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Before and after pinballbulbs LED kit and speaker lights installed.
Everyone said not to do a kit, but for it being my first pin I'm glad I did a kit. I learned a lot about the different types of bulbs, colors, frosted, flasher, etc... I'm very happy with it and would recommend it to anyone. I still have light strips and spot lights to install.
I can see! Great start, but highly recommend MP's suggestion with gauges & drain. There are plenty of posts in this thread that tell you how to do it, but here are a couple of links to my process, along with some other LED mods.
I think it needs a color dmd now.
PinSound BEFORE color DMD, IMO. The update in sound makes a much larger impact on your game play experience than the color DMD.
That's a good kit and this is what's all about, learning about your machine and what you like... good job!
I have the center drain led strip and will install it tomorrow. How did you light up the gauges?
It looks like a completely different pin. I think it needs a color dmd now.
Comet has the Matrix wire connectors to make it easier, I soldered the wire to a light socket but you can use the alligator clips if you don't want to do it that way. I used the star post light but Mustang when he first did the mod used an led strip (pre matrix and star post days).
Adding both is the correct answer, but I was recommending my preference for which to add first.
BTW, when you light up the gauges, don't forget to also do the sign just above the right gauge (you can see in top right corner of TM's pic). If you don't, you will find yourself staring at it constantly thinking, "How did I miss lighting up that plastic?".
Good, that strip does a nice job. Use a Comet round Star Post led under each of the plastics, they work perfect.
I guess a pinsound board would make sense seeing as I'm putting in a pair of JL audio C2's that I had laying around.
What type of glue should I use to stick the plastic overlay to the new speaker panel?
Don't use glue use double sided tape.
Your going to have to change this to Pin now.
I'm not sure you would appreciate those speakers as much with out the PinSound. I do not have one installed and it would be cool to be able to modify the songs and sounds but I'm happy with my machine at this point plus I have my sights (and funds) set on another machine.
ColorDMD all day. Pinsound is cool for sure, but ColorDMD just really makes it happen.
mr_tantrum to the economical mod rescue, again. Thanks Chris.
They aren't "cheap", they're "economical".
They're both great, depending on your tastes. I like the LED for the stock fit and the colors pop, but the LCD has smoothing options and some people prefer it's color shading abilities over the LEDs boldness... I own some of both, but since I don't go for the smoothing modes that's kinda lost on me!
Seriously, it looks great on your pin. Just happy I can contribute a little to those that have taught me so much over the last few years.
LED is my choice. I don't have a ColorDMD but I do have a Pin2DMD (whole story another time). Anyway, personally, I don't like the dullness of the LCD and I hate the look that 95% of the people seem to run it in that looks like a blotchy cartoon. The LCD is bright (you can adjust) and gives a great mix of color along with a traditional pinball DMD experience. The color gamut may not be as good as LCD, but it's not like you're watchin HD movies on the thing.
So after adding Mr. T's goodies, I noticed one last piece of stainless that doesn't have anything on it. Maybe T would work his magic one more time and come up with something for this.
Maybe something like this I did a year ago?
Also, I highly suggest either making your own or buying from me a plastic replacement piece instead of the metal cover. I create mine out of Lexan and this way the light behind the targets shines up through it.
How does the plastic there hold up? I made myself one but was afraid that between the target bank beneath and the Supercharger support that it wouldn't stand a chance so I kept the metal piece under it.
Cliffy did a thinner repro of this metal plate for me. This is needed, if you want to put a proper plastic on to, due to the length of the theadded post holding the SC.
Can someone please tell me the resistance on the plunger coil? The one labeled A-14789.
Absolutely zero issues after a year of installation and heavy home use gameplay. I've made these for several others, so they can chime in as well with their experiences. The plastic is not in direct line of ball contact, and even if a ball somehow bounces on top there is never much force when doing so.
Also, I used .093" clear Lexan, so no need for any extra support as the plastic is as thick as (or maybe even slightly thicker) than the original metal piece.
And you can make all these for me as well? Shoot me a PM would ya? Particularly interested in the sticker for the SC. The cartoon stock one leaves a hair to be desired.
I made a post about making these when I did that mod, it's easy to make and holds up well.
There was one of these in the plastic kit from CPR when they made there run.
FYI, If I ever gave the impression that this was my original idea, then please forgive me as it was not. Also, there is more than one way to do it. My preference is thicker Lexan with the decal on top with a clear gloss mylar/vinyl overlay. Using the thickness that I do, I cut mine out and shape it using a pneumatic hand grinder using both a cutting disk and a sanding barrel (could also use a Dremel tool). Is it hard? As TM stated, not really if you have the right tools. The key is to print and overlay a sacrificial decal on top of the plastic as you are cutting and shaping it in order to get it just right. Then once you have your shape, clean it up and apply the final decal to it.
Yes, the plastic holds up well, CPR had a similar plastic in their set.
These are easy to make and I made a detailed DYI a while back in the forum.
Thanks to Mt T for all of excellent work!
No, no, no, TM. I didn't take your tone that way at all. You just made me realize in general that I had put a bunch of stuff out there recently, and that I might have left the impression to the new folks that these were all original ideas and the only way to get them was through me. There are tons of great ideas in this thread, most of which are not mine, and many of which I took from to design and offer the things that I make. Also, I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE others to make their own mods leveraging the ideas and instruction from the great members here, and this is why I make all of my graphics available 100% free of charge for those that do want to make their own. This is not a revenue generating venture for me, but I learned early on that several would like to have some of my designs but they just don't have the time/skill/materials/etc. to make them for themselves. I assure you as a grown adult I have many better things to do with my time than making stickers. However, I appreciate everything that members have contributed to my knowledge and experience in this hobby, so I figure that I can help others out with something that I'm pretty good at doing.
Got to meet SUPERBEE at Allentown, great guy. Also picked up a pinsound at the show, plan on installing it shortly.
Yeah, SB is great, but what does he have to say about you?
Congratulations on the Pinsound. 2 things: 1) you must rewire speakers for stereo to get best sound, 2) PM me after install is complete and I will help save you hours building out your usb drive with multiple orchestrations.
Yes, that download was great for me. Thanks for all the support you have for the community!
Hi All. I would like a price check on parts I want to sell please.
I have a guy wanting just the dome but don't know whether I should try and sell the parts as a set?
Moving along with some of the great ideas shared here. Looking pretty sharp if I do say so myself. Some of Mr. T'S goodies oughta be here soon. Just thought I'd share.
While the market ultimately sets the price, what I can tell you as a buyer is that I'm usually looking to pay about 50% on these types of used items versus new pricing from reputable sources (e.g. Marcos, Pinball Life, etc.) Now, if it is a rare part that can no longer be purchased new (either original or replica) that is in demand, then the price obviously increases.
Breaking up or sell as a set? Depends upon what you are wanting. If you want to get rid of everything then a set may be your better option, but then again you may not find a buyer if the items are not in demand. If you have extra parts laying around and just want them to go to a good home to help support the community, then sell them individually. I'm not making any value judgement here on your motives, just comes down to what you want to do as the seller.
It was great meeting you also my friend. I really enjoyed shooting the breeze with you. Thanks again for letting me try to sell my playfield at your table. It was really nice of you. I sold it today! I met up with Mitch (he has that thread here about hating color leds in GI). Good guy. I had a great time at pinfest. We had a cooler full of beer at the show and i was feeling no pain by about 5pm on Fri.
And here's after said goodies. Awesome product. Not at all what I was expecting. If you're expecting paperbacked stickers you'd be hard mistaken. These are the finest quality decals I've ever seen. Obviously work was put into finding the right materials. Thanks bud!
Nothing so sinister....Just would like to see it go to someone who is doing a machine up and needs all the parts as a set rather sell bits and pieces. Also just a fair deal for me and buyer. I tend to end up selling parts and giving away a lot of things too cheap or for nothing which is wearing a bit thin.
Look'n good, MD. Thanks for the love . . . just happy to help out my fellow Getaway owners. Although my least favorite thing to make (cutting out 15 little circles drives me crazy), I love the look of the target covers. All the other items look awesome on your pin too.
If any others are thinking about asking, I wanted to remind everyone that I make all of my decal art available for free so you can make your own (just PM me). Alternatively, I'm happy to quote a price on whatever you want, and I assure you I am very fair as this is just a hobby of mine. BTW, for all of my graphics I use only OEM high quality papers and inks (mostly inkjet, but had to do the SC decal on laser due to size) and overlay with high quality clear gloss vinyl/mylar.
As long as that room is full of pinball machines, I'm in!
Alright guys, I've got a controversial question here. I'm looking to pick up a Color DMD for my Getaway and I see a lot of you guys have them. I'm personally a fan of the dots and don't suspect I'd use other filters, due to that I'm leaning towards the LED version of the panel over the LCD. My biggest concern however is in ghosting during the video mode of the machine with the LED panel. I know it's not as much of an issue with the LCD, which is why I'm still considering it.


