![]() Thyme is not only a member of the mint plant family but also an aromatic evergreen perennial shrub. This method will help keep thyme fresh for the next 2 weeks. Then just place the bag with thyme inside the refrigerator and use it when needed. The paper towel method: This method involves wrapping fresh thyme in a paper towel that is just slightly damp and then placing it in a plastic bag that is decently large so that the leaves don’t get crushed. If you store thyme in this way it will last around two weeks. When you notice that the water is starting to discolor or several days have passed, change the water in the jar. Cover the jar of thyme loosely with a plastic bag and then just store it in the refrigerator. The jar method: This method involves filling of a water glass or jar with water and then placing the stem ends of thyme in water without washing them. Keep in mind that thyme is somewhat woodier among herbs, which means that it should be kept either using the jar method or the paper towel method. where it can be kept for the next two months and used at will. remove the cubes with thyme leaves in them and move them into a Ziploc bag. Put the tray in the freezer for the next couple of days and then take it out. Then take an ice cube tray and just fill its ice cube cavities with thyme leaves and top everything off with water. If you want to freeze it, just remove its leaves, and then you can simply discard of the stems. If you’re still struggling to convert between different measurements of thyme, then you can always use the converter you can find below. ![]() So by now, it should be clear enough that a bunch of thyme will weigh about one ounce, which translates into about 6 tablespoons of thyme leaves. ![]() It was also used in ancient Egypt in the mummification process, along with other herbs. You might also like our articles on the weight of mint, cilantro, and onions.Īs you probably know, fresh thyme doesn’t have the intense flavor dried thyme has, which is why, when trying to switch between them, you should use a ratio of 3 tablespoons of fresh herbs to 1 tablespoon of dried ones.Īn interesting fact is that thyme actually belongs to the mint plant family and is one of the aromatic herbs. If instead, you are buying them from the grocery store, you can always use the scale they provide there. If you’re growing your own thyme, then a kitchen scale might be of great help in figuring out the weight of the thyme bunches. Our tests led us to the conclusion that you would get a cup of chopped thyme herbs from about 2.7 bunches of thyme. For this, we used a one-ounce bunch of thyme. We then went ahead and tried to find out how many thyme bunches you’d actually need to get certain amounts of chopped thyme leaves. In this weight, you will usually get about 44 springs of thyme. Based on our calculations, a bunch of thyme you can get from the store will weigh around an ounce. This makes using thyme in recipes quite difficult.Īs we did so many times in the past, to get a better idea of what a bunch of thyme actually means, we went straight to the closest grocery store and bought a few bunches. Considering that a lot of people grow their own thyme and make bunches of different sizes out of it and each store has its own preferred weight for these bunches, a bunch can vary quite a lot in size. ![]() ![]() Although quite a few recipes talk about using a bunch of thyme, a lot of people don’t understand how much thyme is actually in the bunch. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Repeat at the opposite end of your board. As you approach the curved end of your board you may need to apply more heat in order to bend the strip around the curve properly. Heat the LED strip and board at the location of application just before applying to the board (This ensures a strong adhesive binding to the board). If your LED strip is on or over the edge of your snowboard, icy conditions can easily damage the LED strip by grinding away at the silicone as you go down the hill. This way when your board collides with an object, that object makes contact with the snowboard and NOT your LED strip. Keep the LED strip at least 1/8" from the edge of your snowboard. ![]() Ensure you have the input of your LED strip, now start adhering it to your snowboard starting at the edge of the zip tie mount (This is where the LED strip will connect to the battery/controller). It is preferred to start from a slightly closer distance to the binding that will always be strapped in while riding (This zip tie mount is used to prevent unwanted tension on the LED strip connector wire). Adhering the LED Strip: Begin by applying the adhesive backed zip tie mount just before the location where the LED strip will begin.