![]() He concludes that the existence of the prison, with its absurd practices and savage corporal punishments is a tragic fact, both for the prisoners and for Russia. It is a work of great humanity Dostoevsky portrays the inmates of the prison with sympathy for their plight, and also expresses admiration for their energy, ingenuity and talent. ![]() Gradually Goryanchikov overcomes his revulsion at his situation and his fellow convicts, undergoing a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the camp. Life in prison is particularly hard for Aleksandr Petrovich, since he is a "gentleman" and suffers the malice of the other prisoners, nearly all of whom belong to the peasantry. ![]() The narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labour for murdering his wife. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Dostoevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead. The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. Записки из Мёртвого дома = Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma= Souvenirs de Ia maison des morts = The House of the Dead = Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ![]()
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![]() Once that’s complete, the turn moves to the next player.Īlternatively, players can choose to improve a shop through enchantments. ![]() These are shop powers unique to each of the shops revealed after the starting locations. ![]() Depending on which dragon is selected, this could grant the the active player additional resources, an extra card play, or perhaps an extra fire up ability.Īs the final step to the Gather action, the active player can trigger the ability on the shop card printed in a black banner. As the third step of Gathering, the active player can choose any of the fire up abilities from a dragon present in the shop. These rewards are most often a coin or Fancy Dragon, but on the occasion can include victory points or wild resources.Įach Artisan Dragon also has a fire up ability depicted by a small fire icon toward the bottom of the card. If the active player has an Artisan Dragon (brown backed cards) in their hand that matches an empty spot in the shop they occupy, it can be placed there to immediately gain the reward depicted on the slot. Once there, they choose one of two actions: Gather or Enchant.Ĭhoosing to Gather grants each player resources equal to the number of resource icons present on the shop card and Artisan Dragons in that location. The challenge is understanding how to increase the town’s prosperity in a way that helps you, and not your opponents.Īt the start of their turn, the active player must move their dragon meeple to a new shop in town. Regardless of whether a player chooses to Gather or Enchant, the whole town benefits from their decision and every player will have the chance the leverage that growth for their own benefit. On a player’s turn, they must move their dragon worker to a shop on the board and either Gather resources from that shop location or Enchant the shop to make it more valuable for future use. What better way to start than the adorable fall season hit, Flamecraft from Cardboard Alchemy?įlamecraft is a light to medium weight game that uses cute dragons and shops in a quaint town to create a resource engine accessible to all-players. ![]() Now that we’re settled in and setup our dedicated game room, we’re back at it and just in time for Kickstarter season. Between two relocations and a new house, the parts of the WTMG inventory that stay with me saw a lot more travel than table time in the last six months. I’ve been on an fairly long absence from writing reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() The top spot to grab sushi in New Haven is Otaru Sushi Bar. Pacifico is a favorite brunch spot in New Haven. ![]() Run by chef Rafael Palomino from Columbia, you’ll find incredible fusion dishes like a paella palomino, churrasco a la Parilla, and so much more to choose from. It’s located near the Yale Center for British Art and is on two floors, so it’s not super difficult to find a spot to sit when you eat there. Pacifico is an incredible Nuevo-Latino restaurant that’s incredibly fun on the inside. Choose from tapas, traditional entrees, or the Chef’s Tasting Menu, a 5-course meal hard to go wrong at a place where everything is delicious. Head chef Manuel Romero sources ingredients both locally and from countries along the Mediterranean, so authenticity is near impossible to dispute! To eat there, do note that it’s recommended that you wear business casual attire and no tank tops. ![]() The interior is extremely elegant, befitting a great date night with the perfect excuse to dress up a little! Oleaįor the best Mediterranean food in New Haven Connecticut, head to Olea. In addition to fantastic Indiana street food staples, you’ll also find a great cocktail menu, too, with part of drink purchase payments being donated to Save Tigers Now. The menu at Sherkaan Indian Street Food rotates seasonally, so you might find chaat dogs, vada pav sliders, masala dosa, and makhani naan, depending on what time of year you visit. Sherkaan Indian Street Food is all flavor! Pricing is mid-range, and the interior decoration is unique, with bicycles everywhere you look, including hanging from the ceiling! ![]() ![]() ![]() “While our disassembly robot, Daisy, can take apart iPhone devices into distinct components, our newest disassembly robot, Dave, takes the next step – disassembling the Taptic Engine to recover the rare earth magnets inside,” according to the report.Īpple said it has begun deploying Dave robots so that the company’s “specialty recyclers can recover recycled rare earth elements” and other key materials.