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Michael Kiener
To arrange an interview, contact Marci Sullivan: 314.529.9340.
Areas of Expertise
- Action Research/Education
- Counseling Pedagogy
- Effective Teaching Techniques
- Rehabilitation Counseling
- Scholarship of Teaching/Learning
- Teacher Preparation
- Teacher Research
- BS in Health & Human Services University at Buffalo
- MS Rehabilitation Counseling University at Buffalo
- Ph.D. Counselor Education University at Buffalo
Courses Taught
Research Methods, Practicum, Internship, Counseling Theory, Career Development
Research Interests
Counseling Pedagogy and Action Research
When I'm Not Teaching
I enjoy woodworking and creating furniture.
Selected Publications
- Kiener, M. S. (2012). The evolution of teaching and learning participant. Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education. [Online] 5. Click here for publication.
- Kiener, M. S., & Ahuna, K., H. (2011). Creativity as a disposition. In Blythe, H., & Sweet, C. (Eds.), It works for me creatively (p 111). Stillwater, OK: New Forums.
- Kiener, M. S., & Weaver, C. (2011). Examining how cognitive and affective learning strategies change as students complete coursework. Transformative Dialogue: Teaching and Learning Journal. [Online] 5(1). Click here for publication.
- Kiener, M. S. (2010).The not so obvious strategies to become a publishing research scholar. In Blythe, H., & Sweet, C. (Eds.), It works for me becoming a publishing scholar/researcher. Stillwater, OK: New Forums.
- Kiener, M. S. (2010). Gray matter: Examining college teaching: A coaching perspective. Rehabilitation Education 24, 69-74.
- Koch, L., Kiener, M. S., & Gitchel, D. (2009). Action Research in Rehabilitation Education: Curricular Applications. Rehabilitation Education 23, 205-214.2008b
- Kiener, M. S. (2009). Contextualizing engagement: Building the middle range theory of mutual engagement and gaining context on how students learn. Rehabilitation Counselors and Educators Journal, 3(2), 55-62.
- Kiener, M. S. (2009).Application of the scholarship of teaching and learning: The emergence of a deeper understanding of how students learn. Insight,4, 21-27.
- Kiener, M. S & Koch, L. (2009). Action research in rehabilitation counseling. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 40, 19-26.
- Bertolino, B., Kiener, M., & Patterson, R. (2009). The therapist's notebook on strengths and solution-based therapies homework, handouts, and activities. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Kiener, M. S. (2008). The use of pre and post quizzes to increase student engagement in their learning. In Blythe, H., & Sweet, C. (Eds.), It works for me in scholarship shared tips for the classroom (pp. 79-80). Stillwater, OK: New Forums.
- Kiener, M. S. (2008). Engaging conversationally: A method for engaging students in their learning and examining instruction. Insight, 3, 23-30.
- Kiener, M. S. (2008). Teaching service learning to enhance reflective practice and research skills. Rehabilitation Counselors and Educators Journal, 2, (2), 50-59.


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Something swimming in the fountain at Abt?Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Kids just wanna have fun! At Abt, we want everyone to have a good time when they walk through the doors. Last Sunday, one of our employees brought a bunch of 8 year olds in for a birthday party before the store opened. We got a kick out of the pictures he took (from his Blackberry Bold 9700). Enjoy.
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THE Waratahs are honing their maul in preparation for a hostile battle of wits and power against Queensland this weekend.
Hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau said the maul had been pinpointed for tweaking, leading into the Brisbane match, after being used to varying degrees of success against the Crusaders in the Waratahs' trial match last week.
''I think set-piece was OK except for the mauls - we need to make sure we fix them because the Crusaders did really well to penetrate and stop us from attacking in that regard,'' Polota-Nau said.
He may be a harsh critic, considering prop Paddy Ryan's try was scored off a well-executed maul in the final 10 minutes of the match. But a much earlier attempt was defused easily by the Crusaders and Polota-Nau said the side needed more ''clarity'' early on in the move.
''It's just the clarity. We were more worried about the set-up than mauling to score, so we had a good yarn in the sheds at half-time about making sure we get that right because it's a crucial weapon in our artillery, particularly against the Reds, and hopefully we can exploit that side of things,'' he said. ''Forwards-wise, the efforts were great … Being the first hit-out, there was some confusion as to where we were going.''
The Reds will again be missing James Horwill in the second row, with Adam Wallace-Harrison expected to partner again with Rob Simmons.
''I think it took [Queensland] a bit of time to get into the game,'' Polota-Nau said.
''They ran quite well. I just think there was a bit of a no man's land for them in terms of forwards not knowing where to go and they didn't know what to do when they dropped the ball.''
Polota-Nau said he expected the usual ''hostility'' from his front-row counterparts.
Though much has been made of Horwill's absence, as well as the absence of Test halfback Will Genia, Waratahs coach Michael Cheika said he did not believe the missing Wallabies would weaken the Reds.
''For every hole left by an experienced player, there's a young guy who wants to take his jersey - and I saw some of those players who played for Queensland in those places the other night, a guy like [Jake] Schatz, [and Adam] Wallace-Harrison is not a younger player but he's stepping right into the fold,'' Cheika said.
''They got stuck right in and I was very impressed with the way the breakdown was contested. I think if the Australian teams keep hunting at the breakdown like those two were last night, hopefully we can too. Then we're going to be a lot better off than the other provinces as well from the other countries.''
