 3, and 4 months and again at 1 year(>6m0) with a modified live virus, puppies and kittens program memory cells that survive for life, providing lifelong immunity for diseases like Parvo and Distemper.(6, 15, 20, 21,23).
Dr. Leland Carmichael at Cornell University and Dr. Schultz have studies showing immunity against challenge at 7 years for canine distemper and 7 years for parvovirus; and immunity by serology out to 15 years for distemper. (22,23 b). Studies for longer duration are pending (5, 13, 14, 15, 18, 22,23 b, 23c.) *A copy of Dr Schultz's study is in our pet care library for your convenience.
Adverse events from canine distemper vaccine include vaccine induced distemper, vaccine induced folliculitis, and HOD (hypertropic osteodystrophy). HOD is most common in Wiemaraners.
Virus drift There are no new strains of parvovirus as some would like to suggest. Parvovirus vaccination provides cross immunity for all types.
Dogs will not get Parvo from the vaccine, but when the vaccine is administered at a vet clinic to 6 wk old puppies only 30% will respond to the vaccine with any protection while all will likely be exposed. It is likely some of them will come down with parvo which they caught at the Vet Clinic. For this reason we do not start the initial series of vaccinations until the puppies are 8 wks old and are better able to respond to the vaccine.*** It is not the vaccination at 6 wks that I object to but the increased exposure to the virus at the Vet Clinic at an age when maternal antibodies will interfere with the response to the vaccination. I would encourage breeders who have a problem with Parvovirus to vaccinate puppies at home with Parvo, but not Distemper, and only at 6 weeks and no younger, to aid in cutting losses.
Hepatitis (Adenovirus)- (CAV2) is one of the agents known to be a cause of "kennel cough." Only vaccines with CAV-2 should be used as CAV-1 vaccines carry the risk of "hepatitis blue-eye" reactions and kidney damage. Hepatitis (CAV1) in dogs is a very rare disease. I see several cases per year of "blue eye" from CAV 1 Vaccine purchased at a feed store. I have never seen a dog with hepatitis.
Bordetella - Parainfluenza Commonly called "kennel cough," the Parainfluenza vaccine is recommended only for those dogs boarded, groomed, taken to dog shows, or for any reason housed where exposed to a lot of dogs. The intranasal vaccine provides more rapid onset of immunity with less chance of reaction (23). Immunity requires 72 hours and does not protect from every cause of "kennel cough"
The vaccine does not contain the serovar of bordetella that a dog would likely be exposed to. It is the parainfluenza portion that is of benefit. Unfortunately an intranasal vaccine for parainfluenza without bordetella is not available.
Rabies Although there have been no reported cases of rabid dogs or cats in Harris County, Montgomery County, or Ft. Bend County, there have been rabid skunks and bats, so the potential exists.
If a dog or cat bites someone and is not vaccinated, it must be quarantined in a licensed facility. Rabies vaccine is highly recommended for your pets protection. This is a killed vaccine. Killed vaccines provide a shorter duration of immunity than MLV (19). Duration of immunity for rabies vaccine has been shown to be at least 7 years.(23b)
In Texas, rabies vaccination is required to be administered at four months of age, one year later, and then every three years for dogs. To help prevent injection site fibrosarcomas, a one year duration of immunity non- adjuvanted vaccine, Purevac, has been approved for cats. This vaccine must be administered annually. A three year license is pending.
Canine corona virus is only a disease of puppies less than eight weeks of age (15- p20). It is a rare, self-limiting disease (i.e. dogs get well in 3 days without treatment)(3). Corona virus does not cause disease in adult dogs. Cornell University and Texas A&M University have only diagnosed one case each in the last 7 years. For a veterinarian to make a diagnosis of Corona Virus based on clinical signs is highly presumptive. Only electron microscopy of feces can verify the presence of canine corona virus. This is only done at places such as Texas A & M Diagnostic Laboratory, and they report no positive tests. The presence of the virus does not indicate it is the cause of disease. Dogs over 8 wks of age cannot and have not been experimentally induced to exhibit disease from corona virus. This is age related immunity.
Immunologists have reason to believe that the vaccine does not work. Mucosal secretory IgA antibodies would be necessary to protect a dog against this disease & an injectable vaccine will not provide this type of protection.(13, 19- p18, 21) I see no justification for the use of corona virus vaccine.
In 1985 a significant number of dogs (>189) died from encephalitis caused by Corona Virus vaccine, combined with the Rockborn strain distemper. (3, 21) An unfortunate & heartbreaking catastrophe caused by an unnecessary vaccine.
