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Redux: Squirrel & Snake Physics
By Ann Finkbeiner | November 29, 2012 | 6 Comments
This was originally posted June 8, 2010 and probably ten people read it. I hope you don't mind my running it again. It reminds me of my favorite Abstruse Goose. The picture's a little alarming, but justly so.
I had two trees in the front yard, and I'd watch the squirrels jump between them, across maybe a four-foot gap, and they did it at speed. They'd race out along the branch to its spindly end and the instant it bent under their weight, they'd go airborne and land on the other tree's spindly end-branch, no hesitation, no wobble, no recovery, a fraction of a second, then tear down the next branch.
Squirrels – this is well-known – have tiny little brains specially evolved for this. They put the altitude of the starting point, the altitude of the target point, the distance between the points, air resistance, squirrel velocity, and the acceleration due to gravity into a kinematics equation that accounts for all three dimensions and probably contains some integrals and derivatives and for all I know, square roots. They solve the equation at the split second of the jump and they always nail it.
Another creature that does something like this is the paradise tree snake, which hangs off a branch in a J, accelerates up and out, widens its rib cage and flattens its round self into a sort of D, undulates through the air at 8 meters per second, can make 90 degree turns, and maintains the glide ratio of a flying squirrel; and I'd tell you all about their mental calculations but I'm too shaken by the prospect of airborne snakes and need to go nap.
Source for squirrel kinematics: my husband the physicist
Squirrel photo: Ray Eye
Snake photo: Magnus Manske
6 Responses to "Redux: Squirrel & Snake Physics"
June 9th, 2010 @ 10:34 amSounds like my driving.
Gail Finkbeiner
June 9th, 2010 @ 12:56 pmI enjoyed the paraphrase of a physicist's kinematics equation. Was that same physicist the authority for the statement that the purpose of the evolution of a squirrel's brain is "well known"?
Ann Finkbeiner
June 9th, 2010 @ 1:00 pmRosie: Not sure whether the snake or the squirrel applies to your driving but in either case, would you let me know next time you're out?
Gail: Smart aleck. No, I made that up my own self.
Abstruse Goose: Newton #2 : The Last Word On Nothing
May 24th, 2011 @ 7:01 am[...] problems here. Number 1 is that no squirrel ever slipped and fell off a tree. Squirrels' understanding of gravitational physics is hard-wired and mathematically [...]
Jennie Dusheck
November 29th, 2012 @ 11:19 amLove the photo and would love to see an airborne snake!
But I must quibble that squirrels will not always nail it. Squirrels do make mistakes and fall out of trees. I've both seen it myself (not pretty) and talked to others who've seen falling, fallen, and broken squirrels. There's heavy selection for making those calculations correctly. I assume the same applies to the snakes.
Ann Finkbeiner
November 29th, 2012 @ 12:07 pmI've heard of that, Jennie, but in years of squirrel-watching I've never seen it. We certainly agree on the selection pressure.
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlpfTwzziY Start at 1:40.

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Fifteen years ago I worked in a Yarder crew in New Zealand.Some of the Trees were pretty big,I started when I was 18
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Primary: To evaluate the pharmacologic effect of single doses of SAM-531 on sleep EEG in healthy subjects.
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00519298 History of Changes |
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Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis) France: Institutional Ethical Committee |
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Villa Thalgo has 8 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. This garden view spa is equipped with a spa tub. Visitors of this courtyard view spa can round out their time of relaxation with a trip to the café.
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- Number of treatment rooms 8
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- Babysitting/childcare fee: AUD 20.00 per hour, per child
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 40 per night
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Spicy tuna & cottage cheese jacket
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 1 hrSkill level
Serves 1For a low-fat energy lunch try a carbohydrate-heavy baked potato with a light and nutritious filling
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- Gluten-free
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Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 439
- protein
- 64g
- carbs
- 33g
- fat
- 5g
- saturates
- 2g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 7g
- salt
- 1.7g
- 225g can tuna, drained
- ½ red chilli, chopped
- 1 spring onion, sliced
- handful halved cherry tomatoes
- ½ small bunch coriander, chopped
- 1 medium-sized jacket potato
- 150g low-fat cottage cheese
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- Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4/fan oven 160C. Prick the potato several times with a fork and put it straight onto a shelf in the hottest part of the oven. Bake for approximately 1 hour, or until it is soft inside.
- Mix tuna with chilli, spring onion, cherry tomatoes and coriander. Split jacket potato and fill with the tuna mix and cottage cheese.
