![]() ![]() Full day of shopping made the Crew hungry. Able to restock necessary items at reasonable prices. Only 1 hour to figure out government paper work, but got it done.īack in US territory, they left me swinging on the hook and took advantage to hunt down Home Depot, Sam’s, Wal-Mart and grocery store. Customs most helpful with getting PAWS cleared in. The roads along the coast were free of pot holes but some hurricane damage after 200 mph winds. Next morning Jose, marina owner, set them up with rental car and off to Mayaguez to Customs. Makeshift clothes line, free sun and air, laundry drying. Collected washed clothes, no dryer available, reserved rental car for Monday and back to PAWS. Their servings were larger than the Crews empty stomachs, but To Go boxes were appreciated. On tap was clothes washing and a local restaurant next to Marina. Launched Sea Tigger to Marina to find laundry facilities and local eatery. Crew advised that Official Paperwork could be completed on Monday. Captain Brian calls US Customs to notify our arrival. Sunday 3 June they awoke to bright sunlight and marina in view. At 0130 the anchor is down and holding, time for the crew to catch some well deserved bunk time after our 20 hour sail. Water is shallow, but luckily the channel markers were lighted buoys helped guide us into the Bay without too much difficulty. Heading into Marina Pescadena at night was a little bit of a challenge. To avoid any issue with commercial vessels, they take up a southerly course and sail further down the coast to Puerto Real. We approach Puerto Rico near Mayaguez, the main shipping port on the West side of the Island. Captain awakened when Auto Pilot decides it needs a break and AIS identifies boat on an intercept course! Around 2230, moon rises and sky is light. Darkness rolls in and The Admiral takes first watch. Crew finally rolled in the Yankee and fired up the engine. Late afternoon brought some rain clouds and changing Winds which simply could not decide on which way to blow. Early morning found the winds light and The Captain and Admiral alternated 1 hour short naps throughout the day. Up at 0530, PAWS secured, anchor up leaving the Dominican Republic in our wake and Puerto Rico just over the horizon, 100 miles across open water. Weather: Overcast, Mid 80’s, Drizzle, Wind SE 20 – 25 Knots Location: Anchored Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico LAT 18° 18.219 LON 065° 17.515 ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1871, optical redshift was confirmed when the phenomenon was observed in Fraunhofer lines using solar rotation, about 0.1 Å in the red. In 1868, British astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by this method. The effect is sometimes called the "Doppler–Fizeau effect". The first Doppler redshift was described by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848, who pointed to the shift in spectral lines seen in stars as being due to the Doppler effect. Only later was Doppler vindicated by verified redshift observations. Before this was verified, however, it was found that stellar colors were primarily due to a star's temperature, not motion. Doppler correctly predicted that the phenomenon should apply to all waves, and in particular suggested that the varying colors of stars could be attributed to their motion with respect to the Earth. The hypothesis was tested and confirmed for sound waves by the Dutch scientist Christophorus Buys Ballot in 1845. The effect is named after Christian Doppler, who offered the first known physical explanation for the phenomenon in 1842. The history of the subject began with the development in the 19th century of classical wave mechanics and the exploration of phenomena associated with the Doppler effect. The value of a redshift is often denoted by the letter z, corresponding to the fractional change in wavelength (positive for redshifts, negative for blueshifts), and by the wavelength ratio 1 + z (which is >1 for redshifts, <1 for blueshifts). Other physical processes exist that can lead to a shift in the frequency of electromagnetic radiation, including scattering and optical effects however, the resulting changes are distinguishable from (astronomical) redshift and are not generally referred to as such (see section on physical optics and radiative transfer). Subtler redshifts are seen in the spectroscopic observations of astronomical objects, and are used in terrestrial technologies such as Doppler radar and radar guns. Gravitational waves, which also travel at the speed of light, are subject to the same redshift phenomena.Įxamples of strong redshifting are a gamma ray perceived as an X-ray, or initially visible light perceived as radio waves. Relativistic, gravitational, and cosmological redshifts can be understood under the umbrella of frame transformation laws. The observation that all sufficiently distant light sources show redshift for a velocity proportionate to their distance from Earth is known as Hubble's law. The radiation travels through expanding space ( cosmological redshift).towards an object in less strongly curved (flatter) spacetime ( gravitational redshift) The radiation travels towards an object in a weaker gravitational potential, i.e.The radiation travels between objects which are moving apart (" relativistic" redshift, an example of the relativistic Doppler effect).In astronomy and cosmology, the three main causes of electromagnetic redshift are ![]() The terms derive from the colours red and blue which form the extremes of the visible light spectrum. ![]() The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and simultaneous increase in frequency and energy, is known as a negative redshift, or blueshift. In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light). ![]() ![]() ![]() All this effort and what happens? 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In the second test the objective is to compare the reading and writing speeds and this is the first test where we see the first very significant results. In addition, during the execution of this test the baseline is reviewed in the analysis of resource usage, all 3 emulators have a similar CPU usage around 12% and a RAM usage that after subtracting the baseline also shows a similar use of approximately 100 MB. So it may have been close, but there is no doubt that the winner is Nox. The winner in this test was Nox with scores around 1100 points in single-core and 2140 in multi-core, followed by MEmu and BlueStacks with similar scores around 1086 points in single-core and 2105 points in multi-core. In this test the results were very close and consistent, however, despite the normal small oscillations and the difference between scores not being very large, the order of the scores has always remained the same in all tests. So in this respect BlueStacks takes the win. ![]() It is important to start by analyzing the starting point to see right from the start if there is a difference.