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Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) Review
Samsung has released a smartphone that might as well be perfect for everyone. Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 was announced just recently and it is also the first major release by the brand coming out of the Galaxy Note 7 mishap. As the A series is nothing new, the Galaxy A5 (2017) first has to prove itself over the outgoing Galaxy A5 (2016) variant and then stand on its own against competitors from other brands. There are some nice feature additions this year for the Galaxy A5 while remaining in that manageable form factor. We will be talking in detail about the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) right below and discussing whether it ticks all the boxes of a near perfect phone.
The phone we have with us for review purposes is the Gold Stand color variant with dual-SIM functionality. This time around, Samsung has shifted back to a single color painted phone. Last year, we saw the Galaxy A series follow a black screen front with different colors but that isn't the case now. Further, the phone itself now has more refined designed that is easier to hold and doesn't feature a camera bump like the Galaxy A5 (2016).
Before we start talking about what we think about the Galaxy A5 (2017), lets get the facts out of the way.
1 Galaxy A5 (2017): Technical Specifications
2 Galaxy A5 (2017): Design and Hardware
3 Galaxy A5 (2017): Camera
4 Galaxy A5 (2017): Connectivity, Memory and Battery
5 Galaxy A5 (2017): Software
6 Galaxy A5 2017: Screenshots
7 Galaxy A5 (2017): Gallery
Galaxy A5 (2017): Technical Specifications
Network LTE Cat.6 * May differ by markets and mobile operators
Display 5.2" FHD Super AMOLED
Processor 1.9GHz Octa Core
Operating System Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
Camera Rear : 16MP (F1.9), Front : 16MP (F1.9)
Additional features MST technology(Samsung Pay), Samsung KNOX, S-Voice, Dual SIM option
Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth® v 4.2, ANT+, USB Type-C, NFC (UICC, eSE)
Sensors Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, RGB Light, Hall, Fingerprint scanner, Barometer, Gyro
IP Code IP68
Memory 3GB RAM + 32GB Storage and Micro SD slot (up to 256GB)
Dimension 146.1 x 71.4 x 7.9mm
Battery 3,000mAh, Fast Charging
Galaxy A5 (2017): Design and Hardware
The Galaxy A5 (2017) is a very smart looking phone, appealing more to the younger user with its rounded off edges. Gone are the bold corners to make way for these curved ones. Moreover, the Galaxy A5 (2017) has some premium materials with glass on front and glass on the back. The metal ring joins the two together. Also, the size of the Galaxy A5 (2017) hits the sweet spot. It has a 5.2 inch screen with minimum bezels. Not a one hand use phone but its the best balance between ample screen space and practicality.
Right up front is the gorgeous 5.2 inch Super AMOLED display. Boasting a full HD resolution, its not the highest but in this size, it is certainly ample. Text is crisp, images are sharp. However, for VR purposes, this is a little low. Then again, users who are looking for a good VR experience should be spending much more than what the Galaxy A5 (2017) demands. The SuperAMOLED panel catches spotlight in the Always-On display feature. This allows your phone to have some text and data being displayed on the screen even when its locked. As only individual pixels light up, there isn't very significant battery drain.
The metal border has an outside curve on the Galaxy A5 (2017). This allows for better grip and overall a smooth transition when you flick your fingers to provide gesture input to the phone. As the edges meet seamlessly at the end, you will find the A5 (2017) to be a delight with all gestures. The bezels also, make the feel phone smaller than it actually is which is very good. Fitting more screen in less body should always be the goal and A5 (2017) truly works on that.
