![]() When the flashlight is off, the gasket cools and contracts. When the flashlight is on, heat from the bulb causes the gasket to expand. Flashlights-most flashlights, anyway-have a rubber gasket where the lens cap screws into the body of the flashlight, which stores the batteries. The simplicity of it made him groan and slap his forehead the trick was common knowledge among séance types. So that more or less explained how Mark wound up down a ghost-hunting internet rabbit hole at 2 a.m., where at long last he happened upon the secret of the flashlight trick. Things wrapped up and Greg and Amy retreated to Greg’s bedroom, no doubt to decompress by quietly mouthing all manner of hurtful things about their rude friend. If you want me to stop rolling my eyes at this shit, then do not hand me a fucking transcript of your conversation with a dead person. A wave of self-loathing washed through Mark, followed immediately by a flare-up of indignation at being put in this position. The smirk that night was the worst yet-it was the fucking transcript-and Amy’s face burned red and things got awkward. This curdling was also a fairly common ritual, and no one hated it more than Mark. That smirk was a killer: Amy’s face would turn red and her eyes would go from a sincere sparkle to darting and flustered. He also knew and hated that this resentment often made its way to his face. The disconnect was, itself, grating: Greg and Amy seemed to think that Mark required these debriefings, but in truth he resented the time he had to spend nodding and lifting his eyebrows and saying “oh cool” to another credulous romp through some crumbling ruin. This was a fairly common ritual, but this time Greg had produced a typed-and-printed transcript of the flashlight session and presented it to Mark with maybe just a little too much enthusiasm, perhaps a hint of that awful, oppressive expectation that your listener will reflect your own excitement back at you. They’d borrowed his Olds for the Blue Ridge trip and felt some obligation to account for their time, which they did over beers in the living room of the apartment Mark shared with Greg. Possibly Mark had heard too many of their stories. To Greg and Amy, there are Haunted Places simply because there are haunted places. To Mark, the raison d’être of a local Haunted Place is to challenge bored teens, who must confront their fear as a rite of passage. ![]() They called it the Darrow House, and local kids for decades had made October pilgrimages up the gentle slopes of this range in order to scratch their names in the woodwork of the house’s upper floor or huck rocks through its dust-smothered windows, or, for the bravest among them, even to spend the night. ![]() He’d figured it out after Greg and Amy came back from a mid-September hiking and camping trip along the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia, full of details of a long chat they’d had with a spirit that had been haunting a local Haunted Place for as long as anyone could remember. ![]() Mark, Greg’s roommate for two years and a reliable lender of a piece-of-shit Oldsmobile, had happened upon his own thrilling secret knowledge: He knew for a fact that the flashlight trick was bunk. Whatever thrill was left in the exercise came from their secret knowledge of it, and their unblemished record of success. The conversations themselves were infuriatingly limited, even same-y. That a person could reach across the permeable plane separating the real world from the spirit world was becoming a downright mundane fact of life. For Greg and Amy, the world was practically overfull of talkative ghosts. The trial was still a triumph-they’d seen two blinks, which was enough to know that they’d established contact with one of that town’s many spirits, perhaps even Madame LaLaurie herself. They got two questions in before the tour guide moved the group along as politely as she could. On a ghost tour of the French Quarter, they had pulled out the flashlights right there on the sidewalk in front of the LaLaurie house. They brought flashlights on certain of their adventures for just this purpose. Greg and Amy had done the flashlight trick many times, in many places. You will need two flashlights, you will need a dark room with a flat surface, and you will need a series of questions that can be answered with a “yes” or a “no.” What you will not need, not exactly, is a ghost. There is a cool little thing you can do if you want to feel you are communicating with ghosts. So, just to be absolutely clear: the following story is fictional. note: Chris wanted to write a scary story for Halloween, and we thought you might like to read one.
