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We've been running our Sun 7110 with a 2-port aggregation, LACP configured with L3 policy, mode "off" (because the Ciscos weren't configured to do LACP). The 2 links were connected 1-each to a pair of Cisco 2960s. Based on this config, I had assumed we would get load balancing when both links are up, and "dumb" redundancy based on the Sun detecting one of the links being down. Not optimal, but better than a single link. However, we discovered that when one of the links was mistakenly disconnected, we lost connectivity completely. We had to reconnect the link to restore connectivity.
Based on this behavior, it seems like there is not much value to allowing an aggregation that specifies LACP mode "off". So, we're looking at the Cisco 2960 docs for enabling LACP, and from what I read, the Cisco wants to establish an LACP group of which one port will be active and the others will be hot spares. If this is the only option for LACP configuration, then how would we achieve load balancing and higher throughput using LACP?
Can anyone advise what a reasonable config would be to achieve load balancing and redundancy, while making use of multiple interfaces to achieve higher throughput (with or without LACP)? Ideally, we would like to only advertise a single IP address for NFS connections, but this is not a show stopper.
I'm not a network admin, so if the above has left out any critical data, please let me know. Thanks!
-Dave H.

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Plot diagnostics of generalized linear regression model
h = plotDiagnostics(...)
h = plotDiagnostics(mdl,plottype,Name,Value)
plotDiagnostics(mdl) plots diagnostics from the mdl linear model using leverage as the plot type.
plotDiagnostics(mdl,plottype) plots diagnostics from the mdl generalized linear model in a plot of type plottype.
h = plotDiagnostics(...) returns handles to the lines in the plot.
h = plotDiagnostics(mdl,plottype,Name,Value) plots with additional options specified by one or more Name,Value pair arguments.
For many plots, the Data Cursor tool in the figure window displays the x and y values for any data point, along with the observation name or number.
Generalized linear model, as constructed by fitglm or stepwiseglm.
String specifying the type of plot:
Default: 'leverage'
Specify optional comma-separated pairs of Name,Value arguments. Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name must appear inside single quotes (' '). You can specify several name and value pair arguments in any order as Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN.
Color of the line or marker, a string or ColorSpec specification. For details, see linespec.
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Width of the line or edges of filled area, in points, a positive scalar. One point is 1/72 inch.
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Color of the marker face for filled markers, a string or ColorSpec specification. For details, see linespec.
Size of the marker in points, a strictly positive scalar. One point is 1/72 inch.
The hat matrix H is defined in terms of the data matrix X and a diagonal weight matrix W:
W has diagonal elements wi:
g is the link function mapping yi to xib.
is the derivative of the link function g.
V is the variance function.
μi is the ith mean.
The diagonal elements Hii satisfy
where n is the number of observations (rows of X), and p is the number of coefficients in the regression model.
The leverage of observation i is the value of the ith diagonal term, hii, of the hat matrix H. Because the sum of the leverage values is p (the number of coefficients in the regression model), an observation i can be considered to be an outlier if its leverage substantially exceeds p/n, where n is the number of observations.
The Cook's distance Di of observation i is
is the dispersion parameter (estimated or theoretical).
ei is the linear predictor residual, , where
g is the link function.
yi is the observed response.
xi is the observation.
is the estimated coefficient vector.
p is the number of coefficients in the regression model.
hii is the ith diagonal element of the Hat Matrix H.
Create leverage and Cook's distance plots of a fitted generalized linear model.
Generate artificial data for the model, Poisson random numbers with two underlying predictors X(1) and X(2).
rng('default') % for reproducibility rndvars = randn(100,2); X = [2+rndvars(:,1),rndvars(:,2)]; mu = exp(1 + X*[1;2]); y = poissrnd(mu);
Create a generalized linear regression model of Poisson data.
mdl = fitglm(X,y,... 'y ~ x1 + x2','distr','poisson');
Create a leverage plot.
Create a contour plot with Cook's distance.
[1] Neter, J., M. H. Kutner, C. J. Nachtsheim, and W. Wasserman. Applied Linear Statistical Models, Fourth Edition. Irwin, Chicago, 1996.