*If you need help removing your bindings tryout this video I found on Youtube.This is very important because it removes dust and unwanted oils, allowing for the 3M tape to adhere properly to the board. ![]() Snowboard Preparation: Remove the bindings from your board and make sure you thoroughly clean the edges and center of the board with rubbing alcohol.Hopefully you now understand what end of the strip is the input, starting with the input, you now need to outline your snowboard: The use of a female input also makes it nearly impossible to crush the input connector! Here is link if anyone is interested! Making it impossible to connect the LED strips in the wrong direction. The LED strip now has a 3-pin female input and male output. Since this tutorial was posted earlier this year I have upgraded the RF controllers and LED strip used. Therefore, there is only one flow of traffic (data on the LED strip). Now imagine there is no alternative road that allows traffic to flow in the opposite direction. Picture yourself driving on the express way, your car is the data and all of the exits are the LEDs. What makes this possible is the flow of data from one LED to the next in line telling each one what color its supposed to be. Why do LED Strips Have Direction: The LEDs in these strips are individually addressable that simply means they are capable of changing colors independent from each other.This is essentially the same thing without the arrows, you have an in and an out for the LED strip. This DI stands for Data In, if you have ever used flowing/chasing/WS2811 LED strips you have seen the arrows on the LED strip showing the direction of the data. How to Identify LED In: As seen in the photo above, the input of the LED strip can be identified by the (DI) where the wiring connects to the LED strip.If you end up adhering the LED strip in the wrong direction the only way to fix that is to manually solder an input to the LED strip or buy an entire new strip. If you connect to the output of the LEDs they WILL NOT LIGHT UP. LED In, Not LED Out : One thing to remember about these LED strands is that they have an input and an output.Now this may vary depending on what type of LED Strand you used, I will be using 5-pin waterproof barrel connectors, many of the other LED strips on the market use the same 3-Pin JST connectors listed above.īefore Installing Your LED Strip Pay Attention To:.3-Pin Female JST Connector (For connecting to the RF controller).Right Angle Male DC Power 5.5mm x 2.1mm Cables (Connects to Battery).Above ive provided a diagram of how the wires need to be soldered together. ![]() If you dont want to go through the hassle of building this splitter i've included it into the kit i mentioned in the last step. The only piece of this project that I was not able to find an easy solution too was the splitter that connects the RF controller, the battery and the extension wire than runs down your snowboard. ![]() ![]() ![]() This results in what is called the cis and trans isomerism in alkenes which, again, we will talk about in organic chemistry.Īs a shortcut to recognizing the sigma and pi bonds, you can remember that in multiple bonds (double or triple), there is always one sigma bond, and the remaining are pi bonds. ![]() This is why in organic chemistry, you will see reactions involving breaking pi bonds far more often than sigma bonds as they are broken much easier.Īn interesting feature distinguishing sigma and pi bonds is the former is characterized by free rotation about the bond axis, while the presence of a pi bond restricts this, and the atoms are locked in their position relative to the double bond. The side-to-side orbital overlap allows a less efficient electron sharing, and therefore, p bonds are generally weaker than sigma bonds. * The angle between the plane and p orbitals is 90 o. * All the atoms on the double bond are in one plane. Here are some key parameters about the sp 2 hybridization and double bonds that you need to know: In each double bond, there is one sigma and one π bond. So, the two carbons in ethylene, which is the first member of the alkene family, are double-bonded. The two carbons are sp 2-hybridized where the sp 2 orbitals overlap to form the sigma bond, and the unhybridized p orbitals form the pi bond. The pi bond is formed by a side-to-side overlap of two p orbitals provided by adjacent atoms. On the other hand, in ethene, or ethylene (C 2H 4), there is one sigma and one pi bond between the two carbon atoms: For example, the single bond between the two carbons in ethane (C 2H 6) is a sigma bond because it is formed by overlapping two sp 3 orbitals of the adjacent carbon atoms: In short, you can remember that single bonds are sigma bonds. The bonds that form by the head-on overlap of orbitals are called σ (sigma) bonds because the electron density is concentrated on the axis connecting the two atoms. Now, there are two types of covalent bonds: sigma ( σ) and pi (π) bonds. We mentioned in the previous post that covalent bonds are formed as a result of sharing two valence electrons in overlapping orbitals of two atoms.