![]() Use regular refined white sugar, not honey, artificial sweeteners, brown sugar, or other sugar products, all of which can be difficult for hummingbirds to digest. ![]() Once you have your hot water, it’s time to add sugar. Here’s a simple recipe and a step-by-step guide for how to make hummingbird food. It’s very easy and inexpensive to mix up a batch yourself, particularly if you have a lot of visitors draining your feeders each day. Luckily, there’s no need to buy premade hummingbird food. If you don’t have a garden or you just want to admire your feathered visitors up close, consider installing a hummingbird feeder filled with the high-calorie, sugary nectar these birds need to survive. Some hummingbird favorites include lantana, bee balm, foxglove, salvias, lupine, flowering tobacco, petunias, and zinnias. The most effective way to draw these nectar-hungry birds to your yard is by planting the flowers they naturally seek out, which are typically tubular-shaped blooms in bright red, pink, purple, or orange. To match that, you’d need to consume roughly 150,000 calories each day. To maintain their enormous need for energy, the average hummingbird consumes between 1.5 and 8 times its body weight each day in sugar. Their incredibly fast metabolism is the highest of any animal on earth: A hummingbird’s heart can beat an astounding 1,200 times per minute, their wings can flap over 50 times per second (which is what creates the buzzing or humming sound that gives these birds their common name), they reach speeds of 25 to 30 mph in flight, and their long tongues can dip in and out of a flower or feeder 18 times per second. ![]() Although hummingbirds do eat tiny insects and spiders, and also feast on sap and pollen, it’s nectar that makes up the bulk of their diet. ![]()
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![]() Renaissance fascination with classical myths, a concern that to a modern reader might seem to be distant and obscure. Like much Elizabethan poetry it is a product of the. Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s retelling of the well-known myth of the doomed desire of the goddess of love for a young mortal, is an exuberant erotic narrative and a playful display of linguistic virtuosity in which Shakespeare contrives to tell a tragic story with a vitality of manner that often propels his material towards the comic. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field. Examining both the most famous (Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and Marlowe’s Hero and Leander) and some of the more obscure examples of the genre (Hiren, the Fair Greek and The Metamorphosis of Tabacco), Ellis moves from considering fantasies of selfhood, through erotic relations with others, to literary affiliation, political relations, and finally to international issues such as exploration, settlement, and trade. Jim Ellis provides detailed readings of fifteen examples of the epyllion, considering the poems in their cultural milieu and arguing that these myths of the transformations of young men are at the same time stories of sexual, social, and political metamorphoses. It was produced mainly by and for the young men of the Inns of Court, where the ambitious came to study law and to sample the pleasures London had to offer. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. I enjoy Peekskill Open Studios, for instance-but probably my favorite aspect of living in Westchester is the many places where I can take long walks- Teatown, Blue Mountain, Montrose State Forest, Turkey Mountain, North County Trailway- the list goes on.Based for the most part on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. RJN > Do you have favorite local hangouts ? ![]() One of my favorite thing about living in Montrose is that I can go out my front door and walk to the Hudson River. I had the opportunity to move back to the City when I got divorced, but I had become too fond of trees. I lived in New York City from 1983-2003, when my son turned three, and we moved here for the schools. I also attended college here- SUNY Purchase. Hart Memorial Library, so I have a lot of memories from this area. ![]() I grew up in S hrub Oak, in a big house across from the John C. KB > I have a long history in Westchester. I can’t say enough good things about them. I feel lucky that I was picked up by Vine Leaves. I submitted the manuscript to about 20 literary agents, but none showed interest, so I sent it to small presses. It is being published by a small, international press. RJN > Is your book self-published (i.e., did you pay to have it published)? Find the thing that matters to you the most, and write about that. RJN > Any advice for writer’s block or other writing challenges? I am a morning writer-I need to start fresh. On my day off and weekends, I wrote for at least three hours every day. ![]() I work four days a week as a teacher trainer at the City University of New York Adult Literacy Program. KB > With this novel, I was fairly disciplined. RJN > Tell us about your writing process. My biggest struggle was with shaping the story-understanding what needed to be there, and what should be left out. These true friends read draft after draft, gave advice, and supported me through the difficult moments. KB > Almost 10 years, with the help of my writers’ group of women, many of whom live in Westchester County. RJN > H ow long did it take to write your book? I sat down with a notebook and began to