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GMC has raised the luxury family SUV stakes with the 2023 Yukon Denali Ultimate
GMC has done a great job of differentiating itself from brands like Cadillac and Chevy. The GMC lineup includes premium and upscale trucks and SUVs. The great success is due in part to their impressive sub-brand: Denali. Some even say they drive a Denali.
This new car arrival is an elevated experience you can get from the Yukon. Its higher premium quality really took the Denali brand to the next level. The first impression: this new version is amazing. The fine details done right are the key to making this spectacular effect. It is now possible with this new model to have the power of a GMC pickup with the comfort and luxury you need.
Related: What We Love About the 2023 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate Luxury SUV
General Motors Truck Company, or GMC, is an American automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1908, this company mainly manufactures cars, trucks and engines. It is a premium based market. In their main products you will find premium SUVs, trucks and commercial vehicles. This brand provides luxury and comfort. GMC is the third largest brand globally and the second largest in the United States.
They have an iconic and well-known premium sub-brand: GMC Denali. GMC Denali is the most successful sub-brand of GMC. In 2013, this model sold more than 75,558 units, accounting for 20% of GMC sales. This model is undoubtedly a crowd favorite.
GMC just announced the arrival of this luxury family, the 2023 Yukon Denali Ultimate. This new range has reached its pinnacle of luxury and technical innovation.
About the 2023 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate
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The Denali Ultimate finish debuted on the GMC Sierra. This successful and beloved design can now be seen in the 2023 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate.
GMC has produced this new version of the GMC Yukon. This more comfortable and exclusive version is the next level for those looking for comfort and a unique experience. This new top model brings exterior trim, a leather interior and even better technology to the already luxurious Denali.
In addition, this version is full of specific small features. The shiny finish of this SUV is due to a special paint job with exclusive Vader Chrome accents. This makes the GMC Yukon one of the most brilliant SUVs on the market. However, it does not affect what you expect from a luxury car. This new SUV still gets an understandable appearance. The inside is a little nicer, which makes it better than the outside. That's what you usually look at as a driver.
Related: How the 2023 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate Looks to Take on the Lincoln Navigator
Ultimate 2023 Yukon Denali specs and features
The 2022 GMC Sierra was the most impressive: a high-tech and advanced version of the GMC Denali. Now with the 2023 Yukon Denali, there is also the ultimate version available.
The exterior is the perfect contrast between the bright chrome and a darker finish. This exclusive Vader Chrome accent is only available in this Ultimate version. On the inside, you also notice why this is a quality car. The seats are covered in genuine and special leather. The alpine umber color is made especially for this model. GMC has created real luxury inside this vehicle. They also have a custom laser engraved map of Mount Denali.
All interior aspects have been carefully designed to give the driver the feeling of being in control of the vehicle. It also combines decorative elements of wood and aluminum, and the dashboard includes a multimedia system with a 10.2-inch screen, which has integrated Google and is compatible with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto or Amazon Alexa, and can even function as a Wi – Wi-Fi hotspot.
The ultimate version is packed with innovative technology that provides a first-class driving performance. It is the first Yukon to be equipped with the Super Cruise automatic driving assistant, with hands-free driving and automatic lane change for compatible roads. This safety assistant can also be used when towing a trailer.
The engines are the same as the 2022 GMC Yukon Denali, with two powerful engines, a 6.2 v8 engine that puts out 420 hp and 460 lb.-ft of torque. All-wheel drive and adaptive air suspension with Magnetic Ride Control and a 10-speed automatic manual transmission. Additionally, the 281-hp, 3.0-liter Duramax turbodiesel will be available, making your drive comfortable and relaxing.
Related: These are the GMC Sierra model years you should avoid buying used
What makes the Yukon Denali Ultimate so special?
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GMC's main goal is to continue to improve and update its products. This model showcases the innovation and exclusivity of this version, which has been described as the pinnacle of Denali.
The 2023 Yukon Denali Ultimate Pricing details are still under wraps, but this vehicle will arrive in the second half of 2022, with a price tag that would approach six figures, or nearly $100,000. This is based on the $20,000 increase in the 2022 GMC Sierra Denali
The new features that this 2023 Yukon Denali Ultimate has in comparison to the 2022 version are not too many. The big difference is in the details. This model lives up to its name. Driving this car is the ultimate experience of fun and splendor.
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Keeping everyone guessing
Ahmedabad Mirror / Updated: Aug 21, 2018, 02:00 IST
Congress party leaders
AMIT Chavda's elevation as GPCC president had raised eyebrows in the Congress party often blamed of propagating dynastic politics. Well, Chavda is his predecessor Bharatsinh Solanki's cousin. Tongues, however, began to wag again when Chavda recently appointed Siddharth Desai as Navsari district president of Congress. Solanki had served a notice to Desai for anti-party activities during last Assembly Election when he was president and Congress has been unable to understand this bear hug by Chavda. No wink here. Chavda's detractors in the party are now confused whether he is Solanki's man or his own man. It is not often that harsh decisions by former party chiefs are overturned. Hardly matters for Siddharth Desai though as he is a clear winner.
Footpaths or parking slots?
WHEN Gujarat University decided to spend crores for revamping its campus to please the visiting NAAC team, its planners missed out on an essential requirement. Parking space for vehicles. Varsity bosses ensured that the campus has connecting roads, organised pathways and footpaths for safety of students. In doing so, they missed out on a fundamental requirement of parking spaces. A road has cut into a huge parking space near KS School of Business Management. The road also slices through another piece of open land. With their parking space swallowed by roads, students have no option but to park on footpaths. Pedestrians who use the roads are exposed to the risk of accidents. Officials argue that every department has enough parking space in the front. So why are students parking on footpaths?
Missed chance
RELIGIOUS tourism has a huge potential in Gujarat. We have Somnath, Ambaji ,Dwarka, Akshardham, Palitana, Sarkhej Roja, Jama Masjid and Dakor to name a few. And showcasing them to tourists and visitors at the Airport makes sense from the point of view of increasing tourism in state. So, a huge 3D wall at the arrival section of the domestic airport is a great way of giving a sense of what the religious tourist can expect. The well-lit 3D wall with quality prints is now regarded as the selfie booth. Another wall on the first floor that has printed photographs on fine canvas gives glimpses of a temple and inner grandeur. But a closer look by a perceptive tourist will reveal that the 3D wall on the ground floor and the photos on the first floor are of the same temple belonging to a community. Missed opportunity, we would say, to display the full diversity of the state's religious places.

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Atlantic City este un oraș din comitatul Atlantic, statul New Jersey, Statele Unite ale Americii și una din cele mai renumite destinații turistice pentru jocuri de noroc, cumpărături și distracții.

Orașul, care a servit ca model de inspirație pentru varianta americană a jocului Monopoly, se găsește pe insula Absecon, aflată pe coasta Oceanului Atlantic. Conform datelor furnizate de United States Census Bureau, populația orașului fusese de 39.558 de locuitori în anul 2010, respectiv de 274.549 în zona metropolitană a localităților Atlantic City – Hammonton .

