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Earned a September call-up with the Rays...appeared in 11 games after his selection to the major league roster Sep 1...posted a .200 opp avg. (6-for-30) and struck out 14 of 37 batters faced (37.8 pct.)...Allowed 6 of 8 inherited runners to score, including 5 in his final two outings...Made his Rays debut Sep 1 vs. BOS and allowed a game-tying single to Yoenis Cespedes in the 8th (run charged to Jeff Beliveau)...was his first app in the majors since Aug 17, 2012 with LAA...On Sep 10 at NYY, threw a career-high 2 IP and retired all 6 batters faced...Suspended 50 games in early May for a second violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for a drug of abuse...returned June 26 and compiled a 1.42 ERA (25.1-IP, 4-ER) in 18 apps after that for Durham.2013
Spent his first season in the Rays organization with Triple-A Durham…appeared in 41 games with the Bulls, compiling a 5-3 record, 3 saves and 2.82 ERA (67-IP, 21-ER)…struck out 80 batters compared to just 24 walks…held opponents to a .156 avg. (35-for-225), lowest among International League relievers and allowed only 8.06 base runners per 9 IP, 2nd lowest among IL relievers…established a career high with 67 IP.2012 Began season with Double-A Arkansas and established a 3-0 record while allowing just one run in 25.1 innings pitched (0.36 ERA) across 21 appearances with the Travelers...First 14 relief outings of the season were scoreless...Promoted to Triple-A Salt Lake in June and earned three saves for the Bees in 19 relief appearances prior to promotion to the Major League roster...Made big league debut with Angels on August 16 vs. Tampa Bay, tossing a scoreless ninth inning with a walk and one strikeout...Also appeared out of the 'pen the following night and allowed one run on two hits with two walks in an inning of work...Concluded the season at Salt Lake with six relief appearances allowing eight earned runs in 7.1 innings pitched...Overall was 0-1 with a 5.08 ERA (33.2 IP - 19 ER) in 25 outings with the Bees. 2011 Started the year with two appearances with Salt Lake, before spending the remainder of the season with Arkansas...Led all Travelers' relievers with 67 strikeouts. 2010 Split the year between Rancho Cucamonga and Arkansas, combining for a 4-1 overall record with a 3.08 ERA (52.2 IP - 18 ER) and 87 strikeouts. 2009 Spent entire 2009 season with Rancho Cucamonga and posted an impressive 7-1 record in 34 relief outings with a 3.76 ERA (64.2 IP - 27 ER). 2008 Made professional debut with 16 appearances at Orem and three with the Arizona Summer League Angels.


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This planting (Buckwalter) consists of Castanea mollissima, mollissima hybrids and japonica (crenata).
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japonica, jap-on′i-ka, n. an abbreviation for Pyrus japonica, the Japanese quince.
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Perhaps that is because its parents (Exochorda racemosa and Exochorda korolkowii) are larger shrubs (12-15 feet tall with a similar spread) that have fallen out of favor. Many landscapes today are better suited to smaller shrubs, where 'The Bride' would fit right in since it tops out at five feet tall.
The flower buds swell before opening, appearing as pearls on the stems. Once open, the flowers smother the plant and remain attractive for a couple of weeks in May. Although it has really no aesthetic features other than its prolific flower display (do forsythia, azalea, spirea, and deutzia offer anything else?), it can easily be incorporated into a shrub border with other spring flowering shrubs. It could be used as a specimen plant, but it really shines in mass plantings. In flower, it almost appears that the landscape received a late spring snow.
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"Ultimately," said Raymond Boucher, a Los Angeles lawyer who represents 140 alleged victims, "the scandal in Los Angeles will trump the scandal in Boston for the breadth and degree of molestation."
There have been 550 lawsuits alleging childhood abuse filed against the church in Boston.
The church is fighting back from the pulpit and before the bar. A letter signed by California's 12 bishops, and read to parishioners this month, warned of old wounds, supposedly healed, that might be reopened.
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The new law has been validated by California's Supreme Court. Lawyers for Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles have asked the US Supreme Court to take up the case, arguing that the law is unconstitutional. Both sides will put their arguments to the court in March.
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THE FIGURES are finally in and they support what many suspected – last year's hot summer was a tourism record-breaker.
Lured by the warm summer, visitor numbers were up 4.5 per cent and tourism spend spiked by eight per cent, according to new statistics.
It meant an estimated 40 million visitors packing their cases for Cumbria – 34m day-trippers and 5.4 m overnighters.
They spent a combined £2.2 billion in Cumbria and provided work for 56,410 people.
The tourism sector now represents around 19 per cent of the county's total employment, said Cumbria Tourism.
It was just the kind of bounce tourism leaders hoped for after a washout summer in 2012.
Richard Greenwood, for Cumbria Tourism, said: "We are delighted to see that the tourism industry in the Lake District and Cumbria has bounced back strongly.
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He added: "Cumbria's strong performance was helped by the good summer but is also the result of hard work and investment from tourism operators.
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Cumbria's visitor economy has now grown by more than 50 per cent over the last 12 years.
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Cumbria Tourism said the strong recovery could also be attributed to effective marketing and PR campaigns, investment, the economic upturn and the much hotter weather.
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I am nominating my mimi, Kathy Waggner, for the AARP Kentucky Grandparent of the year essay contest. I think she deserves this title for many reason. As you read you may see what I mean.
