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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 136, February 06, 1998
Beowulf Seminar
Thomas Sterling of JPL/Caltch will be the featured guest at a seminar on Beowulf, to be held at ARSC, on March 5th and 6th. More information to follow.
ARSC Spring Training Schedule
February 11: Introduction to ARSC: Is there a supercomputer in your future? February 18: Introduction to the Y-MP February 25: Introduction to Parallel Programming March 4: Introduction to NQS March 11: Introduction to CRL March 25: Scientific Visualization at ARSC
For details and registration forms, see: http://www.arsc.edu/user/Classes.html .
Monte Carlo Methods: Introduction
This is the first in a four part series. The series will introduce the following aspects of Monte Carlo Methods: history and mathematical theory (contributed by Dr. Giray Okten); a sample parallel implementation (Tom Baring); and scientific applications and advanced MPI support (Guy Robinson).
[ Many thanks to Dr. Giray Okten, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for contributing the first two articles in this series. ]
Monte Carlo methods were mainly developed in the 1940s, by mathematicians and scientists, including von Neumann, Fermi, Ulam and Metropolis, working on the development of nuclear weapons in Los Alamos during World War II. It is believed that the term "Monte Carlo" was coined for these methods as a code word, by Von Neumann and Ulam, suggesting the "probabilistic" nature of them. Indeed, these methods were first applied to problems with apparent probabilistic structure.
The first documented application, where we see the ideas behind Monte Carlo methods, appears in a paper by G. Comte de Buffon in 1777. He described an experiment in which a needle of length "L" is thrown randomly onto a floor ruled with parallel straight lines a distance "D" apart. He then suggested estimating the probability "P," that the needle will intersect a line, by throwing the needle many times and calculating the ratio of the number of throws intersecting a line to the total number of throws. He also carried out the mathematical analysis and calculated the exact probability.
Later, Laplace suggested that this idea could be used to evaluate "PI" from the throws of the needle. This is referred to as "Buffon's Needle Experiment," and proceeds as follows:
For L <= D, the exact probability, P, that the needle intersects one of the parallel lines is:
If we drop the needle (or simulate dropping it) N times, and count R intersections, we obtain an experimental estimate for P,
and thus, an estimate for PI:
As explained below, the estimate improves as the number of throws increases.
(Visit the web site:
if you want to make this experiment on-line, and see what the estimate for PI is for various numbers of throws!)
Monte Carlo methods can be used not only in naturally stochastic problems, but also in deterministic problems. In general, any quantity that can be written as the expected value of a random variable defined on a probability space can be estimated by these methods, by calculating the average value of the random variable.
Using a less mathematical language, we can restate this in the following way. Suppose you have a problem and you want to estimate a certain quantity. Simulate the problem using random numbers (we will discuss random numbers later) and obtain an estimate for the quantity of interest. Do this simulation a number of times and take the average of the different estimates you get as the outcomes of these simulations. This average will be a good estimate, if the number of times you do the simulation (sample size) is large .
The reason why we can use averages to estimate the quantity of interest comes from the strong law of large numbers, which states that the sequence of sample means of a random variable converges to its expected value almost surely, provided the expected value is finite. In addition, from the central limit theorem, the error of this approximation satisfies the probabilistic bound, O(1/Sqrt(N)), where N is the sample size .
A simple application is numerical integration, where one uses the averages of function values evaluated at random coordinates to estimate the definite integral of the function, say, on the unit cube. By "random" numbers, we mean independent and identically distributed realizations of the random variable with the uniform distribution on the unit cube.
The concepts random variable , independence , and identically distributed , are well-defined concepts of the probability theory. However, when we carry these concepts to the physical world, especially in an attempt to generate random numbers, we face several difficulties, confusion, and and ongoing debate. When we think of a random process, we often think of events whose outcomes cannot be determined, such as physical outcomes of the scattering of an electron by an atom, or simply the outcome of flipping a fair coin. However, the fact that we cannot determine the outcome of flipping a fair coin is not a property of the physical process itself, but merely an indication of our understanding of the process, making it difficult to define uncertainty , or randomness in the physical world. In spite of this difficulty (or maybe, because of it), several mathematicians and philosophers, including Kolmogorov, Martin-Lof, Chaitin, and Popper, have suggested various definitions of random numbers.
Whatever our understanding of a random event or a random sequence of numbers might be, we go ahead and try to find algorithms, which mainly use arithmetical operations, that would generate numbers that look like random . These imitations are called pseudorandom numbers and the success of this imitation is determined by the use of statistical tests, often called tests of randomness . Some of the methods that generate pseudorandom numbers as well as some statistical tests can be found at:
There are also other interesting links on this page.
"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number-there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetical procedure is of course not such a method. (It is true that a problem we suspect of being solvable by random methods may be solvable by some rigorously defined sequence, but this is a deeper mathematical question than we can go into now.)" [von Neumann]
Perhaps what von Neumann stated as a deeper mathematical question was solved, at least partly, by the theory of uniform distribution (a branch of "Number Theory"), which claims that the reason our random methods work does not have anything to do with their randomness , but uniformity . The uniformity of a sequence is a number theoretic concept: it is defined without using probabilistic concepts. This leads us to the notion of quasi-Monte Carlo methods or number-theoretic methods.
Next week: "Monte Carlo Methods: Quasi-Monte Carlo and Low-Discrepancy Sequences"
Data Types and Sizes
One common problem encountered when porting code between different systems is the size of the data representation being used. Language standards and definitions rarely specify the number of words which make up each data type. Indeed with the rapid pace at which processors change and memory sizes increase this is not the concern of a language. However a language must provide a mechanism by which the user can specify or at least determine the different number of bytes in a particular data type and this is typically where some confusion often occurs. Below are listed the sizes of various data types on some common systems:
Fortran C Number of bytes ================= ========== =============== Y-MP/J90/C90 ------------------------------------------------------------ INTEGER int 8 long 8 REAL float 8 double 8 DOUBLE PRECISION long double 16 T3E ------------------------------------------------------------ INTEGER int 8 long 8 REAL*4 float 4 REAL double 8 DOUBLE PRECISION long double NOT AVAILABLE. SGI Workstations ------------------------------------------------------------ INTEGER int 4 long 4 REAL*4 float 4 REAL double 8 DOUBLE PRECISION long double NOT AVAILABLE.(double assumed.)
When is the size of the type important?
- If the code passes data between C and Fortran, the machine representation (including size in bytes) must be the same. On the Y-MP/C90/J90 systems, code may exchange data between C and Fortran routines as Fortran type REAL and C type float or double. Yet this code will get into trouble on the T3E system where the C floats are only 4 bytes long.
- If the code reads an unformatted data file. If 4-byte floats were written, then 4-byte floats must be read.
- If the code requires 64 bits of numeric precision, for either internal stability, precision of results, accuracy of results, or all three.
- If the code is optimized for efficient memory usage by specifying 4-byte floats. In some cases, doubling the memory requirements (by doubling the precision) would exceed available memory.
Users occasionally ask about the sizes of various types on ARSC systems. The most satisfying answer is obtained by running the tests oneself. The codes, below, reports the sizes of common types in fortran and C, and can be run on any system.
C code /**********************************************************************/ #include <stdio.h> main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; { printf(" sizes are int %d\n",sizeof(int)); printf(" sizes are long %d\n",sizeof(long)); printf(" sizes are float %d\n",sizeof(float)); printf(" sizes are double %d\n",sizeof(double)); printf(" sizes are long_double %d\n",sizeof(long double)); } /**********************************************************************/ Fortran Code !--------------------------------------------------------------------- program prog implicit none integer i real r double precision d logical j write(6,*) ' integers are ',kind(i) write(6,*) ' reals are ',kind(r) write(6,*) ' double precision are ',kind(d) write(6,*) ' logicals are ',kind(j) end !---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fortran users might like to inspect the size of logicals on various systems to see how much space can be saved by using these in a program!
