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NASA Artemis Program and Stennis Space Center Set the Stage for Testing in 2020
January 25, 2020 January 23, 2020 News 0
SLS core stage installation (Credits: NASA/SSC)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (NASA PR) — All eyes are on south Mississippi with this month's delivery and installation of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's first core stage to Stennis Space Center for a milestone Green Run test series prior to its Artemis I flight.
First NASA Artemis Rocket Core Stage Loaded on Pegasus Barge
January 8, 2020 News 0
The first Artemis rocket stage is guided toward NASA's Pegasus barge Jan. 8 ahead of its forthcoming journey to NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Teams rolled out, or moved, the completed core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the barge in preparation for the core stage Green Run test series. Pegasus, which was modified to ferry SLS rocket hardware, will transport the core stage more than 40 miles from Michoud to Stennis for the comprehensive core stage Green Run test series. Green Run, named for its testing of new, or green, hardware progressively, is the final test campaign ahead of the first Artemis launch. (Credits: NASA)
NEW ORLEANS (NASA PR) — The first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage for NASA's Artemis program completed manufacturing work at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and was loaded onto the agency's Pegasus barge on Jan. 8 for delivery to NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. With NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard in attendance, NASA rolled out the core stage for the SLS rocket onto Pegasus in preparation for the Green Run test series, the final test campaign ahead of the agency's first Artemis launch.
NASA Prepares Artemis I SLS Rocket Stage for Move to Pegasus Barge
January 5, 2020 January 5, 2020 News 0
four RS-25 engines mated to Space Launch System core stage for Artemis 1 mission. (Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon)
NEW ORLEANS (NASA PR) — Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the core stage, complete with all four RS-25 engines, for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to Building 110 for final shipping preparations on Jan. 1.
The SLS core stage includes state-of-the-art avionics, propulsion systems and two colossal propellant tanks that collectively hold 733,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to power its four RS-25 engines.
The completed stage, which will provide more than 2 million pounds of thrust to help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon, will be shipped via the agency's Pegasus barge from Michoud to NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, later this month.
Once at Stennis, the Artemis rocket stage will be loaded into the B-2 Test Stand for the core stage Green Run test series. The comprehensive test campaign will progressively bring the entire core stage, including its avionics and engines, to life for the first time to verify the stage is fit for flight ahead of the launch of Artemis I.
NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. SLS is part of NASA's backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon. SLS will be the most powerful rocket in the world and will send astronauts in the Orion spacecraft farther into space than ever before. No other rocket is capable of carrying astronauts in Orion around the Moon.
Artemis Program 2019 in Review
The Orion crew module for Artemis 1 is lifted by crane on July 16, 2019, in the high bay inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — Using a sustainable architecture and sophisticated hardware unlike any other, the first woman and the next man will set foot on the surface of the Moon by 2024. Artemis I, the first mission of our powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, is an important step in reaching that goal.
As we close out 2019 and look forward to 2020, here's where we stand in the Artemis story — and what to expect in 2020.
NASA Faces Billions in Deferred Maintenance & Repairs
November 23, 2019 November 22, 2019 News 0
by Douglas Messier
Although NASA has made some progress in repairing and rebuilding its aging infrastructure, the space agency faces a deferred maintenance backlog of $2.65 billion, according to a new report by the Office of Inspector General (IG).
NASA is one of the biggest managers of property in the federal government, with 5,000 buildings and structures in 14 states. More than 83 percent of the structures are beyond their original design life, the review found.
NASA Attaches First of 4 RS-25 Engines to Artemis I Rocket Stage
October 26, 2019 October 23, 2019 News 0
An RS-25 engine is installed on the first Space Launch System core. (Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry)
NEW ORLEANS (NASA PR) — Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon.
Integration of the RS-25 engines to the recently completed core stage structure is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its partners Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the RS-25 engines lead contractor. To complete the installation, the technicians will now integrate the propulsion and electrical systems.
The installation process will be repeated for each of the four RS-25 engines. The four RS-25 engines used for Artemis I were delivered to Michoud from Aerojet Rocketdyne's facility at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, in June.
The engines, located at the bottom of the core stage in a square pattern, are fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. During launch and flight, the four engines will fire nonstop for 8.5 minutes, emitting hot gases from each nozzle 13 times faster than the speed of sound. The completed core stage with all four engines attached will be the largest rocket stage NASA has built since the Saturn V stages for the Apollo Program.
NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. SLS is part of NASA's backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts and supplies to the Moon on a single mission.
NASA Commits to Future Artemis Missions With More SLS Rocket Stages
NASA finished assembling the main structural components for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage on Sept. 19. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans fully integrated the last piece of the 212-foot-tall core stage by adding the engine section to the rest of the previously assembled structure. Boeing technicians bolted the engine section to the stage's liquid hydrogen propellant tank. (Credit: NASA/Steven Seipel)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stages to support as many as 10 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024.
NASA Prepares for Green Run Testing, Practices Lifting SLS Core Stage
September 1, 2019 August 31, 2019 News 0
SLS core stage pathfinder is lifted onto the Stennis B-2 test stand (Credits: NASA/SSC)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (NASA PR) — NASA cleared a milestone in preparation for Green Run testing of its Space Launch System (SLS) core stage with an Aug. 23/24 lift and installation of the core stage pathfinder simulator onto the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss.
The lift and installation of the core stage pathfinder – a size and weight replica of the SLS core stage – is helping teams at Stennis prepare for the Green Run test series.
NASA Decides to Do SLS Green Run After All
July 27, 2019 News 0
The "Green Run" test of the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will be conducted at the B-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Flight Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (Credits: NASA)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (NASA PR) — NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced July 25 the agency will conduct a "Green Run" core stage test for the Space Launch System rocket ahead of the upcoming Artemis 1 lunar mission.
Relativity Space to 3D Manufacture Rockets at Stennis Space Center
June 11, 2019 June 11, 2019 News 0
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., June 11, 2019 (Hancock County Port & Harbor Commission PR) – Aerospace company Relativity is expanding its rocket component production and rocket engine testing operations at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The project is a $59-million corporate investment and will create 190 jobs, increasing employment at Relativity's Stennis Space Center site to 200 workers.
"Relativity's announcement today solidifies Hancock County's position as a leader in commercial space activity and further establishes our aerospace cluster as one of the strongest in the region," said Blaine Lafontaine, President, Hancock County Board of Supervisors.
Video: Watch RS-25 Hot Fire
April 7, 2019 News 10
Video Caption: NASA is a step closer to returning astronauts to the Moon in the next five years following this successful "hot fire" test of flight engine No. 2062 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This April 4, 2019 test caps more than four years of testing for the RS-25 engines that will help power the first four missions of the Space Launch System rockets. It also concludes a 51-month test series that demonstrated RS-25 engines can perform at the higher power level needed to launch the super heavy-lift SLS rocket.
NASA Achieves Rocket Engine Test Milestone Needed for Moon Missions
NASA conducts a test of RS-25 flight engine No. 2062 on April 4 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. The test marked a major milestone in NASA's march forward to Moon missions. All 16 RS-25 engines that will help power the first four flights of NASA's new Space Launch System rocket now have been tested. (Credits: NASA/SSC)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (NASA PR) — NASA is a step closer to returning astronauts to the Moon in the next five years following a successful engine test on Thursday at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The latest "hot fire" was the culmination of four-plus years of testing for the RS-25 engines that will send the first four Space Launch System (SLS) rockets into space.
SLS Engine Test Scheduled for Thursday Afternoon
April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019 News 4
The RS-25 engine fires up for a 500-second test at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. (Credit: NASA)
Thursday, April 4, 2:45 p.m. Eastern: RS-25 engine test. Live from Stennis Space Center, an engine for NASA's Space Launch System rocket is fired up in a test stand. Watch it live.
IG: NASA Needs to Better Document Cost Savings on Services Contracts
NASA needs better methods to track its efforts to minimize costs on the more than $16 billion worth of engineering and technical services the space agency purchases annually, according to a new audit by the Inspector General (IG).
[Full Report — PDF]
"Although NASA has a variety of mechanisms at the Headquarters and Center levels to share lessons learned, many of these are informal, dependent upon personal relationships between Centers, and not focused on sharing information on efficiencies," the audit said.
A Look at Stratolaunch's New Rocket Engine
September 27, 2018 September 27, 2018 News 11
Air-launched boosters (Credit: Stratolaunch)
Aviation Week has a photo gallery detailing the PGA engine developed to power the rockets that will air launched from Stratolaunch's massive carrier aircraft. The engine's details include:
fuel-rich, staged-combustion liquid oxygen and hydrogen engine capable of generating 200,000 lb. of thrust
three cores with single PGA engine each will power medium launch vehicle
fully reusable Black Ice space plane powered by three PGAs; and,
engine testing to begin at NASA Stennis in October.


