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given that the amount of shedding is normal , i don 't think there 's anything you can do to lessen it .
to reduce the amount of fur a cat malts over your furniture and clothes you could try a deshedder brush .
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my experience with danios has that they always have been " bossy " fish .
breed zebra danios are extremely hardy fish , they are almost difficult to kill .
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i have seen cats not like using the litterbox for a variety of reasons .
i think keltari has some good ideas .... a cat can change its " taste " in litter material .
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cats ( and all animals in general ) do not understand the concepts of order or tidiness .
they don 't intend to leave those items around the house or untidy the house .
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it does sound like your cat is upset about something , and trying to communicate it to you .
something is bothering your cat and he does not like it .
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i have noticed most cats don 't lick people a great deal .
cats may or may not lick a person based on all kinds of things .
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how could be you so sure that the fish died a natural death .
in my 200 l fresh water tank , which is an aggressive tank , fish occasionally get harassed to death .
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first , double-check the dog 's body language to make sure that it is truly aggressive .
first , you should realize that this is not you or your dog 's problem .
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the appropriate ph level of the water does vary a bit by fish , but too acidic can definitely kill them .
the info you 've been given in the previous answers is good .
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my guess is that means your cat only marginally likes the food you 're feeding him .
some researchers believe domestic cats never really mentally grow up completely and they always look at you like their mom .
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cover the entrance to the doorway with a old carpet and use a staple guns to secure it .
i started to dig into this because you caught my curiosity itch with the question ...
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try switching to rats ; weanling rats if you need something smaller .
as mentioned in previous answers , rats and gerbils can be offered instead of mice or in a rotation with mice .
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you should take this animal to a vet right away .
as covered in the other answers , your only option is to see a vet in order to have surgery done .
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the main cause of the allergies is proteins in the saliva .
allergies to animals , particularly furry ones , can be across the board rather than species specific .
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there are a few things to help your bun gain a bit of weight .
john cavan has some reasonable and appropriate methods for increasing a rabbits weight in his answer .
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stocking is very subjective to the specific inhabitants as well as the setup and your aquarium experience .
you 'll always want to add fish into a tank slowly .
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the best approach is play with your cat each night in the evening before bedtime .
a trick i did was to grab and hold my cats close if they disturbed me during the night .
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i don 't have direct experience with bettas , but i 've never heard that pairs will work long-term in any male / female combination .
bettas are highly territorial and no matter what sexes you keep together they will fight .
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we always put it crushed up in a bit of butter or on a sardine .
we had a cat that required daily medication , and it was a struggle to give the cat a pill .
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the biggest reason i can think of is that you 're taking away a defence mechanism for the cat .
cats don 't usually like to have their paws held , touched , or anything like that .
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breed zebra danios are extremely hardy fish , they are almost difficult to kill .
supposedly danios need to school which mean you need at least 5-8 danios in your tank .
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clean the urinated zone with vinegar ( i used to do that when my feline daughter was a baby kitten ) .
others have made some good suggestions about how to neutralize the odors in the area .
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aristotle didn 't put the world at the center of the universe per se .
why did aristotle place the earth at the centre of an infinite universe ?
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i don 't think that positivism is a position of mostly leftist philosophers .
i am not convinced that positivism is routinely asociated to a leftist ideology .
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well for one a being could have a non-physical existance and yet not even be in your mind .
the difference is huge , as not all non-physical things exist in minds .
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people who are good at the philosophy of mathematics are mathematicians and not philosophers .
my motivation is that i like to look at things from their roots and go up .
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the difference between " necessary " and " sufficient " is the direction of the logical arrow .
sufficient is an upper bound , necessary is a lower bound .
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i have no idea why it is voted up , but rex kerr 's answer begs the question .
it 's a tautology , but the mapping between logic and the english-language description is wrong .
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it 's true that , under one understanding of " accessibility " and " determining " , your accessibility relation is determined by your axioms .
accessibility is determined by the axioms of the modal logic you 're working within .
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i once met a physicists who held the strong ai position .
although i believe searle is mistaken , i don 't think you have found the problem .
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if a statement is not provable an inconsistency or self-contradiction may or will develop that invalidates the system .
should arrival at this point be the focus for examination of any system ?
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the question is ( from hinduism ) ; do you exist because of pregnancy ?
the least that can be said is that we must be born with the ability and ' knowledge ' to learn .
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i think that for an understanding wittgenstein 's " solution " , you must take in account the original ( historical ) context .
wittgenstein is alluding to how russell himself solved the paradox - the theory of ramified types .
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forget for a moment that you ever learned anything about so-called " complex " or " imaginary " numbers .
as others have already mentioned , numbers are of course abstractions .