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Oliver Wanger
|Oliver Wanger
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|Current Court Information:
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
|Former Judge
|Seat #4
|Appointed by:
|George H.W. Bush
|3/25/1991 - 5/31/2006
|5/31/2006 - 9/30/2011
|Preceded by:
|Milton Schwartz
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|Lawrence O'Neill
|Personal History
|University of Southern California, B.S., 1963
|Law School:
|University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, LL.B., 1966
|Military service:
|U.S. Marine Corps, Reserves as a Sergeant 1960-1967
Oliver Winston Wanger is a former federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He joined the court in 1991 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush. He retired on September 30, 2011.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
A native Californian, Wanger graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with his bachelor's degree in 1963 and later graduated from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law with his law degree in 1966. Wanger also served in the US Marine Corps Reserves as a Sergeant from 1960 to 1967.[3]
Professional career
- 1989: Pro Tem settlement conference judge
- 1988: Reserve Judge, Fresno County
- 1980-1983: Dean, San Joaquin College of Law
- 1975-1980: Attorney, City of Mendota
- 1969-1991: Attorney, private practice
- 1967-1969: Deputy District Attorney for Fresno County
Adjunct professorships
- 1970-1991: San Joaquin College of Law
- 1968-1969: Humphrey College of Law[3]
Judicial career
Eastern District of California
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, Wanger was nominated by President George Bush on January 8, 1991, to a seat vacated by Milton Schwartz. Wanger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 21, 1991 on unanimous consent and received commission on March 25, 1991.[4] Wanger assumed senior status on May 31, 2006, then retired at age 70 on September 30, 2011. Wanger was succeeded in this position by Lawrence O'Neill.==Notable cases==
Delta water pump allowance (2008)Eastern District of California
In 2007, Wanger ruled that state and federal water pumps that deliver about six million acre-feet of delta water to Kern County could eliminate the smelt, which is an endangered species. In order for the water pumping practices to be brought into compliance with the federal Endangered Species Act, Wanger ruled, the pumping had to be reduced by about one-third, to 4 million acre-feet of delta water. Following this decision, water contractors were told to expect 35% of their normal allocation of State Water Project water for 2008.[5]
External links
- Judge Wanger's Biography at the Federal Judicial Center
- Washington Examiner "Angry federal judge rips 'false testimony' of federal scientists," September 22, 2011
- ↑ Associated Press "Federal judge who ruled in water cases steps down," September 25, 2011
- ↑ Sacramento Bee "Ex-judge who ruled for Westlands is now its lawyer," November 30, 2011
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Judge Wanger's Biography at the Federal Judicial Center
- ↑ "THOMAS" Nomination of Oliver Wanger, February 12, 2009
- ↑ Aquafornia, "Where does Southern California's water come from?," April 29, 2008
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Parents and community members in Rockville, Md., are circulating an online petition in opposition of a proposed self-storage development by ezStorage Corp., an operator with 45 facilities throughout Maryland and Virginia. The self-storage company filed an application with the city in May to build a facility at 1175 Taft St., within two blocks of Maryvale Elementary School. The four-story project would encompass 109,764 square feet of storage space, 900 units, 1,100 square feet of office space and a manager's apartment.
The school's PTA adopted a resolution after a pre-application community meeting on March 6. The resolution stated the members were not in favor of the development and encouraged the Rockville City Council and Rockville City Planning Commission to reject it.
The online petition, "Keep the Maryvale Elementary School Neighborhood Safe," at MoveOn.org had accumulated 120 signatures as of May 1. The goal is 200 signatures.
Melissa McKenna, the PTA's past president and current vice president of advocacy, wrote in an e-mail to board members that the community is concerned about student safety. The proposed site is on the corner of Taft and First streets, a busy intersection for the children walking to and from the school, according to McKenna.
"These facilities can increase large vehicle traffic, and invite unlawful activity and dangerous individuals and materials into school zones and neighborhoods," the petition states. It also notes an alert from the national Self Storage Association and Department of Homeland Security in regard to the potential for illegal use of storage units in connection with terrorism. "Our school zone and family-neighborhood location is not appropriate for this facility," it states.
A Rockville city planner told the source he expects the city planning commission to consider the storage proposal in August.
Based in Columbia, Md., and founded in 1987, ezStorage operates 39 self-storage facilities in Maryland and another six in Virginia.


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Entropy 2012, 14(10), 1842-1863; doi:10.3390/e14101842
A Survey on Interference Networks: Interference Alignment and Neutralization
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Abstract: In recent years, there has been rapid progress on understanding Gaussian networks with multiple unicast connections, and new coding techniques have emerged. The essence of multi-source networks is how to efficiently manage interference that arises from the transmission of other sessions. Classically, interference is removed by orthogonalization (in time or frequency). This means that the rate per session drops inversely proportional to the number of sessions, suggesting that interference is a strong limiting factor in such networks. However, recently discovered interference management techniques have led to a paradigm shift that interference might not be quite as detrimental after all. The aim of this paper is to provide a review of these new coding techniques as they apply to the case of time-varying Gaussian networks with multiple unicast connections. Specifically, we review interference alignment and ergodic interference alignment for multi-source single-hop networks and interference neutralization and ergodic interference neutralization for multi-source multi-hop networks. We mainly focus on the "degrees of freedom" perspective and also discuss an approximate capacity characterization.
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Ludovico Einaudiplay artist mix
Ludovico Einaudi OMRI (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. He trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan and under composer Luciano Berio in the early 1980s. Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, and soon began incorporating other styles and genres—including pop, rock, world music, and folk music.


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Also, keep in mind that "smokey" is a phenol that can be generated by yeast.
I would also agree with the above poster that "smokey" and "burnt" are two distinct flavors/aromas
Have you ever dry fired your element. I did mine last weekend. Had to scrub the heck out of it to get the burnt taste off.
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Yikes... Just had a beer from a brewery that runs elements at more than double or even triple our system's Watt density.... It is a hoppy beer and was in the fridge for almost 5 months. The hop flavour faded... Now it tastes like someone ditched cigarette butts in the beer. WOW.... What a terrible taste.
Our beer is fine. Nowhere near this level of burnt....
