![]() ![]() ![]() "How Swarms of Fireflies Sync Their Flashes". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. "Revision of the Nearctic species of Photinus (Lampyridae: Coleoptera)" (PDF). : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) But the total number of people is obscene." References A biologist who has studied the fireflies expressed concern about increased crowds at the park, saying, "The bulk of people are respectful. The firefly display near Elkmont attracted more than a thousand visitors nightly in early June 2011. On weekends there may be a four-hour wait for transportation. Would-be visitors are required to park at the Sugarlands Visitor Center and wait for a trolley to take them to the viewing site. ĭriving and parking near Great Smoky Mountains National Park are strictly regulated during the two-week P. Scientists use a degree day model to try to predict the onset of each year's peak display. Increasing numbers of people come each year to a trailhead near Elkmont to see them. The species is also found elsewhere in the Smoky Mountains, usually at elevations near 2,000 feet (610 m), and has been observed as far north as Pennsylvania. One of its small population ranges is Elkmont, Tennessee. In the early stages of copulation, other males may try to separate the couple, but once the mating pair has moved to stage 2 copulation (tail-to-tail), the unmated males fly off to seek females elsewhere. The female does not necessarily mate with the first male to reach her, but may avoid several males before permitting one to begin copulation. As many as 20 males may energetically walk, flash, and attempt to mount the female or nearby males. When she lands, the males land nearby but not directly on top of her. carolinus detect a female response, a cluster of males forms around the female. Scientists have suggested one reason for the synchronized flashing is to create a synchronized dark period, during which males can search for female responses without being distracted by signals from other males. The female reply is much less bright, a pulsed signal during the dark period of the male. carolinus is typically four to eight very bright flashes emitted over two to four seconds, followed by a dark period of eight to 12 seconds. The timing of flashing depends somewhat on temperature, but the flash pattern of a male P. carolinus males occurs in aggregates of flying fireflies. Synchronized flashing by male fireflies is common in South Asia, where huge aggregates of males perch on specific trees to create a bright display of flashing. carolinus was the first North American species found to show synchronized flashing behavior. Photinus Carolinus fireflies in Pennsylvania, 2013 Members of Photinus are called "rover fireflies" because typically males fly about singly, not in groups, flashing a species-specific pattern until a receptive female responds with her species-specific flashing signal. Both male and female adults produce mating signals with an abdominal light organ or "lantern". Firefly displays typically occur in early June near Elkmont, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Gatlinburg.Ī typical Photinus is a "lightning-bug firefly" (as opposed to the so-called "glowworm firefly") because it emits light in its winged ( imago) stage. As individual females synchronize with males nearby, waves of alternating bright light and darkness seem to travel across the landscape. Photinus carolinus is a species of rover firefly whose mating displays of synchronous flashing have fascinated both scientists and tourists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() lets pretend english is my first language.Vilelac Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Language: English Words: 5,594 Chapters: 1/? Comments: 2 Kudos: 1 Hits: 3 If he had known what he would find, he would never have gotten involved. He hadn't expected to encounter people living in the ruins of Xerxes-not Ishvalan refugees, but settlers from Amestris.Īnd what kind of researcher would he be if he didn't find out what had brought them here? Hoho manages to mess things up more for his son from beyond the graveĮdward had meant to only briefly stop in Xerxes for some research on his way to visit Alphonse in Xing.Edward Elric/Original Female Character(s).Language: English Words: 14,813 Chapters: 7/? Hits: 86Īceofjapan Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga But the terms of the treaty split both the Persona Rapid Forces and the Amestris National Guard, a multi-national military force, which would escalate to the point of civil war in the next few months. The Elric Treaty was then signed by the representatives of both sides. Afterwards, both sides announced a truce and sent representatives for treaty negotiations. Outraged by the fact that the State Military are still running the country, the Persona Rapid Forces, which it consists of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad, the Investigation Team, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, the New Hundred Militia and the Korean Drama Task Force, launched a rebellion against the government to demand that the doctrine of civilian control of the military to be established. Persona 5 Protagonist & Sakura Futaba Are SiblingsĪfter the death of King Bradley, and with it the rest of the Homunculi, Olivier Mira Armstrong became the interim Fuhrer President until elections were held.Investigation Team & Phantom Thieves of Hearts & SEES | Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad.Persona 3 Protagonist & Persona 4 Protagonist & Persona 5 Protagonist. ![]() Persona 5 Protagonist & Phantom Thieves of Hearts.Investigation Team & Persona 4 Protagonist.Persona 3 Protagonist & SEES | Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad.John_karamihan1 Fandoms: Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, American Horror Stories (TV 2021) Language: English Words: 1,253 Chapters: 1/1 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 0 Forced to live through inhabitable conditions without alchemy to save his hide, Ed will learn that the secrets of this place aren't the only thing that makes it horrible. When Edward Elric is forced on a mysterious mission to infiltrate a mental ward in a small town where frequent disappearances occur, he must fight his way through three weeks of hell in the madhouse to find out the underlying corruption and bring it to the surface. Non-Consensual Electroconvulsive Therapy.Song: The Mind Electric (Miracle Musical).Seargentpepsi Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga ![]() ![]() ![]() DocuSign offers everything you need to automate and connect your agreement process.