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Mourners attend a memorial, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, in North Vancouver, British Columbia, to remember Canadian victims in the deadly downing of a Ukrainian airliner the week before, in Iran. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down last week to Ukraine for further analysis, an Iranian official said Saturday. Hassan Rezaeifer, the head of accident investigations for the civil aviation department, said it...
At least 2 killed, 20 wounded in bombing near Somali capital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least two people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a construction site along a highway outside Somalia's capital, police said Saturday. Six Turkish nationals were among the wounded, with two in serious condition, Turkish Health...
A pedestrian waits for a bus at a bus stop during a snow day in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Hundreds of flights were canceled as a winter storm hits the city during evening commute Friday, creating a sloppy rush hour. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Full ground stop at Chicago O'Hare airport amid winter storm
CHICAGO (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport Friday night due to a sprawling winter storm hitting large sections of the Midwest that led to the closure of schools, universities and government offices. The FAA said on its website that...
Attorney Gloria Allred, lower left, listens as one of four Park Avenue Elementary School teachers talks about her experiences when a Delta Airlines jet dumped fuel over their school Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, at a Los Angeles news conference Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The four plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Delta - Lisette Barajas, Laura Guzman, Mariana De La Torre and Anabel Samperio - appeared at the news conference but declined to be identified individually when they spoke. The teachers plan to file a lawsuit after a commercial airliner with engine trouble dumped jet fuel over a densely populated area. (AP Photo/Stefanie Dazio)
California teachers sue after jetliner dumps fuel on schools
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four teachers from a Los Angeles-area school sued Delta Air Lines on Friday, saying they were exposed to jet fuel when a plane with engine trouble dumped its fuel over a densely populated area, including several schools, while making an emergency return to the airport. At a news...
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, a worker looks up underneath a Boeing 737 MAX jet, in Renton, Wash. Boeing has found a new software problem on its grounded 737 Max jetliner. The aircraft maker said, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, it is making the necessary changes and working with the Federal Aviation Administration. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Boeing is working to fix a newly discovered problem with software powering up on the 737 Max, adding to the list of tasks the aircraft maker faces to get the grounded plane back in the air. Boeing said Friday it has told the Federal Aviation Administration about the issue. "We are making necessary...
FILE - In this April 26, 2018, file photo a CSX Transportation locomotive pulls a train of tank cars across a bridge on the Hudson River along the edge of Bear Mountain State Park near Fort Montgomery, N.Y. This year's scheduled completion of a $15 billion automatic railroad braking system will bolster the industry's argument for eliminating one of the two crew members in most locomotives. But labor groups argue that single-person crews would make trains more accident prone. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
Technology could cut train crews from 2 to 1 but is it safe?
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — How many people does it take to operate a locomotive? For the railroad industry, the answer is simple: One. The industry is hoping this year's scheduled completion of an automatic railroad braking system will bolster its argument to reduce the number of crew members in most...
Canada provides money to families after plane shot down
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday his government will give Canadian $25,000 ($19,122) to families of each of the 57 citizens and 29 permanent residents of Canada who perished in the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran last week. Trudeau said he still expects Iran...
Police: Medical issue led to Starbucks crash in Illinois
McHENRY, Ill. (AP) — The driver of a pickup truck that slammed into an Illinois Starbucks had a "medical emergency" before the crash that injured several people, police said Friday. Police said in a statement that the driver, identified as a 53-year-old man from Lakemoor, will not be cited or...
Truck slams into Illinois Starbucks; 4 sent to hospitals
McHENRY, Ill. (AP) — A pickup truck slammed into an Illinois Starbucks on Thursday, injuring several people and causing massive damage to the coffee shop, police said. Patrick Polidori, public affairs officer for McHenry police, told The Associated Press that the driver and four people inside the...
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo workers walk near a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max airplane parked at Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Wash. Southwest Airlines said Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, that it has taken the grounded Boeing 737 Max out of its schedule until early June and is dropping more than 8% of its planned flights as a result. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Southwest joins rivals in again delaying Boeing jet's return
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines said Thursday it has taken the grounded Boeing 737 Max out of its schedule until early June and is dropping more than 8% of its planned flights as a result. With the moves, Southwest joined rivals in acknowledging that the plane won't be ready before the start of...


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With its beachfront location, 50 metres from Playa Dorada Beach, Hesperia Lanzarote Playa Dorada offers free WiFi, 6 pools, Turkish baths and a fitness centre. All air-conditioned rooms come with a private balcony, satellite TV and private bathroom. The hotel also offers deluxe rooms with exclusive services such as a reserved area by the pool. The hotel has 3 restaurants, including a buffet restaurant, and a lounge bar which offers live music. There is also a wellness centre, including an indoor pool, gym, and a beauty centre. The Hesperia Lanzarote Playa Dorada has direct access to Playa Blanca's seafront promenade, which is full of shops, bars and restaurants. You can walk to Rubicón Marina in 8 minutes. The centre of Playa Blanca is 12 minutes from the hotel on foot.
Please note that use of the safe in rooms comes at an additional cost. Please note that access to the Vulcano Restaurant is exclusive to guests staying in any of the deluxe rooms. Please note that the number of rooms adapted for guests with reduced mobility are limited. Please contact the hotel directly if you require an adapted room. Please note that the entertainment activities offered by the hotel come at an additional cost. Please note that beach towels carry a EUR 20 deposit, which will be returned at the end of stay. An additional EUR 1 surcharge applies for each additional clean towel. Please note that half board rate includes breakfast and dinner. Drinks are not included. Please note that the wellness centre is open everyday from 09:00-20:30. Charges apply and reservation is needed. Guests under 16 are not allowed. Please note that the hotel has limited parking spaces, which cannot be reserved in advance. The hotel's 9-hole golf course is closed. Any type of extra bed or child's cot/crib is upon request and needs to be confirmed by management.


