NFL Coaches, Play Calling and Fantasy Football
May 10, 2016
NFL Coaches, Play Calling and Fantasy Football
A valid argument can be made that it's a player's game, and coaches don't affect stats. Sure, some teams will improve statistically under a new hire, but that's because coaching turnover happens more on bad teams, and bad teams tend to naturally regress to the mean the next season regardless. To date, attempts to quantify the impact of coaching have been based on questionable science that has thus far missed the mark.
Most coaching analysis, however, focuses on a given team's performance, not tendencies. But those tendencies, specifically in regards to play calling and player usage, are just as critical in fantasy.
Why Coaching is Important in Fantasy
The real key to being good at fantasy football is being able to forecast player volume, not player efficiency.
Your running backs need touches. Who controls how many touches they get?
Your wide receivers and tight ends need targets. Sure, the quarterback ultimately makes the final decision of who to throw to, but who dictates his progressions, and which receivers are on the field and which routes they run?
And your players all need touchdowns. Who decides what plays their teams will run in the red zone?
The offensive playcaller1.
What Exactly Do We Need to Know About Coaches?
We don't need to isolate the effects of coaching on team performance.
We just need to know the effects of coaching on team tendencies.
You can be reasonably certain that the coach has a substantial level of control over his team's on-field tendencies—even if those tendencies tend to vary over time.
So we'll tackle the coaching issue from a different angle: by examining how a coaching change (or lack thereof) affects the predictiveness of team tendencies from one year to the next.
It boils down to two distinct questions:
 1. How predictive are a team's tendencies when it retains its playcaller compared to when it changes its playcaller?
 2. Do a playcaller's tendencies carry over from one team to the next?
The Key Coaching Tendencies for a Fantasy Owner to Know
Based on the previously discussed importance of volume, here are the tendencies we'll examine:
 - Passing Play Percentage. The percentage of time an offense passes instead of runs. This is critical because it determines how much volume is available in the passing game versus the running game.
 - Red Zone Pass Percentage. The percentage of time an offense passes instead of runs in the red zone. This is important because we know the majority of passing and rushing touchdowns come in the red zone.
 - Deep Attempt Percentage. The amount of deep passes divided into total passing attempts. This is meaningful because a deep target (15-plus yards downfield) is worth 1.9 times as many points as a short target in standard scoring, and 1.3 times as many in PPR scoring. Over/under 15 yards is only so telling, and we would've liked to have a more precise measure of an offense's verticality (such as average target depth), but that data isn't readily available.
 - Pace. For our purposes, this will be defined as Football Outsiders' Seconds per Play (Situation-Neutral). The more plays a team runs, the more potential opportunities for its players to rack up fantasy production.
 - Running Back Target Percentage. The amount of running back targets divided into total team targets. You already know that running backs need those touches, but some coaches are more liberal than others when it comes to a back blocking versus receiving.
 - Running Back 20-Touch Percentage. A signature metric I've created, this is the percentage of games in which a team had a running back who received at least 20 touches. While 20 is admittedly an arbitrary cut-off, it's a decent proxy for whether or not there's a committee approach.
All tendencies have been adjusted to reflect the league average.
Keep in mind that none of these are immune to personnel, game situation, strength of schedule, etc., and that's perfectly fine—every stat we deal with in fantasy football will contain noise. We just want to get a sense of what to make of a team's tendencies given the presence or absence of a coaching change.
What Happens When a Team Changes its Playcaller?
Here is a comparison of the year-to-year correlation in tendencies for teams who retained2 their playcaller versus those who changed playcaller, along with the absolute difference3 between the two sets of correlations. All results were significant at the 95% confidence interval.
As you might have guessed, you can expect a team to have tendencies similar to the prior year if it brings back the same playcaller. This actually encompasses the majority of teams—it's seldom that more than a third or so of the league changes playcallers in a given year. Already, we have a starting point for projecting tendencies of the majority of NFL teams.
When a given team changes its playcaller, however, that team becomes a lot harder to predict. None of the year-to-year relationships are as strong, and only pace and running back target percentage have anything more than a weak correlation. The previous year's passing tendencies mean next to nothing.
So now we know that a team's tendencies are somewhat predictable from year to long as that team hasn't changed its playcaller.
But if we can't use last year's stats as reliable predictors when a team hires someone new to call plays, where do we pivot?
The logical answer is to go ahead and look at the new hire's tendencies from his previous team (assuming he's had prior play-calling experience). But is that logic backed up by the data? Let's find out.
Do a Playcaller's Tendencies Carry Over When He Changes Teams?
Below are the correlations between a new hire's tendencies in the first year with his new team and his tendencies in the last year with his old team.
You should note that this time, we aren't strictly using consecutive year comparisons -- many times, more than one year will have elapsed between coaching jobs.
Also note that this sample4 will naturally be smaller than the one from the previous section, because that one consisted of all teams with new hires, rather than just those with new hires who have previous experience calling plays at the NFL level.
For those who may be unfamiliar with statistics, "not significant" means that we can't rule out that a result is due to chance alone, while the p-value indicates the percent probability that the result is due to chance alone.
How often a new playcaller chose to pass in the red zone with his previous team was the only tendency with any predictive value. In fact, you're better off just looking the team's tendencies from the previous season if you're trying to predict a team with a new playcaller's pace (r =.58) or how often it will target running backs (r =.36).
Why is the red zone the exception? It's hard to tell exactly, but it's definitely possible that certain personnel limitations -- a quarterback with a weak arm, a receiver lacking deep speed, etc. -- are not as prohibitive from a play-calling standpoint in the red zone, allowing a playcaller to stay truer to what he wants to do.
The Truth About Coaching Tendencies
To recap:
 1. A team's play calling and player usage tendencies from the previous season were useful predictors for the current season as long as that team had the same playcaller—for a team that changed their playcaller, tendencies from the previous season weren't as reliable.
 2. Coaching tendencies were not highly correlated from one team to the next (except for red zone pass/run ratio).
Based on the data, it's likely that what we think of as coaching tendencies might actually just be the coach responding to changes in personnel.
If playcallers truly had unbending tendencies, there would be more of a relationship between what a new hire does with his new team and what he did with his previous team. Instead, playcallers were only predictable from one year to the next when they stayed with the same team—in other words, when they coached a majority of the same personnel in both years (a safe assumption, given that the average roster turnover in the NFL is roughly 30 percent and tops out around 45 percent).
When you take personnel into account, it's much easier to make an educated assessment of when a coach's tendencies will actually carry over. For instance, you wouldn't be surprised to know that Greg Roman's passing tendencies with Buffalo mimicked those from his days in San Francisco—both teams had a young, mobile quarterback and a good defense. Roman's rushing tendencies deviated, however—LeSean McCoy has different strengths than Frank Gore.
Personnel also remains largely the same in the case of an in-house hire5, so tendencies are likely to be more strongly correlated in that scenario than in one which the new hire comes from outside the organization.
While we examined six tendencies that are no doubt crucial, there are, of course, many more specific coaching idiosyncrasies we didn't measure, but which could potentially have a fantasy impact. For example, we didn't break wide receiver target percentage down by WR1, WR2, etc. (because that's largly dependent on personnel), but there are cases like Kyle Shanahan, who's targeted his WR2 less than average regardless of how good his WR1 is.
So to be clear, I'm not suggesting that a playcaller's tendencies will never carry over when he changes teams, just that what a playcaller has done in the past and what he will do in the future should be viewed in the context of the personnel at his disposal.
We're Just Getting Started
I'll be applying this analysis to every NFL playcaller to create a comprehensive guide of key