Side note:
There is often a compiler flag which allows selected variables to be treated as double precision or not. For example with the f90 compiler on the T3E, users can use -i 64 to specify all integers are 64 bits, -i 32 specifies 32 bits. This is most useful for programs which have many large integer arrays where there will be a significant increase in storage between a workstation and a Y-MP/C90/J90/T3E. However users must be careful that 32 bits provide sufficient resolution.
[ One of our readers requested some hard-core information on E-registers.
Having perused the literature, he claimed that, while often touted, E-registers were inadequately explained. This article, we hope, shines more light into this "black-box." The following is an excerpt from the article, "Performance of the CRAY T3E Multiprocessor" by: Ed Anderson, Jeff Brooks, Charles Grassl, and Steve Scott of SGI/Cray. which appears on the SC97 CD-ROM (under Ed Anderson's talk) and is available on ARSC's ftp server, at: ftp://ftp.arsc.edu/pub/mpp/docs/T3E_processor_perf.ps.Z The T3E benchmarker's guide has a little E-register discussion as well: ftp://ftp.arsc.edu/pub/mpp/docs/bmguide.ps.Z Thanks to Jeff Brooks for his help. ]
3.3 E-registers
As mentioned in Section 2, all remote communication and synchronization in the CRAY T3E is done between E-registers and memory. E-registers provide two primary benefits over a more conventional load/store mechanism for accessing global memory: they extend the physical address space of the microprocessor to allow a very large, directly addressable memory, and they dramatically increase the degree of pipelining attainable for global memory requests. They also provide efficient non-unit-stride memory access and gather/scatter capabilities.
3.3.1 Description
E-registers employ a novel address translation mechanism. The microprocessor implements a cacheable memory space and a non-cacheable I/O space, distinguished by the most significant bit of the physical address. Local memory loads and stores use cacheable memory space. Address translation takes place on the processor in the usual fashion, and physical addresses are passed to the memory. Memory-mapped registers, including the E-registers, use noncacheable I/O space.
There are two primary types of operations that can be performed on E-registers:
- Direct loads and stores between E-registers and processor registers.
- Global E-register operations.
Direct loads/stores are used to store operands into E-registers and load results from E-registers. Global E-register operations are used to transfer data to/from global (meaning remote or local) memory. The global operations to read memory into E-registers or write E-registers to memory are called Gets and Puts, respectively. Gets and Puts are triggered via I/O space stores, in which the address supplies the command and target/source E-register, and the data bus supplies the global memory address. Virtual-to-physical address translation thus occurs outside the processor in the system logic. Complete details are provided elsewhere [7].
Access to E-registers is implicitly synchronized by a set of state flags, one per E-register. A Get operation marks the target E-register(s) empty until the requested data arrives from memory, at which time they are marked full. A load from an E-register will stall if the E-register is empty until the data arrives. A Put from an E-register will also stall if the E-register is empty until the data becomes available. A global memory copy routine might perform Gets from the source area of memory into a block of E-registers and subsequently Put the data from the E-registers to the target memory area. The implicit state flag synchronization protects against the read-after-write hazard in the E-registers.
Since there are a large number of E-registers (512 user + 128 system), Gets and Puts may be highly pipelined. A large number of Gets can be issued, for example, before the first result is accessed. The processor bus interface allows up to four properly-aligned Get or Put commands to be issued in a two-cycle bus transaction, allowing 256 bytes worth of Gets or Puts to be issued in 26.7 ns. This issue bandwidth is far greater than the sustainable data transfer bandwidth, so the processor is not a bottleneck. Data in a memory-to-memory transfer using E-registers does not cross the processor bus; it flows from memory into E-registers and out to memory again.
In addition to providing a highly-pipelined memory interface, the E-registers provide special support for single-word load bandwidth. A variant of Gets and Puts moves a series of eight 64-bit words separated by an arbitrary stride between memory and E-registers. Thus, row accesses in Fortran, for example, can be fetched into contiguous E-registers using strided Gets. The resulting blocks of E-registers can then be loaded "broadside" into the processor, making significantly more efficient use of the bus than would be possible with normal cache line fills, in which 7/8 of the loaded data would not be used. Single-word Gets and Puts are also provided, which can be used for gather/scatter operations.
When E-register operations are used to transfer data to/from local memory, the cache is bypassed. Non-cached data access may be preferred for copying blocks of data that are too large to fit in the cache and for any large-stride or irregular access patterns that would bring in unwanted data if loaded a cache line at a time. The use of E-register operations for local data access can be suggested to the compiler by means of the loop-level CACHE_BYPASS directive, or it can be done directly by calls to Shmem library routines, specifying the local processor number instead of a remote processor number in the argument list.
Book Review: "Scientific Visualization - Overviews, Methodologies, Techniques"
"Scientific Visualization - Overviews, Methodologies, Techniques" Editors: Gregory M. Nielson, Hans Hagan, Heinrich Muller IEEE Computer Society (1997) 577 pages ISBN 0-8186-7777-5
This book comprises 21 papers on state-of-the-art scientific visualization topics, written by 45 contributing authors. Contents are organized in three sections:
Part 1 - Overviews and Surveys Part 2 - Frameworks and Methodologies Part 3 - Techniques and Algorithms
Part 1 contains overview and survey papers on some important visualization topics. The first paper gives a concise historical overview of methods for multivariate, multidimensional data, from the pencil and paper era to to the present. The authors (Pak Chung Wong and R. Daniel Bergeron) divide visualization history into 4 stages: (1) pre-1976 Searching, (2) 1977-1985 Awakening, (3) 1986-1991 Discovery, and (4) 1992-present Elaboration and Assessment. The late-1980's were a period of huge growth in the field, fueled by advances in algorithms, software, and supercomputing, computer graphics, and data storage hardware. The remaining chapters in part 1 cover immersive investigation techniques, grid generation methods, computational steering and methods for large-scale unsteady fluid flows.
Chapter 3, "Survey of Grid Generation Methodologies and Scientific Visualization Efforts" (Bernd Hamann and Robert J. Moorhead II) was of particular interest. The authors describe visualization work underway at ERC-CFS at Mississippi State University. They document development and use of several interesting methods and tools for oceanographic data (OVIRT, SCIRT,AGP). They also discuss data compression issues for oceanographic data sets. They describe a wavelet-based representation scheme that is fast, efficient, and has good data reconstruction qualities. The authors also discuss interactive, concurrent visualization techniques, including a variation of the FAST scheme adapted for their CFS codes.
Part 2 contains papers on formal foundations: integrated volume rendering and data analysis in wavelet space, intelligent design of color visualizations, engineering perceptually effective methods for abstract data, comparative visualization of flow features, systematic analysis for design, and controlled interpolation.
Part 3 contains in-depth, review articles on both established and emerging algorithms and techniques. Topics include: feature visualization, flow surface probes for vector fields, particle tracing on 3D curvilinear grids, adaptive generation of volume contours, deformation tensor fields, a primer on reaction-diffusion patterns, relativistic strings, hierarchical representation of large data sets using wavelets, tools for triangulations and tetrahedrizations, and tools for computing tangent curves and topological graphs. Feature extraction and analysis and data compression/re-construction are two important emerging techniques, particularly in the treatment of gigabyte and terabyte data sets.
