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Oxalis triangularis, also called false shamrock, or love plant, has this last name particularly appropriate, as it is a uniquely beautiful plant that is especially striking when kept in optimal conditions. However, it is a somewhat climate-delicate plant and is not always easy to care for, especially if its needs are not known. Learn all about Oxalis triangularis care in this article.
In this article, we tell you everything you need to know about Oxalis triangularis plant care to keep your plant looking healthy, strong, and beautiful. Join us to learn more about the false shamrock!
Characteristics Of the Oxalis Triangularis Plant
This false shamrock has its origin in Brazil, particularly in cool areas of this huge South American country. It is a rhizomatous plant and its so-called bulbs keep the subway part of the plant alive in the cold months, leaving the aerial part to dry out and resprout again when conditions are optimal.
They are small in size, usually growing to about 8″ (20 cm) in height, and their most striking and identifying feature is their beautiful purple leaves, with stems so pale green that they seem almost white. These leaves look like butterflies resting when they are folded, but they have the ability to open or fold depending on the amount of light that reaches them, making this change in just a few hours, so they can adapt better and not receive more or less light than they need. Its pink or white flowers are small and drooping, and although they are pretty, they do not usually stand out more than the leaves.
While the plant is not dangerous on contact, planted in very large quantities it could be harmful to very young children. Likewise, if you have pets at home, make sure they do not eat it or rub against it too much, as it could be toxic to them.
Climate and Location to Care for Oxalis triangularis
One of the most important things when growing this plant is the climate it needs. Since it comes from cool areas of Brazil, where the thermal variation is small, it is a species that does not tolerate extreme temperatures, neither for heat nor cold and will react quite badly to any case of very high or very low temperature. Thus, the idea is to keep it always between 50°F (10 ºC) and 82°F (28 ºC), being able to withstand temperatures a little higher or lower, but always punctually. In winter, it will tolerate temperatures as low as 41°F (5ºC), but lower exposures will probably kill it.
With this in mind, it is normal that it tends to be grown as a potted houseplant, where it is much easier to control the environment to which it is exposed. If the climate suits its needs, it is also commonly grown as an outdoor potted plant, since planted in the soil it can act as an invasive plant.
In summer it can be taken out to terraces if the temperature is cool, in the same way, that in winter it can also be done if it is mild winters when the temperature does not drop below 41°F (5 ºC). In this way, the plant will enter in vegetative rest and will rest, to resprout in spring with recovered energies. If you have your butterfly plant indoors and you cannot give it vegetative rest, it is likely that the plant will weaken, although you can try to compensate with a little extra fertilizer.
- PRODUCT: Includes 20 bulbs per pack (Oxalis Triangularis). Please note that Oxalis bulbs are naturally smaller than a typical bulb.
- VERSATILE: As they're easy growers both in the ground and in containers, use this plentiful plant for edging, container gardens, or as indoor windowsill accents.
- FAST-GROWING: Expect the brilliant foliage to appear within 3-4 weeks of watering and delicate flowers in about 10 weeks.
Light to Care False Shamrock
Purple clover does well in semi-shade or direct sun if the sun is not too intense, although ideally it should receive plenty of light, always screened by a thin curtain or something similar. If it does not have enough light, the oxalis will have fewer leaves and its stems will be thinner, so it will be weaker and it will be easier for it to die from other deficiencies or from diseases or pests.
Watering False Shamrock
Except in its vegetative rest period, like all plants that do, the butterfly plant needs regular watering throughout the year.
The ideal frequency is to allow the top layer of the substrate to dry out between waterings so that the plant does not become thirsty but does not become waterlogged due to over-watering, which would rot its rhizomes. In the cold months, from the beginning of autumn, watering is suspended until spring, if rainwater is falling, although it is necessary to avoid too much.
Substrate and Fertilizer to Care for Oxalis triangularis
The Oxalis triangularis is not demanding in terms of its substrate, the only thing necessary being that it has good drainage. You can use a universal mixture with peat, coconut fiber, and worm humus in equal parts, to which you can then add vermiculite and perlite. This substrate is light, has ideal drainage and water retention properties, and is also very rich in nutrients and microorganisms beneficial to plants, so your Oxalis triangularis will develop perfectly.
Regarding the fertilizer, just add a little fertilizer monthly during the warm months, or a little organic matter such as compost or worm castings. I recommend you to read our article about clover fertilizer.
We hope this article on how to care for Oxalis triangularis will be useful and that you will enjoy this beautiful plant. We recommend our article about how to care for a wandering jew plant.

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A visit to National Zoological Park
A trip to the National Zoological Park was organized for the students of Nursery to class II on 23rd of August 2018. The Delhi Zoo is home to several mammals, birds, reptiles and other species in a diverse natural habitat. The day was cloudy and sunny making it perfect for walking around the zoo. The students enthusiastically observed an array of animals and birds as their teachers pointed out their special characteristics. They saw some familiar and unfamiliar species of animals and birds– the Asiatic Lion, White Tiger, Bengal Tiger, leopard, African Elephant, jaguar, Black Swan, migratory birds, etc. The students were curious to know more about the animals and there was a seemingly unending stream of questions from the inquiring bunch! The teachers patiently pointed out interesting features about each animal, thus helping them stretch their little 'banks of information' on animals. The students were very excited to see animals and birds 'for real' in their natural habitat as compared with looking at them in their picture books and on television.