Right at the front, except for the glass, there is a large home button present. This size increase is for the benefit of the fingerprint sensor beneath. From experience, it does make it more reliable. In fact, the new A series rarely misses to recognize when the correct finger is place on the sensor. Rest of the buttons are not visible until you power the phone on. These capacitive touch buttons are a tradition with Samsung. And as with all Samsung phones, the right button acts as back while the left button opens up recents. Apart from that, the front camera is placed above the screen along with the call speaker. There is no notification light due to availability of Always-On display.
The left side is where the power button is placed, again following standard and tradition. However, what isn't standard, is that right next to it there is a grill which houses the speaker. Samsung has moved the speaker position in the new A series. This new position is something that doesn't improve the audio capabilities neither does it worsens them.
On the right side, you find a SIM tray if you have the dual-SIM version but if you don't it would just carry separate volume buttons. The dual-SIM variant has this independent tray which enables the phone to have two SIMs plugged in along with a micro-SD card.
At the bottom, there is a 3.5mm headphone jack. We will consider this as a feature. Right at the center is the USB Type-C slot. Keep in mind, this is Samsung's second ever phone series with a Type-C port so Samsung is still developing technologies to make most use of it. It's good to know that Samsung's Adaptive Fast Charging is supported and the Galaxy A5 (2017) ships with a Adaptive Fast Charger.
Ending with the back side, it is all made up of glass. Whats great about the back is that it is flush. There are no protrusions. Camera module is flat, a big upgrade from previous models. Samsung, differentiating from flagship line, doesn't include heart-rate sensors rather there is the singular flash.
The internals of this phone are an Exynos 1.9 GHz Octa-core processor, 3GB RAM and 32GB standard storage. Certainly this is what all users want, a high enough built-in storage capacity with expand-ability option for upgrading later on. Commenting on performance, it is above-average at best. The phone isn't sluggish neither does it take ages to load apps but in 2017, we expect every phone to be on this level. Again, the A series has never been about performance or the latest and greatest but it is about whats tried and tested.
Before we move on from hardware, there is a key change in this year's model. The phone is now IP68 water and dust resistant. Unlike other budget class phones, this feature is a very good addition and certainly something Samsung can easily market. As the phone is sealed, it only makes sense to make it water proof as well. The glass is coated to repel water both back and front.
Related: Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 Review.
Galaxy A5 (2017): Camera
Coming to the camera, which probably is the most used thing on a phone these days, the Galaxy A5 (2017) comes equipped 16MP f/1.9 modules for both front and back. Yes, the rear camera is as good as the front. For competing in this category, being the selfie king is somewhat crucial. Samsung has put a sensor that is used for primary photos on the back so we expect ridiculously good front facing pictures.
What truly ties in the camera and provides you with exceptional performance is the software. With the Galaxy A5 (2017) camera app, you can easily get away with photos that seem to be taken on phones much expensive than this. The Pro mode is what we loved as it gave us true freedom like on a DSLR.