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How the Cabinet Works
Cabinet Meetings
Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, poses for a photo with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The members of the president's Cabinet represent his closest and most trusted advisors on critical foreign and domestic policy matters. While each member is in charge of the day-to-day business of his or her executive department, the president meets regularly with the Cabinet to discuss ongoing strategies to resolve everything from foreign wars to financial crises. President Obama convened a full Cabinet meeting at least every two months, but emergency Cabinet meetings are also held, such as the Cabinet meeting called by President George W. Bush on Sept. 12, 2001 [sources: WhiteHouse.gov; WhiteHouseMuseum.gov].
The agenda for each Cabinet meeting is developed by the Cabinet Secretary and his or her staff. The Cabinet Secretary is the primary liaison between the White House and the 15 executive departments [source: WhiteHouse.gov]. In preparation for each meeting, the Cabinet Secretary meets with the heads of each executive department and their staffs to identify the issues that merit the attention of the full Cabinet.
Cabinet meetings are held in the Cabinet Room, a small rectangular conference room on the first floor of the White House overlooking the Rose Garden [source: WhiteHouseMuseum.gov]. The Cabinet Room has been in its current location since 1934, when it moved from a second floor space now called the Treaty Room. Before 1869, the current location of the Cabinet Room was home to the White House stables [source: WhiteHouseMuseum.gov]. Insert manure joke here.
The president, vice president and Cabinet members sit around an oval mahogany conference table in leather-bound chairs, each bearing a bronze plate with the name of the department and the date the official took office. The order of the chairs correspond to the date in which each Cabinet position was created, with the Secretary of State seated to the president's right and the secretary of defense to his left [source: WhiteHouse.gov]. Tradition dictates that when a member of the Cabinet leaves his or her post, staff members buy the chair from the government as a parting gift.
Cabinet meetings are private, closed-door sessions. They are also the only time in which the president, vice president and every other executive officer in the line of presidential succession are found in the same room. Even during the State of the Union address, one member of the Cabinet is asked to watch from a second location to protect against a catastrophic accident or attack [source: WhiteHouse.gov]. After the Cabinet meeting is concluded, members of the press are invited in to take photos and to record the president's remarks on the work that was accomplished that day.
For lots more information about the U.S. government and executive authority, explore the related links on the next page.