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Mechanical Transmission,
Location: * L.S Ingersol Physics Museum Middle of Room
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This demonstrates a simple machine.
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Cautions, Warnings, or Safety Concerns:
 1. Gears could jam
Demonstration: A system of various sized gears which are able to interlock and interchange to produce different magnitudes of force on the drive shaft. These various sized gears while in series with the system can produce differential force applied on the drive shaft. This is a simple example of how a manual transmission works and how simple engineering can produce varied results .
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Building a Facemask Surveillance System with Drone Technology and Deep Learning
The outbreak of COVID19 caught the world off-guard, affecting governments, companies, and individuals globally. The pandemic had detrimental effects on the global due to tight restrictions on movement imposed by various countries to hamper the effect of the virus. World Bank Global Economic Prospects forecasts a 5.2 percent contraction in global GDP in 2020-the deepest global recession in decades.
The impacts of the pandemics asked for solutions from various fields, which paved the way for solutions with advanced analytics and AI-based techniques. This article showcases a solution that augments decision-making and is easy to push to production (in the context of data to train, validate, and test the models).
This is an end-to-end article series. In its three parts, I'm going to show you how to build a drone surveillance system to detect the use of face masks by the general public in open areas. The surveillance system will take screenshots of defaulters which could be sent as notifications to governing bodies via emails. Lastly, the system will enable video streams recording.
Wearing face masks combined with other preventive measures, such as frequent hand-washing and social distancing helps slow the spread of the coronavirus. A drone that supervises wearing a face mask is not only actively mitigating the virus spread – it also has a cool, dystopian feel that every cyberpunk lover secretly craves for!
At the end of this tutorial, you'll have a drone surveillance system that can be deployed to open areas with a high influx of individuals that can spot all cases of non-compliance to the face masks regulations.
We'll get into the details of how this works shortly, but before that, below is the schematic of what we'll be building:
drones project workflow
Project workflow overview
Before you start working with the drone technology (prerequisite)
In order to fully understand this tutorial, it is assumed that you:
In the first part of the series, you will learn about drone technology use and the configuration. In part 2, you'll learn how to build and train the face detection model. In part 3, you will learn how to put the parts together and deploy the service.
Introduction to Drone technology
A Drone is simply a flying robot. It can be either remotely controlled or fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems, working in conjunction with onboard sensors and GPS.
Types of Drones
In order to work with drones for various (machine learning) projects, you need to know the types that are available. For the context of this article, the classification of drones would be on the basis of aerial platforms which can be broken into 5 classes namely:
1. Multi-rotor drones: These are the most common types of drones flying out there and subsequently the cheapest. The name is derived from its numerous electric rotors in its structural build.
Some subclasses of this category include Tricopter (3 rotors), Quadcopter (4 rotors), Hexacopter (6 rotors), and Octocopter (8 rotors). This type of drones can not be utilized for large-scale projects due to its limited fly time, endurance, and speed.
multi rotor drone
Multi-rotor drone schema
2. Single-rotor drones: This class of drones has the design of a typical helicopter. It has one electric rotor and a complementary rotor at the tail of the drone for headway direction. A rule of thumb in aerodynamics is the lower the count of rotors, the better the stability. So it's safe to say the single-rotor drones are more efficient than Multi-rotor drones.
single rotor drone
Single-rotor drone schema
3. Fixed-wing drone: The design of this class of drones was drawn from the inspiration of airplanes. It possesses fixed wings and has identical flight and landing sequence. They have longer fly-time as they usually use air-current to stay afloat. The drawback of this class of drones is in the higher costs and training required in flying.
fixed-wing drone
Fixed-wing drone schema
4. Power-lift drone: These drones have a hybrid design of both fixed-wing and rotor based models. This type of drone can take off and land vertically and also move into forwarding flights. Gyroscopes and accelerometers aid stabilization in flight.
power lift drone
Power-lift drone schema
5. Airship: This type of drone is built to be 'lighter than air' — is filled with a buoyant gas (such as helium or hydrogen) and is usually engine powered.
airship drone
Airship schema
For the context of this article, we will use a programmable Multi-rotor drone — Tello RYZE. The Tello drone is made by Shenzhen Ryze Technology. It incorporates DJI flight control technology and Intel processors. The Tello RYZE supports block programming with scratch and swift and advanced scripting with python. You can read more about the Tello RYZE drone here.
Drone architecture
The Tello drone has a simple architecture as it makes use of a software development kit (SDK) to interact with the drone. The Tello SDK makes a connection to the drone via a Wi-Fi UDP port, allowing users to control the drone with scripts or text commands.
The workflow is bi-directional as it allows sending SDK instructions to the Tello and receiving information from the Tello. Wi-Fi is used to establish a connection between the Tello and PC, tablet, or smartphone and subsequently, commands can be sent and information received via
Tello IP:
Port: 8889
The principal components of the drone are depicted below:
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Tello drone component from the Tello User Manual
A summary description of the Tello RYZE drone is outlined in the table below:
tello drone summary
Tello drone summarized description create from information in the Tello User Manual
With the description above, it's evident that this drone is mainly for indoors purposes. Its defining characteristics make operations quite limited as it has:
 - a maximum distance of flight of 100meters,
 - a maximum speed of 8 meters/sec,
 - a maximum flight time of 13 minutes and
 - a maximum flight height of 30 meters.
Setting the environment for programming on drones
The drone is programmable in various languages, but I chose python for this project because it has great computer vision and deep learning libraries. There are different Python libraries created to provide users with a simple way to interface and send commands to the DJI Tello drone as outlined in the DJI Tello SDK 2.0 such as:
I will use djitellopy as it seems to have the most active community in stars, forks, and pull-requests.
The code, dataset, and other resources used in this article can be found on Github.
The project is composed of three (3) python scripts:
 - Drone configuration script:
 - Real-time facemask detection script:
 - The main script to run the project:
Drone configuration script
In order to build the Drone configuration script, we need to import the necessary libraries to instantiate the operations required. The djitellopy and openCV can easily be installed via the terminal by the PyPI package manager as follows:
$ pip install djitellopy
$ pip install opencv-python
With the libraries for interacting with the drone and computer vision operation completely installed. We commence as follows:
# Importing the Tello Drone Library
from djitellopy import Tello
# Importing OpenCV library
import cv2
# Importing time package
import time
# Importing OS module
import os
# Instantiating the Tello module
pkg = Tello()
# Connecting the drone to the python script after connecting to the Drone's WiFi
The above snippet successfully makes a UDP connection to the drone and our PC via WiFi connection. A drone class will be created as follows:
class Drone:
 """Wrapper class to setup the tello drone"""
 def __init__(self, width, height):
 self.StartCounter = 0
 self.width = width
 self.height = height
 self.back_velocity = 0
 self.left_right_velocity = 0
 self.up_down_velocity = 0
 self.yaw_velocity = 0
 self.speed = 0
The drone class is created with default states of the back velocity, side-way (left/right) velocity, vertical velocity, and yaw velocity to be zero as well as the initial speed to be zero to ensure the drone is at equilibrium before takeoff. More on the physics of drones can be read here. The drone classes also take in the dimension of the required frame in values of width and height.
def get_status(self):
 battery = pkg.get_battery()
 fly_time = pkg.get_flight_time()
 drone_height = pkg.get_height()
 atmospheric_pressure = pkg.get_barometer()
 temperature = pkg.get_temperature()
 yaw_velocity = pkg.get_yaw()
 speed_x = pkg.get_speed_x()
 speed_y = pkg.get_speed_y()
 speed_z = pkg.get_speed_z()
 acceleration_x = pkg.get_acceleration_x()
 acceleration_y = pkg.get_acceleration_y()
 acceleration_z = pkg.get_acceleration_z()
 # Function to return a dictionary of the status
 status_files = {
 'battery': battery,
 'fly_time': fly_time,
 'drone_height': drone_height,
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Podcast: Rita Arditti on Being Invisible in Argentina
As April comes to a close and as we kick off Jewish American Heritage Month in May, we're featuring an oral history clip of Rita Arditti as our podcast of the month. With her lilting Spanish-accented English, Arditti's voice is striking, as her journey is unique - perhaps one that many of us don't immediately associate with Jewish American heritage.
A Sephardic Jew who grew up in Argentina, a country that is 95% Catholic, Arditti knew what it meant to be a "minority within a minority." Born in 1934 to parents who were Turkish immigrants, Rita was aware even as a young child that, "To be a Sephardic Jew in Argentina is to be invisible" within the Jewish and non-Jewish communities alike.
It was, in part, this awareness of invisibility that helped shape Arditti's immigrant experience in America, and later, the development of her political consciousness as a human rights activist. In the 1980's Rita agreed to translate for a Boston tour of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Rita was moved by the women's search for grandchildren who had disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship from 1976-83. During annual visits to Argentina, Rita decided to write a book about their struggle to find children who might be living under assumed identities. With the publication of Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina, the story of the missing became an international one. The first in depth study of the grandmother's work, Searching for Life helped to publicize a quest that was often fraught with danger. In 2001 the grandmothers were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Rita's book was part of the supporting documentation offered for that nomination.
Listen to Arditti tell her story.

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Just discovered a nifty new-to-me improvement on A*, via a nifty interactive demonstration of various pathfinding algorithms.
I'm supposed to be working on other things today, so I haven't fully digested the paper explaining the algorithm and may be misunderstanding it entirely. But at least part of the trick turns out to be one of those it's-easy-when-you-know-how things: its inventor explains you want to "prune the set of immediate neighbours around a node by trying to prove that an optimal path… exists from the parent of the current node to each neighbour and that path does not involve visiting the current node."
In other words, at each step of the pathfinding, instead of subjecting every neighbor of the current node to A*, you try to draw a path from the previous step in the path to each neighbor. If that path crosses through the current node, then you can discard that neighbor as a possible next step.
Easy once you know how. And the speed increase compared to other pathfinding algorithms is shocking (seriously, play with that interactive demo for a bit, the difference is amazing.)
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The Amos Block was built on the site of the Empire State Mills Building in 1878,
and may have incorporated the remains of that earlier property. Immediately
adjacent to the Amos Block were warehouses, wholesale establishments, and light
manufacturing companies, while space in the building itself was allocated for
wholesale grocery businesses at street level, and storage on the upper stories.
Steam packets loaded and unloaded freight on the canal side, while the elaborate
Romanesque facade on West Water Street enticed passersby to patronize the
wholesale grocery businesses inside.
Jacob Amos, whose surname appears on the parapets of the building, served
as mayor of Syracuse for two terms (_PHONE_). During that time he
concerned himself with improving the appearance of the city. The
installation of sewer systems, street paving, and the completion of
Syracuse City Hall were among his principle accomplishments. Jacob Amos
was also a businessman. Aside from owning and renting out space in the
Amos Building, he also owned a flour mill, a portion of which survives
today on Walton Street, south of the Amos Block.
The Amos Block was
J. Lyman Silsbee, a prominent Syracuse architect who also designed the
Syracuse Savings Bank and the White Memorial building. In the Amos
Building, Silsbee abandoned the Gothic for the Romanesque. The Amos Block
is the only known Romanesque structure in Syracuse designed by Silsbee.
Following his work here, Silsbee moved to Chicago, where he worked with
Frank Lloyd Wright, and specialized in designing residential buildings in
the shingle style.
The commercial structure, with its distinctive Romanesque facade, was
sited next to the old Erie Canal where it became an important component of
the developing downtown business district during the last quarter of the
nineteenth century. The block, which measures approximately 55 feet by 145
feet, is comprised of a full basement and four stories with an additional
half-story is located above the center portion. The seven separate street
level bays are most easily delineated on the West Water Street or southern
elevation. The six westernmost comprise a single homogeneous architectural
unit commonly known as the Amos Building. Silsbee designed the facade in
1878, incorporating an earlier, smaller structure. In the process, he
added a half-story to the two center bays, erected the two western bays,
and altered the roof line of the two eastern bays. The easternmost portion
of the block, which is detailed somewhat differently than the main block,
dates to about 1910, and exhibits narrow rectangular openings and a
cast-iron front on the first story.
The exterior of the first story has early twentieth-century rusticated
concrete block facing while the second, third and fourth stories exhibit a
variety of Romanesque style openings in different groupings accented by
variations in surface texture, with brick corbelling at the cornice line.
The two center bays rise to a parapet gable, effecting an interesting
verticality to the otherwise horizontal orientation of the building. The
east and west elevations are plain brick bearing walls. Adjoining
buildings on either side have been demolished in recent years. The north
facade – which more people drive by today -- is also
plain because the elevation faced the canal.
In the 1970s this old
commercial block, then empty and dilapidated, was scheduled for demolition
as part of the Chandler Plan – the name for the doomed project that would
have turned much of Clinton square into the urban version of a highway
interchange. The Amos Block was saved, and it is now listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. In recent years it was best known as
the home of Syracuse Suds – the most visible of the city's recent
breweries. In 1999, Syracuse Subs moved nearby to the former Neal & Hyde
building on Franklin Street, and now the Amos Block sits empty once again.
The Syracuse Downtown Committee and others are working hard to find a new
use for the building.


