In CR’s tests of smart sprinkler controllers, we evaluate, among other features, how easy it is to wire the controller to the sprinkler system’s water valves and whether the controls are simple to use. “You’re going to want a controller that uses a lot of forecast data to make its adjustments.” “The ability of these smart sprinkler controllers to make fine-tuned watering adjustments greatly depends on the robustness of their weather data,” says Larry Ciufo, CR’s test engineer for sprinkler controllers. One crucial factor sets these top-performers apart from the rest of the pack. Smart controllers can save you money on your water bill, too.īelow you’ll find ratings and reviews of the best smart sprinkler controllers from our tests. And their app-based controls make it a breeze to create watering schedules that comply with your local watering restrictions, such as watering only on odd-numbered days or at unusual hours of the night. Smart sprinkler controllers connect to the internet and use real-time weather data to adjust the frequency of watering so that you don’t overwater your grass, say, during an afternoon shower, or underwater on a dry, hot day. That’s why you should consider swapping out your sprinkler controller for a smart model. You might want to make your lawn the envy of the neighborhood, but doing so is easier said than done, especially in parts of the country facing severe drought and the accompanying water use restrictions.
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Andrews, her past has been ogled and evaluated by anyone with a curiosity for who might capture the future King’s heart, and the list isn’t short. That is a great American phrase to describe what I think will prove to be a long and successful royal career for the Princess of Wales.From the second that Kate was first linked with William that fateful night at St. In short, it matters far more where she’s going than where she’s come from. Since 2011, discussions of ‘the first middle-class queen since Anne Boleyn’ have died down, leading to the rather refreshing view that the Princess, and her actions, are viewed as more important. In itself, nothing about the Princess, but rather about Britain’s evolving perception of class, as well as the differences in views on either side of the North Atlantic. That perhaps is what the idea of Catherine Middleton as middle class shows us most clearly. In Mike Bartlett’s play King Charles III, Catherine’s origins are reworked to suggest a gutsy and determined social climber, something which interestingly saw the play described as an attack on the Princess by certain sections of the British press and viewed by many American reviewers as a point in the character’s favour. That she was born into a family of hardworking entrepreneurs and then married a man who will one day be the custodian of a legacy that can be traced back to the saints and warriors of the Dark Ages are two remarkable facts in a graceful and, by all accounts of those who know her, profoundly kind, young woman’s life.īut she was not, to quote one piece from 2007, a ‘middle-class rose’. There is no point in pretending that the Princess of Wales is not liked and respected by the vast majority of her husband’s future subjects. Kate Middleton What matters more is where she's going (Both were daughters of earls, but let’s not get too bogged down in details.) Catherine could carry the torch of long-term dignity and spousal support that the country associated with the Queen Mother but also the unstuffy charisma and charitable good deeds of the tragic Diana. Far from damaging her prospects or her popularity, as it might have done half a century earlier, the Princess of Wales' ancestry was initially used to cultivate a vague sense of continuity with her immediate predecessors as consorts, hugely popular figures like Princess Diana or Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, both native-born ‘commoners’. Snobbery like that was either disbelieved or sharply criticised. That particular piece of spite was widely dismissed as nonsense in Britain, wholly out of keeping with the Queen’s world view, but it gained some traction in talk-shows abroad. Later, rumours emerged that the Queen resented ‘the déclassé’ Carole Middleton’s presence in Prince George’s nursery. There was even a story, almost certainly an absurd fantasy, that the Queen’s eldest daughter Princess Anne was refusing to curtsey to Catherine after the marriage because she refused to accept that someone born into the middle-classes should be curtseyed to by the Princess Royal. There were mocking captions on photographs of her mother Carole chewing gum there were critiques on the Middleton family’s grasp of etiquette. Initially, some British publications began to do the same thing with Miss Middleton. Historians have not traditionally been kind on the subject of Anne Boleyn’s origins, using them to suggest