In summary, the book is a excellent general introduction to state-of-the-art visualization methods for practicing scientists, as well as an excellent reference for programmers or computer scientists.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ Say you submit a single, 8-hour batch request using qsub and that the qsub script launches a series of short jobs. Is there a way to prevent one of the short jobs from using more than its share of the 8 hours? }} Assuming that each job is entitled to about the same amount of time, use NQS. In your qsub script, the option #QSUB -l mpp_t hh:mm:ss specifies the limit to the total execution time of the entire NQS request (which is the sum of the time of the included processes). The option: #QSUB -l p_mpp_t hh:mm:ss however, limits the time of each process. The following example assumes that a normal run of "myprog" takes something less than 30 minutes. The user expects that none of the four processes started will reach the 30 minute per process time limit and that the entire request will complete in under 2 hours. However, he/she may have inherited the code, worry that it doesn't handle exceptions well, and that one of the data sets might drop it into an infinite loop. Were this to happen, NQS would interrupt the offending process after 30 minutes, thus leaving the other processes with their share of the 2 hours. ###################################### #QSUB -q mpp #QSUB -l mpp_p=8 #QSUB -l mpp_t=2:00:00 #QSUB -l p_mpp_t=30:00 cd ${TMPDIR}/progs mpprun -n8 ./myprog data_set.1 mpprun -n8 ./myprog data_set.2 mpprun -n8 ./myprog data_set.3 mpprun -n8 ./myprog data_set.4 ###################################### Q: You want to compile your parallel application and then run it on N T3E application PEs. What's the lazy man (or woman's) way to determine if adequate memory exists on those N PEs to run the program. (Assume static allocation of all memory and that you're compiling/running on the same system.)
[ Answers, questions, and tips graciously accepted. ]
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The Record: Letters, Wednesday, Feb. 26
Unnecessary bear hunts
Regarding "Counting bears" (Page A-1, Feb. 23):
State Division of Fish and Wildlife employee Kelcey Burguess's claim that New Jersey cannot "culturally" tolerate black bears without an annual sport hunt is misleading, especially when the division's baiting policy leads to conflicts.
The division made the same claim in 1992, when the hunter-dominated game council wanted a bear season, and when black bears numbered, at most, 450 to 550. In 1997, the division and the council again termed the inarguably low number of bears "untenable."
Living with slow-reproducing black bears is not a numbers game. Absent control of bait and trash, even tenuously low numbers of black bears will look for and consume human garbage. Studies and leading experts across the country confirm that hunting will not reduce human-bear incidents, and that the answer is securing trash.
The vast majority of bear-human encounters — 99 percent in other states and 93.4 percent in New Jersey — are non-threatening and involve bears being bears. The state division exploits easily preventable incidents to justify an annual, and senseless, sport hunt.
A 2010 Mason-Dixon poll reported that 74 percent of New Jersey voters prefer non-lethal solutions. The "cultural" solution is requiring bear-resistant containers, and prohibiting baiting deer and bear, in bear habitat. Until legislators deal with this agency's very blatant conflict of interest, true public "tolerance" and preferences will continue to be flouted.
Susan Russell
Englishtown, Feb. 24
The writer is wildlife policy director for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey.
More than one
side to PA scandal
Regarding "PA to reconsider lease deal" (Page A-1, Feb. 23):
I'm a Jersey boy, born and bred. More than 20 years ago, I moved to Arlington, Va., because of a job change. I'm retired now, so I moved back home. As your article points out, not much changed during my absence.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is still a dysfunctional patronage pit operating in the dark with no public accountability, waist-deep in conflicts of interest, self-dealing and, when the occasion warrants, a bunch of flat-out liars. Meanwhile, politicians, elected and unelected, stand idly by.
It is apparent that all these folks have taken more than a few pages from Frank "I am the law" Hague's playbook. New Jersey's motto is "Liberty and Prosperity." I don't know about the liberty, but for some folks, the prosperity is sure there.
Charles V. Bremer
Secaucus, Feb. 24
Regarding "PA to reconsider lease deal" (Page A-1, Feb. 23):
It's perfectly true that David Samson should have recused himself from voting in favor of an agency represented by his law firm. But the headline and the subhead of the article both suggest that the substance of the vote was a corrupt giveaway.

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text: This exhibition represents a photography survey of this major American artist. It includes an outstanding grouping of ninety-nine vintage prints from all phases of Weston's (1886-1958) five-decade career, from his first nude in 1909 to his final landscape made near his home at Point Lobos, California in 1948. Previously unpublished masterpieces will be interspersed with well-known signature photographs. The works are drawn from the significant private collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. The exhibition is on a national tour and is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue. Edward Weston: Life Work is organized and circulated by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles. All works courtesy of the Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg Collection.


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- This conversation with The Boyfriend ("TB") recently. You should know that, when The Boyfriend sneezes, he likes to say random words instead of the normal "achoo."
TB: *jihad*
Me: Bless you
TB: *jihad*
Me: Bless you. Can you please stop saying "jihad" when you sneeze?
TB: (laughing) Why?
Me: Because it feels weird blessing you when you're cursing me with a Muslim holy war every time you sneeze.
- We're both trying to be good about expenses these days and really stick to a budget. But each of us sometimes strays, especially when we're at the grocery store. The difference is, when The Boyfriend strays from the budget, he buys flowers for me. When I stray from the budget, it's to buy Flaming Hot Cheetos... for me. Who's the better person in this relationship?
- Last Friday night a group of us went out to dinner to celebrate a friend's birthday. One of my friend's left a bottle of wine in the cab on her way to the restaurant. About two hours into our meal, and not long after lamenting how the wine was now lost forever, her cab driver strolls into the restaurant with the bottle of wine in hand! Who does that??? The best cab driver in San Francisco, that's who.
- This happened yesterday:
I made a small purchase with a gift card I got for Christmas. I'm thinking I might show it off next week...
Anything awkward or awesome in your life lately?
Awkward & Awesome
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I think cheetos and flowers for you are perfect ways to bend the budget. I'm looking forward to your awesome reveal!ReplyDelete
OMGoodness...funniest thing I've read today? "Because it feels weird blessing you when you're cursing me with a Muslim holy war every time you sneeze." Holy goodness... I needed that laugh this morning! THANK YOU! Have an awesome Thursday!ReplyDelete
Wow, that guy definitely wins the best cab driver award!ReplyDelete
I Hope you got that cabbie's card! I would use him every time!!! XO brynnReplyDelete
It so funny, that conversation you had with your bf!ReplyDelete
what a great story about the cabbie!ReplyDelete
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Did we really need another Gears of War?
That is the question I had when I first learned about Judgment, a prequel set immediately after all hell broke loose on Emergence Day, several years prior to the first Gears. The original series was a bit too boneheaded for my liking - it was full of action but sat too awkwardly on the line between gravitas and kicking ass.
Judgment finds that line and walks it perfectly.
Marcus Fenix, the series icon voiced by animation legend John DiMaggio, is almost entirely absent from this title. Your heroes this time are the soldiers of Kilo Squad, including younger incarnations of Damon Baird and the "Cole Train," and they've been breaking rules to save lives. Admirable, yes, but a no-no in this military.
The game begins as the four members of Kilo are forcibly led into a damaged hall - inconveniently located in a live fire zone - to stand before a military tribunal led by a doggedly officious man who, dismissive of the violence unfolding outside, is determined to find out how our heroes came to be arrested as war criminals.
Each playable mission is a flashback, delivered as testimony, walking you through the whys and wherefores of their actions, middle-fingers to authority, and their ultimate arrest. It's a well-executed, captivating storytelling device.
The action is fast and fluid, and the enemy intelligence is too. The game will keep you guessing by altering the opposition in response to your own playing style. I don't particularly enjoy cover-based combat and it felt like the engine knew it, and tested me accordingly. If I wanted to run riot with a Lancer and chainsaw enemies to their pulpy deaths, I could - just not all the time.
The downside of such an approach, of course, is that I'd be injured in action with fair frequency - as many as three times in each combat situation. I realise I put a strain on Kilo's health services, but the AI-controlled teammates were as likely to let me die where I fell than they were to revive me. The same was true of enemies though - too many times I was left to crawl away when I should have been summarily executed.