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Category: Sports Gambling
Study: Betting Could Help Sports Attract Younger Fans
For horse racing, this crowd should provide target for some crossover.
Sports-betting adults are more affluent, younger, more diverse and better educated adults than the general population, according to an American Gaming Association commissioned study from Nielsen Sports.
The research identifies groundbreaking demographic and behavioral characteristics of self-identified bettors who the AGA believes will populate the future legal U.S. betting landscape. A second, forthcoming element of the project will estimate the amount of revenue this demographic can help unlock for the major U.S. sports leagues.
For horse racing, the crowd should provide a target for crossover.
Experts: Horse Racing Left at Gate in Digital Marketing
Among this crucial demographic for sports leagues and broadcasters, 71% of those research participants who currently bet with a bookie say they would shift some or all of their betting activity to a regulated market if they had access to a legal platform.
According to Nielsen Sports, 44% of sports bettors are adults under the age of 35, as opposed to 31% of the general population. Looking at household income, 29% earn $100,000 or more, almost double the proportion of the general population.
"The Nielsen Sports data supports what we've long expected: access to legal sports wagering will increase fan engagement in major sport contests and enable a significant revenue generation opportunity for major sports leagues and teams," said Sara Slane, senior vice president of public affairs for the AGA. "Expanding access to legal sports betting will bring millennial audiences back to sports broadcasts and stadiums, which is a huge benefit for sport enterprises across the country.
"However, this potential will only be realized with proper policy frameworks that empower consumers with competitive odds, access to all bets, and the ability to tap into modern platforms including mobile. Without this focus on consumers, the illegal market will continue to thrive."
Nielsen Sports surveyed more than 1,000 adult sports fans—including fans of the National Football League, major league baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League—and self-identified sports bettors nationwide, identifying demographics and consumption habits to quantify the value of the legal sports betting market.
Additional research is underway to quantify how much each league can realize from widely available, legal, regulated sports betting. Topline findings from the research are available here.
NTRA Provides Updates on Industry Issues
An NTRA legislative briefing held Thursday, Aug. 10 at Fasig-Tipton Sales Paddocks provided updates on a diverse range of topics impacting Thoroughbred breeding, racing, and handicapping.
NTRA President and CEO Alex Waldrop and Greg Means, principal and CFO at The Alpine Group, which represents the NTRA and the industry's lobbying interests in Washington, D.C., provided updates on a range of topics, including:
Federal Withholding & Reporting – Long-sought Treasury and IRS regulations that modernize federal withholding and reporting of pari-mutuel winnings have resulted in a 90-95% reduction in the filing of IRS Form W-2Gs. The changes have led to a drastic reduction in the reporting and withholding of winning wagers, which in turn has helped fuel handle increases. During the first six months of 2018, overall handle increased 5.5%. Average handle per race day in 2018 has increased 8.7% through June (vs. a 3.7% gain in all of 2017). Overall, U.S. pari-mutuel handle in 2018 is on course to exceed $11 billion for the first time since 2010.
Tax Reform – The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law in December 2017 contains a number of incentives that promote investment in Thoroughbred breeding and racing. Among the many positive changes included in the bill were:
• An increase in immediate expensing to 100% and expansion of the definition of "new property." Buyers would be able to write off 100% of all horses purchased, including breeding stock, as long as the asset purchased has not been previously owned by the purchaser.
• An increase in the Section 179 limit to $1 million from $500,000, and an increase in the cost of property subject to the phase-out to $2.5 million from $2 million, which would be beneficial to industry participants that generate net taxable income.
• Inclusion of a new 20% deduction for certain pass-through business income. Owners of businesses such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, trusts and S corporations now may be able to deduct 20% of their qualified business income when filing their tax returns. Qualified business income includes domestic income from a trade or business but does not include employee income, capital gains, interest and dividend income. Additionally, business owners can combine their businesses into a single unit to claim the benefit, thereby making the process of filing more efficient and less costly.
Waldrop stressed the importance of each taxpayer consulting with his or her tax advisors to assess how the bill will specifically affect their operations.
Sports Betting – The Monmouth Park/New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association Supreme Court victory put horseracing at the epicenter of sports betting. It also extends the industry's reach from online wagering under the Interstate Horseracing Act–space it has occupied since 2000–into a vast new area of the American gaming market, where sports betting is estimated to be a $400 billion business. While the primary activity since the Supreme Court decision has been at the state level, Means noted that the major sports leagues, in particular, are already advocating on Capitol Hill for a uniform federal bill aimed at consumer protections, among other issues. Means projected that it is unlikely that Congress will consider any legislation on this topic this year. However, the issue will likely arise in more force in 2019. Both Means and Waldrop noted that Thoroughbred racing must be aggressive in defending its interests relating to Sports Betting and be ready to take advantage of new opportunities on Capitol Hill should they arise.
Credit Card Transactions Involving Advance Deposit Wagering (And, Potentially, Sports Betting) – While many banks permit Visa and MasterCard credit cards to be used in funding an Advance Deposit Wagering (ADW) account, up until this year four of the largest banks that are significant card issuers have refused to allow this legal use. In January, JP Morgan Chase, the nation's largest issuer of credit cards, began allowing this activity and the NTRA continues to work with the three other large banks to secure a reversal of their exclusions.
The same challenges to ADW wagering may affect those who seek to fund sports betting accounts via credit card, meaning that those in our industry who offer ADW and sports betting will have multiple banking issues.
On the same front, ADW wagering is being blocked by search engines such as Google that do not readily turn up direct links to horseracing betting sites, but simply link to informational stories about wagering or horse races. The advent of sports betting will change this landscape rapidly, again posing potential threats–and opportunities–for the Thoroughbred industry.
Immigration – There is strong disagreement on Capitol Hill over Immigration policy. Efforts earlier this summer to pass immigration bills failed and it is unlikely that Congress will take any major action on Immigration prior to the November elections. Thoroughbred trainers continue to face major labor shortages due to a lack of H-2B visas available to backstretch employees. While comprehensive immigration reform will be necessary if Thoroughbred racing is to receive the relief it needs from the current guest worker program, Waldrop and Means acknowledged that such reform is not likely to occur in the near term due to the current political environment in Washington.
Supreme Court Opens State Sports Betting Flood Gates, Sen. Hatch Offers Federal Framework
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Today the Supreme Court released its opinion in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, rejecting the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a federal statute which effectively banned sports gambling in most state jurisdictions. In a six to three opinion, the high court reversed a 2016 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which upheld the federal law. Importantly, the court affirmed Congress's authority to regulate sports betting directly. However, the court struck PASPA on the grounds that the statute infringed on a state's ability to "authorize" gambling within its jurisdiction, thereby violating the constitutional principle of "dual sovereignty." The court states that in the event Congress doesn't place direct regulations on gambling, then states are free to enact betting laws as they see fit.
While today's decision gives the green light for individual states to move forward with sports gambling schemes, Congress was quick to offer a legislative fix to address the role of the federal government in sports gambling activity. Not long after the release of the Supreme Court decision, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) announced that he plans to introduce legislation that he states will remedy a "patchwork" of state laws that won't adequately protect the "integrity of sports." As an original sponsor of PASPA when it was enacted in 1992, Sen. Hatch states that his legislation will "protect consumers, safeguard against underage and problem gambling, and help states who choose not to permit sports betting within their borders."
"Until today, pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing has been the only legal form of sports wagering available throughout most of the United States at both physical locations and online. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled PASPA unconstitutional, states are free to regulate sports betting as they see fit. Horse racing must rise to the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by this expansion of sports betting," stated Alex Waldrop, Chairman of AHC's Racing Committee and President of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.
AHC will provide a more detailed analysis of the Supreme Court decision and legislative responses during the days ahead. To view a copy of the Supreme Court decision, please click here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-476_dbfi.pdf. To view a copy of Sen. Hatch's (R-UT) announcement for a federal framework for sports gambling, please click here: https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ID=02C2FD7A-6D68-40B9-8002-BA458CF4DD4F


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

import logging

from .utils import comma_join, get_subclass_names

logger = logging.getLogger('clickhouse_orm')

class Engine(object):

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        raise NotImplementedError()   # pragma: no cover

class TinyLog(Engine):

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        return 'TinyLog'

class Log(Engine):

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        return 'Log'

class Memory(Engine):

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        return 'Memory'

class MergeTree(Engine):

    def __init__(self, date_col=None, order_by=(), sampling_expr=None,
                 index_granularity=8192, replica_table_path=None, replica_name=None, partition_key=None,
                 primary_key=None):
        assert type(order_by) in (list, tuple), 'order_by must be a list or tuple'
        assert date_col is None or isinstance(date_col, str), 'date_col must be string if present'
        assert primary_key is None or type(primary_key) in (list, tuple), 'primary_key must be a list or tuple'
        assert partition_key is None or type(partition_key) in (list, tuple),\
            'partition_key must be tuple or list if present'
        assert (replica_table_path is None) == (replica_name is None), \
            'both replica_table_path and replica_name must be specified'

        # These values conflict with each other (old and new syntax of table engines.
        # So let's control only one of them is given.
        assert date_col or partition_key, "You must set either date_col or partition_key"
        self.date_col = date_col
        self.partition_key = partition_key if partition_key else ('toYYYYMM(`%s`)' % date_col,)
        self.primary_key = primary_key

        self.order_by = order_by
        self.sampling_expr = sampling_expr
        self.index_granularity = index_granularity
        self.replica_table_path = replica_table_path
        self.replica_name = replica_name

    # I changed field name for new reality and syntax
    @property
    def key_cols(self):
        logger.warning('`key_cols` attribute is deprecated and may be removed in future. Use `order_by` attribute instead')
        return self.order_by

    @key_cols.setter
    def key_cols(self, value):
        logger.warning('`key_cols` attribute is deprecated and may be removed in future. Use `order_by` attribute instead')
        self.order_by = value

