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  Rococo Toad Care (bufo paracnemis): Questions and Answers about Rococ toad care, feeding and lighting
Toads tend to be laid back and since eating is their #1 priority in life, I like for them to make the connection early on that they should associate me with being fed. Mine all know when they see me they will be given food and love!
Fish gravel is harsh and unappealing to a toad and depending on the size of the toad and the size of the gravel, it might be swallowed and not passed.
Toads and skunks have something in common, which is that if threatened, first they will take a stance that they believe is threatening and do a little dance and finally shoot the ammunition.
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  Learn more about Scientific method in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Doctors do this with what is called a double-blind study: two groups of patients are compared, one of which receives the drug and one of which receives a placebo.
Even the doctors or other personnel who interact with the patients don't know which patient is getting the drug under test and which is getting a fake drug (often sugar pills), so their knowledge can't influence the patients either.
Paul Kammerer's experiments on developing traits in amphibians (described in Arthur Koestler's The Midwife Toad) seem to have been deliberate fraud, while the confusion in the 60s and 70s about 'polywater' seems to have the result of micro contamination (and maybe some Cold War political oneupsmanship).
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sc/scientific_method_1.html   (3719 words)

  
 Englemed health news page1, cancer gene, spine, multiple sclerosis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Doctor Rafael Nájera, head of retrovirus research at the Institute of Health Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, is to give a key-note lecture on transplants at the conference in June.
The problem, doctors said, is that often they fail to shed the extra pound (about half a kilogram) during the summer months.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, doctors agreed that the fate of men was not as clear-cut as that of women - for whom menopause is inevitable.
www.englemed.demon.co.uk /search/00mar25.htm   (2431 words)

  
 Chilling plan to make toad hop it - National - www.smh.com.au
With tens of thousands of cane toads now only 40 kilometres south of Darwin, the Northern Territory Government is spending more than $1.4million to try and halt their spread and minimise the damage they are causing to the environment and native wildlife.
A female toad tagged by scientists has moved 21kilometres since February 19 and was caught this week at Humpty Doo, a settlement outside Darwin.
They were introduced into Queensland in 1935 in a disastrous attempt to control sugarcane pests and have been spreading westward in their millions by an average of 30kilometres a year.
www.smh.com.au /news/National/Chilling-plan-to-make-toad-hop-it/2005/03/31/1111862533582.html?from=moreStories   (552 words)

  
 Scientific method
Doctors may do this with a double-blind study: two virtually identical groups of patients are compared, one of which receives the drug and one of which receives a placebo.
Neither the patients nor the doctor know who is getting the real drug, isolating its effects.
Paul Kammerer's experiments on acquired physical traits in amphibians (described in Arthur Koestler's The Midwife Toad) seem to have been deliberately faked, while the confusion in the 60s and 70s about 'polywater' seems to have been the result of microcontamination.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/scientific_method_1   (3542 words)

  
 baynews9.com - News: Toad rage
Poisonous toads have invaded the Bay area, and they are harming a lot of dogs who come in contact with them.
The toads have large glands behind their head that secrete a toxin that dogs and other small wildlife are extremely sensitive to.
Then put the toad in a plastic container and freeze it for at least 24 hours to make sure it dies.
www.baynews9.com /content/36/2005/6/28/103117.html   (576 words)

  
 The Light Of Reason » Blog Archive » BARBARIAN NATION: HEADING DIRECTLY FOR THE BOTTOM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Doctors, nurses and medics caring for the approximately 600 prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are required to provide health information to military and CIA interrogators, according to the report in the respected New England Journal of Medicine.
But those doctors and other medical personnel were part of a command structure that permitted, encouraged, and sometimes orchestrated torture to a degree that it became the norm — with which they were expected to comply — in the immediate prison environment.
But as heirs to shamans and witch doctors, we may be seen by others — and sometimes by ourselves — as possessing special magic in connection with life and death.
coldfury.com /reason?p=729   (1826 words)

  
 Health Information from Natural Solutions Radio -- Spontaneous Remissions
In 1768, G. White discussed in a letter "the wonderful method of curing cancers by means of toads." A woman in Hungerford, England, he said, was treating patients with breast cancer by applying a toad to the lesion until its death.
Since the dead toad was affixed to the breast lesion for several weeks by means of a poultice, it also provided an excellent breeding ground for local infections.
Doctors of the time called this "laudable pus." Today, this practice is ridiculed as a relic of bizarre and outlandish medical customs.
www.naturalsolutionsradio.com /articles/article.html?id=6470&pf=1   (1661 words)

