text: blog postsThom Dunning, director of the National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsOct 15, 2012 12:06 pmGeneralScienceShare on FacebookTweetEmailImagesThe Blue Waters supercomputer facility at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on the University of Illinois campus celebrates Petascale Day on Oct. 15. Petascale refers to computing and data in the quadrillions. In an interview with News Bureau physical sciences editor Liz Ahlberg, NCSA director Thom Dunning talks about computing and data at the supercomputer scale and how the Blue Waters facility is advancing research at the U. of I. What is a supercomputer? A supercomputer is the most powerful computer available at any given time. Today, Japan has the most powerful supercomputer in operation – the Kei computer, which is located in Kobe. Blue Waters is comparable to the Kei computer and is the most powerful computer on a university campus. These two computing giants will enable breakthroughs in many areas of science and engineering. Of course, as computing technology advances, the supercomputers of today become the desktop computers of tomorrow. This is literally true: The desktop computers available today are as powerful as the most powerful supercomputers in the early 1990s. As computing technology advances, computers even more powerful than Blue Waters will be deployed. However, over its five-year lifetime, Blue Waters will enable a wealth of scientific breakthroughs. What does it mean when we say that Blue Waters is a petascale facility? Computer technologists define the speed of a computer by the number of arithmetic operations that it can perform. A typical arithmetic operation is the addition or multiplication of two 14-digit numbers. If a computer can perform 1,000 arithmetic operations in a second, we refer to this as a kiloscale computer. A petascale computer can perform a quadrillion (1015, one thousand million million) operations in a second. This is a fantastic amount of work: It would take nearly a million desktop computers to do the same amount of work. To put it another way, if you could multiply two 14-digit numbers together on your calculator every second, it would take you 32 million years to do the same amount of work that Blue Waters can do each and every second. What kinds of things does a supercomputer do that other computers can't? The mathematical equations that describe the world that we live in are exceedingly difficult to solve. To be able to solve these equations on even the most powerful supercomputers, we must make approximations. As computers become more and more powerful, we are able to make fewer and fewer approximations. This means that our computational models more accurately describe what is observed in the real world. Models that accurately describe the world are important in advancing our knowledge of the world around us, helping industry design and produce better products, and aiding policymakers make decisions. Another advantage of very powerful computers is that we can model more complex systems on the computer. An example of a complex system is a tornado or a hurricane. The formation, strength and path of tornadoes and hurricanes depends on many factors – temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and so on – all of which must be included in the computational model to properly describe the phenomena. What kind of research goes on at NCSA? NCSA's mission is to provide scientists and engineers with the computing resources and technical support that they need to advance their research. The breadth of research being conducted on NCSA's computers is staggering. It ranges from studies of the elementary particles that make up atoms and molecules that form our everyday world to weather and climate to the birth and evolution of our universe. The results of these simulations are critical to understanding observations from the Large Hadron Collider, the design of new materials and the processes of life, preparing for natural disasters, and interpreting what will be seen in the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Computational modeling and simulation have become so pervasive that nearly all areas of science and engineering are being transformed by it. At the University of Illinois, faculty will be using Blue Waters to model the behavior of the polio virus, model the birth of tornadoes, better understand the factors that control climate change, and gain a better understanding of how to use these giant computers. In addition to these Illinois-led projects, other Illinois faculty members are key investigators in other projects that will be using Blue Waters. What happens to all the data from Blue Waters? Blue Waters has one of the largest data storage systems in the world. It can store more than 25 petabytes of data on high-speed disks and more than 300 petabytes of data on slower-speed tapes. A typical desktop computer can store 1 terabyte on its hard disk. This means that Blue Waters can store 25,000 times more data on disk and 300,000 times more data on tape. This presents some unique challenges because scientists have not traditionally been able to generate this much data in a single simulation. Fortunately, Blue Waters has special processors in it, called graphics processing units, which allow scientists to visualize the results of their simulations on the same computer that generated the data – often in real time. Blue Waters is connected to the outside world by very large data pipes. At the beginning, Blue Waters will connect to Chicago and the national networks at more than 100 gigabits per second (Gbps), or 7,000 times faster than a high-speed connection to a home. The connection speed can be upgraded to 400 Gbps as needed by the scientists using Blue Waters. However, even at this speed, much of the data must stay on disks and tapes in the National Petascale Computing Facility – the data sets are much too large to transfer over the national networks even if we transported them to Chicago. stats30,987 Views additional actions


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Nigh University Center Welcome to the Nigh University Center, named after former Oklahoma Governor and UCOs former President George Nigh. The University center, which everyone calls the UC, is grand central station & your one-stop-shop. As a student you can take care of most of your UCO business needs in the UC.
1St Floor Transfer Student Support: This office offers support to students wishing to transfer to Central. Students may stop in for a quick question or make an appointment to visit with a transfer counselor to review their college transcripts. The transfer counselors also work with the local community colleges recruiting transfer students. Transfer students typically make up 50% of UCO's incoming students.
Admissions and Enrollment: This will be your first stop as a student when getting admitted. This is the office you will be turning in your high school transcripts, ACT scores and others things like concurrent enrollment application. This is also where you come to add or drop classes in person, and to get copies of your official transcript. The office houses our freshman recruitment team who travel across Oklahoma visiting high schools, attending college fairs & meeting prospective students. Admission counselors also work in this area reviewing students' applications & admitting those students to Central.
Academic Advisement: All freshmen & transfers are required to meet with an academic advisor before enrolling in classes for the first time. This office is great resource to keep you on track for graduation; especially if you decide to change your major a few times.
Self-Service Computers: Available for you to check your email, class listings, finish enrolling and other things through UCOnnect.
Office of First Year Experience: This office oversees our Enrollment Central summer programs. It's an opportunity for incoming students to come back on campus in the summer to meet with their academic advisor, enroll in classes & wrap up any loose ends before classes begin. Academic placement tests are also offered here. This is where you will receive your student ID which is essential. It will hold your meal plans, allows you to check out books in the library, and gets you into sporting events for free & into the wellness center. FYE provides a great freshman transition class called Success Central; this class provides guidance & assistance for students navigating their first semester of college life.
Bursar's/Cashier's Office: This is where you will pay anything on your account like tuition and other school fees. The office accepts cash, check or PIN debit cards. You can pay online with echeck, credit card, debit card or Broncho spirit card.
