![]() ![]() The Times predicted "that great bell will probably stand in that lofty tower for centuries, connecting the present with the future, and making its mighty voice hourly heard over the city of millions of inhabitants." Well, yes and no. The bell had sounded the intended note and put the willies up half of Westminster. "Some of the invited auditors came armed with their tuning keys, to test the result some stuffed their ears with cotton, lest their tympanums should crack, and some manfully trusted that their ears would stand the sound." And so it proved - E natural was the unanimous verdict among those who had not fled or wet themselves in terror. ![]() Plenty of folk were on hand at the test to check his working. The bell's designer, Edmund Beckett Denison, intended and predicted that his massive bell would sound an E natural. floods your inner man in an instant of time," surely Victorian code for "it made me piss my pants". The same reporter further described the sensation as "A liquid blow. Reporters were astounded at the noise, as the hyperbolic quote that opened this article shows. Just after 11 o'clock, "six or eight sturdy artisans tugged lustily" at the clapper rope, causing the bell to ring for the first time. This was the largest in England, and none had heard such a monster sound its tone before. The assembled dignitaries crowded round in trepidation. But its public debut came in New Palace Yard on that early winter's day of 1856.īig Ben was mounted on a cradle at the foot of the still-incomplete Clock Tower. The bell had no doubt been tested behind closed doors at the manufacturer - John Warner & Sons of Stockton-upon-Tees. ![]() "A liquid blow": the first bong of the first Big Ben It was first tested outside the Palace of Westminster on 13 November 1856, in front of quite a crowd. The colossal bell had already earned the nickname of Big Ben, probably after the commissioner of works Sir Benjamin Hall. Each penny causes Big Ben to gain 0.4 second per day.That was the verdict of a Times reporter on the first test of the Great Bell of Westminster. The pendulum is adjusted by adding pennies made before the decimalization of the United Kingdom’s currency in 1971 to the weight. Big Ben is accurate to within two seconds per week. Big Ben is wound three times a week, and the winding takes over an hour. The double three-legged gravity escapement designed by Denison for Big Ben achieves the second of these but not the first. An ideal escapement would transmit the impulse without interfering with the free swing, and the impulse should be as uniform as possible. In a pendulum clock an escape wheel is allowed to rotate through the pitch of one tooth for each double swing of the pendulum and to transmit an impulse to the pendulum to keep it swinging. Denison’s principal contribution was a novel gravity escapement that imparted unprecedented accuracy to the clock. The clock was designed by Edmund Beckett Denison (later Sir Edmund Beckett and Lord Grimthorpe) in association with Sir George Airy (then astronomer royal) and the clockmaker Edward Dent. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.
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Kovac's amazing camera work (especially on the road with the bikes) along with a virtual who's who in rock music of the late 60's makes for a sometimes visceral filmgoing experience. The expressions on the faces all seem different, some grinning, others just zoned out. One significant shot paints the commune with a 360 degree pan across the faces of the live-in hippies. There is a surreal experience at a commune the Kid and Wyatt stop at. Did they find what America was supposed to be about? I guess not according to Fonda. Their ultimate goal is never clearly defined, but Fonda's final comment to Hopper may sum it up for viewers. A major deal is made, much grass is smoked, and the film takes off from there. ![]() It is some beautiful footage and essential to the trip. Much of the film consists of Kovacs' simple shooting of the riders as they travel spiraling highways and bigoted backroads. The stunning DVD version of the film notes the importance of Laszlo Kovacs, the director of photography. Peter Fonda plays cool "Captain America", otherwise known as Wyatt, while Hopper is a paranoid prophet of the hippies as "Billy the Kid". Sex, drugs, and music were exploding socially and 1960's ideology may have come to an end in 1969, literally and figuratively speaking - much like it shockingly does in this film. The sprawling journey shows filmgoers the multiple frictions and shattered idealism of a generation in the midst of cultural change. Of course, the stop at Mardi Gras is a necessity, but what Fonda and director Hopper are trying to tell us is that there was no 'freedom' as they saw it. ![]() I may not have been around at the time, but it is great to see a film portraying the long-haired, hippie attitude towards an America in turmoil in the form of a biker flick, circa 1969.ĮASY RIDER is an exploration of vast and desolate parts of the country. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's story of two men who go in search of America and 'freedom' is a bona fide sign of the times. No film other than EASY RIDER captures the late 1960's as seen by the American counter-culture. TAXI DRIVER is a masterpiece of social distortion and paranoia exemplary of the 1970's. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES captured the reality of the post-war 1940's. Not many films have documented an era of American culture the way it must have really been. Reviewed by Don-102 9 / 10 A Far Out Document of the late 60's Encapsulates Counter-Culture America. This movie made us think of the fragility of our lives in the hands of politicians and base individuals. We were so angry about the conclusion and our parents say these guys got just what they deserved. As I've grown older, it has been easier to see weaknesses of these men. The problem was a sickness that permeated everything at the time. Jack Nicholson as George come along for the ride because he has never seen anything like this before. ![]() They have some dalliances and some confrontations. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper travelling across the country, scoring drugs, taking risks, trying to find America (the cliché of the time). We sat around and commiserated about the fact that there was that Sword of Damocles, the Vietnam War, hanging over each of our heads. My friends and I went to see "Easy Rider" when we were in college. Reviewed by Hitchcoc 7 / 10 A Country Full of Anger Through it all, Wyatt in particular evaluates if the trip ends up being what he expects or wants for his life.-Huggo But they will also ruffle some feathers just for being hippies, arguably in the fear not of them as people but what they represent. They will find that not all counter-culturalists have the exact same mindset, while they will also find the spiritual and practical connections to others in perhaps the most unlikely of places and people. While Wyatt is more easy going, believing in the karmic nature and practicality of helping others when they can and in turn asking for help when they need it, Billy is a little more suspicious of the people they encounter, especially in hiding their wad of cash that is stuffed into the gas tank of Wyatt's bike, that money their future. They don't plan to spend their proceeds on this trip - they saving that for a more carefree life in Florida after the fact - they sleeping in the great outdoors along the way. Netting a hefty profit from their latest drug deal, hippies Wyatt and Billy decide to outfit themselves with among other things motorbikes - Wyatt complete in what they call his Captain America gear and similar motif on the bike - and chucking any structure in their lives beyond the want to get there for the event, cycle from their home base of Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in just over a week. Workaround 3 – Perform Scheduled Backup to an External Drive ![]() Next, check the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox under the Privilege Level section.And then, select Windows 10 from the drop-down. In the QB properties dialog box that opens, select the “Run this program in compatibility mode for” checkbox.Right-click on the QB icon on your desktop, and click on Properties.Workaround 2 – Run QuickBooks as an AdministratorĮnsure you are running QB as an administrator to avoid any problem with the automatic (or scheduled) backups. You can fix this error by selecting the “Run only when user is logged in” option under QuickBooks. ![]() Error ID 202: Last System Error: The system cannot find the path specified. QuickBooks encountered a problem attempting to backup C:\DATABASES\QB_XXXXXXX\XXXXXXX.qbw – Drive specified could not be accessed. Also, they get the following error QBBackup.log file: Note that some users, even after changing the “Configure for:” setting to “Windows 10,” experience failing backups. To determine, check if the ‘Configure for:’ field is set to Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 (refer to the image below). This means that QuickBooks® is set to run for different versions of Windows other than Windows 10.įor instance, QB is configured for Windows XP or any other operating system, and you’re using Windows 10. The most common reason behind the issue is that the Windows 10 version installed on your system is not compatible with QuickBooks® Desktop. What Causes ‘QuickBooks Backup not Working Windows 10’ Issue? Most users go on assuming that their company file is getting backed up as scheduled. Intuit recommends letting QuickBooks® schedule the task of backing up a company file automatically when the file is closed, using the ‘Automatic backup’ feature.īut, when scheduling a backup task in QuickBooks® or upgrading Windows 10 build to 1709 or higher fails, it leads to a severe issue. How to Recover QuickBooks Company File Data?.Workarounds to Fix the ‘QuickBooks Backup not Working Windows 10’ Issue.What Causes ‘QuickBooks Backup not Working Windows 10’ Issue?. ![]() It is very simple to use once you’ve walked through the guided steps for giving it permission to work behind the scenes it is essentially something you can just leave to get on with its job. McAfee Total Protection is a dedicated software security tool that will monitor your Mac as you work, looking for unauthorised software activity such as browser search engine hacks, attempts to trick you into installing unwanted software, and actual malware and virus attacks. Whether you’re a novice or advanced user, Clario is an effective and supportive security program. We did encounter some issues with performance, with the program sometimes running slow before we were fully set up, but once we were fully configured everything ran smoothly. And from the Dashboard you can trigger a quick virus scan, which is actually quite thorough. The VPN will kick in if Clario detects you using an unprotected network. ![]() Once installed you can access information about the security of your Mac and monitor the status of your online accounts and personal data. Set up is quick and painless with a wizard that takes you through configuration of all the key features while allowing you to evaluate the different options and determine which ones you want to enable. The three devices included in the plan can include a combination of Macs and iOS or Android devices. Payment is by subscription, and currently Clario has 54% off the usual $107.88 / £107.88 a year, so you can pay $50.00 / £50.00 a year (billed at $4.17 / £4.17 a month). Clario 1.5 for the Mac is much more than an antivirus package, it packs a healthy amount of security into one package, including real-time and on-demand malware scanning, ad blocking and website trackers, a VPN, and data breach monitoring to alert you if your email is caught and potentially exposed in a cyberattack. ![]() ![]() Seeing its local popularity, he decided to fully invest himself into rap. In 2008, due to encouragement from his friends, Young Dolph released his first mixtape Paper Route Campaign. On March 5, 2008, she passed away due to a battle with lung cancer.