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University of Wisconsin Extension forage specialist Dan Undersander asked producers if alfalfa was going to be part of their crop mix this coming growing season.
Dan Undersander, University of Wisconsin Extension forage specialist, at a spring field day.
Look for alfalfa acres in Wisconsin to increase in the growing season ahead, especially if springtime planting weather is more favorable than it was in 2011, says University of Wisconsin (UW) Extension forage specialist Dan Undersander.
Undersander surveyed producers during a series of eight UW Agronomy Update sessions throughout the state the first week of January. Approximately 500 people attended.
Most of those surveyed said poor weather in April of 2011 – too dry in some areas, too wet in others – reduced new alfalfa seedings. Roughly three-quarters of respondents believed high grain prices held 2011 seeding numbers down. "We should see things recover a bit this year," says Undersander. "Some of those producers are going to want to come back and seed some of the acres that they couldn't get planted a year ago."
In its Crop Production2011 Summary, USDA estimated that Wisconsin seedings of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures totaled 430,000 acres, unchanged from the previous year, but down 20,000 acres from the 2009 figure.

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Hack and / - Linux Troubleshooting, Part I: High Load
Listing 4. Example iotop Tool Output
Total DISK READ: 189.52 K/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 8169 be/4 root 189.52 K/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % rsync --server --se 4243 be/4 kyle 0.00 B/s 3.79 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % cli /usr/lib/gnome- 4244 be/4 kyle 0.00 B/s 3.79 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % cli /usr/lib/gnome- 1 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init
How you deal with these load-causing processes is up to you and depends on a lot of factors. In some cases, you might have a script that has gone out of control and is something you can easily kill. In other situations, such as in the case of a database process, it might not be safe simply to kill the process, because it could leave corrupted data behind. Plus, it could just be that your service is running out of capacity, and the real solution is either to add more resources to your current server or add more servers to share the load. It might even be load from a one-time job that is running on the machine and shouldn't impact load in the future, so you just can let the process complete. Because so many different things can cause processes to tie up server resources, it's hard to list them all here, but hopefully, being able to identify the causes of your high load will put you on the right track the next time you get an alert that a machine is slow.
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Load averages
I mange some quadcore linux systems and basically get a spike in load averages every now and then. I looking forward to deploying a permanent fix for this . I
Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 uptime only lasted about 35 days and then there was a kernel security update so I had to reboot.
From what I've seen Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS have kernel security updates about every three or four months.
Maybe it's time for FreeBSD...
in reply to uptime question
"...what distro are you using to get 365 days of uptime..."
Just to comment on the question, I used to manage a few FreeBSD boxes (as internet gateway, mail server, DNS server and Samba server) for a company that virtually had no budget for their IT department.
We did not have brand named hardware. One of the servers was even built using part I scavenged from old boxes.
Most of them were very stable with uptime of more than 365 days.
The only time we had to switch off the server was because of a planned electricity upgrade by the electricity department - a possibility of outage of more than 5 hours just after midnight. Other than that, it was one case of bad sector on one of the mirrored hard disk.
In my opinion, it might not be Linux or the OS that causes low uptime. Rather, its the applications that we run on it bring down the system most of the time.
Like Kyle, I only upgraded the OS for security reasons.
iotop on centos
# rpm -i iotop-0.4-1.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by iotop-0.4-1.noarch
Setting up Install Process
Package python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
1. Where can I get a iotop compatible with python-2.4
2. If not, how can I upgrade my python on Centos 5?
Bob, maybe its not the distro
Bob, maybe its not the distro itself that's causing your problem.
Thanks for the info. I guess Debian stable has, from my two years of experience, had kernel security updates at least every 3 months.
I was waiting to see which would come out first, Ubuntu 10.04 or CentOS 5.5, and had decided that which ever was released first is what I would use (for now). Knowing that Ubuntu would be supported for 5 years and CentOS for roughly the same time frame for 5.5 or 7 years from release.
Anyway, I've installed Ubuntu and it's been running nicely for 14 days now. When I ssh into the server it has an interesting summary of system information like: System Load, Swap usage, CPU temperature, Users logged in, Usage of /home, and then it tells me how many packages can be updated and how many are security updates which I thought was kind of nice.
During install it asked if I wanted to setup unattended-upgrades for security updates, I know it can be a little scary, but this is just a home server so I agreed. So everyday it checks for security updates and if there are any it installs them and sends me an email of what was done (Thanks must go to Kyle for his great tutorials of setting up a mail server with postfix. Thanks Kyle!).
We'll see what kinds of uptimes I get now.