that Anne was a girl who climbed like ivy, an ambitious adventuress who gambled in a game she had no business playing and paid the ultimate price for daring to transcend the pre-ordained limitations of her background. In 2010, the comparisons to Anne Boleyn were an ominous indicator of where the story might go. What do you think of the current push for platforms to emulate TikTok’s vertical video format? Right now, we’re running tests to understand how users behave when they see an ad on or our network of publishers. Interactivity boosts incremental performance in video completion rate (VCR), ad memorization and brand awareness. When a person interacts with a game mechanic in your pre-roll, you get more of their attention. When there is a video ad playing, your eye is attracted to the skip button. And our second biggest client in the US is a CPG brand. We’re working on a gaming study so we can offer clients a strategy to target those audiences. We focus a lot on contextual targeting for the high-tech vertical. But I was reading an IAB study on which industries are going to drive growth in H2, and it was mainly high tech, gaming and CPG. H2 is going to be tough, especially after we had a great H1. What are Dailymotion’s plans for weathering a possible recession? We are seeing opportunities from agencies driving budgets from outstream to in-stream, because in-stream attracts more user attention and provides better view-through rates (VTR) and viewability. We focus solely on instream video and don’t do any outstream. Our biggest growth area the past three years isn’t video but display placements on sold through header bidding. Data like that helps us build more complex contextual targeting. For example, our recent study on World Cup viewing habits found people who watch soccer content are more likely to watch political and home and garden content. Our research wing analyzes cohorts of people engaging with certain content and what other behaviors they exhibit. Each video gets associated with a series of topics that can be applied to the IAB’s content taxonomy or other content taxonomies, and we pass those categories in the bid request. And we analyze the video’s metadata, like the description and title. We also transcribe the audio and run a textual analysis. What’s Dailymotion’s approach to contextual targeting?Įvery video uploaded to our servers – on-site or from our partners – is algorithmically analyzed for content frame by frame. We also sell PMPs and programmatic guaranteed. We used Freewheel, but we decided, for the sake of optimizing the supply path, it would be better to have our own SSP and to have more control over our inventory and our prices.įor direct sales, we have a team of more than 50 sellers worldwide. But we’re also a tech company that provides that video player to publishers.ĭo you mostly sell ads programmatically or direct? HAMZA KOURIMATE: Dailymotion is a video platform powered by an in-house video player. AdExchanger: Does Dailymotion consider itself more of a video platform or a publisher? When it’s activated, the Elide fire extinguisher ball automatically disperses an extinguisher powder that insulates the fire and stops it from rekindle. Thanks to the self-activation of the ball, the accidental activation is impossible because it triggers only in direct contact with flame. It works automatically – without requiring human intervention. The fire is extinguished immediately, within seconds, after tripping the fire extinguisher ball. The coverage area is very large – one ball extinguishes flames from a volume of 15 m3. The Elide fire extinguishing ball is easier, more logical, and natural to use when the fire starts. The Elide fire extinguisher ball costs $120 and you’ll only have to pay this amount of money once every 5 years, that’s in case you don’t use it. If a fire breaks out, the fire ball can be easily removed from the holder and rolled or thrown into the fire. Having a weight of 1.3 kg and a diameter of only 15 cm, the fire extinguisher ball is very simple to use, it requires no training and can be used even by children. In less than 10 seconds the extinguishing substance covers an area of up to 4.25 square meters and extinguishes the fire. A classic fire extinguisher should be checked every 6 months, and a fire -extinguishing system daily.Įlide fire ball sets off in 3-7 seconds, a significantly shorter time than a person with an ordinary fire extinguisher would need. The fire extinguisher ball doesn’t require checks or maintenance for a period of 6 years. The wick, the ball’s surface, reacts to heat, activates the indoor mini-systems, and releases the fire extinguisher’s substance. Unlike a regular fire extinguisher, the Elide fire extinguisher ball is not operated by a person, but it’s self-activating when reaching the flames. The much more experienced Messinger is almost certain to win the job at third base, but if O’Dowd plays well enough this fall, he could push for playing time if head coach David Pierce decides to use Messinger to fill the hole at designated hitter.