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From GTK to Qt4 with QGears2, which uses various rendering back-ends.
Once again Ubuntu performs quite poorly, especially in the text based tests although it does come out on top in the "Gears" test. In this round, -O2 is the winner, although it is fairly even with -O3. Finally, -Os struggles on various tests.
Finally for graphics is Lightsmark and Nero2D.
Lightsmark, which tests real-time global illumination and penumbra shadows with OpenGL, is fairly even across the board. With Ner02D, Gentoo -O3 comes out on top with Ubuntu in last place.
In the systems area, testing is quite varied including serving up web pages with Apache and files with Dbench, encrypting files with Bork and compressing them with 7-Zip, OpenSSL performance and from SQLite database insertions to solving maths with GMPBench.
When it came to DBench, -O2 was the clear winner, while the rest of the results show little difference between the three.
Finally, the tests are concluded with x11perf and Render Bench.
These results are fairly close right across the board, but the overall winner by a slim margin was -O2.
These tests show that when it comes to optimizing with GCC, there is not a huge amount of difference between them. If there had to be a winner, it would probably be -O2. It was often on par with -O3 while sometimes leading and sometimes trailing by a small margin. The fact that -O2 will also result in lower memory usage probably helps to tip the scales in its favour.
Generally speaking, the -Os level did worse than the others, which were much more evenly matched. It is still the choice for low end systems as it uses less memory and still performs quite well. It did however, even manage to take out several tests in its own right.
Although we are not comparing apples to apples, Gentoo did out-perform Ubuntu in almost every test, and sometimes by a fair margin. It does appear that optimizing for a specific CPU can yield a decent performance increase.
Of course, Gentoo offers benefits in other areas with their USE flags and being able to build a highly customized system. The question is whether the amount of time it takes is worth the benefit, and that's a personal choice.
Gentoo seems (incorrectly) synonymous with this idea that you can fiddle with your gcc flags and make things faster. This may or may not be the case, after all it\'s a piece of cake for Ubuntu to take the output of this test and then make sure that next time all packages are rebuilt with O2/Os, etc as appropriate for best performance
In fact the magic of gentoo is it\'s great dependency system, massive software library and very flexible configuration system. The downside of that is complexity in use and sometimes slower speed of installation – definitely gentoo is NOT for everyone.
However, like all tools they have their place. Some people like a potato peeler and others prefer a knife. Knives are very flexible, but also can cause you much grief and require a greater skill to learn to use. Which is the \"best\" tool is really a function of the desired task and needs of the operator
We use Gentoo to manage all our servers (many of them virtualised). This gives us the following advantages:
- No need to ever re-install because a new version is released. Instead we have a continuous rolling upgrade which keeps the servers always up to date with the latest software (risk of breakage while upgrading is largely mitigated by virtualisation which makes it easy to test an upgrade first and software versions can be pegged if you want to prevent an upgrade)
- We set gentoo to create binary packages as it compiles – this means that the first server can be somewhat slow to upgrade, but thereafter the other servers (which are set to identical compile settings) all pull the binary packages
- Gentoo has very flexible options to avoid pulling in a wadge of dependencies. This means you can easily create small virtual servers without a ton of bloat. For example we ask all packages which have bash-completion options to install their scripts for our ease while using the command line, but conversely largely we ask packages on our virtual servers not to install their bulky documentation, python/perl/ruby/snmp, etc dependencies – this keeps the package sizes small
- Near end to dependency hell!! No more thrashing around trying to solve a dependency nightmare! I am literally in the middle of upgrading 20 servers from GCC 3.4 to gcc 4.3, at the same time – no breakage whatsoever. Try upgrading major versions of readline/gcc/libhistory/mysql, etc on any RPM/Deb distro and you are in for a big headache (or more likely it\'s a major OS update), but on gentoo you can just pick a package version, then a script (revdep-rebuild) will rebuild any affected packages and correct the dependencies for you.. Cool!
So in conclusion it\'s entirely possible that our servers run a touch faster because we use gentoo, but I personally would still use it if they ran only 3/4 the speed of some other distro… Never having to re-install a server and the huge flexibility when installing packages (and having all appropriate dependencies resolved and built correctly) is the main win for me
However, please don\'t rush out and assume it works for you – I think gentoo is a complex tool and will likely only suit the more technically minded users. For everyone else I suspect that Arch/Sabayon, etc are probably more appropriate…
(This doesn\'t make it a bad distro – it\'s just that Ubunutu solves the needs of most users and therefore only those who need *more* flexibility in package management than Ubunutu brings are likely to want to investigate further)
I would like to see a similar comparison to Slackware and Arch. Other major distributions (RedHat,SuSE,Debian) would also be interesting, but the first ones are (supposed to be?) faster because they are \"simpler\"
I have to agree with ewildgoose. I have been using Gentoo for production servers for several years now, and I much prefer the maintenance routines on Gentoo over RedHat and Debian.
In my current position our servers are hosted by an outside company and they won\'t do any hands-on for any system that isn\'t Debian so I am forced to work with that. Unfortunately, that means that sometimes security updates require a complete system rebuild to a new version. This does not amuse me.
