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Lori Matassa and Max Domeika are the authors of "Break Away with Intel Atom Processors: A Guide to Architecture Migration"
With each successive generation of processors, the number of developers who want to program in assembly language is diminishing. Further, every generation has required a new round of assemblers, compilers, and a new set of developer expertise. Tools vendors recognized a need to provide developers with software tools to support every processor release with a variety of functionality, a storehouse of optimized code for developers to draw upon. Thus performance libraries targeting several application domains have been developed. In this article, we discuss the basics of performance libraries, and how different areas of computer science benefit.
Performance libraries are constructed by first identifying common functions used in different application areas, then producing optimized routines to perform the required functionality. These optimized routines are built from lower level primitive operations ordered in such a way as to maximize performance on a given hardware platform.
These routines can be classified into domain-specific groupings. For instance, groupings pertinent to discussing Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) are:
- Matrix and vector mathematics
- Signal processing and digital filtering
- Cryptography
- Image compression and decompression
- Video encode and decode
- Image processing and object recognition
- String processing
Matrix and Vector Mathematics
Matrix and vector mathematics are the building blocks for higher level library functionality and are also employed in all manner of scientific and engineering computation. Thus, many performance libraries provide basic linear algebra capabilities offering optimized functions such as those for dot products, matrix multiplication, inverse, and normalization. BLAS is the prototypical matrix and vector mathematics library.
Signal Processing and Digital Filtering
Signal processing is the analysis of, typically, time series data measurements of some physical events. These events can be sound, images, or other sampled representation of a physical occurrence. The types of processing on these signals include filtering, analysis, and transformations. Applications for signal processing include audio content creation and speech recognition.
Digital filters take a series of inputs, manipulate them in some way without destroying all of the original information, and produce a series of outputs. This "some way" generally preserves most characteristics of the original data but removes others. Often it involves noise removal or information extraction. The inputs are often samples from some sensor or medium, such as audio from a microphone or CD player, or samples of a carrier wave from an antenna; however, regardless of the source and meaning, the time at which the samples are filtered is expressed as numerical entries in an array.
Filters are classified based upon a number of different properties:
- Linear versus nonlinear. A linear filter is one that meets the following criteria:
- Adding two inputs then filtering produces the same result as filtering and then adding the two outputs: F(x1 + x2) = F(x1) + F(x2).
- Multiplying the input by a constant then filtering produces the same result as filtering then multiplying the output by a constant: F(ax1) = aF(x1).
- Time-invariant versus time-varying. Time-invariant filters are defined as systems for which shifting the input in time shifts the output by the same amount without otherwise affecting the output. Linearity and time-invariance simplifies both study and implementation of filters. The core Intel IPP filter operations are time-invariant and linear, because linear filters can be expressed as an array, and time-invariant filters are those for which that array doesn't change in the life of the filter. Frequency-based filters are inherently time-invariant.
- Causal versus noncausal. A causal function is one for which the output at time n only refers to inputs from time n or earlier.
- Real time versus batch mode. If the software system is taking input signals and producing outputs for immediate consumption, it might be thought of as a real-time system. By contrast, systems that have the entire signal available at once and filter it are termed batch-mode.
Fourier TransformsThe Fourier transform converts a signal indexed by time into a signal indexed by frequency. The inverse Fourier transform converts this signal back into the original time-based signal. The same information is contained in both the time-based and frequency-based versions of the signal, but the information is arranged differently.
The Fourier transform calculates the set of sinusoids that best represent the original signal. For this reason the sinusoid is called the basis function of the Fourier transform. A related transform, the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), also uses sinusoids, but transforms can and do use square waves, triangle waves, and so on as their basis functions. The use of the sinusoid by the Fourier transform matches a typical physical or electrical oscillation and is therefore appropriate to break down frequency in audio and other physical systems.
The version of this transform that is relevant to software-based filtering is the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The DFT is very similar to the Fourier series, in that it breaks a signal into a series of frequencies.
Appealing characteristics of the Fourier transform with respect to digital filtering include:
- Linearity. The Fourier transform is a linear function. One effect of this function is that the time-domain signal can be interpreted as the sum of several independent frequency components. If each single spike transforms to a sine wave, then several spikes transform to the sum of the corresponding sine waves.