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package com.mattprovis.fluentmatcher;

import junit.framework.TestResult;
import org.junit.Test;

import static com.mattprovis.fluentmatcher.CarMatcher.car;
import static com.mattprovis.fluentmatcher.PassengerMatcher.passenger;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static junit.framework.TestResultMatcher.testResult;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThan;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasItemInArray;
import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.hamcrest.core.IsCollectionContaining.hasItem;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

public class FluentMatcherMavenPluginSystemTest {

    private final Passenger alice = new Passenger("Alice", true);
    private final Passenger bob = new Passenger("Bob", false);
    private final Passenger christine = new Passenger("Christine", false);
    private final Passenger don = new Passenger("Don", false);

    private Car actualCar = new Car(
            "ABC-123",
            150,
            asList(alice, bob, christine, don),
            new String[]{"P", "R", "N", "D", "2", "L"});

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchAnythingIfNoConditionsGiven() throws Exception {
        assertThat(alice, is(passenger()));
        assertThat(bob, is(passenger()));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchAnExactValue() throws Exception {
        assertThat(actualCar, is(car().withRegistration("ABC-123")));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldFailIfConditionDoesNotMatch() throws Exception {
        try {
            assertThat(actualCar, car().withRegistration("XYZ-789"));
        } catch (AssertionError expected) {
            return;
        }