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New Siemens NX software expands toolset for digitalizing the machine shop
Nov. 19, 2017 – The latest version of Siemens' NX software aims to unite the next generation of tools for additive manufacturing, computer numerical control (CNC) machining, robotics and quality inspection to enable the digitalization of part manufacturing within a single, integrated, end-to-end system.
Automation capabilities for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), including robotic programming, adaptive milling, and tooling design, provide industry-specific technology to help deliver products to the market in less time. The new NX Machining Line Planner tool, combined with integrated NX CAM software for feature-based machining, provides new capabilities for industries with high-volume production of complicated parts, such as automotive and industrial machinery. The latest version continues to support end-to-end solutions for additive manufacturing, helping manufacturers realize the goal of using 3D printing for industrial production. New to this version, NX Machining Line Planner, combined with integrated NX CAM, enables the feature recognition, distribution, balancing, programming and simulation of operations over multiple setups and machines. NX Machining Line Planner uses a digital twin of the complete machining line and NX CAM feature-based machining technology to optimize the entire process, by helping to reduce planning time and increase overall production results. The latest version also expands the additive manufacturing solution in NX by including the new module, NX AM for HP Multi Jet Fusion, which is certified by HP and powered by Materialise, to prepare print jobs for HP Jet Fusion 4200 3D printers. The NX software module will allow customers to develop and manage parts in a single software environment for Multi Jet Fusion printing solutions.
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UNIONTOWN – Rep. Matt Dowling (R-Fayette/Somerset) was joined by Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), chairman of the House Majority Policy Committee; Rep. John Taylor (R-Philadelphia), chairman of the House Transportation Committee; and members of both committees to discuss ways in which state Legislature can better invest in western Pennsylvania, whether it be in the form of bettering the roadways and transit systems or promoting area job growth to stimulate a healthy economy.
Day 1 of the 2020 Vision Summit began with the House Transportation Committee touring Charleroi's Lock and Dam to see how it operates and what benefits it provides to the surrounding areas.
The day continued with a public hearing hosted by the House Majority Policy Committee which addressed economic development. Two panels testified before this committee, explaining hardships hitting the local area, such as workforce development issues and job shortages, and expressed possible ways the state Legislature could help alleviate these issues, as well as what they can refrain from doing that further adds to these issues.
John Andursky, from Highlands Hospital, continued by explaining how current reimbursement rates and nursing shortages are negatively impacting smaller community hospitals.
As the hearing came to a close, concluding the first day of the 2020 Vision Summit, both the panels and the House Majority Policy Committee agreed work needs to be done to not only address the issues of workforce development and job shortages, but to promote the thousands of jobs that consistently become available for Pennsylvanians across the Commonwealth.
The second day of the 2020 Vision Summit will pick up Friday, Oct. 5, at 9:15 a.m., at the Ohiopyle Visitor Center, Main Street, Ohiopyle, as the House Transportation Committee participates in a roundtable discussion concerning green-streets and scenic byway programs. A tour of the Ohiopyle multi-modal project with PennDOT and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will follow. The media is invited to attend both the roundtable and the tour.


