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The wildfire season is underway in North Central Florida. University of Florida researchers say too many invasive hardwood trees are crowding the Southeast coast's pine tree population, creating more fuel for fires and making them much harder to fight.
A new UF study recommends cutting down those hardwoods to restore a healthier pine forest.
"We've demonstrated that it's cost-effective to use a combination of forest products to pay for restoration," said Jack Putz with UF Biology. "And in those restored eco-systems, the canopy is more open, the fires don't move from tree to tree, they move along the ground and they're easy to suppress."
Experts say that pine forests require some controlled fires to maintain their health.
- Helping Prevent Wildfires
- Preventing Wildfires This Spring
- Preventing Human-Caused Wildfires
- Wildfire Then, Wildfire Now?
- Breast Cancer Prevention
- Youth Summit Hopes To Prevent Kids From Going Down The Wrong Path
- Florida Suicide Prevention
- Brush Fire Prevention
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- Antiguan racer
- Antigua and Barbuda ()
The rarest snake is the Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) of which fewer than 150 are now believed to exist, including those in captivity. The snake was once common in Antigua, but disappeared from the island following the introduction of non-indigenous predators, black and brown rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and then the Asian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus). The racer was thought to be extinct, but in 1989 was rediscovered only on Great Bird Island off the northeast coast of Antigua. Following intense conservation programmes, the species is slowly recovering, although remains classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List 2004.

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Background: Etiologic studies of cancer increasingly use molecular features such as gene expression, DNA methylation and sequence mutation to subclassify the cancer type. In large population-based studies, the tumor tissues available for study are archival specimens that provide variable amounts of amplifiable DNA for molecular analysis. As molecular features measured from small amounts of tumor DNA are inherently noisy, we propose a novel approach to improve statistical efficiency when comparing groups of samples. We illustrate the phenomenon using the MethyLight technology, applying our proposed analysis to compare MLH1 DNA methylation levels in males and females studied in the Colon Cancer Family Registry.
Results: We introduce two methods for computing empirical weights to model heteroscedasticity that is caused by sampling variable quantities of DNA for molecular analysis. In a simulation study, we show that using these weights in a linear regression model is more powerful for identifying differentially methylated loci than standard regression analysis. The increase in power depends on the underlying relationship between variation in outcome measure and input DNA quantity in the study samples.
Conclusions: Tumor characteristics measured from small amounts of tumor DNA are inherently noisy. We propose a statistical analysis that accounts for the measurement error due to sampling variation of the molecular feature and show how it can improve the power to detect differential characteristics between patient groups.
Rakovski et al. Modeling measurement error in tumor characterization studies. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 12:284. doi:10.1186/_PHONE_-284
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This course on managing behaviour and reducing the risk of exclusions is comprised of 4 videos:
Video 1: For Senior Leadership Teams
This presentation will describe the scale of the issue and shows the dramatic rise in both permanent and fixed term exclusions over the last 4 years. It focuses on the main reason for both permanent and fixed term exclusions: Persistent Disruptive Behaviour or PDB. It will outline both the challenges and also the opportunities for meeting the needs of students at risk by posing 3 key questions and supplying 3 key solutions. It will then introduce the SF3R model for behavioural intervention.
Video 2: For Teaching and Support Staff
This is a presentation for both teaching and support staff working with students at risk for both permanent and fixed term exclusion, particularly for PDB. It will demonstrate how the SF3R approach where Structure, Flexibility, Rapport, Relationships and Resilience can be applied in order to meet the learning, behaviour and socialisation needs of students who may be struggling in both the primary and secondary school setting. It will outline a sample of approaches and support strategies to deal with demanding, disruptive and defiant individuals and to de-escalate difficult situations.
Video 3: For Parents and Carers
This presentation will consider how parents can work in partnership with the school in terms of children at risk for fixed and permanent exclusions, particularly for PDB. It will provide some tips for supporting children with behavioural issues at home and will outline effective ways of communication with the school.
Video 4: For School Governors
This presentation will describe the scale of the issue and shows the dramatic rise in both permanent and fixed term exclusions over the last 4 years. It will consider some of the policies and procedures involved in the school exclusion process and will outline how the SF3R approach may well be an option to reduce the rate of exclusions particularly for PDB across the school. In order to balance out the risk, we will describe how resilience can also be an important factor in helping to support students and staff within the school community.
Exclusion is a process that is necessary on some occasions particularly in terms of the health and safety of individuals, damage to property and/or serious infringement of schools rules and procedures. PDB the main term that is used in the exclusion process has no standardized definition that appears to have been agreed upon. It is basically used to cover a spectrum of behaviours, from calling-out in class, annoying/distracting other students and general attention seeking. Permanent exclusions for PDB do not occur as a one-off incident as in other cases such as an assault on a member of staff or issues regarding drugs or weapons but rather as a culmination of a number of days of fixed term exclusions which would need to reach 45 days in any one academic year. Fixed term exclusions are usually between 1 to 5 days therefore for someone to be permanently excluded for PDB they would have multiple fixed term exclusions for PDB. In terms of attitude and policy regarding exclusion in the last 4 years there have been changes with regards to the advised responses to behaviours which fit within the PDB spectrum. This would include Zero tolerance approaches with regards to low level disruption and failure to follow school policies and procedures.
There are as result 3 main principles to be explored here.
- What exactly does the term PDB actually mean?
- Why do schools continue to issue multiple fixed term exclusions for PDB when this approach does not change the outcome and what could be done differently?
- What could be done to help teachers and schools to support students who exhibit PDB characteristics?
The term PDB by its present description of "a spectrum of behaviours, from calling-out in class, annoying/distracting other students and general attention seeking" would appear to fit many of the criteria of the term Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD and associated conditions including Oppositional Defiant Disorder ODD and Conduct Disorder CD. ADHD is a term that describes 3 main traits Impulsivity, Inattention and Hyperactivity and these traits can often lead to distractible, demanding, difficult and disruptive behaviour in a school setting if not identified and supported effectively. As one of the core traits of ADHD is Impulsivity this means that many actions or behaviours are not premeditated. As a result, sanctions would be unlikely to change the outcomes of negative choices made by the individual and this is why a repetitive punitive process such as multiple fixed term exclusions will not alter the outcome. Students with ADHD do respond effectively to the teaching and learning environment that can offer a structured and flexible approach to learning and behaviour.
I believe the following is therefore required:
- To consider whether the issues within the term PDB may in fact be undetected traits of ADHD and overlapping conditions including ODD and CD.
- To consider after the second Fixed term exclusion for PDB that the student excluded would take the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in order to ascertain whether point 1 was a significant factor
- Staff would thereafter require Training through the SF3R approach on how best to support this child in order to prevent further potential exclusions.
The SF3R approach is behaviour for learning training programme for individuals with ADHD and associated conditions with 5 major components.
- School leadership approach for building the habits for learning, behaviour and socialisation
- To create behaviour policies to reflect the current circumstances and to train the staff first
- Rules, Rituals and Routines for children and young person's being taught and not told
- To focus on Mood and Motivation
- A whole school acceptance and understanding Neurodiversity
- Alternative ways of supporting skills in learning, behaviour and socialisation
- Effective communication with children and young persons
- Practical strategies for dealing with frustration and defiance
- Feedback for students including rewards and consequences
- Developing effective staff to student and peer to peer relationships
- Dealing with bullying behaviour
- Working in Partnership between school and home
- Unleashing the Power of Resilience
- Preparing for Transitions
- Role modelling good practice