Leptospirosis vaccine is a common cause of adverse reactions in dogs ranging from life threatening anaphylactic reactions to mild facial swelling and urticaria.
Leptospirosis is an infection of the kidneys and liver. Dogs and people get it from contact with urine from rats, raccoons, cows and pigs. The risk of contagion from dogs to humans is very low.
Most of the clinical cases of leptospirosis reported in dogs in the U.S. are caused by serovars (or types) L. grippotyphosa, L. pomona and L. bratislava.(1, 9, 15-p20, 21) The most commonly used vaccines contain different serovars-L. canicola & L.icterohaemmorrhagiae. Cross protection is not provided and protection is short-lived (6 - 7 months)(19) New Vaccines recently introduced by Fort Dodge include L. grippotyphosa., and L. pomona .
Although Leptospirosis in dogs seems to be increasing in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York, this disease is rare in Texas. Records at Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab show an average of 12 cases of Leptospirosis in dogs in Texas per year. In 2000 the TVMDL recorded L. Icterohaemorrhagiae -3 cases, L. canicola -2, L. pomona -2, L grippotyphosa -1. Texas A&M University reports 31 cases in 21 years. Although this is a serious and life threatening disease, in a state with an estimated dog population of over 7 million, I do not think the risk justifies routine vaccination, with two vaccines twice per year.
This vaccine should not be given to puppies less than 16 weeks of age as it is very immunosuppressive. It can interfere with immunization against parvo & distemper. Reactions are common. Deaths due to immunosupression can occur.
Lyme Disease is a tick born disease which can cause lameness, kidney failure and heart disease in dogs and people. Ticks transmit the disease to humans. Eighty five percent of Lyme disease cases in dogs in the USA are found in nine New England area states Michigan and Wisconsin.
We do not have Lyme disease in Texas. In the N.E. U. S. Ixodid ticks acquire the Lyme disease organism from the deer mouse. The Ixodid tick in Texas feeds on lizards which do not transmit Lyme disease.
Confusion as to the occurrence of Lyme disease in Texas exists due to three things. #1. In Texas we have a disease that closely resembles Lyme Disease, Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness or STARI cause by Borrelia lonestari and spread by the Lone Star Tick. ( Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdoferi and spread by Ixodes scapularis.) #2.Lyme disease testing with the most commonly used test can give a false positive reaction to normal spirochete organisms in a dogs mouth. #3 Manufacturers of the vaccine and the test exaggerate the incidence of the disease in order to sell their product.
Texas A&M University has never seen a case of Lyme disease in a dog from Texas.
The advent of a new ,more accurate Lyme disease Test (Snap Test by Idexx) in 2000 will hopefully give us better information about the non-existence of this disease in Texas.
The average dog in Houston would be at very no risk of contracting Lyme disease. If you travel to endemic areas with your dog, you may still want to consider the safety & effectiveness of Lyme disease vaccine. Dr. Jacobson, Cornell Diagnostic Lab, reported a temporal relationship of 327 dogs which developed polyarthritis after vaccination with Lyme disease vaccine. These dogs did not show antibody titers suggestive of Lyme disease infection. Other causes of arthritis were ruled out. Lyme vaccine has been demonstrated to cause arthritis in hamsters. There is a class action suit in human medicine for failure to warn people about the possibility of developing polyarthritis from human Lyme disease vaccine.
The main antigen displayed by the Lyme disease organism inside the dogs body is Outer Surface Protein B- OSP B. Newer PCR vaccines by Muriel and Schering only contain OSP A antigens. The importance of OSP B & C antigens were discovered after the new vaccines were developed (2, 11)
Theoretically OSP A antibodies in the blood of an immunized dog are ingested by a tick. This prevents the bacteria from reproducing within the tick and therefore from being injected into the dog, if antibodies are in high enough concentrations.
Most Colleges of Veterinary Medicine do not recommend Lyme Disease vaccine.
Lyme disease prevention should emphasize early removal of ticks. Ticks must be attached to the dog for 24 hours to transmit the disease. Amitraz (Preventick) collars are more effective than Frontline as Amitraz paralyzes the tick's mouth parts preventing transmission of disease (11). Amitraz tick collars should be used with extreme caution, as they are toxic if chewed on or swallowed by a dog or children. Frontline takes 24 - 48 hours to kill ticks, allowing for the possibility of disease transmission. This is an important aid in tick control, but will not prevent the transmission of tick born diseases like Lyme disease, Ehrlichia, Babesia or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Vaccinating pets against Lyme disease does not provide any protection for the owners.
