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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire firearm world and its various firearms, shooting sports, ammunition types, and history! Last week on The Rimfire Report we talked about the historical significance of what was collectively known as gallery guns – basically versions of rifles […]
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There are many parts that make up a 10/22 rifle, and each one of them plays an important role. However, the most critical component of the Ruger is the bolt. The trigger may be what initiates every shot, but it’s the bolt that’s responsible for shot-to-shot operation.
A high-quality bolt affects more than just reliability. The bolt face, its consistency, and how the firing pin strikes the bullet significantly contribute to the rifle’s accuracy.
Whether you’re building up a new gun or keeping an old favorite running, the Faxon 10/22 Bolt Assembly is compatible with the OEM receiver, trigger group, charging handle, and bolt stop pin. The Faxon 10/22 bolt is fully assembled and ready to drop into your Ruger 10/22.
Upgrading the bolt improves reliability and accuracy on any 10/22 rifle. A high-quality bolt aftermarket bold like Faxon’s is properly radiused and polished to enhance the reliability of the cyclic action.
Additionally, Faxon’s 10/22 bolt has the proper head spacing in order to improve the reliability of the bullets feeding from the magazine into the chamber. Lastly, proper firing pin protrusion ensures optimal striking of the rimfire case.
All these small improvements add up to better overall reliability, consistent performance, and improved accuracy.
Out of the box in the stock configuration, the Ruger 10/22 doesn’t have a last-round bolt hold open feature. To add the bolt hold open feature, you need a third-party upgrade such as the CST Auto Bolt Stop.
A bolt buffer replaces/upgrades the bolt stop pin in your 10/22 receiver. The OEM bolt stop pin is made from steel, whereas the bolt buffer is made from a polymer material.
Over time the steel bolt stop pin can cause micro-cracks in the receiver due to repeated impacts of the bolt during shooting. The bolt buffer mitigates that and several other issues by being manufactured out of a polymer material.
There are three main benefits of replacing the bolt stop pin with a bolt buffer.
The Ruger 10/22 bolt by Faxon includes a bolt buffer to replace the OEM bolt stop pin. If you’re interested in learning more, check out more on the Ruger 10/22 Bolt here.
This article originally appeared at Firearms Press and is reprinted here with permission.
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A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has reported on the first human tests of an experimental therapy using sound and light to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD). New Atlas reports: Over the last seven years, Li-Huei Tsai and colleagues at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have been investigating an unusual hypothesis. The researchers found toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease could be eliminated from mouse brains following exposure to flickering lights. Further research found the magic frequency was 40 Hz. When animals were exposed to both sound and light at that frequency, improvements in brain health were detected. Of course, these kinds of animal tests don’t mean much if they can’t be replicated in humans, so after further investigations revealed how this sensory therapy could be affecting a mouse brain, the researchers started preliminary human experiments. Working with colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, two clinical trials set out to test the therapy in humans.
The first Phase 1 study recruited 43 participants to test whether this kind of light and sound exposure was safe, and did anything to the human brain. Each subject was monitored using EEG measures while experiencing a short exposure to what has been dubbed by the researchers as GENUS (Gamma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimulation). This preliminary study comprised both healthy and cognitively impaired subjects, as well as participants with epilepsy in order to evaluate the seizure potential of the treatment. After a short exposure to the sensory stimulation, the researchers found a number of brain regions synchronize with the 40-Hz frequency.
The second trial recruited 15 participants with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Each participant was given a device to take home and use for around an hour a day. The device was essentially a small LED white board with an iPad in the middle and a soundbar underneath. While watching videos on the iPad, the LED light panel on the white board would flicker at a rate of 40 Hz and the soundbar would play a 40-Hz tone. Half the cohort was randomized to a sham control condition, exposed to a constant white light and white noise. Compliance was relatively high between both the GENUS and the sham groups, with participants completing the daily requirement of exposure around 90 percent of the time. After around three months of use the researchers could detect statistically significant differences between the two groups, both on brain imaging and memory tests. The researchers are cautious not to overstate their initial findings, the report says. "It’s early days for human studies […], larger cohorts of patients are needed to better understand the impacts of this sensory stimulation and longer trials will hopefully establish more prominent beneficial effects."
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Congratulations on your recent purchase of a MacBook! If you intend to use it for Laravel development, you have come to the right place. Allow me to guide you through the necessary steps for setting up your MacBook for a Laravel development environment.
