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In the past, you've certainly had your gums examined to determine the presence of gum disease. You might recall a thin metal periodontal probe used to calculate "pocket depth," which is the detached area between your teeth and gums. The depth of detachment within each pocket can vary depending upon where the probe is placed and can lead to an inaccurate diagnosis. A team of engineers from the University of California San Diego developed a process that can provide a more detailed and accurate diagnosis—using squid ink and photoacoustic ultrasound.
Squid Ink, Nanoparticles,
and Photoacoustic Ultrasound
A rinse made of food-grade squid ink, water, and cornstarch is first swished in the mouth. Melanin nanoparticles in the squid ink, which are trapped in the tooth pockets, absorb light. This allows a laser light shined on the gums to heat the squid ink and cause pressure differences in the pockets. This pressure difference is detected by ultrasound and converted to an image for diagnosis.
Consistent, Reliable Measurements
Researchers have been able to consistently obtain the same accurate measurements in repeated tests. And, the method is non-invasive which means no pain and reduced risks to the patient.
Although an external laser light is used now, researchers are working to create dental trays that will emit the light directly onto each tooth and transmit the results to a computer application in a matter of moments. While they are at it, they want to replace the expensive laser lights with an inexpensive, portable light system like LEDs, which will make the diagnostic tool more economical and universally available. Finally, the current salty taste of the mouth rinse is on the chopping block as researchers plan to improve the taste by adding mint and other flavorings.
What This Means to Patients
This tool will provide the information dentists need in much less time and with an excellent degree of accuracy. Patients will appreciate the fact that the process is non-invasive and have confidence that the ultimate diagnosis will lead to improved care for their gums.


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Jewish Community Center Personal Trainer in Bronx, New York
Principal Responsibilities: This position is in person, with some virtual hours available POSITION SUMMARY: Under the guidance of the Fitness Director, the staff members provide instruction and encouragement to Y members by listening actively, strengthening relationships, and promoting healthy living with Y members. Responsible to maintain client records and paperwork related to Personal Training, Group Exercise, and the safety of the facility. Minimum requirement of 10 hours per week designated as Fitness Supervisor and/or one class per week as a Group Exercise Instructor to connect with members and build client base (subject to change at the discretion of Fitness Director). ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: * Embody an outgoing and enthusiastic personality at all times. * Strong customer service while enforcing all policies and procedures * Maintain safe and orderly exercise environment for all members * Deliver instruction of physiologically sound fitness and weight training components, demonstrating the understanding of safe, effective, and progressive exercise programs. * Identifies unsafe or hazardous exercises and makes corrections or suggests alternate exercises. * Understand the Fitness program as delivered to Y members and its role in serving a health seeker. Recognize and embrace the connection between the Fitness Department, personal training opportunities, and the Y at large * Embody sensitivity and patience in dealing with the inactive population which could be intimidated by exercise and workout areas. * Provides one-on-one, partner, or small group fitness instruction to clients during each session. Assess an individual's progress and make appropriate changes. * Maintains appointment scheduler and completes timesheet accurately, tracking client participation and session usage. * Completes all required paperwork accurately and efficiently as outlined in client file management expectations. * Responsible for the promotion of personal training within guidelines of the Riverdale Y. Actively participate in additional community-centered programming as needed * Achieve quarterly sales goals as determined by Fitness Director. # Minimum Qualifications: You meet this role and responsibility by: * Maintaining current CPR/AED, First Aid certifications. * Being familiar with the Emergency Action Plan for the Facility * Maintaining a nationally-recognized and accredited personal trainer certification and/or holding a degree in a related field * Participating in continuing education activities through both internal and external sessions to promote an on-going development of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for personal trainers. * Adheres to the guidelines for exercise testing and program design as recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine, NSCA, and other reputable organizations. * Physical effort required for daily duties include lifting heavy weights, squatting, bending, reaching, spotting, and prolonged standing/walking. * Must be able to lift and/or move up 45+ pounds. # Salary: Under 25,000 # Agency Information: The Riverdale Y is a 75,000 sq. ft. Jewish Community Center that provides educational, recreational, cultural, and wellness programs for children and adults of all ages and backgrounds. The Y features an early childhood center; summer camps; large after school program; senior center; performing arts center featuring theater, dance and music schools; and a health & wellness center that includes cardio and free weight studios, group exercise classes, gymnasium, swimming pool, steam room, sauna and massage therapy. Date Posted: 02/18/2021 Title: Personal Trainer JCC: Riverdale YM-YWHA Location: Bronx, NY


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Slang definitions & phrases for grunch
 1. Boring (1960s+ Teenagers)
 2. grungy (1960s+ Teenagers)
 1. A dull, tedious person; nerd, pill
 2. Slovenliness; sloppiness (1960s+ Teenagers)
 3. Something nasty: Those globs of guitar grunge get me off every time (1960s+ Teenagers)
 4. A style of dress featuring mismatched and rumpled garments, mostly suggesting lumberjacks, appearing to have been bought at thrift shops and donned at random, and favored by grunge rock musicians: ''Stuff We Hate'' grunge as high fashion/ Garth's wardrobe is mostly grunge (1990s+)
 5. A kind of rock music originally associated with Seattle, wa: Nirvana and Pearl Jam are two of the best grunge bands (1990s+)
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Texas Dust Storms
The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up significant dust in western Texas and eastern Mexico. The winds associated with this cold front also fanned the flames of grass fires in the region, adding smoke to the mixture of aerosols. The most obvious dust cloud is a pale beige dust plume swirling through Texas and Mexico. However, a second, more orange-colored cloud of dust blows across northern Texas. Parts of northern Texas saw wind speeds around 60 miles per hour. Resulting dust storms reduced visibility to just 2.5 miles in some areas, and swamped local fire departments with calls regarding both fires and downed power lines.
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The Mathematics Consultation Clinic
The main objective of this course is to provide opportunities for students to consolidate their mathematical knowledge, and to obtain a perspective on the meaning and significance of that knowledge. This course is unlike any other at LSU, as students are exposed to a role played by mathematicians in industry and how mathematical thinking can be used to solve real-world problems.
Other objectives include
- Understand the nature of the problem to the extent that there is some idea of what mathematical paradigm it fits and what tools might help to solve it.
- Build a mathematical model that covers the crucial features but yet can be implemented easily.
- Implement the model so that the end user can easily enter and retrieve data.
Students who normally enroll in this course are students who are majoring or minoring in mathematics or computer science. Students are required to have some previous knowledge and experience in working with computer applications. This means knowing how to use various mathematical software, and their capabilities and shortcomings. Students extensively use mathematical software such as MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, Excel and OPL Studio.
Students work in teams under guidance of LSU faculty or graduate students. Faculty and graduate students at LSU have supervised teams of students on many significant projects, including projects that involve control theory and other important areas. You can read more about some of the teams here and at the Projects by Semester links on this page. During the Spring 2016 semester, the focus in the Clinic was on 3D printing and 3D scanning. The emphasis in Math 4020 is on the success of the teams and students' contributions to them. Students often meet with clients who visit to give feedback, and then team members give oral presentations. This gives students a unique opportunity to communicate results to people who are interested in the end product more than the technical details. Problems and projects come from refineries, hospitals, security agencies, banks and other departments and industries.

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How Our Hats are Sized
Hats are measured by the inside circumference at the bottom of the hat's crown (the sweatband) and measured in centimeters. To make sure you have your correct hat size, you'll need to measure the circumference of your head or where you generally like to wear your hat. Do this by wrapping a measuring tape around the crown of your head, placing the tape one to two fingers width above your eyebrows and one finger above your ears. Alternatively, use a piece of string and then measure the length.
Whatever your measurement, add 1cm to determine your correct hat size. Example: head measurement of 56cm wears size 57 hat.