International Office & Center for Global Competency: This office assists our international student. We have over 1,500 students from 108 different countries. The Center for Global Competency oversees our Study Abroad Programs. You can spend a semester at a university in another country & earn college credit for your degree.
Financial Aid: This office receives your FAFSA results & applies grants, federal & state aid to your account along with scholarships and loans. They are willing to help you out with any questions you have, no appointment is needed.
Broncho Stamp & Post: Full service postal office. Mail boxes are for Murdaugh, West Hall, and off campus students.
Print Central: Our on-campus "Kinkos". They provide an affordable way to make copies, send faxes, and have documents enlarged or bound.
UCOSA & UCO Student Org. Office: Great way to get involved in student government like the Senate or the House. Central has over 250 student organizations to get involved with as a student!
2nd Floor VSLC (Volunteer and Service Learning Center): Service in the community is core to UCO as a university. This office provides numerous ways to get plugged into the community by volunteering your time. Report your volunteer hours to the office & they will keep a record of those hours for you to add to your resume at graduation. The UCO Central Pantry is housed in the VSLC offices; it opened in November of 2012 as the first pantry of its kind on a collegiate campus in Oklahoma. Its mission is to provide UCO students, faculty and staff with a means of obtaining the food necessary to ensure a healthy diet.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion: Recognizes and celebrates the diverse culture of UCO. They advise seven student organizations which include the Asian American, Black, Hispanic and Native American Student Association as well as the Gospel Choir and WOMEN. Along with these organizations, they host programs such as Multicultural Student Orientation, the Family Mentor Program, Asian Moon Festival, BSA Step Show, Hispanic Heritage Month, Pow-wows, and other events to expand students' cultural horizons and perspectives.
Outakes: Quick-stop to grab a drink and snack on your way to class. Cash, debit and Flex dollars (which are tax free) can be used here.
Legends Restaurant: This is UCO's fine-dining option on campus. Choose from a gourmet-style buffet or a menu serving pasta, burgers, appetizers & sandwiches.
Mid First Bank: Coming Soon…this will be a full service bank offering all banking needs for students & families.
Express Food Court: Renovated in the summer of 2009, contains a variety of places to choose from to eat: Mama Leone's (Italian) Chick-Fil-A, Quiznos, Chef Yan Can Cook (Chinese) & Flatire Burgers. Cash, credit & Flex dollars are accepted here.
Starbucks & Computer Lab: A full service Starbucks so you can get your favorite specialty drink just like any other Starbucks; Flex dollars are also accepted here too. The computer lab is open until 2:00 am with free printing for students.
(Before going outside talk about 3rd & 4th floor of building)
3rd Floor Transportation Parking Services: Where students can pick up parking decal. There is plenty of alternate transportation option to choose from: Bum-A-Bike, Citylink Transit (free Edmond bus service), Car Pooling & Connect By Hertz.
Disability Supports Services: This department does a great job assisting students with physical or learning disabilities.
Career Services: Students can meet with a career counselor, take career assessment tests, get connected to internships as well as job resources.
4th Floor Campus Activities: This office coordinates many campus-wide programs such as New Student Orientation, Stampede Week, Homecoming, concerts & Winter Glow just to name a few. Family members of UCO students can get involved with our Parent & Family programs to participate in Parent Orientation, Sibs weekend & special parent visitation weekends. Central's Violence Prevention Office is also housed on the 4th floor.
Fraternity and Sorority Life: Going Greek is a great way to get involved on campus! UCO offers 4 Pan-Hellenic sororities, 6 IFC fraternities, 8 NPHC sororities and fraternities, and 1 National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations chapter (NALFO). NPHC is the governing body of the historically African American fraternities and sororities.
Counseling Center: Sometimes students face challenges & the Counselor Center is available to offer support & encouragement. Fully licensed counselors offer services that are free & confidential.
OUTSIDE Thatcher Hall: Was built in the 1930's by the WPA as a federally funded work project in the midst of the Great Depression. Named after first President Richard Thatcher, this building consists of Academic Support Center which is where CLEP tests, ASD placement tests & the residual ACT are offered. A tutoring and a writing center is also available as well as UCO's Army & Air force ROTC programs. Many scholarships are available to ROTC students & after graduation when the student begins their military career they will begin as an officer. Many business professors' offices are located here.
Human Environment Sciences: Or HES, holds classes for nutrition, dietetics, family & child development and fashion marketing & industrial safety. Central Station is a small café where nutrition & dietetics students get hands on experience running a restaurant. They make the best smoothies & brownies on campus!
Center for Transformative Learning: New cutting edge facility with digital marker boards, live web boards & interactive classroom style that gives a hands-on experience. Professors integrate the latest teaching trends. New office space for professors, state-of-the art study rooms, a recycle room, and Office of Research and Grants which work to lower student's tuition and add scholarships. Classes are offered in this building from every academic college, not just one academic field.
Liberal Arts Building: Most general education classes- English, foreign languages, history, humanities and also houses Pegasus Theatre.
Business Building: Business majors, accounting, management, marketing, pro-golf management & international business. We have the only business program in the state to have won multiple Professor the Year awards in the past five years. We are the only university in the country accredited by the PGA for our Pro Golf Management program. We offer the only professional selling major (and minor) in the state and one of only a handful in the US.
Communications Building: Vista newspaper, broadcasting, journalism. We have 2 radio stations & a TV station- one of the only programs in the state where students can go live on the air. We now have a mass com master's program! Starting Fall 2012.
Art Building: Our art majors can enjoy classes in: drawing, sculpting, visual arts, interior design, graphic arts, MAC lab and the Melton art gallery has shows year-round. We have a very strong 4-yr graphic art program & interior design program.
Buddy's Dining Hall: (Go Inside)... Lots of a meal options for on-campus and off-campus students. 5.4 million dollars in renovation to Buddy's and Broncho Sports Grill in the summer of 2008. The pickiest eater can always find something to eat here.
HOUSING West Hall: Traditional style residence hall for women with community style bathrooms. A huge community that is very close knit with programs like Strangers in the Night as well as Mr. West Hall. Each housing options has a RA (Resident Advisor) staff to oversee the halls & offer support to the residents.
Murdaugh Hall: Traditional style residence hall for men with community style bathrooms with a very tightly knit community and a lot of fun with programs like The Murdaugh Haunted House. Each housing options has a RA (Resident Advisor) staff to oversee the halls & offer support to the residents.
