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Category Archives: Articles
Ingredients Outlook
Every month I get a copy of “Culinology, The Official Magazine of the Research Chefs Association” in my box at work. It’s a strange read if you’re not used to thinking about food in industrial terms. Consider this article from … Continue reading
Who’s a philanthropist? I’m a philanthropist!
Who’s that handsome guy in the Gazette.Net? That’s yours truly, of course, helping out at Beltsville Elementary. Every year several of us from my lab at USDA participate in the MindCore Marathon program, which helps the students raise money and … Continue reading
New George W. Bush Commemorative Pen
As George W. Bush returns to Crawford, TX, following the inauguration of Barack Obama last week he is no doubt planning his memoirs. Writing documents longhand is now all the rage, following the example of Neal Stephenson, who has written … Continue reading
No Assistant Professorship for you!
A few of you know that I applied for a faculty position at LSU (my PhD advisor’s position). I was told last week that the position has been frozen. I don’t know when/if they’ll get permission to fill it any … Continue reading
I Love My iPod Touch
This is so cool – I can write blog posts on my Touch. It’s been a long time since a new gadget was this much fun, although the Wii is pretty awesome, too.
There’s so much genomic data that we hardly know what to do with it all
One of the things that falls out of our genomic evaluation system are breeding values for individual chromosomes for each trait evaluated. For the past few days I’ve been thinking about how to compare the genetic covariance matrices that we … Continue reading
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Tagged covariance matrices, genetic markers, genomic evaluation, NumPy, PyTables, Python
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Is my reputation beginning to spread?
I was looking through the October 2008 issue of Dairy Herd Management and happened to see myself quoted in an article on strategies for reducing stillbirth in dairy herds: A new genetic evaluation for stillbirths is part of the Lifetime … Continue reading
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Tagged AIPL, dairy cattle, genetic evaluations, Holsteins, Stillbirth
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Prince George’s County Furloughing FIre and EMS Personnel
Residents of Prince George’s County may or may not be aware that the county Fire and EMS Department is furloughing firefighters because of budget shortfalls. Tonight crews from Companies 39 and 43 will be furloughed. The same county fire chief … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowie VFD, fire-department, furloughs, Prince George's County
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Begun
So I’ve been told.