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The history of drones is a long one. The earliest records date back to the 15th century, when Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a flying machine that could be powered by a screw or a spring. But it wasn't until the 20th century that people began to think seriously about building robots that could fly.
When was the Drone Invented? The first modern drone was invented in 1935. The De Havilland DH.82B Queen Bee was a British bomber that could fly for up to five hours at a time. It was first flown on July 13, 1935, and went on to serve in World War II.
The drone has been around since the late 1940's, and it was originally designed to be a remote-controlled flying bomb but has since evolved into the aerial imaging machine that we see today. In this article, we'll take a look at the history of drones to fully understand how far these aircraft have come.
History Of Drones (1935 – Current)
Modern drones have been around for about a decade. The word "drone" in military aviation is used to refer to unmanned aircraft controlled by radio or autonomous/computer programs. Drones have a long history though dating back to World Wars. Here's a list of the inventions that have led to the creation of today's drones.
Queen Bee Aircraft – 1935
The first modern drone was the Queen Bee, created in 1935 by inventor Fairey Aviation. The Queen Bee was a remote-controlled plane that could fly at speeds of up to 185 miles per hour and carry a payload of 1,000 pounds.
The Queen Bee aircraft was a remote-controlled bomb used to attack German U-boats during World War II. The drone was made of lightweight wood, fiberglass and steel, and was controlled by radio.
Us Drones Program – 1936
Drones were first used for military purposes in 1936, when the United States government created a program to develop unmanned aircraft. These drones were intended to be used for reconnaissance and surveillance purposes.
It was used to test the concept of unmanned aircraft, but it wasn't until World War II that they were actually used in battle. During that time, drones were used to fly over enemy territory and drop bombs on targets without endangering anyone on board.
U.s. Navy Radio-controlled Uav Torpedo – 1937
The U.S. Navy began experimenting with unmanned aerial vehicles in the 1930s. The first drone, called a "radio-controlled torpedo", was developed in 1937 by the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics to be used as an attack aircraft against enemy ships.
Drones were used during World War II by both the Allied and Axis powers, including by the Germans against Britain (in the form of buzz bombs) and the Allies against Japan (in the form of cruise missiles). By 1944, UAVs were being used operationally by both sides in World War II, particularly for reconnaissance purposes.
Boeing And U.s. Air Force Fpv Drone – 1943
The history of drones is a long one. In 1943, the U.S. Air Force and Boeing began testing the first-person view (FPV) flight system and this technology could be used for drone control.
The FPV system allowed for remote control of aircraft without being in the cockpit by using a video camera to feed live video images to the pilot and the pilot could fly the aircraft by watching these images on a screen.
This technology was used during World War II by German scientists who developed an early version of this system that would later be used in drones today.
Israel Surveillance And Scouting Drone – 1973
In 1973, Israel developed UAVs for surveillance and scouting. These drones were used in the Yom Kippur War, where they performed reconnaissance missions and helped guide Israeli troops through enemy territory.
That same year, the US Air Force started experimenting with UAVs at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The first prototype was a fixed-wing aircraft with a wingspan of 10 feet. In 1975, a research project called "Aerial Reconnaissance Outfit" was begun by NASA to test the feasibility of using such an unmanned aircraft for military reconnaissance missions.
Battlefield Uavs – 1982
During the early 1980s, the United States military began to experiment with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for battlefield reconnaissance.
By 1985, the US Air Force had developed a number of different types of UAVs for missions such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition. These were used extensively in the first Gulf War in 1991. The drones were autonomous and relied on a pre-programmed flight path.
Us Drone Production – 1985
In 1985, the United States significantly scaled up its drone production. This was done in response to their growing need for unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft that could be used for surveillance or attack.
They also realized that these aircraft would be useful for military operations as well as civil applications, such as search and rescue missions.
The first Predator drone, called the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, had been deployed just a few years before in 1989.
The MQ-1 was an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used for reconnaissance and surveillance. Unlike most other UAVs, it was not meant to be deployed from an aircraft carrier or another airfield. Rather, it was designed to operate from remote ground bases.
It could fly at altitudes of 15,000 feet and stay aloft for over 24 hours before needing refueling, which allowed it to loiter over its target area for longer periods of time than many other types of UAVs at that time. The MQ-1 has been used extensively by the US military since its deployment in 2000 until today.
Rq2 Pioneer Drone
In 1986, the RQ2 Pioneer drone was developed by the U.S. Navy and Israel. The drone was designed to carry out reconnaissance missions and to provide target acquisition for manned aircraft. It was able to operate at altitudes up to 10,000 feet and could fly at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.
The Pioneer drone had a wingspan of 22 feet and could carry a payload of up to 400 pounds. It was powered by a single propeller that generated 1,800 horsepower.
Faa Regulated Drones In Civilian Airspace For The First Time – 2006
2006 was a big year for drones. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first permitted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly in civilian airspace for the first time in 2006.
At the time, this was considered a huge step forward for drone manufacturers, who had been watching from the sidelines as their creations were regulated to military use only. Now they could begin exploring new uses for drones within civilian life.
The FAA's decision to allow UAVs into civilian airspace was made after extensive research into how it would impact air traffic and other aspects of flight safety.
While there were many concerns about the potential hazards of allowing drones on commercial flights, many experts believed that if properly regulated and monitored, UAVs could be a safe way to improve efficiency and reduce costs in the aviation industry.
Parrot Drone Company Developed First Consumer Grade Drone – 2010
In 2010, French drone manufacturer Parrot unveiled the AR Drone that was the first commercially available drone capable of autonomous flight and camera operation.
The AR Drone was able to fly for up to 12 minutes on a single charge and could be controlled from an iPhone or Android device via Wi-Fi connection. The drone also featured a 720p camera that could stream live video of what it saw back to the user's phone or tablet.
Dji Developed The Phantom Drone – 2013
In 2013, DJI Produced the First Phantom Drone. As a matter of fact, it was not only the first drone but also the most popular drone in its category.
This drone was made for professionals and hobbyists who wanted to take their drone flying to new heights. The DJI Phantom was named after the legendary fighter plane from World War II that was used by both sides of the war.
The DJI Phantom has been updated over time with newer and better features such as:
- Vision Positioning System (VPS)
- Sense and Avoid Technology (SAT)
- First Person View (FPV)
Popular Drone Models Used For Military Purposes
When you think of a drone, you might picture one of those tiny little flying toys that kids love so much. But drones have come a long way since then! Drones are now used for everything from military operations to delivering packages.
Following are some of the most popular drone models used for military purposes.
De Havilland Queen Bee Seaplane L5984
The De Havilland Queen Bee Seaplane L5984 was used by the British Royal Navy during World War II. The aircraft was designed to be launched from an aircraft carrier and land on water, but it could also take off from land.
The De Havilland Queen Bee was a two-seater biplane seaplane with a crew of two: a pilot and a navigator/gunner. It was powered by twin engines that produced 550 horsepower each. The plane had an enclosed cockpit, with an open gunner's position at the rear. The Queen Bee could carry up to 1,000 pounds (453 kilograms) of bombs, torpedoes or depth charges.
B-17 Flying Fortress
The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the most popular bomber aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during WWII. The plane was designed by Boeing and introduced in 1939, but it didn't enter service until 1941.
The B-17 was a four-engine heavy bomber with a crew of 10 and room for up to 8,000 lbs of bombs. It could fly at an altitude of 35,000 feet and had a range of 2,000 miles when fully loaded.
The Flying Fortress was designed to survive attacks from fighter planes, which made it very effective in bombing raids over Germany and Japan during World War II. It could carry a crew of 10 and up to 8 tons of bombs.
Canberra U Mk 10 Jet Plane
The Canberra U Mk 10 jet plane is a British-made aircraft that was


