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From a historical point of view, all rooms in the hotel were at least 70 m2 in area. Although similar in appearance to the hotel's classic rooms (single rooms), they are on the penthouse floor and have improved bed linen, bathing facilities and other conveniences not found in the hotel's regular suite below.
During 2006, the writing on the top of the spire was modified to "THEhotel" to identify the area. In the past, the writing was the same as the letter "Mandalay Bay" on top of the old one. The hotel is renamed Delano Las Vegas. 6 August 2012. Archiveed from the orginal on August 8, 2012.
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The notorious Vegas guns bedroom is destined for Mandalay Bay.
What about the now infamous Las Vegas hotel room in which a 64-year-old pensioner staged the most deadly stampede in US contemporary comedy? This is the tough choice that Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino made a weekend after Stephen Paddock opened fire on a lot at an open-air show from room 135 on the hotel's thirty-twoth ird story, killed 58 people and injured more than 500.
This is a particularly challenging task for a hotel in Las Vegas, a place where guests can get away from the daily routine and challenges of the city. This hotel could consider closing room 32-135 or even the whole storey in order not to become a target for gazers intrigued by its ghoulish ancestry.
Officers faced with similar choices in colleges, church and other places where executions have taken place in recent years have gone in different directions. What is more, there is no doubt that this is the case. Others, such as the San Bernardino, California Parish Centre, where a man and a woman murdered 14 in December 2015, have been aired.
At the Orlando, Florida, night club, where a shooter 49 dead in June 2016 will remain shut down, and the owners plan to turn it into a monument. The Sandy Hook Primary School in Connecticut, where 20 kids and six grown-ups were murdered in 2012, was torn down and reconstructed four years later. One Mandalay Bay spokesperson refused to give any comments on his plan.
However, it seemed most unlikely that the apartment would just open again, as if nothing had been done there on October 1. "I wouldn't want to remain in this room," said Randy Dockery, a North Carolina resident, at a temporary monument to the victim in a small meadow along the Las Vegas Strip.
A number of specialists proposed that Mandalay Bay should build a monument somewhere in the hotel, either permanently or temporarily, and organize a fundraising campaign for the sacrifices and their family. "The hotel was also an absolute sacrifice, and by turning some room into something that honours the sacrifices, hopefully they could help cure and actually do something good," said Kim Miller, chairman of Florida-based Ink Link Md.
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Millions of people around the world are affected by anxiety. Whether it is their own, or a loved ones, it is a challenge each and every day. There are tips that will help those who suffer from anxiety included in the article that follows. Read on to find some great advice on how to manage a life with anxiety.
You must go to the doctor if you suffer from anxiety. Since technology has given us many treatments, there are plenty of choices to help your anxiety. See your doctor to receive the proper treatment.
Avoid sitting for long periods throughout your day. Find ways to put more activity into your day and get moving. Stretch your legs often. When you are home, take a walk, and reduce the time you are watching TV or sitting around. While you do require relaxation and rest, too much of it triggers a cascade effect that can actually promote anxiety.
If anxiety and concern seems to overwhelm every waking moment, consider setting aside a specific time in which you allow yourself to think about the things that worry you the most. By restricting your worrying time to this period only, you will be able to free-up the rest of your day to focus on positive, productive aspects of life.
Don't sit still when anxiety is coming on. When you sit and brood about issues, your anxiety can spike quickly and leave you unable to function. At the onset of any anxious feelings, get up and get moving. Walk, run or exercise in some way. You will take your mind off the negative issues and allow your mind to reset.
Have you ever enjoyed listening to music and singing out loud? If you suffer from an anxiety attack, try playing your absolute favorite music and singing it as loud as you can. This is very helpful, and it will put a smile on your face. Try this next time during an anxiety attack.
Be sure to laugh whenever you can. Frequent laughing can induce feelings of happiness which, in turn, can help ease or ward off anxiety. Comedies, other television shows, and even funny people are a great way to do this. Seek all sources of laughter and you will surely lower your anxiety level.
As previously stated, living a life filled with anxiety is a challenge to say the least. You should now have some good ideas about techniques that you can use to reduce the effect that anxiety has on your life. Keep each tip in mind as you face each day and you should find that life is getting better by each passing day.


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Project Naval Distinction
Ensuring support for all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces across Canada
About Project Naval Distinction
About HMCS HAIDA
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HomeAbout Project Naval Distinction
Project Naval Distinction is an independent, citizen-initiative focused on ensuring that all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces are given proper recognition across Canada.
As a nation bordered by three oceans and the longest coastline in the world, that recognition must include the Royal Canadian Navy.
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) HAIDA is known as Canada's 'Fightingest' Ship due to its outstanding record during the Second World War, the Korean War and peacetime service during the Cold War. The HAIDA has also been proudly acknowledged as the Royal Canadian Navy's 'Billy Bishop' or 'Vimy Ridge' – together forming the 'tri-service icons of excellence'.
HMCS HAIDA is a symbol of Canada's ability to punch above its weight on the world stage and honouring its service is our obligation as we celebrate our country's proud history.
The success of Project Naval Distinction depends upon your support, please click here and send a letter today.
To achieve its mission, Project Naval Distinction has three objectives:
designate HMCS HAIDA as the ceremonial flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy;
integrate HMCS HAIDA as a permanent part of the Canadian War Museum, thereby greatly increasing its ability to connect with more Canadians and strengthening its long-term financial sustainability; and
task the Royal Canadian Mint to commission a coin, featuring the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Billy Bishop and HMCS HAIDA, thereby representing all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces.
The peace and freedom that we enjoy today is due to the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces who answered the call in the name of a truly noble cause. Their efforts should have a prominent place in the ceremonies and celebrations across Canada.
This means having a strong presence in the National Capital.
The Canadian Army has presence through the use of artillery on Parliament Hill and the transport and display of Army vehicles, such as jeeps, LAVs (Light Armoured Vehicles) or tanks.
The Royal Canadian Air Force does fly pasts over Parliament Hill and the National War Memorial, which are visual and audible ways to remind Canadians and officials of the efforts of our aircrew.
Historical equipment, technology and stories from the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force are abundant at the Canadian War Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, which receive hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
However, for the Royal Canadian Navy, there is a great challenge in achieving the presence that allows for just and due appreciation of its contribution to Canada. This is particularly concerning as Canada's economy is said to 'float on salt water' and the threats and dangers faced by the men and women of the Royal Canadian Navy are still very real today.
Having a strong presence in the National Capital is important because located there are national decision-makers in the military and the federal government, including Parliamentarians. Giving HMCS HAIDA a permanent place, fitting of its service, will also make it accessible to more Canadians. In 2014-2015, the Canadian War Museum received 32 times more annual visitors than HAIDA in the same period, amounting to more than 81% of the population of Hamilton, ON. This move will make HMCS HAIDA more sustainable so she can be enjoyed by future generations.
Recognition of Canada's military should include all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces. Supporting Project Naval Distinction is how you can help ensure that happens!
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Maybe I dreamt it but I thought the Eating Appalachia book said Kroger sells frozen pawpaw pulp. So I went shopping for it at one of the chain's larger locations and did not see it in the case. The woman at customer service said, what are pawpaws, and when I explained she looked at me as if to say, you are in the wrong place, baby.