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        name = self.__class__.__name__
        if self.replica_name:
            name = 'Replicated' + name

        # In ClickHouse 1.1.54310 custom partitioning key was introduced
        # https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/table_engines/custom_partitioning_key/
        # Let's check version and use new syntax if available
        if db.server_version >= (1, 1, 54310):
            partition_sql = "PARTITION BY (%s) ORDER BY (%s)" \
                            % (comma_join(self.partition_key, stringify=True),
                               comma_join(self.order_by, stringify=True))

            if self.primary_key:
                partition_sql += " PRIMARY KEY (%s)" % comma_join(self.primary_key, stringify=True)

            if self.sampling_expr:
                partition_sql += " SAMPLE BY %s" % self.sampling_expr

            partition_sql += " SETTINGS index_granularity=%d" % self.index_granularity

        elif not self.date_col:
            # Can't import it globally due to circular import
            from infi.clickhouse_orm.database import DatabaseException
            raise DatabaseException("Custom partitioning is not supported before ClickHouse 1.1.54310. "
                                    "Please update your server or use date_col syntax."
                                    "https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/table_engines/custom_partitioning_key/")
        else:
            partition_sql = ''

        params = self._build_sql_params(db)
        return '%s(%s) %s' % (name, comma_join(params), partition_sql)

    def _build_sql_params(self, db):
        params = []
        if self.replica_name:
            params += ["'%s'" % self.replica_table_path, "'%s'" % self.replica_name]

        # In ClickHouse 1.1.54310 custom partitioning key was introduced
        # https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/table_engines/custom_partitioning_key/
        # These parameters are process in create_table_sql directly.
        # In previous ClickHouse versions this this syntax does not work.
        if db.server_version < (1, 1, 54310):
            params.append(self.date_col)
            if self.sampling_expr:
                params.append(self.sampling_expr)
            params.append('(%s)' % comma_join(self.order_by, stringify=True))
            params.append(str(self.index_granularity))

        return params

class CollapsingMergeTree(MergeTree):

    def __init__(self, date_col=None, order_by=(), sign_col='sign', sampling_expr=None,
                 index_granularity=8192, replica_table_path=None, replica_name=None, partition_key=None,
                 primary_key=None):
        super(CollapsingMergeTree, self).__init__(date_col, order_by, sampling_expr, index_granularity,
                                                  replica_table_path, replica_name, partition_key, primary_key)
        self.sign_col = sign_col

    def _build_sql_params(self, db):
        params = super(CollapsingMergeTree, self)._build_sql_params(db)
        params.append(self.sign_col)
        return params

class SummingMergeTree(MergeTree):

    def __init__(self, date_col=None, order_by=(), summing_cols=None, sampling_expr=None,
                 index_granularity=8192, replica_table_path=None, replica_name=None, partition_key=None,
                 primary_key=None):
        super(SummingMergeTree, self).__init__(date_col, order_by, sampling_expr, index_granularity, replica_table_path,
                                               replica_name, partition_key, primary_key)
        assert type is None or type(summing_cols) in (list, tuple), 'summing_cols must be a list or tuple'
        self.summing_cols = summing_cols

    def _build_sql_params(self, db):
        params = super(SummingMergeTree, self)._build_sql_params(db)
        if self.summing_cols:
            params.append('(%s)' % comma_join(self.summing_cols))
        return params

class ReplacingMergeTree(MergeTree):

    def __init__(self, date_col=None, order_by=(), ver_col=None, sampling_expr=None,
                 index_granularity=8192, replica_table_path=None, replica_name=None, partition_key=None,
                 primary_key=None):
        super(ReplacingMergeTree, self).__init__(date_col, order_by, sampling_expr, index_granularity,
                                                 replica_table_path, replica_name, partition_key, primary_key)
        self.ver_col = ver_col

    def _build_sql_params(self, db):
        params = super(ReplacingMergeTree, self)._build_sql_params(db)
        if self.ver_col:
            params.append(self.ver_col)
        return params

class Buffer(Engine):
    """
    Buffers the data to write in RAM, periodically flushing it to another table.
    Must be used in conjuction with a `BufferModel`.
    Read more [here](https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special/buffer/).
    """

    #Buffer(database, table, num_layers, min_time, max_time, min_rows, max_rows, min_bytes, max_bytes)
    def __init__(self, main_model, num_layers=16, min_time=10, max_time=100, min_rows=10000, max_rows=1000000,
                 min_bytes=10000000, max_bytes=100000000):
        self.main_model = main_model
        self.num_layers = num_layers
        self.min_time = min_time
        self.max_time = max_time
        self.min_rows = min_rows
        self.max_rows = max_rows
        self.min_bytes = min_bytes
        self.max_bytes = max_bytes

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        # Overriden create_table_sql example:
        # sql = 'ENGINE = Buffer(merge, hits, 16, 10, 100, 10000, 1000000, 10000000, 100000000)'
        sql = 'ENGINE = Buffer(`%s`, `%s`, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d)' % (
                   db.db_name, self.main_model.table_name(), self.num_layers,
                   self.min_time, self.max_time, self.min_rows,
                   self.max_rows, self.min_bytes, self.max_bytes
              )
        return sql

class Merge(Engine):
    """
    The Merge engine (not to be confused with MergeTree) does not store data itself,
    but allows reading from any number of other tables simultaneously.
    Writing to a table is not supported
    https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special/merge/
    """

    def __init__(self, table_regex):
        assert isinstance(table_regex, str), "'table_regex' parameter must be string"
        self.table_regex = table_regex

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        return "Merge(`%s`, '%s')" % (db.db_name, self.table_regex)

class Distributed(Engine):
    """
    The Distributed engine by itself does not store data,
    but allows distributed query processing on multiple servers.
    Reading is automatically parallelized.
    During a read, the table indexes on remote servers are used, if there are any.