Īpple first announced Dave and the Taptic Engine’s recycled content last week. The company introduced its latest disassembly robot, named “Dave,” which takes apart the Taptic Engine and other components to recover rare earth elements, steel and tungsten. A pilot project that targeted rare earth magnets resulted in a scaled-up system of recovering these metals. That process began with a team from Apple visiting a supplier in China and examining opportunities for greater materials recovery and reuse. The Taptic Engine, which is used in the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, is now built from 100% recycled rare earth elements. “We’ve also introduced plastics with the strength and resilience needed for protective cases – made with about 40% recycled content,” the report states. As one example, the company pointed to its work developing a plastic with more than 35% recycled content that “offers the advanced acoustic properties needed for speakers.” For example, the MacBook Air with Retina display, introduced a year ago, contains over 40% recycled content.Īpple introduced “more than 100 components with an average of 46% recycled plastic across products released in 2019,” according to the report. Some products contain substantially more than that figure. “Based on supplier reports, 10% of the total material we shipped in products in 2019 came from either recycled or renewable sources, one-third of which has been confirmed through third-party certifications,” Apple wrote. The Cupertino, Calif.-headquartered electronics manufacturer reported its overall recycled content for 2019. The company released the details in its annual sustainability report. | Uladzik Kryhin/ShutterstockĪpple recycled more than 100 million pounds of its devices last year, and it used 10% recycled or renewable materials across its product line. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next to these, Portage will check if the binary package is built using the same USE flags as expected on the client. In this example CPU_FLAGS_X86 can be set to avx f16c mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 in /etc/portage/nf because these flags are supported by both the client and the host User $ cpuid2cpuflags CPU_FLAGS_X86: avx f16c mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 When changing -march to a lower subset for using binary packages on a client, a full recompilation is required to make sure that all binaries are compatible with the client's processor, to save time packages that are not compiled with e.g. When -mtune is not set it defaults to whatever -march is set to. For example, to compile code which is compatible with ivybridge and up but is tuned to run best on skylake set CFLAGS to -march=ivybridge -mtune=skylake. In contrast to -march, the -mtune argument does not prevent code from being executed on other processors. Optionally, it is also possible to set -mtune= some-arch or -mtune=native to tell gcc to tune code to a specific arch. To find which -march's are subsets of others, check the gcc manual, if there is no suitable subset set e.g. However, -mno-rdrnd is included as the client does not support -mrdrnd. mabm and -mrtm are not included as these are not supported but the client. In this example CFLAGS could be set to -march=ivybridge -mno-rdrnd since -march=ivybridge is a full subset of -march=skylake. User $ resolve-march-native -march=ivybridge -mno-rdrnd -param=l1-cache-line-size=64 -param=l1-cache-size=32 -param=l2-cache-size=3072 To use new GPKG format, set the BINPKG_FORMAT value in /etc/portage/nf. ![]() Motivation for the new GPKG format can be found in GLEP 78: Gentoo binary package container format. If users need to create binary packages for the system using older versions of Portage, please keep using the current XPAK format. The new format was completely redesigned to solve issues with the old design and to include new features, therefore no backward compatibility is provided. Starting with portage version 3.0.31, a new binary package format (GPKG) support has been added. 6.3 Understanding the binary package format.6.2 Creating snapshots of the packages directory.4.6 Updating packages on the binary package host.4.4 Reinstalling modified binary packages.4.3 Pulling packages from a binary package host. ![]() 4.2 Verify binary package's OpenPGP signature.2.4 Excluding creation of some packages.2.3 Implementing buildpkg as a Portage feature.2.2 Using -buildpkg as an emerge option.Near the end, a few more advanced topics on dealing with binary packages will be covered. This guide will focus on the following topics: Binaries packages also avoid failures in build processes since they are pre-compiled. It is usually helpful to install binary packages on old systems because they do not require build time dependencies to be installed/updated. The task of updating very old systems can be greatly eased using binary packages. Having pre-compiled binaries around either on a binary package server or locally can be of great help in case of a broken toolchain. Often binary packages are the only way of recovering a broken system (i.e. A variant of this approach is to do the updates in a chroot on the same system and use the binaries created there on the real system. Once the staging server is in a good state the updates can then be applied to the critical systems. This can be done by a staging server that performs all updates first to itself. For mission-critical systems in production it is important to stay usable as much as possible. Maintaining several similar systems, possibly some of them with older hardware, can be much easier if only one system has to compile everything from source and the other systems use the binary packages. Having to compile everything from source can become time consuming. Save time when keeping similar systems updated.There are many reasons why some system administrators like using binary packages for software installations on Gentoo: This guide explains how to create them, install them, and