Arguably NSW has the edge there, with former Brumbies back-rower Michael Hooper adjusting quickly to life in the Waratahs set-up.
But the Reds boast Liam Gill, Schatz and Ed Quirk and, while the Brumbies most often won the battle at the breakdown last weekend, there is no doubt Queensland will be doing their homework this week.
Cheika said he expected ''confrontation, aggression, good body height'' and a willingness to get up and back into position as soon as was humanly possible.
''If you want to have an aggressive style of play, the ruck is where you have to be,'' he said. ''It's all in the rucks and in the tackle, how hard you can be, so there's going to be a lot of that.''


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Climate change – global policy and cooperation
Climate change has wide-ranging impacts, so actions to combat it must be incorporated into all aspects of societal policy, including foreign policy, security policy, trade policy and development policy. The consequences of climate change burden poor developing countries the most seriously. Finland supports the climate measures of developing countries as part of development cooperation.
- UN Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol are the base of climate measures
- Climate change is a major obstacle to development
- Finland supports developing countries' climate measures as part of development cooperation
- Reduction of deforestation is important
- The carbon market provides cost-effective emissions control
UN Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol are the base of climate measures
The objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of 1992 is to stabilise global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that does not pose an environmental risk.
The 195 countries that have adopted the Framework Convention mitigate climate change, i.e. they reduce their emissions and adapt to the changes it causes through national measures.
The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 supplements the Framework Convention and contains more specific emission reduction obligations for industrialised countries. In all, 192 countries acceded to the Protocol during the first commitment period (2008–2012). Accession to the second commitment period (2013–2020) is in progress, but for instance the EU countries are already implementing the obligations of the new commitment period.
Countries that have acceded to the Framework Convention have agreed that a decision on a new agreement binding all countries will be made in 2015. Changing the course of climate change requires actions by all countries.
Climate change is a major obstacle to development
The adverse impacts of climate change on local climate, such as the increase in storms or droughts, cause problems especially for the poorest countries and small island states.
Climate change also poses security threats. It can affect migration, undermine food security, increase competition for natural resources and can thus feed conflicts.
Climate change and its impacts must be taken into account in countries' development planning so that the development results achieved or aimed at are not nullified.
The broad security perspective of the EU's and Finland's security policy focuses on comprehensiveness and preventive measures. Finland supports the climate measures of developing countries as part of development cooperation.
Climate change affects men and women in different ways
Climate change has adverse impacts, among others, on the food security of households, which in developing countries is largely the responsibility of women.
Women have diverse everyday experience of how best to adapt to climate change and how it can be curbed most effectively. However, women's possibilities to influence decision-making are often weak.
Finland has supported inclusion of the gender perspective in climate measures since 2008. The objective is for women to be taken into account in the new climate agreement and its implementation as decision-makers and dynamic actors.
Finland supports developing countries' climate measures as part of development cooperation
Developing countries need support, for example to develop legislation and climate officials' know-how, strengthen climate institutions and to increase citizens' potential to respond from village level to cities.
Industrialised countries support the poorest countries by providing financial and expert assistance, by contributing to developing countries' own potential to respond and by technology development and transfer. The support provided through development cooperation plays a key role in this work.
Finland uses a variety of channels to provide this support, including funds established under the UNFCCC, bilateral development cooperation projects or NGO projects. The climate perspective is also taken into account in Finnfund's financing.
The most important funds established under the Framework Convention are the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the new Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Examples of Finland's support for the climate measures of developing countries:
- We support developing countries' adaptation through meteorology projects carried out by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). These projects focus on the development of developing countries' own meteorological services.
- In Southeast Asia we support the network of key persons working with climate change maintained by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through which information and experiences are shared and peer support is provided.
- We support Deforestation and Forest Degradation – REDD+ programmes for example by studying the coal and biomass of forests and by developing forest information systems in almost all of the target countries for forest cooperation.
Support for developing countries' adaptation to climate change
Adaptation to climate change means that the adverse effects of climate change are identified and provision is made for them. The aim is to reduce the vulnerability of both human communities and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change and to improve their ability to recover from disasters caused by climate change.
Adaptation measures are very different for instance in coastal areas compared to slope cultivation in mountainous areas or pastures threatened by drought.
Reduction of deforestation is important
Forests bind carbon dioxide. The greenhouse gases from deforestation, or the disappearance of forests, account for almost one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation also yields many other benefits, such as the protection of water reserves and biodiversity and the prevention of soil erosion.
Finland is a forest country. We use our long-term forest knowledge when supporting sustainable forestry in developing countries. We take climate change into account when planning forestry projects to be financed in developing countries.
The carbon market provides cost-effective emissions control
The mitigation of climate change calls for cost-effective emission reduction measures. By pricing greenhouse gas emissions, the costs they cause are internalised in decision-making and investments are directed to lower carbon alternatives.
Finland supports the pricing of emissions in developing countries among others in the World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness Fund. Through the fund, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia and 12 other countries receive support for the development of emissions trading schemes, carbon taxes and other emissions pricing schemes.
Alongside development cooperation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs procures emission reductions from investments made through the clean development mechanism (CDM). The clean development mechanism is a system under the Kyoto Protocol where industrialised countries finance emission reduction projects in developing countries. Target countries benefit from the projects by obtaining funding and new technologies promoting sustainable development. Industrialised countries get access to emission reduction credits from projects; they can use these credits to supplement their own emission reduction obligations.