University Suites: This residence hall has features like a bathroom in each suite, carpet, heat & air unit in each room, as well as Broncho Sports Grill. Programs like University Suites Beach Bash. Floor plans: Double Occupancy– one room with two beds & bathroom. Quad Occupancy– 2 rooms sharing a connecting bathroom with 2 sinks, 2 showers, and 1 toilet & 2 beds in each room. University Commons: Apartment style living but on campus! Fully-furnished; more independent that the other residence halls but not recommended for incoming freshmen. Floor plans: 4 bed 2 bath OR 2 bed 2 bath
Central Plaza: Two queen sized beds, two closets, 1 bath as well as their own cafeteria in the residence hall. This is a renovated hotel, so that's how the rooms are set up!
International House: This is the first and only International house in the state of Oklahoma. The house facilitates global engagement and intercultural proficiencies by bring together Central's students, staff, and community. This house will serve as a venue for the university and outside groups to host programs and events.
Hamilton Field House: Where basketball, volleyball and wrestling competitions are held. There is also a swimming pool available for exercise. This is also where Central's graduation ceremonies are held.
Wantland Stadium: This is where the football games are held and the tailgating beforehand! We play teams like Southeastern, NSU, and Texas A&M-Commerce. Also this is where Wake up in Wantland is held each year.
Wellness Center: Student work out facility. We have a Mercy Health Clinic located here, with doctors and nurses hired through Mercy. They accept a variety of health insurances, services are convenient & affordable. No monthly membership because students work out for free and use the weight room, indoor track & basketball courts.
Max Chambers Library: Welcome to Chambers Library. On 4th floor, the library has journals, newspapers, magazines, and also movies and music. On 3rd floor, you'll find most of our books (almost a million volumes total) and 6 quiet study rooms. The 2nd floor has the Archives, for special and rare materials, and the Government Information department. First floor has the Reference department and Circulation, the New Books reading area, the Library Café, and a computer lab open until 2 a.m. The library has over 100 public computers, as well as laptops that students can check out and use in the library for up to 4 hours. Any time the library is open, you can contact a librarian with your questions, either in person on 1st floor, or by phone, email, chat or text message from the website. During the semester the library has great hours, 7:30 to 2 a.m. Mon-Thurs and until 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Education Building: Houses education & psychology dept. Top education program in the state. One of the very few institutions to have been accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education for over 50 years. ~Show small classroom (Room 111, seats 40) ~Show large class room (biggest class they will be in at UCO except lessons in leadership) (Room 101, seats 86) ~Average class size: 26 students ~Students to professor ratio: 19 to 1 ~Almost every class is taught by a professor, not a grad student and 72% of UCO professors hold their doctorate in their area of study.
UCO Police Department: 18 full fledged police officers (not just security guards) are on duty. They offer programs like the safe walk program and will assist students who lock their keys in their cars or other mishaps. Extremely low crime rate on campus. The blue call boxes on campus for unsafe situations. UCO has the "Central Alert" program where students & parents can receive notification through email or text messages. The Central Alert program is used to notify students of tornado warnings, school closings, or other important information.
Old North: This building represents the beginning of higher education in the state of Oklahoma. Central was founded in 1890 with 25 students, before Oklahoma even became a state. Our first classes started in 1891; our first name was the "Territorial Normal School of Oklahoma." The term "normal" represents a teacher's college and we began instructing students how to become teachers. Over the last few years structural damage to the building has been repaired and Old North has been renovated. The university is currently raising funds to complete the interior work, so that the building may be used again. The new space added on to Old North will hold five state of the art classrooms for all students across campus, faculty and staff offices, and the President's Office. We've had six different names, but are going to stick with the University of Central Oklahoma.
Lillard Administration Building: Administrative offices- The President's office, Dr. Don Betz, is housed here along with some of the vice presidents, human resources, & Leadership Central. UCO was the first college in Oklahoma to offer a minor in Leadership. Great way to make your resume shine when looking for a job after graduation. Evans Hall: Home of the UCO alumni museum & UCO Foundation Office which raise money for campus, great study area. Also has classes for graphic design program-UCO College of Graphic Design has won more awards than any other design college in the nation. Plunkett Park: Open-air concerts, intramural sports.
Music Building: Music majors, orchestra, choir, marching band, private lessons.
Y-Chapel of Song: Built in 1934 by UCO art students. Non-denominational chapel open 24 hrs a day for student use. Used for campus ministry activities. Chapel can also be used for weddings.
Labyrinth: Heartland Plaza is the future site for the permanent labyrinth at UCO. A walking labyrinth provides space for an interactive meditation & inner reflection. A world renowned labyrinth artist will be creating the UCO labyrinth; completion date is expected in May 2013.
Howell Hall: Houses biology, physics & chemistry departments. Mention old vs. new sides of building. The Engineering & Physics Department at UCO offers the only ABET-accredited Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering program in the state of Oklahoma and the surrounding states. (ABET stands for Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, i.e. the industry gold standard for approved engineering programs)
Wantland Hall/Health & PE: Dance, aerobics, PE, intramural sports, kinesiology and we even have classes like inline skating.
Mitchel Hall: Mitchell Hall has been recently renovated. We have a great music theatre, jazz band, gospel choir & dance company. All productions are discounted to students. UCO also has a state of art Jazz Lab located on 5th & Boulevard next to Hideaway pizza.
Math and Computer Science Building: Math and computer science departments are housed in this building. Free math tutoring is available!
Coyner Health Sciences Building: This building houses our strong nursing & funeral services department. We are the only school in Oklahoma to offer a funeral services major. UCO was the first college to offer FS as a BA degree; only 7 programs are offered in the US. Students in the funeral program take classes in chemistry, anatomy, business, marketing & psychology. Nursing program is a 4-yr bachelors of science program. We offer bachelor programs for RNs & LPNs.
Forensic Science Institute: State of the art building & a world-class Institute dedicated to quality forensic science education, training, and research for students and professionals. The chair of the program, Dr. Dwight Adams was a member of the FBI's research team that developed the DNA techniques first used in 1988. The Forensic Science Institute is not only used for students but also used to teach police officers & scientists how to utilize DNA and other techniques in order to solve crime. Our faculty has over 300 combined years of experiences in law enforcement and forensics. Our program is set up as a dual or double major; students will receive a degree in forensics & another degree in the area of their choice. The only program in Oklahoma & one of the top programs nationally.
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It's roots are before 1946, but why did they start this call then? What was going on in the Middle East during WW2? If you know these questions you know the context. If you don't, figure it out. How do you think Iran responded to the Boston bombings?