Passionate About Wildlife
Can I feed bread to swans & ducks?
There has been some publicity saying that because people are not feeding bread to waterfowl some swans are starving to death.
Whilst as animal lovers we are saddened to hear that swans are starving there may well be more to why the swans are struggling other than people not giving bread. For example, the very dry summer may have drastically reduced the foods that waterfowl naturally forage for such as aquatic plants, insects etc. We certainly do promote supplementary feeding of waterfowl but the food should be nutritionally beneficial. Reputable wildlife Rescues such as Vale Wildlife Hospital have said that they do not promote feeding bread as they have seen first-hand the damage it causes birds.
So what is the problem with bread?
Bread offers little-to-no nutritional benefit but the birds will readily eat it when it is offered. The problem occurs as the calorific bread fills up the stomach so much that the bird will not forage for their normal natural diet that will give them all the vitamins and minerals they require. In particular, in young birds, a reliance on human supplied bread, and other junk food, discourages them to learn to forage for the natural foods they need to be healthy. In both cases this can lead to malnourishment and in severe cases in young birds to a condition called Angel Wing. Angel Wing is a condition in which the distal portion of wing appears flipped outward. It is caused by excessively rapid growth of feathers in relation to muscle development and as a result growing flight feathers cause excess stress and weight on carpal muscles. This in turn leads to the carpal portion of the wing to hang and twist outwards and prevents the bird from flying (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Angel wing in a Canadian Goose
Possible causes of Angel Wing include:
 - Over feeding &/or excessive calorie intake
 - Genetic factors
 - Excessive growth rate
 - Manganese (or Vitamin E) and vitamin D3 deficiency
It is possible that the high calorie bread discourages natural foraging and thus can cause deficiencies in vitamins and minerals that then lead to Angel Wing in some birds. The condition can be reversed with proper feeding in young birds but once the bird is an adult it cannot be reversed. Although Angel Wing is not life threatening to the bird in a sheltered environment it would be unlikely to survive in the wild.
There can also be problems with bread that is left uneaten as this can attract predators that may be harmful to waterfowl. It can also, if left for long enough, grow mould that if the birds consequently eat can make them very ill. Another issue is one of uneaten bread adding to nutrient build up in the water, especially in closed water such as lakes and ponds. This excess of nutrients in the water can then lead to excess algae growth such as cyanobacteria (blue green algae) and harmful algal blooms that in severe cases depletes oxygen levels to the extent that aquatic plants and animals die out. This process of eutrophication is usually caused by the use of fertilisers and soil run off into water (and human sewage) that leads to high nitrogen and phosphorous levels in the water but there is an argument that bread may contribute to this albeit in a smaller way.
So what can I feed to waterfowl?
There is a place to have a commercial food that will allow families to carry on the pastime of feeding the waterfowl at parks, ponds and lakes etc. that will be nutritionally beneficial and not harm the birds. According to National Geographic safe food for waterfowl include cucumber, corn, peas, beans, broccoli, beets, squash, alfalfa, tomatoes, aubergine, peeled bananas, seeds, scrambled eggs, and rice. Foods to be avoided as they are harmful include avocados, onions, citrus fruits, chocolate, popcorn and, of course, bread. There are foods on the market for commercially kept waterfowl and the recommendation is that a commercial pellet for this instance should contain 14-17% Protein and 3-6% fat with added vitamins and minerals.
Brambles Pet and Wildlife Limited is a family owned company and the team have been involved in developing products for animal welfare since 1990. The Managing Director has a scientific background in Biological Sciences and we have combined our experience and expertise to formulate foods that are nutritionally beneficial to wild animals and ensure that they do not contain any added sugar, colours, or artificial flavours. Our Swan and Duck food conforms to recommended guidelines for nutritional requirements, is also suitable for geese, moorhens and coots, and, as it floats you can easily see when the birds have had sufficient.


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Meaning: Amber
What is the meaning of the name Elektra?
The name Elektra is primarily a female name of Greek origin that means Amber.
Electra is a classic play (and title character) by Sophocles. Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Carmen Electra is a famous model and actress.
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- Software Applications
- Terrain & Visualisation
- VR-TheWorld Server
A world of terrain data, streamed for modelling and simulation
VR-TheWorld Server is a powerful web-based terrain streaming server that lets users stream in elevation, features, and imagery. It is delivered with a global base map, but users can populate it with their own custom source data through a web-based interface. The server can be deployed on private networks to provide streaming terrain data to a variety of simulation and visualisation applications, behind a firewall.
VR-TheWorld stores and streams elevation, imagery, and features including roads, buildings, and trees to multiple applications simultaneously. The quality of imagery and elevation data included with the server is continually expanded, while also allowing users to add their own geospatial data to distribute in real-time. VR-TheWorld Server is seeded with over two terabytes of global elevation and imagery data — pre-tiled for high performance access.
- VR-TheWorld Server is ready out-of-the-box
- The VR-TheWorld Server installation is a 1U rackmount chassis that houses the server and raid array. The hardware comes pre-installed and ready to go out of the box. A VR-TheWorld Server is a fully standalone version of VR-TheWorld and can be deployed behind firewalls and security barriers.
- The VR-TheWorld Basemap has:
- Global elevation. 90-meter (DTED Level 1) for the entire globe, based on the CGIAR-CSI version of NASA's SRTM30 dataset, merged with SRTM30Plus bathymetry.
- Global imagery. Landsat 7 (15m resolution for the entire globe) merged with NASA Blue Marble data (500m resolution), colour-corrected for seamless display, and pre-tiled to 7 mipmap levels.
- High-resolution inset areas. The insets range from 1m to 15cm per pixel – including Boston, Washington, D. C., and two airport areas in Afghanistan.
- Samples of 1:250,000 and 1:100,000 topographic maps in Southern California.
- A highly detailed map of Hawaii
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The image is a graphic called "Censorship by the numbers." The main text reads: "Beyond Books. The American Library Association has noticed an increase in attempts to censor drag queen story hours and LGBTQIA+ programming, as well as challenges to remove access to data bases." The next panel shows a graph. The text reads: "The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 347 challenges in 2018. Here's the breakdown. 62% books. 15% programs, meeting rooms. 10% databases, magazines, films, games. 6% displays, artwork. 7% Other (includes access, social media, hate crimes." The graphic was created by the Office for Intellectual Freedom American Library Association.


Flying While Trans? Things To Know Before You Go.
Written By: Gina Duncan, Director of Transgender Equality
Flying While Trans? Things To Know Before You Go.
Should the transgender community be fearful of TSA screenings when traveling by air? At minimum, monthly, there seems to be a social media post of a transgender person who has experienced a demeaning and often frightening experience while going through security at America's airports.
A good friend of mine, who happens to be a pre-op transgender woman, recently told me that she hasn't seen her parents in 10 years because she is afraid to fly. Her family lives in Seattle and she is so fearful of going through the scanners at the airport that she just opts to not travel. At the same time, in a climate where airport security is vital to national security and fighting terror, where is the middle ground? How can we stay safe and at the same time provide a respectful and uncompromising situation for transgender people who travel by air?
I have worked with the TSA over the past two years, in conducting several national Transgender Cultural Competency Webinars to increase gate agents' understanding of the trans community. Recently, the TSA published "Know Before You Go" travel guidelines for trans travelers, as well as a YouTube video designed to inform trans travelers of what to expect when going through airport security. The published guidelines and video are a positive step in taking the fear out of flying but more remains to do.
In a statement by Marie Trottier, of the Multicultural Branch of the Transportation Security Administration - Department of Homeland Security, "TSA recognizes that members of the transgender community may have concerns about security screening when flying. We worked with transgender traveler, Kristin Beck, who had a bad experience at a security checkpoint, to develop a video focused on helping transgender travelers through security screening process and letting them know what to expect."
All of these steps are positive in that knowledge is power. If everyone is following the same script, and if consistency can be achieved by agents nation-wide, we will take a huge step in creating travel equity. The challenge remains that there are several subjective aspects of the process that unfortunately can lead to human error or misjudgments.
First, the gate agent presses a pink or blue scanner "gender button" based on a subjective judgement of one's gender presentation. As with recent "bathroom bill" issues, the judgement of someone's gender presentation is far from a perfect science. A miscalculation here can lead to a "female" traveler being patted down by a male TSA agent. The "patting down" process is the second issue. In most cases, when a travel issue occurs, it involves an overzealous agent publicly verbalizing an "anomaly" while conducting the pat down, or being overly intrusive, and in many cases, bringing the violated traveler to tears.
No one should be afraid to fly. We applaud the TSA's efforts to involve the transgender community in the education process. Everyone knowing the process, knowing the rules and knowing their rights, will lead to a more accommodating travel experience. But, until we eliminate subjective gender determinations and find a better way to ensure travel safety than with inconsistent scanners and pat downs, the transgender community will have to find refuge in knowing what to expect, knowing our rights and truly "Know Before You Go."
Click here to download the "Know Before You Go" TSA travel guidelines.
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How to Calculate Standard Deviations in Excel Visual Basic
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Excel is the spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office Suite of productivity software. A spreadsheet program manages data through a series of tables. Each data value is placed within an individual cell within the table. Values can be manipulated through a set of built-in functions. Standard deviation is average deviation from the mean of the values of a set. Simply put, it identifies the precision of a set of values. Standard deviation can be calculated using the built-in function STDEV in Excel, or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Built-in Standard Deviation Function
Open Excel and the data set where you want to find the standard deviation.
Type"=STDEV(" in the cell where you want to display the standard deviation. Do not press "Enter."
Holding down shift, select the range of cells containing the data points. If the cells are not continuous, hold down Ctrl while selecting the non-continuous cells. This should place a series of cells names in the formula bar after "=STDEV(".
Type ")" in the formula bar and press "Enter." The standard deviation will be calculated using the unbiased method.
Using Built-in Functions in VBA
This same built-in function can be used in a VBA script to calculate standard deviation. Open VBA and click on the end of the module where you are going to calculate the standard deviation.
Type "Function StDev( Rng As Range)" and then press "Enter." This should also create a new line "End Function."
On the line between "Function..." and "End Function," type "StDev = Application.WorksheetFunction.StDev( Rng)" and then press "Enter."
To calculate the standard deviation in VBA, simply use the function StDev().
This same method can be used to access any of the built-in functions of Excel within VBA.


