Aside from a rough outing against Atlanta on June 14, Olson has been consistently good, registering a 12.0 percent SwStr% with no more than three earned runs and exactly one walk in every other start prior to Thursday’s short outing. If he is healthy enough to take his turn against the A’s, he is at least worth consideration as a streamer. In Thursday’s start against the Rangers, Olson exited in the second inning after taking a comebacker off his left knee, and he was diagnosed with a contusion. I was fully prepared to recommend Skubal’s teammate Reese Olson(25%) as a one-start streamer for 12-team leagues, because he lined up to start against the A’s next week. Greg Scholz got deeper into what to expect from Skubal in his injury mailbag this week, too. He threw just 68 pitches over four innings in that outing, but you can actually consider starting him this coming week, as long as he slots in to make starts against both the Athletics and Blue Jays at home. Now Skubal is expected to join the Tigers’ rotation, making Wednesday’s rehab start with Triple-A Toledo his final one. He had been so effective for the Tigers prior to his surgery to make it worth stashing him while he was finishing up his time in the minors. Tarik Skubal (59% rostered and coming off flexor tendon surgery) also got a mention in last week’s column along with Woo, even though he wasn’t expected to return from his rehab assignment just yet. Now he has a two-start week in front of him, and while his matchups are not especially favorable (on the road against the Giants and Astros), Woo is missing enough bats to be trustworthy against these opponents. After a difficult debut against the Rangers, Woo has tossed 20.2 stellar innings over four starts with 28 strikeouts, five walks, a 2.18 ERA and a 0.97 WHIP. Mariners rookie righty Bryan Woo (56% rostered in CBS leagues) is already on most-added lists, but he has yet to make much of a dent in 12-team and shallower leagues. After this weekend, that should no longer be the case. However, I would be completely remiss to not mention a handful I’ve written about in the last few weeks, as they are still widely available in 12-team leagues. ![]() I try to avoid repeating players in order to maximize the number of different players I write about. It also features a few players who have been mentioned in this space recently. ![]() This week’s waiver column has the usual features: the latest hot prospect callup, streamable hitters and pitchers with favorable matchups, and players on extended hot streaks.
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![]() ![]() The Carbonite services for individual PCs do not have an image backup and restore option which would have helped tremendously in my recovery. While I still had the pictures, the edits that I made to them were lost. ![]() Well, unknown to me, Carbonite did not back up the Lightroom Catalogue files which contain all the instructions and edits for the pictures stored. For example, I use Adobe Lightroom Classic CC extensively and back up my Lightroom Catalogue religiously after every use. I knew that my program and application files where not being backed up, but I really didnt expect to lose as many files as I did. Notice I said the ‘majority’ of my files since Im seeing that some things that I was expecting to be backed up were not. So, after about 2.5 weeks, I have restored the majority of my files on my computer. Clearly, restoring 567 GB from a USB drive is much faster than restoring from Carbonite’s Cloud. Once the drive was unlocked, I was able to access all the files that Carbonite had backed up and started restoring my drive. ![]() Inside the box was a WD My Passport portable USB drive with my data encrypted and password protected on it. The drive was shipped from Boston Massachusetts on September 11th and was finally delivered on September 17th, so it took 6 days for USPS Priority Mail to make it from Boston, MA to Los Angeles, CA. If you want it faster, you can pay $39.99 for 1-2 day shipping.Įven though this felt a bit like a technical shake-down, I elected to upgrade my service to Carbonite Safe Prime and pay the $9.99 shipping to get my data back in my hands in a week or so rather than waiting the 4+ weeks to restore my files from the Carbonite cloud. Carbonite will ship you a hard drive with your data in about a week for $9.99. Of course, the courier service is not free. If I were to upgrade my service to Carbonite Safe Prime for $150 per year, I would not only get unlimited backup storage space for one computer but adds the ability to use a courier service to restore a catastrophic failure such as the loss of an entire hard drive. Recovery speeds are the same no matter what tier you have. I contacted Carbonite again to find out if I moved up my service to the next tier, would the recovery speeds increase. If this was a free service I would almost understand the anemic recovery speed, but the fact is Im paying $72 per year for Carbonite Safe Basic service. I calculated that Carbonite was restoring my hard drive at around 2 Mbit/s. Clearly, if Carbonite was using all of my throughput capability, the download of 567 Gigabytes would be finished in well under 5 hours. This didnt make too much sense for me either since I am on one of Spectrum Cable Internet Ultra service which is capable of top speeds 400 mbps download and 20 mbps upload. I was able to talk to a human in less than 10 minutes, and the customer service representative informed me that the recovery speed depends on the users ISP download speed. When I saw that the restore process was only 2-3% done after two days, I gave Carbonite a call. Yes, 4 weeks!! Carbonite Restore process after 6 days of recovering files In fact, Carbonite was reporting to me that my 567 GBs of data was going to take more than 4 weeks to recover from the cloud! Once I had the new 2TB drive in place (and started the RMA process with the HDD manufacturer), I found that I was getting incredibly slow speeds in the recovery process. This is where my good feelings for Carbonite started to turn. Once in recovery mode, Carbonite will ask if you want to restore the entire drive or just individual files and folders.