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Genset Starting Education Module #4:
Genset Start Battery Strengths, Weaknesses & Use Strategies
William F Kaewert
SENS – Stored Energy Systems LLC
Two different types of batteries, lead-acid and Ni-Cd, are commonly used to start gensets. These two technologies have different characteristics that specifiers and users need to understand in order to successfully use each type.
Lead-acid battery strengths, weaknesses and strategy of use.
The lead-acid battery is readily available, low in cost and likely to fail suddenly at end-of-life. The most successful approach to using lead-acid starting batteries is to regard them as consumables needing regular replacement. Regardless of replacement frequency, correct charging and battery maintenance remain essential because new batteries can fail as frequently as a few months after installation if not properly charged and maintained.
Summary of strengths and weaknesses of lead-acid start batteries
Ni-Cd battery strengths, weaknesses and strategy of use
Ni-Cd technology is inherently more robust than lead-acid technology, does not fail suddenly like leadacid and is very long-lived. The higher up-front cost and long life expectation of Ni-Cd batteries mean that they would never be considered consumables. Unlike lead-acid batteries, though, Ni-Cd cells are not kept in stock at local battery distributors, so in the event of a cell failure, replacement could be days or weeks away. When a cell fails, users must choose to either jump out the bad cell or deploy a temporary leadacid battery until the replacement cell arrives.
Ni-Cd batteries require a well-defined commissioning charge to achieve the manufacturer's specified performance when installed. These parameters are typically provided in the battery maker's installation and operation instruction manual. Some variants of Ni-Cd2 are much more difficult to fully charge than lead-acid types because recharge efficiency is worse than in lead-acid batteries.3 The user manuals for some Ni-Cd types specify that tworate charging4 is mandatory to achieving manufacturer's specified performance. Battery chargers used with Ni-Cd batteries therefore should be specified to include automatic boost charging after discharge.
As with lead-acid batteries, correct charging and battery maintenance are essential.
Summary of strengths and weaknesses of Ni-Cd start batteries
Summary of key points
- Lead-acid battery:
- Strengths include that it is readily available, is made in standard sizes, and is low cost.
- Weaknesses include sudden failure at end of life, loss of life when hot, loss of performance when cold, and short shelf life.
- The most successful strategy to achieving reliable engine starting with lead-acid starting batteries is to regularly replace them well ahead of the date of expected failure.
- Nickel-cadmium battery:
- Strengths include inherently robust design and construction, no sudden failure mechanism, long service life and relatively long shelf life.
- Weaknesses include higher initial cost and larger footprint than lead-acid, and lower availability of replacements.
- The most successful strategy to achieving reliable operation with nickel-cadmium is committing to use Ni-Cd batteries in the first place, then continuing to maintain them.
- Defined as time sitting idle in a warehouse after last charge. Shelf life is shortened by high ambient temperature.
- Pocket plate Ni-Cd technology is more difficult to charge than newer Sintered PBE or fiber plate Ni-Cd technology.
- Recharge efficiency of pocket plate Ni-Cd batteries is around 70%, meaning that the charger must deliver at least 140% of the ampere-hours (AH) withdrawn from the battery before the battery is fully recharged. The recharge efficiency of very shallowly discharged batteries is even lower because replacing the last AH of capacity is always more difficult than replacing the first AH when the battery is discharged. See SENS Genset Starting Education Module #6: Battery Charging Basics for additional information.
- Two-rate charging is the most effective way to reduce charging time. Ideally, two-rate charging temporarily increases charging voltage above the normal float voltage setting during initial battery recharge. This is called "boost charging". Excess voltage applied to the battery compensates for voltage lost to the battery's internal resistance. Operating at the higher boost voltage allows the battery to accept the charger's maximum current longer than it would at float voltage. A correctly engineered charger automatically reduces the charger's voltage to the correct float voltage value when the battery reaches full charge. See SENS Genset Starting Education Module #6: Battery Charging Basics for additional information.
Copyright © 2012 William F Kaewert, SENS – Stored Energy Systems LLC


International Association for Cryptologic Research
International Association
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Atul Mantri
Security Limitations of Classical-Client Delegated Quantum Computing 📺
Secure delegated quantum computing allows a computationally weak client to outsource an arbitrary quantum computation to an untrusted quantum server in a privacy-preserving manner. One of the promising candidates to achieve classical delegation of quantum computation is classical-client remote state preparation ($\sf{RSP}_{CC}$), where a client remotely prepares a quantum state using a classical channel. However, the privacy loss incurred by employing $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$ as a sub-module is unclear. In this work, we investigate this question using the Constructive Cryptography framework by Maurer and Renner (ICS'11). We first identify the goal of $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$ as the construction of ideal \RSP resources from classical channels and then reveal the security limitations of using $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$. First, we uncover a fundamental relationship between constructing ideal \RSP resources (from classical channels) and the task of cloning quantum states. Any classically constructed ideal \RSP resource must leak to the server the full classical description (possibly in an encoded form) of the generated quantum state, even if we target computational security only. As a consequence, we find that the realization of common \RSP resources, without weakening their guarantees drastically, is impossible due to the no-cloning theorem. Second, the above result does not rule out that a specific $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$ protocol can replace the quantum channel at least in some contexts, such as the Universal Blind Quantum Computing ($\sf{UBQC}$) protocol of Broadbent et al. (FOCS '09). However, we show that the resulting UBQC protocol cannot maintain its proven composable security as soon as $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$ is used as a subroutine. Third, we show that replacing the quantum channel of the above $\sf{UBQC}$ protocol by the $\sf{RSP}_{CC}$ protocol QFactory of Cojocaru et al. (Asiacrypt '19) preserves the weaker, game-based, security of $\sf{UBQC}$.


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In affirmative judgments, on the contrary, lack of this or that communication between subjects and a predicate reveals. They share on judgments with a positive predicate, and judgments with a negative predicate.
The amount of judgment is its other major logical characteristic. Under quantity here certainly not any concrete number of imaginable objects in it. The general, private, single judgments are allocated.
Conclusion - a form of thinking in which of one or several judgments on the basis of certain rules of a conclusion the new judgment with need or a certain degree of probability following from them turns out.
Judgment predicate, being the novelty carrier, can have the most various character. From this point of view in all variety of judgments three groups are allocated: attributive, relational and existential.


Kalanga rock art, Zimbabwe
This art tradition is painted using the finger and in white. It found at a number of rock art sites in and around the Matobo Hills of Zimbabwe.
Like most other rock arts of Bantu-language speakers this art was made for mnemonic purposes during an initiation ceremony, in this case a boy's initiation ceremony.
Each image was a symbol that could be recognised only by the initiated. Outsiders could see the painted subjects such as giraffe and elephant, but they could not penetrate the secret symbolic meanings and teachings encoded in the subjects.
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The shortest distance (air line) between Brussels and Ridderkerk is 71.52 mi (115.10 km).Driving route: ()
The shortest route between Brussels and Ridderkerk is according to the route planner. The driving time is approx.. Half of the Reiseroute is reached in.Bearing: 8.48° (N)
The initial bearing on the course from Brussels to Ridderkerk is 8.48° and the compass direction is N.Midpoint: 51.35795,4.47696
The geographic midpoint between Brussels and Ridderkerk is in 35.76 mi (57.55 km) distance between both points in a bearing of 8.48°. It is located in België, Flanders, Antwerp, Antwerp, Kalmthout (België - Belgique - Belgien, Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Kalmthout).Time difference: 0h
Brussels and Ridderkerk are both in the same time zone Europe/Brussels.
To calculate the distance between Brussels and Ridderkerk, the place names are converted into coordinates (latitude and longitude). The respective geographic center is used for cities, regions and countries. To calculate the distance the Haversine formula is applied.
How far is it? Distance calculation, worldwide, online and for free.The distance calculator Distance.to shows not only the distance between Brussels and Ridderkerk. It knows every distance between almost every location. Powered by Google Maps.
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Best Five Loved ones Dice Games That Won't Price You A Cent!
What could be more affordable and less difficult for developing wonderful household relationships than a standard time playing games? No matter if it really is fortnightly, weekly or extra frequently, sitting around a table and playing games together is a positive fire way to promote wholesome and strong bonds in between household members. If only games did not price so a great deal!
It is astounding how lots of family members-friendly games you can play with only a handful of dice. Right here is my list of the best five loved ones dice games that won't expense you a cent! (If you never have them currently, you can invest in packs of five dice for only a couple of dollars.)
Fifty is an straightforward game for young children that can also assist them find out to count. Players take turns to throw two dice. If you throw a double a single, double two, double four or double 5, you score 5 points. Throwing a double six scores twenty 5 points, but a double 3 sets your score back to zero. Any other throw does not count. The very first player to attain fifty points, or far more, wins the game.
Knock Out is another simple game for young children. Every player chooses a knock-out number – either six, 7, eight, or 9. They then take turns to throw two dice and add the numbers. If the total equals their knock-out number, they are out of the game for the rest of the round. Tungsten D20 continues till only 1 player (the winner) is left. Everyone can then play an additional round, picking out a various knock-out number if they want.
Go Figure is a mathematical dice game using 3 dice. A player chooses a quantity between 1 and fifteen for the player on their left to function out out mathematically making use of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the 3 numbers to try to make their chosen number. For example, if they chose the number "eight" and their dice throw was 2, four and 6, they could have 4 + 6 – 2 = eight. If the throw was 1, 3 and 5 they could have 1 x three + 5 = 8. A player who succeeds scores 1 point. That player then chooses a quantity (1-15) for the player on their left to 'go figure'. Right after a number of rounds the player with the highest score is the winner.
Centennial is a race game for two to 8 players making use of three dice, a board and a counter for every player. The board consists of thirteen squares in a row, labelled Begin, 1, 2, three,…, 10, 11, 12. It could be made of cardboard and decorated nicely or just scribbled on a sheet of paper. Counters could be coins, matchsticks, and so on. as extended as every player can recognize their counter. All the counters are placed on the Start out square. The 1st player throws the three dice. If one particular of them is a "1" they place their counter on square 1. If there was a "two" (or two "1s", because 1 + 1 = 2) they could also move to square two, and so on. Throwing a "1", "two" and "3" would mean that the player could move up to square six (1, two, 3 naturally but 1 + 3 = 4, 2 + three = five and 1 + 2 + three = 6). Once a player reaches 12, they then move back down the board. The first player to get back to square 1 shouts "Centennial!" and wins the game.