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If you submit an application to Thurston County government, county codes may require the county to inspect the property and the project.
How to know if you need county inspections
- A property gets county inspections if its mapped with regulated environments. Go to Look Up My Property to check.
- A project gets county inspection if it includes any construction, mechanical/plumbing, adding structures, septic work (add, replace, repair).
- Other, special property and project inspections & reports by independent experts that you hire may be needed to meet environmental, septic, stormwater, & well regulations.
What happens during an inspections
Staff visit in person for an on-property look at protected environmental areas, construction sites, septic, building placement, construction progress, stormwater & erosion control measures and other things required by code.
- Fee information is on the Fee Information page.
- The county accepts payment by check or credit card (transaction fees apply).
- Reinspection fees apply if inspectors can't access your property or project for a scheduled inspection, and if permits, plans aren't visible, and if requested corrections aren't complete.
List of permit-related inspections
- Regulated Environmental Areas (Critical Areas, Habitat Conservation Plan, Land Use, Shorelines)
- County staff typically schedule a site visit, or may ask for reports from environmental experts if your project is near certain protected areas, or if the project property has critical areas, habitat conservation plan species, shorelines, wetlands or any other regulated critical area, or land or water type.
- Many applicants complete these reports before applying for building or development permits.
- Start by looking up your property on a county map to see if critical areas and/or other protected environments are on site.
- Find more information on the Critical Areas and Regulated Lands web page.
- Septic, On-site Sewage & Well
- County staff do these inspections after you submit septic and well permits. They typically don't need to schedule with you.
- Flag the corners of your lot to prepare.
- Staff come on site to test soils, check site conditions or geography, examine existing wells or septic systems and other things related to your application.
- You may need to hire experts to prepare septic or well reports. If so, submit all reports before any ground-disturbing work begins.
- Find details at Septic, Well & Water, Sewer.
- Building & Construction Sites
- You schedule your own county inspections after you receive a permit and start work. Permit instructions and staff will guide you.
- Schedule 1-3 days before you want the inspection. If calling the day before, schedule before 4 p.m.
- There are multiple building and construction site inspections. They're done as project kicks off, during and after construction.
- Find details at Building & Construction Site Inspections.
- Driveway, Road Access, Clearing & Grading - These are called Development Review Inspections
- You schedule these inspections after your permit is approved.
- Find details about Development Review inspections on the Building & Construction Site Inspections webpage.
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JCL COND
JCL - CLASS JCL - DSENQSHR
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Condition parameter is used to decide execution of the JOB based on the return code.
And also COND parameter used to specify the return code validation the system uses to determine whether a job will continue processing or not.
COND parameter can be coded at JOB level and Step level.
COND parameter is optional parameter.
Maximum 8 conditions can be coded in single COND.
More than one condition is separated by comma (,).
If COND coded at job level and the coded condition is false, system executes the job.
If COND coded at job level and the coded conditioned is true, system bypass the job execution and terminates the job.
COND parameter is used to override the system default sequence of execution.
Bypassing the job based on the return code is not equal to terminating a job abnormally.
The COND parameter cannot have a null value.
Syntax:
COND=(return-code/RC,operator/RO)
COND=((return-code/RC,operator/RO)[,(return-code/RC,operator/RO)]...)
RC/Return-code: In the above syntax, RC is the Return code of precious step.
The valid RC values are from 0 to 4095.
RO/Operator: RO is the relational operator used to validate the return code.
The valid Relational Operator is like below
OperatorMeaning
GTGreater than
GEGreater than or equal to
EQEqual to
LTLess than
LELess than or equal to
NENot equal to
COND= (RC, RO) is used to execute the step with COND parameter based on the condition code returned by previous step.
If COND= (RC, RO) is true then the step with COND parameter execution will get bypassed.
If COND= (RC, RO) is false then the step with COND parameter will get executed.
COND ParameterContinue jobTerminate job
COND=(code,GT)Code <= RCCode > RC
COND=(code,GE)Code < RCCode >= RC
COND=(code,EQ)Code ¬= RCCode = RC
COND=(code,LT)Code >= RCCode < RC
COND=(code,LE)Code > RCCode <= RC
COND=(code,NE)Code = RCCode ¬= RC
Example:
//JOB CARD
//S1 EXEC PGM=P1
//S2 EXEC PGM=P2
//S3 EXEC PGM=P3, COND=(12,NE)
//S4 EXEC PGM=P4
S2 Return codeS3 Status
RC=12Should Execute
RC <> 12Will not Execute
JCL - CLASS JCL - DSENQSHR
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The Gigantic BirdLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
The three rowed their boat towards the ship. Even before they were half-way there, a gigantic bird swooped down on them and plucked them up. They were carried to a distant land where they were deposited in a nest high in a tree.
From the statements that follow, what was the wing span of the gigantic bird and how far did it carry the three sailors?
1. If the wingspan of the gigantic bird was either 20 or 30 metres wide, it carried the three sailors for 50 leagues.
2. If the gigantic bird carried the three shipmates 75 leagues, its wingspan was not 40 or 50 metres wide.
3. If the wingspan of the gigantic bird was 40 or 50 metres wide, it carried the three sailors 75 leagues.
4. If the gigantic bird's wingspan was not 40 or 50 metres wide, then it was 20 or 30 metres wide.
AnswerThe bird's wingspan was 20 or 30 metres wide; it carried the shipmates 50 leagues.
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Effectiveness of prayer in reducing anxiety in cancer patients
AbstractObjective: To evaluate the effect of prayer on anxiety in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Method: Quasi-experimental study, with pre and post-intervention. Twenty patients admitted to treatment of continuous intravenous chemotherapy were recruited. The volunteers were evaluated through interviews using a questionnaire of sociodemographic, clinical and spiritual characteristics, the Index of Religiosity Duke University and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Vital signs were measured and collected salivary cortisol. The intervention was applied prayer and data collection occurred in three phases: first collection (baseline), pre and post-intervention. Results: The data found between the pre and post-intervention samples showed different statistically significant for state anxiety (p= <0.00), blood pressure (systolic, p=0.00, diastolic, p=<0.00) and respiratory rate (p=0.04). Conclusion: Prayer, therefore, proved to be an effective strategy in reducing the anxiety of the patient undergoing chemotherapy.
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I have the following triggers on my users table which copies the value to email field from name field.
CREATE TRIGGER copy_name_on_insert BEFORE INSERT ON users
 SET NEW.email = NEW.name;
CREATE TRIGGER copy_name_on_update BEFORE UPDATE ON users
 SET NEW.email = NEW.name;
This trigger is working fine in local env, but in production its going into an infinite loop. Does anyone have any idea about this behaviour?
Local and Production envs are running mysql 5.5.
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how is that possible? the only way is that you have infinite record which I don't think you have, or that the trigger is calling itself (recursive function) and the number of recursive call is in max_sp_recursion_depth that's not infinite. – jcho360 Jun 1 '12 at 18:56
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Got this answer from our DBA.
So, this was not a recursion bug (though the error message was really bad, and looked like one). Rather, it was a memory complexity problem.
Basically, each statement must run in a limited memory space (128K in this case). While most statements fit in far less than this space, it appears that this trigger has considerably greater memory requirements.
The reason that this worked in testing is that the tests attempted were not large enough. (And the testing server likely had more memory allocated to it)
As an example, this worked in testing:
UPDATE users SET name="_EMAIL_" WHERE id=1234;
But what really runs in production is:
update users set full_name='Jason H', attr1='abc1', attr2='abc', attr3='adad'.... where id=1917;
Basically, the java/hibernate system is UPDATEing every single field... for some reason. This is pretty silly, and hibernate probably should be doing less.
The considerably greater complexity of the real query pushed it over the memory limits in production.
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Here you will find both basic and advanced tutorials to help you get started using Piccolo. All tutorials provide examples in both Java and C#. This section assumes you have read Piccolo Patterns and have a basic understanding of the concepts presented there.
Defining User Interaction
This tutorial will show you how to design the set of event handlers that will define the user experience. It will cover how to add mouse and keyboard event handlers to the main camera and other nodes, as well as how to filter and consume events.
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 1. Setup
We need to create a window with a Piccolo canvas, so that we can add the interface components to the canvas.
 1. First you will need to reference the appropriate packages/namespaces. Add the following lines to the top of your code file:
 Java | C#
 import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.*;
 import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.event.*;
 import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.nodes.*;
 import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.util.*;
 import edu.umd.cs.piccolox.*;
 The first line adds the base Piccolo types, such as PNode. The second line includes the default node types that Piccolo provides, all of which extend PNode. The third line includes the basic event types. The fourth line includes several utility classes. And the last line includes various "extras," such as PForm in .NET and PFrame in Java, which will be used below.
 2. Next we will extend the PForm class in .NET or the PFrame class in Java. This is a convenience class that adds a PCanvas to a window. When you extend this class, you should NOT add your Piccolo code to the constructor. Instead, you should override the initialize method and add all of your Piccolo code there. See the FAQ for more details.
 Java | C#
 public class InteractionFrame extends PFrame {
 public void initialize() {
 //Add Piccolo code here.
 }
 }
2. Create a Camera Event Listener
Event listeners can be attached to any node in the hierarchy. The events that you get depend on the node that you have registered with. For example you will only get mouse moved events when the mouse is over the node that you have registered with, not when the mouse is over some other node.
As explained in Piccolo Patterns, events are dispatched to the PPickPath associated with the appropriate focus node (MouseOver, MouseFocus or KeyboardFocus). They percolate up the pick path, giving each node along the way a chance to handle the event if that node has a registered event handler. The events will keep percolating up the pick path until they are consumed by a node's event handler or they reach the originating camera node. Often you will attach event handlers directly to the main camera, in order to receive all events that come from the canvas.
Piccolo comes with event listeners that let the user zoom and pan the viewpoint and drag nodes in the interface. You can use the default event listeners directly or you can define your own. Here, we will create a new kind of event listener and add it to the camera.
 1. We will create a squiggle event handler, that draws squiggles as the mouse is dragged along the canvas. To do this, we will extend PBasicInputEventHandler, the standard class in Piccolo that is used to register for mouse and keyboard events on a PNode. Add the following internal class beneath the initialize method.
 Java | C#
 public class SquiggleHandler extends PBasicInputEventHandler {
 protected PCanvas canvas;