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Perioadă timpurie

Perioada prohibiției

Perioada modernă

Economie

Hoteluri cu casino

Atracții turistice

Geografie

Climat
Atlantic City are un climat subtropical umed (după clasificarea Köppen), cu anumite elemente de moderație maritimă, mai ales în timp verii.

Demografie

Educație

Mass media

Ziare și reviste
 The Press of Atlantic City
 GoAC.com
 Atlantic City Weekly
 Su Voz
 Casino Connection

Posturi de radio
WAYV 95.1 FM – Top 40

WTTH 96.1 FM – Urban AC (The Touch)

WFPG 96.9 FM – AC (Lite Rock 96.9)

WENJ 97.3 FM – ESPN Radio/Sports

WTKU 98.3 FM – Classic Hits (Kool 98.3)

WZBZ 99.3 FM – Rhythmic (Kiss FM)

WZXL 100.7 FM – Rock (The Rock Station)

WWAC 102.7 FM – Top 40 (AC 102.7)

WMGM 103.7 FM – Mainstream Rock (WMGM Rocks)

WSJO 104.9 FM – Hot AC (Sojo 104.9)

WPUR 107.3 FM – Country (Cat Country 107.3)

WWJZ 640 AM – Kids (Radio Disney)

WMID 1340 AM – Oldies

WOND 1400 AM – News/Talk

WENJ 1450 AM – ESPN Radio/Sports

WBSS 1490 AM – Sports

Posturi de televiziune
 WQAV-LP Channel 34 Atlantic City (AsiaVision/Independent)
 WMGM-TV Channel 40 Atlantic City (NBC)
 WMCN-TV Channel 53 Atlantic City (ShopNBC)
 W60CX Channel 60 Atlantic City (TBN)
 WWSI-TV Channel 62 Atlantic City (Telemundo)

Transporturi

Infrastructură

Localitatea în cultura populară

În film

În muzică

Locuitori notabili

Galerie de imagini

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Legături externe

 Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority
 Atlantic City Regional Chamber of Commerce
 The Real Boardwalk Empire  – slideshow by Life magazine

 Atlantic City in William Trost Richards paintings. YOUR CITY AT THE THYSSEN, a Thyssen Museum's project on Flickr

Faulkner Act Mayor-Council
Fondări în 1854

Comitatul Atlantic, New Jersey
Cultura orașului New York City
Jocuri de noroc în Statele Unite ale Americii
Orașe din New Jersey
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Stațiuni litorale din Statele Unite ale Americii
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With Ebola panic spreading, we thought it might be timely to visualise the data on the infectiousness of various pathogens.
To give a universal metric for infectiousness, we've used the average 'basic reproduction number' (also ratio or rate). It's a statistical measure of how likely and widespread an infectious disease outbreak might be - if nothing is done to control the situation.
Every disease has a basic reproduction number but the numbers are scattered across the literature. We've web-crawled and gathered them all here in one graphic, plotting them against the average case fatality rate - the % of infectees who die. This hopefully gives us a data-centric way to understand the most infectious and deadly diseases and contextualise current events.
Sources: Centres for Disease Control, World Health Organisation, CIDRAP, Public Health Agency of Canada, studies.


This entry was posted in Ballast Point, Beer Dinner, Food Pairing, Food Review, Seal Beach and tagged ballast point, daniel drennon, schooner at sunset, sculpin ipa, sunset beach, victory at sea by Gregory Nagel. Bookmark the permalink.
We had a great time being there! thanks for the review!
Great to hang out with you and the gang! Look forward to the next one.
This place looks amazing! Would love to come and do a beer event with you guys when I am in that area next. I am a beer blogger as well. I especially like the sound of the Sculpin IPA or Habanero Sculpin with a great beer.


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This award recognises the success of an external partnership which demonstrates the value of collaboration.
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THE ABC is work claims that one of its websites was hacked by Russian cybercriminals in 2011.
THE ABC is investigating claims that one of its websites was hacked by Slavic cybercriminals in 2011.
Substance security shrink Patrick Gray premier publicized the necessitate on his blog, venturous.biz, speech cybercrooks obtained content from an ABC database, including an encrypted staff parole, around October 2011.
An ABC spokesman told AAP today that the firm is work the allegement.
A Dweller active has claimed responsibleness for the incident and said it was in return for the ABC airing an discourse with Dutch far-right politico Geert Wilders on Feb 13, before of his Australian journey.
Passwords, usernames and netmail addresses of 46,651 grouping who'd listed on an externally hosted site, relating to the 2010 ABC reality-style promulgation Making Continent Paradisiac, were posted online by the coder, titled Phr0zenmyst.
Mr Grizzly believes two of the encrypted passwords revealed in yesterday's operation equalize two encrypted passwords posted on a Land online cybercrime mart in 2011, and they also came from the Making Continent Paradisiac position.
He claims the content could screw been utilised to commit a writer evidentiary cyber onrush on ABC IT fund, though it appears no specified breakup took rank. "I'd show that there's been doubled attackers who've actually gained hit to this database,'' Mr Clothing told the ABC's 7.30 thought.
"I'd impart criminally impelled attackers had right sometime in 2011, but now someone with political motivations has accessed that comparable database.'' An Denizen investigator today said the identities of the ABC users whose information was hacked yesterday were overripe for the hiding. Sydney warrantee investigator Weight Capture has rough writer than half of the passwords that were hacked from the ABC's website yesterday.
He titled the ABC's encryption of users' passwords "woefully wanting" in a diary aviator after he saved he could right 53 per cent of the exposed hashed passwords in 45 seconds, Fairfax Media reported.
Users who tried to reach the URL that contained communication relating to Making Continent Paradisiacal were asked to submit own assemblage near what made them bright. Users were warned not to render their factual calumny and were told their information (ejection their username and countersign) would be displayed on a publicly visible map of State.
Remaining collection users were asked to supply included a call, telecommunicate address, countersign, age, gender, code and a statement of things that prefab them glad. Their IP address and longitude and parallel were also stored.
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"Making Country Elysian is an extraneous website and does not sit on the ABC Accumulation Discipline store,'' an ABC advocate told information.com.au.
The house today vowed to maneuver up its cyber guard arrangements.
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"The current monitoring of our intramural ABC systems continues in enjoin to fortify our defences against prox cyber-attacks.
The firm has transcribed to all those studied by yesterday's detachment, apologised and urged them to change their passwords.
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Maseru in Maseru with it's 118,355 habitants is located in Lesotho. It's the capital of this country.
Current time in Maseru is now 11:21 PM (Monday). The local timezone is named Africa / Maseru with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 8 airports close to Maseru. The closest airport in Lesotho is Moshoeshoe I International Airport in a distance of 11 mi (or 18 km), South-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. It's Maloti-Drakensberg Park in a distance of 124 mi (or 200 km), North-East. If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Ladybrand, Teyateyaneng, Mafeteng, Ficksburg and Leribe. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Pre School signing ABCD at the American International School Lesotho AISL.
Maseru is the capital of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho-South Africa border. Maseru is Lesotho's capital city with a population of approximately 227,880 (2006). The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the country became a British protectorate in 1869. When the country achieved independence in 1966, Maseru retained its status as capital.
Located at -29.31, 27.48 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Setsoto Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Maseru, Lesotho. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. It is currently the home ground of the Lesotho national football team. It has been renovated and enlarged in 2010-2011.
Located at -29.311, 27.5013 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Moshoeshoe I International Airport is an airport serving Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho. The airport is located in the town of Mazenod, about 18 km southeast of downtown Maseru.
Located at -29.4622, 27.5525 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
Mejametalana Airport is a military airport in Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho. It served as the Maseru's main airport until the opening of Moshoeshoe I International Airport, located in the town of Mazenod, about 18 km southeast of downtown Maseru.
Located at -29.3039, 27.5033 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Mantsopa Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District of the Free State in South Africa.
Located at -29.1944, 27.4561 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9 miles away.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Maseru.
These are the most popular locations in Lesotho on Tripmondo.