My mimi is very special to me because my dad passed away when I was one and she is the only person I have left on his side of the family. She is always there to talk to me and comfort me when I am missing him and feeling down because I don't get a chance to know or meet him. That is one reason my mimi is special to me.
My granny, Jane Boggs, should be the AARP Kentucky Grandparent of the Year. I'm nominating her for various reasons.
I think my great granny, Shirley Norris, should win AARP Kentucky Grandparent of the year because she has a nice and generous personality and she is pleasant to be around.
Emma B. Ward Elementary will be hosting the fifth annual Empty Bowls fundraiser and Holiday Station Express on Dec. 13 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The Empty Bowls fundraiser, held in the Ward gym, provides soup, bread and handmade ceramic bowls to benefit hunger charities such as Backpack Buddies, Open Hands food pantry and Heifer International.
Students from Ward, Anderson County Middle School and Robert B. Turner Elementary created the ceramic bowls, which will be available for sale at the dinner.
Students in instructor Lisa Hudson's fifth grade reading and writing class at Emma B. Ward Elementary completed essays for a writing contest. Students had to write an essay for the AARP Kentucky Grandparent of the Year essay contest and explain why their grandparent should be the AARP Kentucky Grandparent of the Year. The overall winner of the contest was Emily Slone. Her essay will move on to the next level of the contest, according to Hudson. The other essays were chosen as runners up.
I am nominating my grandma, Shirley Cherry, for Kentucky AARP grandparent of the year essay contest. She deserves this award for many reasons. Here are only a few of them.
The Anderson County Middle School BETA Club will collect books in its Books for Christmas Angels service learning project Dec. 10-14.
The BETA Club will accept any new book or "like new" used book that week. Books will be distributed to the Salvation Army to go along with Christmas Angels.
If you wish to make a book donation, please drop them off at the Anderson Middle School or the Adult Learning Center at 219 East Woodford St.
Students accept EKU scholarships
Hundreds of incoming freshmen and transfer students have accepted merit-based scholarships to attend Eastern Kentucky University.
Local recipients include Deanna Baxter, Anderson County High School, Lawrenceburg, Presidential Scholarship; Lauren Welsh, Anderson County High School, Lawrenceburg, Founders Scholarship; and Shelby Taylor, Anderson County High School, Lawrenceburg, Regents Scholarship.
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Iowa isnt a state where we see a lot of foliar pathogens. Every year we see foliar pathogens in soybeans; however, many of these diseases typically have minimal or uneconomic impacts on yield. For that reason, use of foliar fungicides hasnt been necessary in Iowa. The recent discovery of Asian soybean rust, a potential threat to soybean producers in the United States, has increased the interest of using foliar fungicides as a preventive control method for managing Asian soybean rust.
Strobilurins are a fungicide group with a preventive mode of action frequently used worldwide. Strobilurins are produced by several basidiomycetes and belong to the E-beta-methoxyacrylate group of antibiotics and inhibit mitochondrial respiration by blocking electron transfer at the cytochrome-bc1 complex. In addition to its direct effect on the fungus, it has been found to induce nonfungicidal physiological changes in wheat and tobacco, including darker green appearance of the leaves, delayed leaf senescence, increased stress tolerance, plant biomass, and grain yield. The higher yields in crops that result from the use of strobilurins in absence of disease were attributed to the ability of strobilurins to increase nitrate reductase in the plant.
The possibility of an Asian soybean rust epidemic in Iowa, or major crop loss from another foliar disease, is a direct threat to the Iowa farmer. Although many soybean producers in the state believe that applying strobilurins in the absence of foliar diseases will safeguard against crop loss, it is not known if this application is necessary or more important, if it is profitable. In a normal growing season, Iowa does not experience foliar diseases that cause major or significant yield loss. At this time, soybean producers are looking for ways to protect their crop from Asian soybean rust and other diseases that are moving north, while also improving plant health and yields. Strobilurins seem to be the choice for a fungicide; it is known from use with other crops, such as wheat and tobacco, that they could improve seed fill, which will improve grain composition and yield. Little information, however, exists on the use of strobilurins on soybean, but application of strobilurins on soybean may increase yield and grain composition in the absence of foliar diseases.
Research was therefore initiated in Iowa in 2005 to investigate the use of strobilurins on soybean in the absence of foliar disease. Four varieties and different fungicide treatments were applied at R1, R3, and R5 in a replicated trial. A few foliar pathogens were observed at low severity with the most predominant one being bacterial blight, which cannot be managed using a fungicide, and Septoria brown spot. Fungicide treatments did not influence grain yield, grain composition, or any other variables measured except seed size, when a strobilurin was applied at R3. Two similar experiments were conducted in 2004; one resulted in a significant yield increase with the use of a fungicide.
Based on the last two years of research in Iowa, consistent yield increases havent been found using foliar fungicides, and we havent been able to measure any physiological differences on soybean using a strobilurin in absence of disease either. There have been cases where we have seen an increase in seed size, but that hasnt contributed to an increase in yield since the seed number was then reduced. Most of us have seen visual differences in the field after application of a fungicide because the sprayed areas are darker in color than the nonsprayed areas. However, the visual color difference doesnt mean higher yields. Many did a strip trial on their farm in 2005, and based on my knowledge, the average yield increase was approximately 2-3 bu/acre, which wouldnt have paid for the product and the application. Inconsistency exists, however, and there is much to learn on the use of fungicides and how they fit into our production system in Iowa. Research will continue in 2006 on the use of fungicides in Iowa.
This article originally appeared on page 45 of the IC-496 (3) -- February 27, 2006 issue.


