Haze

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand and snow. Sources for haze particles include farming (ploughing in dry weather), traffic, industry, and wildfires.

Seen from afar (e.g. approaching airplane) and depending upon the direction of view with respect to the sun, haze may appear brownish or bluish, while mist tends to be bluish-grey. Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air. However, haze particles may act as condensation nuclei for the subsequent formation of mist droplets; such forms of haze are known as "wet haze."

The term "haze", in meteorological literature, generally is used to denote visibility-reducing aerosols of the wet type. Such aerosols commonly arise from complex chemical reactions that occur as sulfur dioxide gases emitted during combustion are converted into small droplets of sulphuric acid. The reactions are enhanced in the presence of sunlight, high relative humidity, and stagnant air flow. A small component of wet haze aerosols appear to be derived from compounds released by trees, such as terpenes. For all these reasons, wet haze tends to be primarily a warm-season phenomenon. Large areas of haze covering many thousands of kilometers may be produced under favorable conditions each summer.

Haze (disambiguation)

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Haze (2005 film)

Haze (ＨＡＺＥ ヘイズ) is a 2005 Japanese thriller/horror film written and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto who also stars in the movie. After appearances at several international festivals in 2005, the film debuted theatrically in Japan on March 4, 2006. Two versions of the film exist: the original release, a short 25 minute version; and what Director Tsukamoto entitled the "Long Version", which runs 49 minutes.

Plot synopsis

A man wakes up in a small concrete space bleeding from the abdomen. He can barely move and has no recollection of why or how he came to be there. Crawling forward he eventually meets a woman and they try to piece together their past lives.

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Swagger

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Swagger (No-Man EP)

"Swagger" is a cassette EP and the second release by the then British trio No Man Is An Island, which would later rename and be known simply as No-Man.

The cassette was made for the band to sell at concerts. It was later described by the band themselves as "very much a transitional release, with the band at an uncomfortable position between brash synthpop, abrasive art rock and the lusher atmospheres which would later become a No-Man trademark."

Some promo versions also included "The Girl From Missouri" (the earlier self-titled debut release). "Bleed" was featured in two subsequent versions - one on the 'Sweetheart Raw' EP and one on 'Heaven Taste'.

The song "Flowermouth" has no link with the Flowermouth album besides the title (although parts of the song were recycled for "Lovecry" on their 1993 debut LP Loveblows & Lovecries - A Confession). "Life Is Elsewhere" comes from Tim Bowness' former band Plenty (later renamed Samuel Smiles).

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Steven Wilson, except track A2 by Brian Husle. 

OpenAPI Specification

Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services.

With 3110 "stars" on GitHub, Swagger calls itself "The World's Most Popular Framework for APIs".

On 1 January 2016 Swagger was renamed the OpenAPI Specification.

Usage

Applications implemented with the Swagger framework contain documentation of methods, parameters and models directly in their source code. This prevents the situation when the documentation, client libraries, and source code get out of sync. The overarching goal of Swagger is to enable client and documentation systems to update at the same pace as the server.

History

Both the specification and framework implementation are initiatives from Wordnik. Swagger was developed for Wordnik's own use during the development of Wordnik Developer and the underlying API. Swagger development began in early 2010.

In November 2015 SmartBear, the company that maintained Swagger, announced that it was creating a new organization, the Open API Initiative, and would be donating the Swagger specification to the new group. On 1 January 2016 the Swagger specification was renamed the OpenAPI Specification, and was moved to a new repository in GitHub.