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Brits Grapple with Data Mining by Private Firms
The Guardian UK reports:
"The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
"A cabinet decision to put the management of the multibillion pound database of all UK communications traffic into private hands would be accompanied by tougher legal safeguards to guarantee against leaks and accidental data losses."
"But in his strongest criticism yet of the superdatabase, Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, who has firsthand experience of working with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, told the Guardian such assurances would prove worthless in the long run and warned it would prove a "hellhouse" of personal private information.
"Authorisations for access might be written into statute. The most senior ministers and officials might be designated as scrutineers. But none of this means anything," said Macdonald. "All history tells us that reassurances like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen."
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"What's in your wallet? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean would like to know.
Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan were speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club Nov. 5, where both reflected on what went right and wrong with their efforts during the 2008 election cycle.
Dean revealed his party used credit card data to predict voting outcomes. However, Democrats and the media have been highly critical of credit card companies that provide that data.
"We now can do what they can do," Dean said. "We have your credit card data like they do. They've been for years doing something that we, until 2006, weren't able to do. We can predict with 85 percent accuracy how you're going to vote based on your credit card data without bothering to see what party you're in – the Secretary of State's office."
-Jeff Poor, Business and Media Institute
Posted by: Flowerplough | January 01, 2009 at 05:49 AM
Flowerplough,
Nothing that the DNC or Howard Dean do anymore surprises me, given how eager they were to discount the primary votes of half of Michigan and Florida -- and given how dishonestly certain DNC officials discussed the issue with the media.
Posted by: Buck Naked Politics | January 02, 2009 at 12:10 AM


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Q: How to determine if a voltage is regulated and rectified using AN8008 multimeter? Sorry, but this is probably a stupid question.
I have a motorbike and I need to find a wire that provides a fully regulated and rectified DC voltage. Especially at idle, a load like an LED light will flicker when it's not attached to a regulated and rectified wire. The main headlight receives an unregulated voltage on my bike.
I have the AN8008 multimeter:
https://www.amazon.com/ANENG-AN8008-Multimeter-Resistance-Capacitance/dp/B076GZK62B
I want to use it to test various devices in the front of the bike to see if any of the wires are providing a regulated and rectified voltage, but I don't know which mode I should use. The frequency varies tremendously with engine RPM, and when I test the voltage it reads ~12V, but that doesn't tell me if the frequency is staying steady or not.

A: Puh, that's a multimeter, and not an oscilloscope. This might limit its usefulness for this purpose.
Anyway, you can try putting it into AC mode; where it reads a high AC voltage, you have ripples. That's not a very good measure, though, because it will neither detect strong fluctuations beyond the bandwidth of your measurement device, which will still interfere with your loads, nor will it allow assessment of what happens when you actually attach a load to that power rail, so it might detect things that don't matter.
In all honesty: on motorcycle wiring, unless you're already taking your voltage from within an electronic instrument, assume nothing is smooth. Nothing.
Instead, you'd want to add your own ESD-protected  voltage smoothing capacitors and a voltage regulator. There's not that much way around that.