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Unfortunately, I just had this same problem which led me to a search that found this thread. I have made several great batches with my setup but the last brewday made some gross burned beers and I noticed after brewing that day that my element was covered with burned protein. :-(
It is essential to clean the elements after each batch. A PITA, but essential.
I damaged one of our elements while cleaning them. The gunk burnt onto it was simply too bad so I replaced the element with a temporary hot water cylinder model.
In the meantime we have ordered proper lower heat density elements from a local element manufacturer - they should be ready in two weeks time.
Since our two heated vessels have the same basic design they can be interchanged as mash-lauter tun and boil kettle we realized the simplest way to keep the elements clean is to alternate the vessels. The low pH of the mashing process actually helps clean the elements.
A simple wipe with a cloth in warm water or a mild citric / peracetic acid solution yields elements as good as new after each brew day.
Hey, I was just searching around for brewers who had issues with scorching. I'm early on in the electric brewing, so basically I've got a 5000w heating element with no way to regular the wattage. I did a 90 minute boil several months back and forever will be wary of scorched wort. Until I get a way to ease up on the wattage, I keep my nose in close vicinity to the boil and frequently turn off the breaker. The 90 minute boil without easing the wattage created the foulest smelling wort I've ever smelt. I went ahead and chilled, pitched yeast, thinking, maybe it's ok, but in the end, I dumped the whole 5 gallons. It was disgusting, but I think unregulated wattage was the culprit.


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Chop chop! It's the Lost Girl season finale, so time for a shot of high-speed exposition.
Because Bo's the only person who hadn't worked out her mother's identity from Syfy's trailer, Dyson fills her in: surprise! Bo's mother is the only other succubus on the show. Who'dda thunk it? Not Bo. And oh yeah, Trick is the Blood King. Ok then. Time for some stomping and pouting as Bo reacts to this news in typical, if understandable, Bo fashion but – as Kenzi points out later – "the UN voted and it is considered rude to kill the messenger", so by the end of the ep, everybody's almost forgiven for all the secret-keeping and whatnot. Good: nobody wants to start season 2 with a grudge.
Never mind the messenger though, Bo doesn't even want to kill the homicidal psychopath, so wastes most of the episode trying to connect with her lunatic mother who bombs, kills and let's not forget, tried to devour her daughter's boyfriend last week. Bo doesn't seem to mind any of that too much: she's all about family, or redemption, or heroism, or who knows, maybe she's just about stupidity. Eating poisoned cookies, trusting compulsive liars… yeah, she's about stupidity. And selfishness, obviously, as she continues – as unpopculter e observed last week – to suck the energy out of Dyson whenever it suits her. (I guess there's a difference between facing Aoife alone, and facing Aoife alone, eh, Bo? Hypocrite.)
Because no one else in the show is a fool, though – except over Bo – they keep the episode afloat. Kenzi livens things up with her usual wit and a lovely moment with Hale, Trick and Dyson both heroically (and unnecessarily?) sacrifice way too much to save their succubud and – Bah – super-bore Lauren ends up potentially getting the best deal out of everybody. Bah, again.
A mixed bag of a finale then, much like the season, but I enjoyed most of both. It's not top-flight fantasy tv by any means, and the main character grated as it wore on, but I adore Kenzi and Trick, Dyson and Hale are lovely, and the show's periodically amusing take on myths and legends and forbidden love largely kept me entertained. Word at the moment is that season 2 will make its way to UK screens in mid-January: I'm looking forward to it.
December 3, 2011 at 5:16 pm
"A mixed bag of a finale then, much like the season, but I enjoyed most of both."
Pretty much sums up what I was going to say, so I'll just let you have said it because you did so better than I would have.
"I adore Kenzi and Trick, Dyson and Hale are lovely"
I still think it would be a better show if Bo actually got lost, and the rest of the characters muddled on without her. Like that show "Valerie" that went on to dump its star.


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Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness. You won't get there so quick, not by natural means. You buy your ticket and you climb on board. That ticket costs everything you have. But it's just a one-way. This train takes you into the night, and leaves you there. It's the night train.
Now I feel that someone is inside of me, like an intruder, her flashlight playing. Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me, trying to reveal what I dont want to see.
Suicide is a mind-body problem that ends violently and without any winner.
I've got to slow this shit down. I've got to slow it all down.
What I'm doing here, with my ballpoint, my tape recorder, and my PC--its the same as what Paulie No was doing in the ME's office, with his clamp, his electric saw, his trayfull of knives. Only we call it the psychological autopsy.
I can do this. I am trained to do this.