To install PHP on macOS, you can use the package manager Homebrew. First, make sure you have Homebrew installed by running the following command in your terminal:
If you don’t have Homebrew installed, you can install it by running the following command:
Once you have Homebrew installed, you can install PHP by running the following command:
If you want to install specific php version you can search available php package in brew.
For example if you want to install php version 8 just.
Now export path for binary php, change ~/.zshrc to whatever shell you are using in this case I use zsh.
To install Composer, you can follow the instructions on the Composer website: https://getcomposer.org/download. Here is a brief summary of the steps to install Composer on macOS:
Download the Composer installer by running the following command in your terminal:
Move the Composer binary to a directory that is included in your system path by running the following command:
Verify that Composer is installed by running the following command:
This should print the version of Composer that is installed on your machine
This is optional. But if you want to create new project quickly you can use it directly from composer.
You also can create laravel project using the official cli. First install the cli.
Now export binary path.
And here’s how to create project from it.
Most people use MySQL for Laravel projects. You might as well if you do. Please follow the instructions below for installation.
This will install the latest version of MySQL on your machine. You can verify that MySQL is installed by running the following command:
This should print the version of MySQL that is installed on your machine.
After installing MySQL, you will also need to start the MySQL server. You can do this by running the following command:
This will start the MySQL server in the background. To stop the MySQL server, you can run the following command:
To secure a MySQL installation, you can follow these steps:
Set a strong password for the MySQL root user: By default, the MySQL root user has no password, so you should set a strong password for the root user to prevent unauthorized access to your MySQL server. You can do this by running the following command:
Replace new_password with a strong password of your choice.
Reload the privilege tables: After making changes to the MySQL user accounts and permissions, you will need to reload the privilege tables to apply the changes. You can do this by running the following command:
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
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This week we are going to show you how to tie a snell knot, also called snelling the hook. The smell knot is an older knot that was originally invented for tying hooks with no hook eyes. Instead, these hooks had a flattened wider portion of the shank that you would snell in front of. Nowadays though it is still widely used in many different techniques. In freshwater, bass anglers often snell hooks and use pegged bullet weights for punching matted vegetation. Fly anglers use the snell knot to keep a straight presentation for tube flies when fly fishing. In saltwater, it is popular for targeting big game, especially when pitching live bait or dragging baits on the bottom.
The snell knot is a very strong knot that when tied on a hook with an offset hook eye can keep the hook and line inline making it easier to get a good hook set. With the knot being behind the eye of the hook, this knot does not slip easily when under pressure. There is also plenty of meat to the knot so even if the hook eye isn’t closed completely there’s less risk of the knot failing due to a bad hook eye. The biggest downside to the snell knot is that the line can be easily abraded and cut if the fish you hook have sharp teeth, this is due to the line being on the hook shank itself.
First step as most knots is run the mainline through the eye of the hook, normally I use an offset hook but only have a straight shank hook for the demo.
Make a loop with the mainline and make sure to pinch the loop.
Using the pinched loop start wrapping the loop over the double line and shank of the hook, makes wraps towards the bend of the hook. Make sure to keep the loops from overlapping
Make about 6 to 8 wraps around the lines and shank of the hook, adjust for more loops for thinner lines, and then wet the knot. Then pull both ends of the line on the knot and snug the knot down. Trim the tag end and you’re ready to fish.
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According to the GDPR law, every platform is required to allow the users to decide which cookie
categories they will allow,
and, if a cookie category is not allowed, the application should not use the functionality tied to that cookie.
This plugin provides a simple cookie consent window through which the user can specify the cookies they would like to
allow.
After the user submission, the page reloads and the relevant cookies are set on the browser, and can then be used in the
front-end.
You can install the package via composer:
composer require scify/laravel-cookies-consent
If on Laravel 9 or newer, the assets files (style.css) will automatically be published
If on Laravel 8 or older, make sure to manually publish the styles file, by running:
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="laravel-assets"
In both cases, the assets files will be copied to public/vendor/cookies_consent.
You can then either decide to include the public/vendor/cookies_consent/style.css file to git (especially if you want
to edit it first), or add it to .gitignore, and make sure to also run this command on the staging/production server.
You can publish the config file with:
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="cookies-consent-config"
The configuration file will be published to config/cookies_consent.php.