- Reciprocity. The Fourier transform is reversible. It is possible to reconstruct the original signal from the information in the Fourier coefficients. If it weren't possible, the DFT wouldn't be useful for filtering, only for analysis.
Classifying Filters. Filters are often classified as "pass" or "stop," meaning that they either attenuate a frequency range or attenuate all but that range. This is generally modified with "low," "high," or "band," indicating that the range is the low end of the frequency spectrum, the high end, or a contiguous range of frequencies in the middle. For example, a high-pass filter tries to remove all but a specified range of high frequencies, while a band-stop filter tries to eliminate a range of frequencies. A band-stop filter is often referred to as a "notch" filter, particularly when the band in question is narrow.
Time-Domain and Two-Dimensional Filters. Frequency-domain filtering is conceptually simple and intuitive. Time-domain filtering, on the other hand, can be mathematically simple but generally has less-than-intuitive results. Frequency domain filtering typically consists of simple multiplications to enhance or attenuate certain frequencies. In the time domain, that simple element-by-element multiplication with a frequency spectrum becomes a convolution with a signal. The filter that was designed to modify the frequencies becomes an almost random sequence of filter coefficients.
The same mathematical operations that produce filters in one-dimensional signals can be applied to two-dimensional images, generally by a simple expansion of the formula. Image filters can be designed and analyzed using the Fourier transform, and filters can be executed in the frequency domain or using convolution.


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Dr. Shadia Rifai Habbal of the IfA will give a talk entitled "Total Solar Eclipses and the Secrets of the Sun" at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11 at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. This Maui Maikalani Community Lecture is sponsored by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
Total solar eclipses are one of Nature's most wonderous displays. They reveal the presence and ever-changing shape of the solar corona, the Sun's extended atmosphere. Without eclipses, the Sun could have held onto some of its secrets up to the advent of space exploration. In this talk, Dr. Habbal will present some of the key discoveries made during total solar eclipses. She will conclude with highlights of the discoveries made by the IfA group she led to observe the 2006 eclipse from the Sahara in Libya.
Dr. Habbal arrived at the IfA in January 2005. Born in Damascus, Syria, she speaks fluent Arabic and FrenchFirst . She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Damascus, a master's degree in physics from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and her PhD from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. After a year at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, she moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she spent more than two decades. In 2000, Dr. Habbal was appointed to a chaired professorship at the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Her areas of research include the origin and evolution of the solar wind and solar magnetic fields, as well as eclipse observations.
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The newest museum in Washington, D.C., is a $500 million institution dedicated to a single book.
The privately funded Museum of the Bible, set to open Nov. 17, will focus on biblical history, biblical stories and the Bible's impact on the world.
"We only have one mission statement," says Cary Summers, the museum president, "and that is to engage people with the Bible."
Summers and other museum officials insist the institution has no sectarian or evangelical agenda, even though the museum is largely the brainchild of Steve Green, the CEO of Hobby Lobby — the family-owned craft store chain known for supporting conservative Christian causes.
The museum is housed in a former refrigerated warehouse a few blocks from the National Mall. It incorporates 430,000 square feet of interactive and high-tech exhibits, some of them with experiential features that rival those of a theme park.
Visitors can tour the museum with the help of programmable electronic guides. Users can specify which topics or periods interest them and how much time they can spend in the museum, and the device will suggest a particular tour. It will track the users' location, describe what they're seeing, and even urge visitors to speed up if they begin to dawdle.
In the section of the museum focusing on the New Testament, visitors see a re-creation of the village of Nazareth, where the Bible says Jesus was raised, made to appear as it existed in the first century. Dozens of scholars and archaeologists from both the United States and Israel provided expert input on the design of the exhibit.
The dwellings are made of Palestinian limestone, and the olive trees in the gardens match those that flourished in Jesus' time. A soundtrack of chirping birds and braying donkeys runs in the background; the sounds were actually recorded in current-day Nazareth. Museum docents in period dress will explain how the parables found in the Bible drew on the daily life experiences of the people to whom Jesus preached.
"We try to create the contextual setting," Summers says. "We want to say, 'Here's what it looked like; here's how it felt to be there.' "
Though the founders and many staff members of the museum are evangelical Christians, the designers have taken pains not to favor their own interpretation of the Bible or that of any other faith tradition.
