We know from experience that dabbling in areas outside your area of expertise takes your eye off the ball of your core business. |
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Warhol not only painted and lithographed and sketched, he produced and he photographed, dabbling in both music and film. |
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From the looks of your latest post, you are now dabbling in crowdsourcing as well crowdfunding. |
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He added it was very difficult for young people to inform on friends dabbling with drugs and drink. |
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Long necks enable pintails to reach deeper than other dabbling ducks for seeds, roots and tubers of water plants. |
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The Green-winged Teal is North America's smallest dabbling duck, barely bigger than a Bufflehead. |
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Using morphological characters, Livezey generated a phylogeny for dabbling ducks that included most of the Australasian teals. |
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The smallest dabbling duck, the Green-winged Teal is smaller and more compact than other teals and has a round head and narrow bill. |
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This paper examines the function of female resistance behavior in one of the dabbling ducks, the mallard. |
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In doing the Test Your Pet home tests, you're dabbling in the study of animal behaviour. |
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Some architects were dabbling with it from the very beginning, he says, but most were still tied to hand drawings and drafting boards. |
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Chapter 14 also brings a clear and frightening warning against dabbling in spiritism. |
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American Wigeons are commonly found grazing on land, but also spend more time than other dabbling ducks in deep water. |
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Parker displays the monomania that crucially marks off true artistry from mere dabbling. |
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In springs when ambient temperatures are relatively warm, female dabbling ducks nest earlier and lay larger clutches. |
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Spanish gentlemen were also dabbling in the arts for the sake of their health. |
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They will forage on land, but find most of their food by dabbling in shallow, muddy water. |
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You can make yourself more balanced and well-rounded by dabbling in these other areas while your knee heals. |
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For those of you who enjoy dabbling on the slopes and showing off the latest in skiwear, there are several alternatives. |
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Meanwhile, the green-winged teals were dabbling about in the water as well, looking for things to eat. |
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It swims with its head submerged, sometimes up-ended much like a dabbling duck. |
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The migration or feeding behavior of dabbling ducks could at least partially explain the spread of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. |
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The Black-footed Albatross forages while swimming, dabbling like a duck to reach food near the surface of the water. |
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The latter is important because dabbling ducks have a coloured area in the wing called the speculum. |
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They forage while wading, dabbling in shallow water, or while walking on mudflats or the shore. |
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Frank enjoyed a worldwide reputation as the foremost authority on social behavior of dabbling ducks. |
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Some of our earlier studies of assemblages of breeding dabbling ducks indicate that food limitation may affect breeding density and species diversity. |
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He was equally candid about dabbling in hard drugs, but said that his vanity and ambition prevented him from developing a full-blown heroin addiction. |
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When in coastal marshes, they are more omnivorous than most dabbling ducks, with mollusks, crustaceans, and arthropods making up nearly half of their diet. |
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In high school, I started dabbling around with the guitar and some other instruments, alongside my experiments with turntables, pedals, samplers and four-track recorders. |
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Black Ducks are unusual among dabbling ducks in that males and females are almost identical, distinguishable in the breeding season only by the bright yellow bill of the male. |
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The area is also a favourite spot for birdwatchers, who come in fall for its wide diversity of shorebirds and dabbling ducks. |
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Taking a dip in the outdoor pool, I felt as if I were dabbling in a paradisaical tropical lagoon. |
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But a dozen or so countries are suspected of dabbling in biological black arts. |
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His dumpy women bathers at the Hermitage and the Leiden Museum sit under such trees, with Rembrandtian simplicity dabbling their feet in mere runnels of water. |
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And, perhaps because the drug trade is declining in many developed countries, they are increasingly dabbling in other trades too. |
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I am not a lawyer, although dabbling in politics every now and then it has been a frequent accusation that has been levelled my way. |
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They're trying to move a little into services as well, dabbling with investment principles and so on. |
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I believe very strongly that we are dabbling in an area in which we should simply stay away from just on principle. |
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I think he draws an important distinction, for the Centre should not be dabbling in politics. |
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Birds affected include dabbling ducks, loons, grebes, sea ducks, cranes, herons, geese, swans, eagles, hawks, ospreys and vultures. |
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The average number of meals in a year was 7.5, consisting mainly of geese and dabbling ducks. |