write. She was wearing high heels, and the leather along the heel was peeling. I was watching a woman in Zimbabwe walk along the platform of a train station as my boyfriend and I waited for a train that was already hours late. Kate Brand (KB) > I’ve been writing since 1986, when I backpacked across the world. ![]() River Journal North (RJN) > How long have you been writing? She is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College whose work has appeared in literary journals. Kate Brandt is a writer, adult literacy teacher, traveler, and student of Buddhism. The book asks how far we’ll go for love, and what happens when we reach our limit. In her novel Hope for the Worst, Kate Brandt, a resident of Montrose, tells the story of Ellie, a 24-year-old stuck in a dead-end job and questioning the meaning of life when she meets the much older Calvin, a habitue of Greenwich Village whose wisdom, born of Buddhism, is exactly what she’s been seeking. ![]() ![]() If you have a bad internet connection, the process could go on and on for a long time. Restoring from the iCloud backup can be very slow as it is downloading things from the Cloud.
![]() ![]() That could easily add 10% or more to the cost of the UPS. For my computer, two monitors, and all my network gear, I want the 1400VA, not two 700VA UPS.Īdding $20 to the cost of an UPS may very easily take that UPS out of the budget of many home and small office buyers. Your configuration is like having two 700VA UPS instead of one 1400VA UPS. In effect, you have a smaller capacity UPS that provides power longer. This means that UPS will NOT be able to support more demanding components. The other flaw in your logic is your configuration means 1/2 the power (current capability) is unavailable - until it kicks over to your second battery. It is two separate backup power supplies (even if in the same case), with one on-line and the other waiting in standby mode until needed. Your configuration is NOT two batteries wired in parallel. Nor, does it seem you have a complete grasp of the electronics theory with batteries here. Sorry, but you just don't understand the economics of marketing for home or small office (not "commercial") use. A bad battery's output voltage will immediately significantly. ![]() A good battery will maintain its rated output for several minutes before dropping. I have a giant 100W 10Ω ceramic resistor I put across the cell terminals when measuring with my meter. But as soon as you put a load on it, the voltage drops significantly. If you just put a multimeter on a 12V battery, it might easily show 12V. If your grid is unstable and the UPS kicks over to battery power frequently, the batteries will need to be replaced more often.Īlso, like all power sources (power supplies, engines, motors or batteries) they should be tested "under load". The wide range (2 - 5) is dependent on how the UPS is used. Note UPS batteries typically last 2 - 5 years and need to be replaced as part of "normal" maintenance. Unless the other "cells" are new, you should replace them all. ![]() The UPS will detect a problem with the battery and, to protect the UPS and the connected equipment, will shut down. When that happens, it essentially shorts out the entire battery. In your case, by your description, it sounds like one "cell" in the larger big UPS battery has developed an internal short. Click to expand.Sure! Note when two or more separate batteries are strapped together, they become "cells" forming one big battery. ![]() ![]() What to do now?Īll his time spent porting and selling American games had given him a familiarity with goings-on across the Atlantic that was unusual among his countrymen. In 1990, the 27-year-old Charles Cecil, who had recently been enjoying such luxuries as a posh company car and a mobile phone, was left high and dry by Mediagenic’s collapse. Two years later, he parlayed that into a short-lived gig as development manager for US Gold, then a longer-lived one in the same role for Activision’s European subsidiary.īut a series of unfortunate events and poor management decisions at the American parent company - a trend which began about the time of Cecil’s arrival, with management’s decision to change the company’s name to the hopeless corporatese “Mediagenic” - ultimately spelled disaster for that international software empire. In 1985, Cecil jumped from the sinking ship to found his own Paragon Programming, which specialized in porting American games to European platforms. (Artic’s games were particularly noted for their atrocious spelling…)Ĭecil continued to design games and do various other odd jobs for Artic for several years, but by the middle of the decade the company’s homespun products were finding the going tough in what had now become a crowded and hyper-competitive British software market. A game designer had been born, alongside a cottage industry of similarly ramshackle semi-professional text adventures that would persist for the better part of two decades. “Why don’t you write one?” Thus Cecil designed Adventure B: Inca Curse, followed by several more text adventures, all primitive enough - or, if you like, minimalist enough - to fit into a computer with just 16 K of memory. “You like telling stories,” Turner said to Cecil. In June of 1981, Turner and Thornton’s Adventure A: Planet of Death became the first home-grown adventure game ever to be sold in Britain.