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Definition of surprise
1a : an attack made without warningb : a taking unawares
2 : something that surprises
3 : the feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual
Examples of surprise in a Sentence
What a pleasant surprise to see you!
It's no surprise that he doesn't want to go.
Is it any surprise that she should feel disappointed?
The teacher sprang a surprise on us and gave a pop quiz.
I have a special surprise for the children.
The trip was a surprise for her birthday.
Is the party a surprise?
Imagine our surprise when they sold their house and moved to the Bahamas.
He stared at her in surprise.
Origin and Etymology of surprise
Middle English suppryse exaction, seizure, from Anglo-French sousprise, supprise, from feminine of supris, surpris, suspris, past participle of surprendre & susprendre to capture, take by surprise, from sur- & sus-, suz under + prendre to take — more at prize, sous
First Known Use: 15th centurySee Words from the same year
Definition of surprise
transitive verb
1 : to attack unexpectedly; also : to capture by an unexpected attack
2a : to take unawares Police surprised the burglars in the store.b : to detect or elicit by a taking unawares … sometimes surprised a tragic shadow in her eyes. — Willa Cather
3 : to strike with wonder or amazement especially because unexpected His conduct surprised me.
intransitive verb
: to cause astonishment or surprise Her success didn't surprise.
Examples of surprise in a Sentence
The results will surprise you.
Nothing you could say would surprise me.
They surprised everyone by moving to the Bahamas.
A police officer surprised the burglars.
The troops were surprised by an attack from the north.
First Known Use of surprise
15th century
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Definition of Surprise
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SURPRISE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of surprise for English Language Learners
: an unexpected event, piece of information, etc.
: an unexpected gift, party, etc.
: the feeling caused by something that is unexpected or unusual
Definition of surprise for English Language Learners
: to cause (someone) to feel surprised
: to find, attack, or meet (someone or something) unexpectedly
SURPRISE Defined for Kids
Definition of surprise for Students
1 : something that is unexpected I have a surprise for you.
2 : astonishment, amazement … it held up to them a little white object. They all looked at it in surprise … — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3 : an act or instance of coming upon without warning They were taken by surprise.
Definition of surprise for Students
1 : to cause to feel wonder or amazement because of being unexpected Her resemblance to her father surprised me.
2 : to come upon without warning The robbers were surprised by police.
3 : to attack without warning : capture by an unexpected attack
Law Dictionary
Legal Definition of surprise
1 : a condition or situation in which a party to a proceeding is unexpectedly placed without any fault or neglect of his or her own and that entitles the party to relief (as a new trial)
2 : an aspect of procedural unconscionability that consists of hiding a term of a contract in a mass of text
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man i hear nothing but good things about the tlr1 and tlr2, google them and tell me what u think, i plan on buying the tlr2 for my g19.
Man, there's quite a few choices! what is good? i just dont wanna waste my hard earned money on some weak ass shit!! of course there is surefire, but damn, soo soo expensive, and i dont need anything like that, plus i already have a tactical light from them that i was able to obtain. and i see those internal lasers, and they seem great and all, but i dont really need a laser. i shoot at what i see, no need to tell me what i'm shooting at! lol but i was gonna throw out some names and see if anyone can give me any info!
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man i hear nothing but good things about the tlr1 and tlr2, google them and tell me what u think, i plan on buying the tlr2 for my g19.
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If Surefire, Streamlight or TLR never existed...I'd end up with the Glock light...and paint it OD Green to match my Glocks.
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Dog parks
I had a meeting with my trainer I have lined up for my future dog today and he will be helping me pick the right dog for me.
I want one, that among many other things, would enjoy going to dog parks which are very popular things here is SoCal.
He said dog parks are more for the owner then the dogs. Since dogs are pack animals it can be confusing and often leads to dog fights.
Any thoughts on this?
I've always brought my past dogs to dog parks, honestly mostly for my own enjoyment as they were just as happy going for a run on leash with me.
Your trainer is correct.
Your pup's pack is you, your family and any other dogs(pets) you may have, not strange dogs at a park.
While some on here have had positive experiences at dog parks, there are more who have had bad ones - from the pup just being overwhelmed to the pup being attacked.
Even though my dog does well at dog parks, not all dogs do. You should therefore listen to your trainer, if you trust his/her advice. As she would know your dog better than an online forum and also what ur planning to do with your dog. I do have to add that during training issues ive had to cut the dog park visits back because my dog wanted to go play with every dog he saw.