The legendary visionary Saint Hildegard of Bingen is one of the few women of the Middle Ages (and indeed of the whole of the history of music) to have left such a wide variety of writings.
Hildegard's music is directly inspired by her solitary visions. Her odes, true hymns to life, love, fertility and womankind, illustrate the splendour of liturgical vocal tradition that is normally associated with male voices.
She was looked up to by the leading figures of her time and remains surprisingly modern. Over eight hundred years later, today's composers are still inspired by her poems and melodies. They humbly offer up a contemporary angle on timeless music.
Repertoire: music by Saint Hildegard of Bingen (12th century); contemporary music by Klaus Huber, Petr Eben, Ivan Moody and others; excerpts from Hildegard's treatises and correspondence and other texts inspired by them.


CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires" Season 2 premieres January 4th with back-to-back episodes. The series celebrate ordinary people who turned their dirty jobs into filthy riches and now live the American dream.
Country music superstar, Tim McGraw lends his voice narrating season 2 consisting of 10 half-hour episodes showcasing "America's most inspiring self-made successes: the working-class men and women who've managed to build fortunes with nothing but mud, sweat, and tears," says the CNBC press release.
These blue-collar millionaires mastered their trades from gator trapping to chimney sweeping and now they share what they've learned. Don't miss the season 2 premiere of "Blue Collar Millionaires" airing Wednesday, January 4th at 10 pm ET on CNBC.