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With its Latest Grants, the Art for Justice Fund is Looking to Spark New Connections
July 07, 2019 / Julia Travers
Since its launch two years ago, the Art for Justice Fund has given out $43 million and experimented with new ways to advance criminal justice reform. Its latest round of funding seeks to forge stronger partnerships between artists and advocates.
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Investment banker Richard Franke and his wife, Barbara, established a family foundation in the 1990s and are very focused on arts and humanities in Chicago, backing important cultural institutions
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Hi, I'm Mia Jane, the designer, creator and crafter behind Mia's Craft Ideas. I do have lots of craft ideas as I love making things, I will share my creativity with you and I hope to hear about your craft stories too.
I am a single parent of 3 kids, so I understand what it's like bringing up kids on a budget. I have supplemented my income over the years by making and selling crafts, which has helped for those extra's that we otherwise just couldn't afford.
For many years I ran a part-time craft business whilst working full-time, it had to be fun or I wouldn't have continued. As the sole provider for my kids I never felt comfortable leaving paid employment to concentrate on my crafts.
Josie is a great addition to the team, she listens patiently to all my ideas and lets me know what she thinks. She either barks and brings me toys or falls asleep if I'm boring her.
I was diagnosed as being partially deaf when I was 12 years old. I have never let my disability stop me from doing what I want to do. I taught myself how to lip-read and got on with my life. Being deaf is a part of who I am and I learned to accept it.
In March 2008 I collapsed at home and ended up in hospital, the doctors think I may have had a stroke but are not sure. I found it very hard to walk properly my legs would give way for no reason. I couldn't keep my balance and felt dizzy all the time. I was suffering with severe pain in various parts of my body and I was extremely tired all the time. My skin felt like I had been severe sun burn and even my clothes hurt when I moved.
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 6 months later and I'm now officially unemployable. Fibromyalgia is hard to deal with as the symptoms of pain and fatigue affect every aspect of my life. I'm slowly coming to terms with it and learning to enjoy the good days and ride along with bad. Every cloud has a silver lining as I can now spend more time making things, and will share my ideas with you.
I have always enjoyed making things and it has been a dream of mine to have my own craft business.
Until now I never had the courage to leave full-time employment to follow that dream.
I have sold my crafts at fete's, craft fairs and ebay to supplement my income.
I love to experiment with different craft ideas, crocheting with wire or painting with glue is just a couple of ideas I came up with.
My all time favorite craft is papier mache and I will soon have a whole section dedicated to this fantastic craft.
I love creating with any medium and I will be sharing all my craft ideas with you here at Mia's Craft Ideas.
This is one of my earliest memories, my sister and I were both preschool. It has stayed with me through the years as it has had a huge effect on my life. It was a really horrible day, hailstones, wind and rain. I grew up on a farm and hated being stuck inside.
My sister and I were miserable being cooped up indoors, pestering our mum and getting under her feet, fighting and just generally being typical 'screaming kids'.
My mum turned our big kitchen table upside down, we were intrigued. She found two old sheets and tied them to the table legs as sails then she filled the bottom of the table with blankets and a packed lunch. We sailed away from the rain in our home made ship and had some great adventures.
This very simple 'ship' kept us occupied for hours and our mum got all her chores done. We went to bed tired and happy, excitedly planning our next adventure.
My journey into the world of creative thinking had begun. This was such a simple idea but my sister and I had so much pleasure from our 'ship' we actually looked forward to rainy days.
Creative thinking doesn't require degrees or any official training. I did attend Art College but that was many, many years ago. Most of my learning has been through trial and error.
Creative thinking is simply using your imagination, children do this naturally without thought.
I will help you regain that freshness of your inner child so you too can unlock your creativity.
I research, design, create and experiment with lots of different craft ideas. Everything on this website has been made by me unless stated otherwise. Join me as I continue my journey into the world of crafts and creative thinking.
You may be wondering how I created this site. With the help of SBI! I now have been able to realize my dream of having a craft business that will pay the bills.
If you have any interest in starting an online business then you will have seen all the ads for different platforms that allow you to create a website.
And yes, as many of them tell you building a website is easy. It's just a matter of finding a pretty template and adding some content, right?
Well yes, that's a website but that's like saying it's easy to climb a mountain. Just put one foot in front of the other until you get to the top. That's all it is in theory, right? I'm sure there are mountaineers and climbers out there shaking there heads at me right now. Sorry, no offence meant, I know there's a lot more to it than that. You need the right training, the right equipment and a great team backing you up.
The same goes for building an online presence, having a website is a good start but there's a lot more to it.
~ SBI! is so much more than just a hosting service or website builder.
SBI! stands for Solo Build it! It was designed and developed with the solopreneur in mind. SBI! will show you not only how to build a website but how to build a website that actually gets visitors and how to turn those visitors into paying customers. As a solopreneur there's a lot that you have to deal with on your own but with SBI! you are not alone.
Just like mountain climbing or any other specialist activity, building an online business requires hard work and commitment. You need the right training, the right equipment and a great team backing you up.
You need to know how to drive traffic to your site, to find and use the search terms, known as keywords, that people use to find your content. You need to know how to study your competition so you can be better. You also need to be able to create original high quality content pages that draw your customers in. You have to find you unique view point that sets you apart from the competion and you also have to know how to get those customers to trust you enough to buy your products. That's just for starters.
I wanted a platform that was more than just hosting with lots of pretty templates.
I wanted a friend that could walk me through every step, show me how to do everything I needed to do in easy bite-sized chunks.
I didn't just want a pretty site, I wanted an online business so I could share my love of crafts with others like you. I found that with SBI.
All the tools needed to build a successful online business are included in the subscription. SBI! is not a get rich quick scheme, the tools will not work if you don't read the action guide and work hard.
Ken Evoy, the founder of SBI!, has become a trusted friend although I've never met him. He is often in the forums answering questions and listening to our concerns about anything that may affect our businesses.
If you are thinking about starting your own e-business have a look at what SBI offers. I have been with them since 2010 and have absolutely no complaints.
It costs $299 a year or you can pay monthly at $29. There's a 90 day money back guarantee, so if it doesn't suit you, you can get your money back.The price hasn't changed since I signed up but the tools and help at SBI! are always being added to or improved upon.
Watch this space and I will keep you informed of my progress as I build my website business with the help of SBI!
Return to top of this about us page where you can choose one of Mia's craft ideas from the navigation bar on the left.
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Q: Javascript wait() function I want to create a JavaScript wait() function.
What should I edit?
function wait(waitsecs) {
    setTimeout(donothing(), 'waitsecs');
}

function donothing() {
    //
}

A: Javascript isn't threaded, so a "wait" would freeze the entire page (and probably cause the browser to stop running the script entirely).
To specifically address your problem, you should remove the brackets after donothing in your setTimeout call, and make waitsecs a number not a string:
console.log('before');
setTimeout(donothing,500); // run donothing after 0.5 seconds
console.log('after');

But that won't stop execution; "after" will be logged before your function runs.
To wait properly, you can use anonymous functions:
console.log('before');
setTimeout(function(){
    console.log('after');
},500);

All your variables will still be there in the "after" section. You shouldn't chain these - if you find yourself needing to, you need to look at how you're structuring the program. Also you may want to use setInterval / clearInterval if it needs to loop.

A: You shouldn't edit it, you should completely scrap it.
Any attempt to make execution stop for a certain amount of time will lock up the browser and switch it to a Not Responding state. The only thing you can do is use setTimeout correctly.

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"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nvidia must think very highly of us."
Mobileye's president and CEO, Professor Amnon Shashua, publicly criticised Nvidia this week over its new Safety Force Field autonomous vehicle safety model, which Mobileye says is a 'close replica' of its own Responsibility-Sensitive Safety model.
The Guardian reports on moves by the European Union to require all new cars sold in the UK and Europe to be fitted with speed limiter devices as part of sweeping changes to vehicles safety rules. If the measures are ratified by the European parliament, the speed limiter will be one of a range of safety features to be made mandatory from 2022, along with automated emergency braking, electronic data recorders, and improved visibility for lorry drivers.
The City of Arlington in Texas is expanding its pilot self-driving vehicle programme with Drive.ai, in a move that will see it add another four autonomous vehicles to its fleet. Since rolling out its pilot last October, the city says that more than 1,000 residents and visitors have booked a trip in its self-driving vehicles. However, as it expands in Arlington, reports Automotive News, Drive.ai is bringing its self-driving vehicle tests in another Texas city, Frisco, to a halt.
Mobility technology company Aptiv has announced the release of an open-source autonomous vehicle dataset that it hopes will help to solve a gap in the autonomous vehicle industry. Collected from the company's operations in Boston and Singapore, nuScenes by Aptiv is organised into 1,000 'scenes' that represent some of the most complex driving scenarios in each urban environment.
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A piece in WIRED this week explores the world of teleoperations – the companies able to control self-driving vehicles remotely. "The serious players in this space aren't about to let their robots into the world without the ability to drive, or at least direct them from afar", reports Alex Davies.
Israeli LiDAR startup Innoviz Technologies has secured $132 million of additional venture capital financing to further its R&D efforts and support its expansion into 'key' automotive markets in the US, Europe, Japan and China, reports VentureBeat. The series C financing was led by China Merchants Capital.
A driverless car has learnt to perform high-speed turns without crashing, reports New Scientist. Using an artificial intelligence algorithm called a neural network, researchers at Stanford University trained the self-driving system using data from more than 200,000 samples taken from test drives.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a way to combat malicious signal jamming that could disrupt communication networks and lead driverless cars astray, reports E&T magazine. Their 'Stackelberg feedback solution' works to counter the actions of a signal jammer and limit its ability to cause errors as data is communicated.
A San Francisco based start-up is working on a new use for autonomous technology: removing unwanted plants and weeds for farmers, reports TechCrunch. FarmWise has teamed up with Michigan-based manufacturing and automotive company Roush to build prototypes of the self-driving robots, which will perform high-precision weeding autonomously. The company believes that autonomous vegetable weeders can replace herbicides and reduce labour costs for growers.