Letting us down was the video. It shoots great 1080p video but we expected to see 4K come out of this phone as the hardware supports it. Logically, Samsung decided to skip higher resolutions as the primary display doesn't support it. Slow-mo, fast motion and time lapse modes are all present and work very efficiently on the Galaxy A5 (2017).
Galaxy A5 (2017): Connectivity, Memory and Battery
Samsung has packed Galaxy A5 (2017) with all communication capabilities it can. The phone, in supported regions, comes with NFC which means Samsung Pay. It features latest Bluetooth technology and also up to LTE Cat 6 functionality. Coupling all that with even dual-SIM capability is something no less than a feat. Skipping hybrid microSD and SIM tray for a completely separate system serves in Galaxy A5 (2017)'s favor.
The memory Galaxy A5 (2017) ships with is 32GB and can be expanded with a microSD card slot. The RAM is also a spacious 3 gigabyte's worth. Combined, the Galaxy A5 (2017) lets you play games and store multiple of them without bogging down.
Battery module on the Galaxy A5 (2017) has touched the 3,000mAh mark. This capacity coupled with the specs, provide enough juice for a whole day of usage. Also, the Adaptive Fast Charger can top the power up quite fast giving you freedom from carrying an external power bank.
Galaxy A5 (2017): Software
If you have made this far, you must be thinking that if everything serves up well, this might be the part where the A5 (2017) lets down. However, it is not so. Running Marshmallow when Nougat has been out for months is something Samsung can only pull off. How do they do it? Its simple. They iterate the higher version's TouchWiz to previous version's Android. Its something illogical but that's what we have on the A5 (2017). The look and feel will have you believe its Nougat.
To back it up, Samsung's proprietary multi-window functionality and other such features really don't leave you much to miss. Also, in our usage, all apps worked fine and as Android is split into multiple versions, compatibility issues are non-existent.
The apps Samsung offers do really make the phone come alive. From S-health to S-Note, all apps serve very well and provide great functionality. Even without the S-Pen, S-Note is quite useful. Also, the gestures Samsung has integrated like palm-swipe to capture a screenshot make the phone intuitive and a delight to use.
Default bundled Samsung Apps & Features:
File Manager is a simple but mandatory app available in the Galaxy A5 (2017). It functions to provide you access to all of your stored media and data. OTG connections also show up in this app.
Galaxy Apps lets you install proprietary Samsung apps which aren't listed or available on the Play Store like S Note.
S Voice is a personal voice-powered assistant. You can control your phone hands free through S Voice and perform different actions otherwise not available in Google Now.
Ultra-Power Saving mode if you are running on low battery and cannot charge your phone, you can access this mode. It cuts down on all of the different features while still letting you access the basic ones.
Private Mode works with the fingerprint scanner in locking different sorts of data and encrypting it. Once locked, no one will have access to it except when you authenticate with your fingerprint.
S Bike Mode For bike riders, this mode provides hands free access to your phone. Not only that, there are options to record trips, mileage and monitor traffic situations. You can also set custom notifications to be forwarded once you are in this mode.
Galaxy A5 2017: Screenshots
Galaxy A5 (2017): Gallery
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Harold William Kuhn (né à Santa Monica le , et mort à New York le ) est un mathématicien et économiste américain.