īecause my entire drive was toast, I needed to recover the entire disk. The application will detect that there is a missing drive and prompt you for recovery. Once you get a replacement drive installed on your computer, you can go to the Carbonite site and download the Carbonite application and sign in. The recovery process is very straightforward and easy. Unfortunately, my experiences have not been expected. When my drive first died, my hope was that because I had the Carbonite backup service, I wouldnt be down for very long. I have been using the Carbonite service for about 4 years backing up my data which totals about 567 GB on a 1TB drive. Services for personal users are based on how many machines are backed up, not by the storage amount. Carbonite is an online-based backup service designed for both MacOS and Windows users. One of the most popular and widely used is Carbonite. There are many applications and services on the market that helps users recover from these catastrophic loses. One of the worst things that can happen to a person who relies on their computer is to have a hard drive failure. VLC Media PlayerĪs its name implies, VLC is a media player. The latest version of the open source DVD copier reads discs extremely slowly(around 0.5x/0.6x). Fr example, it takes a long time to use DVD drives for ripping disks. The new version of the open source DVD/Blu-ray ripper added support to 4K BDAV discs and fixed some bugs and improved internal performance. Note: The latest version of MakeMKV is v1.17.3 released on. Additionally, this program will crash when dealing with some movie DVDs, make some subtitles screw up, make video audio out of sync, and other issues, according to users' feedback online. Most people have to downsize it using a third-party program. And the file size of resulting file is always a few gigabytes. So MakeMKV is great open-source software to copy protected DVDs to MKV.īut inevitably, MakeMKV is unable to please all people and keep good performance all the time. What makes it popular is its ability to rip protected DVDs and Blu-ray discs without using additional software. It offers free MakeMKV keys for 30 days, and after that, it charges for Blu-ray converting and streaming functionality after 30-days trial period, but it is free for DVD conversion. Its GPU, MKV multiplexer, and optical drive query library are open source. MakeMKV is a semi-open source DVD ripper for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Don't expect this open source DVD ripper to handle new DVD releases. However, you must be careful because there're some fake versions created to scam your money. Now you cannot find the download link in its official site, but you can still get it from some software download sites. Its development has stopped at version 3.2.0.15, from May 2005. Note: DVD Shrink can only work on Windows. But as it has been discontinued for years, it may not be able to deal with newer copy protection schemes. The best part is, this Windows-based open source DVD ripper is possible to rip some copy-protected DVDs using its inbuilt decryption algorithms. If you like, you can use DVD Shrink to copy DVD to ISO file or DVD folder first and then use another tool to convert ISO or DVD folder to your desired video format. DVD Shrink is not the best open-source software to convert DVDs to MP4 or other mainstream video formats. DVD ShrinkĭVD Shrink is another free open source DVD ripper you can use to copy and rip DVD to ISO image or DVD folder. According to Handbrake update log, the latest version updated Intel Quick Sync to use the Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library and fixed FFmpeg AAC audio encoder quality mode scale range. The free open source DVD ripper for Windows 10 also requires Microsoft. Note: The current version of Handbrake is 1.6.1, requiring Windows 10 or later (Windows version), and macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later (macOS version). If you stick to HandBrake, you need to install HandBrake libdvdcss to help read and decrypt region-coded and CSS-encrypted DVDs, or other powerful programs to decrypt the DVD copy protection schemes first. HandBrake itself cannot handle copy-protected DVDs. They will be get confused and export poor-quality files because of improper settings.īefore you begin ripping DVD with HandBrake, however, we have to tell you another important thing. It is great for advanced users, but probably not for newbies. Apart from format and preset, this open source DVD ripper and copier also gives you a great many options about dimensions, filters, video, audio, subtitles and chapters. Additionally, it has a collection of output presets for some popular devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Mobile. ![]() HandBrake allows users to rip DVD disc, VIDEO_TS folder, and also ISO image to MKV or MP4. It is free, clean, and available for Windows (10/11), Mac, and Linux. HandBrake is undoubtedly the most popular one among all those open source DVD rippers. Top 6 Best Free Open Source DVD Rippers Review 1. 