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William Lyon Mackenzie King is perhaps best known to the public for his dabbling in spiritualism, a popular activity at the time. |
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Redheads feed by diving in water 1 to 4 m deep and sometimes feed on the surface in muddy shallow areas, as do dabbling ducks. |
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Truly, in talking about these things, we are dabbling in a revolution the likes of which the world has not seen in over two thousand years. |
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The purpose was to determine if the consumption of geese and dabbling ducks harvested from the St. Lawrence poses a health risk. |
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There was considerable dabbling but no concerted and sustained campaign to expand child development. |
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It was far removed from the image of the power behind the throne, the profligate fashionista with a passion for dabbling in horoscopes to schedule presidential events. |
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Although they are considered divers, they often feed by dabbling. |
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Gadwalls forage mainly while swimming, either taking items from the surface or dabbling in shallow water, or diving, which they are more likely to do than most other dabblers. |
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Active and agile, they forage in emergent vegetation along shorelines and in wet, shallow, muddy areas, mainly by dabbling their bills at the water's surface. |
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While dabbling ducks can fly out of the water from a seated position, diving ducks have to run across the surface to build up enough speed to take off. |
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The aim of our study was to quantify nest attendance and timing of female arrival and departure from the nest during the laying cycle for several species of dabbling ducks. |
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He soon began playing drums, before moving on to playing Pink Floyd tunes on the piano, and dabbling in synthesizers. |
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In interviews, a few students admitted to dabbling in drugs on campus, but said they never heard about thuggish dealers. |
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Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals, shovellers, green and blue-winged teals, pintails, black ducks, baldpates and gadwalls. |
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Dichromatism may have been lost repeatedly within the dabbling ducks, and thus it is possible that monochromatism is the derived state in Grey Teal. |
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The hunters know that the ban includes the hunting of geese, dabbling ducks, diving ducks, coots and woodcocks, but not pheasants and black grouses. |
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Every spring, the floodplain serves as a staging area for more than 800,000 birds, including 350,000 geese and dabbling ducks that stop to rest and feed before heading north. |
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While South Korea has recently owned up to what it says was unauthorized dabbling in plutonium extraction and uranium enrichment by a group of scientists, the revelations on uranium metal production were new. |
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Area much used by dabbling and diving ducks for breeding. |
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In fact, Argentina has not defaulted on past loans from the IMF, so that unless the plumbers and carpenters have been dabbling in emerging-market bonds, their money is still unconsumed. |
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Why is the Bloc Québécois dabbling in political opportunism? |
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Chou studied violin and erhu and tried to emulate his second brother by dabbling in the harmonica, mandolin, xiao, and the musical saw. |
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Limicorallus, meanwhile, was initially believed to be a rail or a dabbling duck by some. |
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To be able to submerge more easily, the diving ducks are heavier than dabbling ducks, and therefore have more difficulty taking off to fly. |
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For diversity's sake, it's hoped that artisan farmers dabbling in truffles will remain undeterred by what's still a persnickety business. |
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He will be dabbling in punditry too, and I think he will be a great asset there as he played the game for so long at such a top level. |
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Many firms have been dabbling in property and shares, but with the stockmarket now sliding and talk of the property bubble bursting, some could be sitting on big, undisclosed losses. |
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With their control of seaports and multiple land borders, guard commanders have become rich sanctions-busting traders, dabbling in industries from telecoms to banking. |
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From dabbling in Black Magick to working for the Pope, Evan Morgan, the last Viscount of Tredegar, led a remarkable life. |
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The very camp tone is quite typical of letters of the period from these Cambridge circles, where after all there were no women in those days, and there were a lot of them dabbling around in this kind of thing. |
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Hall plays a female hoax exposer and sceptic, Florence Cathcart, and never once looks remotely like a modern star dabbling in period drama. |
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From my study of dabbling ducks, I have come to believe that formation of hybrids is common during speciation events. |
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Winter habitat for dabbling ducks on southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. |
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During the summer, some dabbling duck species nest and then raise their broods in the marsh, including northern pintails, shovelers, black ducks and mallards, as well as greenwinged teals. |
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In addition to colonial species, one goose, five dabbling duck, three diving duck, two sea duck and three shorebird species that breed in isolated pairs in the study area were surveyed. |
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Dr Olsen tests 10,000 birds a year and typically finds that ten per cent of dabbling ducks and one per cent of geese are infected with low pathogenicity bird flu. |
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