"There's not just one Bible, says Seth Pollinger, the museum's director of content. "We lay out 11 traditions or claims."
"We can say, 'the Bible,' but we have realized this is at times offensive to Jewish audiences," Pollinger says. "They say, 'You're speaking from a Christian perspective. You're including the New Testament, but we don't.' So we're working hard to find ways to nuance it. We don't feel a need to steer people to 'The Answer' or 'The Bible.' "
Visitors learn about the development of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Old Testament to Christians, by walking through a richly detailed exhibit that begins with the story of Abraham and ends with the Book of Ruth. That section includes many ancient artifacts and manuscripts, some acquired by the Green family over many years of collecting and some on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Other exhibits have come from the Vatican's collection, along with dozens of other museums around the world. The museum directors have contracted with scholars and experts from a wide variety of fields, and they have funded archaeological research and other investigations in several institutions.
Despite these efforts to show institutional independence, the Museum of the Bible has encountered skepticism from some scholars and other critics. Much of it has focused on the role the Green family has played in the funding and development of the museum. Through Hobby Lobby Inc., its privately owned company, the billionaire family has amassed a private collection of about 40,000 artifacts and manuscripts from biblical lands, and the museum has drawn heavily on the Green collection in its own displays.
Many of the materials acquired by the Greens were purchased privately on the global antiquities market, which routinely includes items that have been looted or forged. Hundreds of thousands of items, for example, have been looted from Iraq in recent years and made their way to the global market. Earlier this year, Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine and forfeit a collection of smuggled Iraqi cuneiform tablets and clay seals that the U.S. government considered forgeries.
"It's the museum's responsibility to ensure that [the authenticity of] what they put on display is adequately represented," says Morag Kersel, an anthropology professor at DePaul University who specializes in the antiquities market. "At least they need to tell the story, so that people who visit can make up their own minds whether the artifacts are real."
The Museum of the Bible is a legally separate entity from the craft store chain, and museum officials insist that their standards for acquiring items are just as strict as any other institution's.
"People confuse the Hobby Lobby collection with ours," says Summers. "We scrutinize every item that we take in, to make sure it meets all the standards."
Critics have also suspected the museum has an implicit evangelical Christian agenda reflective of the Greens' own perspective. The family is known for having convinced the Supreme Court that the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, as applied to Hobby Lobby, violated their right to uphold their religious beliefs.
"I would say the Green family has been more successful at impacting religion in the public square here in America than any other recent group," says Candida Moss, co-author of Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby, a book about the family's efforts to promote conservative Christian causes. "Think of their lawsuit. They tried to put a Bible curriculum in public schools. So I would not underestimate the impact of this museum on people who come to visit it."
Steve Green was unavailable for comment.
"They never tried to impose their point of view, which is an evangelical point of view, on this museum, ever," Summers insists. To allege otherwise, he says, is "blatantly not true."
Summers does acknowledge that the museum's board members, including Steve Green, the chairman, have all been asked to sign a statement of faith regarding the truth of the Bible. "You want a common language," Summers says. "We take it as [a statement of] Judeo-Christian principles. We're going to operate by the Bible. We believe in the Bible."
The museum directors say they have made a determined effort to keep their own religious convictions separate from the design of the museum. "We just talk about the Bible itself," Summers says. "We don't say it's 'inspired' or go down that road. We're just going to present it. We're not putting a spin on it."
The museum clearly does have a viewpoint of its own, most evident in its discussion of the historical importance of the Bible and its impact in the world.
One exhibit focuses on the Bible's influence on America's founders. Display cases include examples of early Colonial writing, highlighting the Scriptural references. A placard next to the cases says the Bible "has had a profound impact on American history, culture, and politics" and "helped inspire the country's ideas about democracy."
A subject that gets scant attention at the museum is the impact of the Bible on the development of Islam. Muslims recognize Abraham and other biblical figures as prophets in their faith tradition, just as Jews and Christians do.
"We have worked on a few connecting points [to Islam] that we recognize as important," Pollinger says, "and I think we'll expand more and more. We will have discussions with Muslim leaders to have more understanding of these points of contact."
On the eve of the museum's opening, its directors are confident that visitors will appreciate an institution devoted exclusively to the story of the best-selling book in the history of the world.