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Grease separators are used to capture grease present in the effluent, through flotation process.
Techneau offers 3 types of grease separators
- In rotomoulded polyethylene,
- in stainless steel,
- in polyester.
Standards NF and CE
The grease separators are subject to CE marking and should fulfil the conditions set out in ZA Annex of the standard EN 1825-1 and EN 1825-2.
The working principle is based on:
- The gravity separation of heavy materials ("sludge"),
- The flotation of greases
0.95 density greases rise to the surface while the heavy material density 1 settle to the bottom of the unit.
The contaminated water arrives through the input pipe (1); equipped with a baffle to calm the effluent, thus avoiding mixing and resuspension of settled sludge and grease (2).
The sludge settles in the sludge trap (3) and the buffle (4) traps greases in the unit.
- The sludge :
This compartment is located upstream of the separation chamber. It is intended to trap heavy matter (sludge).
- The separator
The size of the separation chamber must meet the following criteria (as defined in the norm):
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Graphics Directives and Options
When you set up a graphics object in the Wolfram Language, you typically give a list of graphical elements. You can include in that list graphics directives which specify how subsequent elements in the list should be rendered.
In general, the graphical elements in a particular graphics object can be given in a collection of nested lists. When you insert graphics directives in this kind of structure, the rule is that a particular graphics directive affects all subsequent elements of the list it is in, together with all elements of sublists that may occur. The graphics directive does not, however, have any effect outside the list it is in.
The first sublist contains the graphics directive GrayLevel.
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Only the rectangle in the first sublist is affected by the GrayLevel directive.
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GrayLevel[i]gray level between 0 (black) and 1 (white)
RGBColor[r,g,b]color with specified red, green and blue components, each between 0 and 1
Hue[h]color with hue h between 0 and 1
Hue[h,s,b]color with specified hue, saturation and brightness, each between 0 and 1
Basic Wolfram Language color specifications.
The Wolfram Language accepts the names of many colors directly as color specifications. These color names, such as Red, Gray, LightGreen, and Purple, are implemented as variables which evaluate to an RGBColor specification. The color names can be used interchangeably with color directives.
The first plot is colored with a color name, while the second one has a fine-tuned RGBColor specification.
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The function Hue[h] provides a convenient way to specify a range of colors using just one parameter. As h varies from 0 to 1, Hue[h] runs through red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, and back to red again. Hue[h,s,b] allows you to specify not only the "hue", but also the "saturation" and "brightness" of a color. Taking the saturation to be equal to one gives the deepest colors; decreasing the saturation toward zero leads to progressively more "washed out" colors.
When you give a graphics directive such as RGBColor, it affects all subsequent graphical elements that appear in a particular list. The Wolfram Language also supports various graphics directives which affect only specific types of graphical elements.
The graphics directive PointSize[d] specifies that all Point elements which appear in a graphics object should be drawn as circles with diameter d. In PointSize, the diameter d is measured as a fraction of the width of your whole plot.
The Wolfram Language also provides the graphics directive AbsolutePointSize[d], which allows you to specify the "absolute" diameter of points, measured in fixed units. The units are of an inch, approximately printer's points.
PointSize[d]give all points a diameter d as a fraction of the width of the whole plot
AbsolutePointSize[d]give all points a diameter d measured in absolute units
Graphics directives for points.
Here is a list of points.
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This makes each point have a diameter equal to onetenth of the width of the plot.
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Here each point has size 3 in absolute units.
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Thickness[w]give all lines a thickness w as a fraction of the width of the whole plot
AbsoluteThickness[w]give all lines a thickness w measured in absolute units
Dashing[{w1,w2,}]show all lines as a sequence of dashed segments, with lengths,,
AbsoluteDashing[{w1,w2,}]use absolute units to measure dashed segments
CapForm[type]give all lines endcaps of the specified type
JoinForm[type]give all lines joins of the specified type
Graphics directives for lines.
This generates a list of lines with different absolute thicknesses.
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Here is a picture of the lines.
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The Dashing graphics directive allows you to create lines with various kinds of dashing. The basic idea is to break lines into segments which are alternately drawn and omitted. By changing the lengths of the segments, you can get different line styles. Dashing allows you to specify a sequence of segment lengths. This sequence is repeated as many times as necessary in drawing the whole line.
This gives a dashed line with a succession of equallength segments.
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This gives a dotdashed line.
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Dashing can be turned off by specifying an empty list. Here, Dashing is turned off for only the second line.
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Graphics directives which require a numerical size specification can also accept values of Tiny, Small, Medium, and Large. For each directive, these values have been fine-tuned to produce an appearance which will seem appropriate to the human eye.
This specifies a large thickness with medium dashing.
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This specifies that the entire multipoint should use large, green points.
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The CapForm directive lets you specify the shapes of the end caps of lines. End cap shapes can be,, or.
This shows the different shapes available to CapForm.
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CapForm["Butt"] specifies that lines end exactly at their endpoints. end caps extend one-half line width beyond the ends of a line. end caps are half-circles whose diameter is the width of the line.
You can also specify the shapes of the joins between line segments via the JoinForm directive.
Here are the shapes available to JoinForm.
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JoinForm[{"Miter",d}]extend the join by at most d times the line width
Specifying the maximum length of miter joins.
When the angle between adjacent line segments is small, the point at a miter join can be very long. Excessively long points are by default truncated to bevel joins. The length at which this happens, the "miter limit", is by default set so that the points of 5-pointed stars are sharp, but more acute joins are beveled. You can specify an explicit miter limit using JoinForm to control exactly when sharp joins are beveled. The miter limit is the number of line widths that the point at a join is allowed to extend past the vertex of the join before it is beveled.
The points on this 7-pointed star are blunted by the default miter limit.
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Specifying an explicit larger miter limit gives a pointed star.
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RoundingRadius->rspecify that corners should be rounded with radius r
The RoundingRadius option to Rectangle.
The corners of Rectangle primitives can be rounded with the RoundingRadius option, which specifies the radius of the rectangle's corners. The actual rounding is limited to the half-length of an adjacent side.
Here are rectangles with various amounts of corner rounding.
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One way to use Wolfram Language graphics directives is to insert them directly into the lists of graphics primitives used by graphics objects. Sometimes, however, you want the graphics directives to be applied more globally, and for example to determine the overall "style" with which a particular type of graphical element should be rendered. There are typically graphics options which can be set to specify such styles in terms of lists of graphics directives.
PlotStyle->stylespecify a style to be used for all curves in Plot
PlotStyle->{{style1},{style2},}specify styles to be used (cyclically) for a sequence of curves in Plot
MeshStyle->stylespecify a style to be used for a mesh in density and surface graphics
BoxStyle->stylespecify a style to be used for the bounding box in threedimensional graphics
Some graphics options for specifying styles.
This generates a plot in which all curves are specified to use the same style.
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A different PlotStyle expression can be used to give specific styles to each curve.
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The various "style options" allow you to specify how particular graphical elements in a plot should be rendered. The Wolfram Language also provides options that affect the rendering of the whole plot.
Background->colorspecify the background color for a plot
BaseStyle->colorspecify the base style for a plot, affecting elements not affected by PlotStyle
Prolog->ggive graphics to render before a plot is started
Epilog->ggive graphics to render after a plot is finished
Graphics options that affect whole plots.
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What is a Valedictorian?
If you're wondering what is the valedictorian definition, search no further. A Valedictorian is a title, often accompanied by an award and recognition, to high school and college students who give the final, farewell speech upon graduating from an educational institution. Almost always, a Valedictorian achieves the highest cumulative grade point average at their university.
The term "Valedictorian" comes from the Latin phrase, "vale dicere," which means, "to say farewell." A Valedictorian address is considered the final farewell it classmates at the education institution, and usually includes words of farewell, nostalgia, thanks, and inspiration. The Valedictorian speech is held at the graduation ceremony.
A school's valedictorian is almost always based upon the student who has the highest GPA at that education institution. This student is considered to be a representative of the class year they are graduating with. There can be exceptions to this, but the student with the highest GPA is almost always awarded the honorary valedictorian title. The exceptions to this rule are schools where multiple factors and extra-curricular activities are considered, such as speaking ability, extracurricular activities, participation level, and possibly selection from classmates. By and large, it's wholly or primarily based on grade point average.
In some cases, schools allow two valedictorians, sometimes called "co-valedictorians." This is usually done as a matter of affirmative action, school tradition, or some other exceptional or unusual reason.
Selecting a valedictorian can be a difficult and controversial decision for the school administration to make. This is because the difference in grade point average among the top students – potential valedictorians – is often minute. Some differ by hundreds of a percentage. Some cases are particularly controversial – when a student's GPA factors in weighted classes, for example.
Valedictorian addresses, typically called the valediction, is the farewell addressed that is given by the selected Valedictorian and a graduation ceremony. Typically, the graduation speech is inspirational, a persuasive speech, nostalgic, and sometimes even controversial or unconventional. Typically the valedictory is intended to inspire the students of the graduating class to go out and succeed in life, many times revolving around a central or class theme. The speech is also regarded to be the final farewell to the class as they move on to the "real world" and start their life.