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Bulldogs Open Up 2013 Fall Season With 18 Veterans on Friday September 6 September 1, 2013
Returning all-North Region utility player Ryan Malone is one of six starters back for the Bulldogs. Malone was also selected to be in the NWAACC Showcase along with eight other Bulldogs.
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Bellevue College baseball opens up fall camp on Friday September 6 with a seasoned group of eighteen returners including six of nine starters in the lineup and four starting pitchers in addition to relief specialist Cody Culp. The team will engage in practices and weights through the end of fall, slotted for Thursday October 17. New NWAACC regulations allow fall baseball to begin as early as September 1. Teams have the option of starting on that date or later. Here is the fall scrimmage schedule for 2013 Sat. Sept. 14 vs. Pierce at Mount Tahoma HS (Tacoma) 12:00 (2) 9-inning games
Sat. Sept. 28 NWAACC Showcase (only certain players) North Region players report at approximately 12:00 PM Lower Columbia College
Sun. Sept. 29 vs. Seattle Mariners Scout Team 12:00 (2) 9-inning games
Sat. Oct. 5 10:00 at Tacoma (18 straight innings)
Sat. Oct. 12 vs. Seattle University 1:00 (approx.) (1) 9-inning game
Tue-Wed-Thu. Oct. 15-17 Annual Blue-Grey World Series Intrasquad Teams selected and coached by sophomores Brady Kerr and Jordan Silva 2:00 at Courter Field
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The property includes a private lake, a horse stable and riding area, a 17-car garage, a private vineyard and a "wine cave," among other amenities.
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The weather wasn't cooperating with Norwich's debut at the 2012 Women's DII College National Championship, but the scoreline certainly did. Vassar threw everything they had the Cadets during today's quarterfinal, but Norwich prevailed with a 36-0 shutout. Norwich advanced to the second round of playoffs unscathed, as Rutgers' forfeit meant the NRU champ received a bye through the Round of 16. Vassar eliminated AIC yesterday with a big 52-12 win. The two teams saw each other during the Northeast championship last fall, when Norwich blanked Vassar 46-0. "We're still a little rusty," Norwich coach Austin Hall said. "Having one game this weekend was a bit of a disadvantage, and it would have been nice to play yesterday. Vassar did a great job; they've improved a lot since the fall, even though the score is pretty similar. Their scrums were stronger, and that prevented us from attacking in all the ways we wanted to." But Norwich still attacked from everywhere. Vassar did an excellent job of absorbing Norwich's attack, especially considering the Vermont team retained the majority of possession. And with the exception of lock Corinne McElroy's dive-over try, which evolved after a sustained series of punches, most of Norwich's tries either came from a long linebreak or a quick penalty. Breakaways Hannah Bushey and Katie Hathaway were great about staying on their feet if the first-up tackle didn't finish through. They ran with poise and excellent speed through the middle of the field, and were quick enough to out-leg Vassar's fastest pursuers. Both were rewarded with tries; Bushey had two. Scrumhalf Emily Orr didn't waiver for a moment and was quick-tapping through every penalty awarded Norwich. The diligence paid off on one such occasion inside Vassar's 22 meter, and outside center Jackie Durocher was on the halfback's heels for the finishing pass and corner try. Norwich's back three didn't get too much action today, but when they got their hands on the ball, they made good on the opportunities. Toward the end of the match, fullback Rose Bernheim took the corner from inside Norwich's 22 meter. She kicked it into second gear and streaked down the sideline. Vassar caught up to Bernheim near their 22 meter, and just before the tackle, the fullback offloaded a perfect little pop to wing Adria Pickin, who finished off the break with ease. Flyhalf Emily Baugus slotted three of six tries as well. "Everyone on our team is capable of scoring at any moment," Hall said. "It's a neat mentality to have. "Yes and no," Hall responded when asked whether today's performance was typical of this season. "That's how it's looked all season, but we talk about being an organic team. We're building and creating on the spot; that's what we hope to do, and every game is different in that regard. If a team's giving us the wings, then we'll take the wings. If a team's giving us the centers, then we'll take the centers. We're trying to see the holes as they appear rather than having a set structure. It's free flowing." Vassar played admirably, but there was just a different level of intensity in Norwich's game. When Norwich punched off the breakdown, they'd take the outlet pass at pace and harpoon a couple of meters, while Vassar often received the ball meters behind the gainline and struggled with body position (with exceptions like flanker Dallas Robinson and captain/hooker Alyssa Bell). In the tackle, Vassar did a great job of bringing ballcarriers to ground, but when Norwich was on defense, ballcarriers were propelled backward and lifted off balance. The game was more competitive than the score suggests, however Vassar wasn't able to secure enough possession to really unleash their main attacking threats – scrumhalf Margaret Kwateng, wing O'Mara Taylor and fullback Addie Provenzano, although all three had individual moments of brilliance. Hall was reluctant to single any one player out from the comprehensive win, but he tipped his hat to hooker Christine Aye, who played a great game in sloppy weather. With the win, Norwich moves onto the DII semifinals in Palo Alto, Calif., where they'll face Washington State for the berth to the final. |


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Change is a comin'….