The newest museum in Washington D.C. is dedicated to a single book. The Museum of the Bible opens next week. It's a $500 million project privately funded. It puts interactive exhibits next to artifacts and manuscripts. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the museum rivals a theme park in design.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: The museum founders and designers want visitors to feel the story of the Bible - where it was written, what was going on when it was written.
CARY SUMMERS: This is Nazareth.
GJELTEN: Cary Summers, the museum president, shows us a recreation of the village of Nazareth as it was in the time of Jesus.
SUMMERS: This is where Jesus was raised. You know, he was born in Bethlehem, based the first few years in Egypt. The family comes back. They settle in Nazareth.
GJELTEN: The dwellings are of limestone that actually came from Nazareth. There are gardens with olive trees and birds. The sounds were actually recorded in Nazareth, so you feel like you're right back there alongside Jesus and his disciples.
SUMMERS: I mean, there was animals. And it was donkeys and hammering and - these were rugged guys - I mean, this - wow. And so that's what this really more represents.
GJELTEN: Museum guides dressed in clothing from that time will explain how Jesus conveyed lessons through the use of parables. This experiential approach will be seen throughout the museum. Visitors will learn about the development of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, by walking through an exhibit that begins with Abraham and ends with the Book of Ruth. Summers says the mission is to acquaint visitors with the story of the Bible, not turn them into believers, not even to convince them the Bible is the word of God.
SUMMERS: We don't use the word that it's inspired. We don't go down that road. We're just trying to present it, just talking about the Bible itself.
GJELTEN: The museum does have a point of view, as seen in its description of the Bible's impact here in the United States.
SUMMERS: How did the Bible influence the founding of America and the functioning of America? Let's go in. We'll take a look.
GJELTEN: Glass cases here hold a variety of early colonial writings with Scripture references and the historic Bibles that inspired them.
SUMMERS: So we start with some of the earliest, you know, items - the 1614 King James, the Geneva Bible, which was really the base of most translations in America.
GJELTEN: The Museum of the Bible was largely funded by a billionaire Christian family, the Greens, founders and private owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-crafts stores. This is the family that went to the Supreme Court to challenge on religious grounds the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
CANDIDA MOSS: I would say that the Green family has been more successful at impacting religion in the public square here in America than really any other recent group.
GJELTEN: Candida Moss is the author of a new book, "Bible Nation: The United States Of Hobby Lobby." She worries the Green family connection means the museum has an evangelical agenda.
MOSS: They did try to put a Bible curriculum in public schools, and so I wouldn't want to underestimate the impact of this museum on people who come to visit it.
GJELTEN: In truth, the museum directors make no secret of their Christian convictions. Cary Summers acknowledges that board members have been asked to sign a statement of faith.
SUMMERS: I mean, it's just a commonality there. We're going to operate by the Bible. We believe in the Bible.
GJELTEN: But the museum says it's committed to a nonsectarian approach. Seth Pollinger, the museum's content director, says the Bible means different things in different faith traditions.
SETH POLLINGER: We have already realized this is at times offensive to Jewish audiences that say, well, when you say the Bible speaking from a Christian perspective, you're including the New Testament. But we don't include it. And so we - you know, I think we're working hard to try to find ways to nuance it. We don't feel like we need to steer people to the answer, the Bible.
GJELTEN: The museum has nonetheless provoked a buzz. Archaeologists have questioned the authenticity of some of the artifacts that came from Green family collections. In response, the museum has instituted measures to ensure all their items are legitimate. And the museum is getting praise for its efforts to educate people about what is still the best-selling book in the history of the world. Tom Gjelten, NPR News.
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In sentences with nicely clutched transmissions, a long limousine runs, one night in 1935, onto a New York pier, where it smoothly transfers its human cargo to a short tugboat. A boy of fifteen, leaping by impulse onto the boat, is about to undergo the crucial event of his life. He will watch a man die in the muted ritual of one of Dutch Schultz's "necessary business murders." The gangster is going to kill one of his own hired killers, Bo Weinberg. Billy, the boy looking down from the boat's rail, sees "a lighted pucker of green angry water." Schultz, entering the cabin below him, has turned on its light. Going inside himself, he watches preparations for the murder by "the almost-green shards of one work light." It is more frightening to be thrown about on a vibrating boat than to lie in the sand at night, like Nick Carraway, thinking of the green light that beckoned Gatsby over the water. Nick, already an adult, meets a Gatsby who has covered up his criminal past. Billy, a streetwise boy but still a boy, meets Dutch Schultz at the height of his lawlessness. Yet Billy is in some ways less dazzled than Nick by the glamour of the man beyond rules.
