8/24/2023 0 Comments Knock knock this week padResearch published on Monday found that more than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe’s record-breaking summer of 2022. Higher than normal temperatures also cause health problems ranging from heatstroke and dehydration to cardiovascular stress. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said “the situation we are witnessing now is the demonstration that climate change is out of control”. ![]() In southern Iraq, the fabled marshland was having its worst heatwave in the past 40 years, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday, warning of a “devastating impact” on the ecosystem as well as farmers and fisheries.Ī man shows the skeleton of a fish at a dry marsh in Chibayish, Iraq’s southern Dhi Qar province, on 5 July 2023. In the US, Texas was experiencing a prolonged “heat dome” in which warm air is trapped in the atmosphere like a convection oven, while in Europe, Spain was bracing for its second heatwave in a matter of weeks. ![]() Smoke from the fires so far this season has polluted the air in Canada and neighbouring US, affecting more than 100 million people. Last week the Canadian ministry of natural resources said the number of wildfires in the country – more than 670 on Friday – was “off the charts” with a long and difficult summer ahead. The metro Phoenix area was on track to tie or to break a record set in the summer of 1974 for the most consecutive days with the high temperature at or above 110F (43C). People cool themselves in the waters of the Rio Grande after crossing to the US from Mexico.
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8/24/2023 0 Comments Priority queue min heap![]() Due to the length of the class, I am going to divide it into sections. The following source code shows how to implement a priority queue with a min-heap (class HeapPriorityQueue in the GitHub repository). Source Code for Priority Queue with Min-Heap There are mainly 4 operations we want from a priority queue: 1. We use a max-heap for a max-priority queue and a min-heap for a min-priority queue. ![]() The sift up and sift down operations may seem complex, but we can implement them both in 10 lines of Java code or less. Heaps are great for implementing a priority queue because of the largest and smallest element at the root of the tree for a max-heap and a min-heap respectively. The first element to be inserted becomes the root node of the tree in the array, we place it at the first position: 1 st Element – Inserting the 4 into an Empty Priority Queue To understand the basic functionality of the Priority Queue in CPP, we will. I'll show the min-heap in its tree and array representations in each step. In Min Heap, both the children of each of the nodes are greater than their parents. In the following examples, I will show you step by step how to fill a min-heap-based priority queue with the sample values shown above (4, 7, 3, 8, 2, 9, 6, 5, 1). The example in the following section demonstrates the two steps. Step 2 ensures that, at the end of the operation, each element is again less than its children. Step 1 sounds complicated, but in the array representation, it simply means that the new element is placed in the first free position of the array.
8/23/2023 0 Comments Pro tools shortcuts slice![]() It also means there are no pitch, formant or amplitude transitions between the two notes. This means that changing the length of the first note has no affect upon the position of the second. In the case of a hard separation, consecutive notes are independent of one another. The connection between notes also plays a role in the pitch, formant and amplitude transitions between notes: such transitions are only possible in the case of connected notes between which a soft separation exists. This helps you preserve phrasing when editing. Soft separations only occur between consecutive notes and provide a link between the notes: if the end of the first note is moved, the beginning of the second note moves along with it, to ensure that no gap opens between them. You can double-click a note separation to remove it.ĭepending upon the audio material and the algorithm selected, Melodyne places either soft or hard separations between notes. You can move an existing note separation horizontally simply by dragging it with the Note Separation Tool. In such cases, each therefore moves to a new vertical position based on its newly calculated pitch center. ![]() (If you wish to assign a different shortcut to this tool, you may do so after choosing Melodyne > Preferences > Shortcuts > Editing Tools from the main menu.)īy double-clicking within a note with the Note Separation Tool, you can introduce a note separation and thereby slice the note in two.