I am pretty tired of this 'Merica "they hate us because they are Muslims". If you believe this, you are being very shallow in your historical thought.


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Nice. It's a good thing Mrs. Palin didn't pull this one.
Nice. It's a good thing Mrs. Palin didn't pull this one.
Matt McKenzie
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford
"The now online-only Christian Science Monitor reports that Obama was simply replying to a letter from Chirac "who was writing him as the head of his foundation - the Jacques Chirac Foundation for sustainable development and cultural dialogue". Perhaps the hair-trigger settings of the Obama gaffe detectors are leading to a few shots going wide of the mark. "
EDIT: By the way, the blogger mistake seemed to stem from the fact that those misinterpreting the article simply couldn't speak French so they had to make up the parts of the story they couldn't understand. Why doesn't that surprise me. The Christian Science monitor story is at http://features.csmonitor.com/politi...re-goes-crazy/
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The Mullahs in Iran are loving Obama overtures too!!
I'm told, Let's sit down and talk= we surrender in the Arab/Persian world.
Meanwhile why don't we alianate our strongest allies like Britain---
Dipsht Liberal.....= Obama


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doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000
|A great deal of current robotics research studies the modeling of human reaction skills: learning control mappings to represent a person's task-performance strategies. The important related problem of modeling human action skills has received less attention. Action learning is the characterization of the state space or action space explored during typical human performances of a given task. Action models learned from human performances typically represent some form of prototypical performance, and also characterize how the human's performances vary stochastically or due to external influences. They are used for gesture recognition, for realistic computer animations of human motion, for study of an expert performer's motion (e.g., Tiger Woods' golf swing), for generating feed-forward or reference robot control signals, and for evaluating the naturalness of the performances generated in real and simulated systems by reaction-skill models.
This thesis formulates the process of building action models from human performance data as a dimension reduction problem. Characterizing action skills involves determining the lower-dimensional manifolds, within the very high-dimensional space of possible actions, upon which human performances actually tend to lie. This manifold or constraint surface is determined by building two mappings: one from a high-dimensional ``raw-data space'' to a lower-dimensional ``feature space,'' and another from the feature space back to the raw-data space.
A best-fit trajectory is arguably the best one-parameter model for a typical human action. A new method is developed to find such a trajectory by fitting a curve to sampled position and velocity performance data. A new spline smoother is derived which can be used within a specially-adapted version of the principal curves algorithm to find a best-fit curve through phase space.
The methods investigated in this thesis are evaluated by using them to model a human grasping motion, to recognize hand gestures in a letter-signing application, and to analyze data collected in a robot teleoperation experiment. These experiments show the effectiveness of local nonparametric methods over global parametric methods, and also show that using both position and velocity information results in better models of action trajectories than using position information alone.
Associated Center(s) / Consortia:
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center
|Text Reference
|Christopher Lee, "Learning Reduced-Dimension Models of Human Actions," doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000
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The Woodchucks ended up getting a 16-9 victory Thursday at the "Duck Pond."
The Mallards dug a big hole for themselves early. They were down 7-0 going into the bottom of the third after roughing up Mallards starting pitcker Nick Smith.
However, the Mallards scored two in the third and one in the fourth before tying the game 8-8 after scoring five runs in the fifth inning.
But it was all Woodchucks after that. They scored another eight runs in the final four innings. The Woodchucks got 21 hits on the night, while the Mallards got 16.
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It's hard to photograph the Mono Lake basin and convey the size of it.
The smaller things in and around it are pretty easy. You travel there, you walk or hike to them, you photograph them. The Mono Lake basin though is different, its HUGE and flat. Well . . . ok, not perfectly flat. The slope that is going down to the lake is so gradual that you don't notice it for miles. This means that by the time you're high enough to see much, you're too far away to see much. There are very few places that are close AND high that will give a good panoramic view.
The vista point above the Whoa Nelli Mobil gas station at the junction of highways 120 and 395 ( gigapan.org/gigapans/40138/ ) has a pretty good view. It gives a good view of the Lee Vining area and the west side of Mono Lake. However while taking the above linked Gigapan shot I knew I could do better. I had never been to the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve on the south shore of the lake. I could see the Tufa. And nearby were the northern most of the Mono-Inyo craters. These craters where near the lake, and were high enough they should have a quite good view of the lake and basin.
The next year I set aside a day to explore the southern shore and Tufa area of Mono Lake. I had decided to check out a hill near the Northwest Coulee. It looked like it was the closest and highest point in the area. It would have Panum Crater and the Tufa in the foreground with the lake and basin in the background. I parked in some very loose sand on the side of the road and made sure the car was on a down slope. The loose sand was worrisome. I was concerned the car might get stuck and hoped the slope would help should I have any trouble. After a quick packing of my gear I headed up the slope. A fire had recently gone though the area. I wouldn't have had any trouble going through the normally sparse vegetation, but the fire made it even easier than it would have been otherwise. I took my time and enjoyed the view stopping for occasional breaks as the slope steepened. The soil I was walking over was fascinating. It was volcanic ash mixed with pumice and occasional pieces of obsidian. It was very clear that this hillside was the result of a violent volcanic past. I finally made it to the top and wandered looking for the perfect spot, setup the equipment and started the Gigapan. 1 hour 45 minutes and 2527 shots later this Gigapan was finished.
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Crazy, Crouch is not good in the air. Never has been, never will be. He has simply gotten better. He is another type of player trapped in a 6'7 frame.
quote:mean little in soccer, only in very measurable occasions (which aren't many). This is the beauty of the game. Part of the beauty.
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quote:really? really? you're not getting this.
Nearly 50% of his PL goals have come from headers.
quote:that's bullshite, and you know it. or should know it.
If you've scored more goals with your head than your feet, you're good in the air.
quote:I don't know what others have given him credit for. I do know he's not a header machine or threat, but does know what to do when the opportunity is presented. I rest my case.
he's much better in the air than most give him credit for.
If you've scored more goals with your head than your feet, you're good in the air.
If you score that many headed goals, you're at least "good" in the air.
All it takes is 90 minutes watching him play to see that he is poor in the air.
An absolutely absurd statement.
His goal scoring record with his head is an inevitable one.
He's tall so of course he'll score headers but he isn't good in the air!
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I've been writing a bioinformatics program to test some Bayesian naive classification of K-mer/oligonucleotides. I started with some code I was given that was in Perl, wrote some in Python and then moved Java. In that time I learned a lot about optimizing Python and Java with respect to string manipulations.