For a time, though only a short time, and only once to my face, they used to call me "Suicide Mike." This was thought to be too offensive, even for downtown, and they soon abandoned it. Offensive not to the poor bastards found slumped in carseats in sealed garages, or half submerged in crimson bathtubs. Offensive to me: It meant I was fool enough to take any bum call. Because a suicide didn't do a damn thing for your solve rate or your overtime. On the midnights the phone would ring and Mac or O'Boye would be pouting over the cupped receiver and saying, How about you handle this one, Mike? Its an s.d. and I need dough for my mother's operation. A suspicious death--not the murder he craves. For little-boy-lost here also believes that suicides are an insult to his forensic gifts. He wants a regular perpetrator. Not some schmuck who, a century ago, would have been buried at the four-corners, under a heap of rocks, with a stake through his heart. Then for a time--a short time, as I say--they'd hold out the phone and deadpan, It's for you, Mike. Its a suicide. And then I'd yell at them. But they weren' t wrong, maybe. Maybe it moved and compelled me more than it did them, to crouch under the bridge on the riverbank, to stand in a rowhouse stairwell while a shadow rotated slowly on the wall, and think about those who hate their own lives and choose to defy the terrible providence of God.
As part of my job I completed, as many others did, the course called "Suicide: Harsh Conclusions," at Pete, and followed that up, again on city time, with the refresher lecture series on "Patterns of Suicide," at CC. I came to know the graphs and diagrams of suicide, their pie segments, their concentric circles, their color codes, their arrows, their snakes and ladders. With my Suicide Prevention tours, back in the Forty-Four, plus the hundred-some suicides I worked in the Show, I came to know not just the physical aftermaths but the basic suicide picture, ante mortem.
And Jennifer doesn't belong here. She doesn't belong.
I have my folders out on the couch, this Sunday morning. Going through my notes to see what I got:
-In all cultures, risk of suicide increases with age. But not steadily. The diagonal graph-line seems to have a flattish middle section, like a flight of stairs with a landing. Statistically (for what stats are worth around here), if you make it into your twenties, you're on level ground until the risk bump of the midlife.
Jennifer was twenty-eight.
- About 50 percent of suicides have tried before. They are parasuicides or pseudosuicides. About 75 percent give warning. About 90 percent have histories of egression--histories of escape.
Jennifer hadn't tried before. So far as I know, she did not give warning. All her life she saw things through.
- Suicide is very, very means-dependent. Take the means away (toxic domestic gas, for instance) and the rate plummets.
Jennifer didn't need gas. Like many another American, she owned a gun.
These are my notes. What about their notes, and what percentage leave them? Some studies say 70 percent, others say 30. Suicide notes, it is assumed, are often spirited away by the decedents loved ones. Suicides, as we have seen, are often camouflaged--smudged, snowed.
Axiom: Suicides generate false data.
Jennifer, apparently, did not leave a suicide note. But I know she wrote one. I just feel this.
It may run in families but it's not inherited. It is a pattern, or a configuration. It's not a predisposition. If your mother kills herself, it wont help, and it opens a door . . .
Here are some other do's and dont's. Or dont's, anyway:
Don't work around death. Don't work around pharmaceuticals.
Don't be an immigrant. Don't be a German, just off the boat.
Don't be Romanian. Don't be Japanese.
Don't live where the sun doesn't shine.
Don't be an adolescent homosexual: One in three will attempt.
Don't be a nonagenarian Los Angelean.
Don't be an alcoholic. It's suicide on the installment plan, anyway.
Don't be a schizophrenic. Disobey those voices in your head.
Don't be depressed. Lighten up.
Don't be Jennifer Rockwell.
And don't be a man. Don't be a man, whatever you do. Tony Silvera was, of course, talking through his ass when he said that suicide was a "babe thing." To the contrary, suicide is a dude thing. Attempting is a woman thing: Theyre more than twice as likely to do that. Completing is a man thing: They're more than twice as likely to do that. There's only one day in the year when its safer to be male. Mother's Day.
Mother's Day is the day for felo de se. How come? I wonder. Is it the all-you-can-eat brunch at the Quality Inn? No. The suicides are the women who skipped the lunch. They're the women who skipped the kids.
Dont be Jennifer Rockwell.
The question is: But why not?
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Cooking timeReady in 10 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
Four creamy vice-free dips
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Nutrition per serving (base dip)
- kcalories
- 36
- protein
- 4g
- carbs
- 2g
- fat
- 1g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 0.28g
- 100g light soft cheese
- 50g fat-free bio yogurt
Garlic & herb
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- handful of snipped chives
- a little lemon juice
- fresh ground pepper
- 125g pack of chopped smoked salmon
- a few sprigs of chopped dill
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- For the dip base, mix 100g light soft cheese with 50g fat-free bio-yogurt.
- For garlic & herb, stir in crushed garlic clove, snipped chives, a little lemon juice and fresh ground pepper.
- For the fish dip, take the chopped smoked salmon and a few sprigs of chopped dill and stir in the base dip.
- For spice-lovers, stir a little chilli dipping sauce, to taste, through the base mix.
- Go Greek and stir through grated cucumber, and a handful of chopped mint.
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Very easy to make! made the mistake of putting two garlic cloves in the garlic dip which totally ruined it, but otherwise was nice.
Please note- the measurements are per dip (i.e 100g and 50g will make enough for 1 portion of dip).
Cucumber and mint was delicious
Chilli wasn't to my liking but my mum finished it all up!
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Gold futures for August delivery rose 0.7 percent to settle at $1,571.20 an ounce at 1:38 p.m. on the Comex in New York. The contract still fell 1.4 percent this week as concern that Europe's debt crisis will escalate lifted the dollar, cutting demand for alternative investments.
