![]() She didn't walk like an upright chimpanzee. They had a slightly flatter foot than we do, but if you could see Lucy just walking along at a distance, you wouldn't really notice a difference. They transferred a lot of their weight to their big toe, like we do. So from the footprints and the skeletons, we can infer from their gait that how they walked was a lot like ours. Her species even left us these extraordinary footprints in Tanzania known as the Laetoli footprints. With the famous Lucy, not only do we have her skeleton, but we have bones of lots of other individuals that were found near her. Human footprints discovered at Laetoli, a pre-historic site located in Tanzania. And there were different experiments going on in how to move from point A to point B. But it could be that uprightness goes back further than we once thought. It seems like there would be a better way to live in trees than standing on two legs. SP: Standing upright in trees sounds really counterintuitive. ![]() But what we're finding is these apes tend to be somewhat upright in the trees, holding onto branches above them and moving on two legs in the trees. They love trees that are producing fruit. The forests of Africa in this time period had spread north and hugged what is today the Mediterranean. They're from apes that were living in southern Europe - in France and Italy and Spain, Greece, Turkey. We don't have many, but what fossils we do have are not from knuckle-walkers. ![]() Now we can test this idea by looking at fossils from that time period, 6 to 10 million years ago. One of the hypotheses for years and years is that the common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees would have been a knuckle-walker, and that bipedalism evolved later. When they're getting around, they're usually on all fours, with the knuckles on the front hands down on the ground. They can't support their bodies on a single leg, so they fall over and they wobble. JDS: They can get up on two legs, but it's not a very efficient form of locomotion for them. SP: And yet our closest relatives - chimpanzees and gorillas - are not actually bipedal. All these things really have their roots in how we move. It set the stage for all the things that happened later, from our language and our dietary flexibility, to our reliance on technology and tools, to the way we give birth and raise our children. SP: So walking upright is essentially what made us human? ![]() Bipedalism is the most ancient human adaptation. They weren’t using sophisticated technology, and they weren’t talking. Jeremy DeSilva: What we can tell from studying these fossils is that the earliest members of our lineage didn’t have large brains like we have today. Steve Paulson: What do these fossils tell us about our evolutionary history? This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Steve Paulson with Wisconsin Public Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowldge" went to Dartmouth College to visit DeSilva in his basement lab, where he has drawers full of replicas of all the great fossil discoveries about human evolution. He outlines this argument in his book "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human." There’s still a lot we don’t know, but DeSilva is convinced about one thing: our ancient ancestors walked upright - and that changed everything. This requires meticulous detective work - finding a skull here, a bone there - and then reconstructing how these creatures moved around, found food and avoided giant lions and hyenas. He’s trying to crack the mystery of how exactly we evolved from a small ape living in trees to the species that would come to dominate the Earth. Paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva loves fossils, especially remnants from our ancient hominin ancestors. ![]()
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![]() This can be useful for making a notebook available to a document indexer, for example. Scriptable using the built-in Wolfram Language functions Export and NotebookImport. Wolfram Notebooks can be converted to many other formats, such as HTML and PDF. Conversions to other formats are also scriptable using the built-in Mathematica, open the notebook, choose File > Save As,Īnd use the drop-down menu to view the various formats available. Since the Wolfram Language interprets newline conventions from all supported platforms the same way, Wolfram Language functions Export and NotebookImport. Transferring notebooks via binary file transfer has no effect on the notebook. The Wolfram Language includes dynamic interactivity features that allow code to be evaluated Since Wolfram Notebooks are ASCII text files, they can be transferred directly via emailĪttachment, via FTP in text