Įven if O’Dowd isn’t a regular contributor in 2022, he has some long-term upside thanks to his high school production, positive results in a small sample size in 2021, and high-level baseball pedigree - his older brother, Chris, spent six years in the minors with four different teams, and his father, Dan, worked in the front office for three different organizations. The experience for O’Dowd playing for the national runner up should benefit him when he arrives on the Forty Acres - he’ll likely compete for playing time at third base with Kansas transfer Skyler Messinger and could also help back up shortstop Trey Faltine and second baseman Mitchell Daly. All three hits were doubles as O’Dowd drove in four runs and also drew a walk. O’Dowd only appeared in 10 games for the Commodores as a freshman, hitting. View the menu of 21 Shortstop Savannah, Savannah at Zomato for delivery, dine-out or takeaway. His defensive development is moving in right direction…we like where he is and where he is headed.” He has an advanced acumen for the game, with a good approach to the offensive game. He does not operate like a first-year player…he has a plan, and he tries to execute it. He applied himself immediately when he arrived on campus and was rewarded at the end of term academically. 3 de los Bombarderos del Bronx, segn MLB Pipeline, contina empujando fuerte. “Jack is mature, curious and forward thinking. A un mes de iniciar la Temporada 2023 de Grandes Ligas, la batalla por la titularidad en el shortstop de New York Yankees contina ms fuerte que nunca y Oswald Peraza es un claro ejemplo de ello. Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin had the following to say about O’Dowd: Named to play in the Perfect Game All-American Classic. Like with every rebuilding team, Arizona needs pitching and hitting. Arizona Diamondbacks (National League West) At the time of writing, Arizona is 36-80 with the worst record and win percentage in all of MLB. Very good student, verbal commitment to Vanderbilt. These are the best teams for you to join in Road to the Show on MLB The Show 21. 6.83 runner, works side to side well and is light on his feet for his size, soft hands out front, profiles to second or third base in the future. Left handed hitter, hits from an upright and open stance with a high hand load, long power oriented swing with plenty of barrel whip, looking to pull and lift the ball, hands are loose and fast through the zone, projects big power with this approach as he continues to get stronger and mature physically. Long and lean projectable build, lots of room to get stronger especially in the upper half. frame from Nashville, TN who attends Lipscomb Academy. 21 shortstop who has experience playing every infield position but first base: Can’t wait to get to ATX, HOOK EM /n3WdAaPSRL- Jack O'Dowd July 24, 2021Ī 6’2, 195-pounder from Nashville who hits left handed, O’Dowd was a top-100 prospect nationally by Perfect Game and the No. Thankful for all the memories made in Black & Gold this year. “It’s just a good sounding thing, you know?” “Mixbus is set up to be a really good summing mixer,” he enthuses. You can add dynamics, you can add all those things to the channel itself, to the bus where you mix them, and then at the end, and then you get this whole kind of Harrison sound.”Ĭraig likes it so much, although he has plenty of high-quality hardware gear, when he mixes through Mixbus he doesn’t need to do any outboard summing. Of course, you can use 20 plugins on a channel if you want, but if you don’t want to do that, you just turn the knobs and tell it what bus you want it to go to. You don’t have to use a lot of stupid plugins if you don’t really want to. “With the routing, everything (is) set up to be a really simple mixing situation. What he particularly likes is the simplicity of it. You don’t have to worry about putting in a UAD API on every channel, or using (Softube) Console 1.” “With Harrison Mixbus, because everything’s in line, it’s like you’re using a DAW that’s a console. With Harrison Mixbus, because everything’s in line, it’s like you’re using a DAW that’s a console Carl Craigįor mixing, Craig is a fan of Harrison Mixbus, a mix-focussed DAW made by Harrison, who are best known for their hardware mixing desks. “You know, you can kind of hear when people work in Ableton, and there’s something about the processing that’s a trip.” “With soft synths,” he continues, “Ableton has something that just kind of, just doesn’t…” It’s difficult to put it in words. And I have a lot of sessions in Ableton, but, you know, the sound of Ableton…” And now we come to the heart of the matter, the reason Carl Craig reached out to use in the first place. “I find myself working a lot in Logic, but Ableton I was using