Finland's CDM project portfolio has a total of about 150 projects in developing countries. The Ministry of Employment and the Economy coordinates the purchase programme under the Kyoto mechanisms.
During the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2013–2020), emission reductions are acquired through the following carbon funds: the Asian Development Bank's Future Carbon Fund, the NEFCO Carbon Fund and the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund. In these funds, the focus has shifted from the purchasing to the repatriation of emission reductions.
During the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, Finland also has two bilateral clean development mechanism projects, the Ningxia Federal Solar Cooker Project in China and the Reduction of Methane Emissions from Ruseifeh Landfill project in Jordan.
- More information on the Kyoto mechanisms on the website of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy
- Ningxia Federal Solar Cooker Project in China
- Reduction of Methane Emissions from Ruseifeh Landfill project in Jordan
- Services and financial support: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects (in Finnish)
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Many investors dismissed the spectacular failures of Enron, WorldCom, HIH and ABC Learning Centres as unforeseeable black-swan-type events.
Not Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates. He predicted their demise and profited from them, just as he did when he bet against Macquarie Bank Group in 2007.
Chanos started Kynikos (Greek for "cynic") to profit from a practice known as short selling, where investors profit when the stock price of a company falls.
This isn't the same as profiting when stock prices go up. When we buy a stock, especially if it pays a reasonable dividend, we can hang on as long as we need to for the market to recognise the stock's real value.
Shorting is different. Like buying, it requires lots of research, but it has to be married with precise timing. It's a rare and highly specialised skill.
The fact that Chanos has earned returns well in excess of the indices and his other hedge fund counterparts by short selling is a testament to his skill.
You may never short a stock in your life, but if you understand what Chanos is looking for in a good short, then you'll know what shares to avoid. He offers three basic pointers:
1. Avoid debt-fuelled asset bubbles.
Questionable accounting is the foundation to everything Chanos shorts. But you don't need to be an accountant to pick up things that should set alarm bells ringing. Pay attention to the footnotes of the annual reports and compare these to the company's competitors, closely examining different assumptions that different managements use. Then ask, "Which manager is more conservative?"
Chanos finds the accounting for companies that serially conduct mergers to be extremely murky.
When debt is added to the mix, it often signals that all is not well – the company may have resorted to chasing new streams of revenue just to maintain the illusion of earnings growth.
Tyco was an American conglomerate that found a clever but legal accounting gimmick to hide money-losing divisions when acquiring other companies using leverage.
Many Australian investors were lured by ABC Learning's "aggregation model", but a glance at its 2005 annual report footnotes should have raised questions.
ABC's largest assets were "childcare licences", but a footnote revealed that their valuation was left entirely up to ABC's management and details were never properly disclosed.
Astute investors picked this up three years before the stock fell into administration.
2. Avoid industry obsolescence
Some of Chanos' most profitable shorts have been Eastman Kodak, Blockbuster and, more recently, Hewlett-Packard.
These companies appeared cheap, often selling for single-digit price-earnings ratios.
But all operated in sunset industries, victims of technological change that drove their earnings down year after year.
By paying 10 times earnings for a declining business today, investors may actually be paying 20 times near future earnings because profits can quickly halve.
Some of Australia's great and good, including Gina Rinehart, Mark Carnegie and John Singleton have moved into the "old media" sector by grabbing fistfuls of "quantitatively cheap" stocks in the Ten Network and Fairfax. Qantas has also featured in plays.
It's quite possible these investments will suffer the same fate.
Betting on an ailing business is like backing a bleeding horse; the pay-off is high but the odds are stacked heavily against you.
3. Avoid the "one-trick pony"
These are companies that rely on one factor for their earnings, perhaps a single "fad product", government protections via easily repealed legislation or an isolated discovery, as in the case of many mining and biopharmaceutical companies.
Chanos' most successful shorts have included companies that manufacture Cabbage Patch dolls, George Foreman Grills and Martha Stewart (the products, not the person). There was a huge fad element to their success.
A different but local example is salary-packaging company McMillan Shakespeare.
It relies on a single tax loophole for public health sector employees to earn a major part of its revenue. Selling on a price to earnings ratio of 20 and more than 40 times operating cash flows, it would take one swipe of the legislative pen for those profits to disappear.
Sensible, profitable investing is as much about avoiding the losers as it is betting on winners. The Jim Chanos approach will help you avoid the losers.
As for picking the winners, well, that's a different game altogether.
This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 282288).
Nathan Bell is research director at Intelligent Investor. BusinessDay readers can enjoy a free trial offer. For more Intelligent Investor articles click here.


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Pronunciation: in-træn-zê-jênt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Adamantly uncompromising, immovably stubborn on a point or issue, utterly intractable.
Notes: Today's Good Word is an authentic orphan negative: we may be as intransigent as pleases us but even if we always give in, we can never be transigent. Why? No such word exists. When someone cannot be dissuaded from a point, he or she becomes an intransigent, characterized by intransigence or intransigency, either of which works fine.
In Play: This word implies resistance beyond stubbornness; it is the more literary term for bullheadedness: "The boss is absolutely intransigent on this: he says that Snoop Doggy Dogg's music isn't classical and so can't be played on the elevators." There are plenty of places around the house where today's Good Word comes in handy: "I don't understand why Mom so intransigently opposes my wearing a nose ring!"