 // The squiggle that is currently getting created.
 protected PPath squiggle;

 public SquiggleHandler(PCanvas aCanvas) {
 canvas = aCanvas;
 setEventFilter(new PInputEventFilter(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK));
 }

 public void mousePressed(PInputEvent e) {
 super.mousePressed(e);

 Point2D p = e.getPosition();

 // Create a new squiggle and add it to the canvas.
 squiggle = new PPath();
 squiggle.moveTo((float) p.getX(), (float) p.getY());
 squiggle.setStroke(new BasicStroke(
 (float) (1 / e.getCamera().getViewScale())));
 canvas.getLayer().addChild(0, squiggle);

 // Reset the keydboard focus.
 e.getInputManager().setKeyboardFocus(null);
 }

 public void mouseDragged(PInputEvent e) {
 super.mouseDragged(e);

 // Update the squiggle while dragging.
 updateSquiggle(e);
 }

 public void mouseReleased(PInputEvent e) {
 super.mouseReleased(e);

 // Update the squiggle one last time.
 updateSquiggle(e);
 squiggle = null;
 }

 public void updateSquiggle(PInputEvent aEvent) {
 // Add a new segment to the squiggle
 // from the last mouse position to
 // the current mouse position.
 Point2D p = aEvent.getPosition();
 squiggle.lineTo((float) p.getX(), (float) p.getY());
 }
 }
 PBasicInputEventHandler is the top-level event handler class. It implements the PInputEventListener interface. All event listeners must implement this interface. Typically, you will not implement it directly. Instead, you will usually create event handlers by extending the existing event handler classes. PBasicInputEventListener provides empty methods for all of the basic input event types. You simply override the methods for the events you are interested in handling. In the above example we override the appropriate methods for handling mouse pressed, dragged and released events.
 When the mouse is pressed, we create a new PPath called squiggle and add it to the canvas's main layer. Notice that we set the path's pen width to 1 / ViewScale, so that we will always draw with a uniform width. We also save the current mouse position as the lastPoint.
 When the mouse is dragged, we call UpdateSquiggle(). This method will add a new line segment from the lastPoint to the current mouse position. Finally it will set the lastPoint to be the current mouse position.
 When the mouse is released, we will call updateSquiggle one more time and then set our current squiggle to null.
 Finally, you might notice that the C# version of this code snippet, overrides the DoesAcceptEvent method. This method is part of the PInputEventListener interface and is used to implement event filtering in Piccolo.NET. Any event handler class can override this method and return true if it wants to accept an event, or false otherwise. Filtered events will never be dispatched to the event handler. In this case, we only accept left mouse button events, so that the right mouse button cannot be used to draw squiggles.
 2. Now that we have created our squiggle event handler, we need to register it with a node so that it can receive events. We will add the squiggle event handler to the main camera node. Add the following lines of code to the initialize method.
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 // Remove the pan event handler that is installed by default so that it
 // does not conflict with our new squiggle handler.
 getCanvas().setPanEventHandler(null);

 // Create a squiggle handler and register it with the Canvas.
 PBasicInputEventHandler squiggleHandler = new SquiggleHandler(getCanvas());
 getCanvas().addInputEventListener(squiggleHandler);
 First we remove the default pan event handler because we don't want it to conflict with our squiggle event handler. Since we are not using our right mouse button, we do not have to remove the default zoom event handler.
 Next we create our squiggle event handler. Notice that the Java version of this code snippet calls the setEventFilter() method and passes it a new instance of PInputEventFilter. In Piccolo.Java, event filtering is accomplished by creating a new event filter object and setting various masks on that object. In particular, an event will be accepted if it contains all the modifiers listed in the andMask, at least one of the modifiers listed in the orMask, and none of the modifiers listed in the notMask. In this case, we set the andMask to a BUTTON1_MASK, so that it will only accept left mouse button events.
 Finally, we register our new squiggle event handler to receive events from the camera. Notice that we do this by calling the