2023 Best Free Open Source DVD Ripper/Copier ![]() If you a nut allergy, unfortunately this means you should stay away from cashew and almond milk unless your physician clears it first. It’s estimated that roughly 1% of the general population has a nut allergy with roughly 1 in 200 people being affected in some populations with the peanut allergy being the most common type of food allergy worldwide. We harness the power of some of nature’s richest superfoods and deliver them to you and your family to enjoy.Can You Drink Cashew or Almond Milk With a Nut Allergy? We’re committed to discovering ways to fuel your body naturally with the type of goodness that’s found only in nature. We have several flavors to choose from, including our delicious new almond milk chocolate variety! Our story began as a small, family-run business that knew the benefits of plant-based milk and decided to make our own and share it with the world. The Naturally Brand family is committed to bringing the tastiest, most nutrient-dense almond milk to the world. The possibilities are endless! Why Choose Naturally Brand Almond Milk? You can splash it over your breakfast cereal, add it to overnight oats and oatmeals, use it as a coffee creamer, add it to your smoothies, make soups and sauces, and even use it as a base for ice cream. The most popular uses of this type of milk are as a replacement for your traditional dairy milk. There are so many ways to enjoy our various varieties! And with 50% more calcium than dairy milk and 65% fewer calories, you can feel great about your choice to make the switch. Here at Naturally Brand, we love coming up with new ways to use our nutritious almond milk products. Unchanged: Anyone and everyone can enjoy the smooth, creamy taste and rich health benefits of almonds and their milk with the exception of those who have a tree nut allergy and babies under the age of one year old.ĭelicious Ways To Add Almond Milk To Your Diet It’s recommended that about 20-35% of your daily calories come from healthy dietary fat sources like fish, oils, seeds, nuts, avocados, etc. The dietary fat that comes from almonds is classified as a good, or unsaturated, fat. Fat: We all know that there is good fat and bad fat.Those who follow a vegan lifestyle may struggle to get in enough daily protein, this is where almonds can help. The best sources of protein are fish, chicken, eggs, and nuts. For example, a person weighing 120 lbs would require about 44g of protein in their diet per day. Each individual has varying protein needs, but the general recommendation is 0.8g per kg of body weight. Protein: Protein is an essential nutrient needed for our muscles, skin, hair, hormones, and antibodies.The recommended amount of fiber in your daily diet is 28g, which can be achieved by consuming a variety of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains. Fiber : Fiber is a nutrient that promotes and maintains your gut health as well as many other health conditions like heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.We’ve all heard that almonds are good for us, but how? Have you ever wondered what exactly makes an almond healthy? Here’s your answer: Simple ingredients, simple process, outstanding taste. ![]() Almonds, when mixed with water, can be blended and strained and the result is a smooth, tasty liquid. Many people look at an almond and think “how can that turn into milk?” Well, it’s simple, really. Everyone from the upper class to the pious enjoyed almond milk, especially during Lent when dairy milk was not permissible. You may think that this type of milk is a new trend, however, drinking almond milk dates way back to the middle ages. Our milk is a naturally dairy-free, soy-free alternative to cow’s milk, making it a suitable option for vegans and those who suffer from dairy allergies or lactose intolerance. Almond milk is milk that’s derived from almonds (no surprise there!). ![]() Sell (greater than or equal to "33% Sell" and less than or equal to "66% Sell").Buy (greater than or equal to "33% Buy" and less than or equal to "66% Buy").For example, a price above its moving average is generally considered an upward trend or a buy.Ī symbol will be given one of the following overall ratings: After each calculation the program assigns a Buy, Sell, or Hold value with the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study. Results are interpreted as buy, sell or hold signals, each with numeric ratings and summarized with an overall percentage buy or sell rating. Unique to, Opinions analyzes a stock or commodity using 13 popular analytics in short-, medium- and long-term periods. ![]() The Barchart Technical Opinion widget shows you today's overally Barchart Opinion with general information on how to interpret the short and longer term signals. Thus, Weighted Alpha is a measure of one-year growth with an emphasis on the most recent price activity.Ī thumbnail of a daily chart is provided, with a link to open and customize a full-sized chart. Barchart takes this Alpha and weights this, assigning more weight to recent activity, and less (0.5 factor) to activity at the beginning of the period.