mode, or using any application that transfers data in text mode. Systems that advise the user when such an evaluation is about to take place for the first time in a given notebook and allow the user Immediately upon opening a notebook or as sections of the notebook are incrementally loaded. To intervene and prevent any dynamic evaluations in that notebook. ![]() Security options are defined in the front end as suboptions of the Notebook Security options. "TrustedPath" and "UntrustedPath" suboptions define paths for notebook files in which dynamic evaluations shouldĪlways be considered trusted or a security risk. ![]() ![]() The Omega Caliber 9900 is one impressive movement. Chronograph hours and minutes are displayed by two hands that run around the same, 3 o’clock sub-dial. It’s what a well-engineered column wheel chronograph should feel like, and with the vertical clutch to boot, the chronograph seconds start and stop super smooth. Pusher feel is good, if a bit unique, the piston-style pushers travel straight and give a supple clicky feedback always at the same depth. Good points are deserved by the totally silent operation and the also inaudible or, at times very barely audible, automatic winding rotor. For real nerds, the column wheel is on display neatly close to the large balance wheel, which in turn is hidden several levels into the movement. Dark grey screws and intelligently placed, variously sized texts in red add a few splashes of color. The vertical clutch means there are no coupling-decoupling chronograph wheels to elevate the show, but the curved striping on the icy silver looking rotor and plates still offer plenty of candy for the eye. ![]() It is machine decorated, but done in a decent way: excessively detailed, reaching even difficult to see places like the plates deep under the balance wheel and finished off in a silver-purple-green hue that depends on lighting and that is rarely encountered elsewhere. The 9900 movement looks stunning and – now priced under $8k – this is among the nicest looking movements at this price point. We’ll have a complete run-down on these tests in a separate article because it sure merits one. Lastly, water resistance is checked under water. Then the 8-step progress begins which involves several tests concerning timekeeping performance, first conducted on uncased, then cased-up movements, in 15,000 Gauss magnetized and demagnetized states, as well as at 100% and 33% power reserve. Omega’s METAS-certified Master Chronometer tests include 8 steps which are preceded by Omega first sending its to-be Master Chronometer movements to COSC for chronometer certification testing. The institution insisted on having an independent office in the Omega manufacture right where the testing happens which allows them to conduct random tests and inspections. METAS certifies Omega’s testing procedures and the equipment used for it. Additionally, as a federal institute, they are of course independent from Omega.Ī common misconception is calling the watches METAS-certified. METAS is the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology, they are responsible for the dissemination of the official time in Switzerland and, as a federal institute, they certify countless important projects linked to measuring stuff. ![]() ![]() The “Master” in the name of the watch – let it be Co-Axial Master Chronometer or Omega Master Co-Axial – refers to this movement as well as the completed watch passing Omega’s extremely thorough in-house quality control procedure, certified by METAS. It is an automatic chronograph equipped with a column wheel, a vertical clutch, two barrels, and a Co-Axial escapement with silicon parts and an operating frequency of 4Hz. The Caliber 9900 (and 9901 with gold rotor and bridges in gold cased versions) is the latest and greatest Omega can do with a movement. Many try but just a fraction of recent big-brand-releases pull this off so neatly. Tastes differ, but if you want a steel-cased, modern Speedmaster that steps away from the regular monochrome/basic aesthetic, I strongly believe the Speedmaster Racing adds just enough to the mix to make it much more lastingly interesting, without compromising wearability or the seriousness that is rightfully expected from a watch that many are eyeing as their only watch that they wear every day of the week.