I have been going to dog park since she was 16 weeks old. She LOVES it. At first,as a pup, i had to keep a close eye on her to make sure no bigger dogs scared her, but the difference it made within a few days was obvious; she suddenly knew her boundaries with different dogs, was happy, tired, fulfilled.She made regular friends who we see to this day (she is nearly 2). Sure some dogs told her off when she was being an adolescent pain. As she has grown older she has grown into a very well balanced young bitch, confident and calm around all sorts of other dogs (aggressive, nervous,overactive, the lot) and I attribute a lot of this to her experiences at our dog park.
I have heard some people have had bad experiences, but in my personal experience, just keep a close eye on her, step in before anything gets out of hand, and basically just act like a parent with a child in a yard.
I lived in Southern California, in the San Fernando Valley. I used to go to a dog park right off Reseda, I think. Can't remember now.
It was at that dog park that my border collie, Cassie, was attacked. That was in 1998. I almost lost her.
I would suggest joining an activity such as herding, obedience or maybe rally and then setting play dates with dogs in that group. Where are you in California? There are herding facilties in the L.A. area and Santa Monica that I know of.
I am one of the ones who avoids dog parks. Too many ill mannered owners around and frankly I don't want my dogs getting germs from whatever the other dogs might have. Of course I have a pack of my own so they don't need to go play with other dogs. They have plenty to play with right here at home.
Oh, boy, I have some thoughts on this, thanks for asking! I wish I hadn't taken my puppy to the dog park when she was so young. One of the parks here has several individual runs, and one community park. I took her to the individual runs often, but one evening they were all full, and there were only a couple cars at the group one, so I thought we'd try it. She was maybe 16 weeks, after all shots anyway.
Two huskies, with no owner in sight, came galloping up to us and just kind of swarmed around her - in no way aggressive, but for a little puppy, totally scary. I was too stupid to pick her up and show her I had her back, I just stood there like a fool saying "good girl Jedda" in a happy happy voice, like that was any help. I still feel so guilty thinking about it! She had her tail totally tucked up and ears back and was just trying to get away from them - they were simply checking her out, but she was really scared. If those two were anything other than curious, I could have ended up with a dead puppy.
This by far wasn't the only mistake I made, but for a while she had some fear aggression issues I had to work on a LOT. She still is scared when two or more dogs approach. We sometimes go to a really large dog park (because it's such a great place to hike off leash) where I can easily see what's approaching, and I just give other dogs a wide berth, especially two or more dogs. I avoid like the plague the flats where owners congregate and let their dogs run amok.
I wish I had read this before I got my pup: Leerburg | Socializing Puppies.
When your post says that you specifically want a dog you can take to the dog park, my advice is to wait until your dog is an adult, and pick the park REALLY carefully. Good luck and have fun!
The trainer is correct. I'm not a fan of dog parks.
Not a fan either.
Don't know what you will meet - temperament and health -- that goes for the four legged and two legged folks there.
I agree with your trainer too.
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The first time I heard the phrase "homemade deodorant" I'm pretty sure I laughed. And rolled my eyes. And had all sorts of "she's crazy!!!" thoughts going through my head. I mean, seriously? How weird can you get? Deodorant is one of life's essential products that should only come from the most trusted chemist.
Funny how things change.
A troubled start…
The first time I made my own homemade deodorant I'm pretty sure I laughed then, too. But it was more of a "wow, I'm the crazy one now and it's AWESOME" laugh.
But truthfully, my first experience with homemade deodorant was painful. Like, really painful. I have super sensitive skin and the stuff just burned. For hours.
I was told that some people have this problem and to give it time for my skin to adjust. So like a ninny (ha! who says "ninny"? Apparently I do.) I kept torturing my sad little arm pits with the homemade deodorant from… you know where. After a solid month I finally gave up and went back to my less-effective and more-expensive "all natural" store-bought deodorant.
Total failure.
That's why I'm so excited to share this recipe with you… in case you also have sensitive skin and need a little TLC from your homemade deodorant. It's still very similar to most of the online recipes you'll find, and it's still very effective, but hopefully it won't make your pits burn. We want happy and non-smelly armpits, right? Right!
Why homemade deodorant?
Like so many other cosmetics, several of the ingredients used in most deodorants and antiperspirants are not so good for you. Like these:
- Aluminum – This is the primary ingredient in most stuff you'll buy at the store. It's a metal which has been linked to breast cancer in women and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. No thanks.
