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![]() ![]() It might be possible to get a similar setup at my studio using some equipment that I already have. His calibration mic is an extremely expensive calibrated B&K, and his loudspeaker (for generating the test tones) is custom-built. ![]() Les uses ARTA software, which is available as a download. What I could really use is a setup that’s similar to his. Again, according to Les, notches in a response of this sort are very difficult for the average person to identify in listening tests. (I don’t have golden ears, but I have done a lot of listening.) Perhaps another recording of something with more transients, like a snare, might be more revealing. Remember, on guitar I could make out very little difference in the two mics. ![]() This could be why the capsule shell was designed the way it was.Īnother take-home lesson from my trip is the need for a better testing setup at my studio. This notch is present in the unmodified capsule too, but to a lesser degree. Looking at the lower of the two curves, we see that modifying the headshell does even out this rise, and gets us a slightly extended high end response… but it also introduces a pretty deep notch at around 6kHz. Les told me this is a pretty typical Chinese mic response. What I found interesting was the rise in response of the stock capsule centered around 8kHz. Take a look at the following response curves:įirst off, you should ignore the huge rise below 200 Hz, which is due to proximity effect of the test setup. But Les’ test rig tells a different story. On guitar, I really couldn’t tell much difference at all. I did a quick recording of both modified and unmodified capsules. (I did get them working again) The only change was removing the cage at the front of the diaphragm, lowering the height of the sides to about 2mm, giving the edges a gentle radius, and using a finer brass screen in front. I had an extra pair of dead capsules, so I figured I could play around with these without much risk. These are for some ADK SC-2 small-diaphragm condensers that I have. It took a few tries.Ĭonsider the following two mic capsules. Any dust trapped between the diaphragm and backplate will ruin the capsule. ![]() ![]() The tester’s indicator will light up near a functioning bulb. How do you find the bad bulb in Christmas lights?īring the light tester close to each bulb. If they don’t, put the bulb back in and move on to the next one. If the lights come on, you know that’s the bad bulb. Pull out one bulb at a time, and stick a piece of folded up foil into the bulb socket. How do you find the bad bulb on Christmas lights without a tester? Carefully inspect each string of lights before plugging it into an electrical outlet. You can sometimes tell by sight if a fuse has blown the metal filament inside the glass cylinder will have a break in it. How do I know if my Christmas light fuse is blown? That means pulling off each bulb, replacing it with a good bulb, and plugging it in. If one bulb dies, it can cause the rest of the strand to stop working. What causes half a string of LED lights to go out?įind The Bad Bulb If one of your LED light strands isn’t working, it’s probably just because it has a bad bulb. They should turn back on as soon as they’re housed properly. In that case, all you’ll have to do is tighten them a little bit. When bulbs loosen from the string, they may disconnect from their housing. Individual lights usually stop functioning for one of two reasons: they’re loose, or they’re burnt out. Why does one section of Christmas lights go out? If it flickers, that’s your cue to replace it. Please start with the first unlit bulb and work your way down, wiggling them to check for looseness. How do you fix Christmas tree lights when half string is out? Take the bulb you just removed and replace it, then remove the second bulb in the string and repeat this process until you have taken out each bulb and replaced it with another bulb in the entire strand of lights. Remove the first bulb that is not working in the half strain of lights. Why are half of my LED Christmas lights dim?.What do you do when half your LED lights don’t work?.Why do my outside Christmas lights keep going out?.Why are only half my string solar lights working?.What causes a whole string of lights to burn out?.How do you find the bad bulb in Christmas lights?.How do you find the bad bulb on Christmas lights without a tester?.How do I know if my Christmas light fuse is blown?.What causes half a string of LED lights to go out?.Why does one section of Christmas lights go out?.How do you fix Christmas tree lights when half string is out?.What do you do when half a strand of Christmas lights go out?.I’ve done troubleshooting, and my set will still not operate. ![]()