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5 Things you need to know about the Mid-Autumn Festival
Food, traditions, gifts, and a quick history lesson
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Time Out Hong Kong
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the lantern or moon festival, takes place annually on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. This year, that day falls on September 21. To celebrate the holiday, families and friends gather to revel in festivities like feasting on mooncakes, playing with lanterns, and moon gazing. But, while we're no strangers to this yearly affair, what is Mid-Autumn really about? How did it all begin? And why do we even celebrate it? To answer your questions about this holiday, we're here to let you in on everything from the festival's time-honoured traditions to its history and legend. So, whether you're looking to get acquainted with the holiday, or just hoping to refresh your folklore, here's everything you need to know about one of Hong Kong's most celebrated holidays.
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The origin
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The origin
Although the true origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is not known for certain, history records show that moon-worshipping practices began over 3,000 years ago in the Shang Dynasty (c. _PHONE_ BC). But the festival only became an official celebration in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) when ancient emperors of China would host a feast to make offerings to deities and the moon in celebration of the year's harvest. After the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival also became a time of the year for the emperor to reward his officials for their hard work and contributions. Over time, it evolved into a festival of many traditions: to give thanks to the moon, pray for better luck, fortune and fertility, and reunite with the family to celebrate and admire the moon in its full glory.
Legends of the moon
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Legends of the moon
There are many versions of the myth and story behind Mid-Autumn Festival, but the most well-known revolves around an archer hero named Hou Yi, and his wife Chang'e.
As the legend goes, Hou Yi was rewarded with an elixir of immortality after shooting down nine out of the ten suns that ravaged the land with drought and disaster. However, when Hou Yi's apprentice, Feng Meng, attempted to steal the elixir, Chang'e stopped him by drinking the elixir herself. After doing so, she became immortal and floated to the moon, never to be seen by her beloved husband again. After learning what had happened to Chang'e, Hou Yi would prepare a feast on this day every year when the moon is believed to be the fullest, in hopes of catching a glimpse of his wife's shadow.
Time-honoured traditions
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Time-honoured traditions
Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance
The Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance is one of the most spectacular traditions during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. Legend has it that in the 1880s, the villagers in Tai Hang successfully chased off plague and evil spirits by parading the village with a straw dragon covered with incense. To commemorate the victory, the villagers would perform a fire dragon dance through the alleys and streets of Tai Hang every year since. The real highlight here, though, is not the dance, but the spectacle of the huge 67-meter-long dragon covered in 72,000 incense sticks burning on its body. The Tai Hang dragon is a massive structure made out of hemp rope, pearl straw, and ratton and requires at least 300 performers to prop it up. Today, this public event has become one of the most famous annual rituals in Hong Kong and shines as a testament to the city's rich cultural traditions.
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Lanterns are no doubt one of the oldest traditions of the Mid-Autumn Festival. For thousands of years, communities would come together during the Mid-Autumn festival to write wishes on sky lanterns (the type that floats up into the sky) and light them in honour of the legendary goddess of the moon, Chang'e, hoping that she would bless her worshippers with luck. Due to safety concerns, however, lighting sky lanterns is prohibited in Hong Kong. But as Mid-Autumn approaches every year, you can usually find lantern displays in all shapes and forms popping up across the city.
Moon gazing
Each year, there are three important days to gaze at the moon among the Chinese community: the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival where we welcome the moon; on the day of the festival, to admire the moon; and the following day, to send off the moon. This annual affair is a popular tradition that still remains in our modern city and every year, families, friends, and couples flock to the best spots in town to admire the beautiful moon.
The noms
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The noms
Mooncakes are said to have originated from Yuan Dynasty (_PHONE_ AD) revolutionaries as a means to pass covert messages hidden in them. Nowadays, mooncakes symbolise togetherness and harmony, and every year we see shops and restaurants touting mooncakes of all kinds. In fact, there's an overwhelming variety of flavours to choose from these days. The most traditional ones, however, are made with a lotus seed paste and a salted egg yolk centre. Mooncakes are eaten in small wedges with families or friends during the night of Mid-Autumn, often served with tea or wine.
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Water caltrops ('ling kok')
Known as water caltrops, and sometimes water chestnuts, this lesser-known customary food is only harvested once a year, usually a few weeks before the festival. They are probably one of the weirdest-looking nuts you'll ever see, but don't judge a nut by its shell as underneath its devilish appearance, is white nutty flesh with a slight crunch that tastes like a mildly sweet combination of roasted chestnuts and potato. While some consider the chestnut to resemble a bat, an auspicious symbol of prosperity because its Chinese character is homophonous with the word 'fok' (which means luck and prosperity in Chinese); others believe that this dish is eaten during the festival because the word 'ling' in its Chinese name, sounds like the same 'ling' in the Chinese idiom 'chung ming ling lei', which means smart or clever
Sweet glutinous rice dumplings
No Mid-Autumn meal would be complete without serving up some sweet glutinous rice dumplings ('tong yuen'). Not only do they taste delicious and make a great post-feast dessert, but it is also symbolic in reflecting the tradition of families being together during the festival as the character 'yuen', is the same letter used in the Chinese word 'tuen yuen', which means togetherness.
Festive sips
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Festive sips
Osmanthus wine
We pair mooncakes with all different kinds of beverages nowadays, but the most traditional during Mid-Autumn Festival is probably osmanthus wine. It is a Chinese alcoholic drink that uses baijiu and osmanthus flowers to create a sweet wine with a subtle floral aroma. Osmanthus is traditionally believed to be the key to longevity and is often offered during toasts to encourage a long and healthy life. Some historical records also suggest that osmanthus flowers were exchanged between countries during the Warring States period as a symbol of peace and goodwill. The Chinese character for osmanthus 'gwai' also sounds similar to the word for wealth, so drinking osmanthus wine on the night of the full moon also represents the celebration of prosperity, health, and harmony. We'll cheers to that.
In addition to wine, tea and mooncakes are also an inseparable pair. Apart from cutting through the grease, tea also aids digestion, which definitely comes in handy after a full feast and sticky mooncakes!
Now that you know all about the festival...
It's time to get the celebration going! Our ultimate guide to the Mid-Autumn Festival will take you through everything from the best lantern displays and celebratory events in town to rooftop bars and restaurants that offer a fantastic view of the sky.
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If you're filing your holiday leaves for the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can also indulge in a staycation. Check out the city's most romantic hotels, quirky boutique hotels, to catch a little R&R. For more inspiration read about our experiences from various hotels in the cityAnd there is no need to worry about your pets because there are also many pet-friendly hotels for your special paw pals!
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All of the Moss Troopers are experienced traditional storytellers, weaving tales of enchantment from around the world. The Moss Troopers tell traditional and original tales from around the world.
We provide costumed storytellers for all sorts of different historical periods, along with themed stories. We can also supply a huge number of different historical displays on daily life, crime and punishment, medicine and magic and the supernatural throughout history, bringing these to life with humour and plenty of audience interaction!
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This Handling Data: African Animal Maths lesson plan also includes:
Handling and processing data is a big part of what real scientists do. Provide a way for your learners to explore graphs and data related to the animals that live on the African savannah. They begin their analysis by discussing what they know about animals of the savannah, they complete a worksheet, and then use a fact sheet to fill in a data table. They use their tables to construct bar charts on the computer.


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Upper School Winter Play 2022
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Devised by the ensemble, Seriously Funny will explore how laughter can both isolate and enliven us. Students will participate in workshops with guest artists—including the theater company Liars & Believers—as well as utilize source material like Commedia dell'Arte: An Actors Handbook by John Rudlin to help create their own Commedia dell'Arte characters. Students will also explore how these topics relate to their current lived experience with social media through monologue and viewpoints work, which will be buoyed by material from Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart's Comedy Acting for Theatre. The goal is to create a menagerie of scenes that cohesively tie together under the umbrella of laughter for an evening of both introspective and hilarious theater.