- Parabens – This synthetic preservative is found in so many personal care products. The largest concern is that these chemicals will disrupt our delicate hormonal balance. Paraben exposure has also been linked to birth defects and organ toxicity.
- Propylene glycol – This is a petroleum based material. In large quantities, studies have shown that this stuff can cause damage to the central nervous system, liver, and heart.
- Phthalates – Another class of chemicals that have been linked to a variety of health issues including birth defects.
- Triclsoan – This chemical is actually classified as a pesticide by the FDA and a probable carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Do you really want to put this stuff on your body? I didn't think so.
Homemade deodorant AND happy armpits!
This recipe is simple and all the ingredients are recognizable and safe. This is also a pretty frugal way to go about your arm-pit needs.
Keep in mind that this is NOT an antiperspirant. But that's a good thing. You need to sweat. It's one of the ways your body naturally detoxes. Besides, antiperspirant just clogs your pores to keep the sweat from coming out… but your body will keep trying to detox. That's why antiperspirant leaves those "pit stain" on your favorite shirt. It's like your armpit threw up the chemical junk. Gross.
In fact, I found that I sweat a lot less after I stopped wearing antiperspirant (which was long before I was a hippie and started making homemade deodorant). And I have no stains on my shirts. Awesome.
So are you ready? What do you have to lose? Most people who make the switch to homemade deodorant love it and will never go back. You could be one of them, too!
UPDATE: I actually prefer my deodorant stick recipe for sensitive skin. Just a heads up. 🙂
Homemade Deodorant for Sensitive Skin
You'll need:
1/3 cup coconut oil (like this)
2 Tbs baking soda (You can even use less if you have super sensitive skin…)
1/3 cup arrow root powder (you can get this at most health foods stores or here).
10 – 15 essential oils (optional) (Learn how to get my favorite essential oils at wholesale prices here.)
a small mixing bowl and spoon
a small container for your finished product (I love these tiny mason jars)
1. Mix the coconut oil, baking soda, and arrow root powder in the small mixing bowl. Use the back of the spoon to help "cream" the ingredients until you have a consistency similar to deodorant.
2. Mix in essential oils. This is an optional step, but I think it makes it more fun. You can choose whatever oils you want. Some love lavendar or patchouli. My favorite is 10 drops of sweet orange and 5 drops of cinnamon.
3. Put mixture in small container (I use my cute little spatula for this step). To use simply swipe two fingers gently into the mixture and rub on your underarms. Wait two minutes before dressing to avoid any smearing on your clothes.
Note: Coconut oil melts when temperatures get warmer. Some people like to keep their deodorant in the fridge during warm months. I don't bother since I can still use it… even if it gets a bit melty during those hotter months.
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Brunswick Restaurant Owner Indicted for Tax Theft
Ziegler is charged with two counts of Unlawful Conversion of Funds Collected for Benefit of State (O.C.G.A. § 48-1-5), a felony punishable by up to ten years imprisonment and a fine of up to $100,000.00 for each count. He is also charged with three counts of Theft by Taking (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-2), a felony punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $100,000.00 for each count.
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Award-winning London based designer Tomasz Donocik was born in Poland and raised in Austria. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he cut his design teeth working for rock chic jeweller Stephen Webster.
Tomasz Donocik's body of work boldly reinterprets modernity through subverting motifs of classicism and masculinity. Tomasz Donocik inspirations bring together literature, architecture and surrealism to redefine jewellery for the contemporary accessories wearer.
With the skill of an artisan, and unrestricted by the constraints of traditional jewellery design, Tomasz Donocik's work aims to challenge preconceptions of self-adornment. Through the sensitive fusion of materials his bold, masculine and often androgynous designs inject the discipline with new meaning and form.
Hilary Alexander of The Telegraph writes that Tomasz Donocik "…is determined to spearhead a new way for men to wear jewellery." Tomasz Donocik has been credited with several notable awards including 'Jewellery Designer of the Year' (Goldsmiths 2006); 'New Designer of the Year' (Collections 2009) and multiple Gold and Silver awards for 'Craftsmanship and Design'.
A regular fixture in the fashion press, in 2010 British and Italian Vogue hailed Tomasz Donocik as a rising star in the Jewellery Industry and won the 'Jewellery Designer of the Year Award' 2011.


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For the crime of "buzzing" a crowd of European adventurers so close that he clipped one of their cars with the wing of his single-engine plane, on Friday a Yukon RCMP constable was stripped of his pilot's license for two years.