With cybercriminals constantly on the lookout for weak entry points, the focus needs to shift from protection and detection to intelligent and automated responses that isolate a cyber attack.
Cybersecurity predictions- Today, with cybercriminals operating like a penetration tester in the way they scope out the network looking for vulnerabilities and weak entry points, those responsible for IT security will once again need to adjust their strategy and defences. In our 2019 Threat Report, we detailed how criminals are now "staking out" victims, moving laterally throughout the network, manipulating internal controls to reach their objectives with stealth. As endpoint protection has improved, criminals are now on the lookout for the next weak entry point. The focus can no longer be on protection and detection, but also intelligent and automated responses that provide lateral movement protection to isolate an attack moving through the network. Here are my top five cybersecurity predictions for 2019.
Security teams used to focus on firewalls and endpoints, and many security professionals cut their teeth as system and network administrators. Nowadays infrastructure is defined by code, breaches are increasingly caused by weak applications and automation is essential for under-staffed teams. This is changing the skillset required by security pros. We also need to have a deep understanding of applications and an ability to build automation into our tools and processes.
Everyone relies a huge amount nowadays on open-source libraries that are often maintained very informally by loose-knit communities that are easy to infiltrate. This used to be the domain of nation-states but the criminals are getting in on the action.
Bit of a cliché, but ML will no longer be something that you just buy. Tools and techniques that were previously the domain of data science experts are getting easier to use. It won't be long before larger SOC teams are using the tools directly rather than via models that are embedded in products.
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S Bike
How Indian Jugaad is helping Samsung come up with new product feature ideas
It is not just smartphones that are driving the research facility's vision for India. "The two main focus areas of India R&D are internet of things and intelligence," said Dipesh Shah.
WRITTEN BYNeha Alawadhi | ET Bureau
August 31, 2016, 23:57 IST
It all started when a group of Samsung India engineers realized that they face the same problem, every day.
They would commute from office to home on their motorbikes with their phones wedged between their helmets and their ears, ready to take calls – something that millions of Indians do every day.
The reason why they indulged in this dangerous habit varied: from "my mother would be worried if she doesn't know my whereabouts" or something as simple as "If I don't take my friends calls, they will be offended."
Twenty Indian engineers and 20,000 man hours later, Samsung arrived at a solution. The "S Bike mode" was introduced in the company's Galaxy J3 model which sends a pre-recorded message to the caller while a biker is riding and allows them to take only important calls.
How does this work? The phone comes with a device that can be attached to a bike's tank which then communicates with the phone. When a person calls the rider, it relays a message that that the rider is on the road. If the caller thinks he still needs to talk to the rider, he has to dial "1" to connect the call. Samsung claims the S Bike mode is used by over 50% people using the phones.
This isn't a one-off India inspired jugaad for Samsung. Several of Samsung's phones and other appliances' features are evolving in India, Dipesh Shah, managing director of Samsung Research Institute Bangalore told ET.
"If you pick any Galaxy phone and launch the camera, seven out of ten modes are developed from Bangalore. Similarly, the internet browser in any Galaxy phone is developed by engineers in the Bangalore R&D Centre," he said.
Samsung India's Bangalore R&D Centre is the largest for the Korean behemoth outside its home country, and it is only natural that some of the work done here will find place in its global products.
According to a study by research firm Zinnov Consulting last year, global players were found to be investing more in their R&D centres in India.
"Most of the India centres have gone through a phase of maturity where they have moved from doing backend work to actually owning core parts of the project delivery," said Preeti Anand, head of engineering excellence practice at Zinnov.
"In India, 97% people were using prepaid (mobile connections) and we found their data consciousness extremely high. For instance, we watched people park their two wheelers, pull down their notification panel, switch on their mobile data, send one or two messages and then switch it off," said Shah, describing an oft-witnessed scene in India.
This insight was used to come up with features like the "ultra-data saving mode" that compresses data and restricts background applications from consuming unnecessary data, and "download booster" that allows the users' cellular data and Wi-Fi data to be combined.
Shah said more than 55% using J series Samsung phones are using this feature, and the success in India led to the expansion to Latin America, South-East Asia and Middle East Asia.
According to research firm IDC, Samsung continued to lead the Indian smartphone market in the second quarter this year, with a 25.1% share, with its J-Series devices driving its shipments in India.
It is not just smartphones however, that are driving the research facility's vision for India. "The two main focus areas of India R&D are internet of things and intelligence," said Shah.
He is quick to admit that Samsung's existing voice assistant - S Voice is a work in progress. "The first stage is to get Indian English working and then take it further…People with different accents come to our office and they speak to the device and then we look at variation and then tune up our engines," he said.
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Badla
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...stops just short of being a riveting psychological legal thriller because the thrill elements are exhausted too early in the film. After a point, we are left to play the waiting game despite knowing where the film is headed. But thanks to Manav, this wait feels worth it… almost.
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Coolie No.1
...goes to show that stepping into the shoes of a unique superstar like Govinda might just not be Varun's cup of tea… yet.
Remove the stylised layers, foot-tapping music, Greek God-like leads, and the crisp runtime, and most of Mohit Suri's films are essentially explorations of toxic masculinity. Malang is no different. It ticks all the boxes in the Mohit Suri-checklist, but does little else.
...Remo returns to what he does best — assemble one dance-off after another to string together a film that has its heart in the right place.
There are a lot of things going for Tanhaji, but, deep inside, it is unsettling to see such polarising historical dramas.
Dabangg 3
...the forced comedy track and the laughably predictable twists undo a lot of the good.
For all its seemingly palpable tension, its weak and predictable screenplay leaves The Body... weighted and cold.
...moments of ingenuity and wackiness manage to balance, albeit temporarily, the outrage the film induces otherwise.
P Se Pyaar F Se Faraar
...having the heart in the right place just doesn't cut it anymore
A love story is only as good as its leads, and Abhishek Sharma gets the casting right.
...it misses the mark by quite a bit, as Diljit's unassuming demeanour and charming effervescence can only take you so far.
...lacks the finesse to shoulder this wafer-thin plot, which crumbles even further due to some amateurish staging.
India's Most Wanted
We don't know who these officers were, and how many lives were saved because of their bravado. But, what's the probability that despite Indian cinema churning out such films regularly, we won't quite remember these sacrifices? High, sir.
While it is undoubtedly a decent watch, Junglee needed more madness, more unadulterated fun, and... obviously, more of those cute elephants, making themselves comfortable around a high-flying Vidyut.
Both Taapsee and Amitabh are in top form, and the oscillating power dynamics between the two makes for an engaging watch.
...is a half-baked attempt at a fun-filled take on how politicians use religion and culture as election propaganda.


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Social media is an ever-present part of our lives, it is a big part of our day every day. But sometimes we all forget that what we say and do online can have a far greater effect than what we intend it to.
As always we encourage everyone to act and commentate online in a positive manner towards each other, and remind ourselves not to be the cause of another person's negative experience online.
What we type should be done so in a respectful and mindful manner.
Insults, threats and abuse (among other negative actions) towards riders, coaches, officials and organisations have no place in the BMX community.
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Absinthe drink is one of the most famous alcoholic drinks, or spirits, on the globe. Famously banned in 1915 due to its cannabis like psychedelic effects on the brain, its assumed addictive quality and its high alcohol content, it was reviewed for safety in the 1990s and found safe for sale and the prohibition was removed in most countries in europe.
There are numerous spellings of the word Absinthe – Absinthe, Absinth, Absynthe and Absenta. Central Europeans often spell it "Absinth" minus the "e". The term Absinthe comes from the Latin "absinthium" the name for wormwood, one of its main components. "Absinthiana" is the word describing the objects found in the preparation of Absinthe – the Absinthe glasses , Absinthe spoon, carafe, fountain and brouilleur. There are many Absinthiana antiques that you can purchase and there are collectors who are skilled in Absinthiana.
Absinthe is a liquor manufactured from herbs including wormwood (artemisia absinthium), anise, fennel and star anise. The chemical substance thujone, from the wormwood, was considered to be accountable for the psychedelic effects of Absinthe. Absinthe continues to be famously blamed for Van Gogh's madness and his act of cutting off his ear. However, Absinthe is equally as safe as drinking any strong liquor like whisky or vodka, and has not been identified to possess any psychedelic or hallucinogenic effects.
Absinthe Drink is nicknamed "The Green Fairy" due to its striking emerald green color and is well-known for being the favored refreshment of Bohemian Parisian society, the artistic set. Many renowned artists and writers were followers of the Green Fairy – Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway. Absinthe has even highlighted in the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. Hemingway once invented a cocktail recipe he called "Death in the Afternoon" that is a mixture of Absinthe and champagne – delightful!
– Rest a particular Absinthe slotted spoon, like those on the net from AbsintheKit.com, on the glass and put a sugar cube into it.
– Pour ice cold water above the sugar. The drink will louche or become cloudy as the water blends with the Absinthe.
Additionally, there are many cocktail recipes involving Absinthe like the "Moulin Rouge" which is a mix of Absinthe, Archers and Grenadine.
Absinthe louches, becomes cloudy, because of its natural oil content. The oils from the herbs in the Absinthe are not water soluble and so help make the drink cloudy if the water is added. These herbal oils give Absinthe its renowned milky appearance and, certainly, its wonderful taste.
Absinthe drink is available from a number of manufacturers and in several types. You may even order Absinthe essence online. This essence which is made available from companies like AbsintheKit.com is fantastic because one 280ml bottle of essence makes 14 bottles of Absinthe – a brilliant economy. A measure and artistic bottle labels are furthermore provided. You may buy lovely Absinthe spoons and glasses to assist you create the perfect Absinthe drink.