how to setup a binary package server. Next to the usual support for source-based ebuilds, Portage also supports building and installing binary packages. There now exists nf, which the Portage man page says is intended to be used as a replacement for PORTAGE_BINHOST. This guide uses the PORTAGE_BINHOST variable to configure binhosts. ![]() ![]() ![]() To register an image using a reference file, click the Load File button and navigate to the folder containing the file. In the case of GeoTIFF images, the MAP View coordinate system is automatically read from the image header-for other image formats, the coordinate system has to be specified manually in the MAP View Editor after the registration process (see more information on Specify coordinate system). When creating a new MAP View, the anchor point and scale are derived from the registration information (placement and image size). It is recommended to use the Image feature type for image registration and for better layer management and workflow. In either case, the Image feature type is the only one available for rasters. Choose either to create a new MAP View based on the image or choose to add the image to an existing MAP View. If the raster image was not imported to a MAP Layer, the Undefined Layer dialog box will appear. If the image is placed on a MAP Layer, the Register Image automatically registers the image using the coordinate system of the MAP View containing that MAP Layer. ![]() With an image selected, click the Register Image button on the MAPublisher toolbar or from the menu Object > MAPublisher > Register Image. Using an embedded, unflattened image with an existing transparency may result in incorrect registration. It will treat images that may have multiple layers as grouped objects and will prevent it from being registered properly. When placing an image, do not use the Convert Layers to Objects option. Register Image can be used on non-spatially referenced images that are already imported to the artboard using the Adobe Illustrator Place command (File > Place) or through Import as an Image feature type. Depending on the image format, check the position and coordinate system of imagery with the data provider before attempting to use this tool. The commonly used GeoTIFF format is embedded with geographic information such as position and coordinate system. Some raster image formats store the relationship between source image coordinates (pixel location) and real-world reference coordinates in an associated reference file but do not save the coordinate system information (e.g. To use Register Image, the geospatial properties of the raster image must be known. Use a product like Avenza Geographic Imager to transform images. Register Image does not have the capability to transform images from one coordinate system to another. If no matching vector data is found in the document, a new MAP view can be created to store the cartographic information of the image to allow for data digitization with accurate positioning. If the coordinate system of an image matches one of existing vector data, the image can be scaled and rotated to fit with the vector data. Register Image uses a coordinate system and coordinates-entered manually or loaded from a reference file-to properly georeference and scale an image. Register Image applies geospatial referencing to images imported to the artboard. ![]() ![]() One immediate plan is to remove the built-in relay, which seems not very useful, only to add manufacturing cost. ![]() This is the time that your opinions will be factored into the future of OpenSprinklerīesides the additional new features, we are also planning to remove some features which are rarely used. If you have suggestions about desired hardware changes, please feel free to let me know. It seems that adopting ATmega1284 is the most straightforward solution - it’s totally pin compatible with the current ATmega644, but doubles the flash memory space and quadruples RAM size. So the cloud support will likely not happen until OpenSprinkler 3.0 comes into place. For example, for cloud-support, we’ve come to the conclusion that it will require an upgraded microcontroller due to the resource limitations of the current hardware. Some of these are purely software, but some will entail hardware changes. Adding firmware support for using sensors (either digital or analog) to trigger sprinkler events. ![]() Improve the scheduling algorithm to better handle overlapping schedules using a queue.Support for soil moisture sensor and flow sense (at least flow estimation).Getting OpenSprinkler certified by the EPA WaterSense program (which requires ET-based water time calculation).There are quite a few things on our todo list. For the security-minded, I admit that this is far from sufficient, but better than before.įor OSPi/OSBo, all features currently implemented on the OS, such as individual station water time, Zimmerman’s weather-based water adjustment, and support for radio frequency stations, are also immediately available for OSPi/OSBo.