My personal server has been running Gentoo since 2006 with reboots only for new kernels, power outages and physical moves. And even with new kernels those outages are very short. Rebuilding the Debian machines on the other hand …
evardsson – we don\'t require hands-on support for our servers and we use a hosting service which gives us serial port access to our machine. This means we can see everything from the end of the bios boot onwards, including accessing grub. Additionally our host provides a \"rescue boot\", but this can be simulated by a boot CD left in a drive. This together allows us to do remotely format the machine, install gentoo and manage everything including failed kernel upgrades, bootloader issues, etc
pattakosn – you are like many people debating whether 10% speed difference between two distros is relevant – for most purposes it\'s not. The key features for most users is how well the distro works for you and fits your needs. So evaluate Arch/Gentoo/Slackware/Ubuntu in terms of \"how much work you can get done over the next week\", and then performance, ease of management, etc all effectively get boiled down to a much more objective benchmark – for me and my servers Gentoo lets me get stuff done and not spend time managing packages – for a desktop machine I may have different priorities though…
Slackware and Arch are kind of gentoo\'esque, but have headed in different directions. Arch (which I don\'t know that well) is a mostly binary packaging system, but the source to generate the packages is more available than it is if say you decided you wanted to recompile Redhat from the RPMS (source) – also the default compile architecture is a bit more aggressive (i686 I think?). Slackware is kind of even less user friendly than gentoo, and where gentoo effectively is a bunch of scripts which pull down all your source and compile it and basically do all the hardwork for you, slack is really a very nice manual on how to do all this yourself.
Personally slack doesn\'t work for me because there doesn\'t appear to be a strong package manager which watches files and can remove them or manage them for you (with gentoo, rpm/deb you can ask the package manager who installed any file, files are cleaned up when the package is uninstalled and config files are treated differently to binaries).
Arch could probably suit me nicely, but I don\'t have much experience with it…
I stumbled on a forum post pointing out that gentoo does not use the make.conf optimizations when building the kernel.
The biggest reasons I run Gentoo besides my use of older hardware are:
1. I can build the system from the ground up on whatever convoluted file-system I can create with the live CD (Raid, EVMS, Luks,…). Many of the other distro\'s require you install a working system first, then, rearrange things to your liking.
2. Like ewildgoose said above, Gentoo\'s portage provides a rolling upgrade to the latest system. You can upgrade as time allows. But be prepared for blocked and circular dependencies if you allow too much time between updates. Definitely test updates on non-production machines first.
3. You can still install binaries instead of compiling from source if the optimizations are not critical.
I\'m a huge Ubuntu fan, but having tried my hand at Gentoo as well, I have to note that these benchmarks have the potential to be inaccurate. For example, prelink–a third party program–is enabled on Ubuntu, which would certainly speed up certain actions. And what about compiler flags? How was the kernel compiled–with the generic \"world\" install or was it built specifically for the system?
Even using different kernel versions could make for huge variations–probably in Gentoo\'s favor. In fact, I know for a fact 2.6.28 is in portage, so why wasn\'t that used…? Being an nVidia user, I can also tell you that the binary nVidia drivers can be day and night between versions, with one version tying up resources or causing unnecessary processor load, and even a slightly minor version in either direction eliminating it.
I really, really appreciate the effort, and I\'m not trying to be a troll, but the fact that Ubuntu does a lot for you and Gentoo does nothing means that trying to compare them is a very difficult process. For example, if I were benchmarking a Windows program, would you consider the output from Windows 2000 to be comparable to Windows XP Professional, even though they\'re largely similar? Or between XP and XP SP3?
EDIT: Kudos to everyone praising Gentoo; I agree that portage is the best package manager out there, binary, source, or otherwise!
@ewildgoose: In my opinion, if you\'re already on Gentoo, you\'ve surpassed the need for Arch. I tried Arch for a few months, and while it does give you the \"compile from source\" aspect, it just doesn\'t compare with Gentoo\'s user and community base. What I usually recommend is for people who are looking to branch out from Ubuntu (or a similar distro) and start diving into behind-the-scenes Linux, Arch is a good stepping stone.
The author\'s computers have spent a ton of time compiling to give us this report. Thanks.
So how did -Os beat all in some tests? I suspect two possible causes: one, cache hits in the intel chip would be higher with a smaller program; two, disk reading time is overwhelming the test time — so smaller programs appear slightly faster.
Might be interesting to re-run the encoder tests with everything in a ram disk.
add -march=native optimization flag and be impressed
#TRUTH -O2 -march=native -mtune=native -mno-aes -mvzeroupper -pipe = Corei7-AVX or any new Xeon …
extreme performance, sadly these benchmarks are not accurate as simply using "O2 -O3 -Os" does not leverage the capabilities of GCC. Besides that, you can if you read the GCC manual use in fact ANY GCC options besides the standard which are introduced in the newer versions. Of course use your discretion to test, however you can if you are looking for these optimizations (Gentoo documentation does not make this clear) edit /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain.eclass and /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass (for binutils)…
Here you can edit linker build-id options, enable ESP/ESPF hardening, libssp, GO, graphite opts, advanced C++ compilation options (GCC 4.8.x) and the list goes on. Essentially, anything you can find here : http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html and here: http://gcc.gnu.org/install is at your disposal.
I write this as a 13-year Gentoo user, on a Corei7 3930K with SSD RAID arrays, 32GB DDR3 Quad-Channel ram on a Gentoo system compiled with GCC 4.8.2, latest svn-src binutils, and -O2 -march=native -mtune=native -mno-aes -mvzeroupper -pipe for C/CXXFLAGS (pretty conservative) and I dare say I'd put this machine up against any single-proc server or even dual proc….
-Os, -O1, -O2, -O3, it's only the basics.
You need to set -march=native and -mtune=native, and optionally -fomit-frame-pointer if arch is x86.