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![]() Many people are aware of nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs, but nuclear chemistry also has applications ranging from smoke detectors to medicine, from the sterilization of food to the analysis of ancient artifacts. However, in nuclear chemistry, the composition of the nucleus and the changes that occur there are very important.Īpplications of nuclear chemistry may be more widespread than you realize. Most chemists pay little attention to the nucleus of an atom except to consider the number of protons it contains because that determines an element’s identity. Although many people have an unfounded fear of radioactivity, smoke detectors save thousands of lives every year. When the current drops beneath a set value, another circuit triggers a loud alarm, warning of the possible presence of fire.Īlthough radioactive, the americium in a smoke detector is embedded in plastic and is not harmful unless the plastic package is taken apart, which is unlikely. ![]() When particles of smoke from a fire enter the smoke detector, they interfere with the ions between the metal plates, interrupting the flow of current. (This constant drain on the battery explains why the batteries in smoke detectors should be replaced regularly, whether the alarm has been triggered or not.) The radioactivity of americium ionizes the air between the plates, causing a tiny current to constantly flow between them. Next to the plates is a small disk containing a tiny amount (∼0.0002 g) of the radioactive element americium. A battery in the circuit creates a voltage between the plates. This device is a smoke detector.Ī typical smoke detector contains an electric circuit that includes two metal plates about 1 cm apart. Most of us have at least one device in our homes that guards our safety and, at the same time, depends on radioactivity to operate properly. ![]() To do this, open the program and navigate via ‘Actions’, ‘Options’, and ‘Advanced’, until you reach the ‘Connections’ menu. One way to deal with this issue is to change Skype’s port settings.
![]() Only real music is gonna last, all the other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow.Ĭ.R.E.A.M. It’s like saying, wow I can’t believe you did this, thank you so much. So we hope you enjoy listening to this album half as much as we enjoyed playing it for you. If they thank you for accepting their apology: No worries, we all make mistakes. ![]() We had the champagne in the studio, of course, compliments of the company, and we just laid back and did it. If they thank you for a favor: Happy to help or It wasn’t a bother, I know you’d do the same for me. Decemby TIDAL By Yoh Phillips for DJBooth Shawn Carter was born December 4th are the words Gloria Carter speaks to begin JAY-Z’s The Black Album, his eighth studio release. I feel really blessed, thank you all for supporting us I love you so First Afrobeat song to hit a Billion stream, did that Thank you all Honored to. You know, years ago they had the A&R men to tell you what to play, how to play it and you know whether it's disco and rock but we just went in the studio and we did it. The Lyrical Wisdom of JAY-Z Inside these choice verses from classic Hov tracks are words to live by. The running back room is also deep with Damien Harris. Wide receiver DeVante Parker joins the fold alongside Kendrick Bourne, Nelson Agholor, and Jakobi Meyers. Whether or not Warner believes in the "rookie wall. The Patriots received four roster exemptions for the NFL Europe allocations of Garrett Johnson, Marc Megna, Sean Morey, and Noel Scarlett. The Patriots have worked to rebuild around second-year quarterback Mac Jones after his strong rookie season, and the roster has solid depth at the key skill positions. How Buffalo will play man-to-man and force Jones to make throws. Starting his career this way and then can he become a guy that can carry this team? With everything else they got, if he can become that guy or if they can get some pieces on the outside, then it'll be fun to watch what this team can do over the next decade or so."Īlso discussed in this episode: Why Warner would like to see Jones more aggressive. "It'll be interesting to see how he'll play out in these playoffs, but more importantly, how quickly he can become more like Tom Brady. It's just, does he try to do more in the playoffs because they're gonna need more, or are they able to win the way that they won during that stretch? But again, I don't think you're gonna beat teams in the playoffs by double-digits, by 20 points, by playing good defense and running the football, and your quarterback kind of managing things. "Mac has done as well as you could expect him to do as a rookie. They were built on running and defense, and their quarterback was a complementary piece. "As we went into that game, we were not worried about Tom Brady, which is almost