Update (7:30 p.m.): The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that an EF0 tornado touched down in Mattituck for about three minutes when a strong thunderstorm ripped through the area late Sunday night.

An NWS investigation team confirmed the tornado in coordination with Suffolk County Fire and Emergency Services, according to an afternoon update.

EF0 is the lowest on the scale of 0 to 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

A report from the NWS shows an estimated peak wind for the tornado at 75-85 mph. The length of its course was 2.1 miles and its width 75 meters. The start time was 11:17 p.m. with an end time of 11:20 p.m.

The NWS report is preliminary and subject to change pending final review.

In an interview Monday night, Mattituck Superintendent Shawn Petretti confirmed the tornado touched down on the school’s campus, causing “significant” damage to tennis courts, fences, netting and boards. display as well as the roof of the secondary school’s main gymnasium.

“You could see daylight from the gymnasium in some sections,” Mr Petretti said, describing the damage.

He was alerted to the damage early Monday by teams of guards who observed the tennis courts and discovered the damage in the gymnasium. “Fortunately no one was in the building when this happened,” the superintendent said.

Repairs to the roof of this part of the gymnasium were due to take place as part of the district’s five-year plan and the gymnasium floor was recently covered this summer.

Schools were closed on Monday (and will be on Tuesday) for Rosh Hashanah and Mr. Petretti said the district “fully intends” to reopen on Wednesday. “We will be deprived of the use of our gymnasium until appropriate repairs can be made,” he said.

This could potentially impact the school’s homecoming schedule, which included the annual Tucker Bowl, bonfire and cheer rally.

“It’s one of the highlights of the year,” he said, adding that school administrators are currently working to reschedule some events or move them outside. The return matches – boys’ and girls’ football – will go ahead as planned on Friday under the lights, Mr Petretti said.

Tennis practices and matches will also be impacted until the district can repair the courts. “We will work with the community and our neighboring schools as needed and intend to maintain the program,” Mr Petretti said.

The superintendent declined to estimate the cost of the repairs, but noted that they would be covered by insurance.

“At this point, we’re used to Mother Nature throwing curveballs at us,” he said. “We’ll make the best of it and again, I’m just grateful that no one was in the building and no one was hurt.”

The NWS released a detailed report Monday night, detailing how the tornado first touched down at Juniper Hill Farms around 11:17 p.m., damaging a greenhouse and downing a few large trees on the property. He headed northeast over a one-mile stretch of remote wooded area.

The tornado appeared to touch down between Wickham Avenue and Mary’s Road north of Pike Street, the NWS said. A large maple tree was sheared off a few feet from its base. The NWS said this area saw the heaviest damage path at around 50 to 75 meters in width.

The tornado continued east across the high school runway “bending and damaging a large scoreboard, knocking over metal benches and establishing a 100-foot section of upwind fencing on the north side of the adjacent tennis courts. heading north.”

The tornado continued east over the high school, “ripping through large sections of asphalt roofing material on one of the main buildings.” Winds were probably in the range of 75-85 mph at the time.

The tornado existed to the east over an area of ​​homes on Village Lake and caused extensive damage to trees and fences of several homes before lifting around 11:20 p.m. No damage was spotted further east. is.

PSEG Long Island reported that all storm outages in the area were restored as of 7 p.m. Monday.

Original story: The National Weather Service is investigating whether a tornado touched down in Mattituck overnight in the Old Sound Avenue area and west toward Sound Avenue.

Nelson Vaz, meteorologist at the NWS’ Upton office, said Monday morning: ‘We have reports of a possible tornado and are working with Suffolk Emergency Services to determine what it was. … We also sent someone to the scene this morning, and people are sending us pictures. We will go through all the radar data and talk to people and make a call about it later today.

A public information statement from the NWS at 11:49 a.m. said a final assessment would be completed with a public statement at 6 p.m.

The Southold Highway Department spent the early morning hours clearing the west end of Old Sound Avenue. Highways Superintendent Dan Goodwin said the path appeared to have crossed the street directly and headed east to Mattituck High School. Mr Goodwin said he received the first call around 1.30am.

The street was littered with branches on Monday morning and one house had a large section of tree resting on the roof.

Betsy Kennedy, a resident of Old Sound Avenue, said: “I was watching TV around midnight when the wind got crazy. It was like being in a blender. Then the power was cut off. »

PSEG Long Island was reporting multiple outages in the region as of Monday morning with 354 customers affected.

The NWS had issued a severe thunderstorm warning around 11:14 p.m. Sunday evening for the East End.

Tornadoes, while rare, are not entirely uncommon in the region. Confirmed tornadoes were reported on Fishers Island in 2018 and Mattituck in 2016.

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The New Orleans Saints placed rookie CB Alontae Taylor on injured reserve and elevated rookie CB DaMarcus Fields to the active practice squad roster. Both announcements were made by the team on Saturday ahead of their 0-2 Carolina Panthers game on Sunday.

Taylor was a second-round pick, the 49th selection overall, by the Saints in this spring’s draft from the University of Tennessee. He had four interceptions, 15 broken passes and five tackles for loss during a four-year collegiate career with the Volunteers.