-march overwrites -mtune also -fomit-frame-pointer is not supported by manny packages when reporting bugs
-march overwrites -mtune on most packages, -fomit-frame-pointer breaks debugging but can easily be circumvented by adding "FEATURES="splitdebug" to /etc/make.conf to place debugging info in a seperate file (if you use Valgrind on Gentoo or any platform Glibc needs to be compiled with debugging symbols, emerge glibc with FEATURES="splitdebug" and your entire system and you'll eliminate the binary bloat but have the debug info still..)
Kernel can take different CFLAGS as well, you need to edit the kernel makefile. Users of Gentoo are, and I say this in the nicest way possible, "usually" more advanced users than deb/RPM based distro users. Not always the case of course …
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Investigators closed off Strongs Avenue on Tuesday afternoon to recreate the hit-and-run incident that killed Mary Outslay.
Meanwhile, the Vermont Department of Health released Outslay's death certificate, which listed the 71-year-old Mendon woman's cause of death as blunt force injuries to the torso and the manner of death as accidental. It also said she died within minutes of being hit by a car on the evening of April 10.
While police have identified local lawyer Christopher Sullivan as driving the car that hit Outslay, and then driving away, no charges have been brought.
The Vermont attorney general's office is handling the case, and Assistant Attorney General Cindy Maguire, who is assigned to it, was not available for comment Tuesday, though Assistant Attorney General John Treadwell did return a call.
"Obviously, the investigations are active," Treadwell said. "It's not possible to give any meaningful estimate as to when things will happen."
Vermont State Police Detective Albert Abdelnour said before the reconstruction that it would gather data to be fed into a computer model.
"It's like surveying," he said. "There'll be a station and a pole."
Television crews from three different stations showed up as the state police accident reconstruction team worked at the scene outside The Palms restaurant. At one point police asked one of them to move their vehicle, which was parked at a meter on Strongs Avenue, because it was in the way.
The closure cut off the entry to Wales Street, forcing a number of Rutland City Police Department vehicles to drive the wrong way for about half a block up the one-way street to get to the police station.
Police said Sullivan drove home after the April 10 incident and parked his 2004 Lexus behind his garage, handing it over to the police the next day. Police said the car had extensive damage to the hood and windshield and that Sullivan told them, through his attorney, that he was "involved in striking something on Strongs Avenue."
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Seven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer athletics make up the 23rd class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Director of Athletics Oliver Luck.
The 2013 class includes men's basketball player Dale Blaney, women's basketball player Olivia Bradley, gymnastics coach Linda Burdette-Good, rifle coach Dr. Ed Etzel, wrestler Dean Morrison, baseball and basketball player Paul Popovich and football player Tom Woodeshick.
Induction ceremonies will take place Sept. 14, prior to the West Virginia-Georgia State football game. This class brings the total number of inductees to 148.
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Blaney averaged 17.0 points as a senior and finished with a 12.3 average for his career. A four-year letter-winner and two-time captain, he scored a career-high 29 points against George Mason on Jan. 9, 1986.
Blaney was named to the All-Atlantic 10 first team in 1986 and the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team in 1983. He was named to the Atlantic 10 all-tournament teams in 1984 and 1986 and was picked for the NIT All-Star Team that toured Korea and Hong Kong. Blaney, a member of the 1986-95 All-Time basketball team at WVU, was a two-time Ohio Class A all-state player.
He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the fourth round of the 1986 NBA draft and played a year and a half in the Continental Basketball Association, first with title-winning Tampa Bayvand then with the Charleston Gunners.
Since then, Blaney has made a career in auto racing. He was named World of Outlaws Rookie of the Year in 1998, National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year in 1990, Bush Points Champion in 1991 and the All-Star Series Points Champion in 1995, 1996 and 2008.
Blaney has two daughters, Ashley and Leah. His brother, Dave, drives car No. 7 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series.
Bradley was a four-time All-America honoree and three-time all-conference selection. WVU was not affiliated with a conference during her freshman year in 1981-82, when she averaged 12.7 points and 9.4 rebounds, led WVU to its first 20-win season and earned American Women's Sports Federation Freshman All-America honors.
As a sophomore, Bradley averaged 12.8 rebounds and 12.6 points while becoming the program's first all-conference honoree as she was named to the 1983 All-Atlantic 10 second team. The power forward set a single-game school record with 27 rebounds in a win at George Washington, a record she would break in her senior season. Bradley earned 1983 All-America honorable mention by the AWSF, a feat she repeated for each remaining year of her career.
Bradley improved her averages to 14.2 points and 13.3 rebounds as a junior, earning all conference first-team honors. As a senior team captain, she broke her own record when she pulled down 28 boards in an overtime win against Temple.
The Bradenton, Fla., native closed out her career averaging 12.7 rebounds, the 16th-highest average in the NCAA record book today. During Bradley's time, the Mountaineers recorded a 74-45 record and advanced to the Women's NIT her senior year - the program' first foray into postseason play.
Following graduation, Bradley played basketball in Europe for four seasons, then returned to Bradenton and taught third grade.
Bradley began to coach as an assistant at her alma mater, Southeast High in Bradenton and eventually left her elementary teaching position for a job as the head girls coach at nearby Manatee High.
In 2000, Bradley died at the age of 36.
Led by freshman Shari Retton, WVU's first female sport All-American, the Mountaineers finished third at the 1982 AIAW meet. Following the championships, Burdette-Good was named the AIAW Coach of the Year. Each of Burdette-Good's three NCAA-qualifying teams (1995, 1999, 2000) placed 12th overall.
Burdette-Good coached 12 conference gymnast of the year honorees and 17 NCAA individual qualifiers, 13 All-Americans and eight NCAA regional champions. She produced 56 conference champions and 126 all-conference selections.