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Let f(x) be a function such that f(0)=2 and 1 is less then or equal to f '(x) is less then or equal to 3 for all values of x.
Find the largest and smallest possible values of f(3).
we can estimate f(3) by linear means. the minimum rate of change is 1, so the minimum value for f(3) is obtained if the rate of increase is constant at the minimum value. that is, when f(x) is a straight line with slope 1. find this line and you can find the minimum f(3). similarly, find f(x) such that it is a straight line with a slope of 3 and you can find f(3). you have the y-intercept and the slopes, finding these lines are easy

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Dive Into Greasemonkey
Teaching an old web new tricks
4.13. Adding CSS styles
I have often found the need to add my own CSS styles to a page. You can add styles that override existing styles, or styles specific to new elements that your user script inserts.
Example: Make paragraph text larger
function addGlobalStyle(css) {
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addGlobalStyle('p { font-size: large! important; }');
This function takes one argument, a string containing the style rules you want to add to the page. It works by quite literally injecting a


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Violent Tornado Causes Catastrophic Damage in Moore, Oklahoma
Posted: 12:00 PM EDT on May 21, 2013
A massive and violent tornado at least a mile wide smashed through Moore, Oklahoma near 3 pm CDT Monday, causing catastrophic damage along a 22-mile long path. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma has rated the tornado at least an EF-4 (166 - 200 mph winds), and detailed damage surveys may upgrade this rating to the top-end EF-5 level in the coming days. Damage was extreme and covered a huge area, and many buildings swept away down to their foundations.
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Even though everything on Earth experiences the effects of Coriolis, it is still very hard to explain. Basically, the force is an effect of motion on a rotating body (such as Earth) and it is one factor that determines wind direction. On this date in 1792, Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis, the first to describe the Coriolis force, was born.
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Made from approximately 14,000 pieces, Bloom is the first architectural application of a laminated metal material that includes nickel and manganese with a bit of iron.
Architecture has long been valued for its static nature and sense of permanence. Increasingly, however, architects are working to make buildings more responsive to their users and to the climate. Often this is accomplished through mechanical means, but architect Doris Kim Sung, principal of LA-based DOSU studio architecture, is looking at how building materials themselves can be responsive, integrating changeability into the structure itself.
The dramatic shell-like form of her recent pavilion, called Bloom, suggests, at first glance, that Sung is interested in cutting-edge digital design. While this is certainly the case, Bloom's true innovation happens more slowly, through the bending of its metal panels according to heat levels generated by the sun.
Commissioned by LA's Materials and Applications gallery, the project had to be lightweight, not touch the adjacent buildings, and not produce any harmful glare for neighbors. Despite its considerable dimensions—20 feet high by 25 feet wide by 40 feet long—Bloom weighs approximately 500 pounds. "Our bigger concern ended up being up-lift from the wind," she said.
Made from approximately 14,000 pieces, Bloom is, according to Sung, the first architectural application of the laminated metal material, which includes nickel and manganese with a bit of iron. The material is typically used in industrial applications. Sung first learned of this laminate metal after seeing it used for a lampshade by a Japanese designer. "I started thinking to myself, 'if this designer used it for a lamp, where the heat from the bulb causes it to curl, why couldn't it be responsive to the sun?'" she said. "As an architect, I'm always thinking about how buildings will perform."
The two metals have different heat coefficients, which cause the material to curl when heat is applied. Sung specified material that would begin to curl at 70 degrees (temperatures above 400 degrees will begin to pull the laminate apart). The outer side of the tiles has a higher percentage of manganese and iron, which quickly weathered into a rust color, while the inner side has a greater amount of nickel, giving it a silvery finish.
To generate the form, Sung worked with a variety of software, including Rhino for the initial design, which she then refined through the Rhino SMART Form plug-in to make the design as thin and light-weight as possible. From there, she used Ecotech to model how solar heat would move across the surface as well as the surface temperature of the structure. She then imported the design into Grasshopper, which allowed her to break the structure down into its thousands of component parts. She used LS-DYNA to model Bloom's structural integrity.
The 14,000 metal tiles have the same basic cruciform shape, however, the thickness and length of the "tails" varies, allowing differing degrees of curvature, and therefore differing levels of shade underneath the structure (depending, again, on how and where the solar heat hits the surface).
Sung worked with two different laser cutting facilities, which typically work for the aerospace industry, to fabricate the tiles: Precision Waterjet and Serra Laser Cutting. Volunteers and students then began the several month process of assembling the tiles into panels—by hand using rivets and nuts and bolts—which were then affixed to a lightweight aluminum frame. The frame and the panels support each other, creating a monocoque structure with a load-bearing skin.
For Sung, Bloom is just the beginning of what responsive architecture could be. Harnessing digital technology, advanced fabrication, and new materials point to dynamic new possibilities for the discipline.
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NOTE: The contents of this post went out in an email to my subscribers the night of Kobe's passing. Several people asked if the information could be accessed via a link for easier access and sharing. Here is the answer to that request. This information can be used to help students coping with tragedy.
It's been a somber 6 hours around my house, friend.
My 15-year-old son lives, eats, and breaths basketball. The news of Kobe's passing tore through our Sunday lunch like a wrecking ball. In addition to that "it can't be true" feeling, we were also met with the undeniable reality that life is really freaking fragile. Both are so heavy.
If you're wondering why I'm dedicating an entire email to the death of Kobe, that's okay. Here's the reality… even if you don't feel rocked by his passing, you will have students whose lives feel upside down as a result of it. You might tell yourself that it's not a big deal because none of your students knew him personally. I'm here to tell you that the trauma and loss for some of your students might feel just as heavy as it would if their close friend died.
Here are a few notes and tips to help students navigate this type of loss:
- Avoid minimizing the impact of the loss on your students. Acknowledge and normalize their feelings of devastation. Some students will inevitably be hit much harder than others.
- Every single feeling is OKAY. There is no correct or incorrect way to handle feelings of loss. Some students might feel sad, some might feel angry, and others might even feel betrayed. Every feeling is welcome when coping with tragedy.
- Students can always "count on" their favorite celebrities and sports stars to lift them up. In some cases, they are some of the only people in their lives that don't let them down. The pain they feel with regards to this loss is REAL and WARRANTED.
- The reminders of this type of loss are everywhere. If your students are on social media, they are inundated with images and messages related to the loss. It's okay to suggest that self-care might involve stepping back from all the reminders for a little while.
- You will have students who don't know what happened or have any connection to Kobe Bryant at all. Your challenge is to gauge the general feeling from your students to determine how you navigate any time spent on the issue. Some teachers might only have one or two students who appear to be impacted by it, while others will notice 75% of their students are shaken over it. Ask for help outside your classroom if you feel concerned about any of your students.
- Kobe's passing can trigger all kinds of emotional reactions in students who have experienced a loss in their past. These feelings can resurface and, many times, students will not even be aware that their reaction to Kobe's passing is also partially the result of triggered pain in their own lives. It's okay to say, "Sometimes when you witness a tragedy like this, different emotions from your own past can show up. You might feel sadness or emptiness due to a loss in your own family or community, no matter how long ago it occurred. All of those feelings have a place."
Resources for Educators:
There is also a free resource on my website related to coping with tragedy. Subscribe to my website here. After you receive an email with the password, click here to enter the resource library. You will find a couple of coloring pages and a picture book list for helping students cope with tragic events.
I don't have all the answers and, in fact, I find that the older I get, the less I know. That said, please reach out if you need something and I'll do what I can to help you.


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The Connecticut General Assembly passed a major piece of legislation that will lead to better land conservation throughout the state. Here's our statement about it:
May 10, 2012 – The passage this week by the Connecticut General Assembly of a new open space bill will vastly improve the way the state goes about prioritizing, tracking and protecting land for conservation.
An Act Concerning the State's Open Space Plan (SB 347) will make it easier for Connecticut to reach its goal of protecting 21 percent of the land in the state, which will benefit the state's bird and their habitats – and ultimately the residents of Connecticut.
Connecticut Audubon Society congratulates and thanks the members of the General Assembly, and urges Governor Malloy to sign the open space bill into law.
Many of the bill's specific provisions started as recommendations in Connecticut Audubon Society's annual Connecticut State of the Birds reports. Connecticut's conservation community supported the bill and worked collaboratively to help get it passed.
The bill requires the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to prepare a strategy for achieving the 21 percent goal. To ensure that the strategy is comprehensive and has broad support, the DEEP has to consult with the state Department of Agriculture, the state Council on Environmental Quality, municipalities, regional planning agencies, and private land conservation organizations such as Connecticut Audubon Society. The deadline is December 15, and it has to be updated at least every five years.
The strategy must include an estimate of the number of acres preserved statewide, as well as timetables for land acquisition by the state, plans for managing the state's preserved lands, and an assessment of the resources the state will need to acquire and manage open space.
It has to identify the highest priorities for land acquisition, including wildlife habitat and ecological resources that are in greatest need of immediate preservation, and the general location of each priority.
The bill also requires the DEEP to work with other state agencies to identify lands they own that might have conservation value, and to devise a plan for preserving the tracts with the highest conservation value.
Connecticut Audubon Society sends its congratulations and thanks to the Council on Environmental Quality, which drafted the bill and worked closely with the DEEP and elected officials to make sure the bill had broad support; and to Audubon Connecticut (the state office of the National Audubon Society), which made key revisions to the bill as it worked its way through the legislature's committees.
We also thank Senator Edward Meyer, and the bill's House co-sponsors: Rep. Kim Rose, Rep. Terrie Wood, Rep. John H. Frey, Rep. Gregory Haddad, Rep. Roberta B. Willis, Rep. Elissa T. Wright, Rep. Paul Davis, Rep. Bruce Zalaski, Rep. Mike Alberts, Rep. Elaine C. O'Brien, Rep. Gail Lavielle, Rep. Marilyn Giuliano, Rep. Livvy R. Floren, Rep. Roland J. Lemar, Rep. Diana S. Urban, and Rep. Elizabeth A. Boukus.