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games. The game features online playing capability which may involve real-time interaction with other players. In some of the missions it is possible to fire upon enemy soldiers and allies alike, however the violence is not realistic. Game features combat in the 1 st and 3 rd person using WWII aircraft and engaging in dog fights and missions against ground targets. Rated PEGI 12 due to occasional scenes of mild violence. Simulator Battles add more restrictions to create a believable experience, with no head up display or exterior view of the action.Ī single player mode is available focusing on historical settings as well as a cooperative mode against waves of computer controlled ground vehicles and aircraft. ![]() With this comes more rewards and upgrades as well as more strategic encounters. Realistic Battles are more advanced, simulating realistic physics and damage modelling. Damage is simplified although still aims to be realistic. The land, air and sea are divided into different game modes:Īrcade Battles has two teams of up to 16 with vehicles from different nations. You can also play as nations with smaller militaries or less prominence in conflicts, such as Italy, France, China and Sweden. You can control aircraft, ground vehicles and warships from USA, Germany, Russia, Britain, and Japan. ![]() As you progress game brings in more elements fromWorld War II, Vietnam and the Cold War. This includes vehicles from different eras: pre-World War I naval vessels, tanks and aircraft from the Spanish Civil War and even the Iraq war and beyond. Rather than having one energy bar for each vehicles you need to aim for weak spots or positions where pilots and drivers are exposed.Įach battle is divided between aviation, ground forces or fleet, rather than mixing these elements. The attraction of the combat is that each vehicle or craft’s constituent parts can be targeted and damaged. ![]() Similar to Wargaming's World of Warplanes it creates realistic battles on air, land, and sea. War Thunder is a shooting game where you drive a range of vehicles in warfare combat. ![]() We tend to prefer lids without clasps because they’re thinner and store more easily, but it's worth noting that the clasps offer an extra source of leak protection.Bento box purists will love this classically designed box, which earned the top spot on our list after testing. Some simply press down to close while others have clasps on the sides. ![]() ✔️Lids: A lid that doesn’t seal is a dealbreaker. ![]() ✔️Shape: Look for containers with straight edges versus flared to avoid hogging unnecessary room in your fridge and cabinets. ![]() Plastic containers are also prone to staining when storing highly pigmented foods glass is not. Though most plastic is now BPA-free and perfectly safe for food storage, some consumers still prefer glass to avoid any possibility of chemical leaching. The trade-off is that glass is heavier and can break, which doesn’t make it the best for taking on the go. Glass can often be used in the oven, while plastic cannot. ✔️Material: Glass and plastic are two of the most common food storage options. When shopping for food storage containers, the below features are important to keep in mind to find the best performing set for your home:
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Optimize disk enhanced page and minify disk caching for NFSĪfter the changes, all the plugins got diactivated and I had to set up the plugins from scratchĬan’t we use W3 Total Cache + Autoptimize together? Here is the setting for W3 Total Cache that I am wondering about:Optimize disk enhanced page and minify disk caching for NFS - Try this option if your hosting environment uses a network based file system for a possible performance improvement.. Enabled Google Page Speed dashboard widgetġ0. I installed W3 Total Cache and made the following changesĨ. Right now Enabled Auto Minify, Brotli, and Rocket Loader on Cloudflare.ĬSS and JS cache is happening Autoptimize. optimize disk enhanced page and minify disk caching for nfs undercover. I am thinking of adding one more cache plugin called W3 Total Cache. GO back to wp-admin and save all settings and purge the cache. I have tried all the possible solutions to speed up my website but the mobile page speed result is still low. Manually delete the cache/diskenhanced and cache/minify/ folder from your server. ![]() I am using the Cloudflare plugin with Autoptimize. optimize disk enhanced page and minify disk caching for nfs. ![]() Later (late 1920s) TRF sets had ganged tuning (one knob was used to control all stage tuning capacitors simultaneously), AC house current operation, and eliminated the filament voltage adjustments. Consequently, there was a significant amount of hostility by neighbors of "regen" set users over maladjusted radios transmitting squealing noises and blocking reception on nearby properties.Įarly TRF sets had typically two or three tuning knobs and tube filament voltage-control rheostats, all of which had to be set correctly to receive a station. This approach provided high performance with a minimum number of expensive vacuum tubes, but these receivers tended to radiate RF interference in their immediate vicinity. Reaction sets, also known as regenerative receivers, rely on positive feedback to achieve adequate gain. "High Fidelity" was not to become a radio marketing concept until the mid-1930s and was not realized until the advent of FM broadcasting. Audio reproduction quality of TRF sets was limited by the available loudspeakers. TRF sets, depending on the number of stages they employed, could have poor-to-superb sensitivity (ability of the set to pick up faint signals) and corresponding selectivity (ability to parse adjacent stations from one another). TRF sets used no regeneration, and were merely several stages (typically three) of tuned RF amplifiers in series feeding a detector tube which extracted the audio intelligence from the RF signal. Speakers widely used on TRF sets included: The sound quality produced from "moving-iron" speakers used on such sets is sometimes described as torturous, although by the late 1920s the Kellogg-Rice dynamic (moving-coil) speaker had begun to find favor due to its superior sound-reproduction ability. Early TRF sets only operated headphones, but by the mid-1920s it was more common to use additional amplification to power a loudspeaker, despite the expense. These used several valves (tubes) to provide RF amplification, detection, and audio amplification. Tuned radio frequency sets (TRF sets) were the most popular class of early radio, primarily because the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had a monopoly on the superheterodyne circuit patents and it was more profitable for companies to jump into radio manufacturing TRF sets. Some crystal set users added a carbon amplifier or a mechanical turntable amplifier to give enough output to operate a speaker. Crystal sets had minimal ability to separate stations, and where more than one high power station was present, inability to receive one without the other was a common problem. ![]() They were popular among the less wealthy due to their low build cost and zero run cost. They would receive only very strong signals from a local station. These basic radios used no battery, had no amplification and could operate only high-impedance headphones.