Īpart from – possibly exclusively my personal – issues with the minute track’s legibility, the Speedmaster Racing is one exceptionally handsome looking watch that balances well between spicing things up and remaining perfectly wearable on an everyday basis. The overall design, as a consequence of all these elements, is one that, at last, is far from boring, but I wouldn’t call it desperately over the top either. ![]() ![]() ![]() This boost in slow wave activity corresponded with subsequent improvements in performance with letter and category fluency, working memory and overall executive function. The wearable device has demonstrated its ability to increase slow wave activity during slow wave sleep stages by 12.3% when worn for one-night. Due to the importance of slow wave activity as a restorative element of sleep that is “essential for cortical reorganisation and cognitive function”, SmartSleep has imminent potential to provide sleep enhancement without prolonging sleep time. Increases to slow wave activity are achieved via acoustic stimulation provided by the headband wearable, which emits auditory tones that mimic the brain activity and help to enhance the slow wave activity when in the deepest stage of sleep. SmartSleep is a wearable headband device that has been shown to increase slow wave activity in the brain during deeper stages of sleep. This requires specialists of sleep health to conjure intuitive ideas to help boost people’s sleep quality independent of their time spent asleep… enter SmartSleep. It is easy to tell someone to “get more sleep”, but the likelihood of people taking this advice into consideration is normally quite low. This however seems to be achieved less often with people sacrificing their sleep to spend more time at work, or to work through a Netflix series until the early hours of the morning. The Wesley Hospital Pulmonary Rehabilitationįor a long time we have known that our bodies absolutely need 7-9 hours of sleep per night to awaken feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day ahead. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 3 A dwarven urgrosh has a spear point on the bottom of its half, and either head can be used. ![]() On GolarionĪxes are often favored by dwarves, who favor dwarven waraxes with a large, decorated head and thick handle that can be wielded with one or two hands. The half-orc Wrathack wields an orc double axe. Jorngarl's Harm is a giant-sized greataxe crafted from the Galtan final blade Toothy Morris.Goreshred is a magical greataxe forged to slaughter humans.Firebrand is a magically flaming dwarven waraxe forged in honor of Torag and once wielded by renowned dwarven hero Delbera Axebringer.Fiendsplitter is a magical battle axe forged by Njali Janisdottir to battle demons.Blackaxe is a greataxe crafted by the demon lord Treerazer.A tongi resembles a battle axe with the blades cut down to pairs of pointed spikes.They might also be called franciscas and tomahawks. Throwing axes are specifically weighted and balanced for being thrown overhand, at the expense of being as effective in melee.A mambele, also called a hunga munga or danisco, is a throwable axe with a backward-curving blade that tears even more from a victim when it is extracted after striking.A hooked axe features a hook at the end of its blade for tripping or disarming opponents.Halberds have an axe-like head at the top of its spear body.A handaxe is a foot-long, one-handed axe weighted toward its head, and might also be called a war hatchet.A greataxe is up to four feet long, requires two hands to wield, and often feature two blades and a "beard", or hook at the bottom meant to further increase its chopping force.A boarding axe includes a spiked end allowing it to be used as a climbing aid.Bardiches are polearms with a large crescent axe blade attached at two points of the haft, increasing its durability.An axe musket adds an axe blade to the end of a musket barrel, allowing it to be wielded as either.7Īxe hafts are typically wooden but might be reinforced with or made of metal, as well as more exotic materials such as whipwood. 1 4 5 While most axe heads are made of iron or steel, some are known to have been made of stone, bronze, 6 and adamantine. ![]() 2 4 Variants See also: Category:AxesĪxe-like weapons and tools with a pointed head instead of a blade are known as picks or pickaxes.Īn axe's head and handle might take many different shapes and forms, be made of a variety of materials, have one or multiple blades of varying shapes and configuration, and range from sizes small enough to throw or large enough to be a polearm. 3Ī basic battle axe can cost between 1 to 10 gold pieces. 2 Axes are distinguished in use by the greater swinging momentum they deliver due to their top-heavy design. 