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Using Office Simulation Software in Teaching Computer Literacy Using Three Sets of Teaching/Learning Activities
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology • Volume 13 • 2016 • pp. 079-088
The most common course delivery model is based on teacher (knowledge provider) - student (knowledge receiver) relationship. The most visible symptom of this situation is over-reliance on textbook's tutorials. This traditional model of delivery reduces teacher flexibility, causes lack of interest among students, and often makes classes boring. Especially this is visible when teaching Computer Literacy courses. Instead, authors of this paper suggest a new active model which is based on MS Office simulation. The proposed model was discussed within the framework of three activities: guided software simulation, instructor-led activities, and self-directed learning activities. The model proposed in the paper of active teaching based on software simulation was proven as more effective than traditional.
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Home temperature is important to all. No one at any age enjoys an indoor environment that's chronically uncomfortable. However, controlling temperatures inside the house becomes even more relevant as years pass. That's why it's important to identify the most appropriate temperature for senior residents over the age of 65. Significant medical research has identified the effects of home temperatures on seniors, as well as the most preferable temperature range for that age group. Major conclusions from these studies include:
- Persons in the senior age range experience a measurable reduction in strength of major muscle groups when exposed to a cold environment. This can occur after just 45 minutes in a room that is cooler than appropriate for their age.
- The resultant loss of strength, agility, and balance due to exposure to low temperatures can make moving about more difficult and may increase the risk of falls that cause injury.
- A colder indoor environment may also exacerbate respiratory conditions and complicate recovery from even simple common colds.
- Some seniors may be less able to perceive that indoor temperatures are too chilly. Therefore, they are less likely to set the thermostat temperature higher and/or put on additional clothing to stay warmer.
Based on research, the following conclusions can be drawn about ideal indoor home temperature for seniors:
- In all cases, indoor temperatures where seniors reside should be kept above 65 degrees.
- The general range for senior safety and comfort extends from 65 degrees up to 78 degrees. Within that range, the ideal temperature for a specific individual is generally a matter of personal preference.
- In addition to keeping indoor temperatures in the recommended range, weatherizing the house, including air sealing the structure to prevent chilly drafts and ensuring that attic insulation meets current standards, also helps to maintain indoor safety and comfort for seniors.
For all your heating and cooling needs, contact the professionals at Jackson & Sons.


text: Learn to use Active Directory to manage user accounts. Excerpt: One of the most common programming activities that most developers will perform against Active Directory and ADAM is user account management. Active Directory user management is fairly straightforward once we know all of the basic rules. However, there are many interesting rules and behaviors concerning how attribute values in Active Directory are used to determine how user objects behave in Windows. In order to get the results we want, it is important to learn these rules and behaviors. We try to demonstrate most of them. To a lesser extent, we also investigate user account management in ADAM. ADAM is very similar to Active Directory in most respects, but it has a few significant differences worth pointing out.


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Check out this new article Wizards of the Coast posted recently:
The Talking Door
The tall, wide, and stout front door of the Inn of the Dripping Dagger in Waterdeep is centuries old, though it has been replaced over the years, board by board and metal plate by metal plate, as various parts of it have worn out. For all this time, it has been an unusually large, but counterweighted and easily opened, front door—nothing more. Now, however, it has begun to whisper short and menacing sentences. Why? What do its cryptic utterances mean?


Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone
This flight controller has been discontinued and is no longer commercially available.
The Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone® is a UAV development platform. Part of this is the Intel Aero Compute Board, running Linux on a Quad-core CPU. The other part is an STM32 microcontroller that is connected to it and that runs PX4 on NuttX. These are integrated in the same package on the Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone, which also includes the vision accessory kit.
Intel Aero RTF
The main documentation on the official wiki explains how to setup, update and connect to the board, and how to do development on the Linux side. The instructions in this topic concentrate on updating the firmware on the microcontroller from a development tree.
It's important to update to the latest image available since some instructions change between releases. You can check the BIOS and distro version by connecting to the board and running the following command:
The instructions here are tested with the following version:
BIOS_VERSION = Aero-01.00.13
OS_VERSION = Poky Aero (Intel Aero Linux Distro) 1.5.1-dev (pyro)"
Setup Intel Aero using Ubuntu
In order to install Ubuntu on Intel Aero, the following equipment is needed:
 1. Power supply (battery or network cable)
 2. Micro HDMI to HDMI cable to attach a monitor
 3. Micro USB3 to USB2 female adapter
 4. USB Hub to attach mouse and keyboard
Follow the linked instructions from Intel Aero wiki > Installing Ubuntu on Intel Aero:
 1. Upgrade Yocto first (optional)
 2. OS
 3. Intel Aero Repository
As soon as the steps under Intel Aero Repository (above) are completed the Aero kernel is installed. From this point forwards, always boot using this kernel.
Follow the instructions to flash the BIOS, FPGA and Flight Controller. Open the MAVLink router config file: /etc/mavlink-router/main.conf
Include the laptop IP as a UDP Endpoint by adding the following lines to the configuration file. The IP address must be set to the one of the laptop. To find the IP address of the laptop, execute: ifconfig.
[UdpEndpoint wifi]
Mode = Normal
Address =
After all those steps are completed, the drone should automatically connect to QGroundControl running on the laptop.
Next install ROS, by following the instructions here.
RealSense Camera
 1. RealSense SDK
 Follow the steps to install the RealSense SDK listed on the aero wiki. When cloning the repository, the legacy branch needs to be used for the R200 model. If the D435 or D415 is used, the master branch needs to be cloned. All other steps are the same and the branches can be just switched back and forth if the camera is changed.
 If the RealSense R200 is used, it can already be started over a ROS node using:
 roslaunch realsense_camera r200_nodelet_default.launch
 If any D400 series camera is used, follow the next step to install a different ROS wrapper.
 2. ROS Wrapper for D400 series RealSense
 Follow the instructions in Install Intel RealSense ROS from Sources to install a catkin workspace and clone the RealSense software.
 Install the udev rules using:
 sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger
 Now the RealSense can be started over a ROS node using:
 roslaunch realsense2_camera rs_camera.launch
Obstacle Avoidance
To run the PX4 obstacle avoidance software, install catkin first:
apt install python-catkin-tools
Create a catkin workspace and initialize it. Then clone the avoidance repository into the source space, or use a symbolic link to the source space. Build the package and start the ROS node using:
catkin build local_planner
roslaunch local_planner local_planner_aero.launch
Flashing PX4 software
After setting up the PX4 development environment, follow these steps update the PX4 software:
 1. Do a full update of all software on the vehicle (
 2. Grab the Firmware
 3. Compile with make intel_aerofc-v1_default
 4. Configure the target hostname
 If your system resolves link local names you don't have to do anything and you can skip this step. You can test it by trying to ssh into intel-aero.local after connecting to it either via WiFi or USB:
 ssh _EMAIL_
 If it doesn't work you can try giving the IP that will be used by the upload script:
 # WiFi IP
 export AERO_HOSTNAME=
 # Ethernet-over-USB IP
 export AERO_HOSTNAME=
 5. Upload with: make intel_aerofc-v1_default upload
Connecting QGroundControl via Network
 1. Make sure you are connected to the board with WiFi or USB Network
 2. SSH to the board and make sure MAVLink forwarding runs. By default it automatically starts when booting. It can be started manually with:
 systemctl start mavlink-router
 3. Start QGroundControl and it should automatically connect.
 4. Instead of starting QGroundControl, you can open a MAVLink shell using the script:
Connecting LeddarOne Range Finder
Connect the LeddarOne to the Aero telemetry port. The pinout for the LeddarOne and Aero telemetry port (TELEM1) are as follows.
Pin Aerofc TELEMETRY LeddarOne
2 TX -
6 GND -
To enable the rangefinder set the SENS_LEDDAR1_CFG parameter to TELEM1 and reboot the board (instructions for setting parameters available here).
Connecting Lidar Lite Range Finder
The Lidar Lite is not recommended for use with Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone® due to measurements spikes.
The following instructions are for a Lidar Lite V3 connected via I2C. The Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone has two ports with I2C: One labled COMPASS and the other TELEMETRY. The pinout for both of them can be found below. We recommend using the TELEMETRY port as it is not being used. If your TELEMETRY port is already occupied, a splitter can be used to share the I2C connection (works on any I2C port). Check the images below for the splitter setup.
In addition it is recommended to use a electrolytic capacitor for the Lidar Lite I2C connection to reduce spikes in the distance readings (see here on page 3).
The pinout for the Lidar Lite V3 and Aero telemetry port are as follows
Pin Aerofc TELEMETRY Lidar Lite V3
2 TX -
3 RX -
pin Aerofc COMPASS Lidar Lite V3
2 SCL -
3 SDA -
5 - SDA
6 - GND
Aero I2C splitter
Aero LidarLite
Using Optical Flow on the Aero
The Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone® comes with a preinstalled optical flow binary on the compute board (Linux OS version 1.6 or higher), which enables it to stably fly based on optical flow velocity estimation. In order to use optical flow, a range sensor has to be installed first (see above).
To use the optical flow, run the following command in a console on the vehicle's compute board:
systemctl start aero-optical-flow
If you want to start the optical flow binary at boot, use
systemctl enable aero-optical-flow _TAG_ disable to undo
In addition, the following parameter values should be set in the flight controller.
Parameter Value
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Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD
It has been suggested[by whom?] that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) ποιμενικῶν. If his name was really Longus, he was probably a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.
Other ancient Greek novelists:
- Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Xenophon of Ephesus - The Ephesian Tale
- Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon
- Heliodorus of Emesa - The Aethiopica
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First you'll want to switch your sprite's Mesh Mode in its texture import settings to Full Rect so you can enable 9-slice scaling on it as described in the Unity docs.
This lets you select either the Sliced or Tiled modes on your Sprite or Image components, which will ensure borders of your sprite stay the same thickness in the game world/canvas when the sprite is enlarged - they'll be spaced out or tiled instead of stretched to fit.
For a non-UI sprite, the size of the border in actual display pixels will depend on how your camera sees it. This includes your pixels per unit setting, the size of your orthographic camera, and the resolution of the display viewport. You can work out the result using these formulas:
world thickness = (1 pixel of texture) ÷ (pixels per unit)
vertical screen fraction = (world thickness) ÷ (camera height * 2)
display pixels = (vertical screen fraction) * (pixel height of display viewport)
(For perspective cameras you also need to factor in the depth of the sprite from the camera)
You'll want to carefully choose your pixel per unit and camera settings to keep this at an integer value. Otherwise you can get one border drawn thicker than the other if one border rounds the fraction differently.
For an Image component displayed as part of your UI, this is a bit easier to manage. Set up your Canvas with a CanvasScaler set to Constant Pixel Size, with the Reference Pixels per Unit value the same as the one you used to import your sprites, or an integer multiple of it if you want to upscale the art (Don't forget to switch your textures to Point filtering if you're upscaling pixel art).
Then enable the Pixel Perfect box in the Canvas component, which turns off anti-aliasing on UI so you get exactly the pixels of your sprite.


