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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
 Speaker-to-Animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
-Many readers like to compare Speaker to Domovoi Butler, a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series of books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speaker-to-Animals   (257 words)

  
 BRET - Numbers and types of Animals used in Medical Research
The reverse is true and the numbers of animals used has fallen steadily from a peak of about 5,500,000 in the 1970s to low point of less than 2,650,000.
By refining their techniques and working to find alternatives to animal testing scientists have managed to half the number of animals used in the last 20 years.
It is against the law in the UK to use any captured wild animal in medical research unless permission to use such an animal has been obtained from the Home Office.
www.bret.org.uk /num.htm   (276 words)

  
 Speaker to Animals
History: Speaker to Animals was the translator on the Kzinti mission to Earth.
Real Name: Speaker to Animals - later changed to Chmee
He was recruited by Nessus to be the Kzinti representative on the expedition to the vast artificial construct called Ringworld.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /s/speaker.htm   (70 words)

  
 Summer 1995 CAAT Newsletter
Doniger described the manner in which "pleasures of the unnamable are turned into animal characters" in a lecture titled Bestial Myths: Religious Constructions of Relationships Between Humans and Animals.
Rumbaugh noted that restricting the definition of "language" to speech necessarily excludes animals clearly capable of language when raised in language-rich environments.
Although her comments on the necessity of a trainer developing an I-Thou relationship* with an animal was at odds with Dennett's minimization of the possibility of an animal "consciousness," Hearne like Dennett seemed unable to overcome the antagonism of some questioners, who objected to the practice of animal training, per se.
caat.jhsph.edu /pubs/newsletter/news_sum95/company.htm   (602 words)

  
 German Attitudes Paper
The speaker uses a rat, traditionally a symbol of the demonic and all things filthy and unholy, to convey his despair at the lowly state that human beings are reduced to in war.
The speaker “pull[s] the parapet’s poppy/To stick behind my ear.” Imagine a young man with a flower behind his ear and the image is a happy one, an image of a light-hearted and carefree soul.
This “lumping together” of both sides of soldiers indicates the speaker’s belief that the toll that war takes on the soul (which can be seen through the eyes) is the same for both Englishmen and Germans.
www.msu.edu /~hartma35/germans.htm   (1330 words)

  
 Speaker keyboard - screen saver utilities
Speaker keyboard is very easy to use, highly configurable, and does not take up much hard drive space or memory.
Another remarkable feature of Speaker keyboard is that it can generate sounds at certain keyboard events in many different sound schemes (such as a typewriter, birds, animals, etc.).
Speaker keyboard can vocalise the text you are typing at the completion of each character or word.
www.softempire.com /speaker-keyboard.html   (258 words)

  
 Ark Animal Answers by Pet Expert Diana L. Guerrero
Predatory animals have teeth (dogs and cats), some pets are large and can knock over or step on a kid, while others (like fish) might pose threats if the child knocks down and breaks the aquarium.
Teach your kids and animals to be tolerant and don't leave animals and kids together unattended.
This habituates animals to humans and is dangerous in many ways.
arkanimals.com /ark_animal_answers.html   (1324 words)

  
 Kind Kids Club
A speaker from In Defense of Animals told the kids how elephants in the wild live in highly social groups.
The animals are forced to travel and live in poorly ventilated trailers and boxcars in the most extreme weather conditions for at least 50 weeks a year.
They also used baker’s clay to make animal shapes that they brought home to paint — reminders of those animals who are forced to perform against their will.
www.pleasebekind.com /march02.html   (383 words)

  
 Farm Animal Forum
A dedicated animal activist, Corey has lent his voice to farm animals as a speaker at Farm Sanctuary's Celebration FOR the Turkeys and the California foie gras bill victory party.
Dr Cheever presents programs to elementary through college level students on environmental and animal advocacy issues, in addition to her private practice serving companion animals and wildlife.
Persia actively advocates for farm animals and frequently lends her time and talent to Farm Sanctuary events.
www.farmsanctuary.org /farmanimalforum/2005/speakers.htm   (622 words)

  
 Video Adventure at Table Mound
The day was all about animals, a learning "expedition," one of many that Table Mound Elementary students embark upon throughout the year (they brought us Rocket Day, and remember that celebration of local history we wrote about last year?).
it was very orderly, with students quietly listening to each presentation as their classmates told of their responsibilities on behalf of their animals.
The guest speaker from the Humane Society was extremely impressed.
www.dubuque.k12.ia.us /Tablemound/pets/photosforTablemound   (245 words)

  
 Wildlife Rehab & Education
Wildlife rehabilitation is the care of injured or orphaned wild animals with the specific goal of returning them to their native habitat with an optimal chance of survival.
By caring for individual animals, we are gathering information that is relevant to entire species and gives us a better understanding of how these creatures relate to our world in its entirety.
The techniques used to care for these animals maximize their chances for survival when they are returned to their native habitat.
www.wrande.org   (295 words)