Įlectronically sign a PDF for free right now. Click Upload Document or just drag and drop your file right here and start editing, signing. DocuSign eSignature is accepted and trusted by millions around the world. The world’s #1 way to electronically signĭocuSign eSignature has hundreds of millions of signers in 180 countries. Try signing a PDF with DocuSign eSignature, it’s: DocuSign eSignature is trusted, secure and can help you send and sign agreements in minutes. With DocuSign eSignature up to 82% of agreements are completed in less than a day, and 49% in less than 15 minutes. ![]() Sending PDFs for electronic signature is simple and quick.ĭocuSign works with many types of documents: PDFs, Microsoft® Word Documents, Google Documents.Īnd DocuSign works with many types of document management tools like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive, so you can upload PDFs directly from where you store them.Įlectronically signing PDFs saves time, reduces costs and increases your productivity. So you never have to slow down to keep business moving. pdfFiller is the best quality online PDF editor and form builder - its fast, secure and easy to use. You can even send PDFs for signature from the DocuSign mobile app. Merge, split, compress, and add e-signatures and watermarks to PDF files. Get signatures back in minutes rather than days.
![]() ![]() "Ok!! Can I look for my sleep squid now?" Rmeus asked. "I would appreciate it if you followed the rules next time." Logan said a bit softer. "No wonder you were pointing to it all the time!" "Knock on door, wait for me to open it or call you in." Logan read outloud. "You have to follow all fo the instructions. He was doing his best! Logan shouldn't be getting upset at him. And I did!!!" Renus said crossing his arms. "Yes! It's on the sign!" Logan pointed out. "you want me to knock?" Remus asked titling his head. "Remus you could just knock, is that so hard?" ![]() Logan on the other side looked very annoyed. "Open up please!" He called hoping that Please was what Logan was waiting for. "Remus I know you hate following rules but could you please just do it this once?" Logan said. Did Remus have to wait for Logan to be ready? "Just follow the sign Remus." Logan answered sounding tired. "Lo? Can I come in?" Remus called hoping that would fix the problem. It was late and he couldn't sleep without. Now he had to figure what they were to go in to look for his stuffed squid he had left in Logan's room. ![]() Logan thought to was important but nothing broke and no one had gotten hurts so Remus figured he hadn't broken the rules. Remus had no idea what the rules were! Logan had a sign up but Remus had never tried to read it when he wasn't little and now it was just a mess of letters. When Remus knocked he would still let him in. Logan closed the door and went to sit down. "Remus if you can't follow the rules You can't be in my room." Logan said firmly as he stopped Remus from entering. or to show Logan something or ask him a question.Įverytime Logan pointed to the sign on the door. Or to jump on Logan's bed and curl up in the sheets. Sometimes to hide from others, giggling as he had something he should not have had. Remus just opened the door and would race into Logan's room. Not seriously, he knew Remus could read and it was more a lack of effort on Remus' part to keep up with rules. Logan was beginning to doubt Remus could read. Logan ended up putting up a simple two step sign on his door. It could be irritating but Logan was fine with it. Unless it was really important, Logan found him wandering away and turning around when he heard the door open. Janus would knock before changing his mind and leaving if Logan took more than a couple seconds. It took awhile to get him knock loud enough for Logan to hear and lots of reassurances that Logan didn't mind if he knocked. When Virgil entered the picture he got nervous about knocking and knocked very softly, it was nearly impossible to hear and Logan would find him waiting for Logan to just come out of his room Instead of knocking louder. ![]() Patton picked up knocking and waiting pretty well, tho he did ask through the door if Logan was "Ready to open the door please?" every few seconds if Logan didn’t open it fast enough. Roman brought over a Lego plane that he had put together. "The reason I have you knock is so I can tell you to come in or open the door for you." Logan said, he couldn't really be mad since Roman did knock and Logan hadn't explained why he asked him to knock. Logan fixed him with a look at had him stop. Later Roman knocked once before opening the door and coming in. "Might as well show me what you've made." "Roman you have to knock before coming in." Logan said irritated, as Roman had come in and sat down on the bed next to Logan to show off his newest artwork. It wasn't that bad but it was a bit distracted to suddenly had someone asking him questions when he was deeply engrossed in reading, or listening to music, or napping. He had very few strict rules as the only caregiver in a house of littles.Ī rule that started when people would just enter his room regardless if the time or what he was doing. If anyone wanted to enter his room they had to knock first AND wait for him go let them in.