Several seasons stand out in Burdette-Good's career, including 2001, when three different Mountaineers scored perfect 10s and the 17th-ranked squad reclaimed the EAGL championship after a two-year drought. The 1999 season also was memorable, as the Mountaineers advanced to their second national championships in four years after compiling a 19-7 record and finishing sixth at the EAGL championships. The next year, Burdette-Good led the Mountaineers to two of the top-10 team scores in school history and advanced to the NCAA championships for the second straight season.
Burdette-Good mentored the best gymnast in school history, Kristin Quackenbush, who became the school's only AAI American Award winner and a six-time NCAA All-American. She holds or shares school records on vault and floor and scored five career perfect 10s.
Burdette-Good, who coached 86 scholastic All-Americans, served on the six-member NCAA Women's Gymnastics Committee and was the chair of the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee. She was also the driving force behind the foundation of the EAGL and was that league's first chair.
A native of Parkersburg, Burdette-Good joined the Mountaineer athletic department following a one-year coaching stint at Fairmont State. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from WVU.
She and her husband, Lee Good, reside in Uniontown, Ohio. She has one daughter, Anna Burdette (26), a WVU graduate, and one grandson, Ashton (5).
A native of North Haven, Conn., Etzel's Mountaineer teams were among the most dominant in NCAA history, as WVU never finished worse than second place at the NCAA championships under his watch. Etzel coached six individual champions, 33 All-Americans and several Olympians.
Etzel led the Mountaineers to the University's first national championship in 1983. Dave Johnson won the NCAA smallbore title, the Mountaineers' first NCAA win in the discipline, and WVU finished the season at 12-1. The Mountaineers went undefeated and won their second straight title in 1984, and Bob Broughton returned the smallbore NCAA title to Morgantown.
After a second-place finish in 1985, the Mountaineers went undefeated again in 1986 (9-0) and won their third NCAA title in four years. Mike Anti also won the smallbore national championship.
Following a sabbatical in 1988, the year the Mountaineers won the national title under coach Greg Perrine, Etzel led the Mountaineers to an 8-0 record and another NCAA title in 1989.


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Typha | |
Typha latifolia | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Monocots |
(unranked): | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Typhaceae |
Genus: | Typha L. |
Species | |
See text |
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |
Energy | 106 kJ (25 kcal) |
Carbohydrates | 5.14 g |
- Sugars | 0.22 g |
- Dietary fiber | 4.5 g |
Fat | 0.00 g |
Protein | 1.18 g |
Water | 92.65 g |
Vitamin A equiv. | 1 μg (0%) |
- beta-carotene | 6 μg (0%) |
Thiamine (vit. B1) | 0.023 mg (2%) |
Riboflavin (vit. B2) | 0.025 mg (2%) |
Niacin (vit. B3) | 0.440 mg (3%) |
Pantothenic acid (B5) | 0.234 mg (5%) |
Vitamin B6 | 0.123 mg (9%) |
Folate (vit. B9) | 3 μg (1%) |
Choline | 23.7 mg (5%) |
Vitamin C | 0.7 mg (1%) |
Vitamin K | 22.8 μg (22%) |
Calcium | 54 mg (5%) |
Iron | 0.91 mg (7%) |
Magnesium | 63 mg (18%) |
Manganese | 0.760 mg (36%) |
Phosphorus | 45 mg (6%) |
Potassium | 309 mg (7%) |
Sodium | 109 mg (7%) |
Zinc | 0.24 mg (3%) |
Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Source: USDA Nutrient Database |
Typha /ˈtaɪfə/ is a genus of about eleven species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. The genus has a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution, but is essentially cosmopolitan, being found in a variety of wetland habitats.
These plants have many common names. They may be known in British English as bulrush, or reedmace,[1] in American English as cattail, catninetail, punks, or corn dog grass, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, and in New Zealand as raupo. Other taxa of plants may be known as bulrush, including some sedges in Scirpus and related genera.
The rhizomes are edible. Evidence of preserved starch grains on grinding stones suggests they were eaten in Europe 30,000 years ago.[2]
Typha leaves are alternate and mostly basal on a simple, jointless stem that bears the flowering spikes. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual flowers that develop in dense racemes. The numerous male flowers form a narrow spike at the top of the vertical stem. Each male (staminate) flower is reduced to a pair of stamens and hairs, and withers once the pollen is shed. Large numbers of tiny female flowers form a dense, sausage-shaped spike on the stem below the male spike. In larger species this can be up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long and 1 to 4 centimetres (0.39 to 1.57 in) thick. The seeds are minute, 0.2 millimetres (0.0079 in) long, and attached to fine hairs. When ripe, the heads disintegrate into a cottony fluff from which the seeds disperse by wind.
General ecology[edit]
Typha are often among the first wetland plants to colonize areas of newly exposed wet mud, with their abundant wind dispersed seeds. Buried seeds can survive in the soil for long periods of time.[3] They germinate best with sunlight and fluctuating temperatures, which is typical of many wetland plants that regenerate on mud flats.[4] The plants also spread by rhizomes, forming large, interconnected stands.
Typha are considered to be dominant competitors in wetlands in many areas, and they often exclude other plants with their dense canopy.[5] In the bays of the Great Lakes, for example, they are among the most abundant wetland plants. Different species of cattails are adapted to different water depths.[6]
Well-developed aerenchyma make the plants tolerant of submersion. Even the dead stalks are capable of transmitting oxygen to the rooting zone.