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.planes = [self.right, self.left, self.bottom, self.top, self.far, self.near]
Note: Do not try to draw these normals in the viewport to compare them to the Maya display of the frustum as you'll see a fairly large discrepancy on the vertical bounds. I am not sure yet whether this is a bug in Maya's draw, or whether it is displaying a different bounds, but the values obtained with this method are accurate and do mark the limits of what is rendered to screen.
Taking the name of the camera we want to build, we get the camera object and determine the total model view matrix we want to compare against. In this case, we're using the inverse transformation matrix of the camera to map our frustum in world space and not just object space. In Maya, there is also a post projection matrix that can be used to alter the final render, and should be taken into account. Remember, the order of matrix multiplication is important.
You should also note that OpenMaya's MFloatMatrix stores it's values in a flat list, meaning we'll need our indices from 0-15.
And finally, the intersection function:
def intersects(self, bbox): limits = [bbox.min, bbox.max] for plane in self.planes: # The corner furthest in normal direction of plane index_x = int(plane.normal.x > 0) index_y = int(plane.normal.y > 0) index_z = int(plane.normal.z > 0) point = OpenMaya.MVector(limits[index_x].x, limits[index_y].y, limits[index_z].z) # If this corner is not in front, none are, bbox is out of view if not plane.is_in_front(point): return False return True
It should be worth noting that a bounding box in maya is by default in object space, and that we would need to convert it to world space to get an accurate result.
In the end, frustum culling boils down to some very simple methods. Of course, there are a lot of ways to expand on this, for example, if you were comparing to oriented bounding boxes (something which is not natively supported in Maya). It would also be worth storing your combined projection matrix so that you could easily check whether any specific vertex was in render view.
I hope this helps someone else out there make a little more sense of how this works, it's certainly not an easy concept to get first try!


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As we all know, a Zener Diode is used for regulating voltage in practical circuit applications. Though we know about the importance of this device, do we really mind knowing about how it was invented? If you had that query in your mind, then reading further would give you a thorough knowledge on the discovery of Zener Diode and its properties. You shall also be informed of the great scientists who worked on this device. Before going into the invention story, let us have a brief note on what a Zener Diode is.
This semi-conductor device permits the flow of current in a unidirectional way. Provided with sufficient voltage, they allow the flow of current in the opposite direction as well. The excess voltage required for reversing the direction of flow of current is termed as breakdown voltage or Zener voltage. The major role of a Zener Diode is to function as a voltage regulator. It is fairly employed in many electrical and electronic tools and equipments. The Zener Diode varies in a wider range based on its mounting location. Most of them are either mounted onto a surface or found in holed components. The surface mount Zener Diodes are directly mounted on a printed circuit board. In the other technique, components are attached to the holes with the help of wires. The codes that represent Zener Diodes always begin with either of the letters BZX or BZY.
The early history of Zener Diode
Only when the need for semi conductor materials exceeded, the urge to develop a device like Zener Diode spread deeper and wider. Many early inventions were made till 1905, yet a more focused work on semiconductor devices were started only at the time of the Second World War. It was Clarence Melvin Zener who first elaborated on the advantageous properties of this diode.
Clarence Melvin Zener
Clarence Zener was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the department of Physics. His interests were focused on solid-state physics. In 1926, he graduated from Stanford University and received his doctorate from the Stanford University by 1929. He developed the Zener Diode in 1950 and employed it in modern computer circuits. Clarence Zener published a paper on explaining the electrical insulator's breakdown in 1934.
He was recognized across the world for introducing a field of science with internal friction which was the subject on what most of his studies were focused.
Principle behind the invention of the Diode
The very basic principle that paved way for invention is the unidirectional way of flow of current. The very first Diode by Sir Thomas Alva Edison was a light bulb with certain modifications on it. Edison noticed that with an additional electrode, and connection to the positive side, facilitated the current flow from the filament towards the empty space.Though he observed, Edison was not at all sure about the physics behind this effect.Joseph J Thompson explained the reason behind this and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1897. This lead to the invention of vacuum tube diodes. You can read the incredible story behind invention of Vacuum Tubes to know more about the people behind.
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Many other scientists were interested in finding the alternative usage of this principle. John Ambrose Fleming tried using this valve for converting radio waves into signals that could be measured by employing a galvanometer. The Fleming valve is recognized to be the first true electronic device as of now.
In 1906, Greenleaf W. Pickard invented another new Diode. With his earlier studies, Pickard confessed that electrons can flow only in a single direction, employing certain minerals like silicon. Placing a silicon piece between a metal base and a metal wire, he developed a valve that can be utilized in detecting the radio waves.
This was named as cat's whisker Diode as fine wires were employed in it. H. C. Dunwoody patented a developed form of this Diode that had the employment of carborundum in it.
Limitations of Cat's whisker Diode
Though they were a revised version of electron tubes, they had certain limitation that shortened its usage. The first limitation was that they were more fragile and were prone to misalignment. Hence they required a very careful adjustment. Considering this reason, the use of cat's whisper Diodes were fairly reduced, neglecting its advantage of working even in a very high frequency.
During the period of the Second World War, the BELL laboratories developed another new type of diode usingsemiconductors (silicon & germanium). Russel Ohl, who was a metallurgist in the Bell laboratories, developed a diode using Germanium crystal that produced electricity in response to light. It was facilitating the conversion of solar energy to electricity. It was found that the silicon piece that was cut has a large amount of impurity. The area where the impurity joined the silicon was termed as the junction. Years later, it was found that the impurities had developed response to the solar particles. This lead to invention of semiconductor based PN junction diodes. You can read the amazing story & series of events occurred at BELL labs during the invention of PN juction diode to gain more knowledge. Even before the identification of the reason, the production of these solar converters hadbeen initiated.
The usage of Diodes thus slowly expanded from time to time. Electron tube diodes are used very rarely. But then, the diodes that are made out of the material silicon have a wider application. This helps in detecting the high frequency electromagnetic waves. They also serve as components for the conversion of energy obtained from Sun to electrical signals. Inside many electronic devices like televisions and the computers, the diode systems are employed for averting the alternative current (AC) to direct current (DC) and also in the regulation of the voltage level.
Automobiles are imparted with high potential Diodes. Their role is also similar to that of the other Diodes like converting the AC to the DC. In the early 1906, incandescent lamps were replaced with the LED or the light emitting Diodes. The lights used in the headlights of car and other light bulbs are also very likely to be replaced with the light emitting Diodes.


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What is the Caribbean Netherlands Age of Consent?
The Age of Consent in Caribbean Netherlands is 16 years old. The age of consent is the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity. Individuals aged 15 or younger in Caribbean Netherlands are not legally able to consent to sexual activity, and such activity may result in prosecution for statutory rape or the equivalent local law.
Caribbean Netherlands statutory rape law is violated when an individual has consensual sexual intercourse with a person between 12 and 16, and the act takes place out of wedlock.
Because there is no close-in-age exemption in Caribbean Netherlands, it is possible for two individuals both under the age of 16 who willingly engage in intercourse to both be prosecuted for statutory rape, although this is rare. Similarly, no protections are reserved for sexual relations in which one participant is a 15 year old and the second is a 16 or 17 year old.
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Navigating the university system: The effects of Chinese and Indian graduate students' social networks on academic progression
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Currently more than half a million international students are enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. All of these students face challenges associated with integrating into their new host education environments and learning how to make their way through the rules and regulations of their host university and community.
Social network theories attribute behaviors to the structural and relational attributes of one's social network including access to resources and information. The social networks of most international students are insular, dense, and homogeneous and serve to reinforce cultural norms in the host society. Further, they provide little to no access to dissimilar others and limit information flow to redundant information.
China and India are the countries of origin of over 20% of U.S. international students. The goal of this research was to understand the constructs of the Chinese and Indian students' social networks and ascertain factors affecting satisfaction and influencing academic progression. Support related to making their way through the university system and residing in the host community framed the social networks. Among the variables studied were tie strength, homogeneity, and roles and relationships of network members.
Results indicated that while significant differences existed within the Chinese and Indian student populations, their networks contained many similarities. Males' networks were more homogeneous and dense than females' networks and weak links were more prevalent in females' networks. Chinese males had the most insular networks. The networks of Indian students and Chinese females were in many cases more similar with one another and different from those of Chinese males. Network members were predominately friends and most were students. University faculty and staff were present in only 12% of Chinese males' networks and at least 25% of all other groups.
Not all students were satisfied that their networks met their needs. Despite having the largest networks, Chinese students wanted even larger networks. Just under half of Indian students wanted larger networks. Universally, students indicated their networks enabled academic progression and Chinese females rated their networks more effective than all others. Despite significant differences among and between the populations, the students were able to invoke effective networks enabling academic progression.
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I'd like to have the same keyboard shortcuts in all the terminals I use. Since they don't have the same *nix on them, and since terminals can be very different, I'm looking for a reasonably portable way to get keyboard shortcuts from one *nix terminal (at least supported by a standard Ubuntu 12.04 installation) to other terminals (Bash only).
That is, I'm trying to generate commands in one terminal to execute on another terminal, in order to use the same keyboard shortcuts in the second terminal. Especially things like Alt-Del (delete the word to the right of the cursor) and Ctrl-Left (move the cursor one word to the left), which on some hosts I work on simply prints the escape code instead of performing the expected actions.
This is also meant as a precursor to possibly changing the
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- Figure out which keyboard shortcuts are defined on my local host.
- Figure out whether any commonly used shortcuts are not defined from the remote host.
- Copy the shortcut definitions to the remote host.
- Verify that the shortcuts work as expected on the remote host.
- Be reasonably sure that the shortcuts would also work on a third host, possibly with very old versions of Bash and standard tools like