Professeur à l'Université de Princeton, il publie plusieurs livres dont les livres fondateurs Nonlinear programming avec Albert Tucker en 1951, puis Contributions to the Theory of Games en 1976. Il reçoit le prix de théorie John von Neumann avec Albert Tucker en 1980.

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Naissance à Santa Monica
Mathématicien américain du XXe siècle
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Décès en juillet 2014
Décès à New York
Décès à 88 ans
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A club for now & forever
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Cronulla aren't the richest club in the NRL. Far from it. But we've become one of the smartest.
The iron was hot this week and we struck.
Aaron Woods was available and we signed him. A Test and Origin player with plenty of football left in him. If he'd been on the open market, he would've cost a lot more than we paid to sign him. But Canterbury needed to create salary cap space and to do that they needed to move him on.
We had salary cap space. Astute management of the player roster put us in that position.
It was win-win for the club. We signed a high-quality player and the Bulldogs are going to have to keep paying some of his wage going forward.
To pick up someone like Woodsy, your club has to be attractive to the player.
He left the Tigers as a NSW and Australian representative and went to the Bulldogs thinking it was all going to be OK. It wasn't. When it became clear they were prepared to let him go, he wanted to join a club where he could concentrate on his career, play semi-final footy and get back into reps after missing out on the State of Origin series this year.
We were that sort of club. He knew it.
Woodsy hasn't been happy with how he played at the Bulldogs. I don't think their style of footy suited him. He needs to get back to running hard. Less of the passing before the line and more of the tough grind.
Our style of play in the forwards is ruthless and gritty. We'll rub off on him and he'll play his best footy here.
The boys getting around @woodsy2040 ? . #UpUpCronulla
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THE BREEDING GROUND
If you're a struggling club negotiating with a star player – and it's clear to him that success is a long way off – you might still convince him to sign but you're going to have to pay big overs.
Sometimes the most difficult way, but always the most satisfying, is to create your own players.
The Sharks have produced some great juniors over the years – Andrew Ettingshausen is an obvious one that comes to mind – but while plenty of players were still coming through, the production of genuine star players had slowed.
Something was missing and we had to fix it.
As a result, there's a bit of a revolution going on with our junior development. The process started a couple of years before we won the premiership in 2016 and now it's bearing fruit with more and more local juniors entering our top-30 squad.
You can't rest on your laurels after winning one comp. Things change and if you don't adjust, you get left behind.
This is going to be our foundation for success in the future.
Jayden Brailey, Blayke Brailey, Kyle Flanagan, Will Kennedy, Billy Magoulias, and Briton Nikora are all in our top-30 squad after coming through our revamped system. Isaac LumeLume and Bronson Xerri are pushing up behind them. Jack Williams is working on his game at Newtown.
Jayden's obviously the best known because he's been a regular first-grader since the start of last season, but we've got great faith in all of them.
And there are more to come.
Before, we had our junior rep teams and a few academy processes, but we needed to up the ante. It had to become more attractive to the kids and their parents.
We established academies in all the different age groups from under 14s upwards and in the age groups outside the junior rep teams we trained the players, organised games against other clubs and gave them exposure to what is involved in an NRL program.
Something was missing and we had to fix it. As a result, there's a bit of a revolution going on with our junior development.
Our other coaches at the time – James Shepherd, Steve Price and John Morris – went out to the clinics and did the coaching. Andrew Gray, our physical performance manager, designed programs for the squads. We gave it a real professional feel.
It began to make a difference almost immediately.
In 2015, we won the Harold Matthews Cup (under 16s) and SG Ball (under 18s) competitions and took out the national championship, which was a first for the club.
Now we've got three types of academies – junior reps, which is under 16s, 18s and 20s; our elite academy, which is the best kids in every age group; and our participation academy, which is for anyone who's playing junior league and wants to come along. We'll provide the coaching for you.
You've got to realise that for every Andrew Ettingshausen there are others who have the potential to be as good but get distracted or lose interest in their mid-teens for whatever reason and become lost to the game.
And not everyone who becomes an established first-grader played junior rep footy.
Paul Gallen didn't, but as he got older he got stronger and went on to play for NSW and Australia and win a grand final with us.
Everyone's different. Some develop slower and we want to make sure those kids don't fall out of the system because their potential isn't recognised.
Post game celebrations with @paulgallen13 and son / ball boy Kody Gallen ?? . #UpUpCronulla
Our elite academy includes an average of five or six kids from every age group and they get regular strength and conditioning and skills session with our coaches. Nutrition, sleep, hydration – everything that matters to an NRL player is covered.