Implicit 3D scene representations can encode hundreds of high-resolution images in a compact format, enabling several applications such as 3D reconstruction and photorealistic synthesis of new views. For example, a Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) model is a neural network that learns to represent a 3D object from a set of images that represent the object from different perspectives. This approach makes it possible to learn high-fidelity photometric characteristics (e.g., reflection and refraction) differently from more conventional explicit representations like meshes and point clouds.

Unfortunately, NeRFs have various drawbacks that prevent the use of implicit representations as a standard 3D data format for perception tasks. For example, the process of forming an implicit network can be very slow. At the same time, the inference process is too long to be integrated into a real-time application. Finally, the features learned implicitly by a NeRF model are scene-specific and cannot be transferred to other scenes. Recently, variants of NeRF, such as Plenoxels, have been proposed to overcome the problems mentioned above. Indeed, Plenoxels supports a fast learning process while maintaining a consistent representation of features across scenes. Specifically, Plenoxels represent scenes through a sparse 3D grid with spherical harmonics, as shown in the following figure.

Implicit representations like Plenoxels could be used for perceptual tasks such as classification and segmentation. However, there was still no large-scale implicit representation dataset for perceptual tasks. For this reason, using Plenoxels as a data format, a group of researchers from POSTECH, NVIDIA, and Caltech created the first two large-scale implicit datasets. Specifically, the authors converted Common Object 3D (CO3D) and ScanNet datasets to Plenoxels, resulting in two new datasets: PeRFception-CO3D and PeRFception-ScanNet. These two datasets cover object-centric and scene-centric scenarios respectively. In addition, they allow both 2D and 3D information to be encoded in a unified form while exhibiting a high compression ratio compared to the original datasets.

CO3D is an object-centric dataset with 1.5 million camera-annotated images and 50 different classes. It also includes reconstructed point cloud versions of the objects. The following figure compares some examples from the original dataset with the PeRFception-CO3D. The Plenoxels version of the dataset allows a compression rate of 6.94%.

The ScanNet dataset contains over 1.5K 3D scans of interior scenes. However, a number of images include motion blur. For this reason, blurry images are removed before conversion to Plenoxels. The resulting PeRFception-ScanNet dataset leads to a significant compression ratio of 96.4%, highlighting the accessibility of the Plenoxels representation.

Finally, the authors also conducted several experiments, including 2D image classification, 3D object classification, and semantic segmentation of 3D scenes. These experiments showed that the two new datasets could efficiently encode 2D and 3D information into a unified, compressed data format.

This Article is written as a research summary article by Marktechpost Staff based on the research paper 'PeRFception: Perception using Radiance Fields'. All Credit For This Research Goes To Researchers on This Project. Check out the paper, project page and code.

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It’s not their own municipal pool, but Hoboken residents now have access to the indoor pool at Stevens Institute of Technology, city officials and Stevens’ president announced Friday.

There is a catch, however. Stevens’ pool and four tennis courts are only open to fully vaccinated and boosted Hoboken residents over the age of 5, Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla and the president of the Stevens Institute of Technology said. Nariman Farvardin.

The tennis courts will be open from June 6 to August 28 and the indoor swimming pool all year round.

Hoboken residents will have free access to the tennis courts located at the north end of campus between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week. Hoboken residents will have access to the Schaefer Athletic Center pool for a fee.

Summer pool hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until August 31. Access to the tennis courts and swimming pool will be provided subject to proof of residence and confirmation of vaccination.

“Providing additional access to the tennis court and swimming pool, through our partnership with Stevens, will provide even more recreational opportunities for Hoboken residents this summer,” Bhalla said. “On behalf of all Hoboken tennis players and swimmers, thank you to Chairman Farvardin and his team for helping to make this possible once again this year.”

The city has long been without a public swimming pool. A proposed municipal complex in uptown could include a swimming pool, and the Hoboken School District has proposed a new school complex that could also include a swimming pool.

Hoboken residents wishing to register to use the tennis courts and pool must first register at http://www.hobokennj.gov/stevenstennis and provide contact information, government ID or utility bill showing an address in Hoboken and proof. full vaccination and at least one booster dose.

“We are proud of our partnership with Mayor Bhalla and the City of Hoboken, and we are happy to make these facilities available to our neighbours,” said Farvardin.

Stevens requires that all students on campus, as well as full-time and part-time employees, be fully immunized and receive at least one booster dose. The form will then be processed by the city with a required city approval email before beginning the Stevens registration process.

Residents must then register with Stevens at https://stevens.dserec.com/online/membership. An email will be sent when the Stevens ID is available for collection at Stevens Card Services.

After receiving the approval email, the ID card can be picked up at Stevens Card Services at the Howe Center, room 120, Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. See a campus map at https://www.stevens.edu/visit.

Residents can also purchase year-round pool access through daily, weekly or monthly memberships by following the same registration process. Pool fees are $20 for one day, $35 for two weeks, or $55 per month. Seniors receive a reduced rate of $15 per day, $25 for two weeks or $35 per month.

Please note that no parking is available on campus for people using the tennis courts or swimming pool.