I said I planned to write a separate post on the upcoming changes to Roanoke.com, particularly those that will impact reader interaction.
We've touched on this topic briefly in comments to a previous post. It's been discussed in depth on other blogs, including on Kevin Myatt's Weather Journal and Aaron McFarling's blog, which I just realized is called Aaron McFarling's Blog, which, for someone as witty and creative as A-Mac, is a totally lame blog title, if you ask me. Accurate, but lame. I mean, why not The A-Mac Attack? Or A-Mac's Meanderings? Or The Big Mac Blast? (That would have been fun if only for the entertainment of getting and posting the cease and desist letter from McDonald's.)
But, I digress.
To review, later this week (Thursday, I think. I better figure it out because I still need to learn how to use our new blogging platform), Roanoke.com is changing to a system used by other BH Media propeties. The content will remain the same, really. We'll run stories from The Roanoke Times. We'll have blogs. We'll have hybrid content like Bill Cochran's weekly outdoors report, which is not a blog but also doesn't appear in The Roanoke Times.
From a reader's standpoint, the appearance will be different. From a writer's standpoint, we have to learn how to post stories, photos, etc., on the new platform. For all of us it will take some adjusting and learning, but we'll all figure it out. We always do.
So, the biggies.
Biggie one: Facebook.
The new system will be using a Facebook interface for comments. As Aaron wrote in his blog post on this, this was a decision made well above the pay grade of us foot soldiers. I don't know the specific rationale, but I can't imagine it involves our parent company getting any kind of financial cut of the deal. My speculation is that a Facebook-based comment system has proven its functionality as a system that provides for real-time, non-anonymous commenting.
As we have heard, some people don't like Facebook. Some people hate Facebook. And a few people are sure Mark Zuckerberg is Satan. Some people have tried Facebook and quit. Others vow to never try it.
If you don't have an account, you won't be able to comment.
I am on Facebook, and have been for several years. I use it for a combination of personal- and work-related things. I like it. It helps me pull a few additional readers in to some of my stories and blog postings. It has allowed me to reconnect with some old friends. I am part of a couple small, closed groups (must be invited to join) that are much like the Wild Life family, only smaller. And, while I'm far from a tech weenie, I have figured out how to set my privacy settings so that "the whole world" can't invade my private life. (And if I want something to remain totally private I utilize the age-old tactic of NOT SHARING IT AT ANY LEVEL.) You don't need to seek out "friends," nor do you need to approve "friend" requests if you don't want to. You can be a Facebook member with zero friends. Yes, you will be added to the rolls of the 4 billion (give or take) Facebook users. But you're not making Mark Zuckerberg any richer. Really.
If you are a Facebook user, you don't need me to be telling you this stuff.
If you are not a current Facebook user, I can tell you that it is what you make it, as another commenter wrote on Aaron's blog.
For those of you who currently don't have a FB account but want to continue posting comments on blogs, you can set up a very basic account. Yes, you need to use your name. But you don't need to include much else. You don't have to post pictures of your kid's first bike ride, or the family Christmas photo. You don't even need to post a picture of yourself for your profile. Post a picture of Mark Zuckerberg. You can make the account totally private and unsearchable, so if you don't want to be found on Facebook, you won't be found. I can't promise that if someone plugs your name into a search engine they won't find your comment on my blog. They might, especially if you have a very unique name.
The issue of Facebook being blocked at some work places has been raised. It's a legitimate concern. My understanding is that you won't have to be on the Facebook site to make comments, but you'll need to be signed in. How the browser blockers will handle that I can't tell you. Maybe someone who is blocked on FB at work can try to make a comment on another FB-comment site (like ESPN) and tell me what happens.
But even if you're blocked from making comments at work, that doesn't mean you can't read the blog. We encourage people to read our blogs and other Roanoke.com content when they are supposed to be working, after all!
Biggie two: no more anonymity.