  
 BRET - The use of Animals by Society
The major areas are for food, as companion animals (pets), in medical research and those destroyed as pests (mostly rats and mice) and those cats and dogs abandoned and destroyed by animal welfare organisations.
That is approximately 12 animals for every person in the UK every year.
We can see from the chart that the vast majority, some 97%, of animals are slaughtered and consumed as food.
www.bret.org.uk /soc.htm   (122 words)

  
 Refinement Workshop
For example, if animals are to be shared, the IACUC might need to expedite protocol approval to enable the animals to be transferred to a new research project in a timely fashion.
The protocol writer may be the one to introduce alternatives into the process, but since the resident laboratory animal veterinarian, or a consulting veterinarian, may be the first person to advise the PI (principal investigator) about the possibilities, the veterinarian may also have the opportunity to introduce alternatives, including Refinement, into the protocol.
Sharing of animals also raises interesting questions about multiple survival surgeries--if these would decrease the number of animals used, this would be consistent with the goal of reduction.
www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu /Animal_Alternatives/MAY12.htm   (1432 words)

  
 sacbee Our Town Pets Dog proves skills as woman's best friend, helpmate
Her service dog, Speaker, is able to tell her when she is about to have a seizure.
She said she has to explain to them that assistance animals should not be distracted while performing their jobs.
Fields said Speaker is adorable and that many people are tempted to pet him.
www.sacbee.com /static/archive/ourtown/pets/fields.html   (950 words)

  
 CNN - Newt Gingrich takes on a host of animals - March 30, 1996
The speaker guest hosted CNN's "Larry King Live" Friday night and showcased a variety of rare animals brought in by Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus, Ohio, zoo.
There were some animals which the speaker kept his distance from, including an oversized albino snake with 220 fishhook-like teeth.
Poisonous toads hopped on the desk as did a mountain lion that was poised to jump onto the camera.
www.cnn.com /US/9603/gingrich_animals   (310 words)

  
 Fallacies [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Discovering that a speaker is a hypocrite is a reason to be suspicious of the speaker's reasoning, but it is not a sufficient reason to discount it.
But the speaker is clearly taking the sentence in its other, less plausible sense: Every concerned citizen who believes (that there is someone or other living in the US who is a terrorist) should make a report to the authorities.
The middle term ('animals') is in the predicate of both universal affirmative premises and therefore is undistributed.
www.iep.utm.edu /f/fallacies.htm   (13501 words)

  
 Phil's CV
The patterns observed in these animals are the result of the primary forces which gave rise to them (cell death, cell movement, and cell division).
The transgenic animals have been produced using conditional promoters and the analysis of these animals is ongoing.
We have analyzed insertional mutations derived from the retroviral transfection of embryo-derived stem cells in the mouse which were used to produce chimeras with subsequent breeding of transgenic mice.
www.niehs.nih.gov /ecbinfo/council/councilcv/iannaccone.html   (2231 words)

  
 wallpapers Speaker of the House
In subcategory: Free Wallpapers > Animals > Animals Speaker of the House
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www.wallpapers.org /wallpapers/view.php?id=3157   (75 words)

  
 Ringworld of Penzance part 1
To reassure Louis that he is not about to be eaten as a snack, Speaker explains that the carnivorous kzinti can be quiet, reflective sorts, when they wish to be.
To reassure Louis that he is not about to be eaten as a snack, Speaker explains that kzinti can be quiet, reflective sorts when they wish to be.
When Teela admits to being the fifth-generation product of winners in a child-license lottery, all marvel at her incredible luck.
www.netrover.com /~jcresswl/filkpg/RingPen.html   (774 words)

  
 For His Kidz - Christian entertainers for kids
If you’re bringing in a guest speaker from "For His Kidz" ask them to bring along a proper library message that can be used to invite families to the church event as well.
You could also bring in an evangelistic speaker, balloon animals, face painting, etc. Plan for more than supplies you’ll need or advertise how many will be given away.
Teacher Training: Many of "For His Kidz" speakers teach at conventions on a regular basis.
www.forhiskidz.com /news_detail.asp?id=8   (677 words)

  
 Orly Degani
Speaker, “Protecting Animals on the Local Level: The Effect of Preemption on City Ordinances”, Animal Law Conference, Portland, OR (October 2005).
She handles and consults on a variety of animal law related cases on a pro bono basis, and is involved in spearheading legislation aimed at improving the status and treatment of animals.
Degani is the founder and chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Animal Issues Committee and Los Angeles Lawyers for Animals.
www.sdma.com /bios?orly.degani.html   (322 words)