I've lived in the district for most of my life and I saw there was an enormous amount of young kids wanting to play rugby league better, but who didn't have the structures in place to expose them to specialised coaching. Now we've got that.
There's obviously a significant expense involved, but when I went to the club about it, I didn't have to beg them for the money. They could see the value in it.
Supplying the coaches, trainers and physios and providing tracksuits, training gear and bags for hundreds of kids doesn't come cheap, but the dividend is that these kids come into the NRL system through the Sharks.
If you're producing your own quality juniors and they're happy at the club we don't have to pay them ridiculous amounts of money at the start, like you sometimes have to do if you're chasing players from other clubs. They will earn good money soon enough.
It's not all about winning the junior rep competitions, but that's obviously important because it's proof what we're doing is working and we're been very competitive again this year.
If you want to play rugby league, there's definitely a pathway that exists for you at Cronulla.
Good night Sharks fans ? . #UpUpCronulla
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COACHING A REGION, NOT A CLUB
I'm head coach of the Sharks but I don't see my job stopping with the first grade squad.
I see my role as being head coach from top to bottom throughout the district, right down to grassroots.
There's no point looking at it like that unless you're going to make a genuine commitment. I don't just coach 30 players. I've got to coach a club and a community.
Several years ago, I took the time to go to a lot of junior matches and talk to people. The recurring theme was a concern about a lack of pathways.
This year, myself and my staff at the Sharks took it up another notch.
There are 14 junior clubs in the Cronulla-Sutherland district and 10 of them have teams in under-13s competitions.
I've been going out to one of these clubs every week for a training session with their under-13 side. The ones that don't have under-13s, I work with the nearest age group to that.
I'll admit when I first started doing it I thought, 'What have I got myself into' – I already had a pretty full schedule as it was – but I've got to say I've enjoyed it immensely. The fun the kids have takes you back and gives you a different slant on things.
The message from me is that I'm not going out there to take over and change everything they do. I basically act as the assistant coach and jump in and help. If the coach wants to redesign things a bit I'll assist with that, as well as provide a bit of specialised coaching for an individual player or two.
I have a bit of a Q&A session with the kids at the start. They love to find out things about the Sharks – who's the fastest, the strongest – and I'll ask them who's their favourite player. It used to be Gal, but now it's Valentine Holmes.
We invite the coaches to our own training sessions at the Sharks and do a bit of coach the coaches as well.
My assistants – Jimmy Dymock and John Morris – run the sessions, teaching offensive and defensive drills. We had about 50 coaches turn up to one last year.
It's not a battle between footy and the beach for talented kids here. That's still basically a winter and summer thing and it's actually good because if they're active in the surf and competing for surf clubs it keeps them fit.
It's a battle between footy and all the other things kids have to do these days. Back when I was a kid it was rugby league and soccer, but now there's AFL, martial arts is massive, basketball's big, and of course all the technology that kids love.
That's why you've got to go flat out to compete and make rugby league as attractive as possible as an option.
I see myself coaching for another 10 or 12 years. Maybe 15 if things are going well.
I'm 52 and coaches like Craig Bellamy and Wayne Bennett have shown you can go a lot longer than that and continue to be successful if you have the right attitude and maintain your commitment.
You have to be capable of reinventing yourself and freshening your approach.
I took over at Cronulla towards the end of the 2010 season and I've had some players here under my control for a long time now. Gal's been at the club for 18 years.
So to come in and give them the same spiel day after day, week after week is going to stop working at some point. You have to find different ways to keep challenging the players. I've concentrated on doing that.
You need good staff around you as well to help come up with new ideas and techniques.
It's a challenge, but I love it.
We've had to rebuild in recent years and we haven't had the money and resources some other clubs have, but I'm not one to look at the richer clubs and say, 'I wish we had that'. I concentrate on us using what we've got to the best of our ability.
The satisfaction I get from doing the job is what makes me get out of bed and go to work every day. Winning is the cream on top. You never forget how great it feels on grand final night if you're holding the trophy and looking at the smiles on your players' faces.
If you'd asked me when I first started coaching, 'If you were guaranteed to win a comp, would you give it away after that?', I would've said yes.
But when you do win one it feels so good, you get a bit greedy.
I want to win more.
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Airut:aamujen is het vierde album van de Finse progressieve folk band Tenhi, en het tweede deel uit de Airut-saga. Het album was oorspronkelijk uitgebracht op het eigen label van de band, UTUstudio, under de naam Harmaa. In oktober 2006 is het album opnieuw uitgebracht door het Duitse label Prophecy Productions.