On January 11, off-duty RCMP Constable Jean-Michel Sauvé used his Tundra aircraft to swoop down so low on competitors at a European extreme sport event that they felt the need to duck. On a third pass, Mr. Sauvé's aircraft struck a parked car, doing $8,000 damage,
according to a report by the Whitehorse Star
Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board were reportedly amazed the impact did not shear the wing off the kit-built aircraft, according to court testimony heard by the
Loss of a wing would most surely would have killed Mr. Sauvé and his passenger, as their aircraft was travelling at more than 200 km/h at the time.
Nevertheless, the court heard that Mr. Sauvé told investigators the crash was "no big deal." They also heard of his longstanding propensity for spooking passengers with dangerously-low flying and the fact that the Mountie did not file the incident with authorities, hoping to settle it privately without prompting an official investigation.


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As the year is growing to a close, i'd like to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays and a Fantastic / Happy new year!
Hopefully sometime after xmas/new years when we're all finished stuffing our faces with food and booze maybe organising a meetup would be a thought?
being a student i have limited knowledge of the Working year but if anyone wants to shoot off a msg in regards to a meetup or something, im all for it would love to meet / greet alot of you boys and girls
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Rightware will be participating in the upcoming Mobile World Congress to present the world's first stereoscopic 3D home screen replacement for Android. This unique and innovative product is running on Kanzi UI Solution, and is targeted for mobile device manufacturers, operators and application developers to enable the best innovation and differentiation capabilities in today's devices. Read More


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This article is taken from the book C# in Depth, Second Edition. This segment looks at what it means for code to be dynamic, and the syntax involved in using dynamic typing in C# 4.
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C# has always been a statically typed language, with no exceptions. There have been a few areas where the compiler has looked for particular names rather than interfaces, such as finding appropriate Add methods for collection initializers, but there's been nothing truly dynamic in the language beyond normal polymorphism. That changes with C# 4 - at least partially. The simplest way of explaining it is that there's a new static type called dynamic, which you can try to do pretty much anything with at compile time, and let the framework sort it out at execution time. Of course there's rather more to it than that, but that's the executive summary.
Given that C# is still a statically typed language everywhere that you're not using dynamic, I don't expect fans of programming to suddenly become dynamic C# advocates. That's not the point of the feature: it's all about interoperability. As dynamic languages such as IronRuby and IronPython join the .NET ecosystem, it would be crazy not to be able to call into C# code from IronPython and vice versa. Likewise developing against weakly-typed COM APIs has always been awkward in C#, with an abundance of casts cluttering the code. Dynamic typing addresses all of these concerns.
One word of warning though - it's worth being careful with dynamic typing. It's certainly fun to explore, and it's been very well implemented, but I still recommend that you think carefully before using it. Just like any other new feature, weigh up the pros and cons rather than rushing into it just because it's neat (which it undoubtedly is). The framework does a fine job of optimising dynamic code, but it will be slower than static code in most cases. More importantly, you lose a lot of compile-time safety; while unit testing will help you find a lot of the mistakes that can crop up when the compiler isn't able to help you much, I still prefer the immediate feedback of the compiler telling me if I'm trying to use a method which doesn't exist or can't be called with a given set of arguments.
Dynamic behavior can be very useful in situations where you're naturally dealing with dynamic environments or data, but if you're really looking to write large chunks of your code dynamically, I suggest you use a language where that's the normal style instead of the exception. C# is still very obviously a language which was designed for static typing: languages which have been dynamic from the start often have various features which will help you work more productively with dynamic behavior. Now that you can easily call into such languages from C#, you can fairly easily separate out the parts of your code which benefit from a largely dynamic style from those where static typing works better.
I don't want to put too much of a damper on things though: where dynamic typing is useful, it can be a lot simpler than the alternatives. In this article we'll take a look at the basic rules of dynamic typing in C# 4, and then in the second part we'll dive into some examples: using COM dynamically, and calling into some IronPython code.
Before we get to any code showing off this new feature of C# 4, it's worth getting a better handle on why it was introduced in the first place. I don't know any other languages which have gone from being purely static to partially dynamic; this is a significant step in C#'s evolution, whether you make use of it often or only occasionally.
We'll start off by taking a fresh look at what "dynamic" and "static" mean, consider some of the major use cases for dynamic typing in C#, and then delve into how it's implemented in C# 4.
In a statically typed language, the compiler knows the type of expressions in the code, and knows the members available on any type. It applies a fairly complex set of rules to determine which exact member should be used. This includes overload resolution; the only choice which is left until later is to pick the implementation of virtual methods depending on the execution-time type of the object. The process of working out which member to use is called binding, and in a statically typed binding language it occurs at compile time.