Say Bob,
I've been running Gentoo these last few years and the only thing that shortens the uptime on my servers is when a kernel comes out with new features or security updates. That aside, I can/could break the 365 day uptime with ease on these boxes.
The only real time I had problems getting a box to run for any lenght of time, was when I finally figured out that it had some badly manufactured memory in it. Swapped the junk out for some name brand sticks and it ran as I expected it to.
With linux, any problems with operation, I would suspect hardware issues before digging aroung the OS.
Just my two cents...
---- Jerry McBride
I use a mix of distributions
I use a mix of distributions and have gotten 1-2 year uptimes on most of them. In production I'm also resistant to update something just so the version number is higher, so as long as I have reasonably stable applications and reliable power, it's not too difficult to maintain a high uptime. The main enemy of it these days is kernel upgrades, which again, I resist unless there is a good reason (security) to do so.
Kyle Rankin is a director of engineering operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, the author of a number of books including DevOps Troubleshooting and The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and is a columnist for Linux Journal.
So, the age old question ...
Kyle, what distro are you using to get 365 days of uptime?
I've been running Debian for a couple of years and never seen anything greater than 77 days. Thinking of switching my server to Slackware or something else.
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ELMWOOD PARK, Ill. -- An Elmwood Park 911 dispatcher talked a desperate father through CPR after his 3-week-old daughter stopped breathing, and paramedics were later able to resuscitate the girl on the way to the hospital.
About 3 p.m. Oct. 9, the girl's frantic parents called 911, saying their daughter, Amelia, had stopped breathing, while her father, Brent Patterson, was changing her diaper.
"It was a congenital brain problem that caused my daughter to stop breathing," he said.
The girl's face had gone pale and the anxiety of Patterson's wife could be heard when speaking to the 911 dispatcher.
"Please save my baby!" she pleaded.
Nick Risicato, 23, the dispatcher who took their call, said his training in various emergency scenarios immediately took over.
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Elmwood Park Fire Chief Michael Marino said Risicato was able to instruct Patterson how to perform infant CPR over the phone, and paramedics were sent to the home. They arrived about 3 minutes after the initial call was made.
Marino said once they got there, his paramedics began to work on the girl on the way to Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park.
"Just when they pulled up (to the hospital) the baby regained consciousness," Marino said. Emergency room staffers were able to keep the little girl breathing until she was transferred to Loyola University Medical Center, Marino said.
"The baby is showing signs of improving and that makes me feel good," he said. "It was pretty much a team effort and we're pretty good at what we do."
The baby is now being treated at the hospital, and her father thanked everyone involved with saving her.
"We're grateful for the quick response time and the things that have been done," he said. "My daughter nearly died."
Still, Ameilia isn't out of the woods yet - she had to have an operation the day after she stopped breathing.
"We're dealing with a very difficult situation and we hope it works out for the best," Patterson said. "We have a long way to go."


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CAMP HILL, Pa., Oct. 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global diversified industrial company Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC) announced today three new international orders within its Harsco Rail group totaling more than $85 million in projected revenues and further adding to the group's multi-year production backlog.
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Welcome to Polish Song and Dance Ensemble Lajkonik located in Sydney Australia.
The Lajkonik Mission Statement is to have a well-run Ensemble which strives for performance excellence. We have our own unique style which involves both singing and dancing, and we undertake a range of interesting projects throughout the year which serve to build up our diverse repertoire.
We are non-profit group dedicated to promote Polish culture through song and dance. The group was established in 1990 and has been thrilling audiences locally, nationally, and internationally ever since.
The Ensemble can be booked for special events such as weddings, 50th birthday parties, conferences etc.
Lajkonik Song and Dance Ensemble welcomes new youth and children wanting to join! Come and join us at the rehearsal time.
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Junior Group: All Saints Parish Hall, Liverpool 6.30pm to 8.00pm, Monday evenings
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Ko Chang noi: Thailand's most laidback island?
As far as countries go, Thailand is known to be an especially laidback one, and some of the Thai language's most frequently used phrases express this. There's sabai sabai, which most phrasebooks translate simply as "relax", but to me it's more like "chill chill" or better yet, "just kick back and relax because everything is well and good".
There's jai yen, literally translated as "cool heart", and used either to suggest that someone "chill out", or to describe one who possesses a particularly cool and composed disposition, which is highly commendable in Thai society. And of course, there's mai pen rai, the phrase with a thousand meanings, all of which correlate to relaxing, stepping aside and just letting things be.
Sometimes, this mai pen rai attitude can be annoying, like when dozens of Thais are doing that ever so slow sabai style of walking and thereby blocking one of Bangkok's notoriously narrow sidewalks when you're late for the bus. Most of the time, however, Thailand's laidback ways are welcomed by travellers looking to escape the bustle and overly uptight rules and regulations of places like my home country, the United States.