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the guard post between a quarry and the base is held by your team's NPCs. This will prevent the carrier from taking too much damage and protect it from melee enemies.
- Boost the carriers' speed with skills such as "Make Haste!" or Windborne Speed.
- It is possible but usually a bad idea to use a bonder build to boost other players' effectiveness or protect carriers due to the split-based nature of the map and the infrequent use of enchantment removal skills.
Strategies by profession
Capture, intercept. Warriors are weak in Jade Quarry due to the height difference and snares which are very common. They have very few defense against health degeneration and armor-ignoring damage which are also very popular. They can still try to intercept using skills such as Bull's Strike and sometimes capture shrines with Hundred Blades. They also survive longer than any other classes when attacking quarries and guard posts.
Capture, intercept. Bow users are at ease in Jade Quarry due to the height difference. A longbow or flatbow can be used to attack the quarry NPCs from high ground while leaving them unable to retaliate. This is particularly effective with skills such as Barrage, Volley or Incendiary Arrows. Intercepting players and carriers is also rather easy with Melandru's Shot, Pin Down or Crippling Shot to cripple them, and interrupts such as Distracting Shot or Savage Shot. Rangers are effective when it comes to spreading health degeneration conditions such as Bleeding and Poison (and Burning to a lesser extent). Favorable Winds or Read the Wind can help when dealing with kiting foes. Defensive stances, skills such as Troll Unguent and Antidote Signet allows for a high survivability. Some rangers may sometimes use traps to deal damage, apply cripple and bleeding, cause knockdown easily and at the least expected moment.
Capture, protect. A single 16 smiting prayers Ray of Judgement is enough to capture a post or a quarry. Monks can also fully protect one quarry versus several foes with Heal Area while camping in it (or at the back). They can also choose to protect a single NPC in order to keep control over the quarry or the shrine, in which case Zealous Benediction and Word of Healing are efficient healing moves. Healing and Restful Breezes can help recover health outside of combat, "Fall Back!" and "Make Haste!" are often staples used to speed up carriers. Beware not to stand still for too long in one place or the game will think you are a leecher and may end up with Dishonorable even if performed your job.
Capture, intercept, protect. Skills that require corpses are effective here (all wells and minions summoning skills), since there are up to five corpses available at a guard post or quarry after it is captured. Health degeneration such as disease from Rotting Flesh or skills such as Well of Suffering or Life Transfer are very powerful. Curses necromancers can pose a threat to players by inflicting weakness and missing hexes, especially physical such as rangers. Soul Reaping benefit from the high number of deaths. Bombers have stealth and surprise if executed properly plus the fast re-spawning benefit which shortens their travels. Some necromancers can choose to use skills such as Well of Power, Well of Blood or Foul Feast to support allied NPCs and players.
Capture, intercept. Mesmers will find Wastrel's Worry and Wastrel's Demise to be very efficient here against carriers since those almost never use skills. They can also intercept players rather easily, interrupting dangerous AoE skills such as RoJ with skills such as Psychic Instability or using the powerful snares of illusion magic. AoE damage with Chaos Storm and Arcane Echo, as well as interrupt skills are good for capture. Good use of Wall and heights, as well as good timing of interrupts on targets hexed with Wastrel skills is the key to winning as a mesmer.
Capture, intercept, protect. Fire Magic usually prove to be a very efficient choice for elementalists, due to its powerful AoE spells such as Fire Storm, Savannah Heat and burning from Mark of Rodgort or Searing Flames. Air Magic users are powerful spikers with skills such as Chain Lightning or Thunderclap and can also take some posts due to the armor penetration of skills which counters the high armor of rangers, and bring some support with Windborne Speed. Earth Magic, Air Magic and Fire Magic elementalists can also do a decent job with a dedicate bombing build, mainly with skills such as Shockwave, Aftershock, Starburst, Ride the Lightning and Lightning Touch. Water Magic eles can snare opponents and reduce their ability to sweep. Due to their access to wards, their high energy pool and effectiveness in using spells, elementalists can also provide some support to quarries and guard posts. Air Magic eles can finally also boost carriers with Windborne Speed.
Capture, intercept. Aside from using Death Blossom and Moebius Strike, assassins have trouble dealing AoE damage and should therefore not be used for capturing (they are usually inferior to rangers and necros when bombing or using Barrage). Their main advantage is their ability to intercept players and spike them, shutting them down for example with skills such as Wastrel's Collapse or Temple Strike. A lot of assassins skills provide snares, knockdowns or cripple.
Capture, protect. Spirit spammers will stand useless against AoE players like nukers, RoJers and Chaos Storm Mesmers which are common due to the capturing nature of the battle. They can however still protect the quarries and guard posts from a distance with protective spirits, and bodyblock foes with their spirits. Several Channeling skills provide AoE damage with armor penetration/cracked armor. Powerful Item Spells such as Grasping Was Kuurong or Destructive was Glaive and the combo Destruction+Draw Spirit can be used for a bombing build. Minions summoned with skills such as Aura of the Lich benefit from Spawning Power's health bonus.
Intercept, protect. Paragons are rather weak in this arena due to the scattering of the team, reducing the Leadership energy bonus, and their unability to deal AoE damage. However, Barbed Spear+Maiming Spear and other Spear Mastery skills provide good snare and spike when intercepting players. "Incoming!"/"Fall Back!"/"Make Haste!" can help the team and carriers greatly, especially if used with Enduring Harmony and Vocal was Sogolon.
Capture, intercept. Dervishes—like most melee classes—have trouble in JQ. They can however prove to be great when intercepting foes using Wind Prayers, as several skills, such as Harrier's Haste or Grenth's Grasp, either deal additional damage to moving foes or cripple them. Earth Prayers Dervishes can capture shrines rather easily with skills such as Vow of Strength or Sand Shards. Intercepting carriers is possible but not easy if going melee.
Death occurs rather frequently in Jade Quarry, but resurrection is very fast for players, which explains the presence of bombers. It can sometimes be better to die, by entering the enemy's base or aggroing a quarry's NPCs, in order to restore all your energy and allow you to reassess the situation/be of better use somewhere else.
Any death in Jade Quarry counts will reset the progress in the survivor title.
- Blue Base
- 20 Green Carrier Juggernaut
- 20 Purple Carrier Juggernaut
- 20 Yellow Carrier Juggernaut
- Caravan Guard posts
- 20 Kurzick Far Shot x2 (eastern guard post)
- 20 Kurzick Far Shot x3 (central and northwestern guard posts)
- 20 Kurzick Far Shot x4 (southern guard post)
- Red Base
- 20 Green Hauler Turtle
- 20 Purple Hauler Turtle
- 20 Yellow Hauler Turtle
- Caravan Guard posts
- 20 Luxon Longbow x2 (southern guard post)
- 20 Luxon Longbow x3 (central and northwestern guard posts)
- 20 Luxon Longbow x4 (eastern guard post)
Players on the Kurzick team will see Kommandant Durheim's dialogue and players on the Luxon team will see Erek's dialogue.
After your team scores two points:
- Kommandant Durheim: "Well done! We have taken the first steps toward another glorious victory for the Kurzicks!"
- Erek: "The great Jade Sea is our home, and its bounty is our bounty. We will not let our enemies take what is ours!"
After your team scores four points:
- Kommandant Durheim: "The gods are on our side! Victory will be ours!"
- Erek: "As I expected, we are making excellent progress. The jade is plentiful and we are stronger than our enemies. By the frozen waves of the Jade Sea, our victory is assured!"
After your team scores six points:
- Kommandant Durheim: "Our storage vaults are heavy with jade! Surely this is a sign that we will defeat these barbarians! Push forward and put an end to this battle so that we might celebrate yet another great victory over the Luxons."
- Erek: "Excellent...our jade stores are more than half full. The spirits of our ancestors bless us with the strong winds of their favor at our backs. Come, Luxons! Let us drive these Kurzick invaders from our beloved sea!"
After your team scores eight points:
- Kommandant Durheim: "Victory is clearly in sight