![]() ![]() Yet another video shows her exposing herself while riding on a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, Calif. One video shows Rose and her friends being thrown out of Pacific Park in Santa Monica, Calif., after flashing on a Ferris wheel. The Shagmag YouTube channel includes several videos in which the girls use similar risque tactics to promote their brand. However, this is not the first time that Julia Rose and her friend have flashed in public apparently to promote their brand. The letter by the MLB accused the girls of exposing themselves “in order to promote business.” But Summer claimed in a Twitter post that they performed the stunt to promote breast cancer awareness. This is not the first time that she’s flashed in public The number of subscribers appears to have been increasing rapidly since her flashing stunt at the 2019 World Series. At the time of writing, Shagmag had more than 8,500 subscribers. ![]() Shagmag’s “exclusive and uncensored content” is available to subscribers via the magazine’s Patreon page at $15 per month. Julia Rose is the founder of the digital magazine Shagmag that features “exclusive and uncensored content of Julia Rose and other up and coming Instagram models.”Īccording to Rose, she started Shagmag because she “wanted to create a place that was fun but one that still had meaning.” Her Instagram page is filled with photos of herself and her scantily clad friends. She is an Instagram model with a following of more than 2.8 million. She worked as a bartender in New Orleans before moving to L.A. She moved to Los Angeles after finishing college in Texas. If you’ve also wondered who Julia Rose is, here is everything you need to know about her. People have been searching online for information about Rose after seeing the flashing incident on TV. League spokesperson Michael Teevan confirmed that Lauren Summer and Kayla Lauren also received letters informing them they had been banned indefinitely from league games. It generates nearly $125,000 in monthly subscription fees through Patreon. One of them, is founder of a digital magazine called Shagmag, which they were promoting. Letter MLB served to two women who exposed themselves behind home plate last night. The Major Baseball League then sent Rose a letter that said she had been indefinitely banned from Major League Baseball facilities. Its so simple, yet the handwritten text is wild and expressive, with a very simple ‘by’ so that she can team it with her different areas of specialties.Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters and Critics straight to your inbox. I’m so pleased with how the amended design turned out. I found this too on my end, when putting together my branding ideas with it. Her photos are so full of colour themselves, so full of florals and details that all the elements of the logo got lost. However once she started to use it on her images, it got lost. It was just what we had imagined, and both were so happy! Although I try to avoid creating too much colour in a logo, we agreed it would be amazing to capture her essence with those bursts.Īfter much design concepts and tweaking, we had a logo! yay… success. She wanted the logo to be wild, expressive and full of colour. ![]() ![]() We quickly had a meeting where she expressed the need to capture this in her logo. I have been a fan of Julia Rose’s work for many years as she is so vibrant, energetic and creates really out there pieces which are so inspiring. I was thrilled when award winning florist contacted me to create her new logo. ![]() ![]() ![]() While hand tracking is possible, I asked Oculus CTO John Carmack earlier today whether the new Gear VR can pass through data to a PC - potentially allowing people to hook it up to a computer at high speeds for interesting use cases. “Android continues to be a focus for us.” “We’re testing with many headsets,” the Leap Motion spokesperson wrote. ![]() When used right, hand tracking can only make VR more intuitive and available to a larger set of people. In fact, I’ve had people pull off the Gear VR because they were uncomfortable holding a traditional gamepad. Hand tracking, however, can have a powerful effect on immersion. After years of putting people through countless VR demos it gets old seeing them immediately looking for their hands in VR and seeing nothing. That’s a huge step up in immersion from the gamepad or touchpad used for the Gear VR since it launched. Google’s Daydream VR platform is ready to debut soon and it features a basic motion controller. The company’s impressive “ Orion” software update earlier this year brought huge updates to accuracy, making the technology more usable. The company has been offering an $80 sensor which either sits on your desk or mounts to a VR headset to recognize hand and finger movements. That software development kit is currently in “private alpha” with more information coming later this year, according to Leap Motion. “But, you’d also need our Android SDK in order to make it work.” “Yes, now that the new USB connector offers data transfer, you can plug a Leap Motion peripheral into the port,” a Leap Motion spokesperson wrote in an email in response to a question about USB-C and the new Gear VR. It’s sounding like hand tracking is going to be possible with Gear VR. One of the big new features of the Samsung Note 7 and its new Gear VR is USB-C - the new standard that’s not only easier to connect because the plug is reversible, but can be used to communicate data with external devices like a thumb drive.