![]() ![]() Make the script executable sudo chmod +x /etc/init/nzbdrone. Hit Ctrl-X, press Enter and then Y to exit nano. If you installed using a deb package or the NzbDrone Repository you do not need to change this Setuid yourusername #This is the install directory. Should probably be what you use for logging in Instructions and Guides for Installation of Prowlarr. #description "Upstart Script to run NzbDrone as a service on Ubuntu/Debian based systems, as well as others" #Set username for the process. Now create the nzbdrone upstart file sudo nano /etc/init/nfĬhange yourusername to the username you use to log on #author "Simon Tallmyr - Nosscire" Install Upstart sudo apt-get install upstart This should not be done on Ubuntu 15.x unless you already use upstart for personal reasons. Update the Sonarr init.d to start on boot sudo update-rc.d nzbdrone defaults Make the Sonarr init.d script executable sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nzbdrone NZBDRONE_PID=`ps auxf | grep NzbDrone.exe | grep -v grep | awk '" >&2 # Description: starts instance of NzbDrone using start-stop-daemon Enter the number of connections and whether to use SSL then click Test connection. Enter your credentials and port like you did for the main server. # Short-Description: starts instance of NzbDrone If you have a block account you can add it to NZBGet, click Add another server. # Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $remote_fs # Required-Start: $local_fs $network $remote_fs Windows - C:ProgramDataNzbDrone OS X - /Users//.config/NzbDrone.Paste this long code and change htpcguides to your user #! /bin/sh Using file system directly Via the Sonarr UI go to System: Info Defaults. This is the preferred method for Ubuntu 14.x and 15.x since init.d works on all distributionsĬreate the Sonarr (NzbDrone) init.d script file sudo nano /etc/init.d/nzbdrone ![]() If it loads then you can make it run on boot, press Ctrl-C to get out of the Sonarr (Nzbdrone) process Autostart Sonarr (NzbDrone) Autostart Sonarr with init.d Script Make sure Sonarr runs mono /opt/NzbDrone/NzbDrone.exe Remove the custom NzbDrone list to avoid future dependency issues sudo rm /etc/apt//sonarr.listĬhange the ownership of the Sonarr folder to your regular user and its group, replace both instances of htpcguides as your user and group sudo chown -R htpcguides: htpcguides /opt/NzbDrone Now update and install nzbdrone sudo apt-get update Update and upgrade packages sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade -yĪdd the mono repository from Xamarin to make sure you get the latest version sudo apt-key adv -keyserver hkp://:80 -recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EFĮcho "deb wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt//mono-xamarin.listĮnable apt-get to install from https sources sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https -yĪdd source repositories for Nzbdrone sudo apt-key adv -keyserver -recv-keys FDA5DFFCĮcho "deb master main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt//sonarr.list ![]() ![]() It is useful at temperatures up to nearly 500 degrees Fahrenheit long term and far higher short term, which is well beyond what most polymers are capable of.
![]() Get your vegan ice cream sandwiches, apple cider donuts, and/or Fauxstess cream-filled cupcakes delivered from either the bakery’s South Street or Main Line location through Caviar. Lees Vine FoodWendys (2615 North American Street)Paris Baguette (3816 Chestnut St)Buddy Vs Cake Slice (1109 Walnut Street)Engimono SushiBagels & Co RittenhouseKismet Bialys. A mecca for gluten free, vegan, soy free, corn free, peanut free, refined sugar free, and kosher diners, it’s no small feat that the bakery is able to produce its wide range of products. If you’re allergic to, well, almost anything, then Sweet Freedom is the bakery for you. From maple bacon donuts to gingerbread cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting, Insomnia Vegan has your late-night vegan sweet tooth covered, with delivery on select days available until 1 a.m. Inspired by the late-night success of Insomnia Cookies, vegan baker Sherimane Johnson thought that vegans may enjoy freshly baked, midnight sweets delivered to their front doors as well. ![]() ![]() They also deliver other items from the bakery, such as cookie trays and brownies. All loyalty members can receive a free classic cookie in-store in addition to free delivery with code NEWBRUNSWICK and other games and