Although Typha are native wetland plants, they can be aggressive in their competition with other native species.[7] They have been problematic in many regions in North America, from the Great Lakes to the Everglades.[5] Native sedges are displaced and wet meadows shrink, likely as a response to altered hydrology of the wetlands and increased nutrient levels. An introduced or hybrid species may be contributing to the problem.[8] Control is difficult. The most successful strategy appears to be mowing or burning to remove the aerenchymous stalks, followed by prolonged flooding.[9] It may be more important to prevent invasion by preserving water level fluctuations, including periods of drought, and to maintain infertile conditions.[5]
Typha are frequently eaten by wetland mammals such as muskrats, which may also use them to construct feeding platforms and dens. Birds use the seed hairs as nest lining.
- Typha angustifolia – lesser bulrush, narrow leaf cattail (America), or jambu (India)
- Typha domingensis – bulrush, southern cattail (America), narrow-leaved cumbungi (Australia)
- Typha × glauca (T. angustifolia × T. latifolia) – hybrid cattail, white cattail (a sterile hybrid[10])
- Typha latifolia – common cattail
- Typha laxmannii – Laxman's bulrush
- Typha minima – dwarf bulrush
- Typha orientalis – broadleaf cumbungi (Australia), raupo (New Zealand)
- Typha capensis – Cape bulrush
- Typha shuttleworthii – Shuttleworth's bulrush
The most widespread species is Typha latifolia, which is distributed across the entire temperate northern hemisphere. It has also been introduced to Australia. T. angustifolia is nearly as widespread, but does not extend as far north; it may be introduced and invasive in North America. T. domingensis has a more southern American distribution, and it occurs in Australia. T. orientalis is widespread in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. T. laxmannii, T. minima, and T. shuttleworthii are largely restricted to Asia and southern Europe.
Chair seating[edit]
The rushes are harvested and the leaves often dried for later use in chair seats. Re-wetted, the leaves are twisted and wrapped around the chair rungs to form a densely woven seat that is then stuffed (usually with the left over rush).
Culinary uses[edit]
Many parts of the Typha plant are edible to humans. The starchy rhizomes are nutritious with a protein content comparable to that of maize or rice.[11] They can be processed into a flour with 266 kcal per 100 grams.[2] They are most often harvested from late autumn to early spring. They are fibrous, and the starch must be scraped or sucked from the tough fibers. Plants growing in polluted water can accumulate lead and pesticide residues in their rhizomes, and these should not be eaten.[12]
The outer portion of young plants can be peeled and the heart can be eaten raw or boiled and eaten like asparagus. This food has been popular among the Cossacks in Russia, and has been called "Cossack asparagus".[13] The leaf bases can be eaten raw or cooked, especially in late spring when they are young and tender. In early summer the sheath can be removed from the developing green flower spike, which can then be boiled and eaten like corn on the cob.[14] In mid-summer when the male flowers are mature, the pollen can be collected and used as a flour supplement or thickener.[15]
The seeds have a high linoleic acid content and can be used to feed cattle and chickens.[16] they can also be found in african countries like Ghana
Building material[edit]
For local tribes around Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia, Typha were among the most important plants and every part of the plant had multiple uses. For example, they were used to construct rafts and other boats.[11]
During World War II, the United States Navy used the down of Typha as a substitute for kapok in life vests and aviation jackets. Tests showed that even after 100 hours of submersion the buoyancy was still effective.[17]
Typha are used as thermal insulation in buildings as an organic alternative to conventional insulating materials such as glass wool or stone wool.
Typha stems and leaves can be used to make paper. It is strong with a heavy texture and it is hard to bleach, so it is not suitable for industrial production of graphical paper. In 1853, considerable amounts of cattail paper were produced in New York, due to a shortage of raw materials.[18] In 1948, French scientists tested methods for annual harvesting of the leaves. Because of the high cost these methods where abandoned and no further research was done.[11] Today Typha is used to make decorative paper.[citation needed]
Fibers up to 4 meters long can be obtained from the stems when they are mechanically or chemically treated with sodium hydroxide. The stem fibers resemble jute and can be used to produce raw textiles. The leaf fibers can be used as an alternative to cotton and linen in clothing. The yield of leaf fiber is 30 to 40 percent and Typha glauca can produce 7 to 10 tons per hectare annually.[11]
Typha can be used as a source of starch to produce ethanol. Because of their high productivity in northern latitudes, Typha are considered to be a bioenergy crop.[19]
Other uses[edit]
The seed hairs were used by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas as tinder for starting fires. Some tribes also used Typha down to line moccasins, and for bedding, diapers, baby powder, and cradleboards. One Native American word for Typha meant "fruit for papoose's bed". Typha down is still used in some areas to stuff clothing items and pillows.
Typha can be dipped in wax or fat and then lit as a candle, the stem serving as a wick. Without the use of wax or fat it will smolder slowly, somewhat like incense, and may repel insects.
One informal experiment has indicated that Typha are able to remove arsenic from drinking water. The boiled rootstocks have been used as a diuretic for increasing urination, or mashed to make a jelly-like paste for sores, boils, wounds, burns, scabs, and smallpox pustules.[20]
- ^ Clegg, J. (1986). Observer's Book of Pond Life. Frederick Warne, London. 460 p.
- ^ a b Revedin, A., et al. (2010). "Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107 (44): 18815–18819. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10718815R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1006993107. PMC 2973873. PMID 20956317.
- ^ van der Valk, A. G. and Davis, C. B. (1976). The seed banks of prairie glacial marshes. Canadian Journal of Botany 54, 1832–8.