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Step 7: Straws in Spaaace!
… three-dimensional space, to be precise.
Now that the scaffold is complete, let's use it! Find your straws; today we'll use just one of the five colors. Make sure they are already cut or creased as described in Step 1 few days ago.
Insert the long straw end at an arrow, and follow the dotted line to the exit.
Tomorrow we'll close up the corners to finish our first tetrahedron!
Take five of your finished scaffold units and lay them out in a star like this.
And that's the finished scaffold! Great job!
Oh, the Places You(r Straws Thingy)'ll Go!
OK! We've explored the geometry of Straws Thingy a bit, and we'll do more of this later. But I think the rest of our mathematical discussion will be much more engaging with a Straws Thingy of your own in your hands!
Or crowning your Christmas tree!
So let's start talking about how you can make your own, step by careful step. What'll you do with yours?!
The tubes are inflating (or equivalently, shortening) while pushing away from each other. When they can't inflate(shrink) any more, we've reached the ideal, tight packing.
The 27.43 refers to the edge length of the "axial" equilateral triangle, whereas the straws "shortcut" these corners via flexy bits. Of course, the exact shortcut dimensions vary from brand to brand, which further explains why I didn't offer more precision to yesterday's 23-or-24 measurement.
OK! It's time to switch focus away from discussing Straws Thingy's geometry and toward learning, step by step, how to make your own! So go out, find those straws, and get ready for some excitement!
Two days ago, I recommended Target's up&up brand of flexible straws. Why so specific? Is Target sponsoring these posts? In a word: no. (Hint hint, Target! =D) So why these in particular?
For this model, the size of the straws is critical—specifically, the length-to-diameter ratio. If the straws you use are too long/skinny (like the ones below from Market Basket), the finished model turns out wobbly and unsteady, as if it (appropriately!) drank a bit too much.
On the other hand, use straws that are too short/fat and they simply can't squeeze past each other. If you find those perfect Goldilocks straws—not too long, not too short, but just right—they keep Straws Thingy perfectly snug and sturdy. And in this regard, Target's up&up straws hit a bulls-eye.
OK, so what is this shape? As a first approximation, Straws Thingy is simply the Compound of Five Tetrahedra, a favorite among origami folders thanks to Tom Hull's popular and supremely elegant design.
Robert Lang describes this shape as a "polypolyhedron" (specifically, it is the mirror image of Polypolyhedron 44), and he originally classified all such shapes (there are 54) for origami—his folding of this particular polypolyhedron, a model he named K2, is especially stunning and took a full day to assemble!
After much deliberation and Simple English Wikipedia browsing, I decided to call it Straws Thingy.
So what is it? How does it work? What is it good for? Why does it induce vertigo if you stare at it too long? And how can you make one yourself?
I'll cover all this and more in the coming weeks. (Except for that 4th question. You might want to ask your doctor about that one). And yes, I'm confident that you can indeed make your own. To start, I suggest heading to Target and picking up a box of up&up 5-color flexible straws, making sure you have at least 12 of each color.
We must settle one more question to round out our elliptical arc: Why does light, when shot from one focus of an ellipse-shaped mirrored room, reflect back to the other focus? To answer this question, we'll need a Fact, a Formalism, and a Fairy Tale.
Recall that, in the previous post, we saw that ellipses can be described by distances: Any ellipse has two focus points F1 and F2 so that the total length of broken path F1XF2 is the same for every point X on the ellipse; let d be this common total distance. In fact, more is true: the length of F1XF2 is smaller than d if X is inside the ellipse, and larger than d if X is outside.
Left: The distance of the broken path is greater, equal, or less than d depending on whether the central vertex is outside, on, or inside the ellipse. Right: A proof of the "outside" case.
To prove this fairly intuitive fact, we'll use the "straight line principle": the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Indeed, when X is outside the ellipse (see right diagram above), straight-line path YF2 is shorter than the path YXF2 that detours through X, and so \(\)d = F_1 Y F_2 < F_1 Y X F_2[/latex]. See if you can fill in the case where X is inside the ellipse.
Recall that when light bounces off a straight mirror, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. But here we're discussing light bouncing off an ellipse, which is decidedly not straight. So we need to formally describe how light reflects off curved mirrors.
Reflection off of a curved mirror behaves like reflection off of the tangent line.
If we zoom into where the incoming light ray strikes a curved mirror (illustrated above), the mirror closely resembles a straight line, specifically its tangent line. This suggests that the light should behave as if it is reflecting off of this line, with equal angles as marked. This is indeed the rule governing ideal reflections on curved mirrors: the angles of incidence and reflection, as measured from the tangent line, should be equal.
The last ingredient involves Little Red Riding Hood and her thirsty grandmother. Red is delivering cake and wine from her mother (point M) to her grandmother (point G), but she must first fill a bucket of water at the nearby stream S, which is conveniently shaped like a straight line. She was warned by her Brothers to watch out for a big bad wolf, so she must minimize her total walking distance. Where on the stream should she fill her bucket to minimize this distance?
Left: Paths from M to S to G transform into paths from M' to G, the shortest of which is straight. Right: This straight path behaves like a mirror.
To answer this, imagine reflecting the first leg of Red's journey across line S, so her path from M to S to G gets reflected to a path from M' to G. The reverse may be done as well: any path from M' to G turns into a path from M to G that stops somewhere along S. So we just need to find the shortest path from M' to G. But this is easy: it's just the straight path M'G. So Red's shortest path from M to S to G is the one that stops at Z.
Notice that this shortest path is the one with equal angles as marked. This means Red's best strategy is to pretend the stream is a mirror and to follow the light ray that bounces directly to grandma's house. This neatly exemplifies Fermat's principle, which says that light tends to follow the fastest routes.
With these pieces in place, we can finish today's question in a flash. Let's say light from focus F1 hits an ellipse at point X, as illustrated below. Why does this ray bounce off the ellipse toward F2? If we draw the tangent line L at point X, by The Formalism above, this question is equivalent to: why does the light ray bounce off of line L toward F2?
Why are the two marked angles equal? Because the white path solves Red's Fairy Tale problem.
Let's reimagine this Grimm scenario by thinking of F1 as Red's mother's house, F2 as grandma's house, and L as the stream. I claim F1XF2 is the shortest path for Red to take. Why? If Y is any other point on line L, then Y is outside the ellipse, so by The Fact above, F1YF2 has distance longer than d. So F1XF2 is indeed the shortest. But by The Fairy Tale, we know that this shortest route behaves like light bouncing off of line L, i.e., the marked angles are indeed equal. So we're done!


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Wichita scores late, holds off Kansas City
06/10/2012 12:26 PM - Just when it looked as if the T-Bones would grab a decisive lead and hold off Wichita, the game turned in two quick innings as the Wingnuts scored six runs during the eighth and ninth, and left CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Saturday night with a 10-6 win in the second game of a three-game series.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Kansas City scored two runs after Gus Milner scored from third on a wild pitch by Robert Roth, and then Ray Sadler scored on an RBI single by Devin Goodwin. Kansas City and Wichita had been knotted at 4-4 since the top of the fourth inning.
But, in similar fashion to Friday night, Wichita took control of the game late. In the top of the eighth inning, the Wingnuts exploded for four runs. After pitcher Steve Kent, who replaced starter Nick Singleton in the seventh, issued a leadoff walk to Juan Richardson, C.J. Ziegler launched a two-run home run to left field that tied the game at 6-6. The Wingnuts took the lead when David Peralta scored on a wild pitch by Lucas Irvine. The final run was scored by Mitch Einerston on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Khoury.
After Wingnuts right hander Edgar Martinez pitched a perfect bottom of the eighth, Wichita added two more runs in the top of the ninth.
Offensively, the T-Bones were paced by Brandon Jones, who hit a three-run homer in the top of the fourth inning, giving Kansas City a short-lived 4-3 lead. Jones went 3-for-5 in the game.
The T-Bones (10-12) and Wingnuts (17-5) will finish the series on Sunday at 5:05 p.m. at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, with Kansas City's Devin Anderson (1-1) going against Wichita's Josh Lowey (3-0). Tickets are available by calling the T-Bones box office at 913-328-5618.