įor example, the following Lewis structures represent covalent bonds together with some lone pairs of electrons: ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only did the release mark the start of Crosstown Rebel’s most acclaimed year, but it also kick started Fosky’s rise to prominence and also launched a fruitful partnership with Guti which even saw Fosky appearing on Guti’s stunning album, Patio de Juegos. His career took shape almost immediately as his early production, the divine “Shiva” gained the attention of Damian Lazarus, leading to an inclusion on the Crosstown Rebels founder’s Get Lost 4 mix and eventually a full EP alongside fellow South American Guti. ![]() The lure of electronic music soon beckoned though and by 2010, Fosky had landed in the musical melting pot of Berlin.! ![]() His own creativeness was cultivated in his early stages of development and fostered itself in an initial career as a photographer. Brought up in a creative environment, he was immersed in culture from a young age, with particular exposure to traditional Argentinean Tango, contemporary visual art and avant- garde theatre. Killer productions for Crosstown Rebels, Desolat, Intec, VIVa MUSiC and Circus alongside standout DJ performances at Sonar and WMC propelled him from burgeoning apprentice to the real deal in just a couple of short, hedonistic years.!įrom the outside his success comes as no surprise. SAN MATEO, Calif., Ma(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Backblaze, Inc.Argentine DJ and producer Fosky evolved from rising talent to essential player on the modern house scene with both speed and personality. (Nasdaq: BLZE), a leading independent storage cloud platform, and CTERA, a leader in distributed cloud file storage for enterprises, announce a partnership to make life easier for IT admins challenged by on-premises file server and NAS management in an age of rapidly expanding remote workforces and global collaboration. ![]() The Backblaze and CTERA partnership provides a modern, all-in-one, cloud file storage solution that extends and expands the capabilities of traditional NAS and file servers in the cloud-freeing IT teams to do more with the resources typically reserved for troubleshooting or replacing on-premises hardware. “We’re seeing a massive shift from traditional NAS to cloud NAS and from edge to core access as organizations evolve and expand,” Oded Nagel, Chief Strategy Officer of CTERA, observed. The Backblaze-CTERA partnership establishes a compelling, new, cost-effective storage option for companies that wish to tier their data to the cloud for redundancy and collaboration.” “CTERA is committed to providing the widest choice of cloud to our customers. The partnership combines CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform for distributed cloud file services on top of Backblaze B2’s object storage to deliver a cloud-based global file system, allowing IT admins to:Įxpand the capacity of existing on-premises infrastructure. Retire legacy file servers and NAS devices altogether.Įmpower remote workforces and multi-site collaboration.Įstablish resilient disaster recovery and business continuity plans.īack up data distributed globally in one centralized store, while maintaining instant (via CTERA’s Edge Filers) and reliable access (via Backblaze’s 99.9% uptime SLA). ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also supported by both Amazon Echo and Google Nest smart speakers for voice control. ![]() There are apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation and plenty of smart TVs. ![]() Spotify vs YouTube Music: ConnectivityĪs Spotify spent many years after its 2008 launch without any serious rivals, the company used its market dominance to offer support pretty much anywhere you might want to listen to music. Google once said it had no plans to go any higher than this or to introduce lossless streaming, but that was four years ago now, so never say never. YouTube Music, meanwhile, reveals on its support page that the max sound quality is a bitrate of 256kbps AAC. It's been in the works since 2021, but its release date is still unknown. With Spotify Premium, you can stream in up to 320kbps quality, and that will soon be improved with the introduction of Spotify HiFi to offer CD quality lossless audio. While it loses out against Tidal, Apple Music and Amazon Music Unlimited, against YouTube Music, Spotify can finally chalk up a win on sound quality. On the other hand, a song’s presence may not be signed off by the artist/label which means it may not be there for long, and the abundance of unofficial and low-quality versions could make finding what you want a frustrating experience. This is very much a mixed blessing: on the one hand, you get a ridiculous amount of music and you’re very likely to find what you’re looking for - even obscure tracks from labels no longer around to make deals with streaming services. While YouTube Music has deals in place with the major record labels to ensure that all the albums you could want are available, it’s also a user-generated content site, which means all sorts of stuff is constantly being uploaded by fans including live recordings, amateur covers and remixes. YouTube Music doesn’t provide any data here, but that might be because it’s near impossible to track. Back in February 2021, the company revealed it had more than 70 million tracks on the service, but given it supposedly adds 60,000 songs a day, it has likely passed the 90 million mark by now. Neither are particularly transparent about the size of their libraries, but it’s easier to hazard a guess with Spotify. For $11.99/$17.99 a month, this feels like a no brainer if you consume a lot of YouTube. This not only pays for two Premium accounts, but compiles a shared playlist mixing up each partners’ most played songs, which is a nice touch.