quite a bit. It’s not ported out from PC or from Amiga or whatever,” he says, laughing. I like Logic the best out of all the ones I mentioned because Logic runs better in Mac than all of them to me. I have FL, I have ProTools, Logic, and Ableton. Unsurprisingly, Craig doesn’t restrict himself to just one. You know, you can kind of hear when people work in Ableton, and there’s something about the processing that’s a trip. I kept a couple of Moog analogue delays and a couple of Inward Connections EQs and a bunch of Radial (Engineering) stuff, which I use to make sure that I can patch in pedals.” Then I sold a bunch of them and kept only certain things. “So I had a lot of 500 Series stuff for a while. “I found that I liked the idea of having smaller things too,” he continues. Outboard gear also plays a part in his signal chain, with Pultec, Tube-Tech and SSL compressors all tickling his tracks. “With the Moog cards it’s like having eight Minimoogs together,” he says, his eyes lighting up. He also mentions the Studio Electronics Code. Of course, he still maintains a collection of analogue synthesizers and drum machines: a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Sequential Oberheim-6, Roland Juno-106, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, and Roland TR-909. But I’ve had Neve, I’ve had a small SSL, a Matrix.” Now, he’s added a rackmount SSL Sigma for summing. The Theo Parrish track (‘ Falling Up‘) was done on that. It’s an Amek BC 10 or something like that. “I still have a small one that I use every so often. “I got rid of a big console a long time ago,” he explains. Carl Craig performing live with the Chineke! Orchestra. Currently, it’s a hybrid setup, with digital equipment sitting alongside analogue gear. His studio is in flux, with new gear often coming and going, all in his search for the right sound. Some artists set it and forget it but Craig is not one of them. We get into it about gear and all the changes that Craig’s studio has been through over the years. Songs may be imperfect but – at the end of the day – they still have to sound good. I love the fact that things can be so imperfect.” He had different guitars because the tuning was specifically for that song in particular. He just tuned it up, whatever worked by ear and that was it. I think Ricky Wilson didn’t even really know how to tune up his guitar. “One of my favourite groups growing up as a kid was the B-52s,” he says. We agree, noting that there’s a real drive towards technical perfection in music these days, even at the expense of emotion and originality. But the song had character and it was saying something.” I’ve had tracks that weren’t very well engineered that did very, very well. And that’s the way that I want my music to always be, whether it sounds perfect, or whether it sounds flawed. “If you look at music in the same way as art,” he continues, “you might like to have a Warhol… because it has that character, and it’s always going to have that character. But they do have a sonic quality, a quality of sound, that makes them unique. The songs that mean the most to us, that matter the most, often aren’t technically perfect.
More space and design freedom – With no radiators and a hidden heating system, you’ll have more space on the walls.It’s not a lost investment if you end up moving sooner than planned. Increased home value – Because underfloor heating is a desirable feature for home buyers, your property will be worth more when it comes to selling.And your floors will stay warm even if the windows are open or a room is very draughty. Better heat efficiency – Heat is now evenly distributed around every room and works at a lower temperature than a traditional radiator, so your energy bills could actually come down.No more pretending to know how to bleed the radiator… Easy to run – Requires very little to no maintenance and often comes with a lifetime guarantee. Safety – With underfloor heating you won’t have sleepless nights about your kids or young family members bashing into sharp edges or burning their hands on hot radiators.And stepping out of the shower onto warm ground is just lovely. Comfort – It’s the middle of winter and the thought of getting out of bed is terrifying, but at least you can walk barefoot to the toilet without screaming.However, they’re more complex and therefore can be costly to install. Underfloor heating systems distribute heat more evenly than radiators (water better than electric), eradicate that dreaded draught and often use less energy. Water systems – comprise a network of pipes linked to your boiler that pump hot water around a room. Underfloor heating systems come in two different forms: electric and water.