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I have seen a number of great horror films this year and V/H/S arrives seemingly set in that mold. It's a horror anthology film from many different directors with each finding a different way to use found footage to tell their stories. The analytic part of me wants to sit down and calmly lay out how each segment is presented as an imbalanced equation on the distribution of power through gender in horror films. Then there's the other part of me that just flat out hated most of what I saw and found it repetitive.
Each film becomes interchangeable from the last. The baseline description for each of the shorts is "Found footage but with x" where x is replaced with exorcism, demons, serial killers, and one other twisty plot device I found too stupid to repeat and would hate for anyone to have to discover. There's just varied enough camerawork to make you think that one film is different from the next but, no, all you are doing for nearly two hours is watching horrible people murdered brutally in service of the same idea in slightly different frameworks.
Despite how much I disliked most of the film, each director show at least one visual or idea that I enjoyed even in the worst of the shorts.
Normally anthology films are a bit difficult to review since each director is providing a different experience but that issue really isn't a problem with V/H/S. The overall narrative is that a collection of scumbags who like to rob stores, molest women, and tape their crimes in the meantime, are tasked to go find just one VHS tape and return. Well, they find several, and decide one by one to watch the tape in the player while sitting alone in a room with a dead man.
I understand people wanting to ignore logistics at times in service of what a film is doing, but as each one of the horrible men disappears after finishing the tape I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't just leave. The key words to that thought are "couldn't help", as in once the basic theme was established, emphasized in the first film, subsequently reinforced in every segment thereafter, and each done in a style little changed from the last then plot logistics were the last thing to challenge my mind. Many other questions came as the film continued on but rather than present a list of those, let's go back to my disappointment at the otherwise lofty goal of gender examination in these horror shorts.
Of the six films, the overarching narrative counting as one, only two were effective. Of those two I enjoyed the segment by Ti West the best. He directed the very smart The House of the Devil and utilized the found-footage motif in a way that was beyond "found footage but with x." He shows a married couple on the way to their second honeymoon and leaves in just enough lingering shots of the wife pulling away, or the husband getting frustrated, to see that something is going on with those two. When it ended the landscape had turned as much as the marriage had and the final shot made a point of how the camera is as much a tool of power in relationships as it is in fiction.
The attempt at self-aware camp that led to this regrettable bit of acting is the most awkwardly delivered moment of 2012.
The final, and most enjoyable segment, comes from the quartet known as Radio Silence. They wrote, directed, and starred in a story of what are possibly the only decent, non-manipulated, people in the film who go out in search of a Halloween party and end up in the wrong place. What happens from that point on genuinely surprised me and had a number of fun special effects shots (I think specifically a series of prints and some arms that seem on loan from Day of the Dead) integrated into the exciting conclusion. I was a bit disappointed at the very end because no good deed goes unpunished, but the ride was fun.
All the other segments were brutally heavy handed and dull. The biggest problem with the sequencing order of these segments is that they start off with the worst offender. Directed by David Bruckner, it just shows a group of horrible male predators taken out by a female who seems to embody that term a bit more literally. I hated just about everything about this segment, from the drunk-vision photography to the Helena Bonham Carter on crack (also, a near-literal description) that begs more of those plot questions from earlier. The other three segments, directed by Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, along with the overarching narrative from Adam Wingard, are just boring and horribly acted. At least in the case of McQuaid's segment the campiness of the acting is part of the point, a merely interesting idea does not make a good short.
I did not enjoy V/H/S even if I can respect the ideas put into it regarding violence, horror, and sex. But when the results are as repetitious, boring, and downright nasty as this when other films released this year have tread the ground in much better ways I can't recommend it. Best if you just try and find the shorts by Ti West and Radio Silence, the rest can be forgotten.
An anthology of horror films directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.
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Naval Science (NS) courses are when Midshipmen have an opportunity to formally study various aspects of the Naval services. All Midshipmen are required to enroll in one NS course a semester. Midshipmen can log into ACES to find course times and instructors.
Fall Freshman Year - NS 101 (Introduction to Naval Science): Organization, missions, and branches of specialization within the US Navy and Marine Corps.
Spring Freshman Year - NS 111 (Seapower & Maritime Affairs): The role of seapower in national and foreign policy, and as an instrument of political and military strategy. Includes comparative study of United States and other nations' maritime strategies.
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Spring Sophomore Year - NS 223 (Naval Leadership and Management): Study of organizational behavior and management in the context of naval and Marine Corps organization. Topics include leadership, management functions, planning, controlling, and directing.
Fall Junior Year - NS 353 (Navigation): Theory, principles, and procedures of ship navigation, movements and employment. Dead reckoning, piloting, celestial and electronic principles of navigation.
Spring Junior Year - NS 231 (Concepts and Analyses of Naval Tactical Systems): The study of weapons systems used aboard naval vessels and aircraft. Detection systems; systems integration into current naval platforms and their offensive and defensive capabilities.
Fall Senior Year - NS 423 (Leadership & Ethics): The study of officer responsibilities in naval administration. Discussions of counseling methods, ethics, military justice, human resources management, leadership, and supply systems.
Spring Senior Year - NS 453 (Naval Operations): Components of general naval operations, including concepts and application of tactical formations and dispositions, relative motion, maneuvering board and tactical plots, rules of the road, and naval communications.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Orleans.Runtime.Counters
{
    internal static class OrleansPerfCounterManager
    {
        internal const string CATEGORY_NAME = "OrleansRuntime";
        internal const string CATEGORY_DESCRIPTION = "Orleans Runtime Counters";

        private static readonly Logger logger = LogManager.GetLogger("OrleansPerfCounterManager", LoggerType.Runtime);
        private static readonly List<PerfCounterConfigData> perfCounterData = new List<PerfCounterConfigData>();

        /// <summary>
        /// Have the perf counters we will use previously been registered with Windows?
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns><c>true</c> if Windows perf counters are registered and available for Orleans</returns>
        public static bool AreWindowsPerfCountersAvailable()
        {
            try
            {
                return PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(CATEGORY_NAME);
            }
            catch (Exception exc)
            {
                logger.Warn(ErrorCode.PerfCounterCategoryCheckError,
                    string.Format("Ignoring error checking for {0} perf counter category", CATEGORY_NAME), exc);
            }
            return false;
        }

        public static void PrecreateCounters()
        {
            GetCounterData();

            foreach (var cd in perfCounterData)
            {
                var perfCounterName = GetPerfCounterName(cd);
                cd.PerfCounter = CreatePerfCounter(perfCounterName);
            }
        }

        internal static void GetCounterData()
        {
            perfCounterData.Clear();