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The GOP Should Pray for a Right Wing Third Party
There may be lessons to be drawn from the presidential election of 1948, but none that will be especially instructive for President Obama. It is, rather, the Republicans who can learn something from Harry Truman's victory that year. Everyone but Harry Truman himself thought he would lose the election, and it is probably true that the election was lost by New York Governor Thomas Dewey rather than won by Truman. By running such a cautious campaign, Dewey allowed Truman to sieze and hold the initiative. Truman not only ran against the conservative "Do Nothing Congress," he ran against "the reds and the pinks" who were, in fact, members of his own administration. According to local historian David Pietrusza, the author of the newly published "1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America," Dewey refrained from attacking domestic Communists because he had been criticized so sharply for doing so in 1944, when he was also the Republican nominee.
Defending his reluctance to attack the left, Dewey said, "we have a lot of Communists in New York" – one of the best lines of the campaign. And he was right. New York is the only city to have sent a Communist, Vito Marcantonio, to Congress, and only New York delivered enough votes to the Progressive Party's Henry Wallace to deprive Truman of a plurality and allow Dewey to carry the state, which he had lost in 1944. At the start of the campaign, Wallace was expected to receive ten million votes. Instead, he drew only one million. Some of those millions drifted back to the Democratic party after it became increasingly clear that Wallace couldn't win, and that Truman, whatever his flaws, was preferable to Dewey. Others may have become disenchanted with Wallace, whose campaign, it became clear over time, was dominated by Communists. Those who stuck with Wallace were committed leftists, a fact which may have been extremely helpful to Truman's chances. "The Democrats who deserted their party strengthened it," writes Pietrusza, perhaps because moderates, conservative Democrats and even Republicans could now feel comfortable voting for a party that was no longer identified with the far left (or, for that matter, with the far right, which had also bolted the party to support the segregationist Dixiecrats.)
Here, we are inclined to think, is a lesson for the Republican party. Rather than attempting to accommodate the Tea Party, the Evangelicals and the Libertarians, the GOP should distance itself from them; it should encourage them to create their own minor parties. If Mitt Romney, who many on the right still perceive as a moderate, loses to Obama, they may desert the party on their own accord for more ideologically pure alternatives. That is something to be wished for. Republican candidates would no longer be pulled rightward in the primaries, and the ultimate nominee might be someone whom moderates, independents and Democrats would conceivably support. After years of polarization, we might once again have a vital center. A center that can hold. In every end is a beginning.


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Q: How do I make certain command arguments? So what I'm looking to do is make commands like ".help [command]" For example I have a ping command so I would like to run the command ".help ping" and then an embed would pop up showing a help embed for that command. My current command ".help" sends you a DM with the commands that I have entered into the DM Embed
help.js code
var Discord = require('discord.js');

module.exports = {
  run: async(client, message, args) => {

    message.channel.send(":bow_and_arrow:  I've sent you a DM with a list of commands.")
    const embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
      .setColor("PURPLE")
      .setTitle("Here is a list of all the bot commands!")
      .setDescription('You can use `.help <command>` for more information')
      .addField("Player Commands", "`.ping` | `.userinfo` | `.botinfo` | `.serverinfo`")
      .addField("Moderation Commands", "`.` | `.` | `.` | `.`")
      .addField("Admin Commands", "`.` | `.` | `.` | `.`")
      .addField("Misc Commands", "`.` | `.` | `.` | `.`")
      .addField("Developer Commands", "`.eval`")
    message.author.send(embed);

  }
}

A: you can do it something like this. Pretty much, im creating a collection and loading the commands (located in /commands/) getting their module.exports.help and setting it for the command handler. on a message I grab their message and try run module.exports.run (located in /commands/${command}). for the help command I check If they have arguments, if they do I attempt to get the command from the collection and return information about the command.
// Command Loader (main file)

var fs = require('fs')

client.commands = new Discord.Collection();

fs.readdir("./commands/", (err, files) => {
    if (err) console.log(err);
    let jsfile = files.filter(f => f.split(".").pop() === "js");
    if (jsfile.length <= 0) {
        console.log("Couldn't find commands.");
        return;
    }

    console.log(`Loading ${jsfile.length} commands!`);

    jsfile.forEach((f, i) => {
        let props = require(`./commands/${f}`);
        console.log(`${i + 1}: ${f} loaded!`);
        client.commands.set(props.help.name, props);
    });
});

// Client.on("message")
let prefix = "."
let [command, ...args] = msg.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/\s+/g)

// Command handler

if (!message.content.startsWith(prefix)) return;
let commandfile = client.commands.get(command);
if (commandfile) commandfile.run(client, message, args);

// ./commands/ping.js
module.exports.run = async function (client, message, args) {
    message.channel.send(`Latency Is: \`\`\`${Math.round(client.ping)}ms\`\`\``)
}

module.exports.help = {
    name: "ping",
    description: "returns latency of bot",
    usage: ".ping",
    aliases: ['.latency', '.ping']
}

./commands/help.js
module.exports.run = async (client, message, args) => {
    if (args[0]) {
        let command = args[0]
        if (client.commands.has(command)) {
            command = client.commands.get(command);
            var shEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
                .setColor("PURPLE")
                .setAuthor("______ HELP", message.guild.iconURL)
                .setDescription(`The Bot Prefix Is: .\n\n**Command:** ${command.help.name}\n**Description:** ${command.help.description || "No Description"}\n**Usage:** ${command.help.usage || "No Usage"}\n **Aliases** ${command.help.aliases || "No Aliases"}`);
            message.channel.send(shEmbed)
        }

        if (!args[0]) {
            message.delete();
            let embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
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Q: How to update a Postgresql table using a composite type I am trying to update a table using a composite key, and can't figure out
the syntax. I have a table defined as:
create schema test;
create type test.ra_dec as (f1 double precision, f2 double precision);
create table test.pos_vel(
      xp double precision,
      yp double precision,
      xv double precision,
      yv double precision
);
insert into test.pos_vel(xp,yp,xv,yv) values
       (1,2,5,10),
       (2,3,10,20),
       (3,4,20,40);

I can verify my define type works:
gsh=# select cast( (100,200) as test.ra_dec);
    row
-----------
 (100,200)
(1 row)

But I can't figure out how to update my table.
gsh=# update test.pos_vel set (xv,yv) = (select cast( (100,200) as test.ra_dec));
ERROR:  syntax error at or near "select"
LINE 1: update test.pos_vel set (xv,yv) = (select cast( (100,200) as...

I know for this trival example I can do it without using a composite type, but for speed reasons I want to define a function in pl/python and have it return a composite type, so I need to figure out the proper syntax.
Can anyone help please?