All rules displayed at the tennis court and at the swimming pool must be respected. A one-hour delay is in effect when the tennis courts are full. Guests may not open the court or pool gate or let other people in. All tennis players and swimmers must enter the facility alone. Anyone who breaks these rules will lose their privileges.

Marshon Lattimore and Paulson Adebo formed a cornerback duo for the New Orleans Saints in 2021. Lattimore is one of the best in the NFL, capable of locking in an opponent’s best receiver one-on-one and eliminate him from the game.

Adebo was a third-round pick last year, which was a perfect fit. He showed Pro Bowl potential with his ball skills and covering ability.

Bradley Roby was acquired on a trade early in the season. His shots were limited due to Adebo’s development, but Roby is a starting quality corner that offers exceptional depth against deeper wide receivers. The Saints added even more depth with the selection of Tennessee CB Alontae Taylor in the second round of this year’s draft.

Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 is working with the Park District of Oak Park to reorganize and share portions of its sports fields on the school campus and across Lake Street at Ridgeland Common. The two tax entities have signed a memorandum of understanding and are working on a formal agreement which could take place this summer.

Among the improvements on offer is a new track with space to accommodate on-court events like the discus and pole vault. The latest attempt at a renovation, which D200 officials hope to complete by the 2023-24 school year, comes amid discussions of long-term maintenance plans and ongoing Imagine OPRF capital projects.

The School District and Park District held a town hall on May 4 to answer questions from families, students, and community members who wanted details about the project’s costs, schedule, and potential impact on surrounding residential areas. Superintendent Greg Johnson, who led the nearly hour-long presentation and moderated the Q&A session, was joined by Park District Executive Director Jan Arnold and OPRF Athletic Director Nicole Ebsen and Ron Anderson, Chief of Operations.

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HARTFORD — Six teachers and staff spoke about staff morale issues at Hartford Union High School during Monday night’s school board meeting in the dramatic lecture hall at HUHS.

Sheila Parker, an English teacher and department chair at HUHS who just won Educator of the Year, announced she was quitting at the end of the year to go to a more distant school for pay. less during the public comment section.

Parker cited issues with the school’s curriculum, culture, and morale as the reasons she was leaving HUHS, and the reason teachers before her also left.

Five other teachers and staff spoke about culture at the secondary school.

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According to Emmett Williams, a business professor, the work environment is toxic and micromanaged.

Kristen Helms, a math teacher and coach at HUHS, said staff morale hasn’t been this low in the 21 years she’s been in the district.

According to Best Buddies staff member and advisor Beth Hermann, the culture needs to change, and if it doesn’t, she fears more staff will leave the district as well.

Angie Hall, a physical education and health teacher, said there were serious concerns at HUHS. Technical education professor Jason Kraus said it was difficult to grow the program and the school with the staff turnover that has occurred at HUHS.

All teachers and staff encouraged the board to ask about the culture survey staff recently participated in and investigate the results.

The culture survey was discussed during the Pillar 4 update.

Cultural survey

According to Ben Hoffmann, a science professor at HUHS and a member of the culture committee, the culture survey showed that teachers and staff members feel they have no voice.

The survey revealed that there is a lack of communication between departments, that communication is not timely or consistent enough, that there is a need to increase compensation, that staff trust and respect need be increased and that staff would like to have a say in professional development. , among others.

Hoffmann and Principal Kelly Lam, who also presented the results of the culture survey, said the committee and the administration would meet to find solutions.

One solution is to update the school’s website so that there is an information center that teachers and staff can access so that they know what is going on in other departments. Some teachers said they felt like they were in “silos” and didn’t know what was going on in other departments.

Other solutions to the issues raised in the survey include a communication audit that is currently underway, increasing relationship building and increasing teacher voice, recognition and appreciation. and staff.

Tennis court

The board voted to table the decision to build eight new tennis courts across from HUHS for two weeks until their next meeting on May 9.

Board Chair Tracy Hennes cited the failure of the recent referendum on outdoor sports facilities as a reason to take more time to gather more information about the proposed project and get more feedback from the community before voting on it. The board voted unanimously to drop the vote.

The project will use $45,000 in designated donations, a $35,000 grant from the United States Tennis Federation and $800,000 in capital improvement funds to build the courts. Using the $800,000 for this project is what the board will vote on May 9.

In a previous article, it was reported that the school only had $800,000 in capital improvement funds, but that was incorrect. The school would use $800,000 of capital improvement funds for the project, the remaining balance of capital improvement funds would still be just over $1 million above the 25% mark that the district is required to spend based on a decision of a previous HUHS. school board and administration, according to Superintendent Jeff Walters.

This $800,000 would have been used to improve the high school’s lighting and flooring and to remove asbestos from the building if the referendum had passed. But there is still money available in the Capital Improvement Fund to do this, depending on how the school board decides to spend it to get down to the 25% mark.

Walters said at the meeting that some people were surprised the school had asbestos and added that the high school is an older building and older buildings have asbestos.

Craig Westfall and Don Pridemore were also sworn in as school board members at the meeting.

The next school board meeting will be May 9 at 5:45 p.m. in the HUHS Drama Boardroom.