        // This must be outside of the try, because the AssertionError it throws would satisfy the catch type!
        fail();
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchANestedMatcher() throws Exception {
        assertThat(actualCar, is(car()
                .withPassengers(
                        hasItem(alice))));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldMatchAComplexMixedCondition() throws Exception {
        assertThat(actualCar, is(car()
                .withRegistration("ABC-123")     // true
                .withTopSpeed(greaterThan(100))  // true
                .withGears(hasItemInArray("D"))  // true
        ));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldFailIfAnyMatchInAComplexMixedConditionFails() throws Exception {
        try {
            assertThat(actualCar, is(car()
                    .withRegistration("ZZZ-999")     // false
                    .withTopSpeed(greaterThan(100))  // true
                    .withGears(hasItemInArray("D"))  // true
            ));
        } catch (AssertionError expected) {
            return;
        }

        // This must be outside of the try, because the AssertionError it throws would satisfy the catch type!
        fail();
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldSupportSimplifiedBooleans() throws Exception {
        assertThat(alice, is(passenger().isDriver()));
        assertThat(bob, is(passenger().isNotDriver()));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldSupportMatchingBySuperclass() throws Exception {
        SportsCar sportsCar = new SportsCar("ZOOM", 400, asList(alice), new String[]{"R", "N", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"});
        assertThat(sportsCar, is(car()));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldSupportPojoClassesInTestScope() throws Exception {
        TestResult testScopedObject = new TestResult();
        assertThat(testScopedObject, is(testResult()));
    }
}