    See full documentation here
    https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special/distributed/
    """
    def __init__(self, cluster, table=None, sharding_key=None):
        """
        - `cluster`: what cluster to access data from
        - `table`: underlying table that actually stores data.
        If you are not specifying any table here, ensure that it can be inferred
        from your model's superclass (see models.DistributedModel.fix_engine_table)
        - `sharding_key`: how to distribute data among shards when inserting
        straightly into Distributed table, optional
        """
        self.cluster = cluster
        self.table = table
        self.sharding_key = sharding_key

    @property
    def table_name(self):
        # TODO: circular import is bad
        from .models import ModelBase

        table = self.table

        if isinstance(table, ModelBase):
            return table.table_name()

        return table

    def create_table_sql(self, db):
        name = self.__class__.__name__
        params = self._build_sql_params(db)
        return '%s(%s)' % (name, ', '.join(params))

    def _build_sql_params(self, db):
        if self.table_name is None:
            raise ValueError("Cannot create {} engine: specify an underlying table".format(
                self.__class__.__name__))

        params = ["`%s`" % p for p in [self.cluster, db.db_name, self.table_name]]
        if self.sharding_key:
            params.append(self.sharding_key)
        return params

# Expose only relevant classes in import *
__all__ = get_subclass_names(locals(), Engine)

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JG SCHOOL
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What is the philosophy of the school?
Jordan Glen School's philosophy is that every child is gifted, and while there are universal and predictable sequences of change in children, each child is unique with an individual pattern of timing and growth. Our commitment is to an educational program that values individual differences, to a process of exploration and discovery, and to meaningful academic study. We would like our children to enjoy their time spent away from home and feel that we exemplify our belief that the joy of living and love of learning need never be separated.
What qualifications do your teachers have? Is your school registered with the state?
Jordan Glen School is registered with the state of Florida. The faculty is made up of skilled and dedicated professionals, including Jeff Davis, who has been the director for 40 years. An educational program that is organized around the individual needs, skills, and interests of children requires a faculty with an unusual wealth of knowledge and understanding of child development. Jordan Glen's faculty members are experienced teachers and are skilled in providing a stimulating, challenging, developmentally appropriate curriculum for their students.
Where are you located and how do I get there?
Our address is 12425 SW 154th Street, Archer, Florida 32618. To find us from Gainesville, head west on Archer Road (turn right from NW 34th St, Tower Rd, or Parker Rd). Turn left onto 154th Street at the Jordan Glen School sign.
What are school starting dates and times?
For the 2014-2015 school year, the first day of school is Wednesday, August 20th, and the last day of school is Friday, May 22nd. The school day is 9:00am - 3:00pm. Most of our school holidays coincide with public school holidays.
What is your student-to-teacher ratio?
PreK's student-to-teacher ratio is approximately 7:1; Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms is 12:1. Parent volunteers frequently provide additional assistance in the younger classes. Classrooms 3rd grade and up have a student-to-teacher ratio of approximately 15:1.
What grades do you offer? How are the grades divided within the classrooms?
Jordan Glen starts at the Pre-Kindergarten level and goes through 8th grade. The Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade children have their own classrooms. 3rd and 4th grade share a large room, as do the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Although each grade level separates for specific instruction in various subjects, students of different ages and grades assist and mentor each other.
How does your curriculum compare with that offered in public schools?
Jordan Glen provides a strong foundation in the core academic subjects, including reading, math, social studies, science, and foreign language. For academics, children are grouped by age and ability and may move from one group to another in order to meet specific learning needs. Foreign language and basic academic subjects are taught in the morning, with diverse electives offered in the afternoon. Also integrated as a focus of our school curriculum are sports and other outdoor activities, as well as performing and fine arts.
What elective classes are typically offered at school?
Electives vary from year to year and may include activities such as sports, karaoke, African drumming and dance, nature exploration, pottery, ukulele, doo-wop, drama, tennis, swimming, sewing, computer programming, sushi making, basketball, chorus, gardening, Ping Pong, and Random Act of Kindness.
Are you accepting new teachers?
Currently there are no new teacher positions anticipated. You are welcome to send us a resume with your qualifications and experience for us to keep on file.
Is there a school bus? How do bus stops and bus fees work?
We have our own school bus which provides daily transportation to and from Jordan Glen. It also enables us to take field trips to places we feel will be interesting and enriching. Some of the places we have visited in the past include museums, zoos, post offices, libraries, fire stations, farms, Blue Springs, Crystal River, and St. Augustine. Bus stops are announced at the beginning of the year and are based on the locations of our students' homes. Bus service is optional and the fees are separate from school tuition.
Do you have an afterschool program?
Jordan Glen offers an Aftercare Program on the school premises from 3:00 to 6:00 PM on school days. This program provides children with a safe and enjoyable place to be after school.
Where do students go after graduating from Jordan Glen?
Most of our graduates enter high school academic magnet programs, such as Eastside's International Baccalaureate (I.B.) program and GHS's Cambridge program, while others directly enroll in the various public and private high schools in Gainesville and the surrounding area. High school teachers always comment how much they love their students from Jordan Glen, and what good students and nice and well-rounded individuals they are! The vast majority of our graduates continue on to college, graduate, and post-graduate studies with great success.
How much is school tuition? How is it paid?
Please call the school for current tuition and bus rates. After paying an enrollment fee in January and a down payment in September, the remainder is divided up into monthly payments throughout the school year. Tuition paid in full by cash or check before September 1 receives a 5% discount. An additional discount is also given for siblings.
What is the best way to contact Jordan Glen?
You may call Jordan Glen at 352-495-2728, or email us at info@jordanglen.org.
Summer Camp FAQ
What is the philosophy of Jordan Glen Summer Camp?
The main objective of Jordan Glen Summer Camp is for each child to enjoy his or her time spent away from home by experiencing a variety of challenging and enriching activities. We also seek to foster a healthy self-concept for each child in a caring and supportive atmosphere. Our competent staff will constantly strive to be responsive to each child's individuality as well as to the group as a whole.
Who are your campers?
Most of our campers come from area public and private schools, while others come from around the country and world as they might be visiting family in Gainesville or have a parent working at UF for the summer. While the camp's de facto language is English, staff members have background in many other languages, and most of the activities require no language skills for the campers to participate and enjoy them. We have had campers and counselors from New York to California, as well as Korea, Spain, France, Israel, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.
What is the age range of your campers?
The youngest campers at Jordan Glen are those entering kindergarten, while the oldest are entering 8th grade, typically ages 5 - 14.
What is the counselor-camper ratio?
Counselor / camper ratios vary depending on the age of the group of campers. In the youngest groups (5 and 6 year olds) there is approximately one counselor for every 4 or 5 campers. For the intermediate groups (ages 7-11) there is generally one counselor for every 7 or 8 campers. With the oldest campers (ages 12-13), there is approximately one counselor for every 10-12 campers.
How is camp structured? What classes and areas of interest are available for campers?
In the morning, everyone at camp meets together for "Morning Meeting," a time for discussing the daily and weekly events, playing games together, and getting to know each other. Throughout the morning, campers stay with their age groups for sports, arts and crafts, swim lessons, tennis, and group time. After lunch, campers pick two classes from a wide variety of electives, including drama, music, basketball, free swim, drawing, nature crafts, African dance, story time, needlecraft, sports, advanced tennis, t-ball, archery, and more.
How much is camp tuition and how is it paid?
Please request a brochure / application for current camp rates. Bus transportation is optional and those fees are separate from camp tuition.
Is transportation available?
We provide optional transportation from Gainesville on our school bus with stops in Haile Plantation and at Westside Park.
When is camp offered?
Camp usually starts the Monday around June 10th, after public school has ended for the year. Camp is divided into two three-week sessions; campers may enroll in either three-week session or both sessions for a total of six weeks. The camp day begins at 9:00am and ends at 2:30pm. There is no official before-camp or after-camp childcare option. However, campers are welcome to arrive as early as 8:30am, and we would be glad to assist parents in making private childcare and transportation arrangements with camp counselors, which is quite common.
Jordan Glen School & Summer Camp ~ 12425 SW 154 Street, Archer FL 32618 ~ (352) 495-2728
© 2018, 2019 JORDAN GLEN SCHOOL & SUMMER CAMP INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