  
 CAAT: Andrew N. Rowan's Curriculum Vitae
Invited Speaker, Dean's lecture Series, New York College of Veterinary medicine, Cornell, NY Invited Speaker, Microbiological Associates Conference on Alternatives, Bethesda, MD Invited Speaker, IACUC Conference, Dayton, OH Invited Participant - Validation Meeting, Interagency Co-ordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods, Washington, DC Lou Hyndman Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October.
Plenary Speaker, Religion and Animals Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, May
Plenary Speaker, Animals, Science and Society Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore
caat.jhsph.edu /about-us/staff/rowan-cv.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Companion Animals Green Paper - 28/05/1996 - QWN
It is reasonable to assume that if more animals carried identification they would be returned to their owners rather than put down.
Some 95 per cent of euthanised animals are unidentified, which means they cannot be matched with their owners.
The concern of the Government for the welfare of animals is reflected in the working title of the proposed legislation: the Companion Animals Bill.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19960528012   (476 words)

  
 Measuring Behavior 2002: Clemins & Johnson
The ability to identify individual animals could even lead to the development of an animal tracking system, whereby animals could be tracked in the wild using microphones, instead of implanted devices.
This project aims to create a framework in which animal vocalization classifiers can be built to perform the tasks of speaker identification and speech recognition.
By using an automated algorithm to understand what animals are trying to say, software or devices could be made to provide a human language transcription of animal vocalizations.
www.noldus.com /events/mb2002/program/abstracts/clemins.html   (458 words)

  
 The Literary Encyclopedia: Welcome
Used to describe a moment when a speaker turns away from the main line of discourse, usually in order to address a real or imagined person and usually with an intense emotion that can no longer be held back.
It comprises a sequence of tales (beast fables) about animals with human characteristics which were intended to be read allegorically.
Verse in iambic pentameter without rhyme scheme, often used in verse drama in the sixteenth century (Marlowe and Shakespeare) and later used for poetry (Milton, Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Browning).
www.literaryencyclopedia.com /glossaryAL.php   (2129 words)

  
 AATS
Speaker(s): Sunil K Bhudia, Delos M Cosgrove, Richard I Naugle, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Buu-khanh Lam, Emily Walton, Roberta C Palumbo, Eugene H Blackstone; Cleveland, OHDiscussant: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr.
Speaker(s): A Marc Gillinov, Patrick M McCarthy, Eugene H Blackstone, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Jon Sirak, Gosta Pettersson, Joseph F Sabik III, Lars G Svensson, Delos M Cosgrove; Cleveland, OHDiscussant: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr.
Speaker(s): Andrea Zuin, Federico Rea, Giuseppe Marulli, Tobia Gobbi, Monica Loy, Paolo Feltracco, Francesco Sartori; Padua, ItalyDiscussant: Eric Vallieres
www.aats.org /2005webcast/tuesday.html   (1824 words)

  
 Educational and conservation information on wild animals at Noah’s Animal Figurines
In addition to working with hundreds of animals at aquatic parks and wildlife attractions, he has trained animals for more than twenty movies and commercials, and worked with such celebrities as Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Rex Harrison, Lloyd Bridges, and Alan Alda.
A site for children to learn about farm and wild animals, animal sounds, a wildlife rehab center, what grows and farm equipment.
Books to help you learn about animals - from Amazon.com.
www.noahsanimalfigurines.com /WildAnimals_Education.html   (472 words)

  
 Niven
The Puppeteers look and act harmless, but in fact are the discoverers of Ringworld and the employers of Wu, Brown, and Speaker.
Nessus is a Puppeteer, a three-legged, two-headed mercantile race descended from a herd species.
Niven does a wonderful job describing his aliens and their behavior, and handles the physics of Ringworld very well.
sbfonline.com /15b16.htm   (274 words)

  
 Basic Health Care for Animals- Bruce Ferguson
The proper nutrients and foods affect the health of our companion animals, just like they affect our own health.
Title: Basic Natural Health Care for Companion Animals
The optimum diet for cats and dogs is discussed, and care for the immune system is emphasized.
www.botanicalmedicine.org /Tapes/04me/04me27.htm   (99 words)

  
 Professional Speaker, Workshop Leader: Animals, Careers, Pets, Nature
This enthusiastic speaker has been in front of crowds for most of her career and appearances can be tailored to your specific needs and environment.
Visit our topic page for available speaker titles.
The Grizzly, Bear Valley Voice, Animal Press, Pet Gazette, The Sun, Fortuna News, Redwood Record, Pet and Horse Exchange, Mountain News, Crestline Courier, Yucaipa News, Times Standard, Mountain Desert Researcher, Big Bear Today, The Alpenhorn, North County Times, New Times, San Francisco Chronicle, On the Mountain Magazine, see the newsroom for recent coverage.
www.arkanimals.com /dlg/speaker.htm   (413 words)

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