An inspired touch is the inclusion of "declassified" sub-missions, which, if activated, alter your testimony and the corresponding gameplay. Enemies may grow stronger, ammo may decrease, and missions may become time-dependent. The payoff is an increased rate in point-scoring for status and upgrades which will carry across all game modes.
The multiplayer, for what it's worth, is a total hoot and adds serious weight to a game already brimming with replay value.
So, did we really need another Gears of War? It seems that we did, and the hat goes off to Epic and People Can Fly. An immature but immensely respectable Baird and his less-than-unified comrades lead us, blow-by-visceral-blow, through the most mature Gears experience yet. The AI glitches are a minor irritant in the long run, and the clever storytelling and the grub-crushing action are top class. This is a success on almost every level.
Stars: 4.5/5
Platform: Xbox 360
Rated: R16
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Food safety and information links
A spot for food safety references; my posts will be australian centric.
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Microwaves and superheating
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Are microwave ovens safe?
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Preserving food safely
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All about food standards
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TORRINGTON >> Have you ever wondered if you were related to royalty or a great historical figure? Have you always wanted to find out where your roots lie? Genealogist Richard Pope will be teaching a general genealogy class that can send you on your way. The class is tonight from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe, located at 59 Field St.
The class is free and is open to people of all skill levels. In his class he will go over how and where to get started, how to use Ancestry.com, how to use the Register Citizen microfilm archives. He will also talk about how to handle dead ends, and how to find and use certain types of records.
Pope has 30 years experience in genealogy. He is a member of the Connecticut Professional Genealogical Society and the Torrington Historical Society. Pope has expertise in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts records, He is experienced with international research, particularly German, Irish, with a smattering of skill with British and Swedish records. Pope can also assist with lineage society research.
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Global Exchange Testifies at State Capitol to Support Resolution to Stop Trafficking of Illegal Weapons into Mexico
Posted by Kirsten Moller in Featured, Mexico, World News & Events on 11th January, 2012 | No Comments
On January 10, 2012 Kirsten Moller joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Brady campaign in the California Capitol building in Sacramento to provide a support testimony for Senator De León's Senate Joint Resolution No. 10 that calls for a comprehensive approach to stop the trafficking of illegal weapons and ammunition across the border into Mexico. Here's the statement we made yesterday.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
The 20 Most Recognizable Scents In The World
At first glance I saw baby powder and cigarette butts back to back and thought for a split second that they'd listed "baby butts." "Yep," I thought to myself, "That's a recognizable scent all right." The first time I changed my child's diaper was an eye-opening (and sinus-opening) event. I was one of those guys who had never changed one before. Hoooooo doggy. I spied the carnage in that newborn-sized Pampers and turned to my wife.
"Did you feed her a sloppy Joe?"
And the smell. Sweet hot Jesus.
"Is that normal?" I said. "I think she might be sick or something."
She laughed. "Nope. Normal."
"Fuck. Me. Sideways. That shit ain't right. She gonna be doing this a lot?"
"Yep," says the Mrs. "And so are you."
1. Coffee
2. Peanut butter
3. Vicks VapoRub
4. Chocolate
5. Wintergreen oil
6. Baby powder
7. Cigarette butts
8. Mothballs
9. Dry cat food
10. Beer
11. Ivory bar soap
12. Juicy Fruit gum
13. Orange
14. Cinnamon
15. Lemon
16. Tuna
17. Banana
18. Crayons
19. Cheese
20. Bleach
56 comments:
Add in Chanel No. 5 for me.ReplyDelete
And gasoline.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM
How about boiled cabbage and cat piss? Not together, of course.ReplyDelete
Once you smell it, you always remember it.
- CajunManMay 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Fresh-baked bread.ReplyDelete
And in the South, at least, any respectable list would have to include barbecue -- specifically, the aroma that permeates a long-time barbecue joint and makes you smile, take in a deeeep breath and go "Ahhhh!" every time you walk in.
- AliciaMay 29, 2009 at 12:24 PM
My son didn't get odor in his poop until he was 4 months old. He is now 2 years old and that child can clear a room. Just like daddy.ReplyDelete
I have an uncle who smells like all of these.ReplyDelete
Crayola Crayons, PlayDoh.. ahhhhhhhReplyDelete
Wet dog, rain, clean laundry, and must agree with BBQ.ReplyDelete
LOL on the baby poop. Especially after they learn to eat solid food.ReplyDelete
How about Thanksgiving turkey?
or the smell of death....
Jess - I think I know him!ReplyDelete
Changing diapers is disgusting business. The other day the daycare sent home a note asking if we'd been feeding the kid a lot of corn lately. True story!
I was surprised I didn't see vanilla on this list! Stupid Yale. Buncha morons.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Cheese? 4 reel?ReplyDelete
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They left off desperation. I can smell that a mile away.ReplyDelete
Wait a sec.. sniff.. I smell it right now! Ok, who the ---
Never mind. It's me.
No, Jess, I only delete the political comments I disagree with.ReplyDelete
D'oh. Too late.ReplyDelete
A feed lot or hog farm. You drive past one in teh heat of a summer day, with no breeze and it will burn the nose hairs out of you and immediatly initiate the gag reflex.ReplyDelete
MMMMMMMM, Steak and pork chops.........mmmmmmmmmmm
Rain in the summer, when it falls on the hot asphalt. Ahhh. Or spring rain, when it smells like earthworms.ReplyDelete
LOL at the dry cat food! Although I think cat piss in the carpeting would be more di-stink-tive. (ha!)
What about popcorn? and bacon? and as Bev said, VANILLA!ReplyDelete
And I'm sorry, but I don't have a clue what catfood smells like.
Sinus infection.ReplyDelete
LMFAO @ Bev's corn.ReplyDelete
They have bananas and dry cat food on there?? What, no flowers? How about hyacinths, lilacs, and peonies? And I second CajunMan's fresh baked bread---one of the best!ReplyDelete
This is a local more personal one for me, but Spangler Candy Company is in my town. They make Dum Dum suckers and Christmas Candy Canes. When the wind is blowing in the right direction, I can sit on my front porch steps and smell the candy being made at the factory. Lots of good sweet and fruity smells come from there. :)
I could be blindfolded, and I'd know if I were in Yosemite. ahhhhh! Pine/Cedar/Manzanita!ReplyDelete
whenever I go, I have to stick my head out the car window and take in a deep breath.
Peppermint! I drink peppermint tea and the smell alone is calming.
Baby Head. (much better than the other end!)
If you live in San Francisco: Bum urine.ReplyDelete
- Melissa H.May 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM
They put dry cat food on there and they didn't put wet cat food? Wet is a lot stinkier than dry. And as far as my girls are concerned, the stinkier the better.ReplyDelete
Also, I could smell each one of those as I read them. My face totally contorted at "tuna".
I loathe the smell of mothballs with the intensity of seven suns. Old people are not safe around me.ReplyDelete
The smell of honeysuckle makes me instantly happy. Must be linked to some nice moment in my childhood. I've read that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory.
The smell of mowed grass still reminds me of playing baseball.
Boiled Cabbage & Cat Piss will be the name of my new folk rock duo. Awesome.ReplyDelete
There is a Tyson chicken plant around here and the smell of the gut truck driving by makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up. Ain't no mistaking that shit. Yikes.
Also, the OCEAN? Love that briney scent. Reminds me of summers at Grandma's on the Jersey shore.ReplyDelete
When I first read that, I thought you said "britney" scent.ReplyDelete
Kari, I want to be in your band. Can I be 'Cat Piss'?ReplyDelete
Dead homeless woman in a sealed up BMW after a couple weeks.ReplyDelete
I'm just sayin'
Word, Randy.ReplyDelete
Eeewwww!---Britney scent! I don't even like imagining that one.ReplyDelete
Honeysuckle is definitely good though.