“It’s very challenging to suture soft or fragile tissues such as the lung and trachea, but with our double-sided tape, within five seconds we can easily seal them,” Yuk says. They also performed tests in pig lungs and trachea, showing that they could rapidly repair damage to those organs. To explore possible applications for the new double-sided tape, the researchers tested it in a few different types of pig tissue, including skin, small intestine, stomach, and liver. This type of adhesive could have a major impact on surgeons’ ability to seal incisions and heal wounds, Yuk says. “Combining two innovative concepts, the research team succeeded in adhering quickly and effectively to the wet and soft surface of a tissue, and in maintaining good adhesion and mechanical properties for several days without causing too much inflammatory response,” says Costantino Creton, a research director at ESPCI Paris, who was not involved in the research. Gelatin tends to break down within a few days or weeks in the human body, while chitosan can last longer (a month or even up to a year). Depending on the application that the tape is being used for, the researchers can control how fast it breaks down inside the body by varying the ingredients that go into it. ![]() These polymers allow the adhesive to hold its shape for long periods of time. To make their tape tough enough to last inside the body, the researchers incorporated either gelatin or chitosan (a hard polysaccharide found in insect shells). These hydrogen bonds and other weak interactions temporarily hold the tape and tissues in place while chemical groups called NHS esters, which the researchers embedded in the polyacrylic acid, form much stronger bonds, called covalent bonds, with proteins in the tissue. As soon as the tape is applied, it sucks up water, allowing the polyacrylic acid to quickly form weak hydrogen bonds with both tissues. For water absorption, they used polyacrylic acid, a very absorbent material that is used in diapers. To mimic this with an engineered adhesive, the researchers designed a material that first absorbs water from wet tissues and then rapidly binds two tissues together. ![]() This spider glue includes charged polysaccharides that can absorb water from the surface of an insect almost instantaneously, clearing off a small dry patch that the glue can adhere to. To create a double-sided tape that could rapidly join two wet surfaces together, the team drew inspiration from the natural world - specifically, the sticky material that spiders use to capture their prey in wet conditions. Zhao’s group had previously developed other novel adhesives, including a hydrogel superglue that provides tougher adhesion than the sticky materials that occur in nature, such as those that mussels and barnacles use to cling to ships and rocks. The MIT team wanted to come up with something that would work much faster. Existing tissue glues diffuse adhesive molecules through the water between two tissue surfaces to bind them together, but this process can take several minutes or even longer. Other authors are MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo Clinic critical care physician Christoph Nabzdyk, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital pathologist Robert Padera.įorming a tight seal between tissues is considered to be very difficult because water on the surface of the tissues interferes with adhesion. Graduate students Hyunwoo Yuk and Claudia Varela are the lead authors of the study, which appears today in Nature. In addition, it works much faster than tissue glues, which usually take several minutes to bind tightly and can drip onto other parts of the body. The double-sided tape can also be used to attach implantable medical devices to tissues, including the heart, the researchers showed. ![]() We are proposing a fundamentally different approach to sealing tissue,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. “There are over 230 million major surgeries all around the world per year, and many of them require sutures to close the wound, which can actually cause stress on the tissues and can cause infections, pain, and scars. ![]() They hope that this tape could eventually be used in place of surgical sutures, which don’t work well in all tissues and can cause complications in some patients. In tests in rats and pig tissues, the researchers showed that their new tape can tightly bind tissues such as the lungs and intestines within just five seconds. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have designed a double-sided tape that can rapidly seal tissues together. |
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