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Project goal: develop proposals for a long-term concept of professional training in the field of virtual and augmented reality.
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Project goal: develop of a complex program to improve financial and IT literacy of citizens in the Crimean region.
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text: Abstract Generally, huge energy consumption is required in the operation of the multi-chiller system in air-conditioning system. Concerning minimizing energy consumption, both Lagrangian method and genetic algorithm have been applied to optimize the partial loading rate in each chiller. As is demonstrated by previous studies, though the Lagrangian method could minimize energy consumption, it could not effectively execute convergence at low demands. And despite its capability to execute convergence at low demands, the genetic algorithm may not get the minimum energy consumption solution as Lagrange method did of solving the optimal chiller loading problem. As an efficient method, the particle swarm algorithm has been proposed to solving continuous parameters optimization problems. This paper applies particle swarm algorithm to minimize energy consumption of multi-chiller system. The objective function is energy consumption and the optimum parameter is the partial loading ratio of each chiller. To further testify the feasibility of the proposed method, the paper adopts two case studies to compare the results of the developed optimal model with Lagrangian method and genetic algorithm. The result of the two case studies shows that the particle swarm algorithm outperforms the genetic algorithm not only in overcoming the divergence of Lagrangian method occurring at low demands, but also in getting the minimum energy consumption solution of solving the optimal chiller loading problem.


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Analogue Tachographs: A Brief History
Note: Since May 2006, Analogue Tachographs are being phased out in favour of digital versions which record data on a smart card. Find out more about Digital Tachographs.
A tachograph displays vehicle speed and makes a record of all speeds during an entire trip. The name 'tachograph' comes from the graphical recording of the tachometer or engine speed.
Analogue units record the driver's periods of duty on a waxed paper disc – a tachograph chart. An ink pen records the engine speed on circular graph paper that automatically advances according to the internal clock of the tachograph. This graph paper is removed on a regular basis and maintained by the fleet owner for government records.
In the 1950s, there were an increasing number of road accidents attributed to sleep-deprived and tired truck drivers. Concerns for safety led to the rapid spread of the tachograph in the commercial vehicle market, but at this point it was voluntary and not legislated.
Fleet operators then found that tachographs helped them to monitor driver hours more reliably, and safety also improved. In Europe, use of tachographs has been compulsory for all trucks over 3.5 tonnes since 1970.
For safety reasons, most countries also have limits on the working hours of drivers of commercial vehicles. Tachographs are used to monitor drivers' working hours and ensure that appropriate breaks are taken.
Legislation relating to Tachographs has been in force in the UK for 16 years. The tachograph is now an indispensable tool for managing fleets and ensuring the safety of drivers of commercial vehicles.
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JS Useful Resources
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The math object provides you properties and methods for mathematical constants and functions.
Unlike the other global objects, Math is not a constructor. All properties and methods of Math are static and can be called by using Math as an object without creating it.
Thus, you refer to the constant pi as Math.PI and you call the sine function as Math.sin(x), where x is the method's argument.
Here is the simple syntax to call properties and methods of Math.
var pi_val = Math.PI;
var sine_val = Math.sin(30);
Here is a list of each property and their description.
|E ||Euler's constant and the base of natural logarithms, approximately 2.718.|
|LN2 ||Natural logarithm of 2, approximately 0.693.|
|LN10 ||Natural logarithm of 10, approximately 2.302.|
|LOG2E ||Base 2 logarithm of E, approximately 1.442.|
|LOG10E ||Base 10 logarithm of E, approximately 0.434.|
|PI ||Ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, approximately 3.14159.|
|SQRT1_2 ||Square root of 1/2; equivalently, 1 over the square root of 2, approximately 0.707.|
|SQRT2 ||Square root of 2, approximately 1.414.|
Here is a list of each method and its description.
|abs()||Returns the absolute value of a number.|
|acos()||Returns the arccosine (in radians) of a number.|
|asin()||Returns the arcsine (in radians) of a number.|
|atan()||Returns the arctangent (in radians) of a number.|
|atan2()||Returns the arctangent of the quotient of its arguments.|
|ceil()||Returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to a number.|
|cos()||Returns the cosine of a number.|
|exp()||Returns EN, where N is the argument, and E is Euler's constant, the base of the natural logarithm.|
|floor()||Returns the largest integer less than or equal to a number.|
|log()||Returns the natural logarithm (base E) of a number.|
|max()||Returns the largest of zero or more numbers.|
|min()||Returns the smallest of zero or more numbers.|
|pow()||Returns base to the exponent power, that is, base exponent.|
|random()||Returns a pseudo-random number between 0 and 1.|
|round()||Returns the value of a number rounded to the nearest integer.|
|sin()||Returns the sine of a number.|
|sqrt()||Returns the square root of a number.|
|tan()||Returns the tangent of a number.|
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Sexual deceit helps lady-boy lizards mate
The Augrabies Flat Lizard (Platysaurus broadleyi)
The Augrabies Flat Lizard (Platysaurus broadleyi) (Source: Martin Whiting)
Young, male lizards desperate to mate, access women and avoid attack from older males by pretending to be one of the girls, a new study says.
According to the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, young male Augrabies flat lizards (Platysaurus broadleyi) hide their colours so as to imitate plain, brown females.
"In this system the adult males are extremely colourful and extremely territorial and the females are a plain brown," says co-author Associate Professor Scott Keogh, of the School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University.
"Young males purposefully only develop colours on their belly, so they reach sexual maturity by still looking like a female."
Imitating a female allows the juvenile lizards to mate with females, without being detected and driven away by the larger, territorial, adult males, who will chase and bite their young rivals.
These so-called she-males get a reproductive advantage by pretending to be females.
"If they develop colours on their back or side they would be visually identifiable as males and would never get close to the females at all," says Keogh.
Reproductive advantage
The sexual deception will give the young adult males a sexual advantage for a season.
"They probably get one full season where they look like the females but are sexually mature," says Keogh.
But while these young lizards might look like females, they still smell like males.
To prove this the researchers took animals from the wild and removed all pheromones and skin lipids that might signal gender.
They then relabelled a group of females and she-males with either male or female scent, before presenting them to typical adult males.
Males use their tongues to sample chemical scent and responded by courting she-males labelled as females, but not she-males labelled as males.
"Males are fooled by looks, but not by scent," says fellow researcher Dr Jonathan Webb, of the University of Sydney.
Trying to avoid a 'nosey tongue'
Other animals, such as fish, have been shown to use sexual deception to get an advantage in the wild, but this research is the first to show reptiles imitating the opposite sex through their appearance.
"What is special about this research is that we split the visual and olfactory cues," says Keogh.
This allowed the researchers to know that it was the colours of the young lizards that were deceiving the male adults, and not other factors.
Despite the advantage of imitating female, not all young male lizards perform the deceptive act.
"We think there are only some males that do this," says Keogh.
Knowing exactly how many young lizards imitate females is difficult because the area being studied, Augrabies Falls National Park in the South Africa, has the densest population of lizards worldwide.
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In the Fresh-r, heat recovery runs via the copper, which conducts heat 1000x better than plastic, resulting in a thermal yield of 90 % at 60 m³ per hour, 87% at 80 m³ per hour and 84% at 120 m³ per hour.
The Fresh-r ventilation is balanced. This means that the same amount of air is blown into your residence as is blown out. These air flows do not touch each other. But they do go through the same heat exchanger. That heat exchanger contains a mat of fine woven copper wire. If the air is warmer than the copper wire, then the heat from that air flows through the copper. If the air is colder than the copper wire, then the heat flows from the copper to the air. If it's 20° inside and 0° outside, then the air blown into the interior is 18°. And this efficiency does not decrease as the heat exchanger gets older because the copper wire is coated.