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Redefining the Classical Guitar – Virtuoso – Composer – Innovator
Hot Club Français
'Delightful and swinging' – Classical Guitar Magazine, UK
A solo guitar classical guitar piece in a jazz style composed and inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.
Hot Club Français is recorded by Gary Ryan on the CD Patterns in Time.
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Hot Club Français is inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, who formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934.
Manus Noble, a former guitar student of Ryan's at the Royal College of Music, London, commissioned the piece as a result of him winning the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award in 2011. Noble had regularly attended Guitar France, a guitar summer school which Ryan directed in Normandy, France from 2006-2013. This gave Ryan the idea for a French-inspired piece which was also influenced by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos who re-visited Paris in 1934 having spent several years there in the 1920s. Ryan says:
"I had a rather fanciful idea that Villa-Lobos might even have heard the Quintette play, so towards
the end of the piece I have included a short, rhythmically adapted chord sequence from Prelude No.5
which blends well in the style…"
Recital – St. Johns Church, Stansted Mountfitchet, CM24 8JP
February 7 2021 - 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Europe adopts preliminary sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis
BRUSSELS – The European Union agreed on Tuesday to impose a modest first round of economic sanctions on Russia in response to the Kremlin's recognition of two separatist enclaves in Ukraine and the movement of Russian forces there.
The sanctions, after coordination with the United States and Britain, were designed but fell short of the potential full package of sanctions that the 27-member reserve bloc is holding, in an effort to impress Russian President Vladimir Putin. To abandon larger military and territorial targets in Ukraine.
Mr. Putin's move has put the EU in a quandary – how severe would the initial punitive sanctions be without an apparent military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine?
Josep Borrell Fontel, the bloc's foreign policy official, said the sanctions were agreed unanimously at a meeting of his foreign ministers in Paris.
"The package of sanctions that was unanimously approved will harm Russia and will do a lot of harm," Borrell said at a press conference.
Earlier he was careful in his words. "Russian forces have entered Donbass," he said, referring to the separatist enclaves. "We consider the Donbass region to be part of Ukraine. I will not say that it is a complete invasion, but Russian troops are on Ukrainian soil. "
The European Union said a larger list of sanctions would follow an "invasion" or "incursion" into Ukraine, but stopped short of identifying that trigger.
It was the kind of careful analysis of the facts on the ground that indicated this Sanctions Negotiations It will be a delicate process if the United States and its allies maintain a united front — exactly what Mr. Putin appears determined to test.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke similarly on Tuesday of his country's plans to impose "only the first of a series of sanctions, because we believe there will be more irrational Russian behavior in the future."
And in an important reference to Moscow, German Chancellor Olaf Schulz said he would Cessation of approval of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelinewhich connects Russia and Germany, bypassing Ukraine, for an indefinite future.
The $11 billion pipeline, belonging to the Russian state-owned company Gazprom and the Kremlin, was completed. But Mr. Schultz said he would withdraw the government's current ruling that the pipeline posed no security risks. "It is now not possible to obtain certification for the pipeline," Mr. Schulz said. "Without this certification, Nord Stream 2 cannot be run."
For now, the pipeline has been put into hibernation, as it is assumed that it will remain as long as Russian forces remain in Ukraine. The pipeline is more a matter of actually sunk costs than of immediate effect, and not using it, if anything, will keep European energy prices high, because the EU is currently It depends on Russia for 40% of its natural gas.
So far, by preventing Russian forces from crossing the so-called "line of communication" between separatist forces and Ukrainian soldiers, Mr. Putin appears to be trying "to sail below the threshold of strict sanctions". Ulrich Speck From the German Marshall Fund, a research organization in Berlin. Mr. Speck said Putin's tactics appear to be "progress, pause, negotiate."
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russian forces across Ukraine are still in position for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine without warning, after NATO representatives on Tuesday met with Ukrainian officials. "Every indication is that Russia continues to plan a large-scale attack on Ukraine," he said, adding, "It is never too late not to launch an attack."
If Mr. Putin sends troops beyond the line of communication, "I think that's the full price of European sanctions," he said. Natalie TucciDirector of the Institute of International Affairs in Italy. "But if he sticks only to the occupied territories, there will likely be a long and divisive debate."
February 22, 2022, 2:52 PM ET
Ms. Tucci added that the EU could not afford not to reach an agreement. So, if Mr. Putin does not go any further now, it is possible that even Poland and the Baltic states, despite their strong opinions about punishing the Kremlin hard and quickly, will accept a partial set of sanctions, as will Hungary, which is more professional. – Russia, but it has always accepted sanctions against Moscow, even while complaining about it.