Airut:Aamujen (De aankondiger der ochtenden, in het Fins) verschilt van andere Tenhi albums door het vrijwel exclusieve gebruik van enkel piano, drums en bas (de akoestische gitaar en de synthesizer maken slechts korte verschijningen en worden niet genoemd in de credits). De band heeft verkondigt dan het nummber Kielo op Tenhi's ep Airut:Ciwi (het eerste deel uit het saga) de basis was voor de toon en stijl van Airut:Aamujen.

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 "Saapuminen | Emerging" - 2:24
 "Seitsensarvi | Grey Shine of June" - 4:35
 "Lävitseni kaikkeen | Thru Me and into Everything" - 5:44
 "Luopumisen laulu | Eloign" - 5:39
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 "Oikea sointi | Lay Down a Tune" - 4:11
 "Kahluu | Fury Revived" - 8:18
 "Hiensynty | Burning" - 7:34
 "Läheltä | A Brief Passing Moment" - 6:49

De nummers worden gezongen in het Fins, maar elk lied heeft een Engelse versie in het boekje, deze versies zijn geen letterlijke vertalingen.

BezettingIlmari Issakainen - piano, drums en bas (waarschijnlijk ook de akoestische gitaar en synthesizer)Tyko Saarikko - zangJanina Lehto - tweede stemTuukka Tolvanen' - tweede stem
Compositie, lyriek, zetting, grafische vormgeving, opname, productie en mixing zijn toegeschreven aan de band.

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package inpro.incremental.processor;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import inpro.incremental.IUModule;
import inpro.incremental.unit.EditMessage;
import inpro.incremental.unit.IU;

public class ThreadingModule extends IUModule { // NO_UCD (test only): this is/can be included via XML configuration

	final ModuleState mostRecentState = new ModuleState();
	boolean inShutdown = false;

	public ThreadingModule() {
		new Thread(bufferProcessor).start();
	}

	/** we need to override IUModule.hypChange, because we notify the rightBuffer on our own */
	@Override
	public synchronized void hypChange(Collection<? extends IU> ius,
			List<? extends EditMessage<? extends IU>> edits) {
		leftBufferUpdate(ius, edits);
	}

	@Override
	protected void leftBufferUpdate(Collection<? extends IU> ius,
			List<? extends EditMessage<? extends IU>> edits) {
		synchronized(mostRecentState) {
			mostRecentState.ius = ius;
			mostRecentState.enqueuedState = true;
			mostRecentState.notifyAll();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void reset() {
		synchronized(mostRecentState) {
			mostRecentState.enqueuedState = false;
			mostRecentState.notifyAll();
		}
	}

	public void shutdown() {
		this.inShutdown = true;
		reset();
	}

	private class ModuleState {
		Collection<? extends IU> ius;
		boolean enqueuedState = false;
	}

	private Runnable bufferProcessor = new Runnable() {
		@Override
		public void run() {
			try {
				while (!inShutdown) {
					Collection<? extends IU> ius = null;
					synchronized(mostRecentState) {
						if(mostRecentState.enqueuedState) {
							ius = mostRecentState.ius;
							mostRecentState.enqueuedState = false;
						}
					}
					if (ius != null) {
						rightBuffer.setBuffer(mostRecentState.ius);
						rightBuffer.notify(iulisteners);
					} else {
						synchronized(mostRecentState) {
							mostRecentState.wait(500);
						}
					}
				}
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				System.err.println(e);
			}
		}
	};

}

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When customers walk in, one of the most common questions they have for our gelatistas is, "What is the difference between gelato and ice cream?" It is commonly thought that gelato is just the Italian word for ice cream, but Iorio's is here to help set the record straight.
Upon your first sample of our gelato, one of the first differences you may notice is that the gelato is much creamier and denser than typical ice cream. To further investigate, we've compiled a list of the main factors to consider when differentiating: ingredients, processing steps, and manner by which it is served.
A key difference between gelato and ice cream is that gelato uses milk as its key dairy ingredient whereas ice cream uses cream. This may not seem like a drastic difference, but it results in a much different taste and texture. The use of milk results in a much lower fat content than ice cream, which makes it a lighter treat.
What makes gelato so much denser than ice cream, you might ask? It's all in the air, or rather, the lack of it! When gelato is churned, it is done much more slowly than ice cream, resulting in less air in the mixture, leading to a dense and satisfying texture. It also means that when you order your piccolo, medio, or even splurge on a pint at one of our stores, you are getting more for what you pay for than if you were to order the same size container of ice cream.
If you've ever entered our store, you will notice that we do not have the typical ice cream scoop you may see at other ice cream parlors. Rather, Iorio's serves its gelato with the more traditional scape or spade. These tools are similar to spatulas, with a flat, metal surface with is used to slide the gelato into the container.
Additionally, gelato is served at a warmer temperature than ice cream. This allows it to have a much softer consistency without melting quickly as ice cream would at the same temperature. Due to this warmer temperature, there is no numbing sensation on the tongue, and you are able to experience a sharper and more distinct taste.
Of course, we won't outright say that gelato is superior to any ice cream, so you'll have to come decide for yourself.