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Offshore Banking Unit (OBU)
What it is:
An offshore banking unit is a bank branch in another country.
How it works (Example):
Why it Matters:
OBUs are common in the Caribbean and Asia but are found all over the world. They are far less restricted in terms of their allowed activities because they usually are not subject to many of the financial regulations of the country in which they are located. For this reason, investors may be able to obtain better interest rates from OBUs and they may be able to avoid taxation or retain privacy by moving to an OBU. Secrecy, however, is not guaranteed.


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Radio-Collaring Elephants in Namibia
with Keith Leggett
Keith Leggett radio-collars enormous elephants in the Namibian desert to find out where they range and roam-and gets help from a BBC film crew.
Attaching a radio-collar to a 5-ton animal is no easy task. Especially if that animal, say, an elephant, has no interest in cooperating and does not necessarily turn up where you expect it to. This is Keith Leggett's challenge as a researcher with the Northwestern Namibia Desert-dwelling Elephant and Giraffe Project in Namibia, Africa.
With the help of Earthwatch volunteers since 2002, Leggett has been radio-collaring and tracking these enormous pachyderms in the Namibian desert to find out more about their home ranges and travel routes. Why? These elephants don't make very good neighbors - they drink upwards of 30 gallons of water per day, even in the dry season when water is scarce, and are extremely destructive eaters, pushing down and trampling trees and anything in their paths. Not surprisingly, elephants and people in this area have trouble coexisting.
But, Namibian elephants are of great interest to tourists, and this may be the key to their salvation in this country that has been described as the land that God created in anger. Probably a pretty fair description of the environment, says Leggett. Understanding the routines and ecology of elephants is the first step in helping them coexist with humans.
Last February, Leggett got the chance to capture and collar an elephant in front of BBC cameras. This is his report on how it went:
"I went up to the bush two days before the collaring was due and met the BBC team and enjoyed them straight off. We found the mature bull (WKM-14) but the younger bull was nowhere to be seen. After searching for two days and not finding the younger bull it was decided to go with the older mature male. Everyone had arrived in camp by the morning of the proposed collaring so we went straight out to collar the bull. The collaring was absolutely textbook, couldn't think of a more perfect one. The collar went straight under the bull without any hassles, the bull fell in an open area and he responded perfectly to the drugs...perfect!
"On top of all that he moved straight into the floodplains of the Hoanib River, a move none of the previously collared elephants had undertaken. It will be very interesting to see his movements when he comes into musth especially in response to the other dominant bull in the area.
"The film crew themselves were great fun, the only drawback was doing some takes 3 or 4 times... don't know how actors do it. I simply don't have the patience for it. Though they were very good when we were doing the collaring and stayed in the background and out of the way. Mind you it will probably work out to be about 2 minutes of airtime, but at least I have another collar."
In the last three years of leading Earthwatch volunteers into the Namibian desert, Leggett has tracked, observed, and collared numerous elephants, and sends our office back emails from his trips, such as this report from May 18, 2005:
"The first night we were in Purros, 3 elephants walked straight past camp. It appeared that we were going to have a good trip after all, or so we thought. The next two days was spent in the fruitless search for elephants... not another hide nor hair was observed...it was decided to head to the Hoanib River.
"The first we observed on arriving in the Hoanib River was a herd of 5 elephants with one of the cows having a calf of about 3 months of age. He is still totally uncoordinated and lurches from one misadventure to another. The previous calf born in the west was 12 months ago and so a new calf is still a novelty and most of the herd females take turns in guarding and guiding him around. The minders are very vigilant and when the older calf came to play the older animals saw him off... quite amusing at times. The mothers appears to play only a minor role in the overall rearing of the individual, though they are usually doing the nursing though I have seen even other females nurse young periodically. The group takes responsibility for the offspring.
"Later that day we saw the rest of the herd of 14 so it was hog heaven for 2 days and then the elephants disappeared again. It appears as though they are doing circuits at this time of year wandering between feeding areas. They are always moving never slopping for long in one area.
"Overall, the volunteers were excellent and put up with the vehicle breakdowns, lack of elephants and then the total abundance, then absence again with a resigned tolerance... they were also pretty good fun. The west has dried out significantly and the days were very hot, but the nights were cool. There has been significant grass growth this year with the good rains and the animals are all looking in extremely good shape. Springbok, gemsbok and ostrich were abundant and while the elephants have spread pretty thin the rest of the wildlife has collected in feeding aggregations.
"After a shower, a shave and some relaxation time, I feel almost human again..."
Leggett's study is one of the first to scientifically document the home range and movements of these massive animals. Preliminary findings recently published in African Zoology show that elephant movements range from 50 to 625 kilometers (31 to 388 miles), over a period of up to five months, in response to available water and vegetation.
In June, July, and August of 2006, Earthwatch teams will help Leggett track this animal, as well as up to a dozen others that he has radio-collared. They will also identify individual elephants in the field, using distinguishing tusk characteristics, ear scars, and footprint patterns, and observe their behavior. This information will help conservation agencies better manage Namibia's unique desert elephants.


text: The new frontier in the quest for the highest contrast levels in the focal plane of a coronagraph is now the correction of the large diffraction artifacts introduced at the science camera by apertures of increasing complexity. Indeed, the future generation of spaceand ground-based coronagraphic instruments will be mounted on on-axis and/or segmented telescopes; the design of coronagraphic instruments for such observatories is currently a domain undergoing rapid progress. One approach consists of using two sequential deformable mirrors (DMs) to correct for aberrations introduced by secondary mirror structures and segmentation of the primary mirror. The coronagraph for the WFIRST-AFTA mission will be the first of such instruments in space with a two-DM wavefront control system. Regardless of the control algorithm for these multiple DMs, they will have to rely on quick and accurate simulation of the propagation effects introduced by the out-of-pupil surface. In the first part of this paper, we present the analytical description of the different approximations to simulate these propagation effects. In Appendix A, we prove analytically that in the special case of surfaces inducing a converging beam, the Fresnel method yields high fidelity for simulations of these effects. We provide numerical simulations showing this effect. In the second part, we use these tools in the framework of the active compensation of aperture discontinuities (ACAD) technique applied to pupil geometries similar to WFIRST-AFTA. We present these simulations in the context of the optical layout of the high-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes, which will test ACAD on a optical bench. The results of this analysis show that using the ACAD method, an apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph, and the performance of our current DMs, we are able to obtain, in numerical simulations, a dark hole with a WFIRST-AFTA-like. Our numerical simulation shows that we can obtain contrast better than in monochromatic light and better than with 10% bandwidth between 5 and 14.