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the question of time is an incredibly difficult one , which has been treated of philosophers from aristotle to heidegger .
wikipedia , as much as it is a supposedly self correcting medium , is not necessarily a definitive account of anything .
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not all negative claims can be validly reformulated into positive claims .
i don 't think the burden of proof is on positive or negative versions .
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as i understand it , nothing that can be changed , or broken down into smaller parts is inherently real .
our interactions are merely depends on where we put our perception .
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i can imagine a scenario where a single all powerful god create the universe that we know of .
it is the same idea as what aristotle called the unmoved mover .
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when i needed a travel tripod , i also opted for a trekpod .
an alternative tripod that may serve your needs is the trekpod .
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fast picture viewer has an extensive pack for the low price of $ 9.99 and it appears to cover them all .
fast picture viewer is $ 9.99 and works just fine on 64-bit windows 7 ( i 'm using it myself ) .
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there are many compact cameras with underwater housings available from canon and olympus .
there are waterproof compacts that go to 10 meters , such as some of the olympus tough models .
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apart from aperture and focal length , depth of field also decreases with camera-subject distance .
the wider your aperture , the smaller your focal depth will be .
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when printed on a lens the f-stop is usually expressed as a ratio with a colon ( i.e .
it refers to the maximum f-stop ( which is defined as the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter ) .
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you need to be embedding a color profile in you image , as also using a browser that supports color management .
in my experience , when the final production will be in srgb , use that color profile from start to finish .
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i have a few nikon lenses , and a sigma 10-20mm for super-wide shots .
if your interest is primarily the optics , you need to look at individual lenses , not brands as a whole .
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i have found there is no single best way to increase size .
there are a very wide variety of solutions for resizing and sharpening images for use on the web .
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i 've used paint shop pro and dxo optics pro on windows .
in linux i use bibble , which is has some warts but which is the only serious option afaict .
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a class 6 card in theory should be more than enough bandwidth for hd ( 1080 ) video for the 550d ( 48 mbit ) .
some cards are too slow to accept an hd stream , so you need one that is fast enough .
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here are many samples : pbase.com out of the 16k photos there , i 'm sure some are with a d700 .
it 's a 1 : 1 lens , so that means that the size of the subject will be the same size on the sensor .
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same here , i 've the 50mm f / 1.4 , and as my fastest lens i couldn 't live without it for concerts and low-light photography .
i have the 18-55 , 50 / 1.8 and 50 / 1.4 as well as the 20d - superseded by a 50d .
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i use elinchrom skyports , but if money is not an issue then go for pocketwizards .
or just go with the ultra-cheap yongnuo rf-602 , which give you a lot of bang for the buck .
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the short answer is that yes , you can do this .
speaking from my own experience , i would rather carry different nd filters that combine two polarisers .
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the terminology is usually called " destructive vs non destructive " editing .
lossless / nondestructive edits are reversible and would entail transforming and / or appending the data in a way that could be reversed .
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for what it 's worth , dirt on the lens might not be as detrimental as you would think .
regular dish washing fluid is great for removing grease , as it not only dissolves it but also binds it .
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large-format cameras are very much worth buying used ; they 're often extremely well-cared-for , if not coddled .
if i had to pick , linhof would be my choice .
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anil , there certainly is a difference in results , mainly in image quality .
if you want to learn photography , almost any camera will do to start with .
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freezing motion generally requires one , maybe two things : fast shutter speed , and flash at the right time .
in addition to @ pearsonartphoto 's answer , you can use flash ( either the built-in or better yet , an extarnal ) to freeze the motion .
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federal doma does not test the full faith and credit clause so much as the 9th and 10th amendments to the constitution .
doma as a congressional statute could not violate the full faith and credit clause of the constitution .
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public employees can unionize because the law allows them to .
the legal reasons why public employees can unionize have been elsewhere described .
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the u.s. appears to have a smaller shadow economy for a few reasons in no particular order .
there are three main factors that drive the low shadow economy in the us .
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leaving aside heath care angle , you are working from a flawed premise that waging war doesn 't save lives .
healthcare they would probably reject your implied claim that obama 's healthcare law will save lives .
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the president is not really all that important for german people .
the function of the german president is almost just representative .
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in a " first-past-the-post " system , it is difficult to sustain more than two parties .
while the ' first-past-the-post system favours two parties , it certainly doesn 't guarantee the marginalization of third parties .
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the part of economics that is most like physics is called microeconomics .
side note first : i don 't think that physicists always agree on their theories and predictions .
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let me share my opinion as ukrainian citizen , from kharkiv , eastern ukraine .
i am sure this is more phylosophical and ethical question than it seems .
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most people want not only to be well off , but to become better off as time goes by .
to start , the main drivers of economic growth are resources , technology , and institutions .