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Introduction: Refurnish Faded Calculator's LCD Display
The LCD display of an old calculator becomes faded and hardly to read in low light condition. The reflector behind the LCD turned dark due to aging.
Here are some simple steps to refurnished it, at least to an usable condition.
Step 1: Tools Needed
1. A sharp knife
2. Screw driver
3. Double side tape
4. Silver of white spray paint
5. A hot air blower
6. Some scrap papers
Step 2: Remove the Cover
Remove the screws with a screw driver, remove the back cover.
Remove the battery if required.
Step 3: Remove the Metal Protector of the LCD Screen
Set the blower to 180 degree Celsius, point and blow toward metal protector until the glue underneath is melted.
Important: In order to avoid the flexible cable of the LCD display melted and shrink, remember mask it with a piece of paper while blowing.
Once the glue is melted, the metal protector can easily be lifted by the screw driver or knife.
Caution: Beware of the hot surface, ESD protection may needed.
Step 4: Remove the Old Reflector
Lift the corner of the reflector by using a sharp knife then carefully peel it off by hand.
Clean the surface to ensure there is no residue of glue, make sure it is free from dust and grease too.
Step 5: Spray on the LCD
Mask out the entire calculator with a piece of paper, only expose the LCD.
Spray on the LCD, and let it dry.
Step 6: Reassembly
Apply the double side tape on the metal protector, reassembly the LCD and calculator.
Finally done, the LCD is become brighter and clearer :-)

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How to identify parent without child
06-10-2019 12:48 PM
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Hello everyone,
In a RelationshipClass between a FC (Parent) and a Table (child) How can I identify the aren't that do not have a child, or features in the Fc that do not have records associated in the table.
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Hi Jose,
You could do this using Python. Ex:
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace = r"C:\temp\python\test.gdb"
parentLayer = 'Airports'
childLayer = 'Districts'
# Get list of foreign keys
foreignKey = [row[0] for row in arcpy.da.SearchCursor(childLayer, ["FCC"])]
# Convert list to tuple
primaryKey = ()
for id in foreignKey:
primaryKey += (str(id),)
# Search for primary keys that are not in foreignKey tuple and print OBJECTID
query = "NOT FCC IN {0}".format(primaryKey)
noChildIds = [row[0] for row in arcpy.da.SearchCursor(parentLayer, ["OBJECTID"], query)]


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Plant Conservation Biology Fellowship
The Plant Conservation Biology Fellowship is awarded annually by The Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF) to one outstanding, early-career practitioner, scholar or scientist working on issues related to plant and landscape conservation in the broad sense.
This is OSGF's most prestigious award for early-career practicing plant conservation biologists. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring.
While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore their 700-acre landscape, see their efforts in sustainable land management, and visit the rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art. The Fellowship is well suited for individuals' writing projects that require dedicated time and minimal distractions.
Closing date: May 31, 2023


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The switch from summer to monsoon is a sudden change in weather that affects our lives and our Aura. While some people experience physical symptoms like suffocation and restless, others feel emotionally low, inactive or depressed in their monsoon blues. Spiritual Healer, Dr. Madhu Kotiya suggests some simple tips to beat Monsoon Blues and come out kicking :
- The pace and quality of breath are very important. One must breathe slowly & deeply. Breathing right makes a huge difference to our physical and emotional health.
- Bathe in sea salt water as it omits all the negativity from the Aura.
- Practice Yoga! It really helps in building a concentration level. The easiest of Asanas like PadmaAsan could also work like wonder.
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for threads belonging to the same process; maybe we just need to generalize this "enhanced" highlighting behavior to user-defined groups.
 [Khouzam] Yes, this is probably an obvious thing for groups, now that we have it for the current Multicore Visualizer.
 7. The Multicore Visualizer should have the ability to zoom, and based on the zoom level, the view could automatically add more information because there is more space available. So the level of detail will increase with the zoom level
 [WRS] True -- the Multicore Visualizer already handles being made too small by omitting text labels and other detail. We can also go in the other direction and add more detail if we are given more real-estate. I wouldn't go too far in this direction, though, because then you'll wind up with people complaining about having to keep zooming in and out to see more and less detail. We might want to consider instead putting some information on separate, selectable "overlays" or "layers", so that one can select what's needed without having to make the visualizer bigger to accommodate it.
 [Khouzam] Valid point. I thought automatically adding more information as the user zoomed-in could be user-friendly. The "layer" concept should come first. Automatically turning on layers is something we could then discuss.
 - A concept of grid-in-grid would allow separating each Multicore Visualizer element into sub-elements like a box for each register, or variable. As an example, this could be applied to the zoom level, where we could zoom out of the Multicore Visualizer of a single chip and then show a Visualization of many chips, each one showing a grid of cores as a sub-element.
 [WRS] We might also allow multiple Visualizer views, as someone suggested at the EclipseCon talk, and then have a "Processor Visualizer" view, so that one can click around in the Multicore Visualizer, and see more detail about the currently selected cpu/core in the processor visualizer -- again, as a way to avoid the user having to constantly zoom in and out to see the necessary detail.
 [Khouzam] That sounds good. I'm a little worried that people wouldn't realize they could do this by using multiple views though. But I like that one view could show a higher level, and then using the synchronization with the debug view, a second view could be 'zoomed' on the currently selected core. Then, with Pin&Clone, you could even have multiple views, zoomed on different cores at the same time.
 8. Synchronized resume and step must be supported in the Visualizer view. A synchronized resume or step is performed on multiple cores/processes/threads while keeping the progression in lock-step where each entity progresses at the exact same ratio.
 [WRS] If it's like synchronized resume of multiple threads, that might be a back-end/debugger feature, and below the visualizer's radar.
 [Khouzam] You are right that the actual implementation of the synchronized resume/step must be performed by the back-end. But CDT will need to provide UI to support this operation.
 - The concept of a leader for a synchronized operation is necessary. The leader is the entity part of the synchronized operation that will indicate when the operation has completed. For example, if two threads are stepped in a synchronized manner, the selected leader thread is the one for which the step must finish to indicate the operation is done.
 - The Visualizer view should support soft-groups. A soft-group is a group that is defined for a single operation; for example, a drag-selection or a multi-selection define a soft-group. Soft-groups needs a way to select a leader for synchronized operations. For multi-select, the last selection could be the leader. For drag-selection, the user could specify the leader by un-selecting an entity and then re-selecting it, making it the last one part of the selection.
 9. Building blocks of the view should not be limited to cores, but should be a generic building block that the user can name, set the size, specify the content. The content needs to be based on what the backend knows: "fundamental building blocks", i.e., threads, cores, chips, etc.
 - The Visualizer view could have a concept of widgets which already exists or can be created.
 - Configuration may need to be done at different levels. This means that some configuration would be done by the chip provider, e.g., the number of cores to show, other hardware entries to show; while other configuration could be done by the installer, e.g., which subset of cores to actually show the team of developers; and even more configuration at the user-level, e.g., which register to show
 [WRS] Again, is this extending the Multicore Visualizer, or providing "building block" support for custom views in the framework? We'd need some examples of what people would like to achieve to know where this building block / configuration support should properly live.
 [Khouzam] This is an ambitions and vague requirement. I suggest we revisit it once we have better support for customizations and layers.
 10. When doing drag-selection, it would be convenient to also drag-deselect (DONE)
Comments above from:
 - [WRS] Bill Swanson, Tilera Corporation
 - [Khouzam] Marc Khouzam, Ericsson
Multi-chip debugging
The CDT community is mostly focused in enabling multi-core debugging to the CDT. However, support for multi-chip debugging would also be interesting where you have chips->cores->processes->threads. Current solution will be to use multiple debug sessions (multiple GDBs). We will need GDB support to have a better integrated solution using a single GDB; using a single GDB would allow, for example, to support synchronous control of different chips.
Watch view
A new 'Watch' view would be a good addition to the CDT. This view (see 'watch' command in unix) would provide a way for the user to request that a console command or set of commands be executed at specific times such as:
 - after every state-changing operation
 - at a periodic interval
 - on particular events (suspend, running)
 - based on filters (when thread1 stops)
 - watchpoints
 - catchpoints
 - breakpoints
 - etc
It may be good to look at what is provide by the IAR Debugger where it is apparently possible to have a watch window which can be used to watch expressions which are updated in a specifiable interval.
 1. This concept could be extended to eclipse operations, like refreshing a view automatically on those triggers
 2. We could mimic a breakpoint condition/commands to allow the user to 'run a script' whenever one of the above triggers occurs. This script could be a gdb python script
 3. The view should always refresh if the context changes, unless it is pinned
 4. This watch view would handle its output in the following way:
 1. There should be a standard scrolling mode
 2. There should also be a fixed size output that only shows the last output.We could then "page up" to jump to the previous output repeatedly.
 3. We should have a toggle to choose between the two modes
 5. Another enhancement would be to highlight the changes from the new output compared to the previous output. This would allow the user to quickly see what changes. A nice way of showing change dynamically is firefox' javascript debugger who shows the new html code written in red to indicate what the single step actually created in html. This could be disabled by the user if the data is too different.
Enhancements to the Modules view
The modules view is used to show the list of currently used dynamically linked libraries. The view is updated whenever a new library is loaded or an existing one is unloaded (although there is currently a bug that makes the update not happen). The view also shows information about the libraries such as file location, base address and size. Below are some requirements for the Modules view.
Note that the Watch view described above may be more valuable than the below enhancements
 1. The view should be context-aware and show what is currently loaded based on the current context (process/core)
 2. Although modules can change when a process/core is running, it only needs to be refreshed once the process/core stops, just like for variables and such.
 3. Refresh of the view should be based on GDB's new MI events: =lib-loaded and =lib-unloaded
 4. Since the modules view is so simple for GDB, as to repeatedly issue the 'info sharedlib' command, the current behavior of the view could be replaced by the
new proposed Watch view which would send the 'info sharedlib' command upon the proper triggers.
Enhancements to Disassembly view
The Disassemby view shows the running code as disassembled by GDB. The view allows navigating through that disassembled code, to set breakpoints/tracepoints, and to show the disassembled code interleaved with source code. Below are some requirements relevant to the Disassembly view.
 1. Should support different memory spaces and allow the user to choose which memory space to show the disassembly for.
 2. Instructions that correspond to the same source code line should be identified. An example is shading them to the same color, and/or a vertical bar in the margin (see ARM product http://inf