Īs the name of that first game would imply, Artic intended from the beginning to make a whole line of text adventures, just as Scott Adams had done. Taking note of the success that Scott Adams was having with his text adventures in the United States, Artic developed an engine for similar games on Sinclair machines. Although he was not and never would become a programmer, Cecil got pulled into other aspects of the venture, such as drawing what he describes today as “the shittiest logo.”Ĭhris Thornton, Richard Turner’s partner in Artic, owned an imported Radio Shack TRS-80 this allowed the group of friends to keep tabs on the American microcomputing scene, which had a few years’ head start on the British. There he became friends with a fellow student named Richard Turner, who had just co-founded Artic Computing, one of the very first suppliers of software for the Sinclair ZX80, Britain’s very first mass-market personal computer. Born in 1962, he began studying engineering at Manchester University in 1980. Now we just need to attach a tape player to a smartphone so it can play Spectrum games.Charles Cecil was a part of the British adventure-games scene from the beginning. But the video shows how old tech can still be made to work with today's hardware. The likes of Grim Fandango and Beneath a Steel Sky have been available on Google's and Apple's app stores for some time now, and they have been remastered to support modern handsets. There are much easier ways of playing retro games on a phone, of course. For an even more authentic experience, a full-size physical keyboard is attached via another adaptor and a USB hub. This obscures a lot of the action, but being able to add a virtual joystick and specific keys make everything a lot easier. After a little bit of configuration, the game is booted directly from the floppy disk and playable on the phone.Īs it hasn't been made for a handset, there obviously isn't any native touchscreen support, so Magic DOSBox provides a virtual keyboard overlay. To play the Commander Keen game that's on the disk, an Android variant of the popular DOSBox emulator program is used, called Magic DOSBox. ![]() While the phone can read the floppy's files, it can't run MS-DOS titles. ![]() An OTG adaptor is used to connect the Note's USB Type-C port to the USB Type-A connector. ![]() It sees a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive with a very snazzy woodgrain coating attached to a Galaxy Note 8. YouTube channel LGR, which covers retro tech, PC gaming, and other subjects, created the video. There are numerous current and upcoming "mini" versions of old consoles, but check out the video above for something a little more authentic, if less practical: playing old games using a floppy disk drive connected to a phone. Bottom line: We may live in an era of incredibly powerful GPUs, virtual reality, and lifelike graphics, but the retro gaming market is as popular as ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Review: How to Convert Video to MP4 with VideoSolo Video Converter This article is all about the use of alternatives to VideoSolo Converter and what are their pros and cons. With VideoSolo Converter, the conversion has become easy for every user. VideoSolo Video Converter is your one-stop-shop for all the video editing needs. ![]() VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate, with its intuitive interface, can convert any video format to any other. I will be discussing these alternatives in great detail so that you get to choose the best. Some alternatives are far productive than the software in question. 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VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate allows the user to put their own unique watermark on their videos to prevent content theft. They put in the hours only to see their content on someone else's site with no credit given to them. Video editors always have to worry about people stealing their work. While the program is working its magic, it makes sure that the sound quality of the video remains the same.įor those who edit videos, VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate is a must-have for your work. VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate will never give you that problem due to its conversion abilities. To say the least, it is infuriating because it means you wasted a bunch of time for nothing. Either your fresh conversion has no sound at all, or it's so delayed that you think you're watching an old martial arts film. If you've ever done video conversions, chances are you've run into audio issues. 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This software is excellent for anyone who does video editing, but it's also great for people that like to watch videos on multiple devices without streaming. The software allows the user to convert over 300 video and audio formats to a format of your choice in a few minutes time. The popular utility program takes video conversion to a high degree, and it much better than the majority of converters on the net. VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate is one of the best video conversion programs available today. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I just love that kind of stuff: where history appears,” Bryant says.