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Christian movies on Netflix
One of the best streaming series and movies platforms is Netflix. You can find all types of film genres in it, including those related to faith and religion. That is why, in this post, we recommend some of the best Christian movies on Netflix, which you can enjoy as a family, with friends and brothers from your congregation. Continue Reading
What is Cyclocross Everything You Need to Know
In this article, we are going to tell you all about cyclocross, the sports top stars, and how you can get involved and we’re starting right now.
The First thing you need to know about cycle cross is that it’s a lot of fun it takes place in the fall and winter months the races are less than 60 minutes and they’re usually held in a two-to-three-kilometer track.
What Exactly is Cyclocross
Cyclocross is an off-road form of bike racing and that takes riders to navigate mostly off-road short courses with an array of obstacles which includes steep short hills, logs, and jumps.
Riders use a modified road bike rather than a mountain bike and the riding surfaces can be grass, gravel, woodland, or even sand because these races are held during the winter.
It is almost guaranteed that there will be mud, yes, a lot of mud. Most obstacles can be ridden over but if the rider can’t do that because it’s too muddy or the obstacle is too high.
The rider can dismount and run with the bike over their shoulders.
However, if you are a beach biker you can ride with the best beach cruiser bike but cyclocross is a different thing.
History
Cyclocross is a big sport in Northern Europe but it started in the U.S. Belgium and the Netherlands are the biggest fans of cyclocross where the audiences are similar to football.
This is the perfect spectator’s sport because the race consists of laps of a short secret that gives you the opportunity to see the riders a few times during the race and cyclocross is known for its lively atmosphere.
Cyclocross bike
A cyclocross bike is a modified road bike. The frame is stiff and lightweight to make it easier for the riders to carry the bike over the shoulders and up steep hills.
The gear range is smaller than a road bike since a cyclocross race is not played out at breaking neck speeds.
The bottom bracket is also higher to avoid obstacles. Usually, they have double-sided clipless pedals to make it easier to clip in.
It is very important that these bikes have disc brakes to provide better braking in muddy or wet conditions and the frames can also accommodate a wide tire.
The cyclocross shoes are less rigid and also have some form of grip to help with the running elements
of the race.
Competitions
There are three main competitions in cyclocross: The Super Prestige, the DVV Trophy, and the UCI World Cup.
The season goes from September to January where points are awarded to each rider depending on the position, they finished each race and the rider with more points is crowned the winner.
A week after that is the cyclocross World Championship where the best rider is awarded the famous rainbow jersey.
Stars of Cyclocross
The top two stars are Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. The Palmares of these two guys spread across the road and the cyclocross disciplines and that includes Multiple cyclocross world titles.
like stages on the Tour de France, national championships, one-day classics such as Milan San-remo, Estrade Bianche, and Tour of Flanders, and van Aert’s teammate Roglic went on to be second on this year’s Tour de France and the general winner of the Vuelta and that is impressive.
The rising star is Tom Pidcock and he dominated the under 23 competitions becoming the world champion and on top of that he recently won three stages and the overall win at the Baby Giro and
is considered to be one of the most talented British riders in recent years.
Now, these three guys are competing against each other on the most important cyclocross courses for the chance to win the world cup and also to wear the famous rainbow jersey on the 31st of January 2021.
How do you get involved?
Now, this is the simple question how can people involved with cyclocross. If you want to involve cyclocross there is some process you should follow.
First, simply search you can simply start by searching on Google for cyclocross competitions.
If you are in the UK, you can go to the British Cycling website or the USA cycling website if you are over in the US, and yes you do need a license but daily licenses are available as well.
Conclusion
So here we have discussed details of cyclocross and we think you have got the answer of your most of the questions about cyclocross.
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Tempered glass: Does it really protect your mobile screen?
We will all agree that the mobile screen is the most delicate component of our devices with a progressive increase in the size of smartphones and their screens. The risk and the fragility of them have also increased. In the development of the new models, the balance leans in favor of design and lightness to the detriment of its hardness and strength.
Most manufacturers incorporate a layer against fractures and scratches in their touch devices. In this field, the reference is Gorilla Glass, of the Corning Company and whose version number 5 doubles in resistance to its previous generation. However, this protection can be effective against scratches, but neither protects against bumps nor does every smartphone carry it.
The screens are not only very prone to breakage and scratches. They are also probably the element of the mobile whose repair is the most expensive. This makes ensuring your phone is increasingly necessary.
So what options do I have to protect my mobile screen?
The first solutions were a plastic sheet. It is an option increasingly discarded by users due to its low durability and low protection against breakage. Some opt for gel protectors of greater protection than plastic sheets. They lose in texture due to their rubbery touch.
It seems to be the ideal solution for the high protection it offers to the screen. Even in direct accidents on the material, such as bumps or falls.