- ^ Shipley, B., et al. (1989). Regeneration and establishment strategies of emergent macrophytes. Journal of Ecology 77, 1093–1110.
- ^ a b c Keddy, P. A. (2010). Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-521-51940-3.
- ^ Grace, J. B. and Wetzel, R. G. (1981). Habitat partitioning and competitive displacement in cattails (Typha): experimental field studies. The American Naturalist 118, 463–74.
- ^ Oudhia, P. (1999). Allelopathic effects of Typha angustata on germination and seedling vigour of winter maize and rice. Agric. Sci. Digest 19(4): 285-286
- ^ Boers, A. M., et al. (2007). Typha × glauca dominance and extended hydroperiod constrain restoration of wetland diversity. Ecological Engineering 29, 232–44.
- ^ Kaminski, R. M., et al. (1985). Control of cattail and bulrush by cutting and flooding. In: Coastal Wetlands, eds. H. H. Prince and F. M. D'Itri, pp. 253–62. Chelsea, MI: Lewis Publishers.
- ^ Selbo, S. M.; Snow, A. A. (2004). "The potential for hybridization between Typha angustifolia and Typha latifolia in a constructed wetland". Aquatic Botany 78 (4): 361–369. doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2004.01.003.
- ^ a b c d Morton, J. F. (January–March 1975). "Cattails (Typha spp.) – Weed Problem or Potential Crop?". Economic Botany 29 (1): 7–29.
- ^ Gore, A. B. (2007). Environmental Research at the Leading Edge. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. p. 106.
- ^ Marsh, L. C. (1959). "The Cattail Story". The Garden Journal 5: 114–129.
- ^ Elias, T. S.; Dykeman, P. A. (2009) [1982]. Edible Wild Plants. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1-4027-6715-9.
- ^ Raupo or Bulrush (Typha orientalis). Tai Awatea. Accessed 15 December 2011.
- ^ Reed, E.; Marsh, L. C. (1955). "The Cattail Potential". Chemurgic Digest. 3 14: 9, 18.
- ^ Miller, D. T. (1999). Edible and Useful Plants of Texas and the Southwest, Including Recipes, Harmful Plants, Natural Dyes, and Textile Fibers: A Practical Guide. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-292-78164-1.
- ^ Making Aquatic Weeds Useful: Some Perspectives for Developing Countries. Ottawa: National Research Council.: Books for Business. 1976. p. 101. ISBN 0-89499-180-9.
- ^ Dubbe, D. R., et al. (1988). Production of cattail (Typha spp.) biomass in Minnesota, USA. Biomass 17(2) 79–104.
- ^ Maiden, J. H. (1889). Useful Native Plants of Australia (incl. Tasmania). Sydney: Technological Mus. New South Wales.


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QuickStats: Current Smoking* Among Men Aged 25–64 Years, by Age Group and Veteran Status† — National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), United States, 2007–2010§
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† In NHIS, veterans identify themselves by responding "yes" to the question "Have you ever been honorably discharged from active duty in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard?" During 2007–2010, veterans accounted for 15% of the male population aged 25–64 years, ranging from 6% among men aged 25–34 years to 34% for those aged 55–64 years.
§ Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population and are derived from the NHIS sample adult component.
¶ 95% confidence interval.
During 2007–2010, male veterans aged 25–64 years were more likely to be current smokers than nonveterans (29% versus 24%). Among men aged 45–54 years, 36% of veterans reported being current smokers, compared with 24% of nonveterans.
Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2007–2010. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm.
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okay, because having two backups to the exact same role is obviously going to happen
and it's also dangerous, fyi, to base a case entirely on the fact that someone thinks they're 'cleared', even if they're not -- and, if you had actually read PROPERLY, human pretty much corrected himself when he realised the role was not the one he thought it was. i don't care about these different interpretations of him saying 'facepalm', because, jfc, if you actually look at the context, it's pretty obvious what he was talking about. i hope you'll excuse me saying so, but you've been displaying astounding amounts of ignorance during the game so far, and i don't believe that's very like you, in all honesty.
You're excused. You are also correct.
I just subbed in, though, and I don't usually sub. That may be the variable you're looking for to explain my, "ignorance," during this game, I haven't been following this game anywhere near as long as the rest of you, so it takes some time to get acclamated to a comparable degree to the rest of you.
Or maybe I'm playing ignorant because I'm Mafia and sounding misinformed so that my leads appear unreliable somehow benefits me. Was that what you were looking for?
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Just for the record: voted for Human primarily so we didn't end up with a no lynch which aren't very good for us considering how many mislynches we've ended up with. Human's quick jumping upon an incorrect clear did seem quite scummy, and although Poyo's inactivity and lack of meaningful posts wasn't exactly pro-town, it doesn't exactly scream "scummy" to me.
"Just for the record..." hmm... worried about getting tied to that lynch?
Own your votes. If you think the case against someone is poor, don't vote for them - and if the case against someone is strong enough that it does merit your vote, don't apologize for it later - mislynches happen.
It gives the impression that you knew we would have a mislynch but voted anyway.
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So you pushed for a lynch because you wanted to avoid a mislynch, and we ended up mislynching because of it? :I
Of course I have the right to be concerned about being tied to the lynch, it's been the rationale for a lot of lynches against people seen to be simply bandwagoning. My vote was just for the purposes of not tying the votes and wasn't attached to any particular explanation so it stands to reason that I might be the focus of any suspicions.