In a dynamically typed language, all of this binding occurs at execution time. A compiler is able to check that the code is syntactically correct, but it can't check that the methods you call and the properties you access are actually present. It's a bit like a word processor with no dictionary: it may be able to check your punctuation, but not your spelling. (If you're to have any sort of confidence in your code, you really need a good set of unit tests.) Some dynamic languages are always interpreted, with no compiler involved at all. Others provide both an interpreter and a compiler, to allow rapid development with a REPL: a read-evaluate-print loop.
Strictly speaking, REPL isn't solely associated with dynamic languages. Some statically typed languages have "interpreters" too which actually compile on the fly. Notably, F# comes with a tool called F# Interactive which does exactly this. However, interpreters are much more common for dynamic languages than static ones.
It's worth noting that the new dynamic features of C# 4 do not include interpreting C# source code at execution time: there's no direct equivalent of the JavaScript eval function, for example. To execute code based on data in strings, you need to use either the CodeDOM API (and CSharpCodeProvider in particular) or simple reflection to invoke individual members.
Of course, the same kind of work has to be done at some point in time no matter somewhat approach you're taking. By asking the compiler to do more work before execution, static systems usually perform better than dynamic ones. Given the downsides we've mentioned so far, you might be wondering why anyone would want to bother with dynamic typing in the first place.
Dynamic typing has two important points in its favor. First, if you know the name of a member you want to call, the arguments you want to call it with, and the object you want to call it on, that's all you need. That may sound like all the information you could have anyway, but there's more that the C# compiler would normally want to know. Crucially, in order to identify the member exactly (modulo overriding) it would need to know the type of the object you're calling it on, and the types of the arguments. Sometimes you just don't know those types at compile-time, even though you do know enough to be sure that the member will be present and correct when the code actually runs.
For example, if you know that the object you're using has a Length property you want to use, it doesn't matter whether it's a String, a StringBuilder, an Array, a Stream, or any of the other types with that property. You don't need that property to be defined by some common base class or interface - which can be useful if there isn't such a type. This is called duck typing, from the notion that "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I would call it a duck." Even when there is a type which offers everything you need, it can sometimes be an irritation to tell the compiler exactly which type you're talking about. This is particularly relevant when using Microsoft Office APIs via COM. Many method and properties are declare to just return VARIANT, which means that C# code using these calls is often peppered with casts. Duck typing allows you to omit all of these casts, so long as you're confident about what you're doing.
The Wikipedia article on duck typing has more information about the history of the term.
The second important feature of dynamic typing is the ability of objects and types to respond to a call by analysing the name and arguments provided to it. It can behave as if the member had been declared by the type in the normal way, even if the member names couldn't possibly be known until execution time. For example, consider the following call:
Normally this would require the FindByAuthor member to be declared by the designer of the type involved. In a dynamic data layer there can be a single smart piece of code which works out that when make a call like that and there's an Author property in the associated data (whether that's from a database, XML document, hard-coded data or anything else) then you probably want to do a query using the specified argument as the author to find. In some ways this is just a more complex way of writing something like:
However, the first snippet feels more appropriate: the calling code knows the "Author" part statically, even if the receiving code doesn't. This approach can be used to mimic domain specific languages (DSLs) in some situations. It can also be used to create a natural API for exploring data structures such as XML trees.
Another feature of programming with dynamic languages tends to be an experimental style of programming using an appropriate interpreter, as I mentioned earlier. This isn't directly relevant to C# 4, but the fact that C# 4 can interoperate richly with dynamic languages running on the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) means that if you're dealing with a problem which would benefit from this style, you'll be able to use the results directly from C# instead of having to port it to C# afterwards.
We'll look at these scenarios in more depth when we've learned the basics of C# 4's dynamic abilities, so we can see more concrete examples. It's worth briefly point out that if these benefits don't apply to you, dynamic typing is more likely to be a hindrance than a help. Many developers won't need to use dynamic typing very much in their day-to-day coding, and even when it is required it may well only be for a small part of the code. Just like any feature, it can be overused; in my view it's usually worth thinking carefully about whether any alternative designs would allow static typing to solve the same problem elegantly. However, I'm biased due to having a background in statically typed languages - it's worth reading books on dynamically typed languages such as Python and Ruby to see a wider variety of benefits than the ones I present in this article.
You're probably getting anxious to see some real code by now, so we'll just take a moment to get a very brief overview of what's going on, and then dive into some examples.