A: -- drop schema if exists test cascade;
create schema test;
create type test.ra_dec as (f1 double precision, f2 double precision);

-- Your function here
create function test.f() returns test.ra_dec language sql as $$
  select (100,200)::test.ra_dec $$;

create table test.pos_vel(
      xp double precision,
      yp double precision,
      xv double precision,
      yv double precision
);
insert into test.pos_vel(xp,yp,xv,yv) values
       (1,2,5,10),
       (2,3,10,20),
       (3,4,20,40);

update test.pos_vel set (xv,yv) = (select * from test.f());

Update:
Because sub-select for such cases was introduced in the PostgreSQL 9.5 it is not working in earlier versions. There are two workarounds:
update test.pos_vel set (xv,yv) = ((test.f()).f1, (test.f()).f2);

update test.pos_vel set (xv,yv) = (t.f1, t.f2) from (select * from test.f()) t;

Tested on 8.4: http://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=postgres_8.4&fiddle=0a4927ed804b76442a69f8259cca1929


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Make America Great Again .. The Second Time Around
Posted by Joe Fieldus 2427sc on April 19, 2020
Mnuchin Reveals How Long He Believes It'll Take the Economy to Recover
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is optimistic about the United States' economy recovering quickly .. "I think it will be months. I definitely don't think it will be years. We are going to conquer this virus. We are going to have terrific breakthroughs."
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Rebuilding Our Country by Trump ...
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Trump vows to rebuild US economy .. sees 'tremendous surge' ahead
President Trump tells Judge Jeanine that America will be back bigger, better and stronger than ever before
President Trump joins Judge Jeanine Pirro on 'Justice' to discuss efforts to combat coronavirus and restart the U.S. economy.
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President Trump vowed to rebuild the U.S. economy to honor those who have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
"We're going to rebuild it again in honor of all those who perished today," Trump said Saturday night on Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine."
Trump told host Jeanine Pirro he expects the economy to rebound like a "rocket ship" -- because of the American public's desire to get back to work and $2 trillion in coronavirus economic relief from the federal government.
"And I think the stimulus, coupled with this pent-up demand and everybody wanting to get out and go back to work," Trump said. "I think we're going to have a just a tremendous surge."
The president said Americans have combated the coronavirus the "right way," and that if the country didn't follow the safety guidelines, such as social distancing, the nation likely would have experienced far greater numbers of fatalities.
"We did it the right way. We took care of social distancing and all of the things, words that nobody ever heard before, frankly, and phrases. But if we didn't do that, we would have pulled through it," Trump said. "There were estimates, 2.2 million people. Well, if you cut that in more than half and you said a million and cut that in half. You say 500,000, it just would have been unacceptable."
Trump also looked ahead to when he will eventually reopen the economy, saying the timing of the order will represent the biggest decision of his presidency. But he assured the public that many "smart people" will advise him on the call.
"A lot of very smart people, a lot of professionals, doctors and business leaders are a lot of things that go into a decision like that," he said. "And it's going to be based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct also. Whether we like it or not, there is a certain instinct to it.
"We're setting up a council now of some of the most distinguished leaders in virtually every field, including politics and business and medical. And we'll be making that decision fairly soon."