            // (1) Start with list of static counters
            perfCounterData.AddRange(PerfCounterConfigData.StaticPerfCounters);

            // (2) Then search for grain DLLs and pre-create activation counters for any grain types found
            var loadedGrainClasses = GrainTypeManager.Instance.GrainClassTypeData;
            foreach (var grainClass in loadedGrainClasses)
            {
                var counterName = new StatisticName(StatisticNames.GRAIN_COUNTS_PER_GRAIN, grainClass.Key);
                perfCounterData.Add(new PerfCounterConfigData
                {
                    Name = counterName,
                    UseDeltaValue = false,
                    CounterStat = CounterStatistic.FindOrCreate(counterName, false),
                });
            }
        }

        internal static CounterCreationData[] GetCounterCreationData()
        {
            GetCounterData();
            var ctrCreationData = new List<CounterCreationData>();
            foreach (PerfCounterConfigData cd in perfCounterData)
            {
                var perfCounterName = GetPerfCounterName(cd);
                var description = cd.Name.Name;

                var msg = string.Format("Registering perf counter {0}", perfCounterName);
                Console.WriteLine(msg);

                ctrCreationData.Add(new CounterCreationData(perfCounterName, description, PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItems32));
            }
            return ctrCreationData.ToArray();
        }

        internal static PerformanceCounter CreatePerfCounter(string perfCounterName)
        {
            logger.Verbose(ErrorCode.PerfCounterRegistering, "Creating perf counter {0}", perfCounterName);
            return new PerformanceCounter(CATEGORY_NAME, perfCounterName, false);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Register Orleans perf counters with Windows
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>Note: Program needs to be running as Administrator to be able to delete Windows perf counters.</remarks>
        public static void InstallCounters()
        {
            var collection = new CounterCreationDataCollection();
            collection.AddRange(GetCounterCreationData());

            PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(
                CATEGORY_NAME,
                CATEGORY_DESCRIPTION,
                PerformanceCounterCategoryType.SingleInstance,
                collection);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Delete any existing perf counters registered with Windows
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>Note: Program needs to be running as Administrator to be able to delete Windows perf counters.</remarks>
        public static void DeleteCounters()
        {
            PerformanceCounterCategory.Delete(CATEGORY_NAME);
        }

        public static int WriteCounters()
        {
            if(logger.IsVerbose) logger.Verbose("Writing Windows perf counters.");

            int numWriteErrors = 0;

            foreach (PerfCounterConfigData cd in perfCounterData)
            {
                StatisticName name = cd.Name;
                string perfCounterName = GetPerfCounterName(cd);

                try
                {
                    if (cd.PerfCounter == null)
                    {
                        if (logger.IsVerbose) logger.Verbose(ErrorCode.PerfCounterUnableToConnect, "No perf counter found for {0}", name);
                        cd.PerfCounter = CreatePerfCounter(perfCounterName);
                    }

                    if (cd.CounterStat == null)
                    {
                        if (logger.IsVerbose) logger.Verbose(ErrorCode.PerfCounterRegistering, "Searching for statistic {0}", name);
                        ICounter<long> ctr = IntValueStatistic.Find(name);
                        cd.CounterStat = ctr ?? CounterStatistic.FindOrCreate(name);
                    }

                    long val;
                    //if (cd.UseDeltaValue)
                    //{
                    //    ((CounterStatistic)cd.CounterStat).GetCurrentValueAndDeltaAndResetDelta(out val);
                    //}
                    //else
                    {
                        val = cd.CounterStat.GetCurrentValue();
                    }
                    if (logger.IsVerbose3) logger.Verbose3(ErrorCode.PerfCounterWriting, "Writing perf counter {0} Value={1}", perfCounterName, val);
                    cd.PerfCounter.RawValue = val;
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    numWriteErrors++;
                    logger.Error(ErrorCode.PerfCounterUnableToWrite, string.Format("Unable to write to Windows perf counter '{0}'", name), ex);
                }
            }
            return numWriteErrors;
        }

        private static string GetPerfCounterName(PerfCounterConfigData cd)
        {
            return cd.Name.Name + "." + (cd.UseDeltaValue ? "Delta" : "Current");
        }
    }
}