Įlectric systems – rely on a network of wires or coils under the floor that heat up. Advances in technology and developments in the understanding of underfloor heating have made it the go-to choice in a lot of new-build homes, with lifecycle costs now comparable to traditional radiators. Luckily for us, we don’t need a bonfire to create our own underfloor heating today. Their methods involved various ways of drafting the smoke from fires into the floor. The Greeks and Romans followed suit on a larger scale by 500 BC, with a warmth underfoot considered essential for the Roman baths. The lucky ones.īut the yearning for warm feet goes back a lot further than that.Īs long ago as 5,000 BC, early types of Kang and Dikang (heated floor) were found in China, while primitive forms of Ondol (warm stone) were being used in Korea. A luxury commodity reserved for the elite. Around 30 years ago, the thought of underfloor heating was enough to make people dream. Jtech LED Light Bulbs (ad) - A far less pretentious choice when it comes to ambient lighting are the light bulbs. This system is priced at $19.99 on Amazon and there are hundreds of reviews available to give you an idea of what it is all about. Taking power from the car’s cigarette lighter, Govee is also sound sensitive, meaning it can dance to whatever tunes it hears. So is the case with the Govee, a set of LED strips that can illuminate in 7 main colors and an alleged 16 million other combinations, if your eye can see them all. There are however some that can be controlled via an app. Govee (ad) - Most of the systems in this category need either a control unit or a remote to operate at full capacity. On Amazon, this system is priced at $44.95. More importantly, Aura is bass-sensitive, as its makers say, meaning the interior lights can be made to dance to the rhythm of your music. The system can be made to work by either plugging it into the car’s charger, or by using the fuse adapters to link it directly to the car’s fuse box.Įither way, once powered up, the OPT7 provides colorful interior lighting that can be dimmed or changed with the use of the included remote control. OPT7 Aura (ad) - At 12-inch long and made of a bendy material that allows them to be fitted on virtually any part of the car’s interior, the 4 LED strips sold as OPT7 Aura also received a huge number of positive reviews. With a guaranteed lifetime of 10,000 hours and IPX4 waterproof rating, the Star Light sells on Amazon from $16.99. The USB cord of the projector is 5 feet long, meaning you can even place it on the back seat so it doesn’t shine in your face. The project sprays onto the roof of the car a myriad of lights, bathing the interior in a powerful red color. It requires minimum work to deliver the desired effect. The Star Light is in fact a projector that can be plugged into any USB socket available, be it from the car itself or a laptop or mobile charging head. On Amazon, the Ledglow LED tubes are priced at $34.99 and they can be fitted to any car, regardless of make and model.Ĭool-Car Star Light (ad) - If you happen to be in a romantic mood, or you just really like red, then the Cool-Car Star Light system might be the thing for you. An auto-illumination feature is also included, allowing for your new interior lights to come on as soon as the door is opened or the car is turned on. This last one is linked to music being played inside the car. There are four fading modes, 3 strobing modes and one sound activation mode. In case the car electric system is not your thing, the system needs professional installation (each tube is fitted with 5 inches of wiring), but it has the advantage of coming complete with a 12V cigarette lighter adapter that allows instant plug-and-play operation.Īccording to Ledglow, the control box allows the LED tubes to illuminate differently. They can be fitted mostly in the footwell, beneath the seats, or under the dash, but with enough imagination, the sky is the limit. The system comprises four 9-inch tubes with 24 LEDs fitted inside that can illuminate in a total of seven colors - blue, red, green, purple, teal, white and yellow – and a control box. Ledglow LED Tubes (ad) - With nearly 1,400 reviews on Amazon and a 4.5-star rating, the Ledglow is one of the most appreciated ambient lighting surface-mounted solution available online. Some are more successful than others, but in the end they serve the same purpose: bring a personal touch to the interior of the car.īelow is a short list of 5 such in-car ambient lighting solutions we selected based on several criteria, including the number of positive reviews they received from buyers. There is currently a wealth of DIY solutions to this problem available in the vast world of online stores. Unless owners decide to do something about it. Older cars, still in the millions of the world’s roads, are not equipped with this feature and they never will. A study commissioned by BMW and conducted by a team from the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany showed ambient lighting helps increase spatial perception for the driver, eliminates fatigue and increases alertness.