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The Corporate City or the Scholarly Enclave?
Mark Edmundson suggests a binary opposition in higher education between credential factories and true bastions of learning and do-gooder-ness. He takes the question of "Where should I go to college?" and seeks to answer it with, well, a strange series of presumptions, oversimplifications, and generalizations no less cheap and superficial than the ones he's seemingly trying to criticize.
Edmundson speaks of the "good high school" without ever quite explaining what exactly he thinks it is, where it exists, and what might be some real world examples of it. Rather, the publicly funded credentialing machines remain abstractions created to describe a very specific mood that pervades the class and culture of a very specific group of people. They are the creatures of a David Brooks column, racing around to add extracurriculars to the resume and elbow for every additional percentage point on the GPA that they can.
These people exist, but more time and ink are devoted to them than is in any conceivable way proportional to how much they matter.
While it is true in a sense that most people who go to college attended "good high schools," what's even more true is how completely non-monolithic the qualities of these institutions, and the groups who attend them, are. In fact, if there's one lesson that it seems we are too often ready to forget when it comes to education, it's that experience is isolated to individuals, and that averaging together the aggregate subjectivities of hundreds, thousands, and millions of individuals can lead to artificial experiences and trends that represent no one–anywhere–ever.
But for all Edmundson's railing against the corporatism (branding, sloganeering) and bureaucratic industrialism (grades, accolades, certificates) of higher education, his post does ultimately point at least to a method for answering the question it poses.
Though his classifications and labels are specious, he's right when he says to look at the people who already go to these schools for guidance.
If my limited undergraduate experience has taught me anything, it's that the schools themselves, the buildings and professors, programs and protocols, don't vary nearly as much as the people to attend them.
What's more so, trying to take the temperature of an entire student body will do little to nothing to tell you about the people you might actually end up spending 99% of your time around.
Penn State is a giant regional quasi-state school hidden away just north west of central Pennsylvania. It has "corporate city" written all over it, with signs advertising its many programs plastered on billboards and buses all around the state.
But like any large school, Penn State is divided into enclaves based around everything from athletics to particular fields of study to extracurriculars. You might go there because you've got a partial scholarship to sit on the bench during Saturday football games, or because you worked on the family farm all your life and want to bring it into the 21st century with a agricultural business degree, or maybe you had good grades and qualified for low interest student loans and just want to binge drink for six and a half years on borrowed time–it doesn't matter, because Penn State, like most universities, has a place for you.
If YOU are wondering what college YOU should go to, don't worry about corporate cities and scholarly enclaves, they are everywhere, and nowhere. Worry instead about who you are, what you want, and where you're at in your own life.
What kind of people do you want to befriend?
How do you want to spend your Monday mornings and Saturday nights?
Are you driven by something, everything, or nothing?
Based on the answers to those questions you can begin trying to figure out which schools within your geographic and financial range make it easiest to facilitate those things.
Maybe you're a drama kid for life, and want to pursue theater but on a small scale. One place has a great theater program, but does it have a vibrant and thriving drama scene outside of a couple cut-throat main stage productions?
Or you are a soulless (I jest!) business type who lives for poring over earnings reports and back-issues of the Harvard Business Review, and care more about the young entrepreneurs you might network with and the firms you can intern at than your projected starting salary after you graduate.
Or you're a first-class dilettante who cares as much about a nearby coffeehouse where you can play with the band as you do about the number of inter-disciplinary programs listed in the academic catalogue.
Most schools will be able to facilitate these things to some degree, but not all of them will make it easy to find the people who can help to make it happen, including administrators, faculty, and most importantly: other students.
Travel to these places. Speak with the professors and activities coordinators, and ask them in turn to help put you in touch with other students who might understand what you're looking for and whether school X is a worthwhile place to search for it.
I think "good American high school" means a public high-school in an upper-middle class suburb filled with professional parents. These high schools boast about their high SAT scores and numbers of students enrolled in AP classes. They do not make any pride or claims about encouraging a deep, intellectualism and love of study in their students. Students know they have to work hard and get good grades. They do not learn how to appreciate and love Mozart and Literature and be curious about art and science. The 4 or 5 on the AP exam is needed for completely practical reasons, not because someone really loves European History.
Private school kids think silly thoughts about what a 500 person lecture and TAs are like.
Most schools have a few huge classes, but once you're past freshman year, you're fine.
To me a college town implies independent businesses and an actual town.
Ithaca is a College Town. Berkeley is a College Town. Amherst is a college town. These businesses might or might not cater to the college community.
Ann Arbor is a college town.
Vassar would probably count as a scholarly enclave. The town of Poughkeepsie did not have much going on and got a bit violent after dark. There were only a few spaces off campus that students went to on a regular basis like one nearish 24 hour dinner called the Acrop. NYC and Boston were a bit too far away for easy, weekend commuting.
In the late 80's, early 90's, "everybody" knew that if CU went away, Boulder would be devastated while if CSU went away, Fort Collins might lose a bead shop or two but be otherwise unchanged.
Incoming college students rarely have any idea what they're really like.
Even if they did, they'd have no way to assess the particular collegiate environments.
I think that Ethan's trying to say that you can't generalize from a college's statistics. But I also don't see how you can generalize from a faculty member's or other student's experience. Your college years are going to be affected by that one girl who rattles your brain, that teacher in an intro class that you expected to be boring, that roommate who exposes you to personality disorders you never dreamed of, and that friend who…well, I have no idea what door that friend will open, and neither does the high schooler who's visiting the campus.
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Tag: Presidential Election
I chafe when my female Democrat friend's shudder as November 3rd draws closer. The shiver begins at the base of their spines and travels upward until they squinch their eyes closed, viscerally opposed to my optimism, "I feel good about this, both Biden and the Senate."
Then they squeeze out a whimpering, "It's the PTSD, I just can't… I cannot trust it."
And I get it.
I didn't anticipate a country of women weighed down by PTSD in the fall of 2016. As that Halloween approached, I played a game of How does one address a former President who's now the First Man? Election night would be an early one, as Washington readied itself to transition to the first female Presidency. I was chipper in October 2016 until unwelcome notes of despair began to sing late on Halloween night.
Earlier that evening I slipped on the men's trousers I found at Good Will. The waist didn't taper, and the pants hung on my hips without a tug. The flaws of my middle-aged body disappeared, no worry of the middle section, or buttocks, or designers who didn't predict that the skinny jean would have the opposite effect.
The white men's dress shirt felt clean and crisp against my skin, and the tweed vest gave me a hint of waist. The blazer slid on; its silken lining like a feminine secret stashed in a man's jacket.
The makeup was imprecise, white base, and smokey grays to evoke silent films, and black liner smudged around the lids to capture Charlie Chaplin's forlorn innocence. Rather than tweezing eyebrows into submission, Chaplin's face called for volume; more hair, not less, including a small, square patch of mustache.
I slid into barely worn black oxfords. They were the most comfortable shoes I had ever worn. Is it any wonder Cinderella lost that glass slipper?
I grabbed my bamboo cane and bowler hat and headed to the party.
Under a moonlit sky, in a barn in the Northwest Hills of Connecticut, I shimmied all night to the old-man boy band on a scratchy wooden floor. The oxfords never squeezed my toes, and I gave no thought to my imperfect face or aging body. It occurred to me, as I said goodnight… It's a man's world, baby!
Or it would be until Tuesday when The United States would elect its first female President.
I drove the windy backroads home, and sang along to my R&B playlist, turning up the volume when Aretha began, What you want, baby I got it…
When I reached the main drag, my eyes caught the bumper sticker on the souped-up truck in front of me. It read, Trump That Bitch
My Chaplin glow dimmed.
Three days later, by the soft glow of the television, on a night that remains surreal in memory, Florida and North Carolina went for Trump. It wasn't quite midnight, but I knew the deal was done.
A day begun with confidence drained me incrementally as each swing state was called. I clicked off the TV and sunk into my pillow. Trump won, and the peacefulness I'd mastered over a lifetime of starts and stops began to discharge like the drip of an IV: plop, plop, plop.
I expended enormous energy debating, phone-banking, canvassing, and working the polls since Trump seized the Presidency. This relentless, chaotic presidential term has not been without sanguine moments. The 2018 midterm Congressional elections were a cold compress for the bruises of Trumpian outrageousness.
New energy rose in me as we celebrated the arrival of passionate young women who could stand toe to toe across from the pumped-up smugness of Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Doug Collins; the Republican version of fraternity row. The far-right frothed at the sight of Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar climbing the steps of the Capital. Somewhere in the vast landscape of America, young woman leaned in, finally connecting to an institution that had eluded them.
Most of them put their activist energy behind Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. In its earliest iteration, the Democratic presidential race looked positively progressive. But, a funny thing happened on the way to the nomination. With southern African Americans leading the way, the Democratic party nominated a familiar somebody, the antithesis of the carnival barker who occupied the White House.
Sometime this fall, Joe Biden's candidacy quelled my 2016 PTSD. The Democrats chose calm.
My traumatized peers still need a little cajoling.
I looked into the skittish eyes of Peg and offered, "Hush, can you hear what I hear?" I urged her to listen to the distant thunder of the Doc Martin soled feet of my gen-z daughter, Grace, and her friends as they run to cast early ballots in Colorado. After President Trump bullied through the first presidential debate, Grace watched a town hall where old Joe talked about climate change as an existential threat. My daughter noticed and called me to applaud his green energy focused infrastructure plan.
I offered another friend the elixir of whispers from a Republican woman I know who asked me if I watched the Amy Coney Barrett hearings. I did.
Conservative women, who might not like high taxes or stubbornly refuse to worry about climate change, do remember girls who skulked away to hide a pregnancy or put themselves in harm's way to get illegal abortions. Roe v. Wade and the protections it offers matters to women. Several Republican women in my neighborhood have said a variation of this to me, "Ginsberg's death was so sad. I'm not happy about this Supreme Court nomination being rushed. It doesn't seem right."
I know they mean a stacked Supreme Court is a bridge too far. They have daughters and granddaughter whom they love, and their whispers suggest this President doesn't understand how many of them are lacing up their New Balance sneakers and sprinting to the ballot drop-off box outside their town hall. They've finally found their gumption, and while they might stay mum in front of their Republican husbands, the noise of the virtual voting levers being pulled for Biden/Harris calms me.
Any lingering effects of PTSD ungripped me during the Vice-Presidential debate. I wondered if the President could hear the march of women racing away from him. Was Trump resting or too hopped up on steroids as one last group of unsure ladies sprinted to get across the line? Did the three-inch heels and Frye boots make noise across the asphalt, or did Typhoid Donald pump his weakened fist while the sycophantic cigarette in a suit droned on?
the finish line.
Vice President Pence practiced creepily polite interruptions, redirections, and obfuscations while soft-shoeing condescension. It might work with Mother Pence, but not with Mamala, who pushed back several times, "I will not be lectured." I could nearly feel a national communal female smile. Unless the President's concoction of COVID medications rendered him entirely hallucinatory, I think he might have heard the final drumbeat of Ked's, Manolo Blahnik's, and Dave Madden's beating a path to the Democratic tent. The Stampede didn't begin that night, but the final stragglers crossed the finish line.
No worries, my friends who still tremble at the mention of a Biden lead in Wisconsin. It will be women who will draw up the final eviction notice for Donald J. Trump. I'd bet my healed nerves on it.
By etod62in Mid life November 2, 2020 November 3, 2020 1,280 Words2 Comments
Joanne and I made a stop at My Wednesday Place en route to an epic Halloween Party several weekends ago. We wanted to share our transformation with our bartender friend. The mustache was the only sticking point. The damn thing just wouldn't stay stuck. When Alan made us laugh, it popped out of place. That wouldn't do, I planned to laugh all night.
"You two should paint mustaches on. Do you have the eyeliner?" This suggestion came after he made a valiant attempt to wrestle square patches of Scotch tape on the fake mustaches without success.
Eyeliner? Eureka! Joanne and I hastened to the bathroom and voila: Two Charlie Chaplin's replete with bamboo canes, bowler hats and unfettered by ill-fitting mustaches.
Earlier that evening, in the privacy of my bedroom, I slipped on the impossibly comfortable trousers I had found at Good Will; men's trousers, of course. What a revelation! The waist did not taper and the pants hung on my hips without a tug. The flaws of a middle-aged woman's body disappear in trousers, no worry of middle section, or buttocks, or designers who try to convince you that you're never too old for the skinny jean. Katherine Hepburn and Diane Keaton knew the secret of men-style trousers!
The white, cotton, men's dress shirt felt clean and crisp on my skin, and the tweed vest, when buttoned, gave me a hint of waist and bound my ample chest. No concerns tonight that a breast might peak out of a cup just because I danced. The blazer topped it all and slid on, its'silken lining a feminine secret stashed in a man's jacket. Who knew?
Next came the shoes. When you select a transgender costume, the shoes are tricky business. For $10, I found the perfect pair of barely worn size 8 ½ oxford tie black shoes. Here's a secret – with the exception of flip-flops they are the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn. No wonder Cinderella lost that glass slipper. You could dance all night in men's oxfords.
The makeup was imprecise, white base and smokey grays to evoke silent films and black liner, smudged around the lids to accentuate Chaplin's forlorn innocence. Rather than tweeze eyebrows into submission, Chaplin's face called for us to add volume. What a concept, more hair, not less!
My night as Chaplin was pure delight. I danced often and my stride away from the band was downright jaunty! My feet never tired and the oxfords did not squeeze my toes. I gave no thought to my imperfect face or aging body. It occurred to me, as I said goodnight to a wonderful evening, that, well… It's a man's world, baby!
Tuesday, we elected a new President. Two elections ago, I supported Barack Obama. I was taken with his countenance, soaring rhetoric and, yes, his hopeful vision for this country. He has been imperfect, but I still believe he is a good man. History will ultimately weigh in on his tenure. I am old enough to know that snap judgments on a Presidency are pure folly. The dust needs to settle before the history books are written.
I did vote for Hillary Clinton last Tuesday.
The day after the Halloween party, I saw a bumper sticker on a car in my hometown.
It read: "Trump That Bitch."
It stole my Chaplin afterglow
That following morning I was dismayed when a news commentator suggested this, "If Hillary could just find that person in her, who got teary in New Hampshire in 2008…."
He trailed off.
"Well," he went on,"Her popularity soared after that."
Suddenly, my Ralph Lauren boots felt tighter.
I happen to come from a curious background which foils the political divide in this country. I was adopted at 6-months-old, and my Irish Catholic father was a dyed-in-the-wool Eisenhower Republican. He loved Ronald Reagan and disdained anything Kennedy. He was a World War II veteran with racist tendencies, saved mostly for Asians. He was a product of his time, having served in China and never forgot Pearl Harbor. At his funeral, there were a surprising number of people of color. My father calibrated over his lifetime. He was not perfect, but he evolved.
Of this I am certain; he believed that I could accomplish anything. My father saw no glass ceiling for his daughter. He was a Republican and I loved him. He was a gentleman who respected women. At his funeral, I gave a eulogy. It ended thus; I will miss my greatest cheerleader.
Uncle Bobby, as well, eschewed liberalism and clung to Fox News. He knew I was a Democrat, but approached our differences with respect. He watched this presidential nomination cycle with great interest in the last year of his life. He didn't much like Hillary Clinton, but never spoke of her with disdain. For a time, he liked Ben Carson, and then "That Kasich fella seems good." He said this of Donald Trump, "Oh, him? He's a clown." Then, he leaned forward and whispered, "He's a cuss." Uncle Bobby found our President-elect distasteful.
In my fifties. I have come to know misogyny more intimately, though its forms are as amorphous to me as Chaplin's makeup and as stealthy as his fluid movements.
Misogyny: Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
It can be hard to recognize. Sometimes it comes at you like a lamb, all soft and needy of nurturing, until you realize the giving is a one-way street. When the jig is up, it moves on without compunction, like a parasite that has depleted its host.
Sometimes it comes as a labrador; a pal, a punch in the arm which anoints you as "one of the guys". Sometimes you get to hear the "locker room" talk, but be careful not to disapprove. With a wink and a smile, you might be reminded not to be too sensitive.
In this Presidential election, misogyny came out like a tiger. It was so obvious, it was nearly unbelievable.
It appears a lot of folks just don't like Hillary Clinton or believe that she is a "crook." How I wish I had not been so complacent before the elections. I would have helped some folks out with a simple google search, and they could have unearthed in print and on video the President-elect's quotes about women. I would have told anyone who might listen to insert the name of their daughter, wife, mother, sister, or female friend.
If our African American President had said any of these things about women, I am sure he would never have been elected. If Hillary Clinton had uttered the same kind of pejoratives against men I am certain she would not have been the Democratic Nominee.
My friends who voted for Mr. Trump are quick to tell me to relax, that this not a big deal. They tell me that it's politics, a political divide between us, or that this is about the economy or a need for change. They tell me that he won't be like that as President? It's just Donald, you know? As though he is some irascible character in a prime time sitcom who just doesn't have a darn edit button.
In 2016, I guess we still believe that boys will be boys.
They go round and round and round about emails and home servers in basements, and when they can't quite drum up a character issue there, they pull out the big guns: Bill Clinton. It appears the President-elect doesn't have to take one iota of responsibility for his history of abhorrent behavior toward women. In stark contrast, Hillary Clinton has to be responsible, ad infinitum, for her husband's egregious mistakes, for which he was impeached nearly 20 years ago. She must be exhausted.
President-elect Trump now gets his chance. I love Democracy and everyone's right to support whomever they choose. I have not once protested the election of a Republican President, and I won't protest this one.
In the meantime, won't you help me explain to my very strong, independent, opinionated 17-year-old daughter, why misogyny just didn't seem to matter in this Presidential election? Let her know that respect for her gender isn't part of the litmus test in Presidential elections. Boys will be boys, you know. Just a fact of life here in the United States of America.
Life felt lighter to me just weeks ago, on a crisp, clear Halloween weekend. I'll find it again I am sure. In the meantime, be patient with me while I try to wrap my head around a great disappointment.
By etod62in Mid life, personal essayist, Presidential Election, Uncategorized, Writing November 14, 2016 September 26, 2020 1,440 WordsLeave a comment