ĭon’t be surprised if the resulting pair of notes move apart in pitch this is because as soon as the fission occurs a new tonal center is calculated for each of the newly created notes, and their respective tonal centers may differ from the tonal center the notes shared when they were one. Select the Note Separation Tool from either the toolbox or the context menu of the Note Editor or by pressing the key of your computer keyboard. Inserting, moving and removing note separations ![]() This refers to a taboo or a curse placed on someone. Gin’s fate kind of reminds me of old celtic tales that involve a geis. It becomes this weird mismatch of empathy and ironic fate as Gin, as a human in origin, longs to interact with humanity but is threatened by their proximity. The resident god cast a spell on him that would keep him alive but it also meant he couldn’t ever interact with humanity again. We also learn that Gin’s origin is that he was left in the forest as a baby by his mother, and was then taken in by the youkai. It alarms Hotaru, but it turns out that the tree spirit just wanted to make sure she didn’t touch Gin and make him disappear. ![]() In particular, a large wooden hand comes out of the tree to grab Gin. Even though Gin hints that Hotaru might be in danger if she follows him into the forest, we see pretty quickly that the other youkai are only concerned for Gin’s safety. Midorikawa has a way of humanizing and making her readers sympathize with youkai characters that we see throughout this and her other works. I’ve always loved plots that involve youkai and spirits as mythology in general has been an obsession of mine for a long time. I was more interested in the story for the most part anyways. If you noticed anything particularly interesting about the animation, feel free to let me know in the comments below. It also could just be that I’ve been watching way too many new animes with awesome animation this season. Perhaps this is also due to it being a small production, with the movie only being 45 minutes long as I mentioned before. I still do feel that there could have been more detail added, and the fact that I don’t have much to say about the animation kind of reinforces the fact that Into the Forest was pretty ordinary in its presentation. It also lends somewhat to the feel of the setting as the film is set in rural Japan so we don’t really get exposed to any city environments that may need more specific details and stronger color palettes. This kind of plays into the overall feel of the movie as being a basic paranormal love story and slice of life. The character designs and backgrounds are fairly simple, but still display a vibrant color palette. Studio Brain’s Base does a fairly solid job on the animation, though it definitely lacks in detail in some areas. This review does contain some spoilers below, so if the movie sounds interesting, I’d recommend watching it first and then coming back for my analysis. It opened in Japan in 2011 and has since won the Jury Prize at the Scotland Loves Animation festival and the Animation Film Award at the 66th annual Mainichi Film Awards. The anime was adapted from its one-shot shoujo manga and picked up for production by studio Brain’s Base. We follow their growing love as Hotaru gets older but Gin does not, ever limited in their relationship. Every summer after that, Hotaru returns to that forest to visit the man named Gin. The man leads her out of the forest but warns her that if she touches him he will disappear. ![]() ![]() Hotarubi no Mori e focuses on the relationship between a young girl named Hotaru who meets a strange man wearing a mask while lost in the forest when she is six years old. As much as I did like Into the Forest of Fireflies’ Light, there are a few points of the plot and pacing that I think could have been handled differently. However, I definitely think you can see a fairly big difference in experience and story-telling skill between this film and her later series. I’m a huge fan of Natsume and could feel a lot of the same wonderment through her positive representation of the youkai characters throughout. Best known for her other work Natsume’s Book of Friends, it is thought that the mangaka Yuki Midorikawa took a lot of inspiration for that manga from this story which is fairly easy to see. The movie itself is about 45 minutes in length, good enough for a one-shot story with a fairly simple premise. I came across this short film a little while ago and it looked interesting enough to cover while waiting for the seasonal anime to finish up. 8/23/2023 0 Comments Arduino pwm fet![]() It is a p-channel MOSFET and it also works similarly as the previous one, and it can also be used for the switching operations and can be used along with microcontroller boards like Arduino. Just upload the example code from the Arduino IDE for the PWM Control You can also incorporate the PWM Mechanism for the increase and decrease the brightness of the load (LED) Then upload the blink sketch as provided in the Arduino IDE to the board via your PC with the USB Connect the positive power supply side to the +5V terminal at the Arduino. ![]() Connect the Digital pin (D13) with the Resistor Terminal as discussed above. ![]() There are just two steps to connect the Arduino with the MOSFET, just follow the steps below. Now we will discuss how to control the switching operation with a microcontroller board like Arduino. When the wire which connects the base with a resistor is touched to the ON marked terminal the LED gets enlighted and when touched with the other terminal the LED go to the off-stage so we can perform this small circuit switching operation with the IRFZ44N at home very easily. Now we can proceed to make our own switching circuits just see the below diagram that how a switching circuit acts and please do the connections as per the below diagram. The circuit connection plays a vital role in any of the electronic operations so we Secondly, Just connect the IRFZ44N MOSFET with the breadboard and then we have to connect all the things as per electronics rules. Now we dill make our circuit for the simulation of the Switching operation and for that please follow the steps below.įirstly, connect the battery or power source to the breadboard and connect the 12 V LED Load The above picture shows a physical description of the IRFZ44N Power MOSFET.