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Say $X \to Y$ is a surjective map of algebraic varieties, and $Z \subset Y$ is nonreduced. Then is the preimage $Z \times_Y X$ also nonreduced?
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In Allen's notation, take:
$R = k[t]$, $X = \operatorname{Spec} R$
$S = k[x,y]/(y^2 - x^2(x-1) )$, $Y= \operatorname{Spec} S$.
with the map defined by:
$y = t(t^2+1)$
$I=(x)$, $Z = \operatorname {Spec} S/I$.
$S/I$ contains a nilpotent, $y$ so $Z$ is non-reduced. $X \to Y$ is a surjective map of varieties. $X \times_Y Z = \operatorname {Spec} R/RI = \operatorname{Spec} k[t]/(t^2+1)$, which is reduced.
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This is local, of course. So $R \leftarrow S : \phi$ is an injection of domains, and $I \leq S$ is a nonradical ideal; is $R \phi(I)$ a nonradical ideal of $R$?
Say $s$ descends to a nonzero nilpotent of $S/I$. Then $\phi(s)$ will likewise be nilpotent in $R / R\phi(I)$, and the injectivity says it will be nonzero.
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What about $C[x] \leftarrow C[x^2, x^3]: \phi$, the ideal $I = (x^2)C[x^2, x^3]$, and $s = x^3$? – Vivek Shende Jul 22 '13 at 1:07
In fact, this is not true for every injection of domains! Let $R= k[x,y]$, $S = k[x,xy]$, $I= (x, x^2y^2)$. One needs at least to use the fact that the map is a surjection, not just an epimorphism. – Will Sawin Jul 22 '13 at 2:21
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In this code let me say that it really works well, but the chat will be slow when you get too many users.
In this code let me say that it really works well, but the chat will be slow when you get too many users.
1. First you must create an DataBase (the place where you will have the messages that will appear)
The structure of my DataBase is only one table :
chatmain(id As Autonumber, data As Date/Time, nick As Text,message As Text)
(ex: table(field1 As type, field2 As type) )
in this example there is no control of the nick names, but its easy, so I think that you will handle it good by yourself
2. I'm using some images , just to make the chat with a good look, nothing but a banner, that you can use for advertising.
3. You will have then to make the code, I use only 3 files, but the chat itself use 4, one of the files is generated by the asp file, so you will learn how to create text files on-line with ASP
FILE: chat.htm
This is the file that controls the frames

<title>Your Chat</title>

<frameset framespacing="0" border="false" frameborder="0" rows="65,58%,*">
 <frame name="top" scrolling="no" noresize target="middle" src="titulo.htm">
 <frame name="middle" target="bottom" src="top.htm" scrolling="auto"> ' top.htm is the file that asp file will generate
 <frame name="bottom" src="bottom.asp" scrolling= "no" noresize> <noframes>
This page uses frames,
but your browser doesn't support them.

</noframes> </frameset>

at this time we have the
main page.... the page were people will have to get in to
access the chat site
FILE: titulo.htm
This file represents the top page of your frames chat, its another easy file that will only have the banner with the link.

<base target="middle">
<title>Your Chat</title>

Now, all we have to do is the more important part, the ASP file that will control all the chat...