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We did a song with Radio but it never left studio - Chameleone
We did a song with Radio but it never left studio – Chameleone
Maxela Mugisha
With all the greatness of Mowzey Radio, it is surprising that he did not release a song with Jose Chameleone, the person who had him under his wings when he was starting out. While appearing on a local TV station recently, Chameleone, however, said they had gone to the studio together to do a song but midway through the session, Radio snapped.
"Being an experienced artiste, I advised Radio on what to do in studio but he couldn't take it and told me right in my face to sing everything if I felt he was not doing it right," he said.
That is where the project that might perhaps have been one of the greatest songs stopped.
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Coming on the heels of the 3.2.0 release is an updated version that improves PIP signal filtering for noisy electrical systems.
If you are running 3.1.0 or 3.2.0 firmware and notice periodic RPM spikes when running the configuration software, and/or you notice ignition timing instability, you might have false PIP triggering due to noise in the electrical system. As it turns out, V3.0.0 firmware is also vulnerable to a certain extent.
V 3.2.1 firmware improves this situation with the addition of software based noise filtering. A noise filter 'aggressiveness level' value is settable under the Global Controller Options, accessible from the 'Tools' menu of the Configuration software. You will need to go to the advanced tab to access this value.
The default filter level of 10 seems to be fine for most circumstances.
As it turns out, I needed to release a new version of the configuration software as there was a bug editing the values in the Advanced Tab of the global configuration options window.
I've updated my firmware with this verison and used the new MJ -all works fine, not seen any problems -FTDI chipset USB/RS232 lead.
What are the valid values - 0 to 255?
...and does its "indicativeness" mean an actual time value eg 1 == 10uS, 2 == 20uS etc?
You're right, an extra information on the screen would help!
The value is 0-255, and it controls a loop where it re-samples the PIP signal to make sure it's in the state that it's expecting. if the PIP signal reverts to the old state while in that loop it disqualifies the PIP signal. As for the timing- I didn't yet perform the timing on each loop iteration for the clock cycle, so treat it as a scaled value for now, like a 'knob' you turn until you see improvements.
Location 0 is the value that enables the map switching, and is also affected by the check-box on the first tab.
Not sure if its related to the new firmware for us retro V2 board users or wether something has been disturbed in some way?
Please try running the 3.2.1 firmware with the map switching disabled and the map switching wires disconnected from the molex connector- I'm curious if electrical noise is being conducted through those wires.
Think I may have put a little too much heat into it when soldering the wires on, with the added vibration of the 7 at high speed?
Great sleuthing! Keep us posted on the results. Pictures of the dyno session would be great too for the 'Powered by MJLJ' forum!
Thanks for the video! I'll take a look at it a bit later.
Looks like the default map works surprisingly well, I've received some good feedback on it.
Of interest to me was the fact that my rev counter was way out compared to the one at the RR....Although I'm still confused as to how this could be.....My MJ software stacks up with my rev counter....but the RR was about 1000rpm lower!!!!
Not to discount the RR's system, but I would doubt there would be an issue as it would've been revealed long long ago by the many MJLJ users. Plus, it only emits tach pulses in response to the signals coming from the EDIS module.
There is an off chance that you might have your number of cylinders configured incorrectly. Double check that value and make sure it's set correctly.
So far, this was the only place I could find a link to the V3 downloads page. I could not find it anywhere on the regular pages. Shouldn't the V3 downloads page be more easily found ?
Try blocking the air corrector, jets on the front lower part of the carb bell mouth. Also check your float chambers level, the FZS engine is canted forward. So on the bike the carbs are semi downdraught.