īut YouTube Music has one particularly strong trick up its sleeve: for an extra $2 per month, you can add YouTube Premium to your plan, which removes ads from regular YouTube and allows subscribers to watch YouTube Originals content. Spotify also has a rather neat option for couples that live together called “Duo” priced at $12.99 per month. Both also offer a family plan that covers up to six members of a household: it’s $14.99 for YouTube Music and $15.99 for Spotify. Like pretty much every other music streamer out there, the default price for the two services is $9.99 per month, with a discounted $99.99 per year option and a $4.99-per-month tier for students. Obviously if you primarily listen to music on your desktop PC this will be of little benefit, but for mobile users it’s essential. Subscribing fixes the drawbacks for both, as well as allowing the downloading of tracks for offline play.īut for YouTube Music, the real game changer is the introduction of background play, which allows the music to keep playing on your phone or tablet while you use other apps or turn your screen off. ![]() ![]() Generally requires more storage space (96 bits or higher) to make reasonable uniqueness guarantees.If you use a timestamp as the first component of the ID, the IDs remain time-sortable.Each application thread generates IDs independently, minimizing points of failure and contention for ID generation.Another popular approach is to use UUIDs. For example, MongoDB’s ObjectId, which is 12 bytes long and encodes the timestamp as the first component. This approach leaves ID generation entirely up to your application, and not up to the database at all. Many existing solutions to the ID generation problem exist here are a few we considered: Generate IDs in web application The system should introduce as few new ‘moving parts’ as possible-a large part of how we’ve been able to scale Instagram with very few engineers is by choosing simple, easy-to-understand solutions that we trust.IDs should ideally be 64 bits (for smaller indexes, and better storage in systems like Redis).Generated IDs should be sortable by time (so a list of photo IDs, for example, could be sorted without fetching more information about the photos).The rest of this blog post addresses how we tackled this issue.īefore starting out, we listed out what features were essential in our system: The typical solution that works for a single database-just using a database’s natural auto-incrementing primary key feature-no longer works when data is being inserted into many databases at the same time. ![]() We evaluated a few different NoSQL solutions, but ultimately decided that the solution that best suited our needs would be to shard our data across a set of PostgreSQL servers.īefore writing data into this set of servers, however, we had to solve the issue of how to assign unique identifiers to each piece of data in the database (for example, each photo posted in our system). ![]() Our first question after deciding to shard out our data was whether PostgreSQL should remain our primary data-store, or whether we should switch to something else. Our application servers run Django with PostgreSQL as our back-end database. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data-in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data. With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. ![]() ![]() In animated films like Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, some of that success has also carried over to feature-length projects. The success of that series, which ran for 85 episodes until its conclusion in 1995, paved the way for subsequent animated TV shows like Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and Teen Titans. ![]() But even as the vast majority of DC’s live-action projects continue to flop in theaters, the DC Universe is thriving on the small screen in the world of animation, with the latest standouts being Harley Quinn and My Adventures With Superman.