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What's the meaning of the phrase 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps'?
To 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' is to improve your situation by your own unaided efforts.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps'?
Pull yourself up by your bootstrapsThe origin of this descriptive phrase isn't known. It refers of course to boots and the straps that some boots have attatched to help the wearer pull them on and to the imagined feat of a lifting oneself off the ground by pulling on one's bootstraps. This impossible task is supposed to exemplify the achievement in getting out of a difficult situation by one's own efforts.
Some early computers used a process called bootstrapping which alludes to this phrase. This involved loading a small amount of code which was then used to progressively load more complex code until the machine was ready for use. This led to the use of the term 'booting' to mean starting up a computer. An early citation of this in print comes from the Proceedings of the institute of radio engineers (IRE), 1953:
A technique sometimes called the 'bootstrap technique'…Pushing the load button... causes one full word to be loaded into a memory address previously set up... on the operator's panel, after which the program control is directed to that memory address and the computer starts automatically.
An electrical engineer correspondent of mine says that bootstrap was used with the same meaning as above to early radio circuits, before the computer era, but I have no documentary evidence to support that assertion.


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- Four years ago, the ratio of the ages of Akansha and Banya was 5 : 9. 8 years hence the ratio will be 2 : 3 respectively. Find the present age of Banya?
40 years45 years48 years52 yearsNone of theseOption A
Let 4 years ago Akansha's age = 5x, Banya's age = 9x
Then 4+8 = 12 years after – (5x+12)/(9x+12) = 2/3
Solve, x = 4
Banya's present age = 9x+4 = 40
- Eight years ago, Akansha was 4 times as old as Banya. After 8 years Akansha will be twice as old as Banya. What are their ages respectively?
42 and 1840 and 1645 and 2050 and 25None of theseOption B
- Present age of Banya is twice that of Akansha. 4 years hence Banya's age will be 4 less than twice the age of Akansha. Find the difference in their ages?
8654Cannot be determinedOption E
Let Akansha's present age = x,
Then Banya's present age = 2x
After 4 years, (2x+4) = 2(x+4) – 4
0 = 0
- Brijesh is twice older than Caryl and Akash is 2 years older than Brijesh. If the total of all of their ages is 27, what will be total of the ages of Akash and Caryl 6 years hence?
25 years29 years28 years27 yearsNone of theseOption B
Let Caryl's present age = x,
then Brijesh's = 2x, and Akash's = 2x+2
Given: x+2x+(2x+2) = 27
Solve it, x = 5
Akash's present age = 2x+2 = 12
Caryl's present age = x = 5
6 years after Akash+Caryl)'s age = 12+5+6+6 = 29
- The ratio of the present ages of Akansha to Banya is 5 : 3. The ratio of Akansha's age 4 years ago to Banya's age 4 years hence is 1 : 1. What is the ratio of Akansha's age 4 years hence to Banya's age 4 years ago?
3:11:52:34:5None of theseOption A
Let Akansha's present age = 5x, and Banya's = 3x
Ratio of Akansha's age 4 years ago to Banya's age 4 years hence is 1 : 1. So
(5x-4)/(3x+4) = 1/1
Solve x = 4
So Akansha's present age = 20, and Banya's = 12
Required ratio = (20+4) : (12-4)
- Age of Akansha is three times the sum of ages of Brijesh and Caryl. 5 years hence, Akansha's age will be twice the sum of ages of Brijesh and Caryl. The total of their present ages is which of the following?
60 years55 years58 years62 yearsNone of theseOption A
Let (Brijesh+Caryl)'s present age= x
Then Akansha's present age = 3x
After 5 years, (3x+5) = 2*(x+5+5)
Solve, x = 15
Sum = x+3x = 4x = 60 years
- The sum of the age of mother and his daughter is 62 years. After 5 years, the age of mother will be five times that of the son. What is the age of the son?
7 years6 years8 yearsCannot be determinedNone of theseOption A
Son = 62-5(5-1)/5+1 = 62-20/6 = 42/6 = 7 years
- The sum of ages of Kashish and Sunita at present is 28 years more than the present age of Yash.The present age of Sunita is 6 years more than the age of Yash.What is the present age of Kashish?
22 years20 years25 years32 yearsNone of theseOption A
Sunita = Yash+6
Kashish+Sunita = Yash+28
Kashish+Yash+6 = Yash+28
Kashish = Yash+28-Yash-6
Kashish = 22 years
- Average age of a group of 32 candidates is 26 years. If a professor is included then the average age rises by 1 year,then the present age of professor is which of the following?
57 years59 years58 years60 years62 yearsOption B
- Sunita was thrice as old as Sarvesh 5 years back. Sunita will be 7/3 times as old as Sarvesh 5 years hence. How old is Sarvesh today?
26 years24 years28 years30 yearsNone of theseOption A
(7/3) * (X +10) = (3X + 10)
7(x+ 10) = 3(3x+ 10)
7x+70 = 9x+30
X = 20
Sarvesh Age = 20+6 = 26 years


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Besides searching for places, Marble can display possible routes between two or more of them. Do you want to plan a bicycle tour in the nearby wood? Need driving instructions to get to an address in a foreign city? Click on the Routing tab on the bottom of Marble's toolbox to start planning your trip.
In the Routing tab you'll see two green buttons A and B. Enter the start address in the input field next to the A button, the route start input field. Press Enter or click on the Search button to find matching placemarks. A small progress animation will shorten your waiting time while the search is running. Using the search term "Weavers Lane, London", the result will look similar to the screenshot below:
Matching placemarks line up in the list below the input fields. They're also shown in the map. The first result is automatically selected as the route start. In the map, this position is indicated using the same A icon as the button next to the route start input field. If the first result is not your desired route start, click on any other result to make that the new start position. You can either click on it in the result list or on its icon in the map to achieve that. The currently chosen route start is always indicated using the A icon.
With the route start at hand, let's move on to enter the destination of our trip. The procedure is the same: Enter the destination address in the input field next to the B button, press Enter and select the desired item among the result list.
Did you notice that the Search button is now gone and replaced by a Get Directions button? Marble is signalizing that all information needed to calculate a route has been entered correctly. Click on the Get Directions button to retrieve a suitable route now. If your destination search term is "Sun Walk, London", the result will resemble this screenshot:
If the start (or destination) position is already visible on the screen, you may find it more convenient to select it directly in the map. To do that, click on the A (or B) button next to the input field. Select From Map in the upcoming menu. Once clicked, the map input mode is activated: The next click on a position in the map will become the start (or end) of your trip. The mouse cursor turns into a cross to ease an accurate selection. The selected position will be included in the route and marked in the map. To abort the selection, either click on the button again or press Esc.
An alternative selection of the route start and destination is provided via the context menu of the map: Click with the Directions from here or Directions to here, respectively.mouse button on the desired location and select