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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Aside from his sterling work with the athletes he oversees at King's College, Greg Janik spends some of his energy trying to fix state legislature.
From aching bodies to ailing laws that govern the way they're treated, Janik simply enjoys helping heal things.
Maybe that's why he's recognized as the best.
Janik, a Penn State grad and former Philadelphia Eagles intern, will be announced today as the National Athletic Trainers' Association's head athletic trainer of the year for Division III.
"Oh man," Janik said. "It's certainly a humbling honor. This is an honor for King's College, for our conference. No one does it on an island."
His work, though, stands alone at the top.
As president of the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society, Janik helped lead the way for licensure for athletic trainers, and helping state government re-write and pass a concussion-management law.
"I'm certainly no politician," Janik, an Easton native and Dallas resident, said. "I've always been a person who wasn't afraid to express myself for causes I thought I could help. These things weren't written very well, or they could be done better. The reason (he has influence in writing state sports health laws) is the politicians and legislators see I care."
That's not hard for anyone to notice, given that Janik has mentored dozens of assistants and hundreds of students at King's on the nuances of his profession during his seven seasons at head athletic trainer at King's.
Janik took his teaching of sports training to an even higher level in 2008, developing and moderating the first Pennsylvania student quiz bowl — a competition of sports training knowledge for students from various colleges. Later, that challenge grew into a national competition.
"That awards are great. If I can have a few students that get inspired by it, that's what it's all about," Janik said.
For him, it's also about caring for 19 varsity sports, as well as cheerleading, at King's. Janik works with a staff of eight assistant trainers to ensure medical coverage for all practices and games at King's. His extraordinary work ethic and medical care twice earned him the school's John Dorish Award for outstanding service by vote of the football team and athletic department at King's.
The 37-year-old Janik, a Wilson High School grad, originally planned to take up physical therapy in college, but followed his girlfriend to Penn State's Hazleton campus and changed his career path.
"They didn't have physical therapy," Janik said. "They had athletic training. That was the closest thing."
Janik pursued the major at Penn State's main campus for three years until his graduation, then received his master's degree in sports health care from the Arizona School of Health Sciences at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
He spent the 1999 NFL season interning with the Eagles. He said he learned valuable ideas that year from the team's head trainer that season Rick Burkholder (now in Kansas City with former Eagles coach Andy Reid) and former Eagles assistant and Hazleton native Eric Sugarman, now the head trainer for the Minnesota Vikings.
"Rick taught me a lot. I keep in touch with those guys," Janik said.
He joined the King's training staff in 2000, and as spent the past seven years as the program's head trainer, a position he sees himself in for the foreseeable future.
"My aspirations coming out of school were to work at the professional level," Janik said. "King's, I came into it as a start-up job. Now, I can see myself here for as long as King's will keep me."


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There are six species of swan. Swans can both fly and swim. Pairs of swans stay together for years and sometimes mate for life. Trumpeter Swans are the largest birds in North America. They weigh around 25 pounds and have a wingspan of around 7 feet.
- "Cygnus buccinator" Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_buccinator
- "Cygnus". Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(genus)
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 20 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 0
Temperature range (°C): 7.705 - 11.597
Nitrate (umol/L): 1.075 - 9.948
Salinity (PPS): 5.715 - 35.352
Oxygen (ml/l): 6.129 - 8.325
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.240 - 0.679
Silicate (umol/l): 2.296 - 11.140
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Temperature range (°C): 7.705 - 11.597
Nitrate (umol/L): 1.075 - 9.948
Salinity (PPS): 5.715 - 35.352
Oxygen (ml/l): 6.129 - 8.325
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.240 - 0.679
Silicate (umol/l): 2.296 - 11.140
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Specimens with Sequences:46
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Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' close relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six or seven species of swan in the genus Cygnus; in addition there is another species known as the coscoroba swan, although this species is no longer considered one of the true swans. Swans usually mate for life, though "divorce" does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure. And if a mate dies, or is killed by a predator, the remaining mate will take up with another; however, if all goes well in the pairing, they indeed will stay together for life. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight.
Etymology and terminology[edit]
The word swan is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan and Swedish svan, in turn derived from Indo-European root *swen (to sound, to sing).[1] Young swans are known as swanlings or as cygnets, from Greek κύκνος, kýknos and from the Latin word cygnus ("swan") and the Old French suffix -et ("little"). An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen.
The swans are the largest members of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and are among the largest flying birds. The largest species, including the mute swan, trumpeter swan, and whooper swan, can reach a length of over 1.5 m (60 inches) and weigh over 15 kg (33 pounds). Their wingspans can be almost 3 m (10 ft). Compared to the closely related geese, they are much larger and have proportionally larger feet and necks.[2] Adults also have a patch of unfeathered skin between the eyes and bill. The sexes are alike in plumage, but males are generally bigger and heavier than females.
The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white. The Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) is completely black except for the white flight feathers on its wings; the chicks of black swans are light grey. The South American black-necked swan has a white body with a black neck.