Ĭareer 2008–2014: Career beginnings and early successes His grandmother often did not allow Thornton to have friends visit their home, but on occasion let homeless friends stay with the family. ![]() As a teenager, Thornton attended Hamilton High School. All the shit she was telling you, you get to seeing that shit when you hit about 15", saying that when he approached that age he began utilizing her teachings throughout his life to be more independent. He described initially recognizing his grandmother as "the meanest motherfucker in the world", explaining "I didn't get that shit at the time. Thornton said that the community he was from in South Memphis, many of his peers were raised by their grandmothers due to the issues experienced by their parents. Thornton was mostly raised by his grandmother, Ida Mae his parents experienced addictions to crack cocaine, and as a child, he would only see them every few weeks. He had two sisters and two brothers he and rapper Juice Wrld were second cousins. When he was two years old, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. was born on July 27, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois. On November 17, 2021, he was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.Īdolph Robert Thornton Jr. Young Dolph's seventh album, Rich Slave, was released in 2020 and became his highest-charting project, debuting at number four on the Billboard 200. Genasis's hit single " Cut It", which peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2016, he released his debut studio album, King of Memphis, which peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200 chart. (J– November 17, 2021), better known by his stage name Young Dolph, was an American rapper. ![]() If you're not fully satisfied, please contact us and we'll make sure to help. If you like ColorZilla, please help spread the word by giving it a 5 star rating here ) Please visit this page for more info - ĬolorZilla is still in beta, if you're having issues or found a bug, please don't post you bug report here, contact us directly so we can fix it: We are pretty fanatical about privacy ourselves, and your privacy is extremely important to us. ColorZilla **DOES NOT** collect any of your data or your browsing activity on any websites. This permission is needed by ColorZilla for its basic functionality of picking colors from websites. = Why does ColorZilla need permission to "access data on all websites"? = ✓ Single-click to start color picking (currently only on Windows) ✓ Displays element information like tag name, class, id, size etc. ✓ Color History of recently picked colors ✓ Palette Viewer with 7 pre-installed palettes ✓ Webpage Color Analyzer - get a color palette for any site ✓ Advanced Color Picker (similar to Photoshop's) ✓ Eyedropper - get the color of any pixel on the page ![]() Then choose the color you’d like to replace and manually paint over it with a new color. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. Select the Color Replacement tool by holding down the Brush tool. With HCG, you can find the organization of the "Web-Safe" colors, and the "RainbowMeistro Color-Picker" in the project will give you a clear visualization of that color-space.Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies ColorZilla, one of the most popular Firefox developer extensions with over 5 million downloads is finally available for Chrome! My MasterColorPicker project adds another color-space, hue-chroma-gray (HCG), and the source code for this project documents the formulas for converting between HCG and RGB. You can manually adjust the brown and red colors separately to achieve the final color you want. When you click an area of skin in the photo, Photoshop Elements adjusts the skin toneas well as all other colors in the photo. EXCEPT: Wikipedia talks about "Chroma" in one of their articles and says not to confuse it with "saturation". The Adjust Color For Skin Tone command adjusts the overall color in a photo to bring out more natural skin tones. Besides Wikipedia, see:Īll the formulas you can digest. But really, don't bang your head against the wall for years trying to figure out these algorithms. That is where I hope this project can help. As far as mapping from one space to another, for example, the relationship between RGB and HSL, you must really expand your 3D imagination to begin that. ![]() My hope is that just using the project will help you to understand each color-space. One thing I focused on in this project is bringing the LOGIC of these color-spaces into an easy-to-understand and use format. You can double click on the color Fill box at the bottom of the Tools palette to open a Photoshop-style color picker, which will allow you to choose a color. It took me several months of both reading Wikipedia articles on "Color Wheel" as well as "HSB" and "HSL" and "RGB", and also working with the algorithms directly as I built each color-picker from scratch. I created a JavaScript project, "MasterColorPicker", that has 4 different canvas based color-pickers. I don't really need the algorythms itself, i'm mainly trying to understand the logic. I would like to know the logic behind the color mapping in a picker like this: My thought is this is too linear, comparing to the ones i see in Photoshop and on the web. Var rgCanvas = document.createElement('canvas') I am not at all versed in Computer Graphics and am in need of creating a color picker as a javascript tool to embed in an HTML page.