1 2 An axe designed for combat, with a lighter reinforced shaft and sharper blade, is often referred to as a battle axe. See also: WeaponĪn axe, sometimes spelled ax, is a weapon and tool typically comprised of a metal bladed head on the end of a wooden handle. ![]() ![]() ![]() As with anything of this type, it's worth testing out before you buy. New antivirus programs are always a little risky, but Rising Antivirus seems reliable. ![]() Any new program of this type takes time to build a reputation of trustworthiness, but so far Rising Antivirus looks good. Overall Rising Antivirus seems like a good security application, and is definitely worth trying out. It will notify you of any malware on your phone (viruses, trojans, and worms) and allow you to upload any unfamiliar applications to Virustotal. Hash Search (Geeks way) I mentioned above that in most cases, scanning and reporting happens instantly. After installing this, you can directly submit any file to VirusTotal using context-menu as shown below. Virustotal APK para Android Descargar Gratis. VirusTotal Uploader Tool (for windows only) This is small utility, just 80KB in size, available for windows only. You can schedule specific scans of drives or folders, to occur whenever you want, and they are really easy to set up. Virustotal Apk is an application supported by the developers of the popular. It also uses little resources while inactive, and doesn't noticeably slow Windows startup times. Rising Antivirus' umbrella icon sits in your system tray, but otherwise you would hardly notice it was there. It is a nice and quiet application most of the time, with out the needless warnings and pop ups of some of its competitors. ![]() There's a fair amount of flexibility in Rising Antivirus - the settings are quite comprehensive, so you can run your antivirus checks and scans as automatically as you wish. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a more defined, finished look, use LinerSense® before applying the lip color. We do not recommend the use of rubbing alcohol on the skin because it dries out the skin.For best results, LipSense® products must be applied to clean, dry lips. While rubbing alcohol instantly removes LipSense from the skin. In fact, you need Denatured Alcohol to apply LipSense to lips. The patented formulation technology includes Cosmetic grade Denatured Alcohol, which is nothing close to Isopropyl Alcohol–or rubbing alcohol. That is just one of the reasons your lips become so smooth and soft with consistent use of LipSense.: That means the skin on your lips are protected from the sun’s rays by the color pigments, therefore your lips are more protected from harmful rays. The proprietary formulations and color pigments in LipSense help create a mechanical covering for the lips. LipSense provides a natural shield from the sun. LipSense is a non-wax liquid lip color that stays on your skin. LipSense Liquid Lip Color can last anywhere between 4 and 18 hours. In fact, it restores the moisture content of your lips when used properly. This unique product is waterproof and does not kiss off, smear off, rub off, or budge off! And, just as important it does not dry out your lips. Note: Just as important as what is in LipSense, is what is not! LipSense is formulated with no wax, lead, or animal by-products. It protects skin from UVA and UVB radiation and is considered to have no risk of skin irritation. Titanium Dioxide: an inert earth mineral used as a thickening ingredient and sunscreen in cosmetics. Mica: an earth mineral used to give products sparkle and shine. Isodonis Japonicus Extract: Fragrant plant extract that contains terpenes, shown to have medicinal properties to soothe skin. Tilia Cordata (Linden) Flower Extract: a natural flower extract rich in flavonoids and a powerful anti-oxidant. John’s Wort) Extract: also known as St John’s Wort, a natural herb used to elavate mood and treat depressions. Paeonia Suffruticosa Root (Tree Peony) Extract: a natural calming plum flower herb. Here are a few key components:ĭenatured Alcohol: used as a delivery system for the color technology creates a germ and bacteria-free environment. LipSense Long-Lasting Liquid Lip Color is made of a combination of ingredients. ![]() LipSense® Liquid Lip colors are removed by using Ooops!™ Color Remover. After applying the gloss, press your lips together to smooth in the moisture rich gloss and enjoy the glorious look and feel of this long-lasting, advanced color technology! Do not press lips together until the moisturizing gloss has been applied onto the last layer of lip color. Step 3: When the application of the third layer of color is complete and the color has set, apply one of the LipSense® Moisturizing Glosses over the final layer. ![]() It is not recommended to apply more than three layers of color. Let each layer set for a few seconds before proceeding to the next, and do not press lips together. Step 2: Repeat Step 1 two more times, so that you have a total of 3 layers of LipSense® applied to your lips. Apply the color, moving the applicator in one continuous direction versus going back and forth like you would with lipstick. With one continual stroke, apply one layer of color from one corner to the other corner of the bottom lip, then one layer of color to the top lip. Keep lips apart, and follow the natural shape of lips starting at the outer corner of the mouth. Step 1: After placing color onto the wand, begin application at the corner of mouth, (usually) using the longest length of the applicator. LipSense® is applied by using a layering technique. LipSense® needs to be shaken horizontally prior to application. For best results, LipSense® products must be applied to clean, dry lips. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her legal challenge ended up in front of the US supreme court in 1973. In 1970, a Texan woman named Norma McCorvey, seeking to end her pregnancy, challenged the state law which outlawed abortion except to save the life of the woman. So what exactly did Roe establish? What the decision means It has become a touchstone for both the pro-choice and anti-abortion movements, seen by the former as the bedrock upon which women’s freedom to participate fully in society is built and by the latter as a licence to commit state-sanctioned murder.Īmid all the sound and fury, much about the court’s actual ruling in Roe gets lost. Roe v Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which established the legal baseline for American abortion law. Not only will this be the first major ruling on abortion from a court shaped by the three appointees of former president Donald Trump, but many commentators suspect that, as Slate’s legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern asserted: “ the supreme court is taking direct aim at Roe v Wade”. Now the supreme court will hear arguments in its next term, starting in October, and are likely to deliver a decision in the spring or early summer of 2022. A local womens’ health group sued to overturn the law, which the district and federal appeals courts ruled was unconstitutional. The case, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, involves a 2018 Mississippi law which prohibits doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks except in medical emergency or in case of severe foetal abnormality. Reproductive rights advocates in the US are expressing dismay at the announcement by the supreme court that it will hear argument in an appeal which, if successful, could threaten the legal basis on which women can obtain abortions in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I simply went to bed on the driver’s seat while Alex and Vlad had to set up their tent. The last stretch on Kingdom Lakes FSR seemed like eternity but by 1 am ish we did make to the parking lot. Alex had attempted this peak in the past and directed me linking up several logging roads once turning off the main Hurley. I could have driven faster but I didn’t want to fuck up the suspensions of my truck. The crawling up and over Railroad Pass was a shit show of pot-holes and washboards that I couldn’t drive more than 30 km/h for pretty much the entire 40 ish kilometers on the Hurley. We left Vancouver at around 5 pm on Friday evening and made to the start of Hurley Road at around sunset. To make our lives easier I insisted on car-camping. I was not particularly keen on the long drives but among the three of us I had the most reliable vehicle for the mission so I had no excuse. The weather and condition was almost too good for Whitecap Mountain as I could have easily gone somewhere else for more technical climbs but I was tired and just wanted something relaxing. There then came the summer of 2020 when Alex, Vlad and I finally got a perfect window for it. ![]() And in the summer of 2019 I almost did it with Alex but again, the Montana road-trip came up and I had to bail. In the summer of 2017 I almost did it with Adam Walker from Washington but I had to bail the trip at the last minute due to an oppourtunity to climb Mt. I had been wanting to do Whitecap Mountain for years and the trigger was almost pulled several times in the past. Getting to Gold Bridge is a 4+ hour drive from Vancouver. The approach comes from McGillivray Pass to the west, which is accessed from Bralorne near Gold Bridge via Kingdom Lakes FSR and a somewhat-maintained trail. The standard route is however, just a long slog with a somewhat annoying but not bushy approach. This peak is highly visible from pretty much any summit in the Pemberton – Lillooet areas. It’s a big mountain by any measure, and despite the inland location it still boasts several small glaciers on the north side. The resort is in the town of Anderson, not far from Hurley, which has been dubbed the "snow capital" of Wisconsin.Whitecap Mountain is the 3rd highest in the loosely-defined region of “SW British Columbia” and also one of the handful “Ultras” in the region. The Red Cross and several local businesses and citizens provided food for the first responders. "We're open for business, so come on out."