The legs of swans are normally a dark blackish grey colour, except for the two South American species, which have pink legs. Bill colour varies: the four subarctic species have black bills with varying amounts of yellow, and all the others are patterned red and black. Although most birds generally do not have teeth, swans are known to be an exception to this, having small jagged 'teeth' as part of their beaks used for catching and eating fish. The mute swan and black-necked swan have a lump at the base of the bill on the upper mandible.[citation needed]
Distribution and movements[edit]
The swans are generally found in temperate environments, rarely occurring in the tropics. A group of swans is called a bevy or a wedge in flight. Four (or five) species occur in the Northern Hemisphere, one species is found in Australia and New Zealand and one species is distributed in southern South America. They are absent from tropical Asia, Central America, northern South America and the entirety of Africa. One species, the mute swan, has been introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand.[2]
Several species are migratory, either wholly or partly so. The mute swan is a partial migrant, being resident over areas of Western Europe but wholly migratory in Eastern Europe and Asia. The whooper swan and tundra swan are wholly migratory, and the trumpeter swans are almost entirely migratory.[2] There is some evidence that the black-necked swan is migratory over part of its range, but detailed studies have not established whether these movements are long or short range migration.[3]
Swans feed in the water and on land. They are almost entirely herbivorous, although they may eat small amounts of aquatic animals. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.[2]
Although swans only reach sexual maturity between 4 and 7 years of age, they can form socially monogamous pair bonds from as early as 20 months that last for many years,[4] and in some cases these can last for life.[5] The lifespan of the mute swan is often over 10 years, and sometimes over 20, whereas the black-necked swan survives for less than a decade in captivity.[6] These bonds are maintained year round, even in gregarious and migratory species like the tundra swan, which congregate in large flocks in the wintering grounds.[7] The nest is on the ground near water and about a metre across. Unlike many other ducks and geese the male helps with the nest construction. Average egg size (for the mute swan) is 113×74 mm, weighing 340 g, in a clutch size of 4 to 7, and an incubation period of 34–45 days.[8] With the exception of the whistling ducks they are the only anatids where the males aid in incubating the eggs.
Swans are known to aggressively protect their nests. One man was suspected to have drowned in such an attack.[9][10]
Systematics and evolution[edit]
Evidence suggests that the genus Cygnus evolved in Europe or western Eurasia during the Miocene, spreading all over the Northern Hemisphere until the Pliocene. When the southern species branched off is not known. The mute swan apparently is closest to the Southern Hemisphere Cygnus (del Hoyo et al., eds, Handbook of the Birds of the World); its habits of carrying the neck curved (not straight) and the wings fluffed (not flush) as well as its bill color and knob indicate that its closest living relative is the black swan. Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges (which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age) and great similarity between the taxa.
Genus Cygnus
- Subgenus Cygnus
- Mute swan, Cygnus olor, is a Eurasian species that occurs at lower latitudes than whooper swan and Bewick's swan across Europe into southern Russia, China and the Russian Maritimes. Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to "native" status in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years. Common temperate Eurasian species, often semi-domesticated descendants of domestic flocks, are naturalized in the United States and elsewhere.
- Subgenus Chenopis
- Black swan, Cygnus atratus of Australia, and introduced in New Zealand
- †New Zealand swan, Cygnus atratus sumnerensis, an extinct subspecies of the black swan from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands
- Black swan, Cygnus atratus of Australia, and introduced in New Zealand
- Subgenus Sthenelides
- Black-necked swan, Cygnus melancoryphus of South America
- Subgenus Olor
- Whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus breeds in Iceland and subarctic Europe and Asia, migrating to temperate Europe and Asia in winter
- Trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator is the largest North American swan. Very similar to the whooper swan (and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it), it was hunted almost to extinction but has since recovered
- Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus is a small swan that breeds on the North American tundra, further north than the trumpeter swan. It winters in the USA.
- Bewick's swan, Cygnus (columbianus) bewickii is the Eurasian form that migrates from Arctic Russia to western Europe and eastern Asia (China, Japan) in winter. It is often considered a subspecies of C. columbianus, creating the species tundra swan.
The fossil record of the genus Cygnus is quite impressive, although allocation to the subgenera is often tentative; as indicated above, at least the early forms probably belong to the C. olor – Southern Hemisphere lineage, whereas the Pleistocene taxa from North America would be placed in Olor. A number of prehistoric species have been described, mostly from the Northern Hemisphere. Among them was the giant Siculo-Maltese C. falconeri, which was taller (though not heavier) than the contemporary local dwarf elephants (Elephas falconeri).
Fossil record[edit]
- †Cygnus csakvarensis (Late Miocene of Hungary) – formerly Cygnanser
- †Cygnus mariae (Early Pliocene of Wickieup, USA)
- †Cygnus verae (Early Pliocene of Sofia, Bulgaria)[11]
- †Cygnus liskunae (Middle Pliocene of W Mongolia)
- †Cygnus hibbardi (?Early Pleistocene of Idaho, USA)
- †Cygnus sp. (Early Pleistocene of Dursunlu, Turkey: Louchart et al. 1998)
- †Giant swan, Cygnus falconeri (Middle Pleistocene of Malta and Sicily, Mediterranean)
- †Cygnus paloregonus (Middle Pleistocene of WC USA) – includes "Anser" condoni and C. matthewi
- †Dwarf swan Cygnus equitum (Middle – Late Pleistocene of Malta and Sicily, Mediterranean)
- †Cygnus lacustris (Late Pleistocene of Lake Eyre region, Australia) – formerly Archaeocygnus
- †Cygnus sp. (Pleistocene of Australia)[citation needed][verification needed]
The supposed fossil swans "Cygnus" bilinicus and "Cygnus" herrenthalsi were, respectively, a stork and some large bird of unknown affinity (due to the bad state of preservation of the referred material). Anser atavus is sometimes placed in Cygnus.
The coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) from South America, the only species of its genus, is apparently not a true swan. Its phylogenetic position is not fully resolved; it is in some aspects more similar to geese and shelducks.
In culture[edit]
Many of the cultural aspects refer to the mute swan of Europe. Perhaps the best known story about a swan is "The Ugly Duckling" fairytale. Swans are often a symbol of love or fidelity because of their long-lasting, apparently monogamous relationships. See the famous swan-related operas Lohengrin and Parsifal. Swan meat was regarded as a luxury food in England in the reign of Elizabeth I. A recipe for baked swan survives from that time: "To bake a Swan Scald it and take out the bones, and parboil it, then season it very well with Pepper, Salt and Ginger, then lard it, and put it in a deep Coffin of Rye Paste with store of Butter, close it and bake it very well, and when it is baked, fill up the Vent-hole with melted Butter, and so keep it; serve it in as you do the Beef-Pie."[12]
Swans feature strongly in mythology. In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta. Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise-silent mute swan would sing beautifully—hence the phrase swan song; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a "rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird. The mute swan is also one of the sacred birds of Apollo, whose associations stem both from the nature of the bird as a symbol of light as well as the notion of a "swan song". The god is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by or composed of swans in his ascension from Delos.
The Irish legend of the Children of Lir is about a stepmother transforming her children into swans for 900 years. In the legend The Wooing of Etain, the king of the Sidhe (subterranean-dwelling, supernatural beings) transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies. The swan has recently been depicted on an Irish commemorative coin.
Swans are also present in Irish literature in the poetry of W.B. Yeats. "The Wild Swans at Coole" has a heavy focus on the mesmerising characteristics of the swan. Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in the poem of the same name.
In Norse mythology, there are two swans that drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods. According to the Prose Edda, the water of this well is so pure and holy that all things that touch it turn white, including this original pair of swans and all others descended from them. The poem Volundarkvida, or the Lay of Volund, part of the Poetic Edda, also features swan maidens.
In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever killed a swan would perish as well. Jean Sibelius composed the Lemminkäinen Suite based on Kalevala, with the second piece entitled Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen). Today, five flying swans are the symbol of the Nordic Countries and the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) is the national bird of Finland.
French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.
A swan is one of the attributes of St Hugh of Lincoln based on the story of a swan who was devoted to him.
In Latin American literature, the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867–1916) consecrated the swan as a symbol of artistic inspiration by drawing attention to the constancy of swan imagery in Western culture, beginning with the rape of Leda and ending with Wagner's Lohengrin. Darío's most famous poem in this regard is Blasón – "Coat of Arms" (1896), and his use of the swan made it a symbol for the Modernismo poetic movement that dominated Spanish language poetry from the 1880s until the First World War. Such was the dominance of Modernismo in Spanish language poetry that the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez attempted to announce the end of Modernismo with a sonnet provocatively entitled, Tuércele el cuello al cisne – "Wring the Swan's Neck" (1910).
Swans are revered in Hinduism, and are compared to saintly persons whose chief characteristic is to be in the world without getting attached to it, just as a swan's feather does not get wet although it is in water. The Sanskrit word for swan is hamsa or hansa, and the "Raja Hansa" or the Royal Swan is the vehicle of Goddess Saraswati, and symbolises the "Sattwa Guna" or purity par excellence. The swan if offered a mixture of milk and water, is said to be able to drink the milk alone. Therefore Goddess Saraswati the goddess of knowledge is seen riding the swan because the swan thus symbolizes "Viveka" i.e. prudence and discrimination between the good and the bad or between the eternal and the transient. This is taken as a great quality, as shown by this Sanskrit verse:
It is mentioned several times in the Vedic literature, and persons who have attained great spiritual capabilities are sometimes called Paramahamsa ("Supreme Swan") on account of their spiritual grace and ability to travel between various spiritual worlds. In the Vedas, swans are said to reside in the summer on Lake Manasarovar and migrate to Indian lakes for the winter. They're believed to possess some powers such as the ability to eat pearls.
See also[edit]
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "swan". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ a b c d Kear, Janet, ed. (2005). Ducks, Geese and Swans. Bird Families of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861008-4.
- ^ Schlatter, Roberto; Rene A. Navarro & Paulo Corti (2002). "Effects of El Nino Southern Oscillation on Numbers of Black-Necked Swans at Rio Cruces Sanctuary, Chile". Waterbirds: the International Journal of Waterbird Biology 25 (Special Publication 1): 114–122. JSTOR 1522341.
- ^ Ross, Drew (Mar–Apr 1998). "Gaining Ground: A Swan's Song". National Parks 72 (3–4): 35.