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Real-time calculation of total light interception in crop canopy
Daily total PAR interception is divided into three scales: organ, plant and canopy, and the core is organ scale calculation. Calculation of total intercepted PAR could be combined with photosynthetic rate parameter to study the relation between photosynthesis efficiency and production of specified canopy, after that, further analysis of agricultural production decisions may be carried out.
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How valid of an assumption is using mg/kg for drug dosage?
 1. Simfish
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 Okay, basically, the more mass you have, the more drug that's needed to exert the same effect on you.
 But is it really linearly proportional like that?
 I mean, if you increase your body mass, you're not going to increase the amount of blood in your major arteries and veins. The amount of blood in them is fairly fixed (or is it?)
 Rather, you'll increase the amount of blood in more peripheral blood vessels. How much does this amount of blood scale with increased mass? Is fat tissue more vascularized (on average) than other types of tissue? Or not? Furthermore, is it a valid assumption that a drug will diffuse "equally" throughout the body, including all of the body's capillaries?
 2. jcsd
 3. Well, let's start simple, does a baby have the same size heart as a full grown adult? Does a baby have the same size arteries as an adult? and so on.
 Can you see my point here?
 4. Simfish
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 Yes, I definitely see your point there, although it wasn't the picture I was looking at.
 What I was thinking about is more like this: Would a fully grown 150kg human adult have 3 times the blood volume of a fully grown human adult weighing 50kg?
 5. Well all of the living cells in your body require a blood supply. If you have a larger amount of said cells, would you need more or less in the way of blood transportation and blood volume?
 6. Simfish
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 That's true. But you could divide blood volume by body mass for a set of humans. The real question is - is it a linear function? Or could it be more nonlinear than we realize? (if so, that could make the mg/kg metric less reliable than we think).
 7. Well if you know the average blood supply to 1kg of body mass, then it is a pretty linear function.
 You could take many samples of body mass at 1kg and check to ensure they all have roughly the same value.
 8. Simfish
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 That is the intuitive way to generate the hypothesis. But we would also need to compare this value between different people - because thin people owe a greater proportion of their blood volume to their major blood vessels - whose volume cannot increase with body mass. It's entirely possible that it's a nonlinear function of body weight among adult individuals of a given height. (it's also entirely possible that the function could be non-linear for increases in height too, although I think this is less likely).
 9. bobze
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 Fluid spaces scale pretty dog-gone linearly with body size. There is a "standard" or "average" person for each group that calculations are done. For instance the "standard" male for age 17-34 is 70 Kg.
 60% of the 70 Kg mass is fluid or 42 L. Of the 42 L, approximately 35-45% (40% avg) will be intracellular fluid (ICF) or 28 L.
 Extracellular fluid (ECF)volume is 15-25% (20% avg) or approximately 14 L.
 Of that (the ECF) approximately 5% is plasma (3.5 L) and approximately 15% is interstitial fluid (ISF) or 10.5 L.
 For the given age group, these numbers make a very close approximation, so for the age group of 17-34 you can use these percents to calculate dosage when giving IV drugs or orals, etc. One must also consider things like the rate of clearance by the kidneys (weak acids and bases, like some drugs are (penicillin for example), are cleared rapidly by the kidneys unless given in excessive amounts).
 Of course, there is variation in the population either through physiological variation or pathology, such as dehydration or edema etc. Which can alter the fluid spaces and must be something the prescribing physician takes into consideration.
 MDs have these nice little charts and calculators for body size and drug prescribing, though most people fall within the bell curve and the averages can be use. Thankfully, this is something medical physiologists looked into :)
 10. bobze
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 The size of vasculature and amount of whole blood volume in said vasculature also scales very well with body size.
 11. Simfish
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 Ah yes, thanks for this very nice reply! :)
 12. Andy Resnick
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 That's not true for all drugssome psychoactive ones, in particular, do not have a dose-response that scales with body mass.
 13. Given the variety of drugs we have at our disposal, it's hard to generalize. Many drugs are water soluble, some are fat soluble, some cross the blood-brain barrier, some don't. Some are tissue bound, others protein bound, etc. A key concept is the volume of distribution which the relates the time integrated change in blood plasma levels from time [tex]t_{0}[/tex] in a theoretical volume following the administration of known doses by known routes. This is affected by all the above variables (and more) plus rates of excretion, deposition in fat and bone and the production of metabolites which may or may not be measured in the plasma depending on whether they are active metabolites or not. The link below is a fair summary to just give a sense of the issues involved.
 The recommendations for dosage by unit/kg are based on adjustments for these pharmacokinetic parameters, but prescribers must also estimate the fat/lean body mass ratios, level of hydration, renal and liver function, and other special situations that may exist. Dosages in children are also subject special guidelines.
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The original story of love between a Metis woman, Jane Howse, and Sam Livingston, a flamboyant Irishman, first published as Tell Me, Grandmother in 1985 by McClelland and Stewart, has been updated with new information, a new cover, and approximately additional pictures, both archival and modern.
Why The Ring?
Sam and Jane's romance is symbolized by the ring given to Jane as a token of Sam's undying love. Unusually wrought and engraved with the words IN MEMORY OF, it remains today as a legacy to the many descendants of this remarkable couple.
The ring- p. 137
The Ring appeals to adults and children alike, to people of all ages who are fascinated or curious about their past. It reveals how life can often turn full circle in mysterious ways.
Such is the magic of books that miracles happen. In The Ring you will read how the publication of Tell Me, Grandmother in 1985 changed the life of one of Sam and Jane's descendants and made a huge impact on his family.


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The Environmental Interpretation Centre is located on the shores of the Faja da Caldeira de Santo Cristo on São Jorge Island on the Azores archipelago of Portugal. The islands are very remote and located smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic and not particularly well-known, but are quite beautiful. The government is trying to increase tourism and education of their parks and the Centre is one of their projects to aid that effort. The Centre will help provide information on the area, serve as an education center on the local environment, support architectural heritage and serve as a center to further study the local flora and fauna.
Design work began on the Environmental Interpretation Centre in 2007 with construction starting in 2009. The original property features a one story stone building, which was used as the foundation for the reconstruction. This building was faithfully restored using the original plans, but adding a second story and then an additional building behind it. The main building serves as the education center and the building behind is a temporary apartment for visiting researchers. Thick stone walls act as thermal mass to slow the transfer of heat and keep the interior comfortable. Deep window wells provide natural light but minimize heat gain. In the future a campsite will be created and the Interpretation Centre will serve as its headquarters.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who keeps watch over and directs the work of others, especially laborers.
- n. A supervisor or superintendent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor; one who has the care or superintendence of any matter.
- n. Specifically, one who oversees or superintends workmen, especially slaves; one who has charge, under the owner or manager, of the work on a plantation, or, in Australia, on a station.
- n. A reviser; a critic.
- n. An executor or an adviser to an executor, formerly sometimes named in wills.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; ; specifically, one or certain public officers
- n. a person who directs and manages an organization
"And their bailiff, a serf, or some overseer from the German natives, gets the peasant under his thumb again."
"The method of the overseer is short and simple: apart from considerations of morality, conscience, and divine retribution, it seemed a short road to the accomplishment of his purpose."
"Mr. L —, who for the last two years has been his own overseer, is also active and energetic, and busy from morning till night, and while superintending the management of the estate, is indefatigable and unceasing in his pastoral duties among the people."
"One morning after breakfast, in the presence of Lincoln, who had stayed with him over night, and who was on his way to town, he called his overseer and said to him:"
"When they were fairly out of sight of the troopers, she called the overseer to the side of the coach."
"There is a word 'overseer' -- slaves have them," he said cautiously."
"Your overseer is now you — and if you haven't been able to develop that, you're gonna be fucked."
"The word "bishop" – "episkopos" in Greek, which primarily means "overseer" -- has already in the New Testament been fused together with the biblical concept of shepherd: He is the one who, from a higher vantage point, considers the whole, concerning himself with the right path and of the cohesion of the whole."
"It was now half past ten, and I headed the horses back, in the direction in which I thought the camp lay, that I might be ready to call the overseer to relieve me at eleven."
"The very stony character of the country we had been lately traversing and the singularly hard nature of the stone itself, had caused the shoes to wear out very rapidly, and there was hardly a horse in the teams that did not now require new shoes; fortunately we had brought a very large supply with us, and my overseer was a skilful and expeditious farrier."
These user-created lists contain the word 'overseer'.
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
above; upper; superior; eminent
just the next words that come along
About leaders, particularly the authority-figure at the top of the tree.
One who keeps watch over and directs the work of others
Looking for tweets for overseer.


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Long-term behaviour of dams that have experienced internal erosion (sinkholes)
|Timing of internal erosion incident:
||Generally during first filling or within first year. There are also rockfill dams where incidents occurred years into operation.
||Generally a few years into operation or after several years.
|Possible early-warning sign:
||Increase in leakage, Muddy leakage, Pore-pressure variations
|Possible warning-time between first sign and internal erosion incident:
||Account for the majority of dams with no warning, or up to days–weeks "warning-time". However, there are also rockfill dams where there have been months or longer "warning-time".
||Generally months or longer between first sign and the incident.
|Location of internal erosion incident:
||Higher incidence where dams: i) abut to concrete structures and/or sheet pile walls, and ii) are placed on irregular foundation.