FILE: bottom.asp
This file will use some features of ASP that I really like, the Scripting Object that gives you the chance
to create any kind of text file, and the ADO, that we all use to access ODBC DB with the DSN...
Don't be scared with the size of the code, remember that this file will do a lot of work in the Chat.
<%@ Language="VBSCRIPT" %>
<%
 dim data ' this will carry the Date
 dim name ' here we will have the nickname
 dim message ' this is the variable that will carry with the sent message
 dim error ' i use this variable to control if theres errors
 dim asn ' with this I will control the bad language used on the chat
 error = "" ' lets start the error, with no error
 data = now() ' the Date will be equal with the today date
 name = left(request.form("name"),10) , we only accept nicknames with 10 or less letters
 message = request.form("message") ' we get the message from the form field message
 asn = InStr(1, message, "f**k", 1) + InStr(1, message, "c*nt", 1) + InStr(1, message, "sh*t", 1)

 if request.querystring("name2") = "" then ' this is how i see if the person is new in the chat
 psw = 0
 end if
 if name = "" then ' if theres no nickname, then it will be Guest
 name = "Guest"
 end if

 if (message = "" or message = " ") and Request.querystring("vezes") = "1" then ' this is how I validate the message, it can't be empty
 error = " Please enter a valid message..."
 end if

 if CInt(asn) > 0 then ' if asn is a number bigger than 0 then there bust be some bad language at the message
 error = " Please no bad language..." ' this will be the error message
 message=""
 end if

 if message <> "" And messagec <> message then ' messagec controls if the user don't send equal messages
 Set Conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
 conn.open"DSN=chatdb;" ' i named my DSN with chatdb, you can use any, but don't forget to change it here too
 Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") ' create the record set
 SQLStmt = "SELECT * FROM chatmain" ' select everything from the chatmain table
 rs.Open SQLstmt,Conn,1,2
 rs.AddNew ' lets add a new message to the DB
 rs("nick") = name ' put the nickname
 rs("message") = message ' the message
 session("messagec") = message ' don't forget this, so you will late control if they are equal
 rs("data") = now ' date and time
 rs.Update
 rs.close

 Set FileStreamObject = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' this is how you create the scripting object
 Set writeStream = FileStreamObject.CreateTextFile(Server.MapPath("top.htm"), True) ' here you set the name of the file that will be created
 Set rs2 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") ' i've opened a new recordset because I had some problems with the other rs
 SQLStmt = "SELECT * FROM chatmain ORDER BY id DESC"
 rs2.Open SQLstmt,Conn,1,2
 writeStream.WriteLine "" ' this is the command that writes to the file
 writeStream.WriteLine "" ' as you see i am creating an html file
 writeStream.WriteLine "<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='25; URL=top.htm'>" ' this is the refresh that will ensure that the file is updated to the user of the chat
 writeStream.WriteLine "<title></title>"
 writeStream.WriteLine "<base target='footnotes'>"
 writeStream.WriteLine ""
 writeStream.WriteLine ""
 writeStream.WriteLine "
"
 writeStream.WriteLine "
"
 writeStream.WriteLine "
"
 writeStream.WriteLine "

"
 writeStream.WriteLine "" & Application("ActiveUsers") & " chatting
"
 count = 0 ' I use this counter to ensure that won't be no more than 60 messages at the same time
 Do while not rs2.eof and count < 60 ' like I said the control of the messages, and the control of the end of the data
 ' here I will write the data that was written in the DB, so everyone that access
 ' to the top.htm will see the messages, simulating a real chat program
 writeStream.WriteLine "
"
 writeStream.WriteLine " " & formatdatetime(rs2("data"),4) & "	"
 writeStream.WriteLine "<td width='20%' height=