In the config file, you can change the cookie categories of your application, set the required and pre-selected
categories, as well as add new categories.
This is the contents of the published config file:
return [ 'cookie_prefix' => '', 'cookies' => [ 'strictly_necessary', 'targeting', 'performance', 'functionality' ], 'enabled' => [ 'strictly_necessary', 'targeting', 'performance', 'functionality' ], 'required' => ['strictly_necessary'], 'cookie_lifetime' => 365 * 10, ];
The cookie_prefix is optional and, if set, will be applied to every cookie.
If set, a good strategy is to also add a trailing underscore "_", that will be added between the field value, and each cookie.
For example, if cookie_prefix is set to my_app_, then the targeting cookie will have a value of my_app_cookies_consent_targeting.
You can add as many cookie categories as you like, simply by adding values to the cookies array.
If you want to remove a cookie category, simply remove it from the array.
You can use the enabled array to set the cookie categories that will be pre-selected,
and the required array to set the cookies that the user won’t be able to deselect.
If you want to change how long the cookies will be stored, edit the cookie_lifetime variable.
When the plugin is installed, a laravel-cookies-consent
custom Laravel View Component is automatically registered.
This will render the following cookies consent that, will look very much like this one.
You can then use this component in order to display the cookies consent window, wherever you’d like.
Typically, a good strategy is to put the component just before the closing <body> tag:
<body> ... ... ... <x-laravel-cookies-consent></x-laravel-cookies-consent> </body>
After that, you can use the $_COOKIE global object, in order to check for the appropriate cookie.
Now you can use this object in your Blade files like this:
$_COOKIE[config('cookies_consent.cookie_prefix') . ]
For example, An application that wants to load the Google Analytics script only if the user has given their consent to
the targeting cookie category,
might do the following:
google-analytics.blade.php <!-- Check the 'targeting' cookie: --> @if(isset($_COOKIE[config('cookies_consent.cookie_prefix') . 'cookies_consent_targeting']) && config('app.google_analytics_id')) <!-- Google Analytics --> <script defer async> (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) { i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () { (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments) }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o), m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m) })(window, document, 'script', 'https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga'); window.ga('create', '', 'auto'); window.ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true); window.ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> @endif
In this example, we checked whether
the $_COOKIE[config('cookies_consent.cookie_prefix') . 'cookies_consent_targeting'] key exists or not.
If you want to modify the texts shown in the cookies dialog, you can publish the language resource files with this
command:
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="cookies-consent-translations"
This will publish this file to resources/lang/vendor/cookies_consent//messages.php.
The plugin comes with 6 built-in languages. You can change the translations for a given language, or add additional
languages yourself.
In the cookies dialog, there is also an optional "Read more" link. This link is specified in the language translation
files, since it is common to have a different link for each language.
Example (file lang/vendor/cookies_consent/en/messages.php):
return [ ... 'read_more_link' => '', ... ];
If the link is left empty (default state), it won’t be shown.
If you need full control over the contents of the cookies dialog, you can publish the views of the package:
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="cookies-consent-components"
This will copy the resources/views/components/laravel-cookies-consent view file over
to resources/views/components/vendor/cookies_consent directory.
This project uses Pest for testing. To execute the test suite, run:
Question: Is this plugin free to use?
Answer: Yes. This plugin is totally free and developed as
an Open-Source project.
Question: How long do the cookies last?
Answer: The duration is set in days, in config/cookies_consent.php file. In order to publish this file, run
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="cookies-consent-config"
The configuration file will be published to config/cookies_consent.php.
Then, edit the cookie_lifetime field (in days).
Question: Will the cookie consent window show every time?
Answer: No. As soon as the user clicks one of the "Accept all", "Accept selection", or "Decline all", the selection
will be stored in another cookie, and the window won’t pop up again, until this cookie expires, or is deleted.
Question: In which languages is the plugin available?
Answer: The plugin has 6 built-in languages: English, Greek, Spanish, German, Italian, and Swedish. If you would
like to add a language, publish the translations by running:
php artisan vendor:publish \ --provider="SciFY\LaravelCookiesConsent\LaravelCookiesConsentServiceProvider" \ --tag="cookies-consent-translations"
And add/change your own translations. If you add a new language, consider also opening
a pull request, in order for this language to be included in
the plugin.
Question: Does this plugin work with all Laravel versions?