  
 The Grand Ol' Duke of York
Toad was under a type of hypnotic trance and sat comfortably in a large chair, eyes shut as Xavier examined his mind.
Toad was the last to go, being placed in the orphanage on the way back...the one closest to Black Womb.
Toad froze and his miscles stiffened in defense of the unwanted touch.
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 Chairman Mao's Cure for Cancer [Free Republic]
He had no equipment at all." What the doctor did have, though, was a powdery home-brewed concoction he'd learned from his father, made from two types of ground rock and the venom of a local toad.
As young doctors, we would quake to get a patient with the diagnosis, bracing ourselves for what was often a complicated and painful death.
By a process of trial and error, in which he administered the potion's components separately and together, Zhang discovered that the toad venom was responsible for the blood-pressure problems and that the mercury-based rock was damaging patients' kidneys.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3af4cf9956df.htm   (2770 words)

  
 Toad doctors - guideofcasinos.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Toad doctors were practitioners of a specific tradition of medicinal folk magic, operating in Western England until the end of the 19th Century.
Their main concern was healing scrofula, though they were also believed to cure other ailments including those resulting from witchcraft.
They cured the sick by placing the leg of a live toad in a muslin bag and hanging it around the sick person's neck.
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 Toad trap a winner - 02 May 2005 - NZ Herald: World / International News
Australia has a new weapon in the fight against the dreaded cane toad, one of the countryÂ’s most harmful introduced pests.
A competition to find the most effective way of trapping the toads has been won by a mechanic from a town on the front line of their relentless advance.
The Great Cane Toad Trap Competition, and A$16,000 in prize money, was won by Paul Baker, a diesel mechanic from Katherine in the Northern Territory.
www.nzherald.co.nz /index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10123289   (265 words)

  
 Exploding toads have nothing on imploding toadies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They're less moved to take strong legislative action by the fact that Arizona has roughly 195 doctors for every 100,000 people while the national average for 100,000 citizens is 253.
I am unclear what the national average is for clowns who can fit into one of those tiny circus cars, but I'm guessing that if we parked one at the state Capitol, we could squeeze all 90 legislators into it.
Back in Germany, some scientists have theorized that a new addition to their diets may be causing the toads to puff up and burst.
www.azcentral.com /news/columns/articles/0503montini03.html   (586 words)

  
 Mandy Patinkin - 'Chicago Hope': Faltering Drama, Heal Thyself
When they go to court to get their jobs back, the judge angrily instructs their lawyer to tell his clients he's a toad, then corrects himself, "a big toad." Oh, and the nine-hour operation to remove an inoperable brain tumor from a 9-week-old baby is a success.
He wrote the jolting season-ending episode as well as a rather unconventional opening episode for this fall in which a Roman Catholic priest's sex organ is bitten off during a robbery then surgically reattached, and an elderly man dies in the recovery room after liposuction while his surgeon trades stocks on the Internet.
Naturally the doctors also perform a near-miracle in saving a boy on the operating table whose damaged heart is spewing blood.
www.mandypatinkin.net /CH/chnyt.html   (1712 words)

  
 Rural doctors fear for bush services » ABC Darwin » Local News
A meeting of rural doctors has heard the number of viable rural medical practices will continue to drop unless the cost of delivering services can be reduced.
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia held its annual conference in Launceston on the weekend.
Dr Slaney says young doctors are reluctant to take on the extra costs of running a practice in the country.
www.abc.net.au /darwin/news/200411/s1248416.htm   (197 words)

  
 An Ocean Runs Through It
A toad, in the Dixon lexicon, means a keeper of a certain heft, a big fish we should have held and fought.
Toad's escape did not flatten the fish so much as it flattened us for a while, as all screwed-up encounters with big nature do.
It's not a toad, but it's a fish with some fight in him.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/travel/hamptons/features/1946/index2.html   (1621 words)

  
 Exploding toads baffle Germans | The Register
Updated German toad experts are baffled by an acute outbreak of exploding toad syndrome which has totalled hundreds of the amphibians since the beginning of the month.
In Australia, meanwhile, we're certain that toadologists are awaiting with eager anticipation the identification of the cause of the exploding German toad.
The toad begins to inflate itself - its normal defence mechanism - but because there is no separation between lung cavity and abdomen, the poor blighter keeps on expanding until it goes pop.
www.theregister.com /2005/04/28/exploding_german_toads   (509 words)

  
 the crumb trail...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
2- Complain of severe chest pains and abdominal pains and then tell the doctor you have not had a bowel movement in weeks (make sure you look at his reaction when you tell him this, it is priceless).
Secound, when doctors and nurses aren't looking you should try and steal a scalpel or some other instrument (remember that you are fully conscious and when they do in fact "dig in" it will hurt a wee bit).
Wait for the most opportune moment and then grab a nurse or the doctor's hand when they are at the peak of their panic (this will drive everyone nuts).
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 Division of Labour: Trust the Toad
Editorial (pdf file) from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons discusses two GAO reports from 2002 and 2004 that found that 96% of simple Medicare billing questions posed to Medicare customer service reps (CSRs) were answered incorrectly.
The toad jumped right to indicate "yes" or left to indicate "no." Evidently the toad answered the questions "correctly" 50% of the time.
The lesson seems to be that doctors should bill Medicare in a random fashion as the odds that a claim will be repaid seem a bit higher.
divisionoflabour.com /archives/000791.php   (247 words)