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Issue 74: Long Nights
The End of the World Will Come at Dawn
On Miracle Mile and moving to Los Angeles at the end of America
It's March 2017 and you're standing on the steps of the Griffith Observatory, staring at the spot on the stairs where Sal Mineo's character dies at the end of Rebel Without a Cause, your favorite film. Donald Trump has been president for 43 days, and this is your first time in Los Angeles. The day after the election, you stayed home from work and sat on your couch, staring at the horrified reactions pouring through social media, wondering if you needed to figure out a way to leave the country, or if there was any point in staying and trying to help somehow. You'd been wanting to move to Los Angeles for a while, but did it make sense to move states to start over if you would soon need to move away from the States entirely?
But here you are, finally visiting the City of Angels, for fun but also to suss out if living here is something you actually want or if you'd be better off just leaving. I like it…I think, you think, standing next to the bust of James Dean, staring out over the city, watching the setting sun cast the Hollywood sign in gorgeous shades of pink, which fade to blue and then to black. You know lots of people hate this city, but you find that you want to believe in its magic, in its potential to offer you a different life than the one you'd become bored of and frustrated with back in Pittsburgh. In a few days, as your vacation draws to a close on the other side of another birthday, standing on a beach and watching the waves, you will tell your best friend, I'm having an incredible time, because I've been kind of depressed for a while, y'know? But now that I know I like this city, I feel like I finally have some direction.
It will take you two more years to move.
At the start of Miracle Mile, a sorely-underseen film from 1989, Harry Washello is aimless. "I never really saw the big picture before today," he says in voice-over. "God, where do you begin?"
We begin at the beginning: with an animation of the Big Bang playing at the Page Museum. The entirety of the universe blossoms in front of us, and then Harry Washello locks eyes with Julie Peters, and it's as though destiny has brought them together, in this concrete museum to the history of everything. Through a series of hypnotic tracking shots, we follow the two as they cross paths, stealing glances at each other while passing in front of murals and dioramas of ancient hunter-gatherer civilizations, wolf packs, wooly mammoths, and direwolf skulls. Moments later, outside, standing on the observation deck at the La Brea Tar Pits from which the nearby museum has pulled millions of fossils, Harry worries that he's lost her . "My one-in-a-million girl, and I let her slip away. I felt so bad, I coulda jumped into the tar pits."
But then she walks past again, as though drawn to him, and all is right.
Julie and Harry, played by Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards, have an instant connection. "Fate is a funny thing," he says, again in voice-over. "We must have been meant to be together, Julie and I…There has to be some sort of cosmic plan of some sort." Harry's voiceover describes Julie as "a little out of time," which has a double meaning that becomes darkly funny upon rewatching the film, but he means that she's "a very hip girl, but a little old-fashioned…like that trolley [they] toured the Miracle Mile in."
They spend the day together. Harry plays a brass band concert in a nearby park and Julie watches, enraptured. They buy lobsters from a seafood restaurant and set them free in the waters off the Santa Monica Pier. Harry walks Julie to work at Johnie's, a coffee shop at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, promising to meet up again when she gets off work at midnight. They plan to dance until dawn.
"On the third date, Harry, I'm gonna screw your eyes blue," she tells him before walking inside the diner.
A massive digital clock spins below the Johnie's sign. It is 5:00.
Miracle Mile is about many things — romance and Los Angeles and the looming threat of nuclear devastation at the close of the Cold War — but also, obsessively, it's about marking the passage of time.
Throughout the next sequence, as we approach the point where the film snaps into real-time and plays out over the course of one frantic pre-dawn, time is marked in many ways. We see the rising moon. We see a discarded cigarette burning slowly, then starting a fire that cuts the power to the Chateau Marmont, where Harry is resting during Julie's diner shift. We see Harry set an alarm clock and we see that alarm clock stop ticking when the power goes out. When he finally wakes up, it's late enough that the television channels he flicks through are going off the air. And we see that spinning clock outside Johnie's Coffee Shop, marching time forward with each revolution as Julie waits for a Harry who doesn't show — 12:16. Then, 12:42. 1:05. 1:18.
When Harry arrives, Julie is long gone and the clock says 3:55. Writer/director Steve DeJarnatt writes in the screenplay: (NOTE: THE REST OF THE FILM IS IN REAL TIME. EVERY MOMENT ACCOUNTED FOR. TH (sic) NORMAL ANGLES OF LIFE).
The normal angles of life.
But for Harry Washello, who finally feels like his life has purpose, life is about to become very abnormal.
It's March 2019 and you're sitting in an Uber Pool on your way to LAX. Donald Trump has been president for 785 days and it is your third time in Los Angeles. You don't want to leave; at this point you have almost stopped believing you will ever move here for good. Every time you tell people I want to move to LA, and they say then do it, and then you find yourself making excuses, you believe it will happen less and less.
Your Uber driver is a tall, statuesque Italian woman and your fellow passenger is a German girl, around your age. They have just found out that you've been here on vacation, and they are excited to hear about your trip. Your driver wants to know if you visited the Griffith Observatory, her favorite place in the city. Of course, you say. Rebel Without a Cause is my favorite movie. She's never seen it. You have to, you tell her. It shows off the Observatory wonderfully.
Tell us everything about your trip, the driver says. And do not feel like you have to hold anything back, because we three will never see each other again.
The German girl goes first. A year and a half ago, she quit her miserable customer service job and has been traveling the world ever since. Two months ago, she stopped in Los Angeles for what was supposed to be a weeklong visit with friends and immediately fell in love with the city. She's been here since. The Uber driver is giddy. She says the story reminds her of herself. Eighteen years ago, she took a break from a miserable life in Italy to visit her brother in Los Angeles. As her plane flew into LAX, she began to cry. For the first time, she thought: I'm home.
It's your turn. You know what you want — need — to say, but for a moment you wonder if you can. Remember, says the driver, sensing your hesitation. We will never see each other again, so you can tell us anything.
Well, I'm you two, except I'm still stuck at the part of the story where I'm miserable. I have a customer service job that makes me feel trapped; I feel at home when I'm in Los Angeles; I don't know how to get here.
For the rest of the drive, they offer you encouragement. The driver tells you she doesn't believe in fate, but she does believe there are currents in life, like in the ocean, that put people on paths. Those currents have brought us three together, she says, to meet and to learn from each other. It is possible to be happy.
For the first time in a long while, your instinct isn't to make excuses.
At this point, about 20 minutes into what has up until now been a very lovely romantic melodrama, Harry Washello answers the ringing payphone outside Johnie's Coffee Shop, hoping it might be Julie. The clock reads 4:03 a.m.
"Dad? It's me, Chip," whimpers a frantic voice on the other end of the line. "How come the phone was busy just now? I had to wake you…It…it's happening! I can't believe it but we're locked into it! Fifty minutes and counting!…This is it! This is really it! This is the big one! Thor-Arthur-66-ZZD! You don't think I woulda told you if it ever came down? Well, it is! We don't know why! I mean, why would we? It's for real, Dad! It's no drill! We shoot our wad in 50 minutes! They're gonna pick us up in five or 10, and you're gonna get it back in an hour and 10, maybe 75 minutes!"
Harry finally interrupts. "What exactly are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about nuclear fucking war, Dad," the voice replies.
As the camera pushes in on Anthony Edwards' increasingly-panicked face, he listens as the voice on the other end is discovered by authorities and summarily silenced in a spray of gunfire. "Forget everything you just heard," a new, gruff voice intones, "and go back to sleep."