Answer: We have tested the plugin with Laravel 7, 8, and 9. The plugin’s simplicity allows it to work with any
Laravel version, but if you try it with a version other that the tested ones and it does not work, please open an issue
on GitHub.
Question: If I install later a new cookie category, how can I force the plugin to "reset" and show again?
Answer: The easiest way is to publish the configuration file, and change the cookie_prefix field. This will force
the plugin to show again.
Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
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Crawlers are such essential tools on the Internet today that imagining a world without them would make navigating the web a different experience. Web crawlers assist in the operation of search engines, serve as the brains behind web archives, assist content creators in finding out what content is copyrighted, and assist website owners in identifying which pages on their sites require attention.
You can accomplish a lot with web crawlers that would be difficult or impossible without them. If you need to collect data from the Internet, you might need to use web crawlers at some point as a marketer. However, choosing a suitable web crawler for your needs may be difficult. It is because, unlike web scrapers, you can find a lot of general-purpose scrapers; you will need to dig deeper to find web crawlers. The reason is that most popular web crawlers are usually specialized.
We’ve compiled the top 8 web crawler tools with their features and pricing for you in this article.
Crawlbase provides crawling and scraping services to people who wish to crawl data at a large scale and maintain the most significant level of anonymity throughout the process. The Crawler allows you to crawl any website or platform on the Internet. You will be able to benefit from proxy support, captcha bypass, as well as the ability to crawl JavaScript pages with dynamic content.
The crawler is a pay-as-you-go model with no hidden fees, so you only pay for successful requests. The first 1,000 requests are free, and you will be informed of the exact cost based on how many requests you make. A monthly pricing calculator makes calculating your price relatively easy, as you only pay for successful requests, and if there are any unsuccessful requests, you will not be charged.
Nokogiri is an open-source software library for parsing HTML and XML in Ruby. Libxml2 and libxslt provide the functionality of the library.
Nokogiri provides a comprehensive API for reading, writing, editing, and querying documents. The tool simplifies the process of working with XML and HTML for Ruby developers. Nokogiri is based on two fundamental principles. As a first step, it automatically treats all documents as suspicious. Second, it does not attempt to correct the behavioral differences detected between parsers.
UiPath is an end-to-end robotic process automation tool. It provides solutions to automate routine office activities to accelerate business change.
UiPath has built-in capabilities for performing additional crawls. It is particularly effective when dealing with complex user interfaces. It can easily extract data in tabular or pattern form from multiple different web pages. The screen scraping tool can extract individual text components, groups of text, blocks of text, and data in a table format.
The Webharvy tool includes a point-and-click interface for scraping web pages. It is designed for people who aren’t programmers. Using WebHarvy, you can automatically scrape text, images, URLs, and emails from websites. You can access target websites via proxy servers or a VPN.
Import.io is a platform that facilitates the conversion of semi-structured web pages into structured data, which can be used for a variety of purposes, ranging from business decision-making to integration with apps.
They provide real-time data retrieval through their JSON REST-based and streaming APIs and support integration with a variety of common programming languages and data analysis tools.
It is great for businesses and marketing research that wants organized data. There are multiple programming languages that can be used with the software. The crawler’s point-and-click interface makes it easy to use.
Zyte is another web crawler designed for developers who are proficient in coding. The tool offers several features that enable users to quickly extract information from websites across the Internet.
Crawlera, a sophisticated proxy rotator utilized by Zyte, allows users to crawl large sites and bot-protected pages without worrying about bot countermeasures. Users can crawl from multiple IP addresses and locales through a simple HTTP API without maintaining proxy servers.
The OpenSearchServer software is based on Lucene and is a powerful, enterprise-class search engine solution. You can easily and quickly integrate full-text search capabilities into your application by utilizing the web user interface, crawlers, and JSON web services.
It is a good tool for crawling websites and building search indexes. Additionally, it provides text extracts and auto-completion features that can be used to create search pages. Depending on your needs, the software will allow you to select from six different scripts to download.
The Dexi.io web scraping tool allows businesses to extract and transform data from any web source through advanced automation and intelligent mining technologies.
You can scrape or interact with data from any website using Dexi.io. You can use three types of robots: Extractors, Crawlers, and Pipes. An advanced feature set and APIs enable you to combine and transform data into robust datasets.
We discussed some of the best Crawlers available in marketing with their top features to help you crawl available online data according to your own needs. Let us know which crawler tool worked the best for you in the comments below.
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