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Cristiano Gatti of Teknowool on Solving Gas Turbine Insulation Challenges
If it ain't broke, don't fix it – tried and tested advice, BUT what if it is truly broken and compromising safety or efficiency? Pyrogel insulation owes much of its early success to problem solving, responding to a frustrated call for a different outcome. The story goes like this: solve the problem, the customer identifies additional areas for application, Pyrogel delivers, pains become gains, and Pyrogel displaces the incumbent insulation.
In this, the first in a series of blogs featuring members of our global team, we reached out to Cristiano Gatti, Aerogel Sales Manager at TeknoWool in Italy. Based near the motorsport hub, Monza, Cristiano, like many of his compatriots, is passionate about motorsports in all forms. Cristiano is also passionate about his day job – the 'Pyrogel' specialist. Cristiano and Pyrogel insulation have become a 'go to' resource for many of his racing customers when they are faced with extreme thermal management problems on two or four wheels. While the thrill of watching his customers exit the famed 'Parabolica' and accelerate to the checkered flag gives Cristiano immense satisfaction, he shared an example of an equally positive Pyrogel success story with one of his largest industrial customers.
Thermal insulation is critical to the safe and efficient operation of a modern gas turbine; it should not degrade during the normal and sometimes abnormal operation of the complex, and very expensive unit. Areas of the turbine can reach up to 600°C, so the casing must be insulated uniformly to prevent unforeseen expansion and potentially catastrophic interference. Additionally, the touch temperature must be limited to 60°C at most to prevent the injury of operators or technicians. There is, however, another critical criteria: space. Conventional high temperature insulation is bulky and gets in the way of the technicians assembling the instrumentation necessary to ensure safe operation. Faced with this problem, the manufacturer reached out to Cristiano for a solution. The challenge was considerable: thin and thermally efficient material was needed to insulate various parts of their gas turbine. Pipe sections, valves, and a saddle in the turbine exhaust diffuser area all had an urgent demand for a space, energy, and cost saving solution.
Cristiano acted fast to identify a solution to this customer need. He had worked with Aspen Aerogels'® products before, and recognized its revolutionary approach to thermal insulation. To Cristiano, the solution to this puzzle was clear: Pyrogel insulation mapped well to the customer's requests. So he followed his gut and reached out to Aspen.
He worked with Aspen Aerogels' technical services team to carry out a feasibility study, which assessed Pyrogel's suitability for the specific challenges identified by his customer.
In his experiment, the Pyrogel insulation was enclosed in a non-metallic, glass reinforced fabric jacketing to maintain functionality, even in the case of strong mechanical stress and post-prefabrication movement.
Once enclosed, removable Pyrogel pads were installed on high temperature (400 °C) valves, to protect nearby electric actuators from the extreme heat, and on low-temperature gas piping, in order to reduce the heat transfer to adjacent electrical cables.
To test the product's range of applications, insulation panels were also installed to protect the electric junction box on the turbine's lubricant tank. Additionally, on the support saddle of the machine exhaust diffuser (approximately 400°C), Cristiano's team at TeknoWool engineered a complex grid of insulated jackets containing 40mm of Pyrogel insulation. The jackets covered the entire surface of the saddle to prevent the turbine exhaust's heat from contacting the turbine's lubricant tank. Without proper insulation, this risk could significantly increase the temperature of the lubricant contained inside and compromise the lubricant's performance, leading to bearing failure.
In each of these cases, Pyrogel insulation performed with impressive success. "We studied the problem, evaluated the possible solutions, and it was clear to us that Pyrogel insulation would be—by far—the best solution to achieve the manufacturer's goals," he says. Cristiano's innovative thinking demonstrated Pyrogel insulation's ability to provide a complete solution through its thermal performance, versatility, rapid installation process, and durability. These unique properties allow our product to be an easily installed, reusable tool to protect the lifespan of assets.
Cristiano is an excellent ambassador for Pyrogel insulation (and Cryogel® insulation) in Italy; his product knowledge and drive to solve his customer's toughest insulation challenges puts Cristiano at the front of the grid for customer service.
For additional information on this and other examples of Pyrogel insulation solving high temperature insulation's toughest challenges, just drop us a line…..