"The irony of the situation is that the worse it is for Ukraine, the easier it is for us to stick together," said Ms. Tucci.
"The EU sanctions package has been carefully compiled to avoid divisions," he said. Emre Baker, the European director of the Eurasia Group, a risk advisory firm. "Moving swiftly on the first set of targeted measures will help bolster unity, while paving the way for more substantive measures with follow-up sanctions."
What the bloc has agreed to so far is a partial set of sanctions, mostly linked to Russian recognition of separatist enclaves. Sanctions do not include key items such as Russian energy companies, which will now be more controversial among member states with varying reliance on Russian natural gas and oil.
Understand how the Ukraine crisis developed
Failed diplomatic efforts. The United States of AmericaNATO and Russia are engaged in a The whirlwind of diplomacy To prevent an escalation of the conflict. In December, Russia made a set of demands, including a guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO. The West rejected those demands and threatened economic consequences.
The sanctions target 27 individuals and entities, including political, military, commercial and financial organizations, as well as "propagandaists" associated with the recognition decision.
Some of the targeted people and organizations are geographically located within the two enclaves, Donetsk and Luhansk, diplomats said. But the sanctions are also aimed at members of the Russian State Duma who proposed and voted in favor of the resolution to recognize the enclaves. The diplomats added that the sanctions would include an asset freeze and an EU-wide travel ban.
Sanctions also prevent state and regional Russian governments, including state banks, from accessing the European Union's money and capital markets, freezing the assets of three banks linked to separatist enclaves and extending a trade embargo on Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia. in 2014.
EU officials said the sanctions would take effect within 48 hours.
Guntram b. "The main difficulty is to maintain the unity of the European Union over time," said the director of Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank.
"If Russia attacks a country in Central Europe, we must be ready to be bold in our response, and this means far-reaching and harsh economic and financial sanctions," he said. "It can't just be something short-lived for a few months but it has to go on to increase the cost already borne by Russia. But that means the cost on our part will increase."
He added that the cost of sanctions imposed on Russia against the Europeans would not be evenly distributed. He said, "Therefore, the policy of continuation of sanctions will become more difficult over time due to domestic policies and various economic interests." "In the shock of the invasion, we are ready to be strong. But the real question is will it last more than three or six months. If it continues for two to three years, it really cripple the Russian economy, and that will be a real problem for Putin – if it continues ".
in general, The EU can take losses more easily than Russia, since the block has a tenfold greater economy. Only about 5 percent of the bloc's exports go to Russia, but about half of Russia's exports go to the European Union, Mr. Wolf said, "and that gives us economic leverage".
But, he added, there are "a lot of domestic taboos", especially with regard to energy. "So the real problem for policy makers is the persistence of sanctions in the face of domestic pressures and vested interests that will oppose these sanctions because of the economic and financial loss."
Edgars Rinkevix, Latvia's foreign minister, said the sanctions could appear ineffective in the short term, but if they persist, they could do real damage.
"From a short perspective, sanctions cannot prevent Russia from invading Ukraine or doing what it did," he told the BBC. But in the long run, especially those sanctions related to technology and transfers to the financial sector, they will slow down the development of Russia and this would in fact repeat a kind of experience of the Soviet Union. With time, in history, the Soviet Union simply collapsed. "
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Q: Howler sound does not resume on IOS after page refresh I have an HTML5 web app that uses Howler for the sound engine. When testing on Safari browser on a real ios device I am having trouble with pausing/unpausing of sounds. we have an event that fires when the browser loses focus, I pause the sound when it is fired and resume it on another event when focus is returned.
This works perfectly on the first visit to the page, thereafter though no sound can be heard on the page. I have dumped the soundEngine object to see if it's settings and context is still intact, and they are, however on the second visit or after a page refresh the sound does not resume.
The sound will not play until I have performed a cache reset on the browser at which point it will work for that page visit but not subsequent visits.
I have tried pausing/unpausing, stopping/resuming, setting volumes, setting the _globalPause flags, adding onplayerror callbacks to the objects setup.
onPauseHandler: function () {
    console.log("The pause hanlder has been called.")
    if (soundEngine.hasAmbience()) {
        soundEngine.setAmbienceVol(0);
    }
    if (soundEngine.hasSFX()) {
        soundEngine.setSFXVol(0);
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},
onResumeHandler: function () {
    console.log("The resume hanlder has been called.")
    if (soundEngine.hasAmbience()) {
        soundEngine.setAmbienceVol(1);
    }
    if (soundEngine.hasSFX()) {
        soundEngine.setSFXVol(1);
    }
}