unbelievable to say now, but at that time in his career we weren't worried about him. In our Super Bowl, I think he threw for 150 yards. "Maybe we could flip it and say Tom Brady was maybe more a big throw guy down the field, but didn't do that much in terms of creating plays for his offense. This was very much what Tom Brady was," Warner said. "I played against Tom Brady in his first Super Bowl. He believes teams will look at Jones the same way when they prepare for the Patriots in these playoffs. ![]() Warner remembers the Rams overlooking Brady while they prepped for Super Bowl XXXVI. Patriots Mailbag: Which needs should Pats prioritize in 2024 Draft? ![]() OpenSSL requires platform specific libraries. SSL implementation to use for secure communication. ssl=MODE Enable or disable secured communication with SSL. This option may be specified more than once to listen Or PORT will be interpreted as a decimal IPv4 address. Specified, PORT must be prefixed with a colon (':'), The default port 9500 will be substituted When ADDRESS is omitted, 0.0.0.0 (wildcard) ![]() Hostname, IPv4 dotted or decimal address, or IPv6Īddress. no-fast-float Disable the use of fast float -> ascii conversion. no-table-labels Disable all table labels. no-global-labels Disable all global labels. This option may be specified more than once Prefixed with '#' are considered comments and are (sans character) as a path to a file containing IfĮXCLUSION is prefixed with an it is interpreted Of a MBean or a ObjectName pattern that matches (wildcards or patterns not allowed) or the ObjectName Record the cumulative time taken to run each collectorĮxclude a metric family or MBean from exposition.ĮXCLUSION may be the full name of a metric family ![]() node-metrics=FILTER Select which node-level aggregate metrics to expose.Ĭollect per-thread CPU times, where each thread gets its (only histograms & summaries), 'NONE' (no metrics). Valid options are: 'ALL' (all metrics), 'HISTOGRAMS' Select which keyspace-level aggregate metrics to expose. Histograms & summaries), 'NONE' (no metrics). Options are: 'ALL' (all metrics), 'HISTOGRAMS' (only Select which table-level metrics to expose. Theĭefault is to include all table labels. ![]() Tables & views, compaction-related metrics only). Or custom), 'INDEX_CLASS' (the index class name forĬustom indexes), 'COMPACTION_STRATEGY_CLASS' (for Index), 'INDEX_TYPE' (for indexes - keys, composites Valid options are: 'TABLE_TYPE' (table, view or Select which labels to include on table-level metrics. The default is to includeĪll global labels except HOST_ID. 'NODE' (node endpoint IP address), 'DATACENTER' (DC Valid options are: 'CLUSTER' (cluster name), Select which global labels to include on all exported Prometheus ConfigurationĬonfigure Prometheus to scrape the endpoint by adding the following to prometheus.yml: Not available (this feature has yet to be written). The set of metrics available is close to that of the agent - Gossiper related metrics are unavailable as these aren't readily available over JMX.Ĭurrently some additional metadata labels, such as the table type (table, index, view, etc) attached to the cassandra_table_* metrics, are The standalone mode was originally designed to assist with benchmarking and development of the exporter. Prometheus metrics will now be available at In this mode metrics will be queried via JMX which will incur a performance overhead. The exporter can be started via java -jar /path/to/cassandra-exporter-standalone-.jar. While it is preferable to run cassandra-exporter as a Java agent for performance, it can instead be run as an external application if required.ĭownload the latest release and copy cassandra-exporter-standalone-.jar to a location of your choosing. Prometheus metrics will now be available at Standalone JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -javaagent:$CASSANDRA_HOME/lib/cassandra-exporter-agent-.jar" Have been hand-tuned to produce easy-to-query output.įor example, the following PromQL query will return an estimate of the number of pending compactions per-keyspace, per-node. The few that are cached are done so for performance reasons.Ĭassandra-exporter exports metric families, where the names, labels, metric types (gauge, counter, summary, etc), and value scales See the Exported Metrics wiki page for a list of available metrics.Īll but a few select metrics exposed by cassandra-exporter are live with no caching involved. Other solutions can take tens of seconds, during which CPU time is consumed querying JMX and serialising values. Compared to the next-best, jmx_exporter, which completes exposition in ~8 seconds. In a worst-case benchmark, where the Cassandra schema contains 1000+ tables (resulting in ~174 thousand metrics),Ĭassandra-exporter completes exposition in ~140ms. IntroductionĬassandra-exporter enables high performance collection of Cassandra metrics and follows the Prometheus best practices for metrics naming and labeling.