Īnd it also should be capable of working with Leap Motion’s impressive hand tracking technology. ![]() ![]() With more than 330 years of history, you can fill in the gaps in your knowledge and find the newspaper entries related to your family within Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continues to publish online and offline. The GenealogyBank archives contain thousands of newspaper issues across the decades. 1909: The Internet Archive has the Februissue. Wildlife biologists theorize the birds were pushed into the northern state after they were blown off course from their native Mexico and Cuba by the intense gusts of Hurricane Idalia. (More details) In 1995 it merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel to become the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which is still published today. The flamingos mostly slept on the banks of the beach after landing in the Badger State early that morning, according to Ryan Brady, a conservation biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The birds appeared content as Wisconsin enjoyed a nearly 80-degree day on its first day of fall. “This is huge,” said Jim Edelhuber of Waukesha, an avid bird watcher and photographer who rushed to view the waterfowl after word of their visit spread on social media. Hordes of birdwatchers flocked to catch a glimpse of the three adults, who had already gotten their pink plumes, and two gray juveniles as they stood just 25 feet from the beach in Port Washington, a city 27 miles north of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Some last-minute Brewers-Diamondbacks MLB playoffs tickets are $9īodycam captures dramatic shoot-out with man accused of slaughtering family before he vanishesįive of the bright pink tropical birds were spotted Friday frolicking just off the shore in the waters of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin - marking the first time flamingos were ever spotted in the state. ‘Disraught’ owner seeks answers as miniature horse is found dead with arrow in her chest ![]() Tony Evers returns with a rifle after posting bail ![]() Gun-toting man busted trying to see Wisconsin Gov. ![]() ![]() ![]() "And our short vacation just turned into a nightmare."įor all the latest developments on this story, listen live to Morning Edition now. and then we decided to come to Gaza at this time," she said. "We changed our tickets like three to four times. Abuzayda and her husband, who is American, had gone back and forth about when exactly to visit. The 30-year-old grew up in Gaza, but hadn't been back since moving to the U.S. One of them is Wafaa Abuzayda, who is with her family including her one-year-old son. citizens out of Gaza, where roughly 100 of them have contacted the embassy for help. official told NPR that it's also working to get approximately 400-600 U.S. It's also trying to secure the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas, which include an unknown number of Americans.Ī senior U.S. The Biden administration is urging Israel - publicly and privately - to get humanitarian supplies into Gaza. That also means that outside aid, as well as basic necessities, can't get in. The Rafah border crossing, the only path into Egypt, is closed after being hitby multiple Israeli strikes. People in Gaza can't leave, since the borders are sealed. It's also carrying out heavy bombardments across the territory, killing at least 1,350 people and internally displacing hundreds of thousands of others. Israel has retaliated by putting the Gaza Strip under siege, cutting off access to food, water, fuel and electricity for its 2.3 million residents. ![]() Israel is intensifying air strikes on Gaza after the weekend's surprise air, land and sea attack by Hamas, in which militants killed 1,300 Israelis and took some 150 as hostages. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() There are two kinds of cast brass: yellow and “red” The RED has more copper.The shoe, overflow head and Tee are cast brass.Note that Gerber supplies brass compression nuts with select models, and plated zinc nuts with the 20 gauge drains.Gerber offers 17 gauge and 20 gauge drains. ![]() The higher the gauge the thinner the brass.The thicker the tube, the more durable the drain.Can solder tubing, head, tee and shoe together 1 ½” OD brass tubing connects the cast shoe and overflow to a cast Tee fitting.(Retainer ring supplied, standard)īrass drains are the premium material system for tub drains: the “ gold standard” Thru the Wall Drain: Thru the Wall Drains: available with Lift and Turn seal, locating the Tee behind walls up to 10” thick. Drains with Smooth Tee allows a 90˚ rotation for horizontal installation or back outlet configuration (Suffix -87) Side Outlet: Outlet is to the left or the right side of the Teeīack Outlet: the drain outlet is horizontal, away from the tub. Note that the Gerber Roman tub Pop-Up drain does not have a longer shoe tube as the linkage is not extendable or adjustable.Roman Tub drains are available in all Gerber drain styles.Roman Tub Drain: Luxury tubs require drains to fit deeper wells (up to 20” deep), with the drain often farther away from the walls requiring longer tubing between the Tee and the drain shoe Standard Bath Drain: All-tub drain in tee (fits most 14" to 16" high tubs).ĭrain in shoe: Drain drops down directly from the drain shoe The kind of material it’s made of: plastic or brass How the drain is operated (how to operate the plug) The kind of tub the drain is designed to fit ![]() |
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