Word History: Today's word was borrowed from intransigeant, the French makeover of Spanish los intransigentes, a term used to refer to extremist parties in the 19th century Spanish Cortes (legislature). The word comes from Latin in- "not, un-" + transigen(t)s "crossing over", the present participle of transigere "to come to an ageement". This verb comprises trans- "across" + agere "to act"; in fact, the past participle of agere is actus, the origin of English act. The present participle is agen(t)s "acting", the source of English agent. (We are certainly not intransigent when it comes to thanking Helen Barrett for suggesting today's wonderful Good Word.)


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There are 3 people: Mr. Bob, Mr. Jim, and Mr. Smith. Each one of them has a different job. The jobs are a firefighter, a police officer, and a nurse. Each one of them has one day off: Monday, Thursday, or Sunday. Using the clues below, find out who does what job, and what day they have off.
1. Mr. Jim wishes he was a nurse because it pays more money than his current job.
2. Mr. Smith has a weekend day off.
3. The person who has Thursday off, is not a firefighter.
4. Mr. Bob is a firefighter.
AnswerMr. Jim is a police officer, and he has Thursday off.
Mr. Bob is a firefighter, and he has Monday off.
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My name is Jessica Cervantes and I am the founder of Popsy Cakes, the 2008 NFTE National award winning company. NFTE changed my life. They didn't just teach me how to operate my own business, but they taught life skills. I am able to communicate with others and I can even stand and speak in front of an audience, and although I am still terribly nervous, I have conquered my fear of public speaking. NFTE has also in many ways funded my company and my education. I am now a senior at the University of Miami. I am a Microbiology major and hope to attend Med School in the Fall of 2014. My business is thriving, thanks to the help of many, notably Bill Hansen, Craig Edelmen, and Stewart Merkin. Popsy Cakes is now in over 50 locations including Miami International Airport and Bongos in Downtown Disney. We are now expanding our company, looking for investors, and trying to meet our high demand.
My story began about 6 years ago when I was a junior at John A. Ferguson Senior High School. At that time, I was interested in becoming a lawyer and became part of the Business academy. As part of my requirements, I had to take Principles of Entrepreneurship. No one in my family owned their own business nor had I ever been exposed to entrepreneurship, so to me it was just another class I had to pass and nothing more. Little did I know that I would be so interested and so passionate about this class.
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"There are only two good reasons for a man to divorce Rebecca Romijn: either you are retarded, or you are John Stamos. Luckily for John Stamos, he was the latter."
edit Biography
Born in 1200 BC to a tribe of pygmy Greeks, no member of the tribe could lay claim to the man. Not much was known of his early childhood aside from a rapidly developing affinity towards Oscar Wilde and (often spiced) Jedi cocks.
In late 2004, John Stamos' larval stage was completed and he began his onslaught with the media, eventually leading to his time travel and subsequent incitation of World War II.
In early 2006, Stamos famously made the choice of a Jedi tweeker and refused Lindsay Lohan's offer of 3 kilos of cocaine, proclaiming both that "Coke Stamos" was dead and that his new allegiance was to amphetamines. Enraged, Lohan retreated to her spaceship, "Goodbye Kitty." Stamos and the crew of his time-travel vessel pursued her as an Old Republic fleet commenced an assault of its own.
A year after the defeat of Lindsay, Stamos left known space, having remembered the remnants of the ancient Cocaine Empire he had rediscovered as the Dark Lord, also known as the "Coke Stamos". Hoping to put an end to the threat it posed before it could attack, Stamos bade farewell to the nine comrades who had accompanied him on his quests, knowing that none whom he loved could safely accompany him in the places he had to walk. It is also believed by some that he sought exile after the Mandalorian and Pirate-Ninja Wars, thinking that because he brought the cocaine upon the Republic, and then lost control of that power, that was his own personal failure.
And the rest, they say is history.
edit Life with the Jenova's Witnesses
In the spring of 1985, John was visited by John Cleese, a Jenova's Witness. Stamos is oft-quoted stating: "It was one of the most important moments of my life... I mean... I have a family now." One month after joining, "The Stamos" slaughtered his entire paternal Greek tribe. He had massive orgies with the Olsen twins, Bob and Dave. He hated having to kiss Becky saying, "I prefer kissing beards and bushes." Oh, and he was caught more than once trying to seduce Comet.
edit The Chocolate Rain Controversy
John Stamos claimed that, in early 1983, he actually formulated the Chocolate Rain Cessation Theory completely independent of popular alchemist Tay Zonday. This has been disputed by countless scientists, including the likes of Sir Thomas Shithead and Professor Subtle. To this day, "The Stamos" is unable to provide any evidence.


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A member of chart-topping boyband JLS said he is "horrified" by plans to build an incinerator in Beddington.
Jonathan 'JB' Gill, a member of the Brit Award winning act that found fame through the X-Factor, has backed the campaign to stop an Energy Recovery Facility being built of Beddington Lane.
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The top University of Manitoba men's golf team kept rolling this week with a big tournament win in North Dakota.
The Bisons swung to victory at the 2013 Erc Kaiser Invitational, which wrapped up on Tuesday in Oxbow, N.D. The team's three-round score of 894 bested the host North Dakota State team by six strokes.