The above code is obviously only a single version of the fixes I've tried, as mentioned above. soundEngine is just a wrapper for Howler.

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Q: GNU Radio--raw data from uhd_fft.py I would like to do spectrum sensing with GNU radio.  Is there a good way to get the raw output from uhd_fft.py (the value for each frequency)?  I would like to do this programatically (with code), rather than through a GUI.
I have tried doing spectrum sensing with usrp_spectrum_sense.py, and this script has questionable accuracy and seems to be much slower than uhd_fft.py.
Thanks!

A: You should really direct your question to the GNURadio mailing list. This is a very application-specific question, which isn't necessarily appropriate for SO.
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
To answer your question a bit, uhd_fft.py is just a Python program that is doing a transform on your data. You can do the same thing in C++ with GNURadio. Just edit the Python code to dump the bin data instead of plotting it and you should get what you want.


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Cuiping Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Dachuan District, Dazhou, Sichuan, China. , it administers the following seven residential communities:
Caojiezi Community ()
Jinhua Community ()
Nanba Community ()
Xinnan Community ()
Xinqiao Community ()
Shijiawan Community ()
Gayun Community ()

See also
 List of township-level divisions of Sichuan

References

Township-level divisions of Sichuan
Dazhou
Subdistricts of the People's Republic of China

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Can killer police robots come to other cities?
The news out of San Francisco recently surprised many as city officials considered allowing armed robots controlled by law enforcement officers. The city quickly dropped these plans after a public outcry.
The proposal would have allowed San Francisco police officers to use robots that can use deadly force against suspects. The SFPD has about a dozen bots that are usually used to scan areas that human officers can't reach and defuse potential bombs, according to NPR.
The proposal surprised many in the robotics and police community, said Illah Nurbakhsh, a professor of computational ethics and technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Many did not expect the proposal to be put forward without warning, Nurbakhsh said, and the resulting reaction was strong. Still, Nurbakh said, the future of police robots with lethal force capabilities probably doesn't end in San Francisco.
"We don't know how many robots with killer capabilities are being used with the military, and with police forces, we probably don't know what's going on either," he said.
The news out of San Francisco shows how easy it is to turn these proposals into reality, said David Harris, a national police expert and law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He noted that California has a state law that requires all municipalities to list and identify the authorized uses of all military equipment in their police departments. It is likely that the United States will see more of these lethal force bots in other cities, he said.
"Imagine it being done in a state where that wasn't the law," Harris said.
Norbakhsh and Harris said any endeavor to use lethal force robots in municipal police departments should be met with caution, regulations, and a broad focus on ethics by local governments and private robot companies.
There is little way to tell if this is being done.
Morrisville Police Chief Tom Seefield said there has been no discussion among member departments of the Westmoreland County SWAT team or intent to use robots as a resource when faced with potentially lethal force situations.
"Although bots are very useful for other reasons during a tactical deployment, our job is to be very responsible, reasonable and legal in our SWAT team deployments and tactics," he said.
Christopher Fabeck, chief of the recently organized South Armstrong Regional Police Department, said he's open to the idea of adding technology like robots to everyday police work.
"It could be a good resource, another tool on our belts," he said.
Since the cost of something like an armed robot is likely to be out of reach for any one department alone, many communities can split the cost in the same way that the municipalities that make up a new police department share operating expenses.
The president said that while using the technology can be beneficial, he remains cautious.
"You don't want something that takes the officer out of the equation," Fabik said.
Penn Township Chief Constable John Otto said situations where lethal force might emerge required split-second decision-making.
"Will computers be able to make decisions like that? I don't think so," he said.
Otto agreed that robots could serve a purpose in some cases and could be a way to keep human officers safe during potentially violent or dangerous situations.
Pittsburgh robots
Pittsburgh has emerged as a national leader in the robotics industry. According to the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, there are more than 140 organizations in the domestic robotics industry.
Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Kara Cruz said the city's police department does not have robots with lethal capabilities, and none are currently being considered.
Allegheny County Sheriff Christopher Kearns said the county has multiple bots, but none were designed with a lethal purpose, and such use was never discussed.
Kearns said the county's SWAT department is using a "reconnaissance shooting robot," which is intended to give the SWAT team a better look inside corners and into homes. Another SWAT robot can't climb stairs and has never been used.
The county police explosive ordnance disposal team, also known as the bomb squad, also has multiple bots that are used to "scan and manipulate suspicious devices at a safe distance," Kearns said.
Although Cairns said no lethal purposes were considered for interruption bots, he noted that the mission of the policy is to preserve life, and that the administration will "always consider any option that preserves the lives of hostages, innocent bystanders, or first responders."
Harris acknowledged that there are circumstances in which lethal force robots might make sense and police departments would have a strong desire to use them.
In 2016, the Dallas Police Department used a bomb disposal robot equipped with an explosive device to kill a suspect who shot and killed five police officers.
But Harris said local governments should not allow a small number of justifiable cases to lead them to allow the widespread use of lethal force robots. He said cities have to be careful what they allow because police departments are not synonymous with the military.
Nurbakh said he could imagine scenarios where humans are allowed to remotely fire lethal weapons from robots, and then the next step where robots will fire independently but humans have veto control, followed by a reduction in the time it takes to veto. He said the police could justify these steps as necessary for public safety.
He also said that today's robots are much more advanced than the bomb-dispersing robots of the past. There are legged robots out there that can outperform people in some situations, Norbakhsh said, and automation is making great strides in the field of robotics. He said there is no telling just what the robots can accomplish.
"This is the front of an endless wave of capabilities," Nurbakhsh said.
Supervision is needed
Because of the ability of bots to use lethal force across a wide range of situations, Norbakhsh and Harris agree that more oversight should be established both at the government level and within the private sector.
No one fully understands the kind of mistakes robots and automotive technology can make, Nurbakh said. He pointed to the unusual behavior of automated vehicles and the errors they make, which differ from those made by human drivers.
He said he encourages private robotics companies to create ethics boards so decisions about police robotics can be scrutinized from an ethical mindset, not just from whatever applications police departments desire. He also wants private robotics companies to participate in ethics training if they sell robots to local police.
Harris notes that most states don't have laws like California's, and most municipalities can use lethal force robots without first notifying the public. He said state and local governments should create oversight of the use of lethal force bots and consider regulations now.
Ryan Ditto is a writer for the Tribune-Review. You can contact Ryan via email at rdeto@triblive.com or via Twitter .
#killer #police #robots #cities