Mothballs!? How do you get their little legs apart to smell them?ReplyDelete
Britney scent = Red Bull, vodka, Cheetos, and despair.ReplyDelete
bodybytecate - very carefullyReplyDelete
Bev - you forgot unwashed, unpantied chacha
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Fear- You can smell it a mile away.ReplyDelete
One more...ReplyDelete
Napalm in the morning.
I LOVE the smell of Napalm in the morning.ReplyDelete
The horror.
- wendy not in ca anymoreMay 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Central Valley of CA - humid, raw cow ass.ReplyDelete
Napalm smells like victory.ReplyDelete
Wendy - can you clarify, please? Is it the cow's ass that is humid, or just the air around it?
My teenage sons hockey bags. There's bacteria in there that the Pentagon would like to get their hands on. Probably some new strains of staph that could take out the west coast.ReplyDelete
Popcorn. I could eat a bushel. At any time.
Oh and Dippity-Doo. It was a hair-setting gel in the 60s for those of you too young - it had a pungent and specific smell. My mother would "Dippity-Doo" me before rolling my hair before special occasions. there is a picture of me at a Kindergarten function with a full-on teased beehive like I'm Miss Arkansas 1967.ReplyDelete
Mimeographed test pages in grade school--and the paste everyone wanted to eat. (I'm REALLY showing my age!)ReplyDelete
Methane, idiots. Everyone knows the smell of a fart.ReplyDelete
Also, smoke. And pine trees. Have these people never gone outside?
I dub thee Cat Piss, totalblammblamm. Our tour bus is gonna be some kind of funky.ReplyDelete
I can detect the scent of pot smoke and/or magic marker from the next zip code.ReplyDelete
I totally read that is britney (not briney) as well. Love all the comments on this one. I really feel there has to be some mistake - this cannot be the top 20. Hello? Bacon?ReplyDelete
- Dr BludgerMay 31, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Burning. I would hazard a guess that every animal species, including us, instinctively knows (via smell) when something is burning.ReplyDelete
Aries, methane is odourless. You mean rotten egg gas (hydrogen sulphide), which is very distinctive.
I think everyone would know the britney smell of the ocean and that of urine, too.
Dry cat food? Really. I have had three cats for 10 years and can't even conjure the smell of dry cat food. Cat piss year. Moist cat food, dear god I gag thinking of it.ReplyDelete
Methane, hydrogen sulfide, whatever. I get my chemistry knowledge from Mad Max III Beyond Thunderdome. The point is, farts stink, and everyone knows it - except, apparently, the Salon.com people.ReplyDelete
Two men enter.ReplyDelete
One man leaves.
- katyyybugNovember 8, 2009 at 12:05 AM
how about playdoh? now thats the smell.ReplyDelete
Tangerines at Christmas, lemon Pledge, band aids, boat gas, pool chlorine, inflatable plastic beach toys, scalded milk, burnt toast, sawdust, school cafeteria, life cereal, Kix, Fruit Stripe Gum, cotton candy, fireworks, oil paint, Johnson's baby shampoo, saffron, hospital, permanent marker and rubber cement.ReplyDelete
Who are they kidding. The world's most recognizable smell is poop, period. Who doesn't know what that smells like? NobodyReplyDelete


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NFL draftee and former LSU defensive back Tharold Simon of Eunice dropped resistance when Taser "painted" by the officer arresting him late Thursday night, the second night he had encountered police.
According to his official statement, Detective Raymond Mott on Wednesday night had asked Simon to move his vehicle from the roadway at East Maple and South Beulah and he had apparently complied.
Simon and well-wishers were gathering in anticipation of the athlete being picked by a professional team
Compliance didn't happen Thursday night, the report says.
"He stated something to the effect of 'I own Eunice. I got millions ****. I'm gonna buy these projects and you are gonna be gone'" Mott alleges.
Mott continued, "I told him again to remove the vehicle from the roadway. He entered the vehicle and turned the radio up all the way, backed the vehicle in an aggressive manner causing the tires to lose traction and make a screeching noise. He pulled the vehicle into the driveway and sat there with the door open with the music still over the legal volume.
"I told him to turn the music down or I was going to issue him a citation for the violation and he said something to the effect of, 'The mayor is on my side your write me a ticket and you're gone.'"
Mott said he then called for a unit to bring him a citation book (not normally carried by a detective) and to assist him.
"I advised him (Simon) he was being placed under arrest for public intimidation for telling me he was gonna have me fired if I write him a ticket. I grabbed his arm to place him in hand restraints. He violently jerked his hand away from me and said 'don't touch me.'
"I signaled over the emergency radio for an addition unit to come to my location because the subject was resisting arrest. I then advised him he was under arrest again and painted him with my x-26 taser and ordered him to put his hands behind his back. He complied at this time."
"Painting" with a Taser is sometimes done to convince a recalcitrant suspect to acquiesce to arrest before he or she is hit with a Taser jolt.
The summoned officer, Patrolman Chase Godeaux, arrived and took Simon to the police station, where he was charged with obstruction of a public passage, public intimidation, resisting an officer and unnecessary noise.
Because of football accomplishments, the arrest generated far more attention than a normal misdemeanor case.
Simon, who Police Chief Ronald Dies said Friday had voiced regret for his alleged behavior, was drafted Saturday in the fifth round of the NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks. He previously was a defensive back at LSU, leaving after his junior year, and a standout athlete before that at Eunice High.
His agent, Peter Schaffer of Denver, Colo. told Gannett News Service that he would file an immediate civil rights action against Mott and the police department "for harassment and civil rights violations."
Read more: EuniceToday.com - Seahawks Simon s encounter with detective was second in two nights alleged resistance stopped after Taser painting.
What did he do to prove he was a thug? Am I missing something?
Not so much
Incidents of cops "being pricks" that involve illegitimate arrests for resisting arrest mess that up. That pisses me off
Sometimes the cops can be pricks, . . . Not a big deal.
Not so much
Posted by Topwater Trout I don't doubt that it went down like that but why in the hell is a detective getting involved with a traffic violation?
Smoked weed Which means 90% of college students are thugs
Sorry guys, but put a thug back in the ghetto and see whats happens.
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September – The Commandments
October – Becoming More Christlike
November – Spiritual and Temporal Self-Reliance
December – Building the Kingdom
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January – Godhead
February – Plan of Salvation
March – Atonement of Jesus Christ
April – Apostasy and Restoration
May – Prophets and Revelation
June – Priesthood and Priesthood Keys
July – Ordinances and Covenants
August – Marriage and Family
September – The Commandments
October – Becoming More Christlike
November – Spiritual and Temporal Self-Reliance
December – Building the Kingdom
* Parents can boost power of "Come, Follow Me" at home
January – Godhead
February – Plan of Salvation
March – Atonement of Jesus Christ
April – Apostasy and Restoration
May – Prophets and Revelation
June – Priesthood and Priesthood Keys
July – Ordinances and Covenants
August – Marriage and Family
September – The Commandments
October – Becoming More Christlike
November – Spiritual and Temporal Self-Reliance
December – Building the Kingdom
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Father's Day Quarterly Activity Idea by Daisie Dance
Hop, Pop and Photo Op by Emma Turner
How to make your Father's Day by Mindy Oja
Daddy Daughter Date Idea - "Cowgirl and her Cowboy"
Parent Activity Ideas (Some Father/Daughter Activity Ideas)
Candy Bar Printables from the Idea Room
Father's Day Candy Bar Wrapper by DaNette Bushman
Father's Day - Life Saver Wrapper from lds.about.com
Large Chocolate Bar Wrapper from lds.about.com
Mini Candy Bar Wrapper (Black and White) from lds.about.com
Mini Candy Bar Wrapper (Blue) from lds.about.com
Father's Day Flip Flop Card
Dad's Shirt Card (Adapt this card by taking off missionary name badge)
Dad's Shirt Card from Martha Stewart
Father's Day Card Cutout by Jennifer Karol
I love you this much card!