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Star-planet interactions: I. Stellar rotation and planetary orbits
Privitera et al
As a star evolves, the planet orbits change with time due to tidal interactions, stellar mass losses, friction and gravitational drag forces, mass accretion and evaporation on/by the planet. Stellar rotation modifies the structure of the star and therefore the way these different processes occur. Changes of the orbits, at their turn, have an impact on the rotation of the star.
Models accounting in a consistent way for these interactions between the orbital evolution of the planet and the evolution of the rotation of the star are still missing. The present work is a first attempt to fill this gap.
We compute the evolution of stellar models including a comprehensive treatment of rotational effects together with the evolution of planetary orbits, so that the exchanges of angular momentum between the star and the planetary orbit are treated in a self-consistent way. The evolution of the rotation of the star accounts for the angular momentum exchange with the planet and also follows the effects of the internal transport of angular momentum and chemicals.
We show that rotating stellar models without tidal interactions can well reproduce the surface rotations of the bulk of the red giants. However, models without any interactions cannot account for fast rotating red giants in the upper part of the red giant branch, where, such models, whatever the initial rotation considered on the ZAMS, always predict very low velocities. For those stars some interaction with a companion is highly probable and the present rotating stellar models with planets confirm that tidal interaction can reproduce their high surface velocities. We show also that the minimum distance between the planet and the star on the ZAMS that will allow the planet to avoid engulfment and survive is decreased around faster rotating stars.


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Rituals and religion help footballers cope
Superstitions can help footballers control their anxiety before a game. That is the finding of research presented at the British Psychology Society Annual Conference, held at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London this week.
Patrick Ofori from the University of Stirling interviewed 10 members of the Ghana team taking part in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa about their superstitions and religious experiences. These included both formal religious rituals and individual superstitions like a lucky mascot
Comments from the players included, "My prayers give me self-belief in my abilities and confidence to play without fear", and "I feel really good any time that I do them and am able to play well too."
The interviews were transcribed and then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. This is a technique for discovering how individuals make sense of their personal and social worlds.The analysis of the transcripts revealed that superstitious and religious rituals can be helpful or unhelpful to players depending how they are learned.
Patrick Ofori commented: "Coaches and psychologists should encourage athletes to own their rituals and integrate them into their wider coping strategies, because our findings suggest that superstitions and religious rituals can help immunise elite footballers against anxiety. They seem to increase their self-confidence and make them feel more in control of events too."
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The analogy of aural landscape has been often used as a conceptual tool for describing electroacoustic music. It should be distinguished from the more precise meaning of Sonic Landscape or Soundscape used by Soundscape Studies researchers. In particular, the British writers Trevor Wishart and Simon Emmerson have used the term. Aural Landscape encapsulates sound's inherent propensity to suggest physical space (both real and imagined) in playback, as well as listeners tendency to relate the aural to the visual (both real and imagined) when presented with works in an acousmatic situation.
Bibliography: Barret, Natasha (1999). Little Animals: Compositional Structuring Processes
Wishart, Trevor (1986a). Sound Symbols and Landscapes
Wishart, Trevor (1996a). On Sonic Art - Revised Edition