![]() You never run out of entertainment on Megashare9 While Megashare9 may not be compatible with old browser versions, Megashare9 works really well with chrome and firefox latest versions. That is when it becomes convenient for everyone to watch their favourite movies on devices that they are comfortable with. ![]() Megashare9 doesn't link to 4k videos on internet. Megashare9 is made compatible to be played on all devices like that of computers, laptops, tablets as well as mobile phones. Megashare9 is compatible with all devices and new browsers Megashare9 includes core features such as A-Z list, sports movies by country name, actor or years, simple dark interface, recommendation, IMDb rating, movie description, and much more. There is also a request section that allows you to place a request for your favorite movie or TV show in case of not availability. Megashare9 offers multiple top bar sections such as Hot Movies where you get all the trending movies, Latest Movies where you get new release movies, and Top IMDb section where you get all the top-rated videos, etc. ![]() Unlike most of the leading movie sites, it also has a massive collection of the world’s best movies and consists of multiple genres such as Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, War, Romance, and Superhero, etc.Įach genre has its film and TV show and also daily update with new release movies and TV show to deliver complete and all the latest trend. The site offers a simple dark interface to deliver a true cinema-like experience. It is a similar site to 123movies and offers all main features and tools with some new features to deliver a more enjoyable experience. If you still want more Sleepless in Seattle content after reading this story, check out this piece on some of Tom Hanks’ greatest on-screen meltdowns.Megashare9 is a free web-based application that allows you to watch full-length HD movies and TV shows. If there is something you think we left off, make sure to add it in the comments below. This is just a small sampling of everything that went into Sleepless in Seattle. After thinking it over, Delia Ephron came up with the idea of having the father and son still at the building but on their way back to the top just as Annie was able to head down. Initially, Sam and Jonah had already exited the Empire State Building by the time Annie had gotten there, but the Ephron sisters just didn’t like the way it played out. And just like she did with the “NY” scene earlier in the movie, the director called on her sister, Delia Ephron to help make the scene work. The final moments of Sleepless in Seattle (Annie finally properly meeting Sam at the top of the Empire State Building) make for an all-time great romantic comedy ending, but Nora Ephron admitted during the commentary that she initially had trouble when working on that section of the script. The Ending At The Empire State Building Originally Looked Much Different So much red, so much love, so much passion shared by the pair as they finally meet and fall in love. Once Annie and Sam’s paths cross at that moment, there’s an abundance of red - the soccer players, Jonah’s coat, and then Annie’s run to the Empire State Building in the film’s final moments. Partly because of me because I hate blue. But we used a very controlled palette in the movie. It’s just one of those little ideas that production designers sometimes get. And that little group of soccer players is all in red on purpose. One of the ideas of our production designer, Jeffrey Townsend, was to very rarely use red in the moving until the two of them came together. Throughout the first hour-plus of the movie, the color red isn’t used all that much, but that changes when Sam and Annie first cross paths at the Seattle airport, as Ephron revealed in the director’s commentary: Something else that directors (and production designers) really like to play with in movies is color, and it was no different for Nora Ephron and Jeffrey Townsend in Sleepless in Seattle. The Use Of Red And Lack Of Blue In Sleepless In Seattle Wasn’t By Chance 8/23/2023 0 Comments Amadine henry boyfriend![]() Not knowing who had committed the murder and wanting to protect her family, Grey's mother covered it up, making it appear as though Pardloe had committed suicide at the time, he had been suspected as a Jacobite supporter, and his death was perceived by some as an admission of guilt. The next day, Grey's father was found dead by his mother, having been murdered in the night. On Grey's twelfth birthday, he was given a pocket watch by his father, identical to the one his brother received on his own twelfth birthday. As an adult, Grey continues to frequent the club, preferring it to White's, of which he is also a member. He was enrolled for The