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Letter from Africa: Why age is just a number in Ghana
By Lorlornyofm May 14, 2017 14:02
Letter from Africa: Why age is just a number in Ghana
In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene reflects on why in Ghana a person's age is not etched in stone.
Ghanaians do not particularly love numbers. We tend to be quite lax, especially with figures that have to do with age.
Someone's date of birth or age is not considered important and very rarely features in any story about that person.
I know that in many parts of the world, once you are born and you acquire a date of birth, it stays with you. It is unchangeable and you die with it.
In Ghana, it is common to see notices in newspapers announcing a change in someone's date of birth. This often happens when a working person's date of retirement is approaching.
People then swear an affidavit to change their profiles from the 59-year-olds they are known to be, to the 55-year-olds that they want to be so they can carry on receiving a salary for a few extra years.
According to the constitution, the retirement age for most public officers is 60.
Seven years younger
Some people have been known to swear affidavits to change their date of birth that would put them in Primary Class One before they were born.
The most dramatic Notice of Change of Date of Birth I have seen was one that reduced an official's age by seven years.
An official of the Electoral Commission (EC) helps a voter to do biometric verification before casting his vote for the presidential election at Bole district in northern Ghana, on December 7, 2016.
Image copyright AFP: Image caption Incorrect birth records could undermine elections
I am writing about this subject because of a recent news item that I thought went way beyond the extraordinary, even for Ghana.
The news report said that about 800 teachers had applied to the Ghana Education Service to have their ages changed.
Some wanted their dates of birth changed to make them younger and a few wanted their dates changed to make them older than what was on their documentation.
The news story was greeted with a lot of outrage and I said to myself: This must mean Ghana is finally joining the rest of the world in paying respect to dates of birth.
"How can people want their dates of birth to be changed?" was the incredulous reaction to the story I heard from many young people.
But then the head of one of the teaching unions came out to make a spirited defence of his members.
The teachers wanted their dates of birth changed only because, according to him, mistakes had been made at the time of their employment by the payroll departments in entering the dates.
Why make a fuss about three years?
This phenomenon has been possible because very few births are recorded.
Once upon a time it was illiterate parents that did not bother to get the births of their children recorded and with time the date got lost in the mists of memory.
A birth certificate is supposed to be provided before a child can be enrolled in school but somehow or other, many people are able to get their children into school without birth certificates.
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This total disregard for the sanctity of dates of birth manifests in other ways that sometimes undermines all official records in Ghana.
When in later life you require a birth certificate, you would go before a commissioner of oaths and offer a date that would be said to be based on the best "guessestimate" given you by your parents or family member.
In much later life, when you are approaching the compulsory retirement age of 60 and you desperately want to continue to work a few more years because you can't survive on your pension, you go back to the commissioner of oaths and swear that you have now discovered compelling evidence that the original date of your certificate was wrong.
For example, you were told that you were born in the year the chief of the village was enstooled (inaugurated) and you have discovered he was enstooled in 1968 and not 1965.
There probably does not exist any official record of the date of the enstoolment of this chief anyway, so why make a fuss about a difference of three years?
Ghana school class
Some school children might have voter cards
I have seen school children who cannot be more than 14 years old who have voters registration cards. The law says you have to be 18 to register to vote.
The consequences might follow you through life unless you are prepared to go on paying visits to the commissioner of oaths to acquire new dates of birth.
Police recruitment advertisements have a cut-off date of 25 years.
You are really 21 but have a voters' registration card that says you are 26 because you passed yourself off as 18 when you were 14.
Sometimes it has been football players who try to shave off a number of years from their ages so they can participate in age-restricted competitions.
Nana Akufo-Addo, the new president of Ghana,
Photo: President Nana Akufo-Addo, 73, wants citizens to have ID cards with unchangeable biometric data
These days technology is being deployed to ensure the integrity of such competitions, making it difficult for 20-somethings to participate in under-17 competitions.
A lot of attempts have been made to enforce the registration of births and deaths, and so far all these attempts have failed spectacularly.
There is already in existence a regulation issued by the head of the civil service some years ago which says public officials are not allowed to change their dates of birth during their time in government employment.
In other words, you are stuck with whatever date of birth you enter the service with, and you cannot get younger or older by swearing an affidavit.
It was always going to be difficult to enforce this directive because there are many people here who believe their ages are "confidential" and should not be advertised.
You could ask someone how old they were and get a reply: Is it my official or real age that you want?
One of the firm promises made by the new government is that within its first year in office, a national identification system will be in place.
In other words, all Ghanaians will have identification cards with their unchangeable biometric data and none of us will be able to swear an affidavit to acquire a new date of birth.
Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland plays a forehand in his semifinal match against Roger Federer of Switzerland on day 11 of the 2017 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.
Switzerland's tennis star Stan Wawrinka has been described as "a mere 31"
We are all holding our breath.
And whilst I await this dramatic change, I have been wondering if there are any advantages in the current situation where a person's age is a changeable and confidential figure?
My mind went to a sentence I read in an online article in a British newspaper earlier this year.
Those who follow tennis would recognise that this was part of a report during the Australian Open:
"A few hours after Serena Williams, 35, joined her 36-year-old sister, Venus, in the women's final by trouncing the 34-year-old Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Federer, 35, somehow conjured some more retro magic to beat Stan Wawrinka, a mere 31, for the 19th time in 22 matches," the article in The Guardian said.
I fear that faced with the possibility of such prose in our newspapers, many people in Ghana are going to opt to keep dates of birth a changeable and private event.
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Definition of Rayahs
1. Noun. (plural of rayah) ¹
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Definition of Rayahs
1. rayah [n] - See also: rayah
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1. The Balkans: A Laboratory of History by William Milligan Sloane (1914)
"There was little interest as to the nationalities of The Creel the rayahs while Turkish rule was strong. They were nearly all Christians of the Byzantine..."
2. The Balkans: A Laboratory of History by William Milligan Sloane (1914)
"There was little interest as to the nationalities of The Greek the rayahs while Turkish rule was strong. They were nearly all Christians of the Byzantine..."
3. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"THE ARMY; THE JANISSARIES; THE CHRISTIAN rayahs THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN ARMIES Afar from the divan of the viziers and secretaries,..."
4. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1876)
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5. The Balkan Question: The Present Condition of the Balkans and of European by Luigi Villari (1905)
"... that in which the Christian Powers begin to take an active interest in the conditions and sufferings of the rayahs or Christian subjects of the Porte...."
6. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 by Richard Robert Madden (1829)
"try of the Christian rayahs. That resource avails no longer, at least to any thing like the extent to which it once did...."
7. Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot During the Insurrection, August by Arthur Evans (1876)
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8. Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey by Charles Boileau Elliott (1838)
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Study Says Gay and Lesbian Couples Happier Than Their Straight Counterparts
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Gay and lesbian couples have happier relationships than their straight counterparts, according to new research.
Academics behind the research say it counters the stereotype that same-sex relationships are conflictual, unhappy and dysfunctional.
The research, based on surveys of over 25,000 people in the UK and Australia, is published in the academic journal Family Relations.
It found that UK gay and lesbian couples had a relationship quality as high as their straight counterparts, while in Australia it was higher than heterosexuals.
Its authors have offered possible explanations for why homosexual relationships are happier. They said same-sex couples and particularly women are more likely to share domestic labour equally and this means there is less conflict.
Gay and lesbian people are also more likely to feel part of a community, and this could enhance their self-esteem and allow them to experience higher levels of wellbeing.
They could also be more invested in their relationships given the personal and institutional barriers that they have to overcome as members of a sexual minority.
The research also found bisexuals experienced lower relationship quality than gay, lesbian and heterosexual people. The authors claim this could be due to bisexuality being a silenced and invisible sexual identity, with bisexuals not fitting into the gay or lesbian communities or the heterosexual majority.
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Declaratively add buttons to lightning flows, screens or communities
We created the Advanced Navigation button to fill a need in the user base. Salesforce is fantastic out of the box but there are limitations in particular with buttons. This managed package looks to meet some of those needs using clicks and not code.
The Advanced Navigation button, dubbed the "Magic button" by some, can be used for a variety of uses:
- Add bespoke navigation options in a flow. For example, replace the "Next" button with a "Save and View" button.
- Launch new record or edit page. For example, launch the create new account page with a specific record type.
- Auto launch a quick action. For example, automatically launch the new opportunity quick action when an account with the type "prospect" is created.
- Navigate to another page. For example, auto navigate to another record page when a certain status is reached.
The Advanced Navigation button allows the user to change the appearance and text on the button.
Choose what text should appear in the button itself. Text choices on buttons have traditionally been limited in Salesforce, and this removes that limitation to an extent. You can choose to have "Save", "Apply", "Click this here", "You are wonderful", whatever text you deem suitable.
"Button CSS style"
Specify the style using CSS if using "text". If text is not used i specifieds the style of the div containing the button. At present it is not yet possible to add styles directly to the button.
"Auto Start without button press"
Exactly as the name states. It will auto-launch your chosen functionality, eg: flow or redirect without any user interaction. You can have this on a page where you want an action to kick off as soon as the page launches to streamline processes.
"Navigate to URL"
This nifty action will guide the user to the specified URL/page when they click on the button. Say you want the finish action to take them to a specific website or another record page, this is a really easy way to do it.
"Launch a quick action"
This is an extremely useful functionality where you can use the button to launch a quick action: For example: add a task on a new opportunity, or create an invoice on a won opportunity. The quick action does need to be on the page layout for this to work, and this needs to be populated with the API name of the quick action
Expands your choices beyond the standard Flow buttons. You can turn them off and use the Navigation Button to set the flow action to either: next, pause, or finish.
"Output: Button Clicked?"
Use this to ascertain if a button is clicked in a flow. When the button is clicked it will set the variable here to true. This is useful if you have multiple buttons on the page to see which button was clicked on the flow screen.
"New Record:Object Name"
If you want to launch the create a record screen enter the object name here.
"New Record:Recordtype ID"
Only populate if you want to create a record. Enter the record ID to use. This alters picklist values and page layout choices.
"New Record:Predefined Variables"
You can prefill fields on the page. To do so add in the values in a JSON style format. Field:Value. "APiFieldName:Value,APiFieldName:Value"
For example, "FirstName:Ben" or "FirstName,Ben,LastName:Smith"
"Edit: Specific record Id to edit"
If you want to edit you can pass a specific record ID through to edit that record. For example a related record.
If blank it uses the recordId from the page it is on
"Edit:Do you want to edit a record?"
Mark as true if you want to launch the edit record page.