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Configure your Ubuntu repositories
Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide for instructions on doing this.

Setup your sources.list
Setup your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org.
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sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116
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Installation
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In case of problems with the next step, you can use following repositories instead of the ones mentioned above ros-shadow-fixed

Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended) : ROS, rqt, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception "
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ROS-Base: (Bare Bones) ROS package, build, and communication libraries. No GUI tools.
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Dependencies for building packages
Up to now you have installed what you need to run the core ROS packages. To create and manage your own ROS workspaces, there are various tools and requirements that are distributed separately. For example, rosinstall is a frequently used command-line tool that enables you to easily download many source trees for ROS packages with one command.

To install this tool and other dependencies for building ROS packages, run:
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Build farm status
The packages that you installed were built by the ROS build farm. You can check the status of individual packages here.

Tutorials
Now, to test your installation, please proceed to the ROS Tutorials.

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Die Adler M 100 ist ein Kleinkraftrad der Adlerwerke vorm. Heinrich Kleyer A. G. in Frankfurt am Main. Gebaut wurde sie von 1949 bis 1956 und war mit rund 35.000 Einheiten das erfolgreichste Modell der Marke.

Geschichte
Vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg stellte Adler Autos, Motorfahrräder mit Sachs-Motor, Fahrräder und Büromaschinen her. Der Krieg unterbrach diese Produktion zugunsten von Rüstungsgütern. Neubeginn war 1948, entgegen dem ursprünglichen Plan ohne Automobile. Angesichts des großen Bedarfs an preisgünstigen motorisierten Zweirädern entwickelte Adler ein Kleinkraftrad mit einem auf 60 cm³ Hubraum begrenzten Motor, wie es die Alliierten vorgeschrieben hatten. Diese Hubraumbegrenzung bestand jedoch nur kurze Zeit, sodass am 11. Oktober 1949 die allgemeine Betriebserlaubnis für die Adler M 100 mit 100-cm³-Motor erteilt wurde.

Motor und Getriebe
Die Adler M 100 hat einen fahrtwindgekühlten Adler-Einzylinder-Zweitaktmotor mit Flachkolben, Umkehrspülung und einem 16-mm-Einschiebervergaser von Amal oder Pallas oder einem 17-mm-Bing-Vergaser. Der Hubraum ist auf dem Typenschild mit 98,175 cm³ angegeben (Bohrung und Hub 50 Millimeter); die Leistung beträgt 3,75 PS (2,8 kW) bei 4800/min und einer Verdichtung von 1 : 5,7. Die elektrische Anlage besteht aus einem Noris-Schwunglichtmagnetzünder mit 25 W Lichtleistung rechts am Motor und einer 6-Volt-Batterie; der Gleichrichter für den Ladestrom sitzt im Scheinwerfergehäuse. Gestartet wird der Motor mit einem Kickstarter.

Links am Motor ist ein Dreiganggetriebe mit Fußschaltung angeflanscht; eine Einscheiben-Trockenkupplung sitzt unmittelbar am Ende der zweifach kugelgelagerten Kurbelwelle. Zur eventuell nötigen Reparatur lässt sich das Getriebe leicht abnehmen. Über eine Rollenkette wird die Antriebskraft an das Hinterrad übertragen.

Fahrwerk
Das Fahrwerk besteht aus einem Doppelrohrrahmen und einer nahtlos geschweißten Pressblech-Vorderradgabel mit geschobenen Kurzschwingen, Wickelbandfedern und einstellbaren Reibungsstoßdämpfern. Der Lenker ist verstellbar. Hinten hat die M 100 eine nicht gedämpfte Teleskopfederung (Geradewegfederung). Die beiden Bremstrommeln haben einen Durchmesser von 125 mm; die Bremsbeläge sind 20 mm breit.