In the dingy Bronx neighborhood where Billy lives, there is not much for a teenager to do but shoplift with impunity, since the neighborhood has "a precinct house of cops whose honor it was never if they could help it to breathe the air out-of-doors." What tames the cops is the presence in Billy's neighborhood of one of Schultz's beer warehouses. Though Prohibition has been repealed, Schultz conducts his beer business as a matter of compelled purchases, contriving to make even lawful activity unlawful. Schultz does not just break this or that specific law; he exists in a realm whose contours are not related to any other government's. Billy, like the other boys on his street, dreams of entering that magic realm—and his charmed life lets him in.
Billy is a natural athlete, though not a team player. A runner and acrobat, a sleight-of-hand artist, he has worked longest on one specialty—juggling two rubber balls, an orange, an egg, and a stone. The different weights and shapes of the objects make for constantly varying hefts of muscle, conformity of fingers. The trick is not only to juggle them smoothly enough to suggest that they are all the same, but to cover up the fact that this is difficult. Thus the better he gets at it, the less can any audience but himself appreciate Billy's performance. Schultz, in one of his rare visits to the beer drop, happens to see Billy doing this trick. Billy, suspended in the enjoyment of his own achievement, observes Schultz and chooses the moment when, before Schultz turns away, he should feign observing him and pay tribute by sailing each of the objects off into the air behind him. He is now the ball thrown…
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Gothenburg, Sweden, 11 March 2014: SKF has developed many new solutions for the brand new Scuderia Ferrari F14 T which was officially launched on January 25th.
An important job has been done by SKF for the Ferrari power unit which will be racing from next F1 season onwards. This V6 engine, which features a hybridization level never achieved before, provides fuel savings of up to 30% for extended endurance through powerful energy recovery system.
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In 2014, in fact,, with the new regulations, we will be changing both the loading and conditions of use, therefore the collaboration with SKF engineers will be even more important", says Simone Resta, Deputy Chief Designer, Scuderia Ferrari.
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|Possible terrorist attacks foiled in Karachi, Peshawar
|[Dawn] Bomb disposal squads (BDS) defused two bombs in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and one in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Thursday, foiling possible terrorist attack in these cities, DawnNews reported.
BDS personnel defused a remote-controlled bomb planted near an Imambargah in the Qasba Colony area of Peerabad,
The bomb, which was planted in a block, was placed near an Imambargahin a police check post. BDS was called when police identified the the bomb.
"The bomb contained 4kg of explosives and had a cellphone placed inside it," the BDS officials said.
After yesterday's kabooms in the city, the security around all the Imambargahs have been beefed up and the BDS are searching the possible bombs around the worship places.
Earlier in Peshawar, two bombs were found planted near Gulbahar-Nishtarabad flyover in city's Gulbahar area. The bombs were planted to target police personnel, according to security sources.
The BDS immediately reached the spot. The BDS officials said that one of the bombs was defused whereas the other bomb exploded using a robot, adding that both the bombs weighed three kilograms each.
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Her first in the series "Family Notebooking Page" has an adorable family tree that your kids can fill in.
The second post "Cemetery Scavenger Hunt" has a wonderful scavenger hunt that can occupy their attention whether they've started reading yet or not! I can't wait to have my boys use these while we are traipsing around cemeteries in Pennsylvania over the next few weeks.
The third "My Ancestor Notebooking Page" which has spaces for the little ones to fill in dates the ancestor lived, where they lived, historical events they lived through and more. Really puts your ancestor's live into historical perspective for the kids and is sure to get them asking questions!
And the last is "Jobs of My Ancestors" which has boxes for the kids to draw a pictures of various jobs their ancestors had and label them. I know I'll have to dig deep for this one in educating my kids...Soldier, teacher, farmer, coal miner...that pretty much sums up the majority of our ancestors! I'd like to see them draw genealogist though! :)
I can't wait to see what Jenn's going to come up with next!


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Simple Asparagus.