prizes. Whether you have a special occasion coming up, or just really need a pistachio cardamom cake with dulce de leche filling, “ricemellow” frosting, and lavender topping – Crust will deliver to any part of Philadelphia and some areas outside the city. Come hang with us and discover more together.Courtesy of Crust Bakery /for PhillyVoiceĮven omnivores will salivate over the 200 different flavor combinations that Crust Bakery can create for its vegan custom cake business. Love finding new secret menu hacks? So do we. If you want to enjoy Insomnia's offerings on the go, you can also order for contactless delivery and curbside pickup. The love for dessert is undeniable, which is why we specialize in delivering it at its absolute prime (i.e. The CookieLab is located at 833 Wharton Street in East Passyunk, South Philadelphia, right across from iconic cheesesteak eateries Pat’s and Geno’s. Welcome to the warm, delicious world of Insomnia Cookies. Every week, the official Insomnia Cookies Instagram account will post that week's password and save it to their highlights. You can access it from behind the bookshelf and will have to know the secret password to tell an Insomnia employee and get access. Like any speakeasy, to get to the CookieLab you'll have to be in the loop. Get delivery or takeout from Insomnia Cookies at 708 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. CookieLab also offers a variety of milk and dairy-free alternatives from the milk “bar” taps so that customers can wash down their creations. In order to achieve our core brand standards of our. ![]() In the special area of the Sweeteasy guests will be able to create their own cookie combinations and over-the-top milkshakes as well as try new items from an exclusive menu. Insomnia Cookies is on a journey to become the most imaginative sweet indulgence brand in the world. 42 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113 Downtown Get directions You Might Also Consider Sponsored Yogurtland 171 0.3 miles away from Insomnia Cookies - San Jose Afreen P. Also known as the CookieLab, the Sweeteasy will look like a typical Insomnia Cookies store in the front but will have a secret area that features all of the perks of the CookieLab. Insomnia Cookies 3. ![]() ![]() The first few episodes of Timelessfeel something like a blend of the wit of Doctor Who, and the calculated stratagems of Revenge, plus a little bit of Farscape without space flight, prosthetics, or puppets. Yes, the show deals heavily with time travel, but beyond it being a method to get these people to the past and effect some change, that’s where the science-y technobabble stops. What I didn’t get from the trailers was exactly how personal this show would get with its three main characters. There was time travel, a mystery, and an excuse for people to wear vintage clothing and garb. From the trailers, it seemed like a perfect fit for me. It was the 2016 show that I never got around to watching even though I meant to. ![]() I confess to being late to the party when it comes to Timeless. TIMELESS - “Party At Castle Varlar” Episode 103 - Pictured: (l-r) Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan - (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC) Lucy’s job is to follow Flynn in an earlier model of the time machine called “The Lifeboat,” along with Master Sergeant Wyatt Logan, Delta Force, and the Mason Industries employee Rufus Carlin, who pilots the ship. If Flynn goes back in time and kills people who aren’t supposed to die, they don’t have the kids they’re supposed to have or do the things they’re supposed to do, and history changes. Why? They don’t know, but Homeland Security Agent Denise Christopher and Connor Mason are worried about Flynn’s intentions. Flynn has gone back to 1937 when the Hindenberg exploded due to deadly static electricity. ![]() Founder Connor Mason built a time machine, called “The Mothership,” and chose not to tell the government about it until it was stolen by a terrorist named Garcia Flynn. She’s taken to Mason Industries, a tech company that feels a bit like a fictionalized Tesla. Related 15 TV Shows Canceled Way Too Soon TIMELESS - “Pilot” - Pictured: Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston - (Photo by: Joe Lederer/NBC) Lucy is, understandably, upset because this is the department that her mother built, and she has been working towards that job for her entire career.