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By Colleen Wheeler | Saturday, July 21, 2012
For this edition of featured five free videos, I've chosen five sample movies from lynda.com courses in our Business segment, all geared toward the needs of the administrative professional. This weekend a group of those amazing folk who keep business running and thriving is gathering in Texas for their Education Forum and Annual Meeting. The theme of the conference is focused more than ever on education and training, and our Business segment has some excellent follow-up accompaniment to those sessions. (Of course, solid training in business-related topics doesn't just pertain to administrative pros!)
One of our most popular authors for Business tools training, Gini Courter, will be teaching several sessions at EFAM, and I thought it was a good time to round up some of the excellent training Gini and her fellow lynda.com Business authors have created.
Viewing the task and to-do lists in Outlook from Outlook 2010: Time Management With Calendar and Tasks
In this video, Gini Courter reviews the difference and view options for Outlook's Tasks and To-Do lists. If you're already using Outlook for email, these are definitely features that allow you to turn email into activity. The course focuses on how to use Outlook 2010 to handle both business and personal schedules, from making appointments, to creating and completing tasks, to color-coding calendars and tasks for at-a-glance review.
Responding to Twitter @mentions from Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter
In this video, our popular Social Media Maven Anne-Marie Concepción explains how you can use the @mention feature on Twitter to hear what people are saying or asking about your company. Social media has become a critical activity for many businesses, and Anne-Marie's course covers not only the fundamentals of social media marketing, but also the basics of creating a top-level online presence.
Choosing the fonts for your Word document from Word 2010 Essential Training
For any business document, the recipients gets their first impression from the way you choose to format your words, particularly which font you choose. In this movie, Gini Courter goes over font formatting in Word documents so you can choose the font that best serves your communication. The course this movie comes from delves into the functionality at the heart of Word: creating, editing, and formatting documents.
Understanding how to hold effective meetings from Effective Meetings
Meetings that feel like a waste of time or a confusing deluge of information are a common occurence. In this movie, Dave Crenshaw discusses the three principles that inform an effective meeting. Dave's course is focused on establishing a simple, usable framework to get the most from meetings, and provides insight into how to effectively schedule, conduct, and follow up on meetings.
What can you do with InfoPath? from InfoPath 2010 Essential Training
We've all had to face forms in our business days that are tedious and complicated to read, let alone fill out correctly. Microsoft InfoPath allows you to develop a clear, beautiful, effective form, so that the information can be gathered and analyzed easily. (And for EFAM attendees, you'll get an in-depth view from the presenter herself!)
Whether you're an administrative pro on your way to Texas for EFAM, someone holding down the fort (and holding the fort together) day-to-day, or just a person who wants to thrive in the business environment, the Business segment in our library is dedicated to helping you develop critical skills. Let us know if there are other topics you'd like to see addressed in our library in the future.
By Jolie Miller | Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Time management may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you open your inbox, but our two new courses, Outlook 2010: Time Management with Calendars and Tasks and Outlook 2007: Time Management with Calendars and Tasks, suggest that email productivity is well within your grasp.
These courses are designed to help you create appointments and meetings with ease, use flagging and categories to corral all your inbox email, manage tasks and to-dos, and use Outlook Task List options.
Outlook 2007 users will appreciate author Gini Courter's quick tip on how to create a task from an email (from chapter two of Outlook 2007: Time Management with Calendars and Tasks):
And if you're using Outlook 2010, check out this handy method of viewing the task list and to-do list (from chapter three of Outlook 2010: Time Management with Calendars and Tasks) :
If your inbox gets a steady stream of email every day, you'll also appreciate these courses' solid tips for capturing work in Outlook. Another suggestion from Gini Courter is to sort the items that require your action by priority and the amount of time each will take. This sorting then determines whether you set up a task or a calendar appointment and how you take next steps. For more on this, lynda.com members should check out the Capturing work in Outlook movie in the introduction chapter of both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007 time management courses.
My new productivity motto: Enjoy your email, and make your calendar and tasks work for you in the new year!
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Ever email your boss an email meant for your friend because Outlook pulled the wrong contact from the wrong address book? This tutorial from David Diskin shows how to change the default address book so the one you use most often is the one Outlook searches first. You'll find this time-saving tip along with hundreds more in David's new courses Outlook 2007 Power Shortcuts and Outlook 2010 Power Shortcuts.
By Bonnie Bills | Sunday, February 13, 2011
Did you know you can send text messages from Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010? This tutorial from David Diskin shows how to send a text to people on the most common cell phone networks in the U.S. from within Outlook. You'll find this productivity tip along with hundreds more in David's new courses Outlook 2007 Power Shortcuts and Outlook 2010 Power Shortcuts.
By Bonnie Bills | Thursday, January 20, 2011
Need to find a contact fast in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010? This time-saving shortcut from David Diskin shows how you can get to the contact you need in a matter of seconds. You'll find this time-saving tip along with lots more in David's new courses: Outlook 2007 Power Shortcuts and Outlook 2010 Power Shortcuts.
By Bonnie Bills | Wednesday, June 9, 2010
lynda.com has been rolling out Office 2010 courses since its launch last month, and I've been talking with our Office 2010 authors about their experiences with the latest version of Microsoft Office. Today's Q&A features Karen Fredricks, Customer Relationship Management expert and author of the lynda.com course Outlook 2010 New Features.
Q: An overcrowded inbox is something most people wrestle with. Does Office 2010 have features that make this easier?