Quanesha - Meaning of Quanesha, What does Quanesha mean?
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Quanesha - Meaning of Quanesha
What does Quanesha mean?
[ 3 syll. qua-nes-ha, qu-ane-sha ] The baby girl name Quanesha is pronounced as KWaaNIY-SHaa- †. The origin of Quanesha is English-American. Quanesha is a variant of the name Quanisha (English).
Baby names that sound like Quanesha include Quanisha (English), Quaneaka, Quaneisha (English), Quanica, Quanicka, Quaniesha, Quanika (English), Quanikah, Quaniki, Quanikka (English), Quanikki (English), Quaniqua, Quanyka, Quanyki, Quanykka, Quaynisha, Queenika, Queenisha, Quenisha, and Quincee.
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Boogieboard vs. Paipo
What's the difference between a paipo and a boogieboard?
We get quite a few questions asking how our Paipos compare with the modern day boogie boards. Truth be told, there isn't much comparison. But if that were all to the story, then there wouldn't be much reason to keep writing! While paipos and boogie boards both share a common ancestor, they differ drastically in construction methods, maneuverability, and actual use. Hopefully this article will answer your questions and help you transition from your sponge to a rigid paipo.
Paul showing off the thickness of the solid fiberglass construction.
HPD Paipos don't float like boogieboards
Unlike foam-core bodyboards and boogie boards, HPD Paipos are rigid in construction. Made from solid fiberglass, HPD Paipos do not retain any air within the fiberglass material. Instead, we rely on the relative density of our boards to allow our paipos to rise to the top of the water column when released under water. This is a primary principle of HPD Paipos that makes our boards super durable.
Paipos use hydrodynamic properties to push the board to the surface and stay "afloat" while under speed. Much like an airplane uses air to stay flying, an HPD Paipo is curved in such a way to force water underneath the board, pushing the board upward. When water is no longer flowing over the board (like after a wipeout), the board is no longer able so surf, so it will stop not far away from the wipeout, and slowly rise to the surface. This is why many old timers never went out with leashes, as their boards usually weren't far away.
On the other hand, boogie boards rely on encapsulated foam to retain air within the structure. This of course makes paddling very easy, and launching on waves a no-brainer, but it is very difficult to duck-dive under sets. And forget about riding one without a leash.
Paipo XL bottom turn at Pipeline.
HPD Paipos are durable
Thanks to their solid fiberglass construction, HPD Paipos last pretty much forever. Back in the 90's Paul would drive his truck over the boards in the parking lot, and take videos slamming the boards into a coconut tree. We'll try and dig these up and post them, but be warned they are definitely cringe-worthy!
HPD Paipos are FAST!
Like we mentioned before, HPD's rigid fiberglass construction allows our Paipos to maintain shape under high-speed and stress. Foam boogieboards "squish" down when under stress, or under a heavy rider. This can deform the boogieboard and slows it way down in the water.
A Swimaster Duck Feet ad thought to be from the 1970s, showing the Voit/Swimaster UDT Duck Feet fins that were popular among paipo riders.
Wear Fins!
You might not need fins with a boogieboard on the small stuff, but everybody knows having powerful fins is a must when bodyboarding on large wave. Good fins provide thrust to help catch surf, and make swimming in strong current possible. Without fins, it will be an exhausting and frustrating day.
We used to use the UDT Duck Feet fins back in the day, and I still own a pair today. They are stiffer than normal fins, and really long to provide lots of thrust. Just google VOIT UDT Duck Feet and you'll be able to find them for a decent price online.
Taking Off
Catching a wave on a paipo is not the same as a boogieboard. Since flotation is minimal, the secret to catching waves on a Paipo is to push the board out infront of you, and make yourself as long as possible.
This is where nice, powerful fins come in handy. When the board is way out in front of you, start kicking and build up speed.
Once you feel the wave start to pick you up, pull the board in towards your chest and you will feel the speed pick up. This is very counter-intuitive coming from a boogieboard background, where flotation assists in catching waves. Getting the hang of this process might take a few tries, but once you figure it out, it becomes second nature, and catching waves gets easy.
Still Have Questions?
We love talking to our riders and helping them get used to our bodyboards. If you have any questions, just give us a call. We're here to help!
2 thoughts on "Boogieboard vs. Paipo"
 1. I bodyboard, make my own the past 10 years. I have made several boards, usually a foam core, shaped like a surfboard, 4 ft long with a 4 inch rocker in front and usually quad fins. Some I've fiberglassed like a surfboard and some I've made like a soft top surfboard. Can't use fins anymore, see below, is why the longboard for better float, speed paddling, etc.
 I basically use what you suggest is a paipo technique while surfing. In big waves and in air drops I also push the board way out ahead. The technique eliminates what surfers call "perling", or digging the nose in and wiping out. Once i've reached the bottom, I pull the board in and start the bottom turn. It's only a technique necessary when dropping straight down the wave. Not necessary in small or when I'm already in the wave moving parallel to it.
 The most dangerous board I surfed was a solid, balsa wood bodyboard a friend made for me in Ecuador. In my ignorance I used a leash and tore up both rotator cuffs when the leash was in front like a bodyboard, and destroyed both knees when I switched the leash to my ankle like a surfboard. I now have replacement knees. I'm 76 and usually surf everyday. Cheers, mate.
 Love the article. Was my first time on your site.
 1. Aloha Jimmy! That's why I've never had a Paipo with a leash. I've borrowed a few boogie boards over the years tho and I cannot stand being leashed on to something that floats so much. Sounds like you were really charging the big waves though! Mahalos for the stories. Be safe and stay salty!
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4096 hz is the activation frequency of quartz crystals. The crystal is activated by beating the tuning fork directly on the base of the crystal itself; this very high frequency amplifies the specific properties of the crystals through sound activation. The frequency of 4096 hz has been indicated by the sound scientist John Worrell Keely as the one that makes the crystal structure of quartz vibrate. Many people also use it as a sound smudge to purify environments.
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Alaina Mathers, often known as Amanda Scott, is a name that has been surrounded by curiosity and intrigue. As the adopted daughter of the iconic rapper Eminem, her life has been far from ordinary.
Alaina Mathers was born on May 3, 1993, in the United States. She is the daughter of Dawn Scott, the twin sister of Kim Scott, who was Eminem's on-again-off-again wife and the mother of his biological daughter, Hailie Jade. Eminem became a significant figure in Alaina's life when he adopted her in the early 2000s.
Growing up, Alaina faced the challenges and complexities of a blended family. With Eminem's fame reaching unparalleled heights during that period, the spotlight was often on their family, making it difficult for Alaina to lead a normal childhood.
Privacy and Identity
One of the most striking aspects of Alaina Mathers' life is her commitment to maintaining a low profile. Despite her connection to one of the world's most famous musicians, Alaina has consistently shied away from the public eye. This choice reflects her desire for a sense of normalcy and privacy that eluded her during her younger years.
She adopted the pseudonym "Amanda Scott" to distance herself from her famous adoptive father and the intense media scrutiny that came with it. This choice allowed her to live a life largely removed from the public spotlight, pursuing her personal goals and aspirations without the constant intrusion of the paparazzi and media outlets.
Empowerment and Education
Alaina Mathers has demonstrated a strong sense of independence and empowerment. She pursued higher education and graduated with a degree in public relations. Her decision to focus on her education and personal growth underscores her determination to build a life of her own, separate from her adoptive father's shadow.
Additionally, Alaina has been actively involved in charity work. She has supported various causes and organizations, often using her privacy as a means to contribute without drawing unwanted attention.
Reconciliation with Family
Despite the complexities of her family's history, Alaina Mathers has maintained a connection with her biological mother, Dawn Scott. Tragically, Dawn struggled with substance abuse issues, which eventually led to her untimely passing in 2016. Alaina's efforts to support her mother during her battles with addiction and her willingness to reconcile with her mother highlight her compassion and resilience.
Alaina Mathers, also known as Amanda Scott, has carved out a unique path in life. As the adopted daughter of Eminem, she faced the challenges of growing up in the spotlight but made a conscious choice to embrace privacy and empowerment. Her journey to maintain a sense of normalcy and independence is a testament to her strength and determination. In a world obsessed with celebrity culture, Alaina's decision to prioritize her education, charity work, and personal growth is a refreshing reminder that individuals can choose their own paths, even when born into extraordinary circumstances. While Alaina Mathers may forever be linked to Eminem, she has proven that she is more than just a famous last name—she is a symbol of resilience, empowerment, and the pursuit of a life lived on one's own terms.