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Instructions

Use the on-screen buttons to move and jump. Tap the down arrow while running to slide. Jump while sliding to go further in the air. Tap the down arrow while you are in the air to smash, which lets you go through transparent platforms.

You can also jump higher by jumping right after you smash, or by standing next to a wall while you jump. Do a wall jump by tapping the up arrow while sliding down a wall.

Reach the flag as quickly as you can. Grab the bonus coins to unlock skins which you can select on the main menu.

Use the arrow keys to move and jump. Press DOWN while running to slide. Jump while sliding to go further in the air. Press DOWN while you are in the air to smash, which lets you go through transparent platforms.

You can also jump higher by jumping right after you smash, or by standing next to a wall while you jump. Do a wall jump by pressing UP while sliding down a wall.

Reach the flag as quickly as you can. Grab the bonus coins to unlock skins which you can select on the main menu.

How many people speedrun OvO?

At the time this was written, there have been almost 30 OvO speedrun attempts! Times keep on getting better and better with newer updates, and currently, the fastest glitchless run is just under 6 minutes. However, there should be no expectation for you to come anywhere close to that time.

Our recommendation? Just have fun, and your times will start naturally getting faster and faster. If speedrunning really is your thing though, you'll probably have to play OvO several hundred times if you hope to beat the record.

What are some games similar to OvO?

There are a few games that follow the same platformer game style that also have a minimalist feel to them. When you finish playing OvO, we recommend that you go and check out the games Just A Platformer and Big Tower Tiny Square. Both of them have the same philosophy as OvO. It's not about having the best graphics or the most complicated gameplay, it's just about playing a fun and challenging platformer game that will make you think.

Is OvO a hard game to play?

OvO has relatively simple controls, with it just being the arrows on the keyboard. This makes the controls of OvO relatively simple to learn. The only tough part of OvO is getting the timing down, which shouldn't take too long. In our opinion, learning how to play OvO isn't a big ordeal, but it is hard to have a really good time in OvO. Don't take our word for it, start playing and test it out for yourself. Who knows, you might just be the next record holder in the OvO speedrunning competition!

How to play OvO on your phone

Did you know you can also play OvO on your phone? It's a great way to play without worrying about losing your save data.

For iOS devices, simply tap the "Share" icon in Safari and select "Add to Home Screen". For Android devices, tap the "Menu" icon and select "Install App".

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What Are CATs?

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are generally simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities designed to give you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process as it is happening.

Examples of CATs include the following.

The Background Knowledge Probe is a short, simple questionnaire given to students at the start of a course, or before the introduction of a new unit, lesson or topic. It is designed to uncover students' pre-conceptions.

The Minute Paper tests how students are gaining knowledge, or not. The instructor ends class by asking students to write a brief response to the following questions: "What was the most important thing you learned during this class?" and "What important question remains unanswered?"

The Muddiest Point is one of the simplest CATs to help assess where students are having difficulties. The technique consists of asking students to jot down a quick response to one question: "What was the muddiest point in [the lecture, discussion, homework assignment, film, etc.]?" The term "muddiest" means "most unclear" or "most confusing."

The What's the Principle? CAT is useful in courses requiring problem-solving. After students figure out what type of problem they are dealing with, they often must decide what principle(s) to apply in order to solve the problem. This CAT provides students with a few problems and asks them to state the principle that best applies to each problem.

Defining Features Matrix: Prepare a handout with a matrix of three columns and several rows. At the top of the first two columns, list two distinct concepts that have potentially confusing similarities (e.g. hurricanes vs. tornados, Picasso vs. Matisse). In the third column, list the important characteristics of both concepts in no particular order. Give your students the handout and have them use the matrix to identify which characteristics belong to each of the two concepts. Collect their responses, and you'll quickly find out which characteristics are giving your students the most trouble.

Why Should I Use CATs?

CATs can be used to improve the teaching and learning that occurs in a class. More frequent use of CATs can...

Provide just-in-time feedback about the teaching-learning process

Provide information about student learning with less work than traditional assignments (tests, papers, etc.)

Encourage the view that teaching is an ongoing process of inquiry, experimentation, and reflection

Help students become better monitors of their own learning

Help students feel less anonymous, even in large courses

Provide concrete evidence that the instructor cares about learning

How Should I Use CATs?

Results from CATs can guide teachers in fine-tuning their teaching strategies to better meet student needs. A good strategy for using CATs is the following.

1. Decide what you want to assess about your students' learning from a CAT.

2. Choose a CAT that provides this feedback, is consistent with your teaching style, and can be implemented easily in your class.

3. Explain the purpose of the activity to students, and then conduct it.

4. After class, review the results, determine what they tell you about your students' learning, and decide what changes to make, if any.

5. Let your students know what you learned from the CAT and how you will use this information.

Where Can I Find More CATs?

The standard references on CATs is Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd edition, by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross (Jossey-Bass, 1993). This book includes 50 CATs, indexed in a variety of useful ways. The book is available at the Center for Teaching library. See its ACORN record for call number and availability.