Īt this point all 3 emulators have a CPU utilization of less than 1%, however, there is already a difference in RAM usage, being the winner in this case BlueStacks with a usage of only 375 MB, followed by Nox with 530 MB and lastly MEmu with 665 MB. In order to be able to match as much as possible the starting point of all emulators, the configurations used were as follows : Article published by BlueStacks : BlueStacks Versus Competitors.Article published by MEmu : MEmu vs Bluestacks vs Nox vs Gameloop vs LDPlayer.I decided to do my own tests from a performance-only point of view, ignoring additional features since the main purpose of this comparison is to be able to advise which is the best emulator when the computer's resources are limited. 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Sea breeze tends to decrease the air temperature. The temperature might remain the same when the land breeze occurs. Sea breezes’ pace span from 10 to 20 knots. ![]() Land breezes’ pace span from 5 to 8 knots. Namely – Sea Breeze and Land Breeze….Difference Between Land Breeze And Sea Breeze. These winds are categorized into two types. When compared to a land breeze and sea breeze is? The denser cool air over the land is flowing offshore to replenish the buoyant warm air and is called a land breeze. Therefore, the air above the land is warmer than the air above the ocean. How does land breeze work?ĭuring the day, the land surface heats up faster than the water surface. At night, as the sea maintains its temperature better and is warmer than the land, the roles of land and sea reverse and convection of air results in the land breeze. The air above the land warms up and rises and the cool air over the sea moves in to take its place, resulting in the sea breeze in the daytime. How does convection play a part in both sea breezes and land breezes? A sea breeze front may develop between the warm inland air and the cool sea air. land absorbs and emits radiation more efficiently and faster. Water has a greater heat capacity than land, i.e. Land and sea breezes develop because of differential heating and cooling of adjacent land and water surfaces. ![]() They differs as, Land breeze moves in night while sea breeze moves during day time. Land breeze and sea breeze are similar to each other as both involves moment of air, by convection. Land breezes and sea breezes arise because of differential heating between land and water surfaces. A sea breeze is a wind blowing from the water onto the land. How does land breeze and sea breeze work?Ī land breeze is a breeze blowing from land out toward a body of water. ![]() That's because some insurance providers may consider Emax crowns to be a cosmetic procedure, and thus they won't be covered. 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![]() ![]() Supported Formats: BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, MP3, MOV, AVI, and many more. Top 15 Batch Image Resizers for Window/Mac/Linux: ![]() Below we have highlighted 15 most popular freeware tools that can help you to reduce the size of images on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux platform. There are so many apps that can offer you the ability to resize multiple images at a time as well so they can help you to save much of your time. In order to do this, you have to use right tools to initiate conversion so that images can be easily restored in another file format. The great news is that you can even reduce a 10MB file to a 1MB file without facing a noticeable loss of quality. You can do it easily by simply converting them to other size efficient formats before uploading or emailing them. The best idea to deal with this heavy image size trouble is to find ways to lower down the image resolution. You may also waste lots of bandwidth and time to upload these photos to online libraries. It is not possible to share such heavy images on other devices. They produce crystal clear images but the image size also goes as high as up to tens of megabytes. For center, the normal X and Y directional convention is used ( X is right and Y is down).Most of the digital cameras these days are designed to offer very high picture resolution. Note that positive X and Y offsets are in the inward direction towards the center of the image for all -gravity options, except 'center'. Offsets are not affected by % or other size operators. Offsets are affected by -gravity setting. Horizontal and vertical offsets x and y, specified in pixels. Remove rows or columns to achieve the given aspect ratio.Īdd rows or columns to achieve the given aspect ratio. Here x and y denotes an aspect ratio (e.g. Shrinks an image with dimension(s) larger than the corresponding width and/or height argument(s).Įnlarges an image with dimension(s) smaller than the corresponding width and/or height image to have specified area in pixels. Width and height emphatically given, original aspect ratio ignored. Minimum values of width and height given, aspect ratio preserved. ![]() Maximum values of height and width given, aspect ratio preserved. Height given, width automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio. Width given, height automagically selected to preserve aspect ratio. Height and width individually scaled by specified percentages. Height and width both scaled by specified percentage. General description (actual behavior can vary for different options and settings) Sips -Z 700 "$image_full_path" -out "$destination_full_path" # Do not resize images inside a folder that was already resized Source_folder=$(dirname "$image_full_path") ĭestination_folder=$source_folder"/"$resized_folder_name"/" ĭestination_full_path=$destination_folder$filename Initial_folder="/your/images/folder" # You can use "." to target the folder in which you are running the script for exampleĪll_images=$(find -E $initial_folder -iregex ".*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)") # The resized image is placed in the /resized folder which will reside in the same directory as the image # This script resizes all the images it finds in a folder (and its subfolders) and resizes them Here is script that uses sips to recursively resize all the images in a given folder (and its sub-folders), and places the resized images in a resized folder on the same tree level as the image: #!/bin/bash ![]() |