Harry stumbles out of the phone booth in a daze and gazes up at the revolving clock above him, which now reads 4:06. We find ourselves doing the calculations along with him, measuring what might be the amount of time remaining before the end of the world. If "Chip" is right, Los Angeles may only have until 5:16 a.m. before it's wiped off the map. The only person who knows is Harry Washello, humble trombone player, who will in a few moments describe himself as "just a guy who picked up the phone."
From here, Miracle Mile becomes a propulsive nightmare of a film, playing out in real time as Harry desperately tries to convince others that what he just overheard was not a mistake, not a prank, and that if they want to survive the night, they need to act immediately. Harry thought his life suddenly had purpose and direction when he met Julie that afternoon; now, in the pre-dawn darkness, "purpose" means something else entirely.
One of Harry's biggest obstacles in convincing his fellow diners that he's serious — and one of the best, ever-more-relevant touches in the script — is that, according to Chip, the United States is attacking first, and an unnamed enemy is going to be retaliating. The other people in the diner don't believe that America would attack without provocation. "If he said it was the fuckin' Russkies, I might believe him," says one man.
We don't know why, Chip said. Why would we? Post-Iraq War, in the era of Donald Trump randomly lashing out at our allies on Twitter at all hours of the night, this film's scenario plays more plausible than ever.
Ultimately, the paranoia Harry introduces into the gathered crowd in the diner spins out of control and they head to LAX to flee to the Southern hemisphere. Harry wants to get Julie first, so they plan a rendezvous at the Mutual Benefit Life Building (a fitting name) near Johnie's; "no later than five of 5," one of the diner-goers will arrange for a helicopter to carry Harry and Julie to safety.
For most of the next hour, Harry treks across the Miracle Mile to get to Julie, and then to get Julie to the Mutual Benefit Life Building. We often watch film to get away from the passage of time — it's comforting to see a cut, an ellipsis, so that the story gets to the good parts and we don't have to live in a world bound by time constraints. It's sometimes claustrophobic, often overwhelming, then, to watch this film where every second counts and "every minute is accounted for."
Especially because, even though the film is playing out in real-time, as Harry's panic mounts and he begins to doubt whether he's doing the right thing and whether he is really about to witness the end of the world, he starts to lose his grip on the passage of time. He is constantly estimating how much time they have left, and because the film is as obsessively concerned with ticking off the passing minutes as Harry is, we get frequent markers along the way that he is wrong. Asked for an estimation of their time remaining, Harry is off by a good 20 minutes. A character says "it's been an hour!" even though we see on the good old revolving clock outside Johnie's that it's only been about 50 minutes. Harry seems to forget halfway through the movie that he has an hour and 10 minutes until LA "gets it back," and marks the end of his world against the 50 minute American missile launch instead.
And finally, as the frenzy reaches its highest point and Harry feels himself losing grip on his sanity, he finds himself in a clock room at a department store, full of what the screenplay describes as "alarm clocks, mouse clocks, clock radios, you name it. All set to different times. It pisses him off." They're all ticking madly, counting down the precious few seconds Harry has left to get to safety…if this really is about to happen. Is he late? Does he still have time? How much time does he have? How long have we been watching him? We find ourselves desperate to check our watch, to calculate the time since Chip gave him a deadline of an hour and 10 minutes.
At the climax of the film, word has spread throughout Los Angeles, and as the sun begins to rise, the streets have filled with panic-stricken residents trying desperately to get out of the city, convinced they have minutes left to live. People fornicate in the streets; people loot from shattered storefront windows; people drive their cars over prostrate bodies and light fires just because they can. The air fills with screams and shrieks and gunshots and cries for help. It's cacophonous, a dreadful, horrific melange of murder and mayhem and madness and sadness, a Hieronymous Bosch painting come to life on the streets of the Miracle Mile.
Harry is trapped across the street, so close to the towering Mutual Benefit Life building and potential salvation, but unable to reach it because of the chaos. After climbing atop a van, he realizes that his only option is to go down. He drops to the street and crawls, past crushed bodies and through pools of blood, bullets ricocheting around him, until he drops down a sewer grate and has to wade through humanity's filth before he reaches the basement of the Mutual Benefit Life Building. Only by going down can he rise above the mass hysteria. He becomes Dante, passing through the horrors of the Inferno before he can ascend to Purgatory and escape to a Paradise that hopefully still awaits him at the top of the skyscraper.
"Do you think the end of the world will come at night-time?" Sal Mineo's character asks at the end of Rebel Without a Cause, another film that takes place over the course of one chaotic night, a personal, teenage, generational apocalypse standing in for a world-ending one.
"Mm-mm," James Dean replies, his eyes searching the darkness for his friend, who will moments later be slain on the steps of the Griffith Observatory. "At dawn."
Harry and Julie will soon find out if that's true.
It's May 2019 and you're standing at the La Brea Tar Pits, gazing up at what used to be called the Mutual Benefit Life Building across the street, the location where Miracle Mile comes to an end. Donald Trump has been president for a while and will be president for a while longer, and you have been living in Los Angeles for 20 days. Almost three weeks ago, two months to the day after your Uber Pool ride to LAX, you touched back down in the city you now call home, ready to make it work for as long as you can.
As you watch the tar bubbles break on the surface of the lake in front of you, you imagine that Harry and Julie's helicopter is down there somewhere, and they are being pressed into diamonds, as they imagine as the tar fills the chopper at the end of the movie. You also imagine that maybe it is you who will be in a helicopter down there someday; after all, the world didn't end in 1989, but it sure still might.
There isn't a payphone outside Johnie's Coffee Shop anymore — you looked when you walked past earlier in the day — but it's very easy to imagine being awake late at night in this city full of possibility, and as Twitter-addicted as you are, it's quite possible you will learn before the people around you that the world is about to end. You think you probably wouldn't have much trouble convincing your fellow citizens that America would be the one to attack first, and that makes you kind of sad.
You stare up at the palm trees that ring the tar lake, remembering how horrific they look aflame at the end of the film, and how horrific they looked aflame in the documentary you recently watched about the 1992 LA Uprising. Palm trees to you have always said "vacation," and "paradise," but here they're an everyday part of life, and when everything burns, so too will the palm trees. For now, though, you appreciate how majestic they look against the too-blue sky, and you appreciate that, for now, you can look at this view every day. You hope you won't stop appreciating that view.
Later that afternoon, you watch Miracle Mile again, for the third time since you moved here. As you watch Harry Washello crawling through the filth on the streets of Los Angeles so he can reach salvation atop the Mutual Benefit Life Building, you gaze out your window, where you have a view of that very same building, and of the Hollywood sign over which the missiles will fly a few moments after Harry ascends the skyscraper. If you squint, you can even make out the Griffith Observatory, where you stood 822 days ago and decided this city was the right move for you.
"All your life, you think you have time to do everything," Julie says, toward the end of Miracle Mile. "And then it just…" She trails off, overwhelmed at the thought of the nothingness that may await her.
You may not have time to do everything, you think, but then, who does? It's time to start doing something.
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Eric Langberg is a writer from Los Angeles by way of Pittsburgh. He loves thinking too much about old movies, trashy reality TV, and pop music, and he's excited to be living in LA now because it won't be weird when he orders an iced coffee in January. You can find more of his writing at Everything's Interesting.
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By Zoya Teirstein, Grist