When it comes to the Wild Life, many of the regulars in discussions already use their names. Those who don't can have any number of reasons. As someone who is about as non-anonymous as can be possible, it's hard for me to relate to someone who wants to be anonymous. But I do respect their desires. And I also will say that we have no shortage of those folks who have provided smart, important, insightful input to our discussions on here over the years.
We know that the back-and-forth is part of what keeps readers readers engaged, and I hate to lose even one of those reasonable voices in those discussions.
I am optimistic that we can still have engaging discussions on The Wild Life, and part of my optimism is based in my Facebook experience. There are plenty of lively discussions on Facebook, even though we all know each other's real names. And even when there are disagreements there is a level of decorum that is often missing in anonymous "debates." Granted, our discussions on The Wild Life have been relatively civil (180 degrees from YouTube comment sections) because all of our comments are moderated.
Ah, moderation. It's going away and I see that as a good thing. First, comments will be posted immediately. No more waiting for Taylor to wake up from his nine hours of beauty sleep to approve comments. No more waiting for Taylor to get out the Montana wilderness. No more waiting for Taylor to get off the river, out of his treestand or off of his bike. Admittedly, I haven't let moderation rule my life. (You guys have been super patient, and I appreciate that.) I'm pretty sure Kevin Myatt, on the other hand, doesn't get more than three hours of sleep at any one shot. And he answers almost every reader question, of which he gets a ridiculous number. ("I'm traveling to Greenland on Thursday, Kevin. What will the weather be like? Should I pack my down coat? Or will my windbreaker be fine? Signed, Chilly in Catawba.") And while there has been a lot of angst over there on the Weather Journal about losing commenters and their weather observations, now there will be no delay, ever, on getting personal observations up there to read.
Also, comments no longer have to be just words. They can include pictures, videos, etc.
So, what will be the end result here?
I don't know for sure, which is what I told Bill Cochran the other day when we had an email discussion on this after a reader sent us both a note saying he was no longer going to READ our outdoors coverage.
We may lose some readers. I am certain we will lose some page views when it comes to topics that create a lot of debate because we likely won't have as much bickering and prodding. After all, those bickerers and prodders won't be checking back often to see who they managed to antagonize into joining the fray.
But I can assure you that Bill and I will continue to produce the same amount of outdoors coverage we do now. If you care about the outdoors in Virginia and beyond, you'll have reason to read. Actually, the new system may allow our coverage to improve and expand. The new platform has some features that can help with that. And taking comment moderation off my plate just gave me a couple more hours to do something else (work-related, of course!) each week. Now that he doesn't have to spend 36 hours a week moderating comments and telling Chilly in Catawba that down jackets are a good idea in Greenland, Kevin Myatt's weather coverage will get even better, though that hardly seems possible.
I've been thinking of an outdoors-related analogy to this whole thing and here's what I came up with.
Let's say you're a member of a hunt club that suddenly finds itself without a place to hunt after the land you lease is sold.
Do you quit hunting? No. You find new ground. Your club may lose some members, but you may gain some new ones. With those new friends you will learn the nuances of your new spot. You just may find that hunting is just as enjoyable there as it was at the last place.
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The Assessor's Office is working to keep their property records as current and accurate as possible. A vital aspect of this continual review process is field visiting each property every few years to ensure that the property information is up-to-date and correctly reflects the market value of the property. This includes measuring all of the buildings and other property improvements on the property, taking current pictures of the property, walking through the building on a property to determine current condition and review the amenities present, and interviewing the property owners to determine sale history, construction projects that have taken place, etc. The vast majority of property owners have experienced this simple review process first-hand at one time or another.
The state of Michigan has recommended that 20% of properties in a governmental unit be visited each year to review assessment record accuracy and to ensure that properties are being appraised and assessed at 50% of market value. As one of the larger units of government in the State and a leader in progressive efforts to continually improve our excellent standards, the Assessor's Office strives to enhance the annual review process and better meet or exceed the State of Michigan's expectations. By completing a review of 20% of the City, the goal is that every single property is visited at least once every 5 years.
Appraising one-fifth of the properties in a single unit of government each year requires a very deliberate and concerted effort. For Holland City, this equates to visiting 20% of 12,720 parcels, which is 2,544 parcels annually. Visiting over 2,500 properties each year is a lofty goal, but the Assessor's Office believes it is attainable with the cooperation and support of the community.