Individually, Bisons golfer Josh Wytinck — who won three consecutive individual titles coming into this tournament — finished second with an even-par score of 216. Bisons teammate Charlie Boyechko finished third at 217.
The rest of the Bisons' top team included Scott Mazur, who finished ninth, Noel Ngo in 31st place and Burke Wiebe at 32nd. The Bisons also fielded a second team in this tournament, which finished fifth with a 924 score.
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I have been learning python from no long time ago. But nearly at the beginning I stumbled on simple question:
how to set a restriction (limitation) on object value or object's properties without making a difficult class description. There is no problem with python's unstrict typification, not only with that. I search for the methods to control not only the variable types, but the variable value diapasons also. For example let creating the classical educational class - "Circle". A Circle - object should have three properties: two origin coordinates (some x, y) and a radius, in that (in our human visible world) x and y should be real numerical, a radius should be real positive numerical.
I somehow solved this task, You may see it there. https://docs.zoho.com/file/1m46652a001f1735b4ad8847bfb5a56a20ffa Nevertheless I utterly displeased with way I have done that. The code is huge for so small conception, and it's almost no reusable (I know about the descriptors - it will give the near same result). I would prefer some declarative stile. Mark Summerfield the author of book "Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" (where is this "circle" task from, and I will recommend this book for everybody) in his book suggest using Assert - operator (290 page in russian translated version). I don't think implementing the debugging operator in a interface part of a program is good idea. "Assert" is great tool for save the time when you test the inner behavior of program but for the outer... - no.
When I had been starting search for an alternative my first thought was to add my own operator. But after hard googling I realized that it impossible to make that in python itself (I found some construction with lambda - function and some with bottle framework, but it not that I need). Such as I only newbie, and entering in python developers team or forked python ( ) is no way for me, I gave up for this thoughts.
The another possibly path in declarative stile is something as that:
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radius=radius if radius>=0 else raise ValueError("Attribute 'radius' should be no negative")
radius=radius if isinstance(radius,(float,int)) else raise TypeError("Attribute should be numerical")
of course it not work, because we haven't ability use 'raise' by that. I should be able call errors object as function to brought it for reality. The simplest way to do that it wrote the error-raised function like this:
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def fValueError(message=""):
raise ValueError(message)
or more universal:
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def SomeError(exception=Exception, message="Something don't well"):
if isinstance(exception.args,tuple):
raise exception
raise exception(message)
So we can write:
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from ErrorMaker import SomeError
radius=radius if radius>=0 else SomeError(ValueError("Attribute 'radius' should be no negative"))
Or even like this:
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@dfValueError(['isinstance(radius,(float,int))'],"Attribute 'radius' should be no negative")
@dfTypeError(['radius>=0'],"Attribute should be numerical")
def fun_radius(x)
return x
The codes for decorators in last examples is not showed at there, but I think you have understood principles.
The small problem with this approach is in the more complex and less informatively evident error outing print. At the first the error message lead to the fake error raised function, the place where "oops" actually occurred only in second lines. It may be seemed some comically (that I wonder about it) but, when having been exploring in other's program such trifles could waste a lot of time.
So, I want to make ability call error objects as functions. To do that I was try to "breed" the ValueError class (as example) with adding __call__ method in heir. Actually, I don't know well how error's "raise" mechanism work to do that.
At today my laboratory pet - fValueError can be raised as such as any another but still not callable although has call - method.
Now. Before you send me away for haskell, or farther let me ask you to help me save plenty of time by answer 3 questions:
1) Have you read, heard, tested, or developed something about premises problems? Ideas never come in only one head, maybe I "contrive bicycle"? Above all I'm interested in the questions of a variable value's diapasons restriction, but any helpful information would be welcomed and thanked (maybe very very thanked)
2) Would somebody help me (by any way) create callable error python class?
3) Would somebody look for use such (function-style "error creation") module, in another word: I should write only for myself or more accuracy. And if above is "no": What style of fake Error-function call you prefer to use?
P.S. I'm rarely write something on English (actually it only 2 or 3 article within my whole life), so my text be possible full of mistakes, I'm sorry about that. I will grateful for any criticism (in private) that help me became better.


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Weybridge's Jonathan Marray described his week at the ATP World Tour Finals as 'amazing', despite bowing out with Frederik Nielsen in the semi-finals, writes Ziad Choudry.
The 2012 Wimbledon men's doubles champions lost 6-4 6-3 in their final match as a pairing to Spanish duo Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez.
But despite the defeat, it has been a fantastic year for the Surrey-based professional, who also added two ATP Challenger titles to his Grand Slam win at SW19.
And Marray is after a repeat performance over the next 12 months to ensure his return to the O2.
"Playing in front of home crowds, all the razzmatazz, flashing lights – it motivates you to want to come back next year," said the 31-year-old, who became the first Briton to win the Wimbledon men's doubles title for 76 years back in July.
"It's been amazing playing here. It's been a fantastic year for British sport, and it's been great to have been a part of it."


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STUDENT Rosie Paley, from Halesowen College, won praise from TV and sports stars during an award ceremony for the Encephalitis Society after coming runner-up in a national competition.
The 17-year-old hairdressing student was shortlisted from 90 people after writing a poem and completing art work to show how the condition, which causes acute inflammation of the brain, has affected her life. She came runner-up in the art category with her work called Expressions of Encephalitis.
Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington, Emmerdale actor Matthew Bose and Coronation Street actor Bill Ward were all in London to attend the charity event at the H10 Hotel in Waterloo.
Proud mum Helen Paley said: "All the stars spent a lot of time with Rosie praising her poem and art work.
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Several days before decorating cake, make fondant bow.
Bake your favorite 2-layer cake recipe or mix following recipe instructions in the 6 in. and 8 in. pans. Cool layers in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely.
Arrange cakes on same-sized cake boards. Place 8 in. cake on silver cake base, securing with icing. Lightly ice each cake in buttercream icing to prepare for fondant covering. Insert dowel rods into 8 in. layer.
Tint fondant yellow and peach, reserving some white. Roll out colored fondant 1/8 in. thick; cover 6 in. cake with yellow, 8 in. cake with peach; smooth. Position 6 in. cake on 8 in. tier, placing over dowel rods and centering.
Roll out reserved white fondant 1/8 in. thick and cut circles using the small round Cut-Out. Attach circles in vertical rows, spaced 1/2 in. apart, on the sides of each cake, using a damp brush. Roll 1/2 in. diameter fondant balls and attach for bottom borders with damp brush. Position bow on top of cake.


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Harnessing Plant-Invading Fungi for Fuel
As gas prices rise around the world, researchers are seeking a potential solution from endophytic fungi
As gas prices rise around the world, researchers are seeking a potential solution from endophytic fungi--fungi that live inside plants.
While conducting a study on endophytes and their unique products, Gary Strobel of Montana State University and his fellow researchers made a discovery that could very well change our future fuel sourcing.
In a recent study, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, Strobel and his team looked closely at an endophyte known as Hypoxylon, identifying the volatile organic compounds that it produces as well as its antimicrobial activity and genetic makeup. Hypoxylon and similar fungi are common in tropical and semitropical plants and the volatile organic compounds they produce may be useable as fuels or fuel additives.
Living inside plants
Endophytes are able to live in plant tissues without causing any apparent harm. In some cases, the endophyte may even provide some sort of benefit, such as protection from harmful bacteria or pathogenic fungi. Scientists have found that endophytes produce bioactive products that are potentially beneficial for medicine, industry and energy uses.
Strobel and his collaborators excised a Hypoxylon sample from the limb of an evergreen native to the Canary Islands, called Persea indica, and cultured it in a lab to reproduce the fungus and run tests to confirm its identity. Using a scanning electron microscope, light microscopy and molecular tests, they were able to confirm its identity.
The scientists tested the compounds made by the fungi for their inhibitory capabilities to determine if Hypoxylon uses the compounds to protect its host from pathogens. The researchers exposed 10 different fungal pathogens to Hypoxylon cultures that were three, four, five, six and seven days old.
Results indicated that not only do the volatile organic compounds provide antimicrobial protection, but there is also a specific age at which they are most effective. In this study, the six-day-old culture exhibited maximum inhibition of eight of the 10 pathogens. The inhibitory capabilities of the volatile organic compounds support the idea that the fungus has been able to maintain this particular niche because of the protection it provides.
Strange compounds
The range of volatile organic compounds Hypoxylon produces is also significant. One important compound known as 1,8-cineole has a special structure that means it could be used as fuel. This compound and the majority of the compounds produced by Hypoxylon are classified as monoterpenes or their derivatives.
"Monoterpenes are excellent fuels," Strobel said. "In fact, ethanol is a terrible fuel for America since it can cause engine problems, is not energy dense and is made by yeast fermentation. Yeasts only utilize sugars and starch, and the sources of these are also human and animal feeds. Endophytes such as Hypoxylon can utilize agricultural, forestry and urban wastes, grow nicely, and at the same time make monoterpenes, such as cineole."
Special enzymes
The specialized enzymes that Hypoxylon uses to produce 1,8-cineole enable complex chemical processes that are difficult to reproduce in the laboratory, and therefore difficult to adapt for mass production of monoterpenes for fuel. Studying this process could lead to better ways of engineering the fungus for greater hydrocarbon yields.
"Biological pathways leading to production of monoterpenes can be manipulated on a mass commercial scale either by standard microbiological methods involving mutation genetics, or by the use of bioengineering," Strobel said.
The Department of Energy has approved a project to research methods of manipulating the biological pathways leading to the production of monoterpenes.
Advancing alternative fuels
Meanwhile, Strobel and his colleagues are making strides:
Editor's Note: This Behind the Scenes article was first provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
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TWO Basing View firms have been recognised as top companies to work for.
NewVoiceMedia, headquartered at Belvedere and Business Environment which operates serviced offices at ViewPoint have been ranked 95 th and 77 th respectively in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2014, by The Sunday Times.
In fact it is the seventh year running that Business Environment have made it in the annual listing.
It measures excellence across a number of workplace factors including leadership, employee wellbeing, pay and benefits as well as treatment of staff.
Thrilled with the news, Lisa Liney, who is the centre manager at ViewPoint said: "Our success as a company is dependent on our ability to source and recruit the best staff, whilst ensuring all team members are happy and challenged within their job role. The team we have working in Basingstoke is a brilliant one and it's great to see that rewarded."