A number of web sites also feature information on and examples of CATs, including the following.

This teaching guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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Researchers who work on the genomes of domestic and wild cats say their DNA holds clues to human as well as feline health.

"People tend to either love them or hate them, and cats are often underappreciated by the scientific community," said Leslie Lyons, a professor at the University of Missouri. Credit... Juarawee Kittisilpa/Reuters

Leslie Lyons is a veterinarian and specialist in cat genetics. She is also a cat owner and general cat partisan who has been known to tease her colleagues who study dog genetics with the well-worn adage that "Cats rule. Dogs drool."

That has not been the case with research money and attention to the genetics of disease in cats and dogs, partly because the number of dog breeds offers variety in terms of genetic ailments and perhaps because of a general bias in favor of dogs. But Dr. Lyons, a professor at the University of Missouri, says there are many reasons cats and their diseases are invaluable models for human diseases. She took up the cause of cat science this week in an article in Trends in Genetics.

"People tend to either love them or hate them, and cats are often underappreciated by the scientific community," she writes. But, she says, in some ways the organization of the cat genome is much like the human genome, and cat genomics could help in the understanding of the vast amount of mammalian DNA that does not constitute genes, and is poorly understood.

Among the advances in veterinary medicine that have benefited humans, she pointed out that remdesivir, an important drug in combating Covid, was first successfully used against a cat disease caused by another coronavirus.

She is the director of the 99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Initiative and as part of that project, she and a group of colleagues, including Wes Warren at the University of Missouri and William Murphy at Texas A&M University, recently produced the most detailed genome of the cat to date, which surpasses the dog genome.

"For the moment," Dr. Lyons said.

I spoke last week with Dr. Lyons, Dr. Warren and Dr. Murphy, who refer to themselves as Team Feline. Dr. Lyons was visiting Texas, and with two of her colleagues she talked about why the genomes of cats are important to medical knowledge.

I report on animal science, and over the years, I admitted to the members of Team Feline, I seem to have written more about dogs than cats. The dog-cat rivalry in genomic science is mostly a good-natured rivalry, but just to assess what I was getting myself into I first asked about the scientists' nonscientific approach to cats and dogs.

The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

First, their personal preferences:

Dr. William Murphy: I do have cats and dogs as pets, but I prefer cats.

Dr. Wes Warren: I'm a dog owner. Unfortunately I'm allergic to cats.

Dr. Leslie Lyons: He has a very expensive dog that keeps having problems.

Why were you moved to write the article promoting the cause of cat science?
Dr. Lyons: Throughout my career, I've been trying to get people to recognize that our everyday pets have the same diseases as us and can really provide important information if we can understand what makes them tick a little bit better, how their genomes are constructed.

A Pallas's cat, or manul. Credit... Wildscotphotos/Alamy

You have high quality genomes of several species of cats beyond the domestic cat?
Dr. Lyons: We already have the lions and tigers, the Asian leopard cat, Geoffroy's cat, a half-dozen species with really, really good genomes that are even better than the dog genomes at this point in time.

Dr. Murphy: By far. It was actually better quality than the human reference genome until very recently. The goal is to have the complete encyclopedia of the cat's DNA, so we can actually fully understand the genetic basis for all traits in the cat.

Dr. Lyons: For example the allergy gene that Wes is allergic to. We completely understand that gene now. We can maybe even knock it out of the cat to produce cats that are more hypoallergenic or at least understand what elicits the immune response better.
How are cat diseases a good model for human diseases?
Dr. Lyons: What we're discovering is different species have different health problems. We should really be picking the right species.

Dr. Warren: We know that dogs get cancer more frequently, similar to ourselves. Cats don't get cancer very often. And that's a fascinating story of evolution. So are there signals or clues in the genome of the cat that allows us to zero in better on why cats get certain types of cancers and understand the differences among dogs, cats and humans.

How about the cats that are subjects of the research?
Dr. Lyons: Genomic research is fantastic because all we need is maybe a blood sample. And so once we have the blood sample, we don't have to do experimentation on an animal. We're actually observing what animals already have. We're working with the diseases that are already there.
What about wild species?
Dr. Murphy: High quality genomes for wild cats can aid in their species survival plans and their recovery in the wild.

Dr. Lyons: We see half a dozen health problems in wild felids. We have a study of transitional cell carcinoma in fishing cats, inherited blindness in black-footed cats, polycystic kidney disease in Pallas's cats. Snow leopards have terrible eye problems, probably because of inbreeding in zoos. So understanding their genomes can help us to stop those problems in the zoo populations, and that will help humans with the same conditions as well.
How about ancient DNA and cats? There's been a lot of work on that in dogs. How is that progressing in cats?
Dr. Lyons: A couple of groups are moving forward with ancient DNA. I worked on some mummy cats and we showed that the mitochondrial DNA types that we found in the mummified cats are present more commonly in Egyptian cats today than they are anywhere else. So the cats of the pharaohs are the cats of present day Egyptians.
To switch gears: I've always been a dog person but I've been thinking about getting a cat. Any tips?
Dr. Lyons: Get two. They'll be buddies. And give them something to scratch. Otherwise it is going to be your couch.