īut, things change for Lucy when Agent Kondo from Homeland Security shows up at her door ordering her to come with him. It follows historian Lucy Preston who has just been passed over for a tenured spot as a history professor. This is the kind of question Timeless sets itself up to grapple with. What effect could big historical changes have on you? What effects would that have on the present day and what might that do our present? Sure, Lincoln staying alive would have changed history on a macro scale, but think about your personal life. Now, what if you went bigger? What if you could go back and stop John Wilkes Booth from killing Lincoln or find out what happened in those missing eighteen minutes of Watergate Tape footage? You start to wonder what would happen if you could go back and change it? What if you could go back and right what once went wrong on a personal level? TIMELESS - “The General” Episode 209 - Pictured: (l-r) Annie Wersching as Emma, Kevin Sizemore as Colonel Reyerson - (Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC) Perhaps you’ve had that moment where you feel nostalgic and you’re thinking about a crossroads in your life. There will be other shows that center around time travel and viewers may like them just as much as we like Timeless, and there are certainly other shows with historical influence out there, but in the time travel genre this show stands out. banner, and a live stream of the three-hour flight, that will take place on July 21st.įrom the outside, the passion that these fans have for their favorite series may seem trivial. They raised $23,000, enough for the helicopter, a 4,000 sq. Recently, they started a GoFundMe campaign to get a helicopter to fly over San Diego Comic-Con. On June 29th, TV Line reported that the show had failed to find a home at another network, but the fans still aren’t giving up. Sherlock Holmes” Episode 207 - Pictured: Sarah Sokolovic as Grace Humiston - (Photo by: Justin Lubin/NBC) ![]() They’ve even created the Lucy Preston Literary Society on Goodreads to further engage with the time periods these heroes travel to and created a book donation drive called #LifeboatLibrary. The fandom played a large part in how the show was saved the first time. ![]() Upon news of the cancellation, fans have been fighting with the #SaveTimeless Twitter campaign to find the show another home on streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, and TV stations like STARZ, HBO, and even making a case for HISTORY Channel. They’d been down this road before when NBC canceled the time travel drama after the first season, and then uncanceled it four days later. Timeless fans were, understandably, gutted at the announcement that the time travel drama had been canceled on June 22nd. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chrome OS Flex modernizes devices you already own, allowing you to experience the benefits of Chrome OS on PCs and Macs:Ī fast, modern work experience: Chrome OS Flex provides fast access to web apps and virtualization, all within an intuitive, clutter-free experience for users. Built for businesses and schools, it’s fully compatible with Google’s powerful cloud-based management. Introducing Chrome OS Flex: a cloud-first, fast, easy-to-manage, and secure operating system for PCs and MacsĬhrome OS Flex is a new, free-to-download operating system from Google. ![]() Since then, we have been hard at work integrating the benefits of CloudReady into a new version of Chrome OS. As the developers of CloudReady, an operating system built on Chromium OS, they’ve helped countless businesses and schools modernize PCs and Macs including Nordic Choice Hotels, ABN AMRO, and MyGate. ![]() Chromebooks don’t slow down over time, stay up to date, provide proactive protection, and are easy to manage. To help even more organizations adopt a modern computing solution, Google acquired Neverware in 2020. Since 2010, Chrome OS has provided a better option. Slow boot times, intrusive updates, security add-ons, and burdensome management of legacy devices take valuable time away from employees, students, and IT. And it’s even more complicated for businesses and schools. Learn more below, try it out, and share your feedback to help us shape this product.Įnd-user computing is complicated. Chrome OS Flex is the cloud-first, fast, easy-to manage, and secure operating system for PCs and Macs. Editor’s note: Today, we’re excited to announce early access to a new version of Chrome OS bringing the benefits of Chrome OS to PCs and Macs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tucked away in a quieter area of the Village, Automatic Slim’s reminds me of old school New York. (Note that they also have two locations in West Village - the Hudson Street location has $10 martinis during 3-5 pm whereas their MacDougal location has $10 negronis from 3-5 pm.)