So if one of the appraisers from the City Assessor's Office shows up with a city car, wearing a City-issued I.D. badge and carrying a clipboard and digital camera, knocking on your door requesting to review your property, please welcome them in. It is merely our local appraisers gathering updated information to enhance the annual assessment process. Accurate assessments benefit everyone in the community.


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BEREA, Ky. – A balanced attack led by Ellen Gray gave the Eagles their third straight win, 67-51 over Berea on Tuesday night. Gray knocked down five three-pointers in scoring a game-high 17 points. Trenia Barbee added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
The Eagles (10-9, 3-0 KIAC) stand alone as the only unbeaten in conference play. Ten different players scored in the game for Asbury with Gray and Barbee the only players to reach double figures. Gray has reached double-digits in 13 of 19 games this season and has connected on 57-of-114 from beyond the arc, leading the NAIA DII in 3pt percentage.
Barbee recorded her second career double-double against the Lady Mountaineers (5-16, 2-4 KIAC). She leads the team with 16.5 points per game average and has reached double-digits in all but two games this season, her first as an Eagle.
Asbury held a 30-20 halftime lead while leading throughout the entire game. The Eagles raced out to a 14-3 lead and kept the lead in double figures for most of the game. Asbury shot only 39.4 percent from the floor but held Berea to 26.2 percent and only three-for-18 from three-point range.
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A year ago I started converter my ARW (sony raw) and after my NEF (nikon RAW) files to DNG with embedded raw, now Iwant to edit the dng in DxO pro 5 and it dosen´t read it, I try to get theoriginal raw and I only recovered as 60 percent of the original raws, thishappened to me in several batches of pictures and in different mac computers, I update the DNG converter 5.4 and is the same. Can sombody help me?
Yes, I embedded the native raw in the DNG and now want to extract it but I can´t and is the only copy of the images that I have, I can read it in Photoshop but not in Dxo. is there any way to extract the native raw or Is there any option that the DXO program could read my DNG files?
Embedding the native raw file in the DNG is plain nonsense; I don't understand, why Adobe is offering this option at all. If you want to have access to the original, you should archive it on its own (you should do that always).
Anyway, the DNG converter has an option "Extract"; use that.
The file structure shows the embedded native raw file, but the DNG Converter can not extract it (it says none is there). I tried it with six different versions of the DNG converter (the oldest from 2005), none has managed it.
I noticed, that you have edited this file by LR/ACR or PS/ACR. What about the other DNGs, from which you can not extract the raw file? Have they too been edited? Or see it from the other side: have those been edited, from which you can extract the raws? I tested this and did not find any problem: I converted a raw file in DNG and embedded the raw; copied, and edited one of them. Afterwards I could extract the raw from both DNGs. Thus this does not appear to be a hot line.
I don't have any other idea. However, I suggest you never to embed the raw files in the DNG but to save/archive them on their own.
Sorry for the trouble.
There is no relation betwen images edited in PS or not to be open.
In the other part of my original post, do you know how can I edit my DNG on DXO? because I can´t. DXO don´t see my DNG but it see the NEF, thats why I want to recover my original NEF.
Thank you, for the answers and you're right, I won´t embeded again,
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}RicardoAT wrote:
do you know how can I edit my DNG on DXO? because I can´t. DXO don´t see my DNG but it see the NEF, thats why I want to recover my original NEF
I'm sorry but I can not help you, for I have never done anything with DxO. However, I find it very strange, that DxO "does not see" the DNG, but it is able to extract the NEF from it. The native raw file is not copied into the DNG but encoded (ZIP compressed in 64 KB pieces). Thus it can not be used without knowing the structure of the envelop, namely DNG.
However, if you think that DxO does not see the DNG because it does not honor the adjustments made in ACR, then you are on the wrong way: the ACR adjustments will not be honored by other programs (and ACR is not honoring other programs' adjustments). Thus, if you are processing a DNG with DxO the first time, you are supposed to see the "native" version, no matter how much you worked on that with other raw editors.


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Base Material: Stainless steel | Dishwasher Safe: Yes |
Electric: Yes | Product Type: Pressure cooker |
Questions & Answers
Fagor Electric Pressure Cooker Plus
Not scary Joyce from Grayling, MI– Verified Buyer This multi cooker does it all, slow cooker, high and low settings, pressure cooker , high and low settings, rice cooker and browner. And it does it with none of that menacing hissing sound. You are going to love it! |
Too Slow Pressurized from New York City The browning function of the electric cooker is very slow requiring browning with another pan on the gas range. The learning curve is also an issue... Not the equipment problem! |
Anonymous from New York– Verified Buyer |