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Researchers who work on the genomes of domestic and wild cats say their DNA holds clues to human as well as feline health. Leslie Lyons is a veterinarian and specialist in cat genetics. She is also a cat owner and general cat partisan who has been known to tease her colleagues who study dog genetics with the well-worn adage that "Cats rule.

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Although the origin of the domesticated cat is hidden in antiquity, studies involving mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggest that there have been two lineages of Felis catus. One lineage ( F. silvestris silvestris) appeared in Asia Minor possibly as early as 6,400 years ago and dispersed northward and westward into Europe. The other lineage appeared in Egypt sometime between 6,400 and 1,000 years ago before spreading throughout the Mediterranean (possibly through human introduction) along paths that paralleled the region's trade routes. Cats of both lineages continued to breed with the African wildcat ( F. silvestris lybica) during their respective dispersals.

The earliest known association between cats and humans dates possibly as far back as the origins of agriculture in the Middle East, about 9,500 years ago. A cat skeleton accompanying that of a human dated to that time was discovered in southern Cyprus. Although some sources note that this finding suggests that cats had undergone some degree of domestication in that location, other sources (citing evidence that the cat genome did not differ that much from that of the African wildcat during this period) argue that cats may have domesticated themselves by choosing to live in human-altered landscapes. Fossil evidence found in China dating to approximately 5,300 years ago revealed that cats similar in size to modern domestic cats fed on small grain-eating animals, such as rodents, and millet in agricultural settings. Although research suggests that these cats were actually leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis), which were replaced by modern domestic cats ( F. catus) before 3000 bce, this discovery suggests that humans allowed cats to hunt mice and other rodents that threatened grain stores and possibly fed the cats or allowed them to consume leftover food.

Although the cat was proclaimed a sacred animal in Egypt in the 5th and 6th dynasties (c. 2465-c. 2150 bce), it had not necessarily been domesticated at that time. It is probable that the ancient Egyptians partnered with the cat because they realized its value in protecting granaries from rodents. Their affection and respect for this predator led to the development of religious cat cults and temple worship of cats. There are no authentic records of domestication earlier than 1500 bce, however.

Cats have long been known to other cultures. Wall tiles in Crete dating from 1600 bce depict hunting cats. Evidence from art and literature indicates that the cat was present in Greece from the 5th century bce, and tiles featuring cats appeared in China from 500 bce. In India cats were mentioned in Sanskrit writings around 100 bce, while the Arabs and the Japanese were not introduced to the cat until about 600 ce. The earliest record of cats in Britain dates to about 936 ce, when Howel Dda, prince of south-central Wales, enacted laws for their protection.

Even though all cats are similar in appearance, it is difficult to trace the ancestry of individual breeds. Since tabbylike markings appear in the drawings and mummies of ancient Egyptian cats, present-day tabbies may be descendants of the sacred cats of Egypt. The Abyssinian also resembles pictures and statues of Egyptian cats. The Persian, whose colouring is often the same as that of mixed breeds (although the length of hair and the body conformation are distinctive), was probably crossed at various times with other breeds. The tailless Manx cat, like the hairless Sphynx cat and curly-coated Devon Rex, is a mutation. The ancestry of Persian and Siamese cats may well be distinct from that of other domestic breeds, representing a domestication of an Asian wild cat. In fact, nothing is known of the ancestry of the Siamese types, and there is no living species of Asian cat that could have served as ancestor.

Associations with human culture

The cat has long played a role in religion and witchcraft. In the Bible, "cat" is mentioned only in the apocryphal Letter of Jeremiah. The cat figured prominently in the religions of Egypt, the Norse countries, and various parts of Asia. The Egyptians had a cat-headed goddess named Bast (or Bastet). Thousands of cat mummies have been discovered in Egypt, and there were even mouse mummies, presumably to provide food for the cats. Often the cat has been associated with sorcery and witchcraft, and the superstitions regarding cats are innumerable. Throughout the ages, cats have been more cruelly mistreated than perhaps any other animal. Black cats in particular have long been regarded as having occult powers and as being the familiars of witches.

The cat is a familiar figure in nursery rhymes, stories, and proverbs. The English legend of Dick Whittington and his cat is a particular favourite. The writers Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire paid it homage, and in the 20th century Rudyard Kipling, Colette, and T.S. Eliot wrote of cats, and British composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber created the popular stage production Cats.

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Cat, domesticated member of the family Felidae, order Carnivora, and the smallest member of that family. Like all felids, cats are characterized by supple low-slung bodies, finely molded heads, long tails that aid in balance, and specialized teeth and claws that adapt them to a life of active hunting.

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