Ausstattung
Zur serienmäßigen Ausstattung der Adler M 100 gehörten unter anderem Diebstahlsicherung im Steuerkopf, beleuchteter Tachometer im Scheinwerfer eingebaut, Werkzeugkasten im Kraftstofftank, Sattel mit Druckfedern und ein zur Aufnahme eines Soziussitzes geeigneter Gepäckträger. Ausklappbare Seitenstützen an den Fußrasten erwiesen sich als unzweckmäßig und wurden im Laufe der Bauzeit durch einen Mittelständer ersetzt, der auch nachgerüstet werden konnte.

Sonstiges
Die Adler M 100 ist ein niedriges und mit fahrfertig 70 kg leichtes Motorrad. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit liegt bei 70 km/h und damit höher als bei den meisten Mitbewerbern ihrer Klasse; nur die NSU Fox mit Viertaktmotor und 6 PS ist schneller. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit der kleinen Adler ist allerdings von stärkeren Vibrationen begleitet.

Zu Beginn der Bauzeit kostete die Adler 845 DM, der Preis stieg jedoch 1952 in Standardlackierung Schwarz auf 900 DM, mit Chromteilen 935 DM und in Rot 965 DM. Die Konkurrenzfabrikate waren durchweg billiger, eine NSU Fox mit 1135 DM aber wesentlich teurer. Der Normverbrauch (gemessen bei gleichbleibend 2/3 der Höchstgeschwindigkeit + 10 %) betrug 1,9 Liter auf 100 Kilometer.

Technische Daten

Quellen
 Dieter Jorzick, Johann Kleine Vennekate: Adler Motorräder. 2. Auflage, Johann Kleine Vennekate, Lemgo 2007, ISBN 978-3-9804987-7-7.
 Katalog 100 Motorräder in Wort und Bild. Verlag für Handel und Wirtschaft  – Müller & Co., München 1952.
 Verkaufsprospekt 451 158
 Ernst Leverkus: Die tollen Motorräder der 50er Jahre. 8. Auflage, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87943-849-8.

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Popular News Icon Matt Lauer Fired From NBC News After An Employee Filed A Sexual Harassment Complaint About Him
Matt Lauer was fired from NBC News on Wednesday after an employee filed a complaint about "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace," the network announced.
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Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations to go online
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Mr Vincent Tan, chairman of the Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival 2020 Organising Committee, hopes that this year's scaled-down celebrations will still be able to draw visitors to Chinatown, to help local businesses that have been struggling due to the lack of tourists during the Covid-19 pandemic. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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Bereft of tourists due to border closures and flight suspensions, the streets of Chinatown have been quiet during the Covid-19 outbreak.
But an organising committee hopes to bring some cheer back to the area next month by staging the annual Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations - albeit scaled down and mostly online to ensure safe distancing.
Online competitions such as lantern painting or Instagram photo contests will be held instead of nightly stage shows, festive bazaars and mass lantern walks.
While the traditional street light-up will still take place from Sept 17 to Oct 16, a 360-degree virtual tour of the decorations will also be made available so that people can admire them from the comfort of their homes.
The light-up ceremony will take place on Sept 17 and will be live-streamed online.
This year's light-up will comprise about 700 lanterns and sculptures, which depict traditional festival motifs and characters such as Chang'e, goddess of the moon in Chinese mythology.
The display will also illustrate this year's theme - family - and underscore the central role that familial ties play in getting Singaporeans through the crisis, Mr Vincent Tan, chairman of the Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival 2020 Organising Committee, told The Sunday Times yesterday.
"(It also) reminds all Singaporeans that we can weather through this crisis as one united Singapore family," he added.
The lanterns and sculptures will line New Bridge Road, Eu Tong Sen Street and South Bridge Road. A 10m-tall centrepiece depicting a family reunion scene will also be placed at the junction of Eu Tong Sen Street and Upper Cross Street.
Mr Tan said the committee decided to scale down the event and be more financially prudent in marking the festival this year, in view of Covid-19. This year's celebrations are expected to cost 70 per cent less than in previous years.
Yet, the committee also felt it was still important to mark the occasion amid the crisis.
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"We wanted to uplift the spirits of Singaporeans during this difficult time," said Mr Tan. It also demonstrates the committee's commitment to promote Chinese culture, and the heritage and traditions of the festival despite the circumstances, he added.
Visitors are welcome to visit Chinatown to take in the decorations this year, though they should be mindful of the need to avoid crowding and practise safe distancing, said Mr Tan.
The authorities have deployed safe distancing officers in Chinatown and the committee may work with them to ensure that rules are being adhered to during the celebrations, he added.
With less footfall in Chinatown now due to the absence of tourists, he hopes the festive decorations will draw more traffic to the area and help struggling local businesses.
More information about the activities will be made available on the Chinatown Festivals website as well as on its Facebook and Instagram pages.
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On the eastern plateau of West Seattle (east of Delridge) is the neighborhood of Highland Park. It is nearly all flat with well kept homes and a few fixer-uppers sprinkled in every few blocks or so. There is real opportunity in this neighborhood, which has enjoyed significant appreciation in recent years, and is being discovered by professionals and blue collar workers alike. Those who love West Seattle, but still want some money left over at the end of the month to save or to enjoy, buy here, and so do investors. There are many single story homes here along with two story and split level homes. Commuting is convenient by driving down to West Marginal to get to downtown Seattle, or to Highway 509 to travel south. More for the money is what one gets here.
If one neighborhood in West Seattle stands out as an artist community, it is Pigeon Point. As North Admiral sits at the northwestern end of West Seattle, Pigeon Point sits at the northeastern end - facing the city, providing the lucky residents with views of the city and Elliott Bay. The area is not large, but still plenty big to give buyers choices in homes. Listings in Pigeon Point are not plentiful though, so one has to stay on the lookout. Pathfinder Elementary School is here, serving grades K-8.
Just south of the community of Pigeon Point is Puget Ridge where one can find a diamond in the rough for the price of a more common gem. Puget Ridge is still in the up and coming stage, but I believe the time is near when things will heat up. Kids are out playing and riding bikes, and neighbors are busy chatting with each other. Builders have discovered the area recently and are busy tearing down and building up. And commuters walk down to Delridge to catch the bus downtown.
The reputation of Delridge has been a bit tough in the past, but things are changing. For one thing, a large percentage of the homes along the main Delridge thoroughfare have been replaced with nice new townhouses, which are also quite reasonably priced. And features such as community pea patches, soccer fields, serene nature paths through the watershed, and quick commuting both north and south are all advantages here.