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Photos of athletes in their moment of victory or defeat usually show faces contorted with intense emotion. But a new study suggests that people actually don't use those kinds of extreme facial expressions to judge how a person is feeling.
Instead, surprisingly, people rely on body cues.
Hillel Aviezer, a psychology researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, wanted to see how accurately people can read intense, real-world facial expressions — instead of the standardized, posed images of facial expressions that are usually used in lab tests.
So he and his colleagues decided to do some experiments using images of professional tennis players. That's because, in top tennis matches, the stakes are sky high, and professional players instantly have an intense emotional reaction to winning or losing a critical point. And usually, people have no trouble figuring out what emotions a tennis player is feeling when they see a photo of that player standing on a tennis court, clutching a racket.
"When I look at a sports magazine, and I see the full picture of a person winning a point, and he has his full gesture, the whole picture makes perfect sense to me," says Aviezer. "The face looks like a victorious face, and the body looks victorious; everything together seems to make perfect sense."
But that sense of certainty disappeared, he found, when he took images of tennis winners and losers, and erased everything but the face. When he showed just those isolated faces to people, they couldn't tell if something positive or negative was going on.
"This was really a very striking finding," says Aviezer.
Then he showed people images of tennis players with the faces erased. People had to judge winners from losers based solely on the rest of the body. "And when people saw the body alone, they easily knew if this was a positive or negative emotion," explains Aviezer.
This is counterintuitive, he says, because people usually assume that if they are getting an emotional message, it must come from the facial expression.
In fact, when Aviezer shows people full images of tennis players — the faces plus the body — and asks them to describe how they know what the player is feeling, people usually describe the face. They claim to see tell-tale clues in the player's eyes or mouth. "When in fact it's an illusion," says Aviezer. "They have this false idea of information in the face when really it's coming from the body."
To test this in another way, he manipulated the photographs. He'd take the face of a winner and paste it onto the body of a loser, or vice versa.
What he found was that the exact same face would be interpreted as showing a positive or negative emotion, depending on which body it was on. These results are reported in the journal Science.
"I think that many people will find this very surprising," says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a scientist at Northeastern University who studies emotions.
These studies challenge long-held assumptions about the importance of facial expressions, she says.
"When you and I talk to each other and we look at each other, we're really looking at each other's faces. That's where our attention is. And so the assumption has been that that's where all the information is, too," says Barrett. "But these studies show very clearly that that's not the case."
These findings add to a growing body of evidence that when we're trying to figure out another person's emotional state, we rely on a lot more than just the face.


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First the fire :
If, just as a first approximation, we don't worry about a filled bucket being heavier to carry, what is the best point on the river bank for the fire-fighter to fill the bucket?.
If you need to do a calculation with lengths, what measurements will you need to make from your diagram?
It's a general solution you are looking for, so you may need two or three different arrangements or diagrams to see how the solution relates to the positions of the fire-fighter and the fire.
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Draw a horizontal line. Fix two pins at different horizontal levels above the line. A set of keys slides on a string and the string runs over those two pins (the pins are not directly underneath one another). Gradually let out the string length until the weight of the keys brings the string down to touch the drawn horizontal line.
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Over-the-Counter Livestock Antibiotics are moving to Prescription only on June 2023
Starting June, 2023, all currently available over-the-counter antibiotics for livestock will be available only as prescription medications. This new rule will impact all livestock species. Over-the-counter antibiotics are moving to prescription only to provide more veterinary oversight. Similar to the Veterinary Feed Directive, placing antibiotics under the supervision of veterinarians should result in more judicious use and less antibiotic resistance.
This change includes but is not limited to the following: Penicillin, Oxytetracycline, Sulfa antibiotics and Mastitis tubes. Some medications are not considered crucial for human medicine and will remain over-the-counter. This includes the following: Ionophores including Rumensin and Bovatec, Parasiticides, such as Ivermectin, Oral pre/pro/postbiotics, and topical non-antibiotic treatments.
Livestock producers must have a valid Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship (VCPR) in place before they can be prescribed antibiotics by a veterinarian. A VCPR is a working relationship between a veterinarian (veterinary clinic) and a client. Ideally, a VCPR is a documented agreement between both parties that includes a dedicated visit to the animal location(s) the client operates. This visit and documentation must occur at least once every year to maintain the VCPR.
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Dear lists,
 Recently, I was reading papers about speech separation in the reverberant environment. Generally speaking, most of the previous works are carried on simulated data, in which the reverberant speech is the convolution of a clean speech and the simulated room impulse response provided by some toolkits, such as Roomsim (given by D. R. Campbell). However, it is surprising to me that the reverberation time can be set to a certain value (e.g. RT60 = 300ms) in some papers. As I know, reverberation time is influenced by many factors, such as room volume, absorption coefficient of the surfaces et al. Therefore, I have the following questions:
 1. How to set the reverberation time to be a certain value in a simulated room? Is there any paper or toolkit for performing it?
 2. If the other factors are invariable, how much will the reverberation time change according with the location variances of source or microphone? Is the reverberation time mainly determined by room configuration?
 Thanks for your answers and discussions!
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An agreement that establishes a predetermined spread for future interest rate swaps. A spreadlock is a credit derivative created as either a forward contract or an option. With a spreadlock, an investor can lock in a current spread between a swap and an underlying government bond yield and transfer the basis points forward to the time when the swap is entered into.
Spreadlocks have been an option for certain investors since the 1980s. A forward spreadlock allows for a definitive addition of a set number of basis points on top of the existing spread in the underlying swap. With a spreadlock through an option contract, the buyer of the contract can decide whether or not to make the swap effective.
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Developmental Disabilities (DD) Awareness Month is a time to raise awareness of the integral role people with developmental disabilities play in our society and to rededicate ourselves to the cause of inclusion. Nearly 500,000 Texans are diagnosed with a developmental disability, and it is vital we continue to work together to make our state more accessible and inclusive for everyone.
Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation recognizing DD Awareness Month, noting, "people with developmental disabilities have unique abilities and experiences that contribute to our state's rich diversity and heritage, just like all Texans [and Texas] is a stronger place when people of all abilities are included in community life." Study after study has shown how when you design for disability, you design for all. This takes many forms, like including people with disabilities in the general workforce and providing them with greater economic opportunity, including students with developmental disabilities in the classroom with their non-disabled peers and empowering them to achieve their full academic potential, or simply providing people with developmental disabilities the supports they need to live in the greater community.
One easy suggestion for fostering inclusive communities is to pay attention to the words we use when talking with and about other people. Spread the Word (previously Spread the Word to End the Word) is celebrated on March 4th, and asks people to pledge to not use the r-word. Now in its eleventh year, Spread the Word asks everyone to pledge to spread the word about inclusion — by creating socially inclusive places to learn, work, and live we can remind everyone that people with developmental disabilities are valued members of society.
Language is powerful, so it is important to be respectful and thoughtful whether you're talking to your neighbor or posting on social media. People First Language puts the person before the disability — instead of saying "a disabled person" you say "a person with a disability." When in doubt, ask the person how they prefer to be identified! Be sure to take the Pledge for Inclusion and help spread the word about Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month