A: Absolutely. First of all, if you find that there's a lot of spam clogging up your inbox, you can change your spam filter settings. That will insure that those messages about your mortgage and various body parts will be automatically sent to the Junk email folder instead of to your inbox. You can also start "training" Outlook by marking individual messages as spam if you're being bothered by a specific individual or organization. Quick Steps is another cool Outlook 2010 feature designed to whip your inbox into shape. For example, I can create a Quick Step to automatically move all messages with the word "sale" in the subject line to a specific folder and forward a copy to my boss once I've read it.
Q: You're very experienced with contact management software solutions. How is Outlook as a contact manager?
A: Technically Outlook is not a contact manager, it's a PIM (Personal Information Manager). A PIM allows the user to keep track of emails, addresses, appointments, notes, and tasks. A contact manager makes it easier to track the interactions between you and your contacts. For example, in Outlook you don't associate an appointment with an individual; with a contact manager you do, which means you can cross-reference your appointments from either your calendar or from a contact record. Some Microsoft Office suites include Business Contact Manager, which adds true contact management functionality to Outlook.
Q: How does Business Contact Manager stack up against other contact management programs?
A: If your business consists of a single employee, or if you work for a large company that doesn't need to share its contact information, thenBusiness Contact Manager is a nice choice for contact management. In addition to being free, Business Contact Manager adds in several true contact management functions, including relating contacts to appointments and notes, allowing for project management, creating a pipeline based on sales opportunities, and reporting. However, if you want to share your information with several members of your team, have true mail merge and e-market capabilities, and do a bit of advanced database customization then you'll want to look at a true contact management system such as ACT!.
Q: What's your favorite feature in Outlook 2010?
A: That's an easy one! I absolutely love the new Outlook Social Connector. I'm a big fan of social networking. Now I am able to see directly from my incoming emails whether or not I am connected with the sender. My incoming emails include the photographs of the people I am connected to, as well as updates from their sites which makes emailing feel so much more personal. And, if we're not already connected, I can send out an invitation at the click of a button. As an extra bonus, the incoming email now provides me with a list of the previous email I've received from the sender as well as a list of any attachments they might have previously sent. How cool is that?
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This study demonstrates the applicability of visible-near infrared and thermal imaging for detection of Huanglongbing (HLB) disease in citrus trees. Visible-near infrared (440–900 nm) and thermal infrared spectral reflectance data were collected from individual healthy and HLB-infected trees. Data analysis revealed that the average reflectance values of the healthy trees in the visible region were lower than those in the near infrared region, while the opposite was the case for HLB-infected trees. Moreover, 560 nm, 710 nm, and thermal band showed maximum class separability between healthy and HLB-infected groups among the evaluated visible-infrared bands. Similarly, analysis of several vegetation indices indicated that the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), Vogelmann red-edge index (VOG) and modified red-edge simple ratio (mSR) demonstrated good class separability between the two groups. Classification studies using average spectral reflectance values from the visible, near infrared, and thermal bands (13 spectral features) as input features indicated that an average overall classification accuracy of about 87%, with 89% specificity and 85% sensitivity could be achieved with classification models such as support vector machine for trees with symptomatic leaves.
In recent years, many invasive citrus diseases have spread to different parts of Florida affecting the citrus industry. Huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening is one of most serious citrus diseases resulting in an estimated loss of about $3 billion in terms of annual production value [
Remote sensing is emerging as an important component of precision agriculture for its ability to identify and define crop health. Changes in spectral reflectance can indicate physiological stress in trees that result from the changes in photosynthetic pigments such as chlorophyll, carotenoids and other factors. With improvements in spatial, spectral and temporal resolution of remote sensing, multispectral imagery remains advantageous due to its real-time or near real-time imagery for visual assessment [
Multispectral and thermal imaging systems have been used for stress detection in different crops [
Our previous work involved the application of visible-near infrared spectra for HLB detection in citrus leaves [
The long term goal of this study is to integrate multispectral and thermal imaging with a small multi-rotor UAV platform for canopy stress detection. The specific objective of this work was to evaluate the application of multispectral and thermal imaging for HLB detection in citrus trees using a mobile ground-based sensor platform. For this purpose, three cameras (two multispectral and one thermal) were used to acquire spectral images from the top of the healthy and HLB-infected citrus canopies. The multispectral cameras were comprised of blue, green, red, red-edge, and near infrared filters, while the thermal camera consisted of mid-infrared filters.
Two multiple camera arrays (MCA, MIC-005, Tetracam Inc., Chatsworth, CA, USA) with six sensor channels each were used for collecting high-resolution images from different wavelengths (blue to near infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectra). The spectral bands used were 440, 480, 530, 560, 610, 660, 690, 710, 740, 810, 850, and 900 nm. The band width was 10 nm. The bands were selected based on preliminary evaluation and previous work [
The experimental set-up (
The field experiments were carried-out at the University of Florida's Citrus Research and Education Center grove (Lake Alfred, FL, USA) during August and September of 2011. The data were collected between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and at a distance of 3 m above the tree canopy under natural light conditions (sunlight). During image acquisition, a white reflectance reference panel of 25.4 × 25.4 cm (Spectralon Reflectance Target, CSTM-SRT-99-100, Spectra Vista Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA) was used. The white reference panel in the images was used to perform corrections for variations in the light intensity. The spectral reflectance values of a tree canopy for each band will depend on the physiological status of the tree and its interactions with the light source. The field data were taken from 36 healthy and 38 HLB-infected trees (Valencia oranges). The HLB-infected trees had a few symptomatic leaves (chlorosis and blotchy mottle), but not completely covered with such leaves.