ĭetails on this firmware and how to upgrade OS/OSPi/OSBo to use this firmware can be found in this forum post. Another change is the support for MD5 hashed password, which attempts to address the previous plain-text password to some extent. The program preview will also take into account the sunrise/sunset time of a specific day. Specifically, the program’s first start time (and any of the additional start times) can be defined using sunrise/sunset time +/- an offset (in steps of minutes) up to 4 hours. The main added new feature of this firmware is the support of using sunrise/sunset times in program settings. However, as I said, the point is to make the three platforms maximally compatible, so that any new features introduced in OS will be simultaneously available to OSPi and OSBo. Folks may find C++ based programs less friendly to modify than Dan’s Python-based interval_program. Other than these, the code is largely shared between them, making it easy to extend in the future. Also, OSPi/OSBo uses the standard socket to handle Ethernet communication, while OS uses an Arduino EtherCard library. The major differences are that on OS, all non-volatile memory data (such as options, program settings) are stored in EEPROM, while for OSPi/OSBO, these are stored in a local file, which simulates EEPROM. It’s done this way to share the code between OS, OSPi and OSBo as much as possible. Technically, the unified firmware is written in C++. The purpose is to make a fully consistent firmware for OS, OSPi and OSBo, so that the same firmware and same features are available on all of them. The cross-platform idea was inspired by Rich Zimmerman’s sprinklers_pi program. The biggest benefit of this firmware is that it’s cross-platform - it can compile and run on all OpenSprinkler hardware platforms, including the standard OpenSprinkler (OS), OpenSprinkler Pi (OSPi), and OpenSprinkler Beagle (OSBo). Next, we just released the first version of the Unified OpenSprinkler Firmware, numbered 2.1.3. I only wish that Cyrus Farivar, the author, had talked about the microcontorller-based OpenSprinkler as well, because appearance-wise it looks more elegant. That caused a huge spike of orders, but we managed. ![]() ![]() First of all, OpenSprinkler Pi got blogged by Ars Technica, which is super cool. This post is to give you some recent updates on OpenSprinkler and upcoming plans. Hey, it’s March already, that means spring will be here soon! Amid an unusually cold winter and freezing weather this winter in New England, we’re finally starting to see some warm winter days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And with the Shell command, you guessed it, you can display any information that you can Script, AUK and/or GREP from your command line.Įach of these text information sources can be modified to be any size and use any font, style or colors that you would like, Below is a screenshot of how a couple of users use of the text and images to create an amazing way to display information on your screen.Īlong with the default content display options, there are many additional “geeklets” or Geektool Plugins to expand and enhance your desktop viewing pleasure.Īnd best of all this little tool is Open Source, so dive in, Download Geektool, and get started Geeking out your desktop. GeekTool - Current Weather mac geektool weather python By Ryoken Januin Tips, Tweaks & Customization Share Ryoken 3,492 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada OS: Windows 10 Phone: iPhone. Keep an eye on your Mac's inner workings with the. With the Image Plugin you can display any image from your computer or from a URL out on the internet. With GeekTool you can monitor your Mac using default system logs and a couple of old school Unix commands. ![]() This allows you to display the realtime information from any file on your Mac, like Log Files or maybe a ToDo list and similar files. GeekTool (someone else's great program) is a Mac system preference pane application that puts things on your desktop background, where things are images, files, and scripts (my favorite). It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins: File plugin to monitor MacOS X. The latest installation package occupies 7.1 MB on disk. The latest version of the program can be downloaded for Mac OS X 10.6 or later. The bundle identifier for this application is. The default forms of information that GeekTool supports are Files, Images, and Shell Commands. In this week’s video, I look at GeekTool, a free system utility that lets you display images, text files, and the output of Unix commands on your desktop (or floating above other windows). GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. GeekTool for Mac is sometimes referred to as 'GeekTool.prefPane', 'GeekTool Uninstall', 'GeekTool Uninstaller'. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins: file plugin to monitor. GeekTool is a very unique little application, it allows you to take virtually any form of information and display it on your desktop. GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: If you are a bit hazy about co-ordinate (dative covalent) bonding you could follow this link before you go on. The problem is that it contains a co-ordinate (dative covalent) bond. The nitrate ion is distinctly awkward and there isn't any simple way of working out its shape. The double bond unit and the two single bonds arrange themselves as far apart as possible in a trigonal planar arrangement. Two of the pairs of electrons make up a single unit - the double bond. There are 4 pairs of electrons, and the carbon is forming 4 bonds - so there aren't any lone pairs to worry about. Once again, you don't need to add any electrons for the negative charges because those charges aren't on the carbon. The carbon has 4 outer electrons, and the four bonds to the oxygens add another 4 - making 8 in total. All the carbon-oxygen bonds are identical, and the two negative charges are spread over the three oxygens. Taking chemistry further: Again, this is a simplification. Like the sulphate ion, the negative charges are again found on two of the oxygen atoms. The two double bond units, and the two single bonds arrange themselves as far apart as possible to give a tetrahedralarrangement. You don't have to add any electrons for the negative charges, because those charges aren't found on the sulphur atom.īecause there are 6 pairs of electrons, and a total of 6 bonds, all the pairs of electrons are bonding pairs - there aren't any lone pairs.