- ^ Rees, Eileen. "6: Swans are one of the few species that can divert to homosexuality in times of loneliness. Mate fidelity in swans, an interspecific comparison". In Jeffrey M. Black, Mark Hulme. Partnerships in birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 118–122. ISBN 0-19-854860-5.
- ^ Catharine Bell, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of the world's zoos, vol. 3. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 1186. ISBN 9781579581749.
- ^ Scott, D.K. (1980). "Functional aspects of the pair bond in winter in Bewick's swans (Cygnus columbianus bewickii)". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 7 (4): 323–327. doi:10.1007/BF00300673.
- ^ Mute Swan. British Trust for Ornithology
- ^ Waldren, Ben (16 April 2012) Killer Swan Blamed for Man's Drowning. Yahoo News
- ^ "Who, What, Why: How dangerous are swans?". BBC News. 17 April 2012.
- ^ Boev, Z. 2000. Cygnus verae sp. n. (Anseriformes: Anatidae) from the Early Pliocene of Sofia (Bulgaria). - Acta zoologica cracovienzia, Krakow, 43 (1-2): 185-192.
- ^ "Baked Swan. Old Elizabethan Recipe". elizabethan-era.org.uk.
Black-necked swan
The black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) is a swan that is the largest waterfowl native to South America.
Adults average 102 to 124 cm (40 to 49 in) and weigh 3.5-6.7 kg (7.7-14.8 lbs).[3] The wingspan ranges from 135 to 177 cm (53 to 70 in).[4] The body plumage is white with a black neck and head and greyish bill. It has a red knob near the base of the bill and white stripe behind eye. The sexes are similar, with the female slightly smaller. The cygnet has a light grey plumage with black bill and feet. The black-necked swan was formerly placed in monotypic genus, Sthenelides.
The smallest member in its genus, it is found in freshwater marshes, lagoon and lake shores in southern South America. The black-necked swan breeds in Chilean Southern Zone, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and on the Falkland Islands. In the austral winter, this species migrates northwards to Paraguay and southern Brazil.[citation needed] The wetlands created by the Great Chilean Earthquake like Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary in Cruces River have become important population centers for the black-necked swan.
In 2004 and 2005 thousands of black-necked swans in the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary in Chile died or migrated away following major contamination by Valdivia Pulp Mill located on the Cruces River which feeds the wetlands. By August 2005 the birds in the Sanctuary had been "wiped out"; only four birds could be observed from a population formerly estimated at 5,000 birds. Autopsies on dead swans attributed the deaths to high levels of iron and other metals polluting the water.[5]
The black-necked swan, like its nearest relatives the black and mute swan is relatively silent. Also, unlike most wildfowl, both parents regularly carry the cygnets on their backs. The female lays four to six eggs in a nest of vegetation mound. The diet consists mainly of vegetation, insects and fish spawn.
Widespread and common throughout its habitat, the black-necked swan is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cygnus melancoryphus.
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Cygnus melancoryphus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "Cygnus melanocoryphus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J.(1992) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 1:Ostrich to Ducks Lynx Edicions, Barcelona
- ^ Ogilvie & Young, Wildfowl of the World. New Holland Publishers (2004), ISBN 978-1-84330-328-2
- ^ Anderson, S. (June 19, 2007). "Celco Trashes River Yet Again, Shuts Down Plant.". Patagonia Times.
Further reading[edit]
- David, N. & Gosselin, M. (2002): Gender agreement of avian species names. Bull. B. O. C. 122: 14-49.
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crease in other types of tumors now seems certain. Another long-term effect of nitrogen mustard treatment is pulmonary fibrosis, produced by damage to the pneumocytes.
Certainly, hematopoietic depression is seen with sulfur mustard exposure in man, although (except in massive exposures) the degree and frequency do not seem to be as intense or frequent as with the nitrogen mustards. This difference is likely due to the more direct exposure to the bone marrow of the nitrogen mustards when given by systemic exposure. This same rationale probably explains why acute leukemia has not been recognized as a consequence of sulfur mustard exposure. However, the increased incidence of solid tumors seen with nitrogen mustard would support the conclusion that exposure of the lungs and skin to sulfur mustard produces a carcinogenic effect on these tissues. Similarly, the delayed pulmonary toxicity seen in a small percentage of patients treated with nitrogen mustards would suggest that long-term damage to the lungs would be expected with intense exposure of the lungs to sulfur mustard.
The preparation of Lewisite (L-1) by the original procedure is complicated and dangerous. It involves the reaction of acetylene with arsenic trichloride, by using aluminum chloride as a catalyst. The reaction yields three principal products (5-19):
The optimum yield of Lewisite is about 20 percent, obtained along with L-2, L-3, tar, and an explosive material. Acetylene reacts with AsCl3 in hydrochloric acid solution, with mercuric chloride as a catalyst, to give Lewisite in 80 to 85 percent yield (based on AsCl 3). Cuprous chloride and ethanolamine hydrochloride used together, however, constitute the best catalyst for the reaction.
The hydrolysis of Lewisite by water involves the following equilibria (5-20):


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