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"Obviously it's not an entire lung, but the technology can mimic the damaging effects of lung fibrosis. Ultimately, it could change how we test new drugs, making the process quicker and less expensive."
Ruogang Zhao, assistant professor
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Developing new medicines to treat pulmonary fibrosis, one of the most common and serious forms of lung disease, is not easy.
One reason: it's difficult to mimic how the disease damages and scars lung tissue over time, often forcing scientists to employ a hodgepodge of time-consuming and costly techniques to assess the effectiveness of potential treatments.
Now, new biotechnology reported in the journal Nature Communications could streamline the drug-testing process.
The innovation relies on the same technology used to print electronic chips, photolithography. Only instead of semiconducting materials, researchers placed upon the chip arrays of thin, pliable lab-grown lung tissues — in other words, its lung-on-a-chip technology.
"Obviously it's not an entire lung, but the technology can mimic the damaging effects of lung fibrosis. Ultimately, it could change how we test new drugs, making the process quicker and less expensive," says lead author Ruogang Zhao, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University at Buffalo.
The department is a multidisciplinary unit formed by UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
With limited tools for fibrosis study, scientists have struggled to develop medicine to treat the disease. To date, there are only two drugs — pirfenidone and nintedanib — approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations that help slow its progress.
However, both drugs treat only one type of lung fibrosis: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. There are more than 200 types of lung fibrosis, according to the American Lung Association, and fibrosis also can affect other vital organs, such as the heart, liver and kidney.
Furthermore, the existing tools do not simulate the progression of lung fibrosis over time — a drawback that has made the development of medicine challenging and relatively expensive. Zhao's research team, which included past and present students, as well as a University of Toronto collaborator, created the lung-on-a-chip technology to help address these issues.
Using microlithography, the researchers printed tiny, flexible pillars made of a silicon-based organic polymer. They then placed the tissue, which acts like alveoli (the tiny air sacs in the lungs that allow us to consume oxygen), on top of the pillars.
Researchers induced fibrosis by introducing a protein that causes healthy lung cells to become diseased, leading to the contraction and stiffening of the engineered lung tissue. This mimics the scarring of the lung alveolar tissue in people who suffer from the disease.
The tissue contraction causes the flexible pillars to bend, allowing researchers to calculate the tissue contraction force based on simple mechanical principles.
Researchers tested the system's effectiveness with pirfenidone and nintedanib. While each drug works differently, the system showed the positive results for both, suggesting the lung-on-a-chip technology could be used to test a variety of potential treatments for lung fibrosis.
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health; the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB; and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UB.
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New Perspectives on Commodity and Currency Risk
Cichetti, Chase (2021). New Perspectives on Commodity and Currency Risk. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London)
This thesis proposes new frameworks and methodologies for understanding commodity price co-movements with national currencies. The body of work is organized into three self-contained research papers and are thus referred to throughout the thesis corresponding to each chapter. Throughout the work, 'chapter' and 'paper' may be used interchangeably, though for ease of reference all page numbers are ordered sequentially as one body of work while figure, equation and table numbers are ordered corresponding to chapter.
The first chapter proposes a novel framework for interpreting currency-commodity correlations: indirect relationships. Direct, or 'traditional' currency-commodity effects, enjoy a wide literature base where such relationships assert themselves via a trade link: where a significant proportion of national product is linked to a specific commodity, variation in demand for that commodity will have a substantial impact on demand for national currency. Indirect relationships are proposed, where currency-commodity correlations will assert themselves during times of crisis, or in cases where there is no explicit import-export channel in the stated commodity market.
The second chapter contributes a crisis-state definition framework based on currency volatility-acceleration as a means of implementing the conceptual framework for detecting indirect currency-commodity relationships in Emerging Market (EM) countries. Instances of direct and indirect currency-commodity relationships are identified under the frameworks and are subjected to statistical robustness testing. The currency volatility acceleration tool is shown to be a potent 'early-warning' detection system for defining crisis-states in certain EM countries, and the indirect currency-commodity framework is shown to produce significant results and validate the methodology.
The third chapter contributes a pricing-power detection framework based on currency-commodity relationships, generalizing findings that demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between the British pound and European sugar import prices arising from a single UK firm dominating refined sugar exports to the Continent.
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Polyrhythmics — Caldera (Sept. 22, 2017) •→√•→ ≡ Rich with bold brass and hypnotic percussion, Polyrhythmics' latest album, Caldera, showcases the instrumental eight~piece's impossibly tight grooves and virtuosic musicianship as they tear through a singular blend of funk, soul, psychedelic rock, R&B, progressive jazz, and Afrobeat.
•→√•→ ≡ Rich with bold brass and hypnotic percussion, Polyrhythmics' latest album, Caldera, showcases the instrumental eight~piece's impossibly tight grooves and virtuosic musicianship as they tear through a singular blend of funk, soul, psychedelic rock, R&B, progressive jazz, and Afrobeat. Calling to mind everything from Antibalas and the Dap~Kings to The Meters and Fela Kuti, it's without a doubt their strongest work to date, merging the infectious power of their live show with a sleek and nuanced studio sophistication.Named for the smoldering crater left after a volcanic eruption, Caldera was written during a band retreat to rural Oregon, where Polyrhythmics embraced truly collaborative songwriting for the first time during a marathon session in the shadow of Mt. Hood (itself an active volcano). The resulting album is a blistering declaration from a band that's progressed beyond the sum of its influences to come fully into its own. From the downtempo, Afrobeat trance of "Stargazer" to the triumphantly anthemic, high~octane pump~up funk of "Marshmallow Man," Caldera is instrumental music at its best: emotional, evocative, mesmerizing. On "Cactus Blossoms," Polyrhythmics craft an eerie, retro gem straight out of a 70's film score, while the trippy effects and wah~wah guitar of "Goldie's Road" suggest a psychedelic journey (or perhaps a bad trip), and the shuffling "Vodka For My Goat" draws on Stax soul while hinting at BB King's merger of the blues and jazz. It's an eclectic collection, tied together by the melding of eight distinct musical voices coming together as a cohesive whole.
•→√•→ ≡ The record follows the Seattle band's stellar third album, Octagon, which earned them tour dates around the country along with plenty of critical acclaim. The Stranger dubbed Polyrhythmics a group to watch, hailing their "sophisticated slinkiness and expressive brassiness," while WNCW praised their "modern afro~psycho~beat blend," and the Seattle Times dubbed them "funk maestros." The band was invited to perform live on influential Seattle NPR station KEXP, shared bills with everyone from Snarky Puppy to Booker T, and played massive festival stages including Bumbershoot, High Sierra, and Vancouver International Jazz Fest.
•→√•→ ≡ The great Polyrhythmics of Seattle are back & better than ever in 2017 with their epic album, Caldera. Rich with bold brass and hypnotic percussion, it showcases the instrumental eight~piece's impossibly tight grooves and virtuoso musicianship as they tear through a singular blend of Funk, Soul, psychedelic rock, R&B, progressive Jazz, and Afrobeat.
•→√•→ ≡ "Goldie's Road" starts Caldera off with a trippy, Blacksploitation style feeling. They add in spacey synth & guitar effects, plus African percussion noises and muted horns in all the right places. The funky flute riding on top gives the tune a groovy elegance.
•→√•→ ≡ "Spider Wolf" is a high~energy percussive jam. Its expressive brassiness helps the percussion power the song along, and the rest of the band creates a stirring blend that makes the body want to move.
•→√•→ ≡ "Marshmallow Man" moves the groove into a stimulating Funk eruption. The wah~wah wiggles hips as the horn and rhythm section burst forth for a final explosion of organ and brass jam down.
•→√•→ ≡ "Cactus Blossom" blooms sweetly from the edge of Polyrhythmics' Funk volcano. This mellow, soulful Funk song intrigues the listener, and then builds up a dramatic rhythm before letting you back down again.
•→√•→ ≡ "Au Jus" is the longest tune on Caldera at more than 9 minutes. It's an impressive ride through everything Polyrhythmics excel at. It's jazzy, funky, soulful, and percussive. Starting off mellow & groovy, it starts to rock out, then finds that groove again. All the players get their chance to root down & get it on this one, as the tune oscillates between heavy & groovy. Then, "Au Jus" turns far~out & spacey.
•→√•→ ≡ "Journey to Caldera" is a catchy, funky tune. The horn section finds a lively line and the organ get greasy.
•→√•→ ≡ "Compound 49" is an especially funky, joyful groove. The name must signify some magic potion that just makes you feel good when you take it because that's what this tune does. It's definitely one of the best instrumental Funk songs of 2017!
•→√•→ ≡ "Dragon Lotion" is a funky, happy, modern Afrobeat groove. The electric piano lines, and then the Latin percussion breakdown make this tune extra diverse and danceable. This song is the most purely Afrobeat sounding tune on Caldera.
•→√•→ ≡ "Bowling Green" burns slow and intoxicates the listener with a profound bass line, impressive horn solos, and relentless rhythm.
•→√•→ ≡ "Lord of the Fries" is a little dark, yet still super funky. Its rolling rhythm and potent percussion breakdown make this tune full of surprises, giving the horn section a platform to wail.
•→√•→ ≡ "Vodka For My Goat" is a genre~bending Funk jam full of wah~wah, Afro~Latin percussion, and hair~raising horn stabs. Listen for Ben Bloom's amazing guitar solo, followed by a killer conga & percussion jam.
•→√•→ ≡ "Stargazer" ends the album with downtempo, Afrobeat trance. Overall, Caldera is one of my favorite records of 2017 because of its genre~bending jams, and refusal to conform to easy classification.