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It's asparagus time. And my veggie box brought me a big bunch of this lovely spring vegetable. Let's have a look at what I did with it. (Deutsche Version.) More
Bunny Recycling.
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I don't really like to eat pure chocolate. But every easter and every christmas, there is a bunch of bunnies or Santas lying around. So, I love to bake this yummy and extremely moist chocolate cake.
It's really chocolatey, not too sweet and simply good. Let's kill some chocolate bunnies! (Deutsche Version.) More
Easter Lamb.
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Happy Easter everyone! If you are still looking for something great to bake, I've got something for you: Have a look at my Easter Lamb.
It's a black lamb with great poppy seed filling. You could also use white filling. Or no filling. It looks great any way. And it's so easy to make! (Deutsche Version.)
Veggie Burger.
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I'm totally into posting my lunch recently. Next post will be sweet again, I promise. But look at this. It's a yummy Veggie Burger.
The veggie patty is made from unripe spelt grain and the burger contains lots of veggies. It's really good! (Deutsche Version.) More
Chard 'n' Apple.
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Dear readers, I just ate lunch THAT great that I have to immediately share it with you. Chard 'n' Apple Pizza.
It's a very, very thin and crispy pizza with a unbelievably tasty topping. Let's bake! (Deutsche Version.) More
Melting. Dessert.
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Still looking for a great dessert, maybe for Valentine's Day? So let's make yummy Melting Chocolate Mini-Cakes.
They are soft and melting inside. This dessert is chocolatey, it's yummy and it's best with spicy orange sauce and vanilla ice cream. (Deutsche Version.) More


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After yesterday's entertaining day in the FA Cup where we saw the first non-league team in 24 years to defeat a top flight English football side (Luton beating Norwich) as well as an entertaining match between Brighton and Arsenal, we have three FA Cup matches today televised for viewers in the US.
Kicking us off bright and early is the west London derby between Brentford and Chelsea (7am ET) followed by what I consider the biggest match of the weekend — Leeds vs Tottenham (9am ET). Last but not least we have Premier League veteran Paul Dickov managing Oldham as they face Liverpool at 11am ET.
Before, during and after today's matches, post your rants, raves, questions and observations in the comments section below.
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Egg-cellent News
So, were we all caught out? I was. Our first egg appeared this morning at 5am precisely, surprising most of us by being a day or two earlier than expected. How do we know the precise time? Well, just watch the video and see for yourself!
Perhaps it's because our falcon is now quite an experienced old bird, but the time it took her to lay this egg seemed much shorter than on past occasions. Just an hour and a half after laying her precious egg, the male flew in to let her fly off for a few minutes. This was his first close contact with the egg, and he immediately lay on it to keep off the morning chill.
But when the falcon returned it was clear that he did not want to relinquish his prize position. She, so much larger than him, stood on the edge of the platform, trying to oust him with gentle chirrupping calls. Be he stood his ground, head bowed over the egg, and after a minute or two she gave up and flew off, as we can see in the video below.
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The 2nd video is very interesting – is it that the male is still in mating mode rather than reluctant to get off the egg? Seems the silent bowing when in eye contact matches other behaviour over the last week or so.
- 24 March 2010 at 20:49
- Simon Taylor said...
superb footage. Most poignant having the bells ringing in the background. Very enjoyable
- 24 March 2010 at 21:05
- Phoebe said...
Again, superb footage! It is indeed eggs-cellent!
- 24 March 2010 at 21:50
Listen carefully and on the 5am video you can hear a blackbird singing its dawn chorus song before and after the bells!
Nick B (DWT)
- 24 March 2010 at 22:53
- Karen Anne said...
I love the look in his eye :-)
Uh, do the bells ring every hour all night? :-)
- 24 March 2010 at 23:42
Oh to be in England, now that Spring is here.... Great catch!
- 25 March 2010 at 02:22
- Matron said...
Amazing video! it looks as if the church bells frightened the egg out of her!
- 25 March 2010 at 07:30
What a truly wonderful sight again, well done to everyone
- 25 March 2010 at 09:10
The falcon is in an interesting pose. Is she regulating the temperature of the first egg or could she be about to lay the second egg...
- 25 March 2010 at 10:21
Ah my screen had frozen I think she is just keeping the egg to temperature.
- 25 March 2010 at 10:23
- Phoebe said...