Įach double bond accounts for 2 of those pairs, and can be thought of as a single unit. ![]() It is forming six bonds to the various oxygens, so that adds a further 6 electrons, making 12 in all. The sulphur is in Group 6 and so has 6 outer electrons. The ion has some complicated delocalisation. Taking chemistry further: In fact, all the four sulphur-oxygen bonds are identical, and the two negative charges are spread out over all four of the oxygens. The negative charges are found on two of the oxygen atoms. That means that the shapes are all pretty obvious as long as you know the bonding. In the three ions you might need to know about, not one of them has a lone pair on the central atom. Check your syllabus to find out whether you really need to bother about all this.įortunately, there is a simplifying factor. Before you can do anything else, you need to know exactly how the ion is bonded - which bonds are double, which bonds are single, and where the charges are. The shapes of ions containing double bonds In this case, our original structure misrepresented the shape. There are 2 double bond units and 1 lone pair, which will try to get as far apart as possible - taking up a trigonal planar arrangement.īecause the lone pair isn't counted when you describe the shape, SO 2 is described as bent or V-shaped. Each double bond uses 2 bond pairs and can be thought of as a single unit. 4 pairs are needed for the bonds, leaving 1 lone pair. That gives 10 electrons in total - 5 pairs. ![]() Sulphur has 6 electrons in its outer level, and the oxygens between them contribute another 4 (1 for each bond). The argument develops differently though. Sulphur dioxide could be drawn exactly the same as carbon dioxide (again without making any assumptions about the shape): The structure we've drawn above does in fact represent the shape of the molecule. Those two double bond units will try to get as far apart as possible, and so the molecule is linear. Because there are 4 bonds, these are all bond pairs.Įach double bond uses 2 bond pairs - which are then thought of as a single unit. That means there are a total of 8 electrons around the carbon, in 4 pairs. Each oxygen contributes 2 electrons - 1 for each bond. The carbon originally had 4 electrons in its outer level (group 4). The shapes of simple molecules containing double bondsĬarbon dioxide could be drawn (without making any assumptions about the shape) as Important! If you have come straight to this page via a search engine, you should read about the shapes of more simple molecules and ions before you go on. It assumes that you have just read the page on shapes of molecules and ions containing only single bonds. This page explains how to work out the shapes of molecules and ions containing double bonds. SHAPES OF MOLECULES AND IONS CONTAINING DOUBLE BONDS Shapes of molecules and ions containing double bonds ![]() ![]() ![]() Elberse outlines the implications of her research for producers and retailers, and offers strategic advice to both groups. What she found may surprise you: Blockbusters are capturing even more of the market than they used to, and consumers in the tail don’t really like niche products much. She focused on the music and home-video industries-two markets that Anderson and others frequently hold up as examples of the long tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. The “tail” of the sales distribution curve, he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable.Įlberse, a professor at Harvard Business School, set out to investigate whether Anderson’s long-tail theory is actually playing out in today’s markets. In his 2006 book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, argues that the sudden availability of niche offerings more closely tailored to their tastes will lure consumers away from homogenized hits. What does that mean for the blockbuster strategy? But online retailing and the digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits will carry the rest of their lists. Hi Scapa, for V2's release we decided to try going directly to YouTube as it allows us to iterate quicker on video work and be more reactive to what users are after-it was one in several factors contributing to these new videos moving forward.The blockbuster strategy is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. Using the Playlists I find it way harder to find what I'm looking for + more clicks than necessary (Click on basic > new page opens > first video starts playing > disturbs from searching through the playlist).Īgain, nothing wrong with the content itself, great as always. Not to forget, Googles never ending experiment with changing the UI and UX of the YouTube Website. YouTube Playlist are - sorry - a mess, at best. One thing though: Can we please have them back on the affinity website? That was such a clean and clear overview with the well sized thumbnails. Thanks for another set of great tutorials. Astrophotography: File Groups (New: 18/05/23).High Dynamic Range Workflows (best viewed on an HDR supported display or device). ![]() Unassociated Alpha and Alpha Render Passes.Astrophotography: Linear Fit (New: 18/05/23). ![]() Procedural Texture: Non Destructive HDR Tone Mapping.Masking Adjustment & Live Filter Layers.PSD/PSB import, export and smart object functionality.Blend Options: Ranges, Antialiasing and Fill Opacity.What's New in V2 of Affinity Photo for iPad.Hope you all find the new tutorials useful! The link for this playlist is available at the bottom of this post. ![]() Hopefully you all agree! The old V1 videos-now considered legacy-are still available on YouTube, consolidated into one playlist. We've worked incredibly hard on these videos, and feel they represent a huge jump in both technical and presentational quality. These tutorials are all produced in-house by our Product Experts team. Hello all, we're proud to announce that alongside the V2 launch of the Affinity apps, we've produced a completely new set of video tutorials to compliment the apps. ![]() |
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