I didn't think it was necessarily poor. Like I said, I did find his behavior scummy, I wanted a successful lynch and I didn't see much rationale for lynching Poyo. Of course the lynch wasn't successful but I provided my reasons for why I did it and it shouldn't be viewed as a "weak bandwagon" or anything.
You weren't the only one who voted for Human, though. It's the fact that you expected to be the suspect (guilty conscious?) that caught my attention.
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I thought there would've been a phase update when I got back on. I guess my timing is off. n.n;
What do you think the chances are of this happening again?
Going back to Buoy's post a few days ago about the secondary inheritor role, I do find it to be a stretch to have two players with ability to inherit a role and even more so a role like the doctor. I don't believe that such a role would exist at this point since almost all hidden abilities, that have been revealed at this point, have had some benefit to their alignment. A lot of people might think that this is bad meta or something but I jut find it really unlikely that such a role would exist especially a role that is essentially a detriment to the town. Unless I'm missing something?
Until then though I will FoS: KidBeano. Primarily due to the fact that I find the role suspicious to be honest.
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You know, I don't know whether jda95 is mafia or not, but you guys are jumping on him for the same reason I was found suspicious, and look where that ended up. :P
I also find KidBeano suspicious, though, considering I really don't think the two of us could both inherit the same role.
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If the setup is otherwise scum-sided, it wouldn't be that strange for the Host to include two backups to a Town PR for balance. Also, Meta: Feliciano and I had a spirited discussion about including duplicate roles as Hosts not too long ago.
In other words, I find the roleclaim a null-tell until there's a more substantial case to go alongside it.
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As night fell, the citizens of Ponyville once again returned to their homes. Once again, a group of shadows met by the light of a single candle - this time ensuring that the curtains were securely closed.
"Their presence doesn't change anything." one of them declared. "They aren't a threat to us. We've just got to keep going."
"Right! I know just what to do!"
Another shadow nodded, and soon, they were down to four. "Who should we go after tonight?"
"We know what almost everypony is capable of." the first shadow reasoned, pointing at a list on the table before them. All but a few names had been crossed out. "Putting all that information together, tonight's target should be this pony."
"Not this one?" another shadow asked, pointing at another name. "They've been dangerous from the start."
"Leave that to me." a third shadow responded. "I believe I can fix our little problem."
"Can we get a move on? We're wasting moonlight."
The first shadow nodded, stashing the list in a secret compartment in the desk. As they emerged from the town, they began to hear the sounds from Sugarcube Corner - it was particularly lively tonight. With a flick of their mane, one of the shadows went off to join the party. The rest headed to a small building on the western side of town - the schoolhouse.
Lights were still lit inside. A single pony, looking especially tired, stood at the desk at the front of the room, a pencil clasped between her teeth. As she marked the papers before her, the lights suddenly buzzed, then flicked out. "Horse apples." the pony sighed, grumbling under her breath as they set the pencil down. Now she'd have to go and check the fuse box. She grabbed a lantern sitting beside the desk, lit it, and stepped outside.
The night was particularly cold, and she shivered as she walked around to the back of the schoolhouse. Here, she lost sight of the rest of the town, and set the lantern down beside the portion of the wall where she knew the fusebox to be. A puff of icy wind caused her to shiver as the flame in her lantern sputtered, then went out.
Almost immediately, hooves battered her from all sides, causing her to yell in surprise. She whipped her head around, trying to see her assailant, but with the lantern extinguished, all she could see was a blur. Desperately, she ran, trying to get back to the safety of Ponyville's main square, where she hoped that somepony from Sugarcube Corner would see her. She was blocked by another barrage of hooves, again and again from every direction, until she finally turned tail and fled towards the outskirts of town.
No school bells rung the next morning in Ponyville.
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I am in no way a computer wiz but I sometimes download from Isohunt and use Bitlord. Maybe you can Google "Bitlord" and download that program. I can upload them to iTunes without a problem.
I have been using uTorrent.
Now, I only started torrent downloading last week, but I am HOOKED!!!
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5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
6. Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, Vintage
7. The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, Random House
8. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, Random House
9. Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin
10. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Scribner
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Testimony concerning the Privacy Implications of Government Data Mining Programs by Robert Barr Thank you for inviting me to this first oversight hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 110th Congress. I am extremely pleased that Congress is finally asking hard questions about the impact of the administration's security policies on Americans' privacy and civil liberties. This dialogue is long overdue. As a former member of Congress, I have been disappointed to see the Congress shirk its responsibility to the American people and sit silently by while the Constitution is gutted of meaning. As chairman of Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, an alliance of individuals and organizations - conservatives and liberals - committed to upholding the Constitution, I have worked with many Republicans and Democrats to do what is right for the American people. I appreciate the opportunity to talk today about the constitutional questions raised by the federal government's data-mining practices. It is unconscionable that ordinary Americans' jobs and finances - their entire lives - are at risk because they do not know what information the government is collecting about them; or what it is doing with that private information; or who government is sharing the information with. And if that information is wrong, they have no way of knowing about it, no way of seeing it, and no way of correcting it. Data mining presents many serious threats to the First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. That is nearly half of the Bill or Rights! Where will this end? With the repeal of the Constitution so that the White House won't have to worry about those inconvenient and troublesome laws any more? The federal government constantly is taking in huge amounts of information on Americans from many sources; some of these databases are known, some are not; some may be lawful, others not. Every month there is a new revelation. Last week we learned that the administration wants to open our mail at its discretion, in addition to listening to our phone calls and reading our e-mails without