During image preprocessing, each of the pixel values of individual multispectral images (12 bands) was corrected with the average pixel value (30 × 30 pixels) of the white reference panel in that image for calibration. After the correction, the central image region covering the canopy was averaged to compute the average pixel values for each of the multispectral image (about 300 × 300 pixels) using an image processing and analysis software, ImageJ (
In addition to the average spectral reflectance value of each spectral band in an image, selected vegetation indices were computed that represent the physiological stress in plants. The vegetation indices computed were: structure insensitive pigment index (SIPI; 810 nm, 690 nm, 440 nm), Vogelmann red-edge index (VOG; 740 nm, 710 nm), modified red-edge normalized difference vegetation index (mNDVI; 740 nm, 690 nm, 440 nm), modified red-edge simple ratio (mSR; 740 nm, 710 nm, 440 nm), red-edge normalized difference vegetation index (RE-NDVI; 740 nm, 690 nm), simple ratio index (SR), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) [
The Matlab program was used for data analysis. The summary statistics of spectral bands and vegetation indices for healthy and HLB-infected citrus trees were calculated. In addition, classification studies were performed to determine the effectiveness of the spectral features (average spectral reflectance values in visible, near- and thermal infrared bands) in categorizing the healthy and HLB-infected citrus canopies. The classification studies were performed using the 'Statistics' and 'Bioinformatics' toolbox of Matlab. The average spectral reflectance values of 13 bands (12 visible-near infrared bands + 1 thermal band) were used as input features for classification. The two output classes used in the analysis were "healthy" and "HLB". The data were randomly separated into training and test datasets such that 75% of the data was utilized for training the classifier model; while 25% of the data was used for testing the developed classifier model. The classifiers tested were linear discriminant analysis (LDA), quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), bagged decision tree (BDT) and support vector machine (SVM). The binary classification performance was assessed based on number of statistical measures such as accuracy, specificity, sensitivity (or class recall) and class precision, calculated from the confusion matrices (
In addition to the classification performance, the three most significant spectral features and vegetation indices were identified based on the class separability criteria using Bioinformatics toolbox in Matlab. The class separability was evaluated based on two-sample t-tests (unpaired) with pooled variance estimate.
The summary statistics with average and standard deviation of pixel values that represent reflectance from the canopy were computed for individual spectral bands.
The plant stress detection using thermal imaging is potentially possible due to the stomatal opening or other physiological changes that occur as a result of plant response/resistance to pathogens [
Vegetation indices have also been used to detect stress in plants [
The classification studies were performed with reflectance values of visible, near infrared, and thermal bands as input features.
Visible-near infrared and thermal imaging techniques were evaluated for detecting HLB-infected citrus trees in citrus orchards. The selection of spectral features is a critical step in identifying diseases. In this study, we evaluated the selected features to verify whether it was possible to identify HLB-infected trees with only a few spectral bands. The assessment of spectral reflectance values of visible and near infrared bands indicated that the HLB-infected trees reflected higher in the visible regions of spectra than in near infrared regions compared to healthy trees. In addition, wavebands such as 560 nm and 710 nm had good separability in visible-near infrared spectral regions. HLB symptoms can affect the greenness of the leaves (560 nm), which could be the cause for high separability at 560 nm. Similarly, red-edge (710 nm) is known to reflect physiological stress in plants [
The canopy temperature changes can also be used to indicate stress [
This study demonstrates the application of visible-near infrared with thermal imaging for remote sensing applications, which can also be automated. This is important technology for citrus orchards, as there is a need for frequent monitoring of diseases. Moreover, the sensing technology can be further expanded to larger agricultural area using aerial sensing platforms. One such sensing platform could be an UAV that can be used for high-resolution, low-altitude, aerial imaging. Our future studies will involve assessing the visible-near infrared imaging technologies for aerial sensing of HLB in citrus orchards using a small UAV system.
The authors would like to thank the Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and US Department of Agriculture– Specialty Crop Research Initiative (USDA-SCRI) for their funding for this research. We would also like to extend our special thanks to Luba Polonik, Cindy Basnaw, and Amanda Valentine for their help during the study.
Experimental set-up showing the utility vehicle with sensors mounted on a retractable mast and representative tree bunch with healthy and HLB-infected leaves.
Pseudo color images that represent visible-near infrared spectral reflectance values of a healthy citrus tree. The field-of-view of the camera included the citrus tree canopy, the white reference panel (that appear as dark red squares in the images) and a small portion of soil (ground).
Pseudo color images that represent visible-near infrared spectral reflectance values of a HLB-infected citrus tree. The field-of-view of the camera included the citrus tree canopy, the white reference panel (that appear as dark red squares in the images) and a small portion of soil (ground).
Pseudo color thermal images of a healthy and HLB-infected citrus tree. The field-of-view of the camera included the citrus tree canopy and a small portion of soil. The HLB-infected tree appears lighter than the healthy tree, due to higher temperatures.
Confusion matrix and associated classification measures.
Summary statistics of individual spectral bands computed for healthy and HLB-infected trees. (
Summary statistics of vegetation indices computed for healthy and HLB-infected trees. (
Sensor specifications used for data collection.
|Image resolution
|640 × 512
|8.5 mm
|13 mm
|Image storage
|8 bit
|8 bit
|203 mm × 179 mm × 101 mm
|44.5 mm × 44.5 mm × 30.0 mm
|1.55 kg
|72 g
|Six/camera (440–900 nm)
|7.5–13.5 μm
|Input voltage
|MCA, Tetracam Inc.
|Tau 640, FLIR Systems Inc.