īeginning with Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: The Animated Series in 1992, DC has had a rich history in animated storytelling under Warner Bros. What with recent box office bombs like The Flash, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and Black Adam, the transition from the former DC Films regime to the DC Studios era under the direction of James Gunn and Peter Safran has been a costly mess, with every misfire further diminishing the brand’s credibility. Overall, watchable but unexceptional.Next year, the rollout of a new cinematic and TV universe will offer a fresh on-screen start for DC, but in 2023, the old DC Extended Universe is still in its death throes. The clock characters are not that memorable, apart from the wise grandfather clock who is quite likeable. The dialogue is pretty corny, while humour is sorely lacking with far too few gags and next to no laughs (the little that there are are so forgettable it is easy to mistake the cartoon from being humourless). The live action sequence is a little too sugary sweet for my tastes and is fairly dull, despite the cute if slightly cloying children. Not making the live action sequence so long would have helped things. The pace is uneven, some of it is zesty and then other parts drag aimlessly, making the longer than usual for Van Beuren and most cartoons actually at the time but still quite short seem longer. What little there is of story, which is right at the beginning pretty much, is nothing new. However, the story is paper thin and doesn't really go anywhere, basically just a series of scenes. Synchronisation and sound is neat, there is some charm here, some of the pace is lively and the voice work is good. The live action also isn't too badly shot, again while not amazing it was pretty nice. The clock designs are interesting and Clockland is a setting that one does immerse themselves into easily and used imaginatively. While the animation was not amazing, for black and white Van Beuren it could have been far worse. It is beautifully and cleverly orchestrated, full of energy, great fun to listen to and it not only adds a huge deal to what is going on it also enhances it. The best asset is the music, which was outstanding. There is also not much special or note-worthy here. It is a very watchable cartoon and nothing offends. Under review here is the first of the three cartoons 'Grandfather's Clock'. The series was named "Burt Gillett's Toddle Tales" and while none of the three cartoons are terrible (far from it, Van Beuren certainly did far worse), it is also not hard to see why it was short lived and more were not made. In 1934, the studio made three cartoons mixing animation and live action, besides 'Grandfather's Clock' there was also 'Along Came a Duck' and 'A Little Bird Told Me'. Although they are often poorly animated with barely existent stories and less than compelling lead characters, they are also often outstandingly scored, there can be some fun support characters and some are well-timed and amusing. ![]() Van Beuren cartoons are extremely variable, especially in the number of gags and whether the absurdist humour shines through enough (sometimes it does, other times it doesn't), but are strangely interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is easy to assume that if you have red status or above in VIFP and are entitled to a free bottle of water, these must be your free water for you and your companion. TIP #2 – in your cabin are 2 bottles of water. Unlike my recent cruise on MSC Divina, it was no problem to get an extension cord, fan and extra pillows. Having a sofa in the room makes a huge difference! Our cabin steward, Aldrin, did great. So it was nice that we could both take showers or get ready at the same time. One was the standard bathroom with sink, shower and toilet and next to it, with a separate door into the cabin, was a slightly smaller bathroom that had a sink and a “junior bathtub”. We had a window and essentially 2 bathrooms. Our cabin was a Deluxe Ocean View and was great. Free buffet in Pig and Anchor is also available on Sea Days. Turn left and the buffet is there with great food from the Pig and Anchor. ![]() Go to Pig and Anchor and walk through the restaurant to exit the restaurant onto the deck. No one really tells you about the great free buffet in the Pig and Anchor on Deck 5. TIP #1 – everyone directs you to the Lido deck buffet on floor 10. The check-in at the final desk was very swift and easy. ![]() but all went pretty smoothly and rapidly. It was a jumbled mess of organized chaos getting through the security, COVID checks, etc. This time the boarding process was much smoother and there were no long lines outside. See my review about it here ( ) and basically see that I learned my lesson and if I ever cruise out of Miami again, I am paying the extra and parking at the port. Short version of my review is that it was a wonderful cruise.įor parking in Miami though, that was a nightmare. That review is here ( ) We just got off of the Horizon for a Thanksgiving cruise (Nov 21-27). We were on the Carnival Horizon for our 35 th anniversary in August. ![]() ![]() ![]() Modify the friendly names for the new Activity.įAQs I'm having trouble linking my account You do not need to disable and re-link your account unless you'd like to You will have to tap Forget beside any deleted device names within the "Yourĭevices" section to notify Alexa to forget past names.