Tie Card
A few years back the primary leaders in our ward made boutonnieres out of Tootsie Pop Suckers and attached them to a 3 x 5 card that said "You're a Great Pop" They took a sucker and cut half the stick off and then twisted a couple of florist leaves and fake babies breath and added the green florist tape and a corsage pin. It was fun to see the dads actually wearing them. I've also seen them with 2 and 3 suckers, but those were kind of heavy. These are pretty inexpensive in the bulk food bins. (Idea by Lisa)
Apple - I've seen an apple with a note tied to the stem with ribbon that says..."thanks for being the core of your family!"
Big Hunk Tie
Cute & Simple Gifts for Dad
Dad's Survival Kit
Danielle's Place - Lots of cute Father's Day gift ideas
Father's Day Bookmarks
Father's Day Boutonniere
Father's Day Coupons - Punch a hole and put on a key ring
Father's Day Gift Ideas
Father's Day Stop Sign
Father's Day Ties: (Credit Unknown) A few years ago I did a fathers day sharing time each child brought in an old tie of their dads, redecorated it using glitter, pom-poms, feathers, paint etc. We wrapped the ties and sent them home to be opened on fathers day before church so that all the dads could wear them to church.
Felt Ties
Frame Cutout
Fridge Magnet
Last year for father's day we gave cans of "Dad's" Root beer with a note in the shape of a tie that said; "To the world's greatest POP!" (Charla Buchanen)
My Kids Walk All Over Me!
One year we made "Almond Joy" bow ties for the fathers. We drew a cute oversized bow tie and wrote "All Men Are That They Might Have Joy" on it and copied it onto cardstock. We cut them out and finally taped a full-size Almond Joy bar on it. (Credit Unknown)
Paper Airplane with Gum
Print out dad's priesthood line of authority on vellum and put a picture of Christ behind it...then frame it. (Do you need a copy of his line of authority? The Church has started a new program where you can contact them for Line of Authority information, as long as the person is directly related to you. Call 801-240-3500 (or 800-453-3860 toll free), ask for Member Services, and choose option 6, then option 2. Be prepared to give as much information as possible. Full name, Date of Birth, Current Ward/Stake, Address and Zip Code, Who ordained him, and them (if known). Member services will put in a request for your information and mail you what they find. I personally did this and received a copy of my husbands a few weeks later.)
POP ROCKS (3 packages tied together with ribbon)
Treasure Candies - We put 3 of the candies in tissue (value colors no less) tied them off with curly ribbon and added the tag "A good father is a "Treasure" beyond measure. It was simple, the men enjoyed the treat and the baskets looked beautiful holding all the bright colored tissue wrapped candy. (Credit Unknown)
Quick and Easy Father's Day Gifts
You'll need: a kool-aid "squeeze-it" bottles (found in the juice section in grocery stores), netting/tule, curling ribbon, Hershey's Kisses, a little note with a hole punched in the corner with the following on it, "Here is a squeeze and a kiss from me to you! Happy Fathers Day!" (Credit Unknown)
Father's Day Snack Mix - CUTE poem/idea from www.teachingheart.net
Our ward has done slices of pies for the past 10 years. Sisters bring a whole pie to Church on Sunday, and the RS presidency gets the Styrofoam take-home boxes and cuts each pie. Each dad picks one giant slice of pie to take home. Flavors are written on the lids of the box so they can choose between apple, peach, berry, etc. (whatever is brought that day). The dads LOVE it. (Idea by Lisa Willey)
Remote Control Cake
Shirt Cake For Dad
Father's Day Mazes
Play "pin the Tie on the Dad": (Idea by Liz Whitehorn) Have a child color a tie any way they want and you can make up question to put on the backs of thee ties. i.e. Who's Nephi's father? Who is the father of many nations? Who is Jesus' father? Why should we honor our father? Who is the father of our country? Who is the father of our ward/stake? What color are dad's eyes? Where did dad serve a mission? Let each child pick ties and if they answer the question correctly they get blindfolded and try to hang the tie on the dad poster (where you can easily find pictures of a father by going to www.lds.about.com for clipart.
Scripture Dad's Matching Game
Summer Outdoor Games by Jamie
Father's Day Keychain by Jennifer Aspillaga
Father's Day Ideas
Father's Day Toolbelt Gift Idea
Fathers Day Treat by Lori Allred
Give him a hand.... by Laura Nicholls
Homemade Ice Cream and Cards by Jen Sudweeks
I love you to "pieces"
If you give a dad a cookie.... by Valerie and Gaylene
One Crayon by Sofia
Soda Bottle Covers
Superdad Printable Gift Labels
"We are printing a card that says, "Not to sound CORNY, but you're the best POP around" and taping it to a bag of microwave popcorn. We left room on the card for the children to draw a picture or write a note to their dad before we tape it to the popcorn." (Idea by Alisa Haws / ga06192011)
Father's Day Gifts, June 1984 Friend
Father's Day Freebie
Father's Day Printables
Father's Day Surveys by Angela
Some Father's Day Freebies
Tie card
Chocolate Candy Bar Wrappers (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
How about a Mr. Goodbar? It speaks for itself. Or a Milky Way bar because they're out of this world? Or Twix-betwix(t) you and me, we think you're great! OR, one of those Hershey dark chocolate bars, the ones that say Special. Or put some Nestle Treasures candy and a couple pieces of fudge in a 4x4 ziptop baggy and put in a note that read: Just wanted you to know how much we "treasure" you and we're not "fudge'in" The dad's loved it. (Idea by Linda Baker)
Microwave popcorn with the following card, "Happy Father's Day 'Pop'!"
Father, do you love me? by Julia Grogan
I am my Heavenly Father's Child
Father's Day song sung to "Happy Birthday to You"
My Father Taught Me
When I hear my Father pray
A Father Indeed
Cheerleading Dad
Fathers and Sons
Let Us Be Men
Love Her Mother
Father's Day program covers by Megan Buhler
King for a Day - some really fun ideas!
Super Dad Certificate
Dad Sayings
Father's Day Mustache Theme
Father's Day Footprint Project and Poem
Father's Day Poem
Fathers Day Treat by Lori Allred
Cookies and Dad
Father's Day poem - attach to a Big Hunk candy bar
Gone Fishing With Dad
Hershey Top Quality Fudge
M & M Bowtie Poem
My Million Dollar Dad
Poem from June 1984 Friend
The Little Chap Who Follows Me
Walk a little slower
When My Father Kneels To Hold Me
You are my daddy
My Hero by Debbie Young
What makes a dad?
When God created Fathers
Father's Day Printables
Tons of free printables from Sassy Sites!
Puzzle Card and Poem from June 1984 Friend
Father's Day Quarterly Activity Idea by Daisie Dance
Mother/Father Questionnaire by Sheri Stevens
Father's Day Quiz by Tom Pew
One Liners
Quick Quotes
Pin the tie on daddy by D'Net Layton - You could put different songs, stories or parts of your sharing time on the back of each of the ties.