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Checkable Grid Input Field in Fluent Forms
Checkable Grid is an excellent option for collecting feedback with multiple variables in an organized manner. This field can function as a concise combination of multiple checkboxes or radio buttons. You'll find this option available with Fluent Forms.
- To add this field to your form, drag and drop the field from the available Advanced input fields.
- To enable customization, click on the edit icon you get when hovering over the field. Or click on the Input Customization tab in the right sidebar when selecting the field.
In the Input Customization section, you can customize the Checkable Grid input field in the following ways. In this section, you will find 2 portions:
- Basic Options
- Advanced Options
On the right side of the tab, there are some important Basic options which are given below:
- Element Label: This is the text that users will see on the form for the input field. You can put any text here that helps to understand the purpose of that field.
- Label Placement: Determine the placement of the label that you set previously concerning the input field. The available options are Top, Left, Right, and Default. All of those are self-explanatory except the Default. What it means is that it will represent your global label placement settings.
- Admin Field Label: If you want to show a different label for your admin users when they view the form submissions, you can configure that. It doesn't have any actual effect on the form; rather only for administrative purposes.
- Field Type: Determine if the Checkable grid is to function as a Checkbox or a Radio Button field. The procedure of setting up these two options is the same, but in the output, selecting the checkbox will work as a multiple-choice option, and selecting Radio will work as a single-choice option.
- If you select the Checkbox button, your users will be able to get the opportunity to respond in the form of a checkbox. If you select the radio button, your users will get the options in the form of a radio button.
- Grid Columns: This section allows you to add a column to your grid system. If you want to add a column to the vertical grid, you just need to click on the plus(+) sign. For each click, a column will be added to the vertical grid. On the other hand, if you want to delete a column, just click on the minus(-) sign.
- Grid Rows: This section allows you to add a row to your grid system. If you want to add a row to the horizontal grid, you just need to click on the plus(+) sign. For each click, a row will be added to the horizontal grid. On the other hand, if you want to delete a row, just click on the minus(-) sign.
- Grid Columns & Grid Rows: Create options for the field and check to mark them for default selection.
– Mark Show Values as checked for the ease of admins if needed.
– Name the options.
– Add options by clicking on the plus icon beside the last entered option. Or an option can be added between two options by clicking on the plus icon beside the immediate previous option.
– Drag & Drop the options holding the marker and rearrange them if required.
- Required: Determine whether the field could be empty or not when the user submits your form by choosing the appropriate option from here.
The Advanced customizations available for the Checkable Grid input fields are as follows:
- Container Class: Use this option to add your custom CSS classes to the field's wrapper.
- Help Message: To guide your user thoroughly, you can use this option. Just add your text here, and it will be shown as a help message to the user.
- Name Attribute: The input field's name attribute is the HTML equivalent of the same name. You don't need to modify this.
- Conditional Logic: You can create certain rules to dynamically hide/show the input field based on the values from some other fields. To get a better understanding of Conditional Logic, read this.
- Save the form when the customization is done.


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Master of Arts (MA)
Faculty of Science
Nonconserving children were placed in a situation where they had to interact with either two conserving adults or two conserving children. Each triad (one nonconserver and two conservers) was asked to give judgments and explanations for conservation problems. The type of conserving explanations (invariant quantity, reversibility, and compensation) given by the conservers in the interaction were varied. Approximately one week after the interaction the nonconserving subjects were posttested and the results indicated that nonconservers increased in conservation score after interacting with conservers. Hearing different explanations did not differentially affect the scores of nonconservers. The results did indicate that invariant quantity explanations were used more often than either reversibility or compensation explanations by the subjects after the interaction. There were no differential effects when interacting with either adult or peer conservers. These results were discussed in terms of Piagetian Theory. The ramifications of these findings on our educational systems were discussed as were suggestions for future research.
Smith, Douglas Arthur, "The Effects of Interaction with Conserving Adults and Peers on the Acquisition of Conservation by Nonconservers" (1976). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 1445.


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Syncretism has often been defined as the integration or secondary construction of selective aspects that come from different historic traditions. The concept has been particularly relevant for Mexican anthropology, confronted since its origins to religious contexts in which it is difficult to distinguish between the vernacular field and the external field, between what comes from ancient Pre-Colombian traditions and what is a product of the colonial undertaking.Sigue leyendo
Carrying out Justice. Interlegality, law and gender in indigenous regions.
To make the reading of this text, it is important to consider that the law cannot be understood more as a unique set of rules. The law is also argumentation and procedures. The law focused on argumentation is living, dynamic, right to understand that the legal consists of cultural, social and contextual, elements of where the legal operator must watering to find just solutions cases.Sigue leyendo


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The essential moisture control product for veneer. The key is proper drainage and ventilation.
The Glen-Gery Drainage Mat is an all-wall engineered rain screen drainage and ventilation mat for all sidewall applications including manufactured brick and stone. The Glen-Gery Drainage Mat creates a rainscreen concept without the cavity wall cost. It also helps neutralize the air pressure differences between the outer and inner wall, which greatly reduces the opportunity moisture has to infiltrate the wall system.
When there is a significant air pressure difference between the outside environment and the inner wall system, moisture is driven into a wall system via cracked sealant joints caused by the expansion and contraction of building materials over time. Diffusion and capillary action play a major roll in moisture migration as well. By building with the Glen-Gery Drainage Mat, the wall system will not only drain correctly, but ventilate as well. It has been proven that ventilation in a convective fashion will dry the wall out significantly quicker than conventional methods.
In residential construction the siding is often installed directly against the weather resistive barrier. Once moisture gets past the veneer it has nowhere to escape. This will often lead to call backs for moisture related issues, such as mold and rot, which become costly for both the homeowner and the contractors involved. Glen-Gery's Drainage Mat is the clear choice to avoid these moisture-related issues.
- Perfect for brick and stone.
- Creates a dedicated airspace behind veneer for enhanced drainage and ventilation.
- Helps to prevent moisture problems, mold growth, and premature wall assembly deterioration.
- Integrated insect screen.
- Class A Flame Spread Rating.
- 30-day UV exposure (max).
Drainage Mat 202
- Available Thickness: 6mm (.25")
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This work proposes a novel workflow composition approach that hinges upon ontologies and planning as its core technologies within an integrated framework. Video processing problems provide a fitting domain for investigating the effectiveness of this integrated method as tackling such problems have not been fully explored by the workflow, planning and ontological communities despite their combined beneficial traits to confront this known hard problem. In addition, the pervasiveness of video data has proliferated the need for more automated assistance for image processing-naive users, but no adequate support has been provided as of yet. The integrated approach was evaluated on a video set originating from open sea environment of varying quality. Experiments to evaluate the efficiency, adaptability to user's changing needs and user learnability of this approach were conducted on users who did not possess image processing expertise. The findings indicate that using this integrated workflow composition and execution method: (1) provides a speed up of over 90 % in execution time for video classification tasks using full automatic processing compared to manual methods without loss of accuracy; (2) is more flexible and adaptable in response to changes in user requests than modifying existing image processing programs when the domain descriptions are altered; and (3) assists the user in selecting optimal solutions by providing recommended descriptions.
- Automatic workflow composition
- Intelligent video analysis
- Ontology-based workflows
- HTN planning


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Insurance companies require an assignment of gender at the initial acquisition of an insurance plan for known coverage. If you or your child's gender identity does not match what is on file with insurance, they may reject coverage of services. For that reason alone, we must keep the gender assigned at birth, or gender assigned upon acquisition of insurance the same for submitting claims only. Your medical chart reflects you, and will honor your gender identity.
"WPATH standards of care are the guidelines that most large organizations follow. In fact, they are the only formal care guidelines that are widely accepted by the medical and insurance communities. WPATH updates its surgery and treatment guidelines every five to 10 years. In general, these standards of care have become less restrictive over time. This reflects the growing recognition of gender diversity in society." (_URL_


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Testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle with Cosmic Transients
The Einstein equivalence principle (EEP) is an important foundation of general relativity and many other metric theories of gravity. At the post-Newtonian level, the accuracy of the EEP can be tested through the numerical values of the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters, such as the parameter γ. Specifically, the EEP accuracy can be constrained by comparing the γ values for different kinds of particles, or for the same kind of particle with different energies, since all gravity theories satisfying the EEP predict the same γ values for different test particles. There are a few precise tests of the EEP using constraints on the differences of the γ values of different tested particles. Among the most famous are the measurements of the time delay of the photons and neutrinos radiated from supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In this talk, I will show you that the EEP can also be tested using the time delay of particles such as photons, neutrinos and gravitons with different energies arising in cosmic transients, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), fast radio bursts (FRBs), TeV blazar flares, gravitational wave events. I will also talk about our recent work on the constraints of the photon mass with the same time delays in GRBs and FRBs.
Time: May 11, 2016, 2:30 pm
Venue: A601, NAOC


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Definition of Uninviting:
disagreeable, not pleasant
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Sentence/Example of Uninviting:
If its exterior were uninviting, the scene as we entered was sinister.
Slowly the vessels coasted along the uninviting shore, looking in vain for any inlet or any river's mouth.
The scenery of the river is flat and uninviting, but eminently characteristic.
The surface of Greenland was cold, dreary, and uninviting to a degree.
The culs-de-sac, uninviting to eye and nose, were as Italian as the church.
Somehow or other the church looked cold and raw and uninviting.
It seemed as though it feared to rise in the grey, damp, uninviting atmosphere.
There are high and uninviting quaternary bluffs that lure only the eye.
The companions peered through the door at the uninviting interior.
The whole covered with tufts of spinifex, barren, wretched, and uninviting.