Today I was working with a program to build k-mer distributions in a format that a SVM (Support Vector Machine) can read and process. This requires building huge strings and putting them all in a file line by line. The files are usually in the area of > 50 MB so they're fairly sizable.
Doing this process was fine as long as I was using k-mers less than 6 (4^6 = 4096), so lines that are no longer than 4096 entries. I noticed a fair slow down when I built a data set with 7-mers but didn't think much of it. When I tried with 8-mers a little while ago, it was painfully slow. Turns out doing the following with really big strings is bad joojoo:
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Obviously I'm not doing exactly that but you get the idea. Basically your string concatenation starts of really fast but as the string gets bigger and bigger, it will get slower and slower. Though I don't claim to know the inner workings of the String class, my best guess is that every time you concat a string to the end of another string, the JVM realloc's (as in the C version) the memory to make room for the added information. I may not be right, but from just thinking about it halfway, thats the best I've got.
To alleviate these situations, this is my solution:
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As you can see above, I'm using a class called StringBuilder. Again, no claim of knowledge, but it probably just acts as a Vector/ArrayList (not sure if its synchronized) and you just append items and the toString just iterates the array and returns a big string.
To most this is probably amateur business but I figure its useful for others to know in case they ever wondered. Even if I am a fairly seasoned programmer, I've got new things to learn and so does everyone else.
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Hopefully you've workedan event in some capacity so you know that it's a lot of effort from long before handlers run to long afterwards. Don't just be a participant in terms of being a handler-help make the event happen!
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I don't know my experience with clubs is no matter your rooster 5-10 people work all the time, are at every event, and do a lot to get others involved. Memberships go up, a lot of events are hosted and still 5-10 people work, same people every event. The same people in setting up in the morning, who never have to "leave early", and end up staying late putting things away. Go on for a few years people eventually get burnt out, but membership still wants lots of training days and events, that majority of membership shows up to, but only 5-10 people work, sometimes pulling teeth to get people out of chairs. Soon 5-10 people get a tad bitter and begin to think that 5-10 people can run the club, exactly as they want with far less headaches and far less work, perhaps even get some training in on their own dogs every once in awhile. They close off the ranks, training days become private matters. It works out OK until a few of those 5-10 people decided to hang it up and then either a new group of 5-10 take over or the club dies.
So what did we start doing? We started assigning different shifts for training days and tests, a morning setup shift and a afternoon cleanup shift. You'd be surprised how happy, non-bitter willing to help out newbies, you can keep those 5-10 people, when there's a second shift (2-3 people) who shows up mid-day Sun, after a long weekend of testing to clean-up and tell the morning shift (6-7 people) to LEAVE everything's taken care of
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There is a big disconnect between hunters and FT/HT people. I understand most HT/FT participants hunt but most hunters arent interested in the games. I am a non participating member of our local HRC. There isn't much there for me as a hunter. The games have taken on their own meaning and require training that isnt necessary for hunting. Look what training a dog has become to some. It is charts and diagrams, and piles, etc..Technical training isnt all that fun for most people. When you see the process from start to finish it makes sense but you throw a hunter in there and explain that you are making a point hot for de-cheating purposes they lose intrerest really quickly.
I do some that of too and enjoy some of it but the competitive nature takes away enough that I dont participate much.
These clubs are for people chasing titles and ribbons not about having fun with the dogs.
I kinda think there are challenges on both ends.
At the high end, with field trials, they've gotten so difficult that the average person isn't really capable of having any chance of success. It takes a combination of the right dog, along with an immense amount of high quality training. As it becomes more of a pro game, that continues to escalate to the point where a do it yourself trainer has a nearly impossible time competing against dogs trained professionally. The very nature of that is going to cause there to be less people running at that level. If I have my dog professionally trained, I don't really need a club to help me. I just show up at events and run my dog. The future of FTs are going to depend on people wanting to go to the next step after hunt testing, or wanting the competitive venue.
I think there's a ton of opportunity for hunt test focused clubs as long as the standard remains something that is attainable for a person and their dog without resorting to professional trainers. The challenge is that so many people have no idea of what a good retriever is really capable of. They get a decently bred dog, and mess around with sit and here and stay and roll over and beg and speak etc, and throw some tennis balls and the dog brings them back - WOW - what a great dog. They take it hunting and the dog's instinct kicks in and it goes and brings back some birds - Hey, I have a cracker jack retriever. They don't see how much more is possible, and some don't care. Heck, compared to hunt test or FT 6 moth old pups, these dogs basic obedience is usually appalling. Take a walk in the neighborhood and tell your dog to sit, and watch how amazed folks are with how well behaved your dog is. People just don't know.
If clubs want to grow memberships and get new people in, they need to focus on providing value to the people starting out. You're not going to get someone from I think I want a lab as a pet and might want to teach him to retrieve all the way to I want to run my dog in a field trial right away. You need to present training days that offer more than a hunt test setup, but instead run more drills that teach some of the concepts. Most of these are good for beginning dogs as well as advanced dogs, or can be adjusted for both. Similarly, new folks with less advanced dogs need to be made to feel comfortable running a setup in a much less demanding way. Instead of a triple with 3 100+ yard marks and a long tricky blind, they can move up and run them as 3 singles and skip the blind, but the majority of new folks don't realize their dog can't do the triple, so they need some mentoring, and need to see older members doing the same thing.
As clubs, we need to get more information out there so people starting out with a retriever pup realize what these dogs are capable of. If your dog sits on command and comes on command, you've surpassed 95% of dogs out there. Folks take their dogs to Petsmart for a training class and think that their dog is as good as it can get when it sits sometimes and comes when you have a treat. When people see these dogs do some of the things they do in tests and trials, they're amazed and interested. Problem is they don't see that. Once you're involved, you can't see how invisible we are to the outside world. You might have to grow and nurture the interest over the lifespans of 2 or 3 dogs since most can't overlap to any large extent.
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I look at retriever clubs two ways, there are retriever Clubs who's sole reason for existing is to host one or two field trials a year, and or hunt test, and there a clubs that are more geared to helping people train their dogs. When I started, the clubs I knew and was involved in did both and some still do. Presently the situation that works best for me is to be involved with a larger club in helping put on field trials and such, partake in the occasional Picnic Trials or other club days, but train on a daily or few times a week basis, with a smaller group of guys and gals who live nearby and have work hours that are compatable with mine. I also belong to a club that just puts on field trials.