In addition, there are durability and ease of assembly, which allows it to be removed and repositioned without losing adhesion. On the other hand, the option of the plastic sheet requires changing it very frequently and the bubbles make the assembly not so clean.
The sensitivity is one of the most demanding factors by the user. The tempered glass allows you to slide your fingers across the screen while maintaining the same feeling of softness as the naked touch screen.
The tempered glass also stands out for its light transmission capacity and for reducing reflections to the maximum. Some protectors include as an extra functionality an oleo phobic layer to greatly reduce fingerprints on the screen. Most smartphones already include this functionality.
As for the disadvantages of tempered glass, the main drawback is the thickness of the material. It ranges between 0.3 and 0.5 mm. A difference is evident when using the mobile without a case or when you want to press the Home button, which is slightly sunk. Keep reading how to remove screen protector.
Tempered glass installation
If you finally dare to incorporate a tempered glass protector to your iPhone or smartphone, keep in mind the obvious that cheap can be expensive. On the internet, you can find many tempered glass models that they do not meet the estimated durability or fit your phone, despite being indicated for your specific model.
In this regard, during the installation of the tempered glass, we recommend you pay attention to the sensors. Although the design of the protectors already takes into account speakers and front cameras, these are precisely the least delicate. The one that is essential to be discovered is the proximity sensor to avoid problems on the screen.
It is also essential to pay attention to the limits of the crystal. In models with edges, it is important that the protector does not cover them to prevent it from rising. It would be the case of the Samsung Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6 models, among others.
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Do you have a collection of songs in MP3 format and tend to create playlists out of them? While playlists are a great way of compiling songs, why not actually merge your songs together into a single audio file instead? Continue Reading
We not yet familiarized ourselves with 3D printing and 3D printing comes the new levitation
Almost every day we hear of a new advance in 3D printing, which has managed to sneak in a lot of disciplines and fields, offering a versatility that puts us in a wide range of possibilities, and with it you can do virtually everything from dentures, parts, to cars, artificial organs, medicines and buildings.
It is a reality that 3D printing is here to stay, and now only need to finish maturing and is available to anyone, but this does not mean that this technology cannot continue to evolve, on the contrary, maturity only means that it is now able to take the next step and that is new 3D printers while floating objects. Continue Reading
Chess, Computers and Humans
At one point in my life I thought it might be a good chess player. In the mid-80 collected and reviewed annotated games by Leontxo Garcia in El País -what big- and even I tried to make my first steps a little more seriously and played a federated year. Enough to realize that it would be better devoted to write, but I always kept my love of a sport for years to continue sideways.
I did in those legendary duels between Karpov and Kasparov, but also with a nod to the passion that became part of my job: computer science. Expectantly read the news about the fighting between grandmasters and chess computers and cheated me over and over again thinking the man would always be higher than the machine. Absurd, as demonstrate a machine called Deep Blue the 11th of May 1997.
The beginning of the end
Leontxo Garcia wrote it better than anyone again in the country. In ” Man surrenders to the machine ” (curious, lack the tilde in the headline) this journalist recounted how Gari Kasparov ended up leaving the sixth game and losing by 3.5 to 2.5 against Deep Blue after an unexplainable mistake just initiated opening. IBM ride later much a tribute website as another to revisit the games that especially cool because web 1.0 is all.
Kasparov -leed this column his 1996 Time, please-, like the rest of those who attended that, do not believe. It could not have happened. There had to be trick. The legendary grandmaster accused the Deep Blue team of cheating and human intervention in the game Deep Blue, too “creative” at specific moments like that end of the first game (won by Kasparov) in which motion machine 44 he moved his rook for no apparent purpose. Continue Reading
Lenovo Yoga 900 a convertible with many successes
Lenovo seems to have heard the criticisms made, and those that made the users-because the new Lenovo Yoga 900 corrects almost all the flaws of its predecessor and delivers a portable 2 in 1 convertible inheriting the best of Yoga and range and racing is an increasingly bitter struggle in this segment.
A design that highlights the hinge
Let’s start with the bad news. The Yoga 900 is heavier and thicker than its predecessor. It is, however, for very good reasons. Yoga Pro 3 is focused on thinness and weight as fundamental factors, but that was we met a team with a battery below the average and power also room for improvement.
These two factors have been fixed in the new Yoga 900, but this Lenovo engineers have not hesitated to slightly increase both the weight of the device which rises to 1.30 kg from 1.19 anterior- and thickness, reduced from 12.8 mm from Yoga Pro 3 to about 16 mm of this new model.
That makes the team is not exactly a “pen”, but still we have a good bet and a great balance of size, weight and performance. 900 Yoga design is similar to the previous model, with a magnesium alloy as the lead in the upper housing in which, yes, the brand “Yoga” appears more prominent than “Lenovo”. JBL speakers on either side of the team, as we saw offer excellent sound quality even when we put the notebook in tablet mode: a curious detail appears at the bottom. Continue Reading