The wildfire crisis, one that is expected to get worse in the Golden State in the coming years as the full effects of climate change kick in, illuminates a glaring disparity. When fires rip through a community, its most vulnerable members — the old and sick, domestic workers, construction workers, and incarcerated folks — get left behind.
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Automobile exhaust is an important contributor to air pollution, but this fuel tax inordinately hits people of moderate to low income who are already using as little gas as possible, cannot afford to live closer to where they need to go or buy a new, fuel-efficient car.
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The fact that climate change is mostly caused by the rich and yet the poorest, who have done least to cause it and have the least resources to respond, will be hit most seriously by the damaging impacts – is uncomfortable. But it is important.
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I'm looking forward to the leftover-laden holiday weekend to catch up on my stack of books, including Kitchens of the Great Midwest and My Paris Kitchen, which satisfy my desire for meal-based reading material. I am especially excited to finish Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things. I'm halfway through the historical novel and enjoying myself so much that I often pause to reflect between chapters. A well-researched book, this novel is full of discovery—emotional, physical, botanical—and Gilbert's writing style is distinctive and witty.
Fiction Editor Suzanne Kamata writes, "I have just begun reading Untying the Moon by Ellen Malphrus, which is part mother-daughter story, part road trip novel, and part hymn to nature, among other things. At the start of this slender book, Bailey, the main character, is in her car on her way to meet a childhood friend, with a bunch of live lobsters. She is remembering her native Alaskan mother who once jumped into icy water to attempt to save a woman from drowning. Malphrus is a published poet, and her prose is lush and worth lingering over. I'm looking forward to plunging deeper into the world she has rendered in this impressive debut."
Profiles Editor Christina Consolino suggests, "I started substitute teaching for the local high school this fall, and had the pleasure of being reintroduced to The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. I picked it up this time with the thought that reading it as an adult would most likely be a very different experience for me than when I first read it as a high school student. Miller's fictional account of the Salem Witch trials centers around a group of teenage girls who (falsely) accuse several men and women of Salem, Massachusetts, of consorting with the devil. John and Elizabeth Proctor, two of the main characters, are sadly caught up in the hysteria that surrounds the town when John's ex-lover, Abigail, accuses Elizabeth of being a witch. John tries to clear his wife's name but also becomes one of the accused. Miller does a brilliant job of giving life to these characters and creating an elegantly nuanced play with multiple layers of meaning."
Literary Reflections Editor Andrea Lani recommends, "Inspired by one of last month's Literary Reflections essays, "Bernadette and Me" by Natalie Singer-Velush, I just read Bernadette Mayer's epic poem Midwinter Day. While the phrase 'epic poem' conjures images of metered verse extolling wartime exploits and ancient mythological deities, Midwinter Day is more of a stream-of-consciousness ramble through one woman's dreams, memories, and thoughts, tumbled together, as these things are in real life, with the chores and activities a mother goes through in a single day. It's a dreamy, thought-provoking work that makes me wonder: if I wrote down everything I dreamed, day-dreamed, and did on a single day, what would come out the other end?"
Creative Nonfiction Editor Kate Haas adds, "I am reading Geraldine Brooks' new novel, The Secret Chord, which takes readers back to ancient Israel and David, its legendary ruler. Narrated by the king's prophet, Nathan, who wants to leave a true record of David's life, the tale weaves between past and present, sifting truth from myth. Here is David the shepherd, the poet and musician, the cruel warrior, adulterous lover, betrayer and betrayed. We see him through the eyes of his mother and wives, his jealous brother, and most of all through those of Nathan, the counselor who first prophesied David's kingship. Brooks is a master storyteller, and this book is richly evocative, bringing to life the dusty towns, the heat of battle, the smell of new-baked bread and crushed grapes, the glow of moonlight on a palace roof. I'm staying up way too late with this one."
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Macedonian Rock Star to Hold Benefit Concert
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— New Effort to Improve Public Education Engages Macedonians Worldwide —
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2007 – Tose Proeski, one of Macedonia's most popular singers, and a regional UNICEF Ambassador, has a new mission: to improve the quality of education in his country.
The rock star will perform at a concert in Macedonia's capital, Skopje, in late September to support the country's five-year Primary Education Project. More than 25,000 people are expected to attend the event, which will be Web cast to reach fans in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.
The goals of the Primary Education Project include renovating schools, increasing the use of computer and Internet technologies to enhance learning and help students succeed in the job market, and improving math and science curricula and teaching methods. The project is a partnership of the Government of Macedonia and USAID and is being implemented by AED.
All the proceeds from the concert, including the sale of tickets, CDs and related special events will augment USAID's funding to help modernize education in all the primary schools in Macedonia.
Macedonia wants to refurbish its schools and update curricula so students have the skills needed to move the country forward," said Mary Joy Pigozzi, senior vice president and director of the AED Global Learning Group "Tose Proeski is a dynamic spokesperson who will raise awareness of the need to improve public education.
Prior to the concert, Tose, a recipient of the Mother Theresa Humanitarian Award, will talk about the importance of public education on a nationally televised talk show and a TV
documentary. He will also visit schools and encourage other fundraising activities around the country.
AED is partnering with the United Macedonian Diaspora (umdiaspora.org) to promote this fundraising initiative on behalf of public education in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Founded in 2004, United Macedonian Diaspora is an international organization addressing the interests and needs of Macedonians and Macedonian communities throughout the world.
In addition to the efforts by Tose and United Macedonian Diaspora, Macedonian businesses have donated more than $150,000 to support the concert and the education reform initiative.
AED (www.aed.org) is a nonprofit organization working in all the major areas of human development with a focus on improving education, health, and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world.
Tose Proeski speaking at a Primary Education Project (PEP) event about the importance of improving primary education.
Tose Proeski talking to a group of students at a school outside of Skopje about PEP and the upcoming concert.
Tose Proeski and staff from the PEP program meeting with students and teachers to discuss better education.
Tose Proeski at one of his recent concerts.
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Islanders website: Doing a very classy blog on the Dad's week trip with entries.
St Petersburg Times: Damian Cristodero reports Mike McKenna will start against the Islanders even if starter Mike Smith dresses as backup. Andrej Meszaros, his upper left arm injury likely will keep him out of Saturday's game.
For New York looks like Bergenheim slides into Park's spot on left wing with Nielsen and Hunter while Park takes Thompson's spot on fourth line.
Yann Danis is expected to be in goal based on Scott Gordon's comments before Florida game.
No word on Mark Streit but I guess based on coaches comments Callahan could be the one to replace Pock for the duration of his injury. I guess we will see where that goes vs Jack Hillen.
Islanders give up the chances and let McKenna settle in like he did after going in for Ramo they are not going to win here.
Newsday: Mr Logan in the Islanders Newsday blog reports Sean Bergenheim will return to the lineup, Mark Streit will miss tonight's game.
Head coach Scott Gordon is quoted on Bergenheim along with the left winger who will skate with Richard Park and Tim Jackman. Andy Hilbert moves up to the line with Nielsen and Yann Danis starts in goal.
Sportsnet/several sources: Report Jussi Jokinen was traded to Carolina for two players and a fourth round pick.
Sporting News: Ray Slover insists the Islanders must trade Mike Comrie, Doug Weight and Bill Guerin if possible.
It should be noted Mr Slover did not note Weight's production.