Ĭassandra-exporter is fast. Project Status: beta Note - The Cassandra-Exporter tool does not support all versions of Cassandra, see the compatibility section for more details on supported versions. Cassandra-exporter is a Java agent (with optional standalone mode) that exports Cassandra metrics to Prometheus. ![]() Scoop out the seeds and transfer them to a colander. To make roasted seeds, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Roasted seeds can be used as a topping for soup, salads, grain bowls, and stuffed winter squash. Geiger says that “seeds are a source of protein and fat and have vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin C, folate, potassium, calcium, and iron.” How to use winter squash seedsĭon’t throw away the seeds when you buy a whole winter squash, like pumpkin or butternut squash. “Some studies have also shown improved insulin sensitivity and reduced inflammation when eating fiber-rich foods like pumpkin or acorn squash,” she adds. They’re also rich in fiber, which helps improve digestive health and is known to diversify your gut microbiome, Geiger says. Generally, a diet rich in plant-based foods is associated with a lower risk of multiple chronic diseases, including certain forms of cancer, heart disease, and Type-2 diabetes as well as lower blood pressure. Magnesium turns food into energy, creates protein, and regulates the nervous system. Potassium metabolizes carbohydrates, synthesizes protein, helps regulate your heartbeat, and ensures that your muscles and nerves are in working order. This powerful vitamin also helps improve iron absorption, particularly for people who follow a vegan diet.įolate, or vitamin B9, is necessary for producing red and white blood cells in your bone marrow, converting carbohydrates into energy, as well as making DNA and RNA. It may help lower high blood pressure and protect against heart disease. Vitamin C, also an antioxidant, is known to boost your immune system and fight inflammation, a precursor to many chronic diseases. High levels of free radicals are linked to a higher risk of cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Like other carotenoids, they are also antioxidants, a compound that inhibits oxidation, a chemical reaction that can lead to the production of free radicals. Your body converts alpha-carotene and beta-carotene into vitamin A (retinol), an essential vitamin that helps with healthy skin and mucous membranes, vision and eye health, and your immune system. Winter squash also contains important nutrients, such as vitamin C, dietary fiber, and minerals like folate, magnesium, and potassium. “That’s why it’s so important to eat the rainbow to get a variety of vitamins and nutrients.” Usually each color, in broad terms, represents a different nutrient,” Rhyan Geiger, RDN and owner of Phoenix Vegan Dietitian, tells VegNews. “When thinking of vitamins, I like to group them into colors. The deeper the orange hue, the higher the beta-carotene content. It’s also why winter squashes range from yellow to orange on the inside. They’re rich in alpha-carotene and beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A (retinol). The many winter squash varieties you’ll find in stores are vastly different in shape, size, texture, and color, but generally share the same nutritional content. Not only is it versatile and varied, winter squash also packs health benefits, thanks to its vitamin and mineral content. Tender and nutty with undertones of sweetness when cooked, winter squash refers to pumpkins, butternut squash, acorn squash, and other squashes that are ready for harvest in fall, starting around late September. Spaghetti squash.Fall and winter bring some of our favorite seasonal ingredients, such as apples, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, and winter squash. Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. doi:10.3390/medicina55100641Īmerican Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. Pollen-food allergy syndrome: a not so rare disease in childhood. ![]() Mastrorilli C, Cardinale F, Giannetti A, Caffarelli C. Diabetes and dementia - is there a connection? Type 3 diabetes: cross talk between differentially regulated proteins of type 2 diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() Plants: A key emphasis to its pharmacological potential. Vitamin A: Fact sheet for health professionals. National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. Manganese: Fact sheet for health professionals. The role of polyphenols in human health and food systems: a mini-review. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Vitamins.