Some of Business Environment's more distinctive policies include encouraging all employees to take three days off a year to volunteer for charity, use of gyms, delivering cakes to clients and colleagues each Friday, a stop-smoking initiative, and setting up a green team, which ensures all working areas are being as environmentally-friendly as possible.
Managing director David Saul, said: "Making The Sunday Times list again is a huge feat for Business Environment. The fact that it is the opinions of our teams that we are judged on makes this award even more important as it demonstrates we are running a happy and successfully functioning unit.
"Every one of my colleagues should be extremely proud of themselves for helping to create such a positive working environment."
NewVoiceMedia chief executive Jonathan Gale was also delighted with the news, which saw the company accredited with a two-star outstanding rating.
The survey revealed that 84 per cent of NewVoiceMedia staff feel stretched and challenged by their job, 94 per cent are excited about the vision and execution of the organisation and 87 per cent "wouldn't leave tomorrow if they had another job offer."
The judges also highlighted NewVoiceMedia's excellent employee benefits, along with competitive overall remuneration. Employees are offered share options, making them – 93 per cent – feel they can make a valuable contribution to the company's success.
The Best Companies ranking closely follows NewVoiceMedia's double win at the Private Business Awards, where Jonathan achieved CEO of the Year and the company was honoured with the Rising Star award for the South East region.
NewVoiceMedia is growing at more than twice the rate of the rapidly expanding cloud contact centre market and has doubled its number of staff over the last year to meet increased demand for its technology.
Jonathan said: "Making the company a fun and stimulating place to work is a core part of our strategy, and we are delighted that we're able to attract such exceptional talent as a result.
"It's great to see that we are living up to our responsibilities as an employer and that our employees feel valued and excited about the company's vision.
"Our people are central to our success and I'm extremely proud of what we've achieved together. We will use the feedback to continue building a great working environment and strong company culture."


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A huge gilded mirror at the entrance of "Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations" brings visitors face-to-face with themselves — an apt introduction to the revelations to come at the new exhibit housed at the Contemporary Art Center through June 16.
"I wanted people to think about how they view themselves as personages as they walk through the exhibit, how do we dress, how do we carry ourselves, and what we show or not show," said Miranda Lash, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
"Masks" challenges the visitor to rethink identity, culture, beauty, history and the art form itself. The exhibit features works that capture masks in varying forms and mediums from Africa, ancient Greece, Asia, Haiti, India and Japan, and traces the evolution of masking.
"I wanted to do a show with contemporary themes with living artists who use art from other periods," Lash said.
The varied and distinctive approaches both raise and answer philosophical questions. Lash said the exhibit deals with such themes as a desire to be someone else, wanting to assume another identity or the possibility that the person wearing the mask wants to be more like their true self or be more "free."
The latter is especially true in the New Orleans Carnival tradition, Lash said.
Some of the most striking pieces include the work of the late mask artisan Mike Starks, Mardi Gras Indian chief Victor Harris (Fi-Yi-Yi), images of manga and costumed role-playing among Asian teens, a host of Carnival masks from the 1920s and a "shame" mask from the early 1800s, an iron, cage-like frame designed to fit over the face with holes for shackles.
The exhibit also showcases two short films — a choreographed dance sequence by Yinka Shonibare that incorporates both African and European symbolism to explore cultural fusion and a psychological treatise on "telling secrets" as one wears a mask, by Gillian Wearing.
"Contemporary (art) is not in a vacuum, it's very rich. It's important to look at it in the context of history," Lash said. "It's also a spiritual quest, a way of protecting yourself and not exposing yourself to judgment or shame."
Artists and pieces were selected from various collections, particularly NOMA and Louisiana State Museum, which has explored different configurations of masks over the years.
"Masks" is a collaborative exhibition between NOMA and the CAC, the first of two planned for 2013. Louisiana residents can visit the exhibit free of charge with proper identification.


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Songs Every Man Should Listen to 2012
Downey on his new son:
Three weeks ago, we had a bun in the oven, and we were about to have a kid. There was all this trepidation, all this projection, all this anticipation and goodwill and a good vibe about it. But what you're squeezing to the side — or what's in the glove box — is these thousands of forms of fear. And then he was born and they've all just kind of scattered now. It seems like he's always been here.
Downey on being a father:
I guess here's what's come to me in the last three weeks: That anticipation and fear are going to come back. Am I going to know what to do with them? Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? Only thing you have to do, the only requirement, if you can hack it, is to not transfer your own discomfort in the moment to this fresh soul, right? ... You got to be mindful. I don't want to be so confident in myself. It's that balance between being relaxed enough to not be communicating anxiety and present enough to not be creating the very thing that you were anxious about by being so relaxed — because I've seen that parenting style, too.
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Video by Rumson Teen Inspires Train to Play Benefit Show in Monmouth County
An amateur video shot by a Rumson teenager that chronicles the impact of Superstorm Sandy has caught the eye of a Grammy-winning band that now plans to play a benefit concert.
Singer Pat Monahan of the band Train posted on his blog that a YouTube video by 15-year-old Charlotte Nagy of Rumson moved him.
A publicist for the band with hits like "Hey, Soul Sister," says Train plans to play a small private concert Dec. 5 at the Sea Bright fire department to raise funds for a charity Nagy started called Sea Bright Rising.
Nagy's 30-minute video shows images of Sea Bright and the surrounding areas before, during and after the storm.