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An expense that is incurred, but not yet paid for, during a given accounting period.
An expense that has been incurred, sometimes accumulating over time, but has not been paid. On balance day treated as a liability.
An expense that has been incurred, but not yet paid in cash. Similar to accounts payable, but usually associated with nontrade vendors. For example, an electric bill.
An expense incurred during an accounting period for which payment is not due until a later accounting period. This results from the purchase of services which at the time of accounting have only been partly performed, and are not yet billable, and have not been paid for.
An expense that has occurred but the transaction has not been entered in the accounting records. Accordingly an adjusting entry is made to debit the appropriate expense account and to credit a liability account such as Accrued Expenses Payable or Accounts Payable. To learn more, see Explanation of Adjusting Entries. To Top


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HealthPhone™: Inserting an IV - Newborn Care Series
The IV route should be a last resort due to the danger of infection and fluid overload. It's safer and very effective to give antibiotics by the intramuscular route or to treat low blood sugar with breast milk or glucose through a gastric tube.
But very sick babies need medications absorbed quickly. The IV route then, is best especially for babies in shock or with sepsis, tetanus, or meningitis. Once the baby is stable, switch to IM or give the medicine by mouth.
This baby has early tetanus. The video will show you how to insert an IV into her tiny veins and then give her life saving antibiotics through the IV port.
First gather your supplies:
Tourniquet, cotton balls, the smallest cannula (23- to 25-gauge;), pour antiseptic on the cotton, fill a syringe with 2 milliliters of sterile water, tear your tape, make a splint, and, remember, clean exam gloves.
Wash your hands.
Now look and feel for the best vein. Use a tourniquet or your hand encircling the baby's limbs. Check the feet, the hands, the crook of the arms and the scalp.
After choosing the best vein, wrap the baby snugly. Put on gloves now or after you tie the tourniquet.
Clean the skin with antiseptic. Let it dry. Then stretch the skin to stabilize the vein.
Keep the opening of the needle facing up. Take a shallow approach to the vein. The slight flash-back of blood into the needle shows that you're in the vein.
Pull the needle out gently as you push the cannula carefully forward.
Release the tourniquet. Then remove the needle and discard in the sharps container. Apply a little pressure at the site to control bleeding.
Here's another example.
Stretch the skin and take a shallow approach. Here's the flashback of blood. Now, pull the needle out as you push the cannula slowly forward. Then apply pressure above the site.
Now ensure that the vein is undamaged by slowly flushing sterile water through the IV.
Swelling along the vein indicates the vein is damaged or perforated.
You will then need to remove the IV and start at a different site.
Tape the IV securely, right over the site. If using a limb, immobilize it with a splint and tape.
The scalp is a good site for veins in a newborn. Shaving the baby's hair makes it easier to see the vein. The IV cannula is directed downward. You may need to very slightly move the needle to get the flashback.
To give medication through the IV:
Open the stopper.
Attach the syringe, and push the medicine in slowly over several minutes.
Remove the syringe and replace the stopper.
Take time to find a good vein
Stretch the skin to stabilize the vein
Practice makes perfect.
This film shows how to insert an IV into the tiny vein of a newborn. It illustrates gathering supplies, finding a good vein, applying a tourniquet, the insertion technique, taping and splinting the IV, and administering medication. The primary audience are frontline health workers in primary and district level facilities. This video was filmed in Nigeria and the Dominican Republic and produced by Global Health Media Project with support from USAID/MCHIP. visit us on-line at _URL_
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A jog dial is a controller that can step through options or regulate the speed of media playback. It consists of a wheel or disc that spins freely or can move through a series of individual stops, known as detents or clicks, depending on the design. Electronics like cameras may have jog dials, and they can be attached to mice or external controls for a computer to control programs. For example, transcriptionists, video editors, and audio mixers may use an external jog dial to work more efficiently with media.
The design of the dial can depend on the device. Some are aligned vertically to create a spinning wheel, while others are horizontal. Textured edges are common to make a jog dial easier to grip and these may have markings to allow the user to see the appropriate setting. On a digital camera, for example, a dial can allow the user to select from several detents, each representing a different shooting mode. Another dial may control aperture or shutter speed when the user is on a manual or semi-manual mode.
For controlling media playback, a jog dial spins freely. It can be activated to fast forward or reverse, pause, and slow media. This can be critical for editing and transcribing, where one-touch control increase efficiency. Disc jockeys can use jog dials for fades, record skips, and other effects both in recordings and live performances. Jog dials also provide a quick method for reviewing footage in the field, useful for sound technicians and videographers.
Some computer mice come with a jog dial, sometimes known as a scroll wheel, which can be used for scrolling, clicking, and other functions. External jog dials can also be connected separately. These are usually designed for quick installation; some come with compact discs loaded with software for full feature functionality. They may be designed to coordinate with specific software programs to add features and make the software easy to use.
In addition to responding to spinning, some jog dials also respond to pressure. The user can push down to click or select, and may be able to selectively exert pressure on either end of the jog dial to access additional features. This increases the capacity of the device, although the learning curve can be steeper as people learn to control it effectively. Accidentally putting pressure on one end while operating the device, for instance, may inadvertently trigger an unwanted function.


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Ivan: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Ivan | Boys
Origin of the name Ivan:
A Russian name, Ivan is a cognate of John (God is gracious), which is from the Ecclesiastic Late Latin Joannes and the Ecclesiastic Greek Iōannes, derivatives of the Hebrew yōhānān, a contraction of yehōhānān, (Yahweh is gracious).
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One likely reason that Ivan is still popular in the "Spanish Southwest" while not in the rest of the country, is because older relatives with limited English can easily pronounce it in Spanish. Also, parents who want to honor a "Juan" in the family will sometimes use this cognate. Alan and Edgar also fall into this category.
The original, Russian pronunciation is more like, "Yvonne," a source of tension in some cases, if the name-holder is actually Russian.
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This name has stronger ethnic/Russian connotations than almost any other, to the point of being used as an epithet during the Cold War. Having the name, even as a middle name, seems to automatically lead to a presumption of Russian ancestry, correctly or no.
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Van, Vanya, Ivanie, Vannie
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Slavic name, derived from Ioannis, being the Greek transcription of the Jewish name Yochanan. Thus, Ivan is the Slavic version of the common European Christian names such as John in English, Johannes in German, Jean in French, Jonas in Lithuanian, etc.
Meaning in original Hebrew: God's grace.
Iván is a Spanish form of Ivan.
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Throughout history, numerous Bulgarian and Russian Tsars were named Ivan, including Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible.
Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-Canadian movie director.
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
Ivan Boesky, American stock trader and key figure in the insider trading scandals of the 1980s.
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Ivan is the Russian "Jack," occuring in many fairy tales.
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a fictional character of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Ivan Ilych, the title character of Leo Tolstoy's novel, "The Death of Ivan Ilych."
Ivan Karamazov, character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov."
Ivan Stark, supervillain and antagonist of the "Captain Midnight" radio series
Global Popularity of the Name Ivan
- #3 in Russia (Moscow)
- #12 in Spain
- #132 in United States
- #224 in Canada (British Columbia)
- #235 in Norway
- #259 in Canada (Alberta)


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When looking at Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe, our brains process the information through different pathways than when we hear the words "Marilyn Monroe."
However, both the picture and words fire the same neuron, say researchers at the University of Leicester, UCLA and Caltech. The same can be said of different images of the same person, even when greatly modified.
The study, titled "Explicit Encoding of Multimodal Percepts by Single Neurons in the Human Brain,"
is published online at Current Biology.
"Different pictures of Marilyn Monroe can evoke the same mental image, even if greatly modified, as in Warhol's famous portraits," says Rodrigo Quian Quiroga of the University of Leicester.
That, he says, leads to the question of how the brain's neurons can ignore irrelevant details and recognize images of the same person, however much they vary.
For the study, the researchers also monitored how subjects' brains reacted to different pictures of Oprah Winfrey, to her name written on a computer screen and to a computer synthesized voice saying "Oprah Winfrey." In all cases, the tests fired the same neuron.
"These results demonstrate that single neurons can encode concepts in a very abstract way, even if evoked by different sensory modalities," Quiroga says.