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One of the earliest forms of commercial brewing involved the creation of breweries based on or near farms where barley was grown. The addition of a brewery made sense economically, not just for adding value to the crop but for providing employment year-round. In summer, when fermenting beer in open vessels would be prey to insect life, brewing ceased and brewery workers became farm hands. After harvest they became maltsters and brewers once more.
Saisons by Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels brews traditional saisons with a postmodernism twist (photo: André Brunnsberg)
Saison is a so-called 'farmhouse' style of beer, which survived in various forms in southern Belgium and parts of Eastern France. It would be brewed in the Spring for consumption by the workforce toiling in the fields in summer, for hydration, and likely some regular strength beer was held back for consumption between Harvest and beers from the new season becoming available.
Being stored in sealed oak tuns for up to six months was not enough time for slower acting yeast like Brettanomyces to bring proper ageing, but other microorganisms will have had time to bring enough rustic edge to be noticeable.
Saison Légère (Light Saison)
The beer made to rehydrate workers toiling on the fields on hot summer days was likely so light (2.5-3.5% ABV) that it may well have been made from second runnings, the wort produced when boiling water is sparged through spent grain. The dry version from rural Hainaut, which has a prominent hop character, likely has a completely different history from one with a sweet base of unfermented sugar, from Liège and other parts of 19th century Belgium's industrial belt.
Saison (Belgian)
This copper-blond ale style (5.5-6.5% ABV) is dominated by a hop-yeast combo that fuels grass and hay aromas, and encourages flavours that capture rurality in a bottle. In modern times its fortunes changed in 1975 when the most appealing of the heritage brands, the recently reformulated Saison Dupont, made with five types of yeast at a brewery based within a cute-looking farm in rural Hainaut, caught the attention of early beer writers and US importers. This spawned a new generation of Saison beers, held by some to have influenced the whole American beer revival.
Saison (Craft)
Recent years have seen the emergence of a swathe of beers (4.0-6.5% ABV), described as Saison, employing a narrow range of specially cultured yeast and intricate production rules to create a slightly musty, occasionally frankly acidic beer that has taken on a life of its own. Many have little in common with the 21st century Belgian classics, though some are good enough to spark some optimism and a sort of cultural exchange between this and the Belgian version is becoming obvious.
A fad for adding fruit extracts to Craft Saison is fading (thankfully!), having distracted from rather than adding to the style.
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Avontuur is a town situated in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The town is located 13km south-east of Uniondale on an intersection of the R339 and R62 regional routes.
The name is Afrikaans for adventure; its origin, however, remains uncertain. The river from which the town takes its name was known in 1778.
Mist nets for gathering water.


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The Rock'n'Roll Marathon series
Taking The World By Storm - A Great Race, A Great Cause
The world of marathons changed dramatically in 1998. It was the year the Rock n Roll Marathon came into existence. Since then, it has grown to be more than just an event, it is a phenomenon, reaching across the United States and being held in over 30 cities. An annual event, people from around the globe flock to major cities to run in this infamous combination of travel, running and entertainment. More than just a race, it is a tour that excites spectators and athletes alike. Events range from 5ks to half marathons to marathons, with awards granted for the Remix Challenge Medal to other Heavy Medal wins.
Run to the beats
Sponsored by some of the biggest corporations from around the world, the Rock n Roll experience is one that you can enjoy for entertainment purposes, or you can run for a cause. Challenging yourself among other athletes, the marathon unites people from all ends of the earth to enjoy competition, and to celebrate in something that is more spectacular than anything that has come before. Like no other race event, it is no surprise that it has quickly become the most anticipated, and participated in, marathon in America. A simple idea to combine racing with bands, since it began, it is responsible for raising over $310 million dollars for charities of runner's choice.
Not just races, there are health and fitness exhibits with a concert to top it all off. Music greats like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Goo Goo Dolls, Pitfall, Flo-Rida, Lady Antebellum, Train and the American Rejects are just some of the acts gracing the race main stage. New to the circuit is the Remix Challenge where runners can challenge themselves in over 11 locales to a two-day event and multiple cities.
In recent years, the Rock'n'roll way of running has also spread to Europe, with new races in Lisabon, Liverpool and Madrid.
Tracy Sundlun - Mr Marathon himself
Partnering in the Rock n Roll Marathon is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an amazing cause to run for. Serving children with cancer, they provide care at no cost to families. Co-founder Tracy Sundlun was i 2015 inducted into the Running Hall of Fame. Long time runner athlete, coach, fan and supporter, he is famed as the youngest Olympic running coach responsible for the training of over 100 elite athletes in the 1972 Olympics. Never missing a race, you can find him circling the event watching in awe as his dream has been turned into reality.
Sunlund is not only a runner; he has over 40 years of experience with everything track and field. His company, Elite Racing, was the first corporation to see the need for more entertainment in marathon racing. Creating the Rock n Roll marathon series, he has been instrumental in changing the face of marathon running. Catering to athletes of all ages and levels, he has revolutionized racing, and made it something for people of all ages and nationalities to get excited about.
Wanna try it yourself? Why not check out these races
For lots of party - Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon
For even more party - Rock 'n' Roll New Orleans Marathon
Charity Family Fun Las vegas Music


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Die Kanzel in der katholischen Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Flotzheim, einem Stadtteil von Monheim im schwäbischen Landkreis Donau-Ries in Bayern, wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts geschaffen. Die Kanzel ist ein Teil der als Baudenkmal geschützten Kirchenausstattung.

Die hölzerne Kanzel im Stil des Barocks besitzt einen Kanzelkorb mit Ecksäulchen. In den geohrten Feldern sind Reliefs der vier Evangelisten zu sehen.

Der Schalldeckel ist mit einer Volutenkrone geschmückt. An der Unterseite ist eine Heiliggeisttaube als Relief vorhanden.

An der Rückwand sind die Zehn Gebote mit Akanthusdekor zu sehen.

Literatur
 Georg Lill (Hrsg.), Karl Gröber und Adam Horn (Bearbeiter): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. Bezirksamt Nördlingen (= Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. Die Kunstdenkmäler von Schwaben, Band 1). R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München 1938 (Nachdruck: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München/Wien 1982, ISBN 3-486-50514-9), S. 232.

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A town of 5,000 souls, it is known for its slave market of sentient non-human races and occasional human slave market. Located on the end of a cavern, the burg of Grimcrest is home to halflings. This burg wasn't built by a cavern by accident, it has healing properties. The burg looks unattractive. With its black wooden rooftops, worn limestone walls and thick smoke, it has a bizarre atmosphere. The main attraction is the market which was built 46 years ago and designed by humans. Has a developing economy which is mainly supported by animal training, beer brewing, and carpentry. Biggest strengths are prosperous mining and strong magicians. Lacks people skilled in leather working.