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Q: Hide datatable when no records found I want hide my datatable when user applies filter and no records found, we can set custom msg, but my requirement is hide this table. below is my sample code.I am unable to figure which listener will help when no records found will hide table.
reportCardTbl = $('.standardDataTable').DataTable( {
    "paging": false,
    "scrollCollapse": true,
    "paging": false,
    "oLanguage": {
        "sZeroRecords":function(){
            //$(this) gives me TD, i tried to search $(this).parents("table").hide(); not working as TD is not in table
            //here i want to hide table
        }
    }
} );

A: Use fnDrawCallback:
reportCardTbl = $(".standardDataTable").dataTable({
    "paging": false,
    "scrollCollapse": true,
    fnDrawCallback: function (settings) {
        $(".standardDataTable").parent().toggle(settings.fnRecordsDisplay() > 0);
    }
});

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Well, after a week of true hell, with unbearable temperatures in the 98 degree zone, the hurricane season moved in. LOL.
Thursday night brought about major thunderstorms and strong winds that knocked trees down everywhere and really messed with electricity. We had a very large tree fall down behind our house. Thankfully it fell the opposite way and into the woods where it did no harm. Had it fallen the other way, it would have been in our bedroom. Not fun.
Friday morning it was insane with 60 mph winds and strong storms. Saturday it was more of the same, strong winds and severe storms, which finally died off mid morning.
Finally on Sunday I was able to get the horses all worked (yay!). After having a week off, or in Luke's case, 2 weeks off, I am happy to say that everyone drove very well- including Chewbacca! (big yay!) He's doing great! I couldn't be more proud! After all the problems, and self-induced wishy-washyness about his training, I ended up training him myself, and while he's still green and has a way to go before he's a made driving horse, in the end, it was no big deal getting him to this point. It just took a long time.
Aren't dually's supposed to have …. 4…. back tires???
And… better watch that first step -it's a doozy.
I have been slacking massively with my photography, so I need to kick myself into gear with that. Hopefully I will have fun updates with pictures soon!
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I figured out the first one, but the second one stumped me. Haha.


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Q: Node JS API end point with querying SQLite with join I've got two tables in SQLite :
CREATE TABLE sites (

    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    name TEXT
);

CREATE TABLE devices (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    siteId INTEGER,
    name TEXT,
    active BOOLEAN,
    CONSTRAINT device_fk_siteId FOREIGN KEY (siteId)
        REFERENCES sites (id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
)

I'm creating easy rest api endpoint in NodeJs to get all devices for site. How to do this in right way?  I want to have this result:
{
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Site 1",
    "devices": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Device 1"
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "Device 2"
        }
    ]
}

I triyed, but I should do something diffrent?
  app.get("/sites/:siteId", async (req, res, next) => {
    let sql = `SELECT * FROM sites as s
    JOIN devices as d
    ON s.id = d.siteId
    WHERE s.id = ?`;

    const result = db.get(sql, req.params.siteId);
    res.json(result);

  }

A: You can use SQLite's JSON1 extension functions :
SELECT json_object(
         'id', s.id, 'name', s.name,
          'devices', json_group_array(
            json_object('id', d.id, 'name', d.name)
          )
       ) result
FROM sites as s JOIN devices as d
ON s.id = d.siteId
WHERE s.id = ?
GROUP BY s.id, s.name

See a simplified demo.