īryant started for fun, but he now does it to preserve the crumbling beauty and history of long forgotten buildings. Joshua Bryant, an urban explorer based in Wisconsin, ascribes to the same philosophy. Most explorers don’t want to disturb what has been left alone for so long and are disappointed when they find a site that has been vandalized or broken into. Most urban explorers follow the same code - look, but don’t touch. It kind of takes away from the authenticity if you move things.” “My philosophy is pretty much to just leave everything where it lies. “I know a lot of photographers like to pose things,” Olson says. “finding beauty in something that most people think is useless, something different.” The goal is to document the buildings that might’ve been forgotten to history. Some urban explorers have reached internet fame through uploading their videos on YouTube. But sometimes they find hints on online forums. Explorers usually stumble across abandoned places. Urban Exploration is something that has recently come out of the shadows thanks to explorers like Olson who share their experiences on the web. “I came across a house and just instantly fell in love - the idea of finding beauty in something that most people think is useless, something different.” “I was just driving around, trying to find something to take pictures of, because I was really excited,” Olson says. Olson started “urbexing” after her grandfather gave her a camera when she was in high school. My photographer, Nate, and I found this obscure house with the help of Jessica Mae Olson, an urban explorer who photographs and shares her finds on her blog, Abandoned Midwest. ![]() Getting inside is as simple as mounting the porch and opening the front door. ![]() The walls and roof sag from two decades of neglect. White paint dulling with age is peeling off of its sides. UrbExers explored.Ī crumbling Victorian house sits tucked back from the country road in Northeast Iowa. Cover photo courtesy of Jessica May Olson, 360 photos by Nate Sohn They came, they settled, they left. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three of its songs – “Gimmie All Your Lovin’”, “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” – became major hits.Īt the first annual MTV Music Video Awards (1984), the band won in two categories: Best Group Video for “Legs” and Best Direction for “Sharp Dressed Man.” Eliminator became one of the biggest albums of the decade, selling more than 10 million copies and it received the industry’s first Diamond sales award. In 1984, the Gillette Company reportedly offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million each to shave their beards for a television commercial, but they declined stating, “We are too ugly without ‘em.”Įliminator was released in 1983 and stayed on the charts for over three years and eventually became certified ten times platinum. Ironically, Beard usually spots just a mustache. Beginning with the 1979 song “Cheap Sunglasses”, Gibbons and Hill are almost always pictured wearing sunglasses, similar clothing, and chest-length beards. ![]() ![]() The Texas trio’s first big hit single, “Tush,” hit the charts in 1975. ZZ Top drew 80,000 fans to a 1974 Labor Day stadium concert that they dub “ZZ Top’s First Annual Texas Size Rompin’ Stompin’ Barndance and Bar B.Q.” To date, they have released 20 full-length albums. Their third album, Tres Hombres (1973), hit the Top Ten and became the band’s first gold album. The group toured extensively on the eve of their anniversary, co-headlining with county superstars Brooks & Dunn, as well as on their own in an intimate concert that was called the “In Your Face Tour” that recalled their roots. The personnel line-up has not changed in the intervening years: no other major band can make that claim. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, ZZ Top formed in 1969 and played its first show in February 1970 at a Knights of Columbus Hall in Beaumont, Texas. They declined.Band members: Billy F Gibbons – lead guitar, lead vocals, Dusty Hill – bass, Frank Beard – drums, percussion In 1984, razor company Gillette reportedly offered the duo $1 million to shave off their famous facial hair. Rather than shave, the pair decided to keep it. According to the liner notes of their 2004 album "Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top,” detailed by Yahoo! Entertainment in 2012, the two returned from a vacation and realized they’d both grown out their facial hair. ![]() While ZZ Top is among the most successful rock bands in history, they’re perhaps best known for the signature black sunglasses and long beards worn by Hill and Gibbons, which were introduced in the 1970s. Hill and his bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. The band also had four Platinum records - with the 1985 album “Afterburner” going five-times Platinum - and four Gold records with Hill on bass and backing vocals. Their 1984 album “Eliminator,” which featured the hits “Gimme All Your Lovin'”, “Sharp Dressed Man”, and “Legs,” sold more than 10 million copies and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. The band grew in popularity blending blues and rock and roll, and went on to release 15 albums in their roughly 50-year history. He was replaced by the band’s guitar tech, Elwood Francis.īorn Joe Michael Hill in Dallas, Dusty Hill headed to Houston in 1970 and joined ZZ Top, alongside guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard. The band had recently posted on its official website that Hill was home in Houston recovering from a hip injury, forcing them to cancel a number of concerts on their “Celebration With ZZ Top” tour. His cause of death was not immediately known on Wednesday. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top,'” the two wrote on Facebook. The news was confirmed on Facebook Wednesday by his bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard, who said he passed away in his sleep in his Houston home. Winslow Townson/Invision/AP ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill performs at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion on Sunday, Augin Boston.ĭusty Hill, bearded bassist for legendary Houston rock band ZZ Top, has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, distinguishing the hybrids correctly from the true Spottybacks or Shosai-fugu is difficult only using exterior clues, even using the methods suggested by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and with their numbers growing, the risk of the hybrids being mistakenly processed as Spottybacks or Shosai-fugu may also increase.įour of the fish caught by Takahashi's team appeared to be pure Spottybacks or Shosai-fugu puffer fish, but turned out to be hybrids after gene analysis. Thus, the markings and other morphology of the fish are checked by hand at fish markets and the hybrids are marked as "unidentifiable species" and discarded. While both the Spottyback and Shosai-fugu pufferfish are species commonly caught for human consumption, the location of the poison contained in the hybrid fish is unclear. The Spottyback's migration is believed to be the reason behind the jump in the numbers of the hybrid puffer fish. ![]() They have crossed the Tsugaru Straits that separate the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido and into the Pacific Ocean, the home of the Shosai-fugu. However, due to the rising of temperatures in the Sea of Japan due to climate change, the area they inhabit has expanded northward. The amount of hybrid puffer fish in the wild is reportedly usually less than 1 percent.īoth fish are relatives of the Tiger or Japanese Puffer, and the Spottyback Puffer's usual habitat is the Sea of Japan. The results found that over half of the puffer fish caught, 149, were Spottyback-Shosai-fugu hybrids. ![]() Takahashi and his team analyzed the genes of 252 fish caught in the Pacific Ocean off of eastern Japan for a period of three years beginning in 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() The selected 18studies were reviewed in full by the author. This resulted in a total sample of 18 studies. A total of 320 articles we re selected for full-t ext review, but 302 records exclude d for being more than 20 years exce pt for one paper that had met all criteria which was. 470 articles existed in one or more research area, however, 150 records were excluded for only existing in one r esearch area which was not going to be efficient for reviewing from a sam ple research area. Of these, 620 were excluded because f or not using R pr ogramming in their research work. Abstracts of 1090 articles were read by the author to perform an initial screening of eligibility for this scoping review. The range for publication year of relevant articles was found to be between 2022-2018.A total of 10 articles were duplicates. The search strategies using a combination of search terms identified 2300 articles that included a search term from the category in their abstract or title. The search terms included variations in the term for the following: The search period for relevant research was conducted in September 2022. Goggle scholar was also used as a source of data collection. Finall y, t he database that index b oth fields, includin g Web of S cience, were searched. ![]() A literatu re search was conducted using the informati on techn ology databases IEEE Xplore and t he ACM Di gital Lib rary were s earched. As R pr ogramming and Botswana fall u nder different themes, the search was conducted in only infor mation technolog y databases to access research done in Botswana that have used R programming. The search strategy was adapted from and who followed t he PRISMA methodol ogy. PRISMA was chosen because it is the recognized standard for reporti ng evidence in systematic reviews and meta-ana lyses a nd the standar ds are endorsed by organizations and journals. The paper followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta- Analyses)for reporting in a systematic review. Finally, the paper summarizes the extant research and the implications for future work. Next, the paper conducts a synthesis of the literat ure, describing both the R programming and research in Botswana of each articl e. First, the paper outlines the search strategies used to find relevant literature. It would also highli ght the challeng es of using R programming in Botswana, as well as identify gaps in the data science field and potential opportu nities for further research. Such a r eview would equip b oth data scientists and practit ioners in the methods and applicat ions of R progra mming in Botswana. Previous reviews have demonstra ted Python programming to be robust and scalable for data analysis, but no review has comprehensively mapped R programming applicati ons wit hin t he cont ext of research in Botswana. The review also captures how r esearch used R programming capa bilities i n their dat a analysis work. This review paper aims to provide a concise snapshot of the research to date investigat ing research in Botswana that has used R programming f or their data analys is. ![]() |
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