When I was in primary for sharing time on Fathers day, I drew a father on a poster board (the head and chest) then made cute ties with all kinds of patterns and stuck them all over the primary room. Then I had one child pick a tie and they played "pin the tie on the dad". On the back of the ties were questions about dads. Who is the father of the ward? Nephi had a great father by the name of... who was the father who built a ship and put animals in it? I also did songs, "name that tune". You can adjust the questions to fit junior or senior you could put scriptures on the back of the ties and the children have to look them up. The children thought it was so cool. They loved cheering each other on. (by Rachel Alder / ga06132009)
As a brand new counselor in Primary, for Father's Day I needed to come up with something quick! I settled on Father's Day cards that said "I'm NUTS about You, Happy Father's Day" In the envelope we'll put a fun size bag of peanut M&Ms, and talk about how important out dads are to our family. (by LeAnna Nicholson / ga06122008)
Happy Father's Day
Last year for Father's Day we invited all the Dads to Senior Sharing Time. We took a group picture. After that we invited the Dad's to take a seat and we served them homemade Cinnamon Rolls and milk. This year we did the same thing for the Mother's. This year for Father's Day we will be inviting the Dad's again, but this time we will be sharing brownies and milk. (Idea by Merri Lea Hoff)
Mystery Fathers by Camille Williams
Sharing Time Idea by Sheryl
This June's Friend had a Father's Day footsteps poem. On Father's Day after reading the sweet poem to the primary children, give them a large (Daddy-sized) sand colored die cut footprint and have them write (or draw for the younger ones, the teacher could write the words underneath, if necessary to get the message across) on the footprint a good thing they see their Father do that they want to do to so they will be like him and follow in his footsteps. Later they can present it to their Dad or other VIP with a kiss. (Idea shared by Jennifer Barzee / ga06072007)
We are planning on decorating sugar cookie ties with frosting and candy then discussing the role of the father in the family, referencing the Proclamation of the Family. Then, we'll make a thank you card to our father's for all they do. (Idea shared by Janelle Hamm / ga06072008)
We wanted to do something to honor our bishop on Father's Day since he is the father of our ward. We are going to have him come into Primary hidden behind a rolling chalkboard. I spoke to his wife and found out lots of fun facts about him to give as clues for the children to try and guess who he is. When they find out how it is we were going to sing, "Our Bishop" to him and give him a treat. We are hoping this will let the bishop know how much we appreciate him and give the children an opportunity to get to know him better too! (Idea shared by Kristen / ga06092008)
The Father's Day Surprise Cake, Directions on the Surprise Cake
Dad, I love you! by F. Melvin Hammond
Father's Day Fishing Cupcakes
VIDEO CLIPS: Check your church library to see if they have any of these videos...
"Great Shall Be the Peace of Thy Children" - President Hinckley discusses the values that fathers should teach their children. Originally given at the priesthood session of general conference held 7 October 2000. 22 min. (Video Clip 3)
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text: [FONT=Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif]Wish they would put this in a New Avalanche.....[/FONT]GM Delivers First Look at Next-Gen Corvette's Small-Block V-8 Think 450 hp – to start. How high is up?Chevrolet reveals the heart of the C7 Corvette. Detroit, MI (10.24.12) – General Motors is promising some big changes when the all-new, C7 Chevrolet Corvette makes its eagerly anticipated debut next year. But for all the styling changes, the promised interior upgrades and the addition of more advanced telematics and other technologies, the 'Vette will certainly remain a performance car. So, it's no wonder the maker was generating plenty of interest when it announced plans to reveal an all-new version of Chevy's classic small-block V-8. And we've now got the inside scoop. 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 (artist's rendering) "The engine, if you talk to our customers, that's the heart of the beast," said Tadge Juechter, executive chief engineer of the Corvette as the maker revealed the new LT1 engine. The new numbers tell quite a story. If the figures hold up in production, look for the updated Gen-5 6.2-liter V-8 to pour out "at least" 450 horsepower and 450 lb-ft of torque. The LT1 engine will produce about 20 hp and 26 lb-ft more than the outgoing LS3 small-block V-8. Considering the new, seventh-generation Chevy Corvette will be lighter, more aerodynamic and more advanced overall, that means 0 to 60 times will drop to 4.0 seconds or less, "and that is on the entry-level vehicle," said Juechter. Expect to see significant improvements to the more limited-edition Corvette Z06 and ZR1 offerings, as well. Yet, in keeping with modern realities, fuel economy will also play into the update and Chevrolet is talking highway fuel economy of 26 miles per gallon or better out of the new V-8 – which will be produced at its Tonawanda Engine Plant near Buffalo, New York. The city and combined ratings were not released during a Wednesday news conference. That factory, incidentally, produced the very first small-block V-8 for GM back in 1955. It was the addition of that engine to the first-generation Corvette line-up that transformed a stylish poseur into "America's sports car." Chevrolet also noted the new LT1 will be able to run on regular unleaded – though premium is recommended – with a minor dip in performance. Click to Print – It's Free! The new V-8 adopts a dry-sump layout and some of the latest powertrain advances such as direct injection and continuously variable valve technology. It also bumps up the compression ratio to 11.5:1. Meanwhile, GM officials noted that it is a full 40 pounds lighter and four inches shorter than the 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 used by BMW. The maker claims to have invested something on the order of 10 million hours of engineering work, including work in its labs, on its dynos, in computer simulations and track time to get the LT1 right. Chevrolet recently revealed the new crossed-flag logo for the 2014 Corvette. The vehicle itself will get its debut on January 13, 2012 at the Detroit Auto Show. Source: The Detroit Bureau


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Ford EcoBoost V-6 Sets Speed Records at Daytona
There is a new King of Speed at Daytona International Speedway!
It is an understatement to say that twenty-five year old Colin Braun drove his 3.5-liter V-6 Ford EcoBoost Riley Technologies Daytona Prototype race car to impressive speeds at Daytona International Speedway recently. To be fair, with special Continental Tires planting the Roush Yates EcoBoost firmly on course, Braun and his Michael Shank Racing team strategically intended to go fast and break speed records.
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by Chad Dechow
The author is associate professor of dairy cattle genetics at Penn State University.
Genomic evaluations were officially released for the first time in January of 2009. The third anniversary gives us a good opportunity to review the accuracy of those initial predictions.
There were more than 2,000 Holstein bulls in the initial genomic release with no daughters. Of those, 354 had at least 100 daughters by August of 2010. There is some importance to the 100-daughter benchmark. Requiring 100 daughters in August of 2010 provides time for cows to be culled and evaluate their herd life more accurately today.
Some statistics for those bulls are summarized in the table for milk yield, daughter pregnancy rate (DPR) and productive life (PL). We could look at many traits, but these will provide a good sense of how genomic predictions have worked without overwhelming us with numbers.
A side-by-side comparison
Included in the table are the average genomic predicted transmitting abilities (gPTA) and parent averages (PA) for each trait in 2009. There was a genetic base change in 2010, so I've converted the 2009 averages to the current base. We will compare the numbers to December 2012 gPTA and daughter deviations (DD).
Comparisons with the DD are the most ideal because they are based only on daughter records, whereas 2012 gPTA includes a mix of daughter records, pedigree, and genetic marker information. As a bull accumulates daughters, the pedigree and genomic information is weighted less and the gPTA will eventually become nearly identical to DD.
It is apparent that milk and PL were overestimated when considering only the PA. This has always been a challenge in our progeny testing programs. The gPTA helped to reduce that bias for yield, but it still overestimated milk by 74 pounds and one month for PL when compared to DD.
Perhaps more important is how accurately the gPTA ranked bulls that did not have daughters. The correlations between 2009 gPTA and 2012 DD are also included in the table, and range from 0.59 for PL to 0.75 for yield.
These correlations can be used to derive the realized reliability of the 2009 gPTA. The realized reliabilities were within 3 percent of the published reliabilities for milk and DPR. In other words, the amount of re-ranking among bulls for those traits was similar to what we expected. The numbers suggest the genomic PL evaluations were not as accurate as we had hoped.
Quality control continues
The scientists at AIPL responsible for genomic evaluations perform similar quality control tests for all traits in the Holstein breed, and in the Jerseys and Brown Swiss, as well. The traits that still give some troubles in Holsteins are PL, sire calving ease, and sire stillbirth. Type traits evaluations have generally performed well for Holsteins.
I've used AIPL's test data from this past fall to also show you the realized reliabilities for Jerseys and Brown Swiss. The results for PL and DPR are in line with expectations for Jersey, but slightly less than expected for yield traits. The results for Brown Swiss are not significantly different than expected, but the relatively lower reliabilities highlight the challenge that is faced by our breeds with smaller populations. It takes a lot of genomically tested sires that have many daughters to generate robust gPTA.