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How Much Do Musicians Make?
By Brian Clark Last Updated: September 5, 2022
In the U.S., musicians make an average of $21.5K per year, and the majority (61%) report that the money they earn from music isn't enough to make ends meet. The most positive study on musicians' income shows that musicians gross up to $35K annually, with most of the money coming from live shows.
The most comprehensive recent study on musicians' income was conducted by the Music Industry Research Association (MIRA) and the Princeton University Survey Research Center. The results of the study were shared on outlets such as Digital Music News and Magnetic magazine and show that the median annual salary for an American musician sits at around $21.5K.
While the study also pointed out that the median American musician earned as much as $35K per year, it's worth noting that this sum also includes income that's not related to music. This isn't good news for anyone considering a music career.
Additionally, the median American musician needs to enroll in a series of different jobs (from live performance to music lessons) to get their annual salary. That's why the majority (61%) of median American musicians state that the money they make from music isn't enough to pay for their basic expenses.
On the other side of the spectrum, the top earners in the music industry have more than enough money to make a very comfortable living.
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The top musicians in the world can make as much as $590 million in one single year. At the end of 2021, Bruce Springsteen made a whopping $500 million after selling his publishing catalog to Sony, one of the largest record labels in the world. With a net worth of $1.4 billion, the American rapper Jay-Z made $470 million in 2022 alone.
The list of the highest-paid musicians also includes artists such as Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Rihanna, Bono, Madonna, and more.
Please keep in mind that these success cases are the exception, not the rule, in the music industry. For every millionaire musician out there there are hundreds of thousands of musicians making low or very modest incomes.
A study conducted by the Future of Music Coalition and shared by outlets such as Output concluded that the majority of an average musician's income comes from live performance (27%). Less than 6% of a musician's income allocation comes from sound recordings (i.e., album sales and performance rights).
The same study determined that teaching is the second largest source of income for a median American musician (22%), followed by working as a salaried player (20%), session work (11%), compositions (6.3%), sound recordings (5.6%), and merchandise (1.6%).
Please keep in mind that a significant portion of the (little) money musicians make from compositions and sound recordings may come from performance rights organizations. The Future of Music Coalition study also points out that 6.4% of musicians' income comes from other sources, which may include stuff like streaming royalties, commissioned work, and social-media monetization.
Finally, the same study determined that most of the 4,453 musicians inquired worked on multiple music-related tasks at the same time. Out of all of the musicians who entered the survey, only a third (33%) make more than 75% of their annual income in music-related tasks.
Most musicians make the majority of their money from live shows. But does that mean musicians are fairly paid for their live performances? Well, not exactly. Unknown to mid-range musicians, for instance, can get as little as $0 when performing at major music festivals.
While music-festival headliners can earn as much as $4 million for a one-hour show, the median American musician needs to struggle (perhaps even covering their own expenses) to perform live at major music festivals such as SXSW. Learn more by reading our article on how much artists get paid for music festivals.
The aforementioned study conducted by the Future of Music Coalition was published in 2011, which means they were probably not up to the importance of online streaming in today's musical environment. But are streaming services the new cash cow median musicians so desperately needed?
All evidence points to the contrary. In the United States, the most popular streaming services pay artists anywhere between $0.0188 and $0.0013 per play. This means that, unless you're a very popular artist, you'll have a very hard time making a decent annual salary out of websites such as Tidal and Spotify.
To make $1 on Spotify, for instance, you'd need to reach 229 plays (on average based on this data). That's easy for artists such as Drake, who have banked as much as $200 million on Spotify alone. But for struggling, up-and-coming musicians, a few thousand Spotify plays per year is as good as it gets. In the end, Spotify money may not even be enough to pay for a nice dinner.
You can learn more in our article how much streaming services pay artists.
Being a professional musician is something most amateur musicians dream of. And while going from a part-time artist to a full-time professional can be hard, there are plenty of examples that show it's possible to make a living as a musician.
A study from the Mythbusting series of the Future of Music website involving 5,371 average musicians residing in the United States concluded that more than 40% of the respondents spend 36 hours or more working in music every week (which makes them professionals). Even more of the respondents (42%) said that they derive all of their income from music-related tasks.
The Future of Music survey also found that 60% of the American musicians inquired had a music degree, which means completing a music degree might be helpful for you to make a living as a musician. However, I would be wary to draw a conclusion from this percentage alone, and the answer to this question is not clear cut. In many areas of the music industry, practical experience is more important than your qualifications. We dig further into this in our article "is a music degree worth it".
DJs do not necessarily make more money than other musicians. While the top DJs in the world earn millions for their services, inexperienced and average DJs have to endure payments ranging from $50 to $250 for gigs that may last several hours. You can learn more about in our article "how much do DJs make".
The music business is a rough and ruthless one to make money in. However, it is possible to make a living in it. You can work steadily as a musician and live comfortably out of your music-related income even if you're not famous and playing in front of millions of people every other week. Is it a hustle? For sure, and the competition is heavy!
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