Classification accuracy, specificity and sensitivity obtained from different classifiers.
|Accuracy (%)
|81 ± 6
|80 ± 6
|80 ± 3
|87 ± 3
|Specificity (%)
|85 ± 17
|78 ± 22
|93 ± 6
|89 ± 11
|Sensitivity or class recall (%)
|78 ± 19
|81 ± 13
|67 ± 11
|85 ± 17
|Class precision (%)
|87 ± 14
|82 ± 17
|91 ± 8
|90 ± 9


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On 24.11.2003, at 22:36, Dave O wrote:
> It works ok and I've got rules set up to block out the nasty stuff.
Instead of setting up rules to block the nasty stuff, you should rather
make sure all your pass rules only pass stuff you want. Then the rest
is blocked by default. Good firewall practices. ;)
> Making the following assumptions:
> WAN is 192.168.0.55
> LAN is 172.16.33.1
> OPT1 is 172.16.34.1
Assuming the subnet masks on LAN and OPT1 are /24, that's very well
> Nothing from OPT1 should go out to the WAN.
As long as you don't set up any rule for the OPT1 interface, nothing
will go out from OPT1 to anywhere.
> Ports 137-139 are allowed between OPT1 and LAN.
Easy! Just add a rule that permits traffic on interface OPT1, source
OPT1 subnet, destination LAN subnet, on the ports you want to allow. If
you still have the default rule on LAN (allow from LAN to any) in
effect, then LAN hosts will be able to establish connections with OPT1
hosts on any port (but not vice versa).
Don't forget that the rules only deal with the first packet of each
connection. Once that is allowed by your ruleset, all packets belonging
to the same connection (even in the other direction) are passed - no
matter what your ruleset says!
> LAN is NATed. I'm getting a bit confused in trying to set this up.
> Since LAN is NATed - and after reading the ipfilter FAQ - should rules
> on OPT1 be set up to allow from network 192.168.0.55 or 172.16.33.1.
> IPFilter supposedly does NAT translation once a packet passes through
> the interface. THEN it does the rule handling.
Not quite. m0n0wall handles NAT on the WAN interface, but your LAN <->
OPT1 communication never passes through the WAN interface, so you don't
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Journey Into Comics: Derek Hess - God and Cap
Cleveland artist Derek Hess is never going to be mistaken for a spokesman for the Religious Right.
So don't be confused by the title of his latest book, Please God, Save Us, which will be released this month through his own company, Strhesspress. Working with writer Kent Smith, who is a member of a Cleveland area school board, Hess has created a book that eviscerates the Bush Administration and the Religious Right with narratives about religion, Iraq, religion, the economy, racism, big business and did I mention religion? Each of Smith's essays is illustrated by one or two of Hess' unique drawings.
The artwork is chaotic, edgy and a little scary, scary because it rings true.
Hess is best known for his screaming posters of rock and punk bands, 30 of which are on permanent display at both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Louvre. Yep, that Louvre, as in Paris, which leads to an interesting story we'll talk about later.
Comic readers will recognize him for the three issues he did for Marvel in 2002 for the Captain America: Dead Man Running mini-series.
Ironically, someone liked the original Captain America paintings so much they broke into Hess' gallery and stole them in 2003.
"What could they do with them?" Hess lamented. "They can't sell them."
Cleveland Police investigated, a reward was offered, but the paintings were never recovered, something that still angers Hess.
"No, they never found them," he said. "The police and the insurance company couldn't find a trace."
Please God, features about 50 original posters which collects 40 posters Hess did for a one-night show on Dec. 16, 2006 in Cleveland called "Please God, Save Us From Your Followers.'
There is something disturbing, yet compelling, about Hess' artwork with the bold, scratchy lines and seemingly unfinished bodies. His villains, including the monstrous Republican red elephants, are the stuff of nightmares, which cannot be remembered clearly in the light of day.
In one painting, a herd of red elephants is knocking over a wind turbine. In another, the twin nozzles of a gasoline pump are replaced by the bloody heads of two red elephants, the tips of their trunks transformed into gas nozzles.
Smith and Hess have a good time lampooning the speeches of Dr. James Dobson, founder of the Christian organization, Focus of the Family. Dobson accused Sponge Bob of being gay and compared Santa Claus to Satan. And yes, he pointed out that it's just the letter N that separates the two.
"Please God is pretty heady, thought-provoking material. But I would buy the book anyway just for Hess' art.
Now, about that Louvre story.
"In March, 1996, I got a letter in the mail that was all in French," Hess said. "I had no idea what it said, so I just laid it aside planning to have someone translate it. And that's where it stayed for a while."
About a month later, Hess gave the letter to a Cleveland gallery owner and asked if he knew anyone who could translate it.
"He later came to me with this huge grin on his face and said he had it translated and that it might be something I was interested in," Hess said. "He said it was from the Louvre, they had seen my work in a European magazine and they wanted 20 of my posters for their permanent collection. I couldn't believe it."
Hess sent the posters he did for bands like Pearl Jan, Peter Wolf, Jesus Lizard and the Supersuckers to the Louvre the next day.
"So, my work has been on exhibit ever since," he said. "I'd love to go there and see them someday. Imagine, a poster for Jesus Lizard at the Euclid Tavern in the Louvre."