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i 'm not yet able to answer if the phenomenon has an official polisci name .
there are 2 problems with the viewpoint you presented in the question , which explain the seeming contradiction .
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no , nothing in the patient protection and affordable care act grants the president transitional authority .
there is always " transitional authority " by virtue of the writing of regulations .
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russian federal law is actually quite specific on this one and not as arbitrary as argued .
the last round of presidential elections in russia was held on march 4th , 2012 and december 4th , 2011 for the duma .
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this question has already been widely discussed and answered on skeptics .
minimum wage laws hurt the least skilled , least productive the most .
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according to shia muslims specially iran state and hezbollah a country called israel does not exist .
as with the definition of palestine , the definition of israel varies depending on whom you ask .
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because there are more effective ways for her majesty to change or veto laws .
they do not veto laws because nobody will ever adopt a law which is contrary to the expressed queen 's will .
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absolute majority always defined by the institution , or the context .
in countries like india , when you have 2 / 3 of the seats of all parliament , you have absolute majority .
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professor burkhauser has done extensive research on who is hurt by higher minimum wages .
minimum wage laws hurt the least skilled , least productive the most .
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the university constituencies are modelled on the university constituencies in use in britain in 1922 when ireland became independent .
this is still a representational form of gov 't , but with a unique twist .
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before you want to start the study of a subject , figure out what you want to achieve .
as eugene suggests , try to figure out what you want to achieve .
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eclipse below are list of eclipse shortcuts which i use almost everyday .
to train yourself to use keyboard shortcuts , unplug your mouse for a few days .
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as others have mentioned , the irobot roomba is an excellent example of a household robot which does meaningful work .
i 've been happy with the irobot roomba for floor cleaning .
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the important thing i try to remember is just to pay attention .
i have been reading on this topic since i have asked this question .
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i think you need to apply a little statistical thinking to this .
one general key to not feeling dejected is to avoid comparing yourself to others .
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a quick research ( 1 , 2 ) showed me that the concentration of caffeine seems to peak about 30-60mins after ingestion .
the issue is that it never becomes useful in its true meaning .
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here 's a technique i 've developed without being aware of it : multiple browsers .
i agree with others that tracking your time is fundamental to the solution .
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i have a standing / sitting desk at work and really like it .
as mentioned by other responders , it turns out that using a standing desk isn 't necessarily a perfect solution .
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even though the question has been answered i would like to add my answer .
i don 't know if i should say this , but if your job is making you anxious .
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your brain is already beginning to wind down as you see the end in sight .
i 'm writing here a few tips that can help you with motivation .
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to stick with the traditional pomodoro technique this is considered an interruption .
there is actually functionality in most browsers already in place to do just this .
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i think 90 days is the absolute most you can plan out in a single time period .
definitely plan a month ahead - it 's totally ok for your plans to change - just amend them as they do .
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the user needs to evaluate for his / herself the cost / benefit of an " obvious " efficiency tool , such as macros .
instead of trying to force specific answers or method 's on them .
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i like the previous answers regarding setting a schedule and fulfilling the rituals of going to a job .
buy a 3 panel screen and use it to separate the work area from the sleeping area .
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i 'd start by reading david allen 's book : getting things done .
i 'm considering spending the $ 48 per month on the gtd ( getting things done ) system advertised by david allen .
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the best way to clear your head after a study session is by taking on a vigorous physical exercise ( min .
what works for me is to switch the subjects and take frequent breaks .
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i disagree with josh bruce on some of his tips .
research does indicate that sleeping after studying is a pretty good rule-of-thumb .
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currently i 've got a fairly close to purely digital gtd setup , although this could do with some refinements and tweaks .
my gtd system is effectively 100 percent electronic--as described in detail here .
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feel the fear ... and do it anyway the book recommends to feel the fear .
13 tips to face your fear and enjoy the ride seems interesting .
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i 've recently bought two sit / stand galant tables from ikea and i 'm quite happy with them .
http : / / www.varidesk.com / there is also the hand-made / diy version for which you could obtain design templates for .
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i would say the best thing for me is to have a proper and consistent sleep schedule .
there 's also freakyalarm for ios , which makes you solve simple logic / math problems before the alarm will turn off .
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some studies suggest open-space environments lower working efficiency with 2-10 % due to interruptions , stress and noise .
there 's an iphone app called groups which might be helpful .
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experience : you must have noticed in you project / office that other colleagues who are more experience understand things quickly .
i think a learning attitude is the founding skill of a self-taught person .
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there is a relatively narrow set of people who are eligible to be wandering in the restricted areas .
the capital severely punishes people who head out to the restricted areas ( e.g .
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i disagree that the moniker “ most extensive ” should be applied to dorothy jones heydt ’ s language .
the most extensive vulcan language was made by fans in the 60 's , especially by linguist dorothy jones heydt .
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