  
 TONGUE TWISTERS FOR KIDS, CHILDREN'S ENGLISH TONGUE TWISTERS
If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor's way"
Not the way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored.
www.indianchild.com /tongue_twisters.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Latest Breaking Health News & Information: Applesforhealth.com
The Bufo periglenes, the golden toad of Costa Rica, vanished from its habitat in 1987 in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica.
The fate of the golden toad was tracked by J. Alan Pounds, a biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and Tropical Science Center in Costa Rica.
Pounds points the finger at climate change for the loss of the golden toad -- and perhaps for the other 20 cloud forest species.
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 THE TOAD REPORT
I showed a picture of a blastocyst which is the early stage of an embryo from which stem cells are derived, and asked people to tell me why they thought this mass of about 100 cells is a human being.
Back from his last identity crisis of being a bearded woodsman, Al Gore, along with a group of investors, debuted a new television network Monday called Current TV, and it promises to be as exciting as Al Gore himself.
And by the way, all the smoke, "lightening" and "thunder" reported on top of Mt. Sinai during the writing of the 10 Commandments was due to the fact that Moses, who knew the area well, was sitting on top of an active volcano, not because God was hanging out on top of the mountain.
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 Tongue Twisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was a two-toed tree toad but a three-toed was she.
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground that the three-toed tree toad trod.
From her tree toad bower with her three-toed power the she-toad vetoed him.
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 World Wide Words: Toad-eater
It was common for such men to have an assistant to do the dirty work, often somebody young or half-witted or otherwise under the boss’s thumb.
The quack doctor would use his nostrums to make an apparently miraculous cure on his assistant and so enhance his reputation and his sales.
As a result, toad-eater came to be a nickname for a servile assistant to a showman.
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 New Haven Advocate: All Brogue Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
demonstrates, The Saw Doctors are a throwback to the smart, witty pub band, modernized with pop smarts and killer hooks.
The Saw Doctors celebrate St. Patty's with a good dose of spunk rock at Toad's Place (300 York St., New Haven, 624-TOAD, www.toadsplace.com) on March 11.
Eric Lichter returns after a few years in Cali, where, to judge by this discs lyrics, he spent a lot of time ruminating on the logistics of keeping mellow and getting involved with a series of women who may not have been explicitly cruel to him but with whom things nevertheless didnt quite work out.
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 Claims pay, not homesickness sends doctors home » ABC Darwin » Local News
A spokesman for overseas trained doctors says he believes homesickness is not the main reason imported doctors are not staying in new postings in Australia.
Many overseas trained doctors are filling hard-to-staff vacancies in rural Australia, but in South Australia recently there have been several cases of the doctors staying only one or two weeks.
Australian Doctors Trained Overseas president Andrew Schwartz says while cultural clashes could play a part in such decisions he believes other issues are paramount.
www.abc.net.au /darwin/news/200502/s1301344.htm   (296 words)

  
 Tongue Twisters - By Lee Kong
If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor's way"
Not the way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored.
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 Download Schedule Daily Calls for 30 Doctors v1.1 Shareware software - Softlookup Downloads
You simply specify the doctors' names and the number of doctors that need to be on call each day of the week, and then proceed to assign the first call, second call, and so on until sufficient calls have been assigned each day of the year.
The program can display statistics regarding the number of each type of call that has been assigned to each doctor so that you can quickly find out who is due for a specific call assignment.
Schedule Daily Calls for 30 Doctors enables you to keep track of doctors with special qualifications, and can alert you if you have not scheduled one of these doctors to be on call each day.
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 Game Ideas
Your princess toadstool and is given a small peice of land.You need to put in Toad cops and Toad fire fighters and toad doctors.If your pop.
I think there should be a game where you play Toad and try to beat Bowser.
Also, there should be a RPG game for Yoshi (I am working on one) where you are Green Yoshi and is trying to save your little sisters egg from Bowser, and run into other Yoshi's, a blue, light blue, red, pink, purple, fl, white, yellow, and, of course, Boshi.
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