I am somewhat mystified at the old pictures of twenty and thirty-somthings that were competitive running field trials in the sixties and seventies, it must have been a very different game back then.
I think more folks would help, if asked...especially if you aren't asking them to commit to the entire weekend.
Club training days. Have a few of these every once in a while, and be flexible enough so that new folks can run something that is appropriate for their dog. Let em know that they aren't an inconvenience (may require splitting the training group up in to two groups).
Stray labs make great pets.
Proud member of the FF society.
Also in those days there were a lot more folks supporting the trials who were not competitors, you rarely see those people today .
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
I can tell you from a guy that runs a large construction company, Flea Mkt, redi-mix concrete company, and a car auction on Monday nights and has two small kids son 3 and daughter 6 Ft's are tough! My daughter is ranked 3 in the mini-hunter division with her Pony and she rides against mostly 10-14 yr old girls (don't have a clue why she would be competitive) and this daddy don't miss many horse shows! I'm going to be stepping away from Ft's except maybe 4-6 trials a year if that. I'm not going to miss my kids growing up. There will be time for Ft's after they leave home and grow up. Having a young family and finding time to train let alone run trials is tough but I have been able to this point to sqeeze it all in but that is coming to a end. I will support my club thru out but my family is going to be my first priority and that is the reason I see it so difficult for young people to be involved in Ft's. I may go to my second Ht next year and just see what they are all about and let the kids run the dogs and see if they want to get involved.
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Campus Violations
Openness v. Secrecy
Secrecy perpetuates hazing. It keeps new members from being aware of what risks they are taking when joining an organization. In the aftermath of a hazing incident, secrecy also shields organizations from the natural consequences of their actions (e.g., harm to the group's reputation). Therefore, it is important that the Cornell community examine cases of hazing openly and explicitly.
Disciplinary Responsibility
Individuals and organizations that are caught hazing may be referred to the Office of the Judicial Administrator. When hazing occurs within an athletic team, the Director of Athletics and Physical Education and team coach intervene. In cases involving fraternities or sororities, hazing violations are addressed within either the self-governing Greek judicial system or by a university review board.
The Sunshine Policy
Cornell's Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Association (Panhel) and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council (MGLC) have adopted a "Sunshine Policy" through which "misconduct that exhibits hazing and/or a threat or disregard for students' mental or physical health and safety" will have their actions made public.
Fraternities, sororities and other groups that self-disclose hazing to officials and eliminate these practices from their new members programs will not be subject to the Sunshine Policy.
This page also lists violations by athletic teams and other student organizations.
The University's Goal
Cornell's goal, when possible, is to educate and promote change within organizations that haze. In most cases, fraternities and sororities that are caught hazing are required to work with university staff to revise their new member process. In some hazing cases, however, it is neither feasible nor appropriate to seek change. In such cases, organization will be closed and lose University recognition.
List of Violations
Campus hazing violations (from Fall 2005 through present) are broken down by semester in the navigation at left. A listing of the organizations involved in recent semesters is also provided below.
Spring 2016
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity (Interfraternity Council)
Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity (Interfraternity Council)
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Fall 2015
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Spring 2015
- Sigma Pi Fraternity (Interfraternity Council)
Spring 2014
- Chi Psi Fraternity: Interfraternity Council chapter
Fall 2013
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Spring 2013
- Phi Kappa Psi Interfraternity Council chapter
- Chi Psi Fraternity Interfraternity Council chapter
- Delta Phi Interfraternity Council chapter
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- Sigma Lambda Upsilon Multicultural Greek Letter Council chapter
- Sigma Nu Interfraternity Council chapter
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- Tau Epsilon Phi Interfraternity Council chapter
Spring 2012
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- Alpha Epsilon Pi Interfraternity Council Chapter
- Sigma Chi Interfraternity Council chapter
- Phi Sigma Kappa Interfraternity Council chapter
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- alpha Kappa Delta Phi Multicultural Greek Letter Council chapter
Spring 2011
- Psi Upsilon Interfraternity Council chapter
- Pi Kappa Phi Interfraternity Coucil chapter
- Alpha Gamma Rho
- Alpha Delta Phi Interfraternity Council chapter
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon Interfraternity Council chapter
Spring 2010
- Pi Kappa Alpha (Interfraternity Council chapter)
- Alpha Delta Phi (Interfraternity Council chapter)
Spring 2009
- Pi Delta Psi Multicultural Greek Letter Council (MGLC) Fraternity
- Kappa Alpha Theta (Panhellenic Council chapter)
- Sigma Nu (Interfraternity Council chapter)
Fall 2008
- Delta Gamma (Panhellenic Council chapter)
Spring 2008
- Kappa Phi Lambda (Multicultural Greek Letter Council chapter)
Fall 2007
- Kappa Kappa Gamma (Panhellenic Council chapter)
- Alpha Kappa Delta Phi (Multicultural Greek Letter Council chapter)
- Varsity Women's Soccer Team
Spring 2007
- Pi Kappa Alpha (Interfraternity Council chapter)
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Canes Basketball ranked #14 in the AP
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I've been waiting impatiently all day.
Good conference win on the road. This team has never looked so poised, especially when things get tight. Shane Larkin is playing out of his mind and Reggie is gonna get healthier as the games go by.
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From the Archive: Dimebag Darrell and Zakk Wylde Discuss the State of Metal and Dissolution of Pantera
Here's an interview with Zakk Wylde and Dimebag Darrell from the March 2003 issue of Guitar World. To see the cover — and all the GW covers from 2003 — check out our 2003 GW covers gallery.
"Okay, Zakk, it's time!"
As the morning sun begins to break over the Texas hills, Dimebag Darrell thrusts the keys to a waiting sports utility vehicle in Zakk Wylde's enormous hand.
All through the night, over countless shots of Blacktooth Grin — the particularly potent and tasty mixture of Crown Royal and Coca Cola that flows like water at Dime's Arlington-area compound — the Pantera guitarist has been psyching up Ozzy Osbourne's right-hand man for this very moment. Zakk once nearly destroyed a large metallic Christmas tree placed on Dime's decked-out lawn, and now that the holidays are here again, Dime just won't be satisfied until Zakk finishes the job.
While Zakk loudly and repeatedly plows the hulking vehicle into the tree, a bespectacled gent in tie and khakis looks on with resigned amusement. A driver for the local limo service, he's been summoned to take Zakk to the airport in time for the first flight of the day back to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Zakk is in no hurry to leave. He's too busy shredding the bottom of the driver's SUV on the tree's twisted metallic corpse.