court order. Just weeks earlier the Department of Homeland Security admitted that its Secure Flight program to screen domestic air passengers violated the Privacy Act. Just prior to that, we learned that Customs and Border Patrol was using the Automated Targeting System, designed initially for cargo security, to assign a terror risk score to travelers entering the United States. Anyone in this room who has traveled abroad in recent years is likely in this system. And their records will be kept for 40 years. States will soon begin to implement the Real ID law, creating a national registry of tens of millions of drivers. Accessible to officials across the nation, this database, currently being finalized for implementation in 2008, is almost certain to contain individuals' fingerprints, photo, Social Security number, immigration status and more (possibly including other biometric data and an RFID chip). We learned recently the FBI has been using "national security letters" to excess; in one example, using this easy way to demand access to private data, to collect information on nearly 300,000 people who did nothing more suspicious than that they spent the Christmas holiday in Las Vegas. Who knows how many other instances of mass data collection have occurred in the past few years, all in the name of national security? The government is re-analyzing perfectly lawful behavior through unproven data-mining programs and bringing vast numbers of innocent Americans under suspicion. Adding insult to injury, there is no scientific proof that data-mining to identify terrorists even works. No scientist has ever demonstrated that the government can predict who will commit an act of terror at some future time. Yet, the government spends tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars on data-mining programs each year --collecting, manipulating, retaining and disseminating the most personal and private information on unknowing American citizens and others. Chilling effects on ordinary Americans necessarily follow. For example, an individual decides to learn Arabic to help their country fight terrorism. They travel to an Arabic speaking nation such as Egypt, which maintains close and cooperative ties with the U.S., to study the language, but when they come home and apply for a job with the federal government, they can't pass the background check because a database, perhaps the Automated Targeting System, shows that they traveled to Egypt. 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American health care is undergoing a revolution and Olympic Medical Center is scrambling to meet the challenge.
The medical center's CEO Eric Lewis says there are three "game changers" rocking the medical world and some will hit the Olympic Peninsula with particular force. In meeting these challenges, "incremental change" won't work, he said.
He said his organization needs immediate improvements in efficiency, better regional planning and will seek an affiliation with a medical center providing specialized consultative care.
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OMC is sending out this week a "request for information" to larger hospitals in Seattle, Tacoma and Bremerton to gauge interest in serving as a tertiary medical center. The tertiary affiliate would provide a number of useful services including those "third-level services" OMC can't provide, such as open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, care for severe burns and neonatal intensive care, Lewis said.
He said utilizing the tertiary affiliate would be up to patients but if they choose that option, they would receive excellent, cost-effective service.
A larger affiliate also could help OMC meet other challenges including the electronic medical record keeping requirements and other mandates in the new federal health care law. The tertiary associate also would be involved in creating a strategic vision for the area.
If a likely affiliate expresses an interest, staff at OMC will create a more specific plan for working with the new associate, Lewis said. Work on the plan could begin as soon as Oct. 15.
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The long-running recession also is having an impact on medical care delivery, as private companies cut down on the insurance coverage they offer their employees.
"Individuals are facing a choice," Lewis said, "pay the mortgage, pay for food or pay for insurance. Pick two."
Lewis also described the federal government's woes, saying the current $1.4 trillion deficit is unsustainable.
Cuts already are planned for Medicare reimbursements, the source of 55 percent of OMC's revenues. Inpatient reimbursements will decline by 0.4 percent beginning Oct. 1. That alone will cut reimbursements to OMC by $564,000 a year. Another $1.5 million in cuts also is slated.
Altogether the cuts in the new federal health care reform bill reduces Medicare reimbursements to OMC by $26 million over the next 10 years.
Lewis said all hospitals in the U.S. will suffer from cuts, but the hardest hit are those medical centers in rural areas with high numbers of Medicare patients. OMC, he said, will take a disproportionate hit. OMC's Medicare reimbursements already are in the bottom 10 percent of those paid to facilities across the U.S. As Lewis noted, reimbursements for Florida hospitals are double those OMC receives.
Medicaid payments, which are issued in Olympia, also are insufficient, a problem that will grow as the number of Medicaid patients served by OMC continues to expand.
"We have to operate in the free enterprise system," Lewis noted, but "Olympia and D.C. don't." Because Medicare and Medicaid together constitute 70 percent of the center's overall revenues, Olympic Medical Center is seeking ways to make do with less.
The new health care law also requires all medical centers to move quickly toward a more efficient, more widely networked electronic medical records system. While there's some funding available for the task, the fact that everyone is moving rapidly in the same direction is causing logistical problems. The impetus for quick action is found in the law: Those facilities that haven't achieved the stated objectives by 2015 will see further cuts to their funding.
Meeting the goals
Lewis said his team is dedicated to meeting four goals. OMC, he said, will remain a locally controlled public hospital and it will remain financially viable. It will provide local service and it always will seek to ensure quality patient care, with safety and satisfaction as top priorities.
Lewis said OMC is responding to these challenges with a multi-part plan, beginning with better regional planning. He said the collaborative system that has been created with Forks Community Hospital, Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend and OMC already is paying dividends and should be expanded.
In addition, the hospital will continue to seek improvements in its health care delivery system, with a special focus on quality care and patient safety. Better electronic record keeping also will enhance the bottom line, as will other cost-management strategies.
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These Fineline Tiny Tongs 6503CL 4 1/2" disposable clear plastic tongs from the Tiny Temptations collection are perfect for self-service with fruit platters, appetizers, and other morsels at your next catered event. Petite enough to use on delicate confections but durable enough to last throughout the party, these tongs feature a ridged grip so that the tongs won't slip from your hand and the food won't slip from your tongs. Use these disposable plastic tongs, and they're sure to satisfy.
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