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Jesse Owens in 1936
|Full name||James Cleveland Owens|
|Born||September 12, 1913
Oakville, Alabama, USA
|Died||March 31, 1980
Tucson, Arizona, USA
|Height||5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)|
|Weight||165 lb (75 kg)|
|Sport||Track and field athletics|
|Event(s)||Sprint, Long jump|
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Owens was the youngest of ten children, three girls and seven boys, born to Henry Cleveland Owens and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama on September 12, 1913. J.C., as he was called, was nine years old when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio for better opportunities, as part of the Great Migration, when 1.5 million African Americans left the segregated South. When his new teacher asked his name (to enter in her roll book), he said "J.C.", but because of his strong Southern accent, she thought he said "Jesse". The name took, and he was known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life.
As a boy and youth, Owens took different jobs in his spare time: he delivered groceries, loaded freight cars and worked in a shoe repair shop while his father and older brother worked at a steel mill. During this period, Owens realized that he had a passion for running. Throughout his life, Owens attributed the success of his athletic career to the encouragement of Charles Riley, his junior high track coach at Fairmount Junior High School. Since Owens worked in a shoe repair shop after school, Riley allowed him to practice before school instead.
Owens first came to national attention when he was a student of East Technical High School in Cleveland; he equalled the world record of 9.4 seconds in the 100-yard (91 m) dash and long-jumped 24 feet 9 1⁄2 inches (7.56 metres) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago.
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Owens attended Ohio State University after employment was found for his father, ensuring the family could be supported. Affectionately known as the "Buckeye Bullet," Owens won a record eight individual NCAA championships, four each in 1935 and 1936. (The record of four gold medals at the NCAA was equaled only by Xavier Carter in 2006, although his many titles also included relay medals.) Though Owens enjoyed athletic success, he had to live off campus with other African-American athletes. When he traveled with the team, Owens was restricted to ordering carry-out or eating at "black-only" restaurants. Similarly, he had to stay at "blacks-only" hotels. Owens did not receive a scholarship for his efforts, so he continued to work part-time jobs to pay for school.
Owens's greatest achievement came in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935, during the Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he set three world records and tied a fourth. He equaled the world record for the 100 yard dash (9.4 seconds); and set world records in the long jump (26 ft 8 1⁄4 in or 8.13 m, a world record that would last 25 years); 220-yard (201.2 m) sprint (20.3 seconds); and 220-yard (201.2m) low hurdles (22.6 seconds, becoming the first to break 23 seconds). In 2005, University of Central Florida professor of sports history Richard C. Crepeau chose these wins on one day as the most impressive athletic achievement since 1850.
In 1936, Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany. He and other government officials had high hopes that German athletes would dominate the games with victories (the German athletes achieved a "top of the table" medal haul). Meanwhile, Nazi propaganda promoted concepts of "Aryan racial superiority" and depicted ethnic Africans as inferior.
Owens surprised many by winning four gold medals: On August 3, 1936, he won the 100m sprint, defeating Ralph Metcalfe; on August 4, the long jump (later crediting friendly and helpful advice from Luz Long, the German competitor he ultimately defeated); on August 5, the 200m sprint; and, after he and Ralph Metcalfe were added to the 4 x 100 m relay team that featured Frank Wykoff and Foy Draper, following a request by the Germans for United States coach Dean Cromwell to replace Jewish-American sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, he won his fourth on August 9 (a performance not equaled until Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the Soviet boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics). Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump in 1935, and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by Ralph Boston in 1960. In an ironic coincidence, Owens was a spectator at the 1960 Summer Olympics when Boston took the gold medal in the long jump.
Just before the competitions, Owens was visited in the Olympic village by Adi Dassler, the founder of the Adidas athletic shoe company. He persuaded Owens to use Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik shoes, the first sponsorship for a male African-American athlete.
On the first day, Hitler shook hands only with the German victors and then left the stadium. Olympic committee officials insisted Hitler greet every medalist or none at all. Hitler opted for the latter and skipped all further medal presentations. On reports that Hitler had deliberately avoided acknowledging his victories, and had refused to shake his hand, Owens said at the time:
"Hitler had a certain time to come to the stadium and a certain time to leave." "It happened he had to leave before the victory ceremony after the 100 meters. But before he left I was on my way to a broadcast and passed near his box. He waved at me and I waved back. I think it was bad taste to criticize the'man of the hour' in another country."
Owens was allowed to travel with and stay in the same hotels in Germany as whites, while at the time African Americans in many parts of the United States had to stay in segregated hotels while traveling. After a New York City ticker-tape parade of Fifth Avenue in his honor, Owens had to ride the freight elevator at the Waldorf-Astoria to reach the reception honoring him. FDR never invited Jesse Owens to the White House following his triumphs at the Olympics games. Since 1936 was a presidential-election year, Roosevelt was afraid that he would lose southern votes if he played Kowtow to a black man. Jesse Owns also publicly endorsed Alf Landon during the upcoming election.
"Hitler didn't snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself. Jesse Owens was never invited to the White House nor were honors bestowed upon him by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) or his successor Harry S. Truman during their terms. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (himself an athlete of note) honored Owens by naming him an "Ambassador of Sports."
The dormitory used by Owens during the Olympics has been fully restored into a living museum, with pictures of his accomplishments at the Games, and a letter (intercepted by the Gestapo) from a fan urging him not to shake hands with Hitler.
After the games had finished, the Olympic team and Owens were all invited to compete in Sweden. He decided to capitalize on his success by returning to the United States to take up some of the more lucrative commercial offers. United States athletic officials were furious and withdrew his amateur status, ending his career immediately. Owens was angry, saying, "A fellow desires something for himself."
Prohibited from amateur sporting appearances to bolster his profile, Owens found the commercial offers all but disappeared. In 1946, he joined Abe Saperstein in the formation of the West Coast Baseball Association (WCBA), a new Negro baseball league; Owens was Vice-President and the owner of the Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds franchise. He toured with the Rosebuds, sometimes entertaining the audience in between doubleheader games by competing in races against horses. The WCBA disbanded after only two months.
Owens helped promote the exploitation film Mom and Dad in black neighborhoods. He tried to make a living as a sports promoter, essentially an entertainer. He would give local sprinters a tenor twenty-yard start and beat them in the 100-yd (91-m) dash. He also challenged and defeated racehorses; as he revealed later, the trick was to race a high-strung thoroughbred that would be frightened by the starter's shotgun and give him a bad jump. Owens said, "


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Wurrgeng is the 'cold weather' time; humidity is low, daytime temperatures are around 30°C and night-time temperatures are around 17°C. Most creeks stop flowing and the floodplains quickly dry out. Burning continues, extinguished by the dew at night. By day, birds of prey patrol the fire lines as insects and small animals try to escape the flames. Magpie geese, fat and heavy after weeks of abundant food, and a myriad of other waterbirds crowd the shrinking billabongs.


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 - Peter Landers
Supreme Court justices seemed pretty sure Tuesday that they knew how to interpret the meaning of the word "interpreter," signaling they are likely to rule in favor of a former Japanese baseball player in a case involving translation costs.
Kouichi Taniguchi, a Japanese citizen, brought the suit in 2008 after falling through a deck at a hotel in Saipan, a U.S. territory. When he lost, the hotel tried to make him pay the $5,257.20 cost of translating written documents such as medical records, even though U.S. law says only that the winner in such cases can recoup costs of "interpreters" and "interpretation services." (Read our preview here.)
At arguments Tuesday, justices kept returning to the literal meaning of "interpretation," which most dictionaries define mainly as the rendering of oral remarks into another language. Justice Samuel Alito said he doubted that even 2% of uses of "interpreter" could be interpreted as referring to the translation of written documents.
Justice Antonin Scalia said translations of literary works such as "War and Peace" may credit the translator with words such as "John Smith, trans." but never "John Smith, int."
Justice Scalia drew laughter when he offered a suggestion to explain why lower courts have sometimes allowed the billing of translation costs. "Stupidity, madam, sheer stupidity," Justice Scalia said, quoting 18th-century author Samuel Johnson.
Justice Elena Kagan conceded that a language expert's role might be ambiguous in some cases, such as when the expert is shown a document in court and asked to read a translation aloud. But she called them "marginal" cases and said, "The fact that there are some few minutes in every 24-hour period where it's hard to say that something is night or day does not mean that there is no night and that there is not day."
The lead lawyers arguing Taniguchi's side had never met their client and appeared to view the case more as an intellectual pursuit than a way to rack up fees. Douglas Cushnie, a Saipan lawyer who initially took the case and did meet Mr. Taniguchi, declined to discuss what he was being paid, but said in a brief interview, "It's an issue that should be resolved and we decided to try to resolve it."
Interpreting the leanings of Supreme Court justices based on oral arguments is a risky business, but Tuesday's case left little doubt that the justices were prepared to translate Taniguchi's wish to save about $5,000 into reality. A decision is expected by July.
For those wishing to draw their own interpretation, the full transcript of Tuesday's court session is available here.


The endogenous lectin of Xenopus laevis oocytes, unfertilized eggs, and blastula-stage embryos was immunohistochemically localized using a highly specific antiserum. Each tissue was examined with several techniques, including paraformaldehyde or glutaraldehyde fixation, frozen or plastic sections, and immunofluorescence or immunoperoxidase staining. In oocytes and unfertilized eggs, lectin was detected in association with yolk platelets, cortical granules, and the vitelline envelope. In embryos, cortical granules had disappeared and lectin was found in the cleavage furrows between the embryonic cells. The distribution of the lectin suggests that it plays more than one role in this developing system.
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Prior to video games existed the idea of horror. Like film and literature before it, games have tried to emulate the same panic and fear-inducing concepts of its brethren. It's safe to say that for the most part that they have failed. Games have essentially devolved from creating tension and real suspense in favor of grotesque abominations and cheap thrills.
I may be merely generalizing, but there hasn't truly been a genuine horror experience in video games. There have been bits and pieces of a more grandiose idea but nothing beyond that. Here are five suggestions I have for developers to create realistic horror in video games.
5. Good Controls
So let me get this straight — I'm a government agent trained in all manners of fighting techniques, except I am limited to the movements of a Lego brick. How cool is that? Back in old school Resident Evil this concept was used to usher in the feeling of tension through limited movement. Today this is known as poor control mechanics. Giving players free control of their character means focusing less on the "tension" of controlling like garbage and more on creating real horror. Go figure.
4. Inferential Fear
Fear is something that occurs organically in our minds. As such, every aspect of your experience should be just that, organic. I don't need grotesque imagery or nightmarish halls of the infernal to scare me. All it takes is for you to simply walk up and steal the small sense of security I have. Show the player how real the fear in your world is to the fear that exists in real life. All children are afraid of the dark, as unorthodox or as illogical as that may seem. Yet since we were little, we knew we were never alone in the darkness.
3. Death
The idea of failure in games is what makes games less emotionally thrilling. By nature, games are designed in a way that warrants multiple playthroughs. That doesn't mean demeaning the overall experience however. It has become paramount to arm the player with godlike powers, thus dispelling the instantaneous illusion of fear. The player must be shown immediately what death and failure means, and in an overall sense the negative aspect that death represents. That is to say, you should not be cheap or overall weak in your game design. Rather, invest your time to make your player helpless against the idea of fear.
2. Not Seeing is Believing
Too often in horror, we are treated to the true face of evil. The Antagonist that represents all our nightmares and horrifying experiences. The effect is two-fold; while you immediately display terror and a mix of emotions, you show the player what to expect. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; it's just used with too much liberty in video games. How many times do I have to kill the annoying enemy that scared me from the first hour? By the end of the game, I'm just annoyed and frustrated at the monster, rather than feel tense and frightened. Use a little more tact and show players that the idea that the monster you created is a lot more terrifying than the actual creature.
1. Be Scary
How's that for being redundant? When all else fails at the end, just remember that being a sadistic turdball works too. Give the player connections, ties through character development and interaction. Then show the player what you do best — being scary. Prey on them. Show them the deep psychological aspects of the human mind. Shatter their expectations of what is real and not real. So deeply ingrained to the point where they fear the myopic details of their lives. Show them why people are afraid of the dark.
These suggestions are far from complete, or for that matter well reasoned. However, I still have hope for a truly scary video game to come along. Hopefully Alan Wake fills that niche. Yes that was a shameless plug; hooray for being professional.
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 Personally, I find it hard by all forms of media to be scared. I think what makes me like older horror games (Resident Evil etc.) is the fact the the atmosphere is truly dark. As you said, restrictions in movement were what made those particular games thrilling, but I loved the puzzle elements along with the scarcity of ammo. I miss survival horror games that actually forced you to be resourcful, giving an aspect of well.. survival. Opposed to the action shoot em up that Resident Evil is today.
 If they brought back the bad controls just to bring back the dark atmosphere of RE, it would be a fair trade to me. The camera angles made it a cinematic experience for me, not knowing what lurks around the corner.
 Freedom of control make things less scary, for me at least :)


