![]() ![]() In some areas of the world, such as Dikson, Russia, people can experience an entire month with no sunshine whatsoever. If you still find the sunshine and heat keeping you up at night, be sure to check our pick for the best cooling mattress. The National Sleep Foundation recommends cocooning your bedroom in blackout curtains or blinds during the night to block artificial light and opening them to the sunshine when you are ready to begin the day. In fact, light is one of the biggest external factors that influence sleep. Light rays influence the brain’s biological timekeeper, which has been true since humans slept outside and would rise with the sun. Here are the five least sunny places in June by average monthly sunshine hours:Įxposure to sunshine is a key part of sleep hygiene. In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs in June. Here are the five least sunny places in December by average monthly sunshine hours: Where are the gloomiest, darkest winters? In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs in December. The wet season occurs from around April to November, and during this period, it is not uncommon for it to rain for hours everyday. Colombia experiences two seasons - wet and dry. However, the varied topography and mountainous nature of the country make for dynamic weather patterns. When you think about Colombia, you might imagine sunny beaches, vibrant emerald waters, and lush forests, and in truth, many places in Colombia offer just that. The top 10 least sunny cities in the world by annual sunshine hours are: The top 10 sunniest cities in the world by annual sunshine hours are: The area’s agricultural industry produces 90% of the nation’s lettuce and accounts for more than a third of the state’s annual agricultural earnings. Yuma’s location at the confluence of the Colorado and Gila rivers makes for lush, fertile soil - every season is growing season here. By that measure, Yuma, Arizona, is the sunniest place on Earth! If you visit, you have a 90% chance of being greeted by sunshine, no matter the season. Seeking a sunny vacation spot to escape to? Sunshine duration measures the total number of sunshine hours for the entire year, giving a general impression of how cloudy a city is. Share this infographic using this link or the embed code below!
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![]() Some nectar will overflow and come out of the tube but this will keep air out of the adapter and tube, then your feeder is ready to go! Push the tube and adapter into the bottle in a twisting motion. Be sure to fill the bottle all the way to the top rim of the bottle. You can place the bottle anywhere you can hang a plant… along a fence (with an extension bracket or hanger), an overhang, trellis, under an arbor, etc.īefore filling your bottle with nectar clean the inside of the bottle thoroughly (see cleaning below). Now all there is to do is to make a hook at the bottle’s “bottom end”, which will be at the top when you fill and turn the bottle upside-down. You can use some temporary electrical tape to hold the wire to the bottle for the next step. Then, holding the neck with the wire wrapped around it, start to wrap the wire down the rest of the bottle in a spiral fashion, making enough spiral rings around the bottle to firmly hold it. A hand-held pair of vise grips would also be helpfulįirst, wrap the copper wire around the neck of the bottle at least 3 times.Apply spray in several thin coats, allowing each coat to dry in between applications. Most wire can be painted with the exception of zinc-plated galvanized. Patina finishers allow you to speed up this process to an hour or two. ![]() Steel will rust, brass will tarnish to a soft brown, and copper will turn blue or green. Patina finishes: If you expose copper, steel or brass to the elements for long enough, they will oxidize or patinate. This is due to a corrosion-resistant zinc plating.