C# 4 introduces a new type called dynamic. The compiler treats this type differently to any normal CLR type. Any expression that uses a dynamic value causes the compiler to change its behavior in a radical way. Instead of trying to work out exactly what the code means, binding each member access appropriately, performing overload resolution and so on, the compiler just parses the source code to work out what kind of operation you're trying to perform, its name, what arguments are involved and any other relevant information. Instead of emitting IL to execute the code directly, the compiler generates code which calls into the Dynamic Language Runtime with all the required information. The rest of the work is then performed at execution time. In many ways this is similar to the differences between the code generated when converting a lambda expression to an expression tree instead of a delegate type. We'll see later that expression trees are extremely important in the DLR, and in many cases the C# compiler will use expression trees to describe the code. (In the simplest cases where there's nothing but a member invocation, there's no need for an expression tree.) When the DLR comes to bind the relevant call at execution time, it goes through a complicated process to determine what should happen. This not only has to take in the normal C# rules for method overloads and so on, but also the possibility that the object itself will want to be part of the decision, as we saw in our FindByAuthor example earlier. Most of this happens under the hood though - the source code you write to use dynamic typing can be really simple.
Do you remember how many new bits of syntax were involved when you learned about LINQ? Well dynamic typing is just the opposite: there's a single contextual keyword, dynamic, which you can use in most places that you'd use a type name. That's all the new syntax that's required, and the main rules about dynamic are easily expressed, if you don't mind a little bit of hand-waving to start with:
The detailed rules are more complicated, but for the sake of this article we'll stick with the simplified version above. Listing 1 provides a complete example demonstrating each point.
The result of listing 1 shouldn't come as much surprise: it writes out "First!", "Second!" and "Third!". Of course we could easily have specified the types of the items and valueToAdd variables explicitly in this case, and it would all have worked in the normal way - but imagine that the variables are getting their values from other data sources instead of having them hard-coded. What would happen if we wanted to add an integer instead of a string? Listing 2 is just a slight variation, but note that we haven't changed the declaration of valueToAdd; just the assignment expression.
This time the first result is "First2" - which is hopefully what you'd expect. Using static typing, we'd have to have explicitly change the declaration of valueToAdd from string to int. The addition operator is still building a string though. What if we changed the items to be integers as well? Let's try that one simple change, as shown in listing 3.
Disaster! We're still trying to convert the result of the addition to a string. The only conversions which are allowed are the same ones which are present in C# normally, so there's no conversion from int to string. The result is an exception (at execution time, of course):
Unless you're perfect, you're likely to encounter RuntimeBinderException quite a lot when you start using dynamic typing. It's the new NullPointerException, in some ways: you're bound to come across it, but with any luck it'll be in the context of unit tests rather than customer bug reports. Anyway, we can fix it by changing the type of result to dynamic, so that the conversion isn't required anyway. Come to think of it, why bother with the result variable in the first place? Let's just call Console.WriteLine immediately. Listing 4 shows the changes.
Now this prints 3, 4, 5 as we'd expect. Changing the input data would now not only change the operator which was chosen at execution time - it would also change which overload of Console.WriteLine was called. With the original data, it would call Console.WriteLine(string); with the updated variables if would call Console.WriteLine(int). The data could even contain a mixture of values, making the exact call change on every iteration!
You can use dynamic as the declared type for fields, parameters and return types as well. This is in stark contrast to the use of var, which is restricted to local variables.
In many of the examples so far, when we've really known the types at compile-time, we could have used var to declare the variables. At first glance, the two features look very similar. In both cases it looks like we're declaring a variable without specifying its type - but using dynamic we're explicitly setting the type to be dynamic. You can only use var when the compiler is able to infer the type you mean statically, and the type system really does remain entirely static.
The compiler is very smart about the information it records, and the code which then uses that information at execution time is clever too: basically it's a "mini C# compiler" in its own right. It uses whatever static type information was known at compile time to make the code behave as intuitively as possible. Other than a few details of what you can't do with dynamic typing, that's all you really need to know in order to start using it in your own code.
In the second part of this article, we'll take a look at two examples of the kind of situation where you might want to use dynamic typing: working with Office (and Excel in particular), and calling into IronPython
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December corn is trading 1 cent higher near 7:30 am CST. The corn market traded steady to slightly lower overnight following yesterday's gains. Dalian corn traded higher overnight. The US Dollar is trading slightly lower and US Stocks are set to open lower on the day. The Euro traded higher overnight which pressured the US Dollar but European shares followed Asian market lower which is sending a negative tone through the outside markets this morning.
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