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I've shared several product ideas for Silhouette Cameo and Cricut small businesses: Paper portraits, wood grain ornaments, tooth fairy dishes, and more. Today, let's look at another one: paper cuts. You can think of paper cuts as a paper collage of shapes. I love paper cuts because the supply costs are low and the results can be stunning. I'm giving you a step-by-step to create custom paper cuts below.
- 2 sheets of cardstock – any color. You'll need one to cut and one for a background.
- Shadow box frame – any size. I picked up one on Amazon, but your local craft store and IKEA have cheap shadow boxes.
- Commercial use clipart pack (Optional – you can draw your own if you'd like, or purchase from the Silhouette Design Store.)
Custom Paper Cut Tutorial (Silhouette Version)
- In Silhouette Studio, draw a square (or whatever shape your frame is) the same size as your frame.
- Using the Offset tool, do an internal offset to make your square into a frame. The size of your offset will vary depending on the size of your frame.
- Select both squares and divide them so that you are left with a frame. ("Modify", then "Divide".) Delete the inner solid square.
- Next, open a graphic from your clip art pack ("File", "Open"). I'm using an Autumn commercial use download I picked up on Creative Market a few weeks ago for free.
- Using the trace tool, trace the clipart. (Go to "Object", then "Trace".)
- Copy and paste your traced clipart into your frame. You'll want to make sure that it overlaps your frame slightly.
- Repeat steps 3 to 5 to fill in your frame completely. Be sure to overlap each shape onto all the shapes beside it.
- Once your frame is completely filled, select everything ("Edit", then "Select All") and weld it (Right click, then "Weld"). Your shapes will become one piece.
- Cut your design on cardstock.
- Cut a square the same size as your frame to use as a background and frame it. My finished paper cut is below.
Tips and Tricks for Paper Cuts
- Use a worn mat that isn't too sticky. Overly sticky mats will make the paper cut hard to remove.
- Remember to peel away the mat from paper, not the paper from the mat. This will prevent any paper curling.
- I used spray adhesive to mount my paper cut on the background.
- The possibilities are endless with paper cuts! You could make custom ones for birth or wedding announcements or gifts, add vinyl to the outside of the frame, or use specialty cardstock.
Interested in doing this with a Cricut in Design Space? Check back tomorrow for the step-by-step tutorial and see the baby themed paper cut I created.
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Mathematica Q&A: Sow, Reap, and Parallel Programming
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This week's question comes from Patrick, a student:
How can I use Sow & Reap across parallel kernels?
The first part of the list is the regular result of the computation. The second part is everything that was "sown".
Sow and Reap are ideally suited to situations in which you don't know in advance how many results you will get. For example, suppose that you want to find simple initial conditions that lead to "interesting" results in Conway's game of life, the famous two-dimensional cellular automaton:
We'll call a result "interesting" if it has at least n cells alive (live cells have value 1):
Now we'll check 1,000 random 6X6 initial conditions for the "interesting" property of having at least 200 live cells after 100 steps. Whenever the result is InterestingQ, we create and Sow a simple visualization:
One interesting result was found and sown. If we want to conduct a larger search, we ought to take advantage of Mathematica's automatic parallelization.
In this case the answer is particularly simple: define a version of Sow that always runs on the master kernel.
SetSharedFunction specifies that a function should always run on the master kernel.
Now we can apply Parallelize to our search. Here's a search of 10,000 random initial conditions:
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follow the first fist ball championship for women, where that was victorious Hamburg TS with 91:90 against the TV Krefeld. Fist ball, stillTurnerbund attached, a balance sport for Turner, but its own kind of sport had become not longer. Already 1927 took part in Germany nearly 12,000 crews in the organized fist ball haven.
By the fast spreading of the fistball game and the improvement of the play talents further changes in the set of rules became necessary.Thus since 1922 any more the valid estimates are not counted, but the errors made by a crew. Thus play way and tactics changed substantially, the play became more athletic and more dynamic.
The Second World War stopped again the advancement of the fist ball haven. Only starting from 1947 was it againpossible to accomplish regularly German championships. As consequence of the achievement-oriented development following on it 1960 the international fist ball federation (IFV) was created. 1969 were organized fist ball within the German turn he federation by a federal specialized committee, the 1990, like all other olympic and internationally operated achievement kinds of sport, in a so-called.Technical committee one converted.
fist ball today
modern fist ball main in Europe and South America played, isolated also in North America, Africa and Asia. Most spreading finds it in countries with high German-language emigrant portion. Prominent fist ball nations are Germany (9x world champion of men,2x WM women), Brazil (2x WM of men), Austria and Switzerland (1x WM women). Further fist ball nations are: Italy, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Canada, Namibia, Tschechien, Denmark, Japan, India, the USA, Greece, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine and Hungary.
There were the first world championships, which take place every four years, in the years 1968 (men) and 1994 (women). Beyond that continental championships find instead of (z. B. European championships) as well as continental championships on association level (European Cup, South America cup,Africa cup, world cup, IVF cup). In most countries with numerous fist ball trailers national championships are delivered from federal leagues to circle and gau leagues, by men, women, young people and pupils.
Acting world champion with the men is Brazil, who defeated 1999 Germany scarcely in the final game, after Germany with thatnine preceding world championships had triumphed. Brazil defended 2003 in the own country its title, likewise against Germany. With the women Swiss 2002 the title got themselves against Brazil.
in Germany gives it a split federal league: North and south. The threecrews bestplazierten in each case play the German masters during a separate tournament out.
Fist ball is not olympic, but since years with the World Games represent. Apart from well-known kinds of sport such as football, tennis or Leichtathletik the fist ball haven a fringe group existence fristet. For this reason is also not „the large money "in the play, why fist ball applies with many as a sympathetic and uninfluenced sport, with which it to players and fans equally around the sport as such goes and not salaries the excursion for club membership to give.
in the followingTables are the acting masters of international and national competitions.
|Meistertitel||title carrier||final game opponent||sentence result||venue||date|
|world champion of men||Brazil||Germany||20:12, 20:13, 20:8||postage Alegre (Brazil)||23. November of 2003|
|world champions Mrs.||Schweiz||Brazil||16:20, 23:21, 25:23||Curitiba (Brazil)||10. November2002|
|World Games winners of men||Austria||Brazil||20:11, 14:20, 15:20, 20:17, 23:21||Duisburg||24. July of 2005|
|European champions of men||Austria||Germany||20:17, 20:13, 20:15||new village (Switzerland)||29. August of 2004|
|European champions Mrs.||Deutschland||Switzerland||20:16, 20:11||tubing brook (Austria)||20. August 2005|
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|world cup of men (field)||Sogipa postage Alegre (BRA)||FBC Askö Linz Urfahr (AUT)||14:20, 16:20, 20:15, 20:18, 20:18||Windhoek (Namibia)||8. October 2005|
|world cup Mrs. (field)||Sogipa postage Alegre (BRA)||TV Voerde (D)||18:20, 16:20, 20:17, 20:13, 20:13||Windhoek (Namibia)||8. October 2005|
|European Cup field of men||union send to free city (AUT)||FBC Askö Linz Urfahr (AUT)||20:15, 20:17, 12:20, 20:15||free city (Austria)||3. July 2005|
|European Cup field Mrs.||Ahlhorner sports association (D)||FBS streaks (CH)||20:16, 20:9||Jona (Switzerland)||3. July 2005|
|master resounds men||TV Westfalia Hamm||TV GH Brettorf||20:5, 10:20, 21:19||Ebersdorf||27. February of 2005|
|masters resounds to Mrs.||TV Voerde||TV Jahn Schneverdingen||14:20, 20:13, 20:11||Stuttgart master home||6. March of 2005|
|masters field of men||TV Westfalia Hamm||TV GH Brettorf||20:9, 20:10||Waibstadt||17. September of 2005|
|masters field Mrs.||TV Jahn Schneverdingen||TV Voerde||20:14, 16:20, 20:08||Waibstadt||17. September 2005|
|master field of men||KTV Widnau||fG Rickenbach - Wilen|| 2:0 victories |
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|masters field Mrs.||FBS streaks||STV Wigoltingen||2:0 (20: 17,20:9)||Vordemwald||25. September of 2005|
|masters resounds men||KTV Widnau||fG Rickenbach - to Wilen||3:0 (20: 14, 20:12, 20:15)||Widnau||20. February of 2005|
|masters resounds to Mrs.||FBR Embrach||FBS streaks||2:1 (15: 12, 12:15, 15:11)||Jona||27. February 2005|
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- _URL_ official side of the German fist ball federal league
- _URL_ the official fist ball side for Germany
- _URL_ result servicefor fist ball in Germany
- _URL_ world-wide link list (associations, federations, championships)
- _URL_ Swiss fist ball commission FaKo CH
- _URL_ internationally Fistball Association (IFA)
- _URL_ side of the Austrian fist ball federation
- _URL_ youth side for fist ball in Germany
- _URL_ official side of the Italian fist ball federation (FIF)
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Tips for Running the Flats
How to run a skiff in skinny water without doing damage to either the environment or the boat itself.
Judging from the number of boats that have appeared on the various flats around the country in the last ten years, it's easy to figure out that shallow-water fishing has taken a quantum leap forward in popularity. Every year more and more flats skiffs appear-along with more companies that build flats skiffs-and some once-remote flats now resemble supermarket parking lots on weekends.
Whether you fish the crystal-clear flats of the Florida Keys, the vast flats of Texas, the oyster bars of Florida's Homosassa Springs, the turbid sounds of the Carolinas, or the bays of the Northeast, there are certain challenges that must be met. It takes some special knowledge to run a skiff in skinny water without doing damage to either the environment or the boat itself.
[Knowing your way around the flats is the key to preventing environmental-and engine-damage.]
Costly Damage
If you've ever flown at low altitude over the Florida Keys, you've no doubt witnessed the damage an outboard motor can do to a flat. In the old days, either due to ignorance or indifference, boat operators often drove their boats right across the flats, churning up mud and ripping seagrass from the bottom. Some did it to avoid having to pole into an interior fishing spot, yet others simply found themselves in skinny water by mistake and had to churn their way off again, leaving a "kicker trail" in their wake.
These trails are actually troughs dug by the boat's propeller(s) that appear from the air as ugly scars. Some of the flats that lie closer to civilization bear so many of these scars that there's precious little grass left. To make matters worse, scientists have determined that these wounds take many years to heal, and that some flats may never be completely restored due to the effects of tidal erosion.
Fortunately, many of the flats in the Keys are now no-motor zones thanks to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and efforts are underway to repair many of the prop scars. Hefty fines await anyone who gets caught damaging a grass flat in the Sanctuary, and virtually all experienced fishermen now treat the flats with respect. Unfortunately, there are still quite a few careless boaters out there (usually non-fishermen) who blast along full speed with no clue about the shallows that lie ahead. They often end up high and dry, waiting for rescue-and the impending fine.
For those of you who fish and boat in parts of the country where the bottom isn't so forgiving, other consequences of running aground await. If rocks or oyster bars abound in your waters, for example, you stand to damage a lot more than the sea bed if you hit bottom at high speed! I've done it myself, and the sickening sound of crunching metal isn't something I want to hear again.
Expert Advice
Fishing on foot
Leaving the boat in deeper water to chase the fish on foot is one low-impact method of working the flats.
Obviously, with proliferating numbers of boaters on the flats, it's more important than ever to operate responsibly when running the shallows. To get the skinny on skinny-water running, we asked several veteran flats fishermen for their advice. One such expert is Scott Deal, president of the Maverick Boat Company in Fort Pierce, Florida, the builder of Maverick, Hewes and Pathfinder light-tackle skiffs. Scott is an expert fly fisherman, and spends much of his time stalking bonefish, redfish, tarpon and permit in some truly shallow water.
"The first rule should be, 'don't ever run when you don't know where you are or where you're going,'" Scott said. "The first time you enter a new shallow-water area should be with an experienced person or a guide so you can learn the extreme limits of the flats." Charging into unknown water is not the time to be learning where the channels end and the flats begin, but you'd be amazed by how many people do it.


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From Series: "Words in Red: Seven Last Sayings from the Cross"
Join us as we explore the final words spoken by Jesus Christ before his death. Each of the seven sayings offers profound insight into the character and heart of Jesus, highlighting his love, forgiveness, and concern for humanity. In your Bible, the words of Christ are often marked red, not only to set them apart, but also because of the red blood he shed for you. Let's delve deeper into the significance of these powerful words and their relevance to our lives today.


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A 136-m-wide river flows due east at a uniform speed of 9 m/s. A boat with a speed of 1 m/s relative to the water leaves the south bank pointed in a direction 16° west of north. How long does the boat take to cross the river? Assume an xy coordinate system with the positive direction of the x axis due east and the positive direction of the y axis due north.
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I seldom read the minstrel stories so I had a hard time guessing the answers to these. Lol. But seriously, who would like to read the long bard stories? Anyway, I compiled the answers to the Glast Heim (GH) Quest Minstrel Belmond Ellen's Questions here.
Before you proceed, take note that the Glast Heim Quests, including Minstrel Belmond Ellen's Quests, will only be unlocked on Level 80.
Dark Falls Questions – Talk to Minstrel Belmond Ellen (Answer: 2-1-3)
- Who is the master of Hollgrehenn the blacksmith in Prontera?
- In Eremes' story, which monster gained control over Eremes' father?
Answer: The Dark Illusion
- In Solo Took's story, what's the name of Solo Took's wife?
King Schmitz Questions – Talk to Minstrel Belmond Ellen (Answer: 2-1-1)
- In Yarsuharka the Sabertooth's story, which term of Kobold prophet did Yarsuharka serve as?
Answer: The First
- Reyen, Morgan, and Maria have one mentor. What's her name?
- Which guild did Los Rabil belong to before joining in the Hand of Goddess?
Answer: The Assassins' Guild
Wisdom Family Questions – Talk to Minstrel Belmond Ellen (Answer: 3-1-2)
- In Sibigay's story, what is Sibigay's profession?
- In Lavure's story, what magic did Lavure cast?
Answer: Ancient Magic
- In Elke's story, what did Elke want to exchange the Goddess necklace for?
Answer: Goddess's Tear