"My truck sure looked nice today," the driver says, "before I brought it over here." He shrugs. "Of course, this sort of thing happens all the time at Darrell's. It's okay — he always pays for it."
Crazy shit seems to happen whenever Zakk Wylde and Dimebag Darrell get together. Zakk's rough bark bears ample evidence of a New Jersey upbringing, and Dime's drawl is pure Dallas. But these guys are bonded by a mutual respect that's totally impervious to geographical differences — and each is impressively capable of egging the other on to perform incredible feats of derring-do, be they musical or alcoholic.
The two met in the late Eighties, around the time that Zakk signed on for his initial tour of duty with Ozzy, and Pantera were first wowing headbangers across the land with their vicious brand of Texas metal. But their hard-working, hard-rocking, hard-drinking, straight-shooting aesthetic still resonates deeply with metal lovers everywhere: not only was Zakk voted Most Valuable Player in this year's Guitar World Reader's Poll but Zakk and Dime finished in the two top slots of the poll's Best Metal Guitarist category.
Don't expect either of these longhaired wildmen to rest on their laurels, however. Having spent much of 2002 on Ozzy's most high-profile tour to date, Zakk has begun mixing a new album from his own band, Black Label Society; titled The Blessed Hellride, the record should hit the racks sometime in spring 2003. The follow-up to 2002's highly acclaimed 1919 Eternal, The Blessed Hellride, Zakk promises, will be "some serious sick shit."
With the future of Pantera currently in limbo (singer Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have spent 2002 touring with Down, and Anselmo is preparing to return to the studio with Superjoint Ritual), Dime and drummer brother Vinnie Paul have busied themselves with New Found Power, a crushingly heavy project featuring the powerful vocals of former Halford guitarist Pat Lachman.
The brothers have also recorded Rebel Meets Rebel, a country-metal offering, with legendary country-western outlaw David Allan Coe. The album is due out in 2003, as is Riffer Madness, a veritable encyclopedia of Dime bag licks and lessons compiled by Guitar World contributing editor Nick Bowcott. "I just don't want anyone to think that ol' Dimebag Darrell's been sittin' here on his ass," Dime says, chuckling.
In an hour or so, Zakk will stroll down to Dime's garage studio to lay down an incendiary, off-the-cuff solo on one of New Found Power's latest tracks. "I didn't think it would be a problem or nothin'," Dime will say, admiring his pal's spontaneous string-bending display. "He's always so ready to go, man!"
But right now, as Dime's saintly girlfriend Rita pours a round of Zakktooth Grins (a Blacktooth Grin with ginger ale substituted for Coke, as per Zakk's preference), the two friends are convening in Dimebag Manor's memorabilia-packed living room for an animated Guitar World summit on guitar playing, the current state of rock and the future of Pantera. Pull up a chair, grab a cold beverage and try to stay out of the line of fire.
GUITAR WORLD: Guitar World's readers have voted Zakk Wylde Most Valuable Player and Zakk and Dimebag Darrell Best Metal Guitarists for 2002. What do you think that says about our readers?
ZAKK WYLDE: That they love heavy shit and drinkin' booze — that's why they like us!


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Rural Reserves
Image courtesy of Flickr user GeoFX After watching last night's preview screening of Food, Inc, the pressing question from those in attendance was, "How can we affect policy change that will help small farmers?" In response, Steve Cohen, of Portland's Food Policy Council, implored the […]Read More →
Dig Deep, Portland!
Updated 5/15 – Steve Cohen of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability gives credit to the many volunteers involved Updated 5/5 – Portland Mercury reports on the planting ceremony with photos All around town, gardeners' spring sprouts are pushing through the soil and, as first […]Read More →
The Kids are Alright
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The New Narrative
What is this "oneness," you ask? It's community, it's participation, it's equality, it's tradition, and it's environmental awareness. Frankly, it has a lot in common with our mission here at Slow Food. And it's also the guiding principle of the Global Oneness Project, an initiative […]Read More →


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Haven't been to Rhody yet to see if Weekapaug has some of my yearly friends. I'm planning on heading down the following weekend though, as they seem to become regular there a wee bit later than this.
Dave, worried about the Alex leftovers too much to yak the outside. Unless maybe I strip the boat down and do some surfing in it!
Dave -
Thanks you just confirmed a thought for me. Lighthouse regulars have been dragging fish off as I arrive at 5am, but I end up working for a legal among the schoolies thru the 7:30 drive down to the causeway. After the shuttle I see hordes of birds working and cross over to find sand eels popping from the wet and at my feet and birds picking cigar sized bait all around me but the big fish are nowhere to be seen. Seals have begun to roost on the shoals around the corner from the lighthouse in large numbers in mid-July, signalling lot of food nearby.
I was thinking that pre-dawn Atlantis sorties to the beach needed to be on my short list with recent changes, but the long walk around to reach the beach pitted against the thoughts of big flats fish (and lots of them now) c/o Rip Ryder have kept me from doing the walk.
I'll start heading onto Nauset 4x4 pre-dawn more and more as fall approches so I can cover the shoreline from Orleans to Chatham by truck with two Atlantis rods rigged in the rod racks - one with the 12wt floater and a big banger and the other with the 35ft type 7 shooting head and a foot long rip deep eel. Also got some black boilermaker bodies (1" diameter foam) for heads to make those nightstalker tube flies.
Gotta get a 40# from the beach on a fly one of these days...
|If you have a yak and can safely fish 8-10 ft of water - outside on SB - you might want to give that a shot. Hopefully there's no double-overhead surf to contend with. There have been plenty of big fish in the wash too but you have to get on them very early in the AM i.e casting to them by 4:30-5. That game is over by the time you walk down from the RR dropoff IMHO. Fish have seemed to stay in the 10ft range just beyond the breakers through mid-day tho...
Check your PM.
Any news on bonito down around your usual rhody spots?
I'll be watching the weather, but hoping for the best!
Juro, thanks for the advice, pretty much what I was thinking. Just have to dig out my coordinates for the hole! Good idea on the parking pass, i will have to do that for sure.
Nick -
If you hit Brewster stop in at the town hall in the morning and pay $10 for the parking pass. The mid-day low should put you into some excellent sight fishing around the blue hole. If you start at 9:30 (beach passes are sold quite early in the morning) you will be able to paddle out with little or no drag, and if you fish until 3 or so you will be able to paddle back in as well. The yak could be left on the shoals while you walk or led on a leash. If the sun is strong it would be a v-e-r-y good option for the day although the tides are not very strong.