Here's the video that caught Pat Monahan's eye.
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Remarkable Rice with Chef Amelia Hard!
Thursday, April 5, 2012 • 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Class Fee $40.00
Popular Chef Amelia Hard is back with another class focused on a single grain: rice. We'll begin by sampling rice-paper Salad Rolls fi lled with soy-sauce-baked tofu. Then you'll learn step-by-step how to make a classic Italian risotto with Arborio rice – a delicious Risotto with Seasonal Greens. Other recipes will include leftover risotto – Mushroom Risotto Cakes, Vietnamese Rice-Noodle Salad, Turkish-inspired Rice Pilaf with Nuts and Cinnamon, and Coconut Brown Rice Pudding made with brown sweet rice.
Hands-on Pie Baking with Dan Allen!
Thursday, April 12, 2012 • 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Class Fee: $50.00
Dan Allen, owner of Cricket Café will help demystify your pie baking dilemmas. In this hands-on class Dan will focus on Sweet Apple Pie with a foolproof and whole wheat crust that envelopes a one-of-a-kind unique apple filling. He will provide you with baking tips to make even the beginner baker successful. His recipes with include: Hand Pie variations – a flaky hand pie perfect for packed lunches, picnics, or anytime and fi lling choices from savory to sweet, Brown-Butter Pear and Lemon Curd Tart, Butter Brickle Banana Cream with a Toasted Coconut Crust, Blueberry and Lemon Cloud Tartlets, and Missouri Mud Pie. Everyone will leave class with their own apple pie (using a whole wheat crust) to bake at home!
Supplies to Bring: Apron, wash cloth, 9 inch glass or ceramic pie plate, medium size mixing bowl, rubber spatula or wooden spoon, pastry cutter, bench knife and rolling pin.
New to Gluten Free with Lori Sobelson!
Thursday, April 19, 2012 • 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Class Fee: $25.00
Are you new to the gluten free lifestyle? Do you feel overwhelmed not knowing what is safe to eat, what products to buy, how to bake without using gluten fl ours? In this class Lori Sobelson, Director of Community Outreach with Bob's Red Mill will walk you through the basic steps of converting to a gluten free lifestyle. We will discuss what it means to live a gluten free lifestyle, talk about brands you can trust, sample gluten free baked goods made from Bob's Red Mill gluten free mixes as well as learn tips that will make your new menu planning easier. You'll leave with a recipe packet and a better understanding of all that's available to make your new lifestyle easy to adapt to and worth the change!
*This class is specifically designed for those who are new to gluten free. It is an informational class only; no cooking demonstration will be given.
Spectacular Spring Salads with Laura B. Russell!
Thursday, April 26, 2012 • 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Class Fee $40.00
Join food writer and cookbook author Laura Russell as she incorporates grains, beans, and lentils into spectacular spring salads. Many are main-dish worthy, such as Quinoa Salad with Chicken and Grapes, Wild Rice Salad with Smoked Trout and Lemony Dill Vinaigrette, and Cannellini Bean Salad with Tuna and Watercress. The others, Lentils Vinaigrette with Toasted Almonds, Tropical Rice Salad with Mango, Avocado, and Cilantro, and Buckwheat Salad with Roasted Asparagus, can be served as side dishes or light main dishes. We'll talk about cooking grains and beans, making homemade dressings, and ideas for varying the recipes as well. All of the salads in this class are gluten free.


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- Sloth Sloth, n. [OE. slouthe, sleuthe, AS. sl?w?, fr. sl[=a]w
slow. See {Slow}.]
1. Slowness; tardiness.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. [1913 Webster]
[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family {Bradypodid[ae]}, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of {Edentata}), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico. [1913 Webster]
Note: The three-toed sloths belong to the genera {Bradypus} and {Arctopithecus}, of which several species have been described. They have three toes on each foot. The best-known species are collared sloth ({Bradypus tridactylus}), and the ai ({Arctopitheus ai}). The two-toed sloths, consisting the genus {Cholopus}, have two toes on each fore foot and three on each hind foot. The best-known is the unau ({Cholopus didactylus}) of South America. See {Unau}. Another species ({C. Hoffmanni}) inhabits Central America. Various large extinct terrestrial edentates, such as Megatherium and Mylodon, are often called sloths. [1913 Webster]
{Australian sloth}, or {Native sloth} (Zo["o]l.), the koala.
{Sloth animalcule} (Zo["o]l.), a tardigrade.
{Sloth bear} (Zo["o]l.), a black or brown long-haired bear ({Melursus ursinus}, or {Melursus labiatus}), native of India and Ceylon; -- called also {aswail}, {labiated bear}, and {jungle bear}. It is easily tamed and can be taught many tricks.
{Sloth monkey} (Zo["o]l.), a loris. [1913 Webster]
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Yes, it's 75 degrees here in L.A. today. No, I don't care. I want it to be cold already so I can wear a coat! Don't get me wrong, I love our weather, but sometimes I want to wear cute coats like the 10 I chose below.
Half of you probably want to smack me already. LOL! And that's OK! We always want what we can't have…right? Well…if I lived in a cold-weather kind of place here are 10 coats that would make my list. There are bright ones, neutral ones, and sassy ones…oh my! As far as pricing goes, these are $88 and up. When spending this kind of money, I look at these coats like an investment. A good one will last you a very long time!
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