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I suspect people love Halloween because one day out of the year they get to be somebody they're not, or live out someone's � or something's � life far removed from their own.
In recent years, it was the dolled-up Amy Winehouses and Jokers from "The Dark Knight" that we'd see at every Halloween party. This year, we'll probably see our share of red-jacketed Kings of Pop, Octo-moms, Kate Gosselins (I read that Kate-wigs are all the Halloween rage this year), and Bella Swans and vampires straight out of Stephanie Meyer's romance novels.
Then there's your staples, too: ghosts, ghouls, bloody brides, witches, and swiss-cheese sandwiches.
Though I shouldn't be one to speak so fast. My Halloween costumes haven't broken much mold, and I can't think of anything this year that gets me excited.
My friends and I got some great laughs out of it � and fooled the rest of the partiers who asked me why I wasn't dressed up. But looking back on the events is kind of unsettling. If the psychology of Halloween costumes is all about what your choice of costume reveals about you and your personality, then was my inner desire to be a "Northface girl," complete with a pair of Eskimo boots?
Too close to the truth, my friends, too close.
* Nick Nolte's infamous mug shot � Hawaiian shirt, dirty hair, you get the picture.
* The Bailout � Don your fanciest suit, a bucket with which to collect money from your friends and exhibit no shame.
The bailout, eh? Greed on Wall Street is definitely the scariest thing I've ever seen ... folks, I think we have ourselves a winner!
Staff writer Shajia Ahmad can be e-mailed at sahmad@gctelegram.com.


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Playing video from flash memory on Nokia LCD
A lot of shops sell separate mobile phone LCDs, some of which are quite easy to control by home built electronics. In 2006 I got a bunch of Nokia 6100 LCD clones from sparkfun and decided to built a small video player with it. I also bought a set of Altera MAX II CPLDs at the time and this seemed like a good project to get some experience with CPLD and FPGA designs.
A video player with clever encoding like MPEG4 was out of the question with such a simple setup, so I used basically a stream of raw bitmaps for the video stream. It takes up a lot of memory for a short video but it is easy. So first of all I needed a lot of memory. Luckily my brother's MP3 player finally broke down after two earlier repairs and I desoldered the NAND flash memory inside it:
This kind of flash memory (often made by Samsung) is used a lot in USB sticks and MP3 players. This is a 512 MByte flash memory. It has an 8-bit multiplexed data and address bus along with some enable lines.
The most important component is the MAX II CPLD, an EPM240 with 240 logic elements. The MAX II is a powerful CPLD but this is the smallest device from the range. However it was enough for this project. There are also three voltage regulators on the board. Everything is powered by the 5V from the USB port. A low-drop regulator (LP8345) converts this to 3.3V. The LCD needs a 3.3V rail as well as the I/O banks of the CPLD. This specific type of MAX II also needs an 1.8V rail, which is delivered by the LP3982 regulator. Finally a switched capacitor voltage doubler (LM2661) steps up the 3.3V to around 6.6V for the backlight of the LCD.
Besides the flash memory there is also an FT232R USB-serial converter for PC communication. This chip is used to write a video on the flash memory, and also to provide an 48MHz clock for the system. Unfortunately I found out this clock is only available after USB initialization (since the clock is based on the USB signal) which means the board will never be able to run completely stand-alone this way. Still, everything else runs stand-alone so if one would add a separate oscillator it would work without USB connected.
An overview of all the parts:
This is the rest of the parts, most of it comes from DigiKey. I've bagged and labeled them because SMD parts usually don't have any useful identification printing.
The PCB layout is as follows, with an USB connector on the bottom, the LCD on top and a JTAG connector on the side.
The PCB is double sided and was made using two transparencies aligned carefully on both sides. Unfortunately during aligning some of the ink on the transparencies scratched off which caused some damaged copper areas on the etched PCBs. Luckily nothing serious.
Finally all the components were soldered on both sides:
First tests used the serial interface and some simple logic in the CPLD so that the LCD could be controlled directly from the PC. This way still images could be displayed on the LCD (which has internal RAM).
After that I started working on the memory chip. It took some time before I got the addressing right. The memory uses pages of 2112 bytes, 2048 bytes of data and 64 bytes for error correction, but the pages are addressed by multiples of 4096 to keep the row and column bits separated in the memory addresses. Finally I was able to write the memory from the PC and also read it back, although the lack of flow control caused problems when reading out. However, writing the memory was no problem (since the CPLD is fast enough) and that was the most important.
The MAX II CPLD contains a really small processor (more of a state machine) with 4 instructions. One to send data to the LCD, to set a timer or to wait until the timer expires, and one to jump (branch) to a certain page in memory. Each command or data instruction can carry up to 64 bytes of payload to send to the LCD.
So the flash memory basically contains software for this tiny CPU, a series of commands that send the right data to the LCD and uses the timer instructions to synchronize the framerate.
Here is one of the first working videos:
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As you can see it stops at some point, it was not completely stable. The problem was that the ready/~busy output of the flash memory used to indicate when a page has been read into the flash's internal buffer is a asynchronous signal, and I forgot to synchronize this signal in the CPLD. After I fixed this the whole thing worked like a charm.
The MAX II CPLD was filled for 92%, the firmware to upload a video to the flash memory was separate since it did not fit in together with the firmware needed to play the video. Uploading the video was done at a rate of about 200 Kbyte/s, because of the USB1.1 FTDI chip and its maximum bitrate of about 3 MBit/s. So it takes quite some time to put a video in the memory but still acceptable given the hardware.
Finally a longer video, note that the sound was put in later since the device has no means to produce sound (I wish I had included that too :)
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