We truly aware the expectations and thank you guys for understanding. For now, we really want H9S to be great, we can just use old codes and record new samples, but we feel it's unfair for the users and it's not what we wanted.
So please wait a little longer, it will be worth it, we promise.
Yes, thanks for the attention. I'll try to resist. I have a suggestion! Is it possible to have some midi files for the new guitar focused on metal styles? (deathmetal, thrash,blackmetal, djent ecc) ?
I ask this noth much to understand how the guitar works, but to have some premixed templates to work on.
First, thank you again for understanding.
Second, your suggestion makes so much sense! We'll definitely consider and do our best.
Hi Alvsvartr, yes I use Guitar Pro to import my midi in Fl Studio 12, but I agree with your idea. I asked for midi files(a Flp, for Fl Studio ie) created by the guys from ThreeBodyTech mainly because I would like to know how they work with guitars, at least. One of my problems with vst guitars is that I cant never achieve a good mix, this doesn't happen when I use real guitars with double or quadtracking.
Having a premixed template to work with would be cool, but I don't know if this is doable in the way I'd mean, since not everyone use the same workstation.


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Charpy est un nom propre français qui peut faire référence à :

Patronyme

 Nicolas Charpy de Sainte-Croix (1610-1670) avocat, théologien, auteur français ;
 Charles Antoine Charpy (1869-1941), général de division français ;
 Guy Charpy (1917-1995), résistant et homme d'affaires ;
 Christian Charpy (1959-), haut fonctionnaire français, directeur général de l'Agence nationale pour l'emploi ;
 Georges Charpy (1865-1945), chimiste français ;
 Jean-Jacques Charpy (1949-), archéologue et conservateur français ;
 Lorette Charpy (2001-), gymnaste française ;
 Marc Charpy (1933-2017), général français ;
 Pierre-Adrien Charpy (1972-), compositeur français.

Ingénierie
 L'Essai de flexion par choc sur éprouvette entaillée Charpy est un test normalisé de résilience des matériaux inventé par Georges Charpy.

Patronyme français


Splurrt Toys is proud to announce the release of their second resin figure - the Bad Trip. The first wave of 7 figures will be released just in time for Halloween - Wednesday October 21st at Noon EST. Like all Splurrt resin toys, they are created, sculpted and painted by Josiah Merrill and cast and molded by MonstreHero. These are a mix of purple resin, dark transparent purple resin, and clear resin, with each paint application being unique.