A nice close-up of the egg. The colour looks patchy is that normal or could it be the light?
- 25 March 2010 at 11:27
- Peregrine Project Member (Nick M.) said...
Answers to various questions:
You'll see the falcon adopt a hunched, wings spread apart-pose whilst sitting on eggs. You may also see here standing oddly as she tries to part her breast feathers to expose the eggs to greater warmth.
I'd guess that we may well have a second egg later today.
Right now we just see the egg(s) being prevented from getting too cold. The warmer it is, the longer the egg(s) can be left.
Peregrine eggs are indeed a bit patchy in colour. Here a some old ones from Derby Museums' collections: http://bit.ly/cPLeFc
If your webcam picture does freeze, it may be worth hitting F5 on a Windows PC to refresh the screen image.
- 25 March 2010 at 12:00
- Phoebe said...
Thank you for that link it is very interesting. I will take a visit to the museum to see the wonderful displays you have there :)
I too think the nest egg will be there before daybreak tomorrow.
- 25 March 2010 at 14:53
- Unknown said...
Matron beat me to it! No wonder the falcon laid an egg with those bells ringing forth. .. The female osprey is back at Loch of Lowes if you're interested
- 25 March 2010 at 15:17
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember another year where she either hatched an egg or laid one when the bells were ringing.
- 25 March 2010 at 16:13
Yes, Pax Canada, I think it was two years ago, it was the last egg to hatch, and he became the famous "Tiddler", because he was so small. Cheryl Taylor Derby
- 25 March 2010 at 17:51
Programme on predators on BBC1 TV tonight (Thursday) 9pm includes something on peregrines. Also I gather that in The Archers on the Radio 4, (a soap for those of you who don't live in the UK) a peregrine has taken up residence on the church spire....wonder where that story will go! I don't listen to that programme so won't discover!
nick B (DWT)
- 25 March 2010 at 18:10
Didn't we have a Tiddler last year, too?
Peregrine in nestbox rhs, with prey. Egg has been unattended for quite a while.
- 25 March 2010 at 18:10
- Karen Anne said...
Not sure what's going on in the rhs, maybe dinner?
- 25 March 2010 at 18:13
Do peregrines ever actually go to sleep with eyes closed? always looks as though they are wide awake?
- 25 March 2010 at 19:35
There's a small piece of prey in the rhs of the nestbox, possibly the remains of what one of them was eating earlier. One peregrine is sitting on the egg; I wonder if we'll have another "delivery" overnight?
- 25 March 2010 at 21:36
- Phoebe said...
@ Nick Brown, thanks for the info on the predator programme tonight. I it was very interesting. I learned a lot about peregrines that I didn't know especially about their nostrils; that was amazing! I noticed the first peregrine shown going into a stoop and missing the prey was a youngster. I would not have known that without watching this web cam.
@ AnnieF, I am hoping the second egg will be laid before daybreak tomorrow.
- 25 March 2010 at 22:14
@ Phoebe: Me too, but I doubt very much that I'll be up to witness the event!
- 25 March 2010 at 23:01
I've been away for a while - so lots of excitement to come back to!! Last time I looked in the two remaining wild babies from last year were still hanging around. Are they still visiting, or have they moved on now their parents are on to the next brood?
- 26 March 2010 at 00:38
- KerrySuffolk said...
Both birds on nest platform. ?falcon feeding off prey item on rhs. No 2nd egg yet!
- 26 March 2010 at 05:10
- Karen Anne said...
Mom or Dad on egg.
- 26 March 2010 at 09:56
I feel sure she's about to lay the 2nd. egg, as she's been on the nest for ages, shifting her position etc. The tiercel has just arrived on the tower.
- 26 March 2010 at 13:37
The nictating membrane is showing quite a bit - is it a case of "close your eyes and PUSH"? !
- 26 March 2010 at 13:47
2nd Egg Arrived
- 26 March 2010 at 14:16
Two eggs !!!!
- 26 March 2010 at 14:17
Hi everyone. It's wonderful to see it all happening again this year right on cue. I was really pleased to see the first egg on Wednesday and now we have a second one, which is great. I'll be taking an avid interest over the next few weeks/months. Thank the Lord that spring has finally arrived, it's been a long hard winter, glad to see our peregrines have got through it unscathed!
- 26 March 2010 at 14:19