Society for the Appreciation of the English Beefsteak, a gentlemen's club, upon his birth by his godfather, who began taking him there for lunch every Wednesday starting when he was seven. At a young age, he once struck Hal on the leg with a sword, doing no lasting damage but leaving a scar. Grey is a fine swordsman, having first begun lessons at the age of three. Hal is about nine years older than John, and although it is unclear just how much older John's half-brothers are, John was about ten when Edgar married. Grey has three elder brothers: Harold "Hal" Grey, from his parents' marriage, and Paul and Edgar DeVane, half-brothers from his mother's first marriage. John William Bertram Armstrong Grey was born to Gerard Grey, Duke of Pardloe and Earl of Melton, and his wife Benedicta Grey, née Armstrong. ![]() 3.5 "Lord John and the Haunted Soldier".3.4 Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade. 8/23/2023 0 Comments Big sur waterfall onto beach![]() ![]() The park and trails are open from sunrise to sunset. Parking is available at the trailheads with a per-car admission fee. Located in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, McWay Falls is just a 25-minute drive from Big Sur Village. Visit the Penton Wheel House, a power plant that once supplied energy to the old houses and blacksmith workshop in the area. Walk the short Canyon Trails to Canyon Falls. Take the 5-mile-long (8-kilometre) Ewoldsen Trail through a redwood forest to a scenic picnic area. Return to the start of the trail, where it connects with inland hiking paths. Spot sea otters, seals and birds such as oystercatchers and pelicans. Between December and April, it’s often possible to see migrating grey whales. Sit on one of the benches and gaze out over the Pacific Ocean’s deep blue water. One panel has photos of the waterfalls’ appearance prior to the landslide. Find interpretive panels with information and historical facts about the house. ![]() From here view the remains of a one-time residence now called Waterfall House. Watch as the water spills out of a rock face and splashes onto the isolated and inaccessible beach.Ĭontinue to the end of the trail. Follow the Waterfall Overlook Trail around the cliffs above McWay Cove to a waterfall-facing viewpoint. The falls’ water supply comes from McWay Creek, which runs down from the framing mountains.Įnjoy views of the waterfall and dramatic coastline from the lookout points scattered along a series of walking trails. McWay Falls originally flowed straight into the Pacific Ocean but a landslide in 1983 dropped rocks into the water and thus created the beach. It stands about 80 feet (24 metres) tall in the heart of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. McWay Falls is a picturesque waterfall that cascades directly from a cliff onto the sandy shore of McWay Beach. Just upstream is 30-foot McWay Creek Falls, and on a smaller tributary is Canyon Trail Falls.Walk to this pretty waterfall, stand at viewpoints with superb coastal views and spot varied wildlife in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. Even with this possibility, it is not recommended that people visit the beach as a safety precaution due to crumbling cliffs and to preserve the environment. Although it can be viewed via a trail from above, the beach and scenic cove below is difficult to access by land, however, it could be easily reached by boat. Near its parking lot begins the half-mile Waterfall Trail, a dirt path heading westward toward the ocean, to a short tunnel under Highway 1, a right turn to a trail in the cliffside overlooking a small cove, to the sign "Overlook". The Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is located 37 miles south of Carmel. ![]() In 1961 the approximately 1,800 acre property was donated by Helen Hooper Brown to the state for a park, to be named for Julia Pfeiffer Burns. Christopher McWay homesteaded the canyon in the late 1870s and eventually McWay's Saddle Rock Ranch was sold in the 1920s to Lathrop Brown and his wife, Helen Hooper Brown, who built two houses at Waterfall Overlook. On the edge of McWay Creek is a small building which houses a Pelton wheel, with signs that provide historical facts. The waterfall now meets the ocean when the tide is in. Originally the waterfall cascaded directly into the ocean but after a 1983 fire and 1985 landslides, the topography of McWay Cove was altered, forming an inaccessible beach. The source of the waterfall is McWay Creek and is one of the few waterfalls that empties directly into the ocean. This waterfall is one of only two in the region that are close enough to the ocean to be referred to as "tidefalls", the other being Alamere Falls. McWay Falls is an 80-foot waterfall located in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park that flows year-round. 