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This is a common expression for two people that know each other and they don't meet for some time. This is not an expression for new people for us. In English, we usually say 'how are you'. Apa kabar is usually used for asking health and condition of another speaker and the other person will say,'Baik' or 'Kabar baik'.
Bahasa Indonesia is sometimes mixed with other language for example Arabic, because it is related to the Indonesian' religion. So it is common that people in Indonesia will respond 'Alhamdulillah saya baik-baik saja' which means 'thank God I'm very well'.
Instead of 'apa kabar' we can say 'bagaimana kabarmu' and we can give the same respons as above.
If we want to know about other person condition we can say 'bagaimana kabar Susan' for example or 'bagaimana kabar keluargamu',you know keluarga is family.
The answer can be'mereka baik-baik saja or they're just fine.
So, apa kabarmu dan keluargamu?


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We just released a major update to our API and command-line client, making it much easier to integrate video builds into your own software or delivery pipeline.
For example, you can set up a CI step to deploy your application and take screen-shots of key pages, then use Narakeet to include the latest look and feel of your application into explainer videos automatically. Another common use-case for Narakeet video automation is to create several versions of a single video, for example in different languages.
Until today, integrating with our API required hosting assets yourself, which was a big barrier for many people. Our new API supports uploading files directly to Narakeet, and building directly from files on your local disk. Here is a quick example: the following command will create a video from the local directory called my-video-project, with the main video script in video.txt inside that directory.
narakeet-api-client \
 --repository-type local-dir \
 --repository my-video-project \
 --source video.txt \
 --api-key $API_KEY
For more information on how to use the Narakeet API, check out Automating video production.
For information on the command-line client tool, check out Using the Narakeet Command-line Tool.


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Haumea is a dwarf planet found in the Kuiper belt, a region of the Solar System lying beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was discovered in mid-2005 and revived attention for its odd shape, looking like a "plump cigar". Huamea's diameter is approximately the same as that of the dwarf planet Pluto, but is much thinner. Jaumea rotates approximately ever four hours giving it the fastest rotation period for large objects in the solar system.
Haumea is named after the Hawaiian god of the same name. Haumea's two moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka, were named after the Hawaiian god's daughters.


Inspection and evaluation of a network of concrete bridges based on multiple NDT techniques
Bridge condition rating is a crucial variable used for prioritisation of bridge needs in bridge management systems (BMSs). At present, bridge rating is predominantly based on visual inspections. A practical method incorporating non-destructive testing (NDT) results for rating bridges in a BMS is not available. In this study, an integrated rating method for reinforced concrete bridges based on both visual inspection and multiple NDT techniques with the ultimate goal of incorporating it into BMSs was developed. The method uses a multi-component and multi-modal NDT application at network-level with improved testing speed. The application results of four non-destructive techniques including visual inspection, polarisation resistance, penetration resistance, and pulse velocity on a reinforced concrete bridge network of 100 bridges are presented. At bridge level, a multi-component approach was used, including decks, girders, cap beams, piers, and abutments. A novel method for NDT-based reinforcement corrosion rating was developed. Correlation among NDT variables was also investigated and the results are presented. Multiple linear regression models were developed using ANOVA analyses. Only the statistically significant regressors with the largest partial F-statistic were included in the model formulas. The expected weights of the four evaluation criteria in the formula were obtained by combining the results of two techniques: statistical data available in literature on the frequency of use of NDT techniques for bridge inspection, and a three-level analytical hierarchy process (AHP) based on expert survey. Application of three NDT techniques to inspections of concrete bridges, determination of NDT ratings using the integrated rating formula, and incorporation of the resulting ratings into a BMS for bridge ranking can be performed using the proposed methodology.
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F. Akgül, "Inspection and evaluation of a network of concrete bridges based on multiple NDT techniques," STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available:


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Elmer: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Elmer
Origin of the name Elmer:
Transferred use of the surname originating from the obsolete Old English Æthelmær, Æðelmær, a compound name composed of the elements æthel, æðel (noble) and mær (famous): hence, "noble and famous."
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My Great Grandmother, Elmer Effie (Simpson) Tolley born about 1878 in Crittenden co ky to James Huey Simpson and Sarah Catherine (Greer) Simpson. We dont know why or how or where the Elmer came from and by the time it was questioned of us now in the search ancestors we still dont know how she came to be named ELMER. A lady she called Grandma NUNN and worked for on the lady's property who had large land holdings told her Elmer was a man's name and renamed her Elma. Elma later in 1902 marred Robert H Tolley who was clearing the lady Nunns forest. I have found no Elmer's in the family and the only family line I cant find is James Huey Simpson's mother was Louisa Lyzenby daughter of Orpha Marvel and Charles Lyzenby b. 1801 in Livingston co Ky. The Marvel's are traced and Louisa said to be part indian so I guess the Elmer came from either the maternal or paternal side of Charles Lyzenby. Sincerely Denise of Madison co Ill.
Robert Tolley family left Ky went via Tn to Kansas where my gpa was born then by 1920 they were in madison co ill.
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Elmer Bernstein, Academy and Golden Globe winning film score composer.
Elmer Charles Bigelow, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Elmer Davis, news reporter, the WWII Director of the United States Office of War Information and a Peabody Award Recipient.
Elmer E.Ellsworth, American Civil War hero.
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Elmer Fudd, of course!
Elmer the Bull, husband of Elsie the Cow (mascot of Borden Dairy Products), who gave his name to Elmer's Glue.
"Elmer the Patchwork Elephant," a children's picture book series by author David McKee.
"Elmer Gantry," a novel by Sinclair Lewis, which was made into a film starring Burt Lancaster.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, a British psychedelic rock band active in the late 1960s.


Is it possible to prevent mouseDown effect when widget already displaying selected effect
Is it possible to prevent the display of a "mouseDown" effect when the widget is already displayed with the "selected" effect?
Reproducible Steps:
 1. User clicks on a button, button displays "mouseDown" effect.
 2. User releases the mouse and the button displays with a "Selected" effect.
 3. User clicks on the selected button.
When the user clicks on an already selected button, I don't want to see the mouseDown effect; I want to continue to see the selected effect.
Is there a way to prevent the mouseDown effect from being displayed when the selected effect is already being displayed?
Hi _USER_
Do you mind elaborating a bit more on which Style Properties you have defined in your Selected style vs. your MouseDown style?
As you've noticed in RP 10, the Style Effects will blend together in the prototype. However, if you do not want the blending to occur, you can simply define the specific style properties on the Selected style, and those properties will override the properties on the MouseDown style.
For example, let's say you have a button with the following styles:
 - Base Style: white background / black font color
 - MouseDown Style: blue font color
 - Selected Style: grey fill color
Let's say when the button is in a selected state and the user mouses down on the button, you do not want to show the MouseDown blue font color.
In order to achieve this, you can simply define the font color that you want to display in that scenario in the Selected style (e.g. black font color). Once a font color is defined within the Selected style, it will no longer be overridden when the user mouses down on the button in the prototype.
The same would apply for other style properties you have defined in your style effects.
Hope this helps!
Hi Frankie
I've attached my file. There is definitely something weird going on as I don't even see the colour for the mouseDown event any more.
When the widget is created from dragging a "Primary Button" onto the canvas, everything works as you described above. However, if you modify the shape of the button, the mouseEvent does not occur as expected.
Any help would be appreciated.
btnPressStyling-wError.rp (46.6 KB)
Hi _USER_,
Thank you for sharing your file. I was able to reproduce this issue on my end as well. This appears to be a bug with rendering style effects in the prototype for custom shape widgets. I've filed this to have our team investigate further. Thank you for letting us know!