Check out some of Derek's art at www.derekhess.com/


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Save the World and Get the Girl?: "The Li'l Depressed Boy #13"
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Many could see the traits of LDB's love interests as fitting within the character trope of the manic pixie dream girl as defined by critic Nathan Rabin. They are "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creatures that exist solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries…"


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"Fright Night" is just the latest in a never-ending parade of 80s-era remakes. Surprisingly, it holds its own with its predecessor. The movie stars Anton Yelchin (the kid who played Chekov in the Star Trek reboot a few years back) as Charley, a high schooler living in the outskirts of Las Vegas with his single mom (Toni Collette). As the movie opens, there have been a rash of disappearances in the area. Charley, however is so obsessed with moving on from his geek past and cementing his relationship with his hottie girlfriend Amy (Imogen Poots) that he thinks nothing of it. Just as he thinks nothing of the new neighbor Jerry (a deliciously dangerous Colin Farrell in full on predator mode) who lives next door.
Jerry appears to have some interesting habits. He's never seen in daylight for starters although this is understandable when he claims to have a night job in construction. All the windows of his modest suburban home are blackened out to keep out the sunlight and help him sleep during his off hours. And seriously, WTF is with that dumpster in the driveway?! These characteristics make Jerry unique to his unsuspecting neighbors, but to Charley's former best friend Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse; aka McLovin) these are tell-tale signs that Jerry is in fact a vampire. However, Ed's warnings go unheeded and before long, Ed joins the ranks of the disappeared.
With his childhood friend now missing, Charley now begins to think that maybe his new neighbor isn't what he seems. To confirm his suspicions, Charley goes to visit illusionist Peter Vincent (Doctor Who 's David Tennant) who is initially reluctant to help but soon jumps in headlong to aid Charley in his mission to slay the bad guy and save the world (not to mention his girl).
Bottom line; this movie is FUN. The moments of terror are properly counterbalanced with moments of hilarity. I personally was happy to find a vampire movie in which the monster wasn't a whiny emo kid with bad hair and sparkly skin. Colin Farrell succeeds in making Jerry a monster who is equally sexy and terrifying which is exactly what a vampire should be.
David Tennant in particular stood out from his fellow cast mates. I was familiar with him from Doctor Who, but in this scenario, removed from the persona of The Doctor, Tennant manages to be equal parts funny, regretful, and (dare I say it?) sexy. He injects the character of Peter Vincent with humor mixed with generous helpings of melancholy. Yet at the same time, there is an element of lounge lizard to him that creates a noticable sex appeal that one hasn't seen in his other, more family friendly, roles. Then again, maybe I just like hearing him say "fuck" in that accent….
One important note: this movie is rated R for a reason. Anyone under 17 needs to stay the hell out of the theater. Parents, if this is your choice for dinner and a movie night, fine. Just find yourselves a sitter so that you do not become the douchebag parents who bring a noisy kid to a movie which is EXTREMELY age inappropriate.
All in all, Fright Night is a great time at the movies. It is funny, scary, and sexy all in one deliciously high energy package. It's a pure entertainment thrill ride that makes a serious attempt to undo the damage done to the vampire genre by the Twilight series. Vampires are sexy dangerous fun again, thanks to Fright Night.
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It's that time of year when astronomical outfits release their loveliest, stitched together, false-color images of various parts of the universe.
Presented here for your holiday cheer are images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak.
The NASA Hubble shot is of NGC 5189.
From NASA:
"Planetary nebulae represent a final brief stage in the life of a star like the Sun. While consuming the last of the fuel in its core, the star expels a large portion of its outer regions, which then heats up and glows brightly, showing intricate structures that scientists are still trying to fully understand. The structure visible within NGC 5189 is particularly dramatic, and Hubble's image of the nebula is by far the most detailed yet made of this object."
The WIYN Telescope image was released by one of its partners, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which said:
"As an end of the year finale, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and WIYN partners offer this new wide-field image of the Cygnus loop. Three degrees on a side, this image covers an area of the sky about 45 times that of the full Moon. But it does so without sacrificing high resolution. The image is over 600 million pixels in size, making it one of the largest astronomical images ever made.
The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant: the gaseous remains of a massive star that exploded long ago. It is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cygnus, the Swan."
Enjoy! And Happy Holidays from the Scientific Bent team.


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Outstanding Integrated Science Majors
Every year one student is awarded the distinction of Outstanding Integrated Science Major.
Sara was an active student in the Integrated Science program and completed it in only three years. Every year she served as a member of the National Science Teachers Association, including treasurer then president for a year and a half. During her time in NSTA, she led the student chapter to two national conferences in Chicago and Nashville. During her time in the Integrated Science program she participated in many Science Nights in area schools and presented at the Fall Science Update 2015 with Steve Mattox. Outside of the program Sara was also actively involved with the GVSU PALS program and interned at the Blandford Nature Center.
Barb Wheeler
Barb is a leader in the Integrated Science program. She has used her classroom assignments to construct lessons valued by many teachers. Her first presentation, at the Michigan Science Teachers Association, described how to offset your carbon footprint by planting trees. Her second, also at MSTA, guided teachers to investigate energy efficiency of school buildings. As President of the NSTA Student Chapter she coordinated efforts to secure funds to send a pack of students to the National Science Teachers Association meeting in Chicago. She looks forward to Study Abroad in Ireland, Scotland, and England.