Īfter creating a new Activity using the Logitech Harmony app Once complete, be sure to say "Alexa, discover devices" so Alexa becomes aware of the new or You may add, delete or rename any of these. Previously saved friendly names will be shown. You'll be prompted to sign into your Harmony account where all your Tap Disable SkillĪnd then tap Enable Skill. > Your Skills, then scroll down and tap on the Harmony logo. You may view, add, delete or adjust any of your Harmony Activity, Favorite TV or satellite station or Roku channel friendly names using Try saying, "Alexa, ask Harmony to turn on the TV".Ĭustomize Creating or updating friendly names You're now ready to control your entertainment devices with your voice. Click LINK ACCOUNT at the bottom of your final screen to complete set up.Or, "Alexa, ask Harmony to turn on the movie channel" could switch over to your.Stereo to the correct input and tune your cable box to Sky Sports. For example, "Alexa, ask Harmony to turn on sports" would turn on your TV, set your.If you have cable or satellite, then you can also allow Alexa to jump directly to those channels."Play a Game", you might set your friendly names to "Xbox" or "PS4" so you can say, "Alexa, ask Harmony to turn on Tap the search result, and then ENABLE.Click LINK ACCOUNT at the bottom of your the screen, followed by DISCOVER DEVICES.Turn on Netflix" can switch to your Watch Roku Activity and automatically launch the Netflix channel. If you have Roku device then you can also allow Alexa to jump directly to those channels.This step is enabledįor those who have already configured Favorite You may set up friendly names for your Favorite TV Channels.For your security, Activities containing door locks cannot be controlled by voice and.Uncheck the box if you don't want Alexa to control a particular Activity.Select the "Add Friendly Name" button beside your Activity to set up one or more."Play a Game", you might set your friendly names to "Xbox" or "PS4" so you can say, "Alexa, turn on the Xbox." For example, if your Harmony Activity name is You're able to set friendly names for each of your Activities.To log into your Harmony account support article. If you're still having trouble then visit our how Logins when setting up your remote, then select the same. If you created a username or password then select that option. When prompted to log into your Harmony account be sure to select the same method used when first setting up.Tap the search result for the blue Harmony skill, and then ENABLE.Using the Amazon Alexa app, navigate to Menu > Skills & Games. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon your students will start to sing along with you as they transition. Just change the name of the activity each time you sing it. The following chant is simple and does the trick: Say something like “It’s almost time for Math I’m going to move the clip down to Math in two minutes.” Sing a quick chant or song when it’s time to transition to re-direct the student’s attention. Then, reference the chart each and every time you transition from one activity to the next. Next, place the picture cards in the order in which they occur, first to last. A picture schedule will help you add more learning into your day so you can help your students meet the standards.įirst, hang the chart or cards in your large group area, at the student’s eye level. If you add up all the instructional minutes lost throughout the year you’ll be shocked. Just think, if you waste 5 minutes on average per transition and you have 8-12 transitions in a day (maybe more) that adds up quickly! When they are familiar with the routine you will save time on transitions and gain time for learning. The two to five minute gentle reminder paired with the physical movement of the clip and the song helps them with the transition process.Įstablish a Consistent Routine with a Picture ScheduleĪ picture schedule can help your students learn the routines and procedures more quickly. ![]() Those students who have difficulty “finishing” a task and moving on to the next.How many times have you heard “I want to see my mommy!” on the first day of school? Or how about “When is lunch?” All of these problems are greatly diminished with the consistent use of a picture schedule. When an anxious child begins to see the clip moving towards the bottom they know it is getting closer to the time when they will be reunited with their loved ones. Ease separation anxiety by allowing children to see a visual representation of the day.Using a pocket chart or board to display your picture schedule helps create smooth transitions by giving your little learners a visual reminder of what is happening or is going to happen next in class. Each activity is represented by a picture and the word on a card. The clothespin or magnet is moved to the next activity at the beginning of every transition to indicate what is happening next. Having a picture schedule in a pocket chart is a must for all early childhood classrooms.Ī daily schedule is displayed sequentially either in a pocket chart with a clothespin, or on a magnet or white board to indicate when transitions will occur. Preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten picture schedule cards. ![]() |
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