įirefighters from Anderson, Montreal, Hurley, Kimball, Oma, Mellen, Saxon/Gurney, Ironwood and Bessemer responded to the scene, as well as the Iron County Sheriff's Office, Iron County Highway Department, Iron County Forestry Department, Beacon Ambulance and Bayfield Electric Company. "We really appreciate everyone's support and kind words and offers for assistance," WhiteEagle said. WhiteEagle said the resort was still packed Saturday morning, despite the fire. ![]() Just before midnight, the resort posted that continental breakfast would be served Saturday morning and the ski lifts would be open. "Thank you for all the kind words of support! We will rebuild! #whitecapstrong," the resort wrote in its Facebook post. RELATED: Hurley, the Snow Capital of Wisconsin, gets 16 feet of snow per year ![]() ![]() ![]() That need for carefulness is obvious in Robocopy’s old-school syntax, which can look daunting to those who have known only graphic interfaces. ![]() RoboCopy is undeniably fast and powerful, but it’s also a classically raw command-line tool as such, it operates without much of a safety net - it will attempt to do exactly what you tell it, even if you tell it something to do something harmful. (I use other backup methods, too, but the above is the part that involves Robocopy.) This gives me three copies of every important file - the live original copy, a set-aside local copy, and one remote copy (in the cloud) - all 100% identical, and all done fast and virtually automatically. I use Robocopy every day to create a local, live, byte-for-byte, clone of my Documents folder and all its subfolders the copy is then synced to the cloud. (Most of the extra speed comes from its not having a GUI.) Robocopy - which has grown in power over the years - can serve exactly the same purpose as Replicator, and is much faster as well, especially when you’re processing deep-nested folders with many files. But the path of least resistance for me was to use Microsoft’s free Robocopy tool ( ) to produce a quick-and-dirty command-line equivalent for Replicator. I first looked at some old standby tools - xcopy and xxcopy, for example. Since then, two things happened: (1) I found a workable alternative and (2) a working version of Replicator became available! I wanted - and needed - a replacement, fast! ![]() Easy, effortless, and all but fully automatic. Whatever changes - additions, deletions, renamings, or whatever - I’d done in the source folder would be 100% replicated in the destination folder. I’d come to depend on Replicator’s effortless daily syncing of various folders and groups of folders: I’d run Replicator at the end of every day to ensure that local and cloud versions of several important folders were fully up to date and synchronized. Hat’s off to you, Karen, wherever you are!īut a change introduced by a Windows 10 update a while ago finally broke Karen’s old code. For a full decade or so, Replicator always worked flawlessly - testament to how robust Karen’s apps were. ![]() The apps were solid and didn’t need much upgrading: For example, I’d personally used her Replicator program across whole generations of Windows, up through Win10. Karen’s already-distributed apps and her PowerTools website lingered on via inertia, but were unmaintained. Her apps were initially available through Windows Magazine, but Karen later spun out her own side business of bundling and maintaining the apps for interested readers.īut, sadly, Karen died prematurely and a few years later, Windows Magazine shut down. Each month, the apps’ author, the late Karen Kenworthy, would identify an annoying little software problem or deficiency in Windows or its existing apps she’d then craft a small, focused, free utility that addressed the problem and then write a column about the problem, and how her free tool addressed it. Replicator was just one of dozens of high-quality Karen’s PowerTools apps. One of the most popular PowerTools was Replicator a clone/copy/sync tool that’s sort of like Robocopy with a point-and-click interface. Most of this article is about some free templates that can simplify your use of Robocopy - a free, powerful (but underappreciated) command-line copy/clone/sync tool that’s built into all current Windows version.īut before digging into Robocopy, please let me tell you about a related issue: The rise, fall, and partial re-rise of Karen’s PowerTools - a collection of free apps once offered through Windows Magazine. Plus: What happened to Karen’s PowerTools? ![]() |