8/23/2023 0 Comments Terraria fishing locations![]() ![]() It can then be picked up, placed, and used just like any other chest, with 40 slots of storage space. Removing all items from a Gold Chest will allow it to be freed or broken with a pickaxe or drill. Locked Gold Chests require one Golden Key each to open.Īpart from the initial items, Gold Chests function identically to other chests. Gold Chests are found in Underground Cabins in the Underground, Cavern, and Underground Jungle, and are also found as Locked Gold Chests in the Dungeon. Each chest includes one special item, as well as some coins and other more common items. The Gold Chest is a naturally-generated chest, with various loot as its contents. If you liked this guide, check out our other guides on how to get Soul of Night, Zenith Sword, and Ichor in Terraria right here on Gamer Tweak.Not to be confused with the Golden Chest, a drop from the Pirate Invasion. That’s everything covered on how to fish in Terraria. ![]() These are the following items for fishing in lava: With different locations, you also need to equip suitable fishing poles and bait to catch the fish.įor fishing in lava bodies, you need to equip certain fishing poles and baits.These quests involve fishing in different locations like an underground cave, honey, or even Lava.You need to unlock the Angler NPC in your town to get the fishing quests.When you hear a bubbling sound, use the pole to reel the fish out of that pond or lake.Then, you can use the Fishing pole along with the bait to lure the fish.You can stand by the edge of the pond to reel the pole.Once you have a fishing pole and bait, get to a small pond or lake to catch fish.You can place any bait in your ammo slot. ![]() Some examples are Truffle Worm, Butterflies, Ladybugs, Jellyfishes, and more.
8/23/2023 0 Comments Batch resize photos mac![]() Use PhotoBulk to dramatically simplify batch image editing on your Mac. You can use its text watermark or image watermark features to ensure the security of your images. It offers several possibilities to edit your images instantly & effectively. Using its powerful renamer engine, you can easily rename thousands of images while resizing them. It even allows you to set and use presets for easy batch editing on your Mac. It uses Apple Quicktime to save all resized photos so that the quality of the resized photos remains high. Once edited, you can share these images on email, share them on the web or simply upload them on iPod or iPhone. ![]() It supports all major file formats and helps you resize, crop, rename, watermark, rotate or edit images in multiple other ways. Use Sizerox to batch edit thousands of photos in the single drag-and-drop process. ![]() It offers multiple filters including auto contrast, sharpen, auto gamma, brightness, and more. You can use this tool to date stamp image files in batch with their original date & time as taken from the EXIF data. It helps you edit photos in bulk and upload them to Facebook, Flickr, FTP or other sites. It supports converting more than 170+ image formats including TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF and more. Here, you can watch folders to find new or edited images and automatically apply a custom set of edits. It gives you the freedom to monitor and manage bulk photos in a jiffy. It supports multi-core CPUs to help you edit thousands of photos in a single operation. You can use this tool to resize, convert, crop, watermark, rename, date stamp and for plenty of other tasks. This multilingual tool supports translation in more than 20 languages.īatchPhoto helps you perform all repeatable actions easily on bulk photos on your Mac. This multi-platform tool works seamlessly on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Here, you can even export all edits to NConvert for a command line usage. It offers multiple filters and effects to perform the most intensive task in seconds. Using this tool, you can batch edit metadata, rotate, crop, resize and edit images in bulk, adjust image’s brightness, contrast, saturation and more. It works on batch processing module of XnViewMP. This powerful and free cross-platform batch image process helps you perform over 80 types of actions on your system. Try this one of the best bulk image resizer apps to instantly resize and manage your photo collection on Mac. To deal with this situation, we suggest you should use the best images resizer tools to edit images on your Mac. Here, it not only consumes a lot of time, but it takes a lot more efforts as well. Batch editing and resizing images on your system could be a cumbersome task when you need to do it manually. |
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