Random and ill-planned abuse of Sculpting (either in Sculptris or Blender) will result in bloated sculpted meshes that will cause slow-down and hang the system. You must also be very very meticulous about what details are Actual Topology in your original model (and thus won’t be sculpted) and what does become sculpted. All you have to do is import the Sculptris mesh. As a “Baking Source” the Sculptris/Blender Sculpt result can produce any maps and you don’t have to think about. As long as the Lower-Res Baking Target’s topology is pretty strong, you can have very clean projection and zero increase in the number of vertices and not worry about rigging issues. Guys, what we have found is that Sculptris (or even Blender’s Sculpt Mode) is great at producing Hi-Res “Baking Sources”. ![]() In short I would be surprised if Blender hasn’t surpassed what is available in sculptris by the end of summer. Pen tablet and space ball input improvements - vastly improved interaction when using these toolsĪlso Farsthary has done a dynamic tesselation implementation for blender sculpting.Īlso another of the GSoC projects is a quad dominant remeshing algorithm.Paint tool improvements - will improve stroke, generalize the sculpt related brushes to be able to work with painting (ie rake), add multichannel support and layers support.Sculpt tool improvements - huge number of brushes and interface improvements.Multires improvements - including masking support.We have 4 GSoC projects that relate to functionality around sculpting and painting ![]() However I suspect that with the GSoC project for sculpt we will pull ahead of it and others regarding Brushes. The brushes in Sculptris are implemented quite well, and are currently better behaved than those in Blender. Sculptris works by locally tesselating wherever the user is sculpting based on a tesselation factor, so detail can be added where needed, and the user doesn’t have to worry about not being enough poly density to get good detail. How does it compare with Blender’s own Sculpt Mode? And what about UV information? Does the UV information survive a “.obj” import/export movement between Sculptris and Blender? Or can “Bake Selected to Active” work even if say the Sculptris imported version has no UV information? Has anyone used this software with Blender? I know some colleagues who are telling me this can be used to produce some really nice normal maps… But has anyone done a proven workflow with Sculptris? Pretty much everyone is aware of sculptris, ![]()
If someone with a recent LastPass account followed best practices and used a strong, unique master password, their data is probably still private (other than all the unencrypted identifying stuff). LastPass has been criticized for years for its inadequate security precautions and failure to update legacy accounts. ![]() Regardless of whether the hackers could crack the passwords, they still had a lot of personal and identifying data about every affected LastPass user.Īnd even the encrypted passwords aren't necessarily safe. Some fields in the vault databases-like passwords-were encrypted, but others, like email addresses, telephone numbers, the IP addresses customers used when accessing LastPass, and billing addresses weren't. What information? Well, it took until December 22, but LastPass came clean: the hackers had a backup of customer vault data. Then, at the end of November, LastPass announced that one of its third-party cloud storage services had been hacked "using information obtained in the August 2022 incident" and that the hackers had gained access to some customer information. Embarrassing for a security company, but it wasn't the first time the company had been hacked-and this was a less compromising breach. In September, it declared that its investigation was complete and all was well, and that there was no evidence any customer data or encrypted vaults had been compromised. It claimed that it had contained the breach and had taken mitigation measures. In August 2022, LastPass disclosed that a hacker had compromised a developer account and gained access to its development environment. It's meant to be encrypted and well-protected, so with that in mind, it's worth taking a step back and looking at the ongoing fallout of the LastPass hack last year. ![]() To make things as convenient as possible, both LastPass and 1Password store all your login information on their servers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's available on nearly every platform, but you don't always get native appsĪ password manager has two main jobs: to keep your passwords safe, and to make filling them in easy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy to import passwords, generate new passwords, and log in to existing accounts ⭐⭐ Recent data breach and less than ideal security in general ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best in class security and has never had a breach ![]() Most of these sugars are also toxic to honey bees. Toxic Substances in Nectar and Sugar SupplementĪdult bees can utilize glucose, fructose, sucrose, trehalose, maltose, and melezitose, but bees are unable to digest rhaminose, xylose, arabinose, galactose, mannose, lactose, raffinose, melibiose or stachyose. Honey with high glucose levels (such as canola honey), will crystallize very quickly and should be extracted as soon as possible.