Inside the refuge is not susceptible to swells as you know and would be a very good option. Large albeit picky fish are plentiful if you like the cat and mouse game as I do. A new felt crab has been working well for me, and the deep eel still has moments of glory depending on the fish's moods that day. West Common, north end is good on that tide. SB - easy and reliable.
I am working on the flats Sat and teaching a casting class Sun at 10am up north but plan on squeezing in the evening bite Sat PM and an early bird somewhere 5:00a to about 8:30a if you are around Sun am let me know. Mecca?
The sand eels have made a distinct move toward the beach over the last several days and although I have not given it the time the fish are bound to start moving in to grub the shoreline any day now. They have been in their summer sand eel sipping mode for boat anglers mooching flies off the side but I have the strong feeling the shoreward attention is about to get serious and beach anglers will continue the beach party we had in spring as the bunker get ready to come to town and form that buffet line along the surfline.
If it was calm, bright and I had the whole day I would do the blue hole on a yak with timing set to avoid dragging. Pack a nice lunch and some cold drinks, good day on the flats indeed.
Good luck buddy
Keep an Eye on the Marine Forcasts. Right Now South Facing Waters are Kicking up due to Alex effects. I'd put the more protected CC-Bay Spots top of the list unless things quit down significantly!
Fired up for a trip to the cape....finally!
Looks like I've finally got some time to devote to the cape this weekend. Anyone else gonna be around? Monomoy SB, south side funny fish, Brewster Flats,...can't decide!
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Family: Vespertilionidae, Vespertilionid Bats view all from this family
Description A whitish bat with orange shoulders and large, well-separated pinkish ears. The eyes are relatively large, and the large muzzle is bare. Forearm 48-60mm. Gregarious and locally common in the west, this bat has a distinctive odor, which emanates from glands on the muzzle.
Dimensions 92-135mm, 35-53mm, 13-29g
Warning Bats are susceptible to rabies, a serious viral disease that results in death if untreated. Rabid bats rarely attack humans or other animals, but bats found lying on the ground may be rabid. Never touch or pick up any bat. Stay away from any animal that seems to be acting strangely and report it to animal-control officers. If you are bitten by a possibly rabid animal, you must immediately consult a doctor for a series of injections; there is no cure once symptoms emerge.
Breeding Breeding takes place in the fall, but females store sperm until ovulation occurs in the spring, resulting in births during May-June.
Habitat Canyons & caves, Deserts, Cities, suburbs & towns
Range Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas, California, Northwest, Western Canada
Discussion Unique foraging style allows it to pick up prey, such as scorpions, from the surface of the ground. Uses a variety of arid and semi-arid habitats.


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Firstly you are young and have lots of time ahead of you so try not to worry. Anxiety about not being or getting pregnant can really put the brakes on things in an otherwise normal healthy person. Hopefully I don't come across as too patronising, but please "just relax and enjoy yourself and things will happen".
If you are really concerned then talk this over with your GP as there are some basic hormone profile tests they can run and likewise a sample from your hubby.
But the advice above from Kate is great; take the time to really clean your body out and maybe see a Naturopath for more specific individual nutritional advice. Many ladies I've seen have found acupuncture for both the Mum AND Dad really helps in synchronising the 2 together.
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A Crop With Punch
A Crop With Punch
Horseradish thrives in deep, sandy soil, the kind you find in America's bottomlands, including third-generation farmer Barry McMillin's 1,200 acres near Caseyville, Ill. "German immigrants lived in this area," McMillin says, "so it's a tradition to grow horseradish here." Today,...
Horseradish thrives in deep, sandy soil, the kind you find in America's bottomlands, including third-generation farmer Barry McMillin's 1,200 acres near Caseyville, Ill.
"German immigrants lived in this area," McMillin says, "so it's a tradition to grow horseradish here." Today, he's one of about a dozen larger-scale growers left in North America, because raising and harvesting the pungent roots, which belong to the cabbage family, is so labor-intensive.
"It's backbreaking work," he says of growing the plants on his land, Bluff View Farm. "You almost have to be born into it, because not everybody has the tools or the wherewithal to attack a crop like this. It's not like corn or soybeans, and there's not a lot of technical data or research on 'how-to.'"
For McMillin, planting typically starts in March and April, but wet weather hampered efforts last year and planting wasn't concluded until the first of June. "We like to have them in the ground by May 1, ideally, to have your best yield. Horseradish is similar to corn in that respect. You don't want to plant too late because it starts taking off yield right away," he says.
Planting is done with broken lateral roots and branch roots from selected stock. McMillin plants the roots in 36-inch rows, 18 to 24 inches apart, and hills them up like potatoes.
When he fertilizes, McMillin uses potash, phosphate and some nitrogen. "We're heavier on potash than any other soil amendment. It's a fertilizing program similar to what's used for soybeans."
During the growing season, horseradish foliage can reach 3 feet tall, and it's hard to get off until there's a heavy frost. McMillin hasn't had much luck using the tops as cattle feed. "The tops have a pungent smell, like the roots, so it's probably just not tasty to the cattle."
With so few growers, there's not a lot of buyers for horseradish harvesting equipment, so McMillin and other producers often assemble their own, modifying tools and equipment used for other crops. "We use a converted potato harvester," he says. "But we have to beef up the frame because we dig 16 inches down—much deeper than potato farmers—and have heavier soils."
McMillin says horseradish growers like his father used a bottom plow and harvested the roots with a potato fork to load onto wagons. Today, McMillin uses forklifts and two Massey Ferguson® 4243 tractors.
"We need a 150-HP tractor to pull the two-row potato harvester we modified. Alongside the digger, we have a dump cart that takes 80 to 100 HP. It catches the horseradish from the harvester. We elevate the cart to dump our loads over the side of the truck, so we don't have to drive the truck through the field."
The Massey Ferguson tractors provide the power McMillin needs. "I've had very good luck with Massey Ferguson equipment. I've owned at least four tractors and have leased some. They've been reliable, good tractors."
Adds McMillin about his Massey Ferguson equipment: "I realize how much innovation they put into tractors. A lot of other companies use improvements that Massey came up with. They've always been a leader. It's a good brand."
Read the fully story at http://www.myfarmlife.com/features/horseradish-is-a-crop-with-punch/.


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