ĭespite most new cars now using this idea, the number of cars on the road with ambient lighting is very small. Using 1,183 pieces of fiber optics, Rolls-Royce was able to create in the Wraith Eagle VIII the star arrangement as seen in the night sky in 1919, during John Alcock’s and Arthur Brown’s crossing of the Atlantic aboard a World War I Vickers Vimy bomber aircraft.īut the need for having ambient lighting in cars goes beyond aesthetics. For some companies, like say Rolls-Royce, the practice of fitting lights on the inside opened the doors to some very creative ideas. Nowadays however ambient lighting has become a trend, and there’s literally no worth-mentioning new car that doesn’t use some system. “I'm also very pleased with the colour image I made showing the Mariner Valley - Valles Marineris - and its neighbouring volcanoes. “I made that by stacking multiple images taken through different filters and then sharpened and enhanced it, but left it black and white because I love the starkness of it. “I love the black and white image I made showing a crescent Mars and the huge Olympus Mons volcano close to the terminator,” he told The National. Stuart Atkinson, an amateur astronomer in the UK, has processed some of the raw data from Hope’s exploration imager instrument – a high-resolution camera – to create images. Photo: Hope Mars mission / Dr Dimitra Atri Dr Dimitra Atri, a research scientist at the New York University in Abu Dhabi, processed this image. The UAE's spacecraft has taken the most detailed pictures of the discrete auroras to help scientists understand them better.Īpart from building research, the data from the spacecraft is also allowing space enthusiasts like Dr Atri and amateur astronomers to create stunning images of the planet.Ī stunning view of Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons of the solar system. There are three types - proton, diffuse and discrete – because of the lack of a global magnetic field and localised crustal magnetic fields in the southern hemisphere. The auroras on Mars are different from the one on Earth. “We’ll be combining the data from the Maven and Mars Express missions, but Hope will give us a more in-depth understanding of not only aurora, but also how radiation interactions with Mars’ atmosphere.” You only get a partial picture of a planet from these missions, but Hope is much further away and it is going to add to what we know so far,” he told The National. “Each mission has its own area where it’s good, but has limitations. It is important to understand how radiation affects Mars, because strong solar winds stripped away its atmosphere in the early solar system and made the planet inhabitable. He has been studying data from Nasa’s Maven mission and Europe’s Mars Express mission to research hydrogen and oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, and how the planet’s liquid water disappeared.ĭata from the Hope orbiter has helped fill in the gaps in Dr Atri’s research, in the area of how solar radiation interacts with the Martian atmosphere. Previous missions were much closer to the planetary surface, limiting observations to short periods and only certain areas of the planet.ĭr Dimitra Atri, a research scientist at the New York University in Abu Dhabi, is using Hope’s data to complete a research paper he hopes to publish. Unique observations of how gases interact with each other and affect solar radiation have been possible because of the spacecraft’s elliptical orbit. The circulation models are trying to capture what the data tells us, and the Mars mission is getting a unique perspective, so that’s an opportunity for us to try and compare and update our understanding of what’s happening in the Martian atmosphere.”Ī picture taken by the Hope probe for the spring season in the northern part of Mars. “That's the role of every mission that we get. “They’re refining the models that we're using to align them with what we see within the data. “The team is working to understand what has driven these structures to appear to be this way,” Hessa Al Matroushi, the science lead of the Emirates Mars Mission, told The National. Scientists are now trying to understand what this could mean for the planet’s atmosphere. Some of the latest findings showed dramatic variations in the concentrations of both atomic oxygen and carbon monoxide were present. Researchers are hoping to reveal more secrets about Mars’ mysterious atmosphere by using the data, including how the escape of gases such as oxygen is stripping away the planet’s atmosphere. Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre released 110 gigabytes of raw data to the public last week, with new sets to be published every three months. Scientists and amateur astronomers are benefitting from the treasure trove of data the UAE’s Hope probe has collected from Mars. |
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