As far as big cities go, Bangkok is an amazingly laidback metropolis, and Chiang Mai somehow captures that lazy country porch atmosphere in a city of some 600,000 people. Yet, if Thailand were an earthquake of sabai sabai, the southern islands would be the fault line, and after a recent visit I'm convinced that Ko Chang noi off Thailand's west coast (not to be confused with big Ko Chang southeast of Bangkok) is the country's laidback epicentre.
Ko Chang noi attracts a special type of person. If you enjoy lounging for hours to dub reggae music; if you consider your daily exercise to be the stroll from bungalow hammock to beach hammock; if you prefer to have no clue what day of the week it is; and if you're perfectly happy to lose yourself on an island where all of the above are normal, then Ko Chang noi is for you.
This island is not for those seeking pricey air-con bungalows with room service, satellite TV and those little complimentary slippers for when you've just emerged from the shower. In fact, all of Ko Chang noi's modest resorts run generators between 17:00 and 23:00 only, and even during these "lights on" hours you won't find hot showers, fans or TVs anywhere on the island. The cell phone signal is weak but accessible at a few strategic points only, and internet is unstable at best, so if roughing it is not your thing you might consider somewhere like Ko Phi Phi, Ko Ngai, or Ko Lipe.
For those who are happy to let the ocean breeze alone cool them at night, Ko Chang noi offers an ample supply of cheap bungalows at some very — you guessed it — laid back resorts. Nearly all of the island's accommodation is in the 200 to 500 baht range, and it's one of Thailand's last remaining islands where you can still live relatively comfortably for under 500 baht per day.
This partly explains why so many come back to Ko Chang noi year after year and often stay for months on end, but it's not the low prices alone that bring people back. Ultimately, the island's chilled out atmosphere and positively intoxicating Rastafarian style vibes — if you get the hint — explain the loyalty of Ko Chang's visitors.
In particular, a consistent group of artists, writers and musicians come to the island each year for extended stays, and it's not difficult to see how this place is highly suitable both for getting the creative juices flowing and for rejuvenating body, mind and soul.
A few activities are available for those who've realised they haven't moved from a single beach chair for the last two weeks. Several of the resorts either rent out sea kayaks or allow guests to use them for free, and there are some picturesque rocky formations and totally secluded beaches along the island's north and east coasts.
Some of the resorts can organise fishing trips on longtail boats, and a lone diving operation is based out of Cashew Resort. If that all sounds just a little too adventurous, Cashew Resort also offers daily yoga classes, and some rousing beach volleyball games are held every evening at dusk at Eden Resort. After dark, a guitar sing along beside a campfire is always a favourite.
Most who arrive at Ko Chang noi stay at one of the handful of resorts located along Long Beach, the island's main stretch of sand, but if you're seeking isolation there are a few good spots towards the island's northern tip that occupy wooded hillsides and private beaches. In this neighbourhood I recommend Sea Eagle Resort, Rattana Bungalows, or the oddly named Contex Resort.
Closer to the "action," Changthong Resort is a charming family run spot that was one of Ko Chang's first resorts, and Crocodile Point gets serious points for its high level of hospitality and service, picturesque patio restaurant perched on a cliff above the beach, and breezy, tasteful bungalows set on a shady hill overlooking the sea.
One final tip: for dinner don't miss Little Italy down a path off Long Beach. Here you'll find a laidback Italian chef who whips up some of the best pesto Genovese, tiramisu, espresso and fresh baked Italian bread I've tried anywhere in Thailand.
Ko Chang noi is reached by daily longtail ferries that cost 150 baht and depart from a special pier in Ranong at 9:30, 12:00 and 14:00 during high season, or — weather permitting — around 14:00 in the rainy season. The hammocks are free.
Sea Eagle Resort
Sea Eagle Beach, Ko Chang noi
Rattana Bungalow
Ko Chang noi (north of Long Beach)
Contex Resort
Ko Chang noi (north of Long Beach)
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Long Beach, Ko Chang noi
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Long Beach, Ko Chang noi
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# royon 05 Apr 2012 at 3:26 pm
Good bye Koh Chang?
# Shots along the way, 7 April 2012 | bright blue buson 07 Apr 2012 at 11:29 pm
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# Isabelon 05 Dec 2012 at 9:22 pm
It was nice to read this, I stayed there last february and loved it, 2 weeks there and one forgets about the world I stayed with Tonn and Pit at Crocodile Rock Bungalows, here's their website: http://kohchangandaman.webs.com/