Ĭory H, Passarelli S, Szeto J, Tamez M, Mattei J. October: Spaghetti Squash.įood and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies. Squash, winter, butternut, cooked, baked, without salt.ĭiabetes Canada. Squash, winter, spaghetti, cooked, boiled, drained, or baked, without salt. ![]() In the late 1980s, the owner of Dairy Queen, who owned the Orange Julius system with no other franchisees, decided to sell off the system.Īccording to the article, there was a bidding war and the Orange Julius system was bought by Dairy Queen. When Did Dairy Queen Acquire Orange Julius? Ewbank created the legendary ice cream sandwich that would become the best-selling dessert in the country. These Orange Julius Originals are the same, but they use a creamier version of the Orange Julius Original mix and serve to make a perfect dessert treat on a hot sunny day. Orange Julius Originals are now available at select Dairy Queen locations, making a great addition to your Dairy Queen meal. Does Dairy Queen Have Orange Julius In 2022? They also have locations in the suburbs and rural areas. If you live in a mall or a large-city, you’re more than likely to see a Dairy Queen on the outskirts of said mall. Might be worth looking at something you are eating other than gluten that could be triggering a reaction.A popular brand that has been sold across the globe since 1926, but it will soon be opening its first store in the United States. Amazing stuff!Īround that time I happened to have a blood test and my IgE levels were much higher than normal I looked at my diet and realised I'd been eating a lot of almonds and I wondered if that was what set it off, as I gather for some it can be a trigger. Finally another doctor prescribed Betnovate which is a much stronger steroid and it almost worked overnight - I'd apply a moisturiser first, then the steroid cream 20 minutes later. ![]() I then tried an over the counter and therefore mild steroid cream - no help either, in fact, it seemed to make things worse. My doctor thought at first it might be a fungal infection and gave me an anti-fungal cream but that didn't help at all. I had it first on my chest, then it went to my scalp, then my midriff. I got it during one of the lockdowns, so I guess it must have been about 21/2 years ago. We sincerely regret not being able to provide you with a complete listing of all our gluten-free products at this time, but we hope the information we have supplied will be helpful to you and your son.Ĭhiming in here to say that if dermatitis herpetiformis and shingles are eliminated, one other thing it might be is adult onset eczema. Once again, thank you for taking the time to contact us. It is important that you ask your local Orange Julius restaurant for an ingredient listing of the specific item in question and let them know of your special needs. Thus a 100% confidence level cannot be guaranteed. Orange Julius restaurants are very busy and cross contamination may occur between ingredients. Unfortunately, we have not yet put together a formal list of our OJ products that do not contain gluten, however the following are items are those that we have investigated and found to be gluten free: (IDQ) with your request for Orange Julius® gluten-free nutritional information. ![]() Thank you for contacting International Dairy Queen, Inc. For more detailed questions about food allergies, we suggest you go to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network website at Open Original Shared Link. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition website at Open Original Shared Link. It is important that you ask your local Orange Julius® store for an ingredient listing of the specific item in question and let them know of your special needs.įor more detailed questions about food ingredients, we suggest you go to the U.S. ![]() Orange Julius® stores are very busy and cross contamination may occur between ingredients. If you have a special order or request to have an ingredient be left out of a product, please repeat your request a second time to the employee to help assure an accurate understanding of the special request. * Julius® Smoothy Booster contains hydrogenated coconut oil, sugar, corn syrup solids, whey solids, sodium caseinate, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, nonfat milk, coconut solids (with maltodextrin and modified food starch), natural cream flavor, dipotassium phosphate, mono & diglycerides, egg white solids, silicon dioxide, lecithin, artificial coconut flavor, almond bitters. * Julius® Flavor Enhancer contains whole milk powder, egg white solids, sugar, karaya gum, corn syrup solids, artificial flavor. Most OJ® drinks contain the Flavor Enhancer and/or Smoothy Booster and they can inadvertently find their way into other OJ® products. Our Orange