In today's era, your busy lifestyle means that your eating habits are changing from the traditional three meals a day to more snacking or grazing while you are on-the-go, then now it's a time to include chewing sugar free gum in your oral hygiene routine.
The definition for the word 'grazing' in the dictionary is 'eating frequently at irregular intervals' – not quite the same as snacking, but probably more frequent. It comes down to grabbing something to eat on-the-go when and where we can. Breakfast at the desk, a couple of mid-morning biscuits, sandwiches and crisps for lunch and an afternoon treat to keep us going, with several cups of tea or coffee in between.
So, this is not really a good news for our teeth which come under sustained attack from the plaque acids that form on teeth and can damage the enamel whilst all this snacking and grazing is going on. Every time we eat or drink the pH balance in the mouth changes, dropping into a danger zone where tooth demineralisation can happen. This can also leads to variety of oral health issues and can make you visit Dentist.
The simple and convenient step of chewing sugar free gum for 20 minutes after eating and drinking is a great addition to twice-a-day brushing because it helps neutralise those plaque acids, wash away food particles and re-mineralise tooth enamel.
There is plenty of scientific research to support the oral hygiene by simply having sugar free gum, which are even more relevant now as we consume two or three snacks outside of meals every day. Both scientifically and practically proven chewing increases the production of saliva which helps clean the mouth and neutralise plaque acids, hence it's a non-disruptive and simple oral care habit in addition to brushing and flossing. Therefore this keeps you fresh.
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Messiaen: 8 Préludes, Ile de feu I & II, Fantasie Burlesque
Artist Chiara Cipelli piano
Chiara Cipelli made a notable debut on Brilliant Classics in 2019 with the little-known music of the Milanese composer and teacher Bruno Bettinelli: 'presented with wonderful vigour and colour by the fine young Lombardy native Chiara Cipelli.' (Fanfare magazine, November 2019)
Now she turns her attention to the early works of Olivier Messiaen which are contemporary with much of Bettinelli's piano music. Dating from 1929, the cycle of Eight Preludes finds Messiaen at his most impressionistic, with an opening, entrancing evocation of a dove that perhaps owes more to the spare language of Ravel in the 'Oiseaux tristes' of Miroirs than it does to his own, later and more extrovert transcriptions of birdsong.
These Preludes strike a prevailing mood of reflection and calm, tending towards aFrench but uncharacteristic melancholy. Already in the second Prelude the 21-year-old Messiaen is trying out the effect of a visionary, aspiring melody over the top of a solemn chorale – the master organ improviser at a very early stage of development (he had not even set eyes on an organ manual until three years earlier).
The rarely encountered Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas strikes an even more sombre note, as a piece written by Messiaen in memory of his much-loved teacher of composition at the Paris Conservatoire. Here is a superb example of Messiaen's chorale style, at once ecstatic and severe, at its most imposing and yet compressed (lasting only four minutes).
Thereafter, Chiara Cipelli's album strikes a more extrovert note, with the Fantaisie Burlesque of 1932 and a pair of the Quatre Etudes de rythme with which the composer revolutionised his own language in the early 1950s and prefigured much avant-garde music by his pupils such as Boulez and Stockhausen, In the two Ile de feu studies, every aspect of composition is systematised according to a pre-arranged plan – not only notes in the 12-tone method devised by Schoenberg, but rhythms and even durations. Yet the results are much too stark and fiery to be confused with anyone but Messiaen.
Chiara Cipelli ends her recital with a genuine rarity, the standalone Prelude which Messiaen wrote in 1964 but withheld, so that it only saw the light of day in 2000, eight years after his death. This reveals similarities to his earlier Preludes and in the same time incorporates his later interest in bird-songs: it's a must-hear for anyone interested in Messiaen's unique world.
The "8 Préludes" that Olivier Messiaen wrote in 1928/29 bear witness of the deep influence of Claude Debussy on the young composer.
Like Debussy, Messiaen gave each Prelude a title. For example 'La Colombe' ('The Dove'), with delicate flutterings in the high register. In fact, Messiaen's Preludes are very connected with religion rather than purely impressionistic, and look forward to his great and profoundly spiritual pieces as "Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus."
Il de Feu I & II are part of "Quatre Etudes de Rythme". Both etudes are dedicated to the Papua Nuova Guinee music and the principal motif has "all the violence of the magic rites of this country".
Italian pianist Chiara Cipelli previously recorded a CD for Brilliant Classics with piano works by Bettinelli, which was very favourably received by the press: "Chiara Cipelli plays these piano pieces with an evident sympathy for their stylistic variety and contrasts; she seems totally in command of the music's technical armoury."(Musicweb), "Sie spielt glasklar, betont kontrapunktisch und analytisch, aber auch mit viel Gefühl für Farben, Rhythmen und Stimmungen"(Piano News).
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: I. La colombe
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: II. Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: III. Le nombre léger
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: IV. Instants défunts
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: V. Les sons impalpables du rêve…
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: VI. Cloches d'angoisses et larmes d'adieu
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: VII. Plainte calme
Olivier Messiaen: 8 Préludes: VII. Un reflet dans le vent…
Olivier Messiaen: Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
Olivier Messiaen: Fantaisie burlesque
Olivier Messiaen: Quatre etudes de rythme: I. Ile de feu I
Olivier Messiaen: Quatre etudes de rythme: IV. Ile de feu II
Olivier Messiaen: Prélude


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Hermosa Beach restaurateur faces charges in…
Hermosa Beach restaurateur faces charges in fight with cab driver
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A Hermosa Beach restaurateur is facing a battery charge for his alleged involvement in a fight that resulted in a cab driver's death, police said.
Nael Yousef Diab, 50, the owner of Poulet Du Jour on Pacific Coast Highway, could have faced a murder charge in the death of Amr Ahmed Ramadan, 42, of Los Angeles, who died of a heart attack after the dispute.
The District Attorney's Office, however, rejected the case.
Instead, Diab will face a misdemeanor battery count because he allegedly hit Ramadan with a plastic bread basket in the Sept. 27 confrontation outside Sabra, a rival restaurant that offers the same Middle Eastern menu that Diab does just three blocks away.
"I didn't hit him with the tray. That's why we are going to court and fight," Diab said Friday. "He had a heart problem. He had a heart attack on the freeway."
The men have had problems before their angry encounter in September.
A few months earlier, Diab allegedly referred to Ramadan as "homeless" and called him a derogatory name used to demean someone's status in the Arabic community, said Sam Sabra, the owner of Sabra Beirut Mix restaurant.
Diab said he had kicked Ramadan out of his packed restaurant when he began shouting inside.
The night Ramadan died, Diab called a friend who happened to be sitting outside Sabra. Ramadan was sitting nearby and overheard who was on the phone, said Sam Sabra, the owner.
Ramadan, who was still upset about what Diab called him, reacted angrily and said loudly that he was going to call the Internal Revenue Service to report that Diab was cheating them. He referred to Diab with expletives.
"I said to the guy, `Who is that?"' Diab said.
Diab drove over to the restaurant to confront Ramadan. When he arrived, Ramadan yelled at him, he said.
"He was still there cussing me out, calling my mother in the grave a whore," Diab said.
Sabra said Diab got out of his van with a wine bottle in his hand and wanted to hit Ramadan.
"I ran and grabbed the bottle from Nael's hand," Sabra said. "We were all holding him."
Diab then picked up a plastic bread basket and hit Ramadan in the shoulder.
"Amr was very, very angry but he would not stop and fight," Sabra said.
Sabra told each man to leave. They both drove away.
Hermosa Beach police Sgt. Robert Higgins said Ramadan suffered a heart attack minutes later and crashed at Green Lane and Artesia Boulevard in Redondo Beach.
He died at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance.
"The L.A. County coroner deemed the death a homicide due to the prior incident at the Sabra restaurant, citing the stress of `fight or flight' may have caused the heart attack," Higgins said.
Police submitted the reports to prosecutors, but the D.A.'s Office declined prosecution, citing "no direct physical injury from the assault," Higgins said.
The case was deferred to the Hermosa Beach City Prosecutor's Office, which filed a misdemeanor count of simple battery, Higgins said.
Diab was arrested Thursday and released on a citation. He is scheduled to appear March 30 in Torrance Superior Court.
His attorney, Michael Norris, said Diab "runs a great business in Hermosa Beach" and he is looking forward to defending him in court.
Sabra called Ramadan a "very good man" with a big heart who has a baby less than a year old.
Sabra said he has had his own problems with Diab since he opened his competing restaurant six months ago. Diab, he said, has told restaurant patrons that he Sabra is a member of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in an effort to drive his customers away.
"The guy's got anger problems," Sabra said. "One time he came to our restaurant and called my wife a bitch . He needs anger management."
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Larry Altman has covered crime and court proceedings in Southern California since 1987. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, Altman has worked for the Daily Breeze since 1990. The Society of Professional Journalists named him a "Distinguished Journalist" in Los Angeles in 2006. Altman's work was featured twice on CBS' "48 Hours" and he appeared eight times with "Nancy Grace," who called him "dear." He has covered hundreds of homicides and many trials. Altman has crawled through a mausoleum to open a coffin, confronted husbands who killed their wives, wives who killed their husbands, and his coverage helped put a child molester and a murderer in prison. In his spare time, Altman is an avid Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers fan, is the commissioner of a Fantasy Baseball league with several other current and former newspapermen, runs a real estate empire and likes to watch old movies on TCM.
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