įirst, and looking at Photoshop's one, i thought of the RGB palette as a three-dimensional matrix. ![]() This sharp curve is used to pierce through the bodies of their prey to assist in digestion. The end of the beak curves down and forms a hook. Their long, shoe-shaped beak is used to eat small animals and fish in a single gulp. ![]() Their beak is the reason they are called “Shoebill Storks.” That is half as long as a bowling pin! The average human foot is 23 centimeters. The shoebill stork has large feet! The average shoebill foot can be up to 18 centimeters long. Their Feet Can Be Up to 18 Centimeters Long Some shoebills born in 1984 are still alive today! Shoebills born this year might live to the year 2053. Shoebill storks can live long enough to see seven generations. The average dog will live to be 15 years old. The shoebill stork can live for up to 35 years! That is a good age for an animal – especially a bird. Potential mates love the sound and will come to the noisy shoebill. It is a series of loud, terrifying popping noises. However, come mating time, the shoebill will release a loud cry to attract a partner. That is why it will never make noise when hunting for prey. Part of being stealthy and waiting for the right moment is staying silent. They Don’t Make Much Noise, But They Are Loud When They Do! Learn more about other animals in Uganda. If it is small enough to fit into their mouth – they will eat it. They will eat eels, catfish, snakes, and lungfish. They lunge forward with their sharp bill and pick up the creature, devouring it whole. They know that if they wait long enough for the right moment, they will find their next meal.Īt the right moment, the shoebill will leap from cover and attack the prey. Shoebills eat at night and sit perfectly still, blending in with the darkness around them. They will stand in water, large patches of grass, and other hiding places for hours on end. However, even though they pick fights, they do not win all of the time! 3. Storks have been known to fight Nile crocodiles, other species of storks, and even each other. If a strong animal makes the stork unhappy for whatever reason, including being in their line of sight, the stork has no problem attacking the creature. If a weak animal comes across their path, the stork will leap from their hiding place to turn it into a meal. They fight off small and large animals alike. The shoebill stork does not take no for an answer! The species is aggressive. Illness is rampant, predators are everywhere, and food can be scarce. Living in the marsh presents an extreme danger. They Are Brave – Even Attacking Crocodiles Warning: The following video – although showing actual shoebill behavior – might be disturbing to some younger viewers.Ģ. More often than not, the larger bird forces the smaller birds to flee from the nest and live on their own. The larger, dominant offspring will fight off their siblings. Scientists and researchers, in the limited interactions they have had with the species, have discovered that shoebills ranging from two months to one year old will fight with one another. When more than one shoebill is born in the same nest, it will compete for attention from the mother. It is known that shoebill storks are shy animals that prefer to be alone. Young shoebills will fight with one another. Here are fifteen interesting facts about this unique bird! 1. Here’s a glimpse of what it looks like in the wild: It is true! If you visit the marsh, you might see this extraordinary, one-of-a-kind creature hiding in tall grass and waiting for its prey. The Shoebill Stork is an extremely interesting creature. Young are Dependant Until 2.5 Months Oldĭid you know that the legendary Shoebill Storks can be found in Uganda? Live in Marshes in Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia They Use Their Wings to Fly and Keep Balance ![]()
There are countless audio converter apps available for Windows PC. It is possible to work with AAC, MP3, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, etc. You can use the MediaHuman Audio Converter, which is compatible with Windows 11 and Windows 10. You can convert multiple songs to MP3 and other formats with the help of the aforementioned application. If you like, you can download it from here. To do so, check the Remove source file option in Settings > General.Ĭonsidering all the features of MediaHuman Audio Converter, it seems to be a quite useful app for Windows. Remove source file: If you do not want to keep the source file after converting, you can remove it automatically.For this, you need to enable it from Settings > General > Check Split by CUE automatically. Split by CUE: You can split audio files by CUE data in automation.For example, you can exit the program automatically if all the files get converted correctly. Choose action after successful conversion: You can choose the action that will be executed after converting files successfully. ![]() It also has some options in the Settings pane, some of which are mentioned below: Queued files will be processed automatically. While converting files using MediaHuman Audio Converter, you should know that you can select as many files as you want but it converts only four files at a time. If you want to keep the native folder structure of your source files, go to Settings > Output and select the Keep folder structure checkbox. ![]() Having done that, come back to the main screen and click on the Convert icon which is visible just before the Settings button.īy default, the tool saves all the converted files in the following location: There is a one-click solution as well that appears after clicking the Format button. It is also possible to select the audio frequency. To choose the output format, open Settings, go to Output and select the Output format. Now, select the audio files and drop them into the audio converter window. After opening it, you will see the following window: To get started with this free audio converter for Windows, at download and install it on your machine. Search for cover art on Discogs, Last.fm and Google Images Batch convert multiple audio files.This is helpful when you have to convert tons of files based on album/artist/genre etc. ![]()
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