Julius® Flavor Enhancer and Smoothy Booster contain milk and egg ingredients. Because we want to do our very best in assisting you with your special requests, always tell the restaurant manager you have a food allergy and ask to see the ingredient listings for the product you would like to purchase. ![]() By connecting the output directly back to the negative. For positive feedback, were the fed-back voltage is in Phase with the input the overall gain of the amplifier is increased. dc V3 0 1 Edit: corrected suggested source for. For negative feedback, were the fed-back voltage is in anti-phase to the input the overall gain of the amplifier is reduced. You can also pick the step size, but unless you are sweeping multiple sources, just leave LTspice to determine that. out of phase or anti phase) to the input. The positive feedback can be defined as when the feedback current otherwise voltage is applied for increasing the i/p voltage, then it is named as. To get an idea of how close together these two inputs must be, take a standard powersupply voltage of 5V and divide it by your op-amp gain. This is such a powerful concept for op-amps, it has been codified as law Op-Amp RULE 1: If there is negative feedback, Vi+ Vi. You've got to pick the source to sweep, and the sweep limits. in simple words, A feedback said to be negative feedback if the output signal is opposite in value or phase (i.e. This amplifier can be classified into two types based on the feedback signal helps such as positive & negative feedback amplifier. So the negative feedback always works to bring Vi+ and Vi- closer together. ![]() Instead, why not try a dc sweep, which will give you the input to output transfer function of your circuit - great for checking if you've got enough headroom for your application's input range without railing the output. Its great for serious engineering, but rather intimidating if you are just prodding around in a circuit. op presents its results as a fairly unfriendly table of node voltages and currents. ![]() 0.2ns, and the OPAMPs gain bandwidth product (GBW) would need to be greater than 50 x 10 9 which is patently ridiculous as industry flagship fast OPAMPs typically have an order of magnitude lower GBW. tran 1n is deeply suspicious - to reach a steady state in only 1 nanosecond, all time constants inside your OPAMP model would need to be less than a fifth of that, i.e. However (as Zero999 has already pointed out). A non-inverting amplifier also uses a negative feedback connection, but instead of feeding the entire output signal to the input, only a part of the output. Negative Feedback is the process of feeding back a fraction of the output signal back to the input, but to make the feedback negative, we must feed it back to the negative or inverting input terminal of the op-amp using an external Feedback Resistor called R. Then we can poke and prod it till we find out what's wrong. How do I remove the Sprinkles from my warmer if I want to change out my scent?Ī. Please visit my webpage and click on "Glimmer Candle Kits" for more information. ![]() You can make your own candle with our sprinkles or freshen up an existing candle. If I don't have a warmer, do I have to buy one from you?Ī. There is no need to throw them out because all you need to do with Pink Zebra© Sprinkles, is add a few more to freshen it up! This will save you a lot of money! Do I need to throw out my scent after the 38-40 hours when I can't smell it as strongly?Ī. Pink Zebra© Sprinkles may contain both essential and synthetic oils. Are the oils used to make Pink Zebra© Sprinkles essential or synthetic?Ī. ![]() Is there formaldehyde in Pink Zebra© Sprinkles? See my blog entry “ Making Sense of your Scents” How does scent work in the home? What makes it stronger in my house versus someone else’s?Ī. Yes, but please see the previous response. Will our sprinkles melt in a Scentsy© plug-inĪ. I personally have tested the two and my Simmering Light throws the scent through my entire upstairs, whereas a Scentsy© warmer stayed mainly in the kitchen area where I had it plugged in. Yes, they will definitely work in your Scentsy© warmer, although they’re made to be the most potent in Pink Zebra© warmers and Simmering Lights, so we cannot guarantee the “throw” extension will be as far with a Scentsy© warmer. Will our sprinkles work with a Scentsy© warmer?Ī. ![]() How long does 1 tablespoon/scoop of sprinkles last? 50-55 scoops from a carton.A scoop is the equivalent to a tablespoon. The amount of scoops can vary a bit due to some of the actual Sprinkles being different sizes.a jar will net approximately 12-13.there are 4.25 jars in a carton so you can get approx. How many scoops of Pink Zebra© Sprinkles are there in a jar/carton?Ī. |
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