All breeds will benefit from more testing of males and females, including more animals from the bottom half of the populations so that we have something to compare with the superior cows and bulls. These early results also reinforce how critical it is that we continue to invest in our progeny testing system, particularly for lower heritability and calving traits.
Not a direct comparison
The numbers suggest that we can make reasonable comparisons among genomically tested young sires for most traits, which was not true before we had genomic predictions. However, the declines from 2009 to 2012 do suggest that we have to be careful when comparing progeny tested to nonprogeny tested bulls.
Another way of looking at this is to compare the merit of top progeny tested and genomic young sires in 2009 to their merit now that they all have daughters. The top 25 bulls with no daughters in 2009 had an average Net Merit of $620 (on today's genetic base) compared with $495 for the 25 highest first crop daughter bulls that year. In 2012, those two sets of bulls had an identical average of $479. In other words, the bulls with no daughters were not as superior as initially believed when compared to progeny tested bulls. That said, we have made some improvements.
There was a somewhat controversial rescaling of cow gPTA in April of 2010 in order to reduce the tendency to overestimate gPTA for nonprogeny tested bulls. That change should help move us toward being able to make more direct comparisons between bulls with and without daughters.
The top 25 Net Merit sires that had no daughters in August of 2010 but now have at least 50 milking daughters experienced a much smaller decline in Net Merit ($64 versus $125 in the 2009 group) and have a slight advantage over the first-crop bulls from that time. We can probably compare progeny tested to non-progeny tested more directly now than in 2009, but that is a subject that we will need to revisit down the road to have confidence that those comparisons are valid. It is also important to note that we are only now just beginning to see the young bulls with greatly reduced generation intervals become available, so the real advances from genomics are yet to be realized.
Not complete agreement
It is my sense that people's perception of genomics takes on a different perspective based on whether you are a population geneticist (like me) and or a producer-breeder. Some loss of accuracy is okay from the population geneticist standpoint because it will be more than offset by a reduction in generation interval. If a bull's proof turns out to have been inflated, there will be another bull that was correct to become the next great sire-of-sons and the population will advance rapidly.
That may be okay, but it wasn't my cow that was bred to the bull that wasn't better in calving ease after all or my cow that was flushed to a suddenly mediocre bull. That is a difference in perspective that genomics won't eliminate but is a difference we can acknowledge and appreciate.
There is no question that the scientists involved with genomic predictions have done a tremendous job and are constantly looking for ways to improve the system. I have a lot of confidence that our breeders will use these tools to continue their development of exceptional cattle. For those breeders using genomic young sires, it is still advisable to select a variety of bulls in order to spread your risk.
This article appears on page 303 of the April 25, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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At his Prefrontal Nudity blog at Forbes, Will Wilkinson discusses the comparison of morality and language. The argument is that morality is like language, in that we come with it to some extent "built in". The theory, Moral Nativism, is inspired in part by Noam Chomsky, who argued that languages and grammar may vary across cultures and time, but there is a deep commonality among them. Furthermore, there is "insufficient information in a child's experience to account for her acquisition of competence in the rules of grammar". Therefore, language is not simply something we learn, but something that is built into us; humans have an "innate linguistic capacity".
Moral Relativism takes this concept of innateness of knowledge and applies it to morals. Specifically, Rawls asked whether the experience of children was sufficient to account for the morals they possessed. Will cites Scott James who summarizes the argument thusly:
"Since kids, across a wide spectrum of backgrounds, all exhibit this ability to distinguish moral from conventional rules, is it plausible that kids could have learned this from their environment? If the answer is no (as some insist), then the mind may well contain the moral analogue of the Language Acquisition Device. And this conclusion is bolstered if we can identify (as some allegedly have) other moral competencies that kids don't learn."
As a rebuttal to this viewpoint, Will takes us to Jesse Prinz who presents a long list of evidence for the terrible variation in morality across time and cultures:
Anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday found evidence for cannibalism in 34% of cultures in one cross-historical sample. Or consider blood sports, such as those practiced in Roman amphitheaters, in which thousands of excited fans watched as human beings engaged in mortal combat. Killing for pleasure has also been documented among headhunting cultures, in which decapitation was sometimes pursued as a recreational activity. Many societies have also practiced extreme forms of public torture and execution, as was the case in Europe before the 18th century…
As anyone familiar with humanity's impressive history of violence could guess, the list goes on and on. Language, Will argues, may vary greatly, but at a deeper there are many clear constraints and commonalities. Aside from those rules which are necessary for a society to thrive, pretty much anything has gone in terms of morality. As Will puts it:
If the putative moral capacity can produce moralities that allow things that strike our judgment as monstrously immoral–if it doesn't really rule anything out–it can't account for the normativity of our judgments and the linguistic analogy fails.
I have to say I find this evidence against moral nativism pretty convincing, just as I find it convincing evidence against moral objectivism. Another reason I'm skeptical, at least of moral objectivism, is the following thought experiment. Say you had an unlimited amount of money and time to persuade the chief of some Amazonian tribe of an objective scientific claim that the best evidence suggests is true. Say, that the earth revolves around the sun, or some other basic scientific claim. You can conduct scientific experiments, sit with him in the library going over the literature, and argue with him for 1,000 years. No matter what the starting point of his knowledge and beliefs, you should eventually be able to convince him of the truth as best as the evidence indicates, after all, its demonstratable knowledge.
Now say this tribesman believes that murdering an enemy and eating his heart pleases the Gods. With unlimited money and time, is there any way you could demonstrate to him the falseness of his beliefs? Well, you could try some Ghost of Christmas past shit and take them to see their victims mourning families and such, but in many cases this would not be successful. Those with horrifying moral beliefs are often quite aware of, and even relish in, the suffering that is caused. I also think this thought experiment would hold true for many moral beliefs that we find horrendous and those who hold them. To me this to me is an important distinction. There is simply no way to demonstrate the truth of the claim to people who disagree.
I think some of the difficulty in rejecting moral objectivism comes from the perceived implications of objecting it, rather than it's plausibility per se. But at the end of Will's post is a defense of moral relativism that counters many of these common objections, for instance:
Allegation: Relativism entails that we have no way to criticize Hitler.
Response: First of all, Hitler's actions were partially based on false beliefs, rather than values ('scientific' racism, moral absolutism, the likelihood of world domination). Second, the problem with Hitler was not that his values were false, but that they were pernicious. Relativism does not entail that we should tolerate murderous tyranny. When someone threatens us or our way of life, we are strongly motivated to protect ourselves.
It would be worth reading Will's post for this list alone.
Despite all these reasons to be skeptical of moral objectivism, I don't think I can reject it with much confidence, and I should probably remain close to agnostic. Why? Well, as I've surely made clear by this point, I am a philosophical naif with the background knowledge of the typical economist; that is, "utilitarianism is the moral framework, Rawls said some stuff that disagreed, but what can you really do with that stuff? Now tell me your R-squared." So why does that lead me towards moral objectivism? Because I put weight in the beliefs of experts, and (via Bryan Caplan) I can see that a slim majority of them accept or lean towards moral objectivism. Until I'm intellectually curious enough to do the hard lifting of really understanding the arguments of moral objectivists, I'll remain near agnostic out of humility in the face of 52.4% of professional philosophers disagreeing with me.
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I have two hives. Both successfully wintered and are now building up for the spring. One hive has always been very strong. It was started from a nuc last April, and gave me 30lbs of honey it's first year. We saw the queen for this hive once last year, a week after we hived the nuc. She had sort of a white smear/dot for a marking. Then we never found her again This was not an issue though, because we always saw great brood patterns, with brood in all stages of development. The hive was strong.
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