Caroline Schairer
Caroline has certainly made the most of her time at GVSU. In addition to being an outstanding student in her ISCI and Honors College courses, Caroline has volunteered her time at several local schools, worked with the Target Inquiry project where she helped conduct a study that was presented in a very international symposium at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching conference, and has most recently spent a month in Tanzania teaching as part of a Study Abroad experience.
Stephanie (Haley) Oostdyk
Stephanie conducted five presentations at science education conferences, including one at the National Association of Science Teachers (NSTA) National Conference in Indianapolis, IN. The topics included "integrating" the sciences in teaching about global climate change, as well as using her investigation of stemflow on beech trees to illustrate how extended investigations can address the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). She had an article on addressing NGSS published in the September 2013 issue of Science Scope. The article uses her beech tree study to illustrate how NGSS dimensions (science practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts) are integrated in performance expectations, as well as how student investigations can address nature of science (NOS) and align curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Stephanie Standriff
Stephanie published two articles in MSTA Journal. One article is an elementary lesson on sound and vibrations. The second article is an elementary lesson on the water cycle. She also presented a simple classroom model she developed for melting permafrost by a warming climate at several science education conferences, including the National Science Teachers Association National Conference in Indianapolis, IN.
Taylor Rickelmann
Taylor served as President for the Student Chapter of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) at Grand Valley. She studied abroad for the COST Program (Consortium for Overseas Student Teaching) in Darwin, Australia. She was a student representative on the Biology Education Search Committee that reviewed and interviewed applicants, and made a recommendation which ultimately resulted in the successful hire of new Integrated Science faculty member, Dr. Stephen Rybczynski. Taylor attended two NSTA National Conferences, one in Philadelphia, PA and one in New Orleans, LA. She also received the "I am Grand Valley" Leadership Award.


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Free apps drain batteries, risk security, studies say
Published 9:09 pm, Monday, March 19, 2012
We all know that free smartphone apps make their money by showing you ads. But they're also draining your phone's battery and risking your privacy and security, according to two new studies.
"Free apps like Free Chess and Angry Birds spend under 25-35 percent of their energy on gameplay, but over 65-75 percent on user tracking, uploading user information and downloading ads," Abhinav Pathak and Y. Charlie Hu, of Purdue University, and Ming Zhang, of Microsoft Research, wrote in their paper "Where is the energy spent inside my app? Fine grained energy accounting on smartphones with Eprof." They're scheduled to present their findings next month, at EuroSys2012.
The researchers also found energy bugs that use up power, and said a new "bundling" system of energy accounting could cut use by 20 percent to 65 percent.
"(T)he quarter-million apps developed so far were largely developed in an energy oblivious manner," they wrote.
Meanwhile, researchers at North Carolina State University reported Monday that free apps pose privacy and security risks, because many allow ad providers to download and run code from remote servers.
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"Running code downloaded from the Internet is problematic because the code could be anything," Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of "Unsafe Exposure Analysis of Mobile In-App Advertisements," said in a university news release. "For example, it could potentially launch a 'root exploit' attack to take control of your phone -- as demonstrated in a recently discovered piece of Android malware called RootSmart."
NC State doctoral students Michael Grace and Wu Zhou, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi of the Technical University Darmstadt, co-wrote the paper, which the researchers are scheduled to present next month at the 5th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks in Tucson.
Third-party ad libraries retrieve and run ads in apps, and have the same permissions users grant to the app itself. The researchers looked at 100,000 apps in the Google Play market, finding that:
- More than half used ad libraries;
- 297 of the apps had ad libraries that used an unsafe mechanism to fetch and run code from the Internet;
- 48,139 had ad libraries that track a user's location via GPS (presumably for ad targetting);
- 4,190 used ad libraries that allowed advertisers themselves to access a user's location via GPS;
- Some apps used ad libraries that accessed call logs, user phone numbers and lists of all apps stored on a phone.
What should be done about this?
"To limit exposure to these risks, we need to isolate ad libraries from apps and make sure they don't have the same permissions," Jiang said in the news release. "The current model of directly embedding ad libraries in mobile apps does make it convenient for app developers, but also fundamentally introduces privacy and security risks. The best solution would be for Google, Apple and other mobile platform providers to take the lead in providing effective ad-isolation mechanisms."
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MARSHALL — The hometown Mavericks rallied late to take a 4-3 win in eight innings over Sulphur Springs in 14-4A baseball competition Friday.
"We had a 3-1 lead late in the game, then Marshall came back," said Jerrod Hammack, Sulphur Springs head baseball coach. "It was a bitter pill to swallow, I thought we would win the game."
"Ben Brooks was pitching well, but Marshall got the runs to win," Hammack said. "It was a tough loss."
Brooks pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing 10 hits, four runs (two earned), fanning seven on the night.
Senior second baseman Alex Burney had a double and a single, including the hit which drove in the run to give the Wildcats the lead, prior to the Marshall rally.
The game was tied at 1-all after seven innings. Sulphur Springs scored twice in the top of the seventh. Mavs pushed across three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Brennan Brock and C.J. Stephens recorded hits. Ethan Phillips also knocked in a run.
Both teams were out of the playoff race. The top four teams made the postseason, action continued between squads to determine playoff seeding.
"We played well. Brooks pitched a super game, he was very efficient with his pitches," Hammack said. "We just came up short again in a district game. We had so many close games that could have gone the other way, like the 1-0 loss at Pine Tree or either game with Mount Pleasant."
The Wildcats end the year at 3-7 in district, 14-11. Marshall finished at 8-15, 3-7.
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