Įveryday 5:30-8 pm / drink and food specials This classic spot in the village is seemingly always crowded, no matter the time of day. I’m also not sure where else in the city you would find $10 martinis!Įveryday 3-5 pm / $10 negronis + martinis In case you couldn’t tell by the name of this bar, this spot was made for Happy Hour. They also have another location in Montauk (if that gives you an indication of the vibes of this place), and a cute, pink interior as well as outdoor seating. Sel Rrose has great music and vibes, and will always have a crowd going no matter what time you’re visiting. If you play your cards right, you will be hard-pressed to pay more than $2 per oyster while out at a bar. I love a good oyster happy hour, and there’s an abundance of them in NYC. Also contrary to its name, there are no flowers for sale/to be seen anywhere at the bar unfortunately. The Flower Shop is one of my favorite chill bars to frequent. This bar gets crowded, and has a pool table downstairs. This cute wine bar used to be in midtown east but they have since moved down to LES, where they fit the vibes much better. Given the eclectic neon lit vibes of this place, I felt that I had to check it out. I first discovered this bar from an episode of now controversial Aziz Ansari’s Netflix show Master of None, which takes place in NYC and features several local spots. Happy hour drinks include a selection of whites and reds alongside sangria, aperol spritzes, and Prosecco.ĭaily 5-7 pm (all day sunday) / $1.50 wellfleet oysters, $10 cocktails, $9 wines, beer + snack specialsĪn elevated dive bar, Black Crescent is more low-key than its rowdier neighbors in LES.Įveryday 11:30 am - 7:30 pm / drink specials This dimly lit French wine bar has an extensive food menu along with their drink selections. Delicious and cheap make for a dangerous combination, but this bar definitely hits the spot.Įveryday 4-6 pm / wine and wine cocktail specials ![]() Dimly lit and filled with loud chatter, this place is better for a catch up with friends instead of a date.Įveryday 5-11 pm / $7 lychee martinis and sangriasįamous last words at this bar are “lychee martini”. Located in Twin Bridges, a hidden gem of a neighborhood situated between Chinatown and Lower East Side, Bar Belly is a cozy, narrow bar with great oysters and rosé. Everyday 5-7 pm / $1 oysters, drink specials + fries ![]() ![]() Another example is the launch of bitcoin futures contracts in December 2017 by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is indicative of the traditional financial industry’s attempt not to distance itself from this market trend. For instance, “What is bitcoin?” was the most popular Google search question in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2018 (Marsh 2018). Since its inception, coinciding with the international crisis of 2008 and the associated lack of confidence in the financial system, bitcoin has gained an important place in the international financial landscape, attracting extensive media coverage, as well as the attention of regulators, government institutions, institutional and individual investors, academia, and the public in general. These positive results support the claim that machine learning provides robust techniques for exploring the predictability of cryptocurrencies and for devising profitable trading strategies in these markets, even under adverse market conditions. The ensemble assuming that five models produce identical signals (Ensemble 5) achieves the best performance for ethereum and litecoin, with annualized Sharpe ratios of 80.17% and 91.35% and annualized returns (after proportional round-trip trading costs of 0.5%) of 9.62% and 5.73%, respectively. The trading strategies are built on model assembling. For the test period, five out of 18 individual models have success rates of less than 50%. The classification and regression methods use attributes from trading and network activity for the period from Augto March 03, 2019, with the test sample beginning on April 13, 2018. The models are validated in a period characterized by unprecedented turmoil and tested in a period of bear markets, allowing the assessment of whether the predictions are good even when the market direction changes between the validation and test periods. ![]() This study examines the predictability of three major cryptocurrencies-bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin-and the profitability of trading strategies devised upon machine learning techniques (e.g., linear models, random forests, and support vector machines). ![]() |
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