ġ.3. The moisture has to be reduced to 17%-18% before bees consider the honey “ripe” and then seal the cells. Receiver bees deposit nectar into cells and dry the nectar either on their mouthparts, by forming a large drop between the proboscis and the mandibles, or by fanning over the cells. Foragers then pass the nectar to special “receiver” bees, which are middle-aged bees that have finished nursing, but have not started foraging yet. Gluconic acid makes honey acidic, and hydrogen peroxide has germ-killing properties, both contributing to honey’s unfriendly disposition to bacteria, mold, and fungi. A small amount of the glucose is attacked by the second enzyme, glucose oxidase, and gets converted into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Invertase converts sucrose into two six-carbon sugars, glucose and fructose. ![]() The average weight of the nectar inside the crop is 25.5+15 mg (Calderone and Page, 1992), quite a feat considering that an average worker bee weighs 120 mg.įoragers add enzymes (invertase, glucose oxidase) to nectar during foraging, so some digestion is already occurring before nectar is brought back to the hive. For this reason I tell people that honey is definitely not “bee vomit.” The honey crop is also the site of synthesis of ethyl oleate, a pheromone from foragers that tells young bees that they do not need to develop into foragers. This ensures that no contamination of nectar or honey can take place. This structure, the proventriculus, can let some nectar in when the forager needs energy on its way home, remove pollen inside the nectar, and serve as a one-way valve to prevent backflow from the midgut. The crop is a specialized part of the digestive system, and has a structure between it and the midgut, where digestion takes place. A honey bee uses her proboscis to suck up nectar from flowers and stores the liquid in her honey crop. ![]() Sugar concentration in nectar can vary widely, from 5% to 75%, although most nectars are in the range of 25% to 40%. Nectar is the main source of carbohydrates in the natural diet of honey bees. A colony of this size, therefore will consume almost 700 pounds of nectar per year, assuming the nectars having a 50% sugar concentration,! Of course, consumption is lower during winter times when temperature is not regulated at 35C, but perhaps that cancels out the brood rearing and flight activities. A colony with 50,000 bees therefore needs 1.1 liter (about 2 pounds) of 50% sugar syrup per day (about half a gallon of nectar at 25% sugar concentration), which does not include brood rearing and other activities. This translates to about 22 ul of 50% sugar syrup per worker per day. A worker bee needs 11 mg of dry sugar each day (Huang et al., 1998). Aside from being used as an energy source, glucose can also be converted to body fats and stored. All carbohydrates are first converted to glucose, which enters the Krebs cycle and produces ATP, the fuel in nearly all cells, and carbon dioxide and water as by-products. Like other animals, honey bees need carbohydrates as an energy source. Additionally, these nutrients must be present in the right ratio for honey bees to survive and thrive. Honey bees require carbohydrates (sugars in nectar or honey), amino acids (protein from pollen), lipids (fatty acids, sterols), vitamins, minerals (salts), and water. What we know about honey bee nutrition now was learned mostly during the 50s-70s, and recent studies specifically on honey bee nutrition are very few. Honey bees, like any other animal, require essential ingredients for survival and reproduction.
![]() It will also connect to a newly-planned location called the Ralph C. While the riverfront has already scored accolades celebrating it as a national tourist spot worth seeing, the spanning walk along the river shows the city has no interest in slowing down.Īlong with Corktown, the trail will also help connect Detroit's coming "Mobility District" around the old train station as well. When work began on the Greenway, it came with renderings that showed trees dotting a rolling landscape where people can run, walk, bike, and recreate next to the shoreline. The Southwest Greenway's grand opening will include figures from the city, Ford, as well as several nonprofits hoping to further beautify the riverfront. It also attaches several other surrounding neighborhoods to a growing network of trails and paths along the Detroit River. A significant portion of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's larger plan to build a 27.5-mile path called the Joe Louis Greenway, this portion connects the riverfront to Michigan Central. After a year of construction, the Southwest Greenway is officially open. New Greenway opens in Detroitĭetroit will get a little bit more walkable when the city unveils its newest strip of the riverfront Wednesday. They turn lives around, they keep people out of trouble."Īt this reading, it is unclear if the votes are there to alter the prison release timeline. "These barriers make it much more likely that they will return to a life of crime," said Elle Travis. She says that she will feel safer if this plan passes. Proponents of the legislation contend that victims will be notified if a sentence is reduced.Īnd this crime victim survivor argues the current release program from the state, has barriers that inhibit criminals from making it on the outside. 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