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Intimidated by the thought of constructing a hydrogen generator and getting your automotive to run on water? It is truly fairly easy to construct a workable hydrogen generator in the event you get your fingers on the fitting data. You can simply convert your automotive to at least one that runs on water with the assistance of some easy instruments and supplies costing lower than $150.
You do not have to be a mechanic or a automotive professional to put in a hydrogen generator beneath the hood of your automotive. All you really want is a user-friendly information that is straightforward to know and offers an in-depth correct rationalization of all the course of. If you're able to spend slightly money and time you could possibly simply convert your automotive right into a 'water hybrid' over a weekend, and double and even triple your gasoline mileage LS engine swap kit.
This doesn't suggest that your automotive will simply run on water alone. You may nonetheless want gasoline. Putting in a hydrogen generator will drastically enhance the effectivity with which the engine burns gasoline, permitting you to get extra out of the gasoline in your automobiles tank. You possibly can anticipate a 40% enhance in gasoline mileage even on the conservative aspect.
So how do you construct a hydrogen generator? guide provides you with directions on how one can safely set up a small container stuffed with water and slightly baking soda with out making any modifications to your automobiles engine or laptop. The hydrogen generator will take a small quantity of electrical energy out of your automobiles battery when you begin your automotive, to separate water into HHO gasoline or Brown gasoline. The gasoline is then launched into the airflow the place it combines with the gasoline in your automotive's engine serving to it to burn gasoline rather more effectively.


Have you ever questioned Milton Friedman's famous claim about inflation?
Ever heard anyone else question it?
Unless you read obscure stuff written for the academic community, you're probably not used to Friedman's quote being challenged. And that's despite a lousy forecasting record by economists who bought into his Monetarist methods.
When Friedman's strict Monetarism fizzled in the 1980s, it was doomed partly by his own forecasts. Instead of the disinflation the decade delivered, he expected inflation to reach 1970s levels, publicizing that prediction in 1983 and then again in 1984, 1985 and 1986. Of course, years earlier he foresaw the 1970s jump in inflation, but the errant forecasts that came later left him wide open to a "clock twice a day" dismissal.
Monetarists suffered an even harsher blow in 2012, when the Conference Board finally threw in the towel on Friedman's favorite indicator, removing M2 from its Leading Economic Index (LEI). Generally speaking, forecasters who put M2 in their models are like bachelors who put "live with mom" in their dating profiles—they haven't been successful.
The many economists who expected quantitative easing (QE) to wreak havoc on inflation are, of course, on the defensive. Nine years after QE began, core inflation remains below the Fed's 2% target, defying their Monetarist beliefs.
When it comes to explaining inflation, Monetarism hasn't exactly nailed it. Then again, neither has Keynesianism, whose Phillips Curve confounds those who rely on it. You can toss inflation onto the bonfire of major events that mainstream theories fail to explain.
But I'll argue there might be a better way.
In three articles, I'll try to convince you that we can develop a better theory by interpreting Friedman's research differently than he did. Maybe you'll like the theory, or maybe you won't, but I promise this: the indicator that falls from it has a better record predicting major inflation trends than any other serious indicator I've studied. It's not the only way to think about inflation, but it's realistic and practical, and I'm interested in the reader reaction.
When Friedman and his coauthor Anna Schwartz published their famous research showing a strong correlation between money growth and GDP growth, they and their followers failed to appreciate the importance of money-creating bank loans.
Instead of allowing that bank lending might explain the historical correlation to GDP, they assumed that the intrinsic characteristics of money—liquidity, stability, and value as a medium of exchange—explained their results, leading them to embrace measures such as M1 and M2.
But in fact, their seminal research had little to do with M1 and M2, because that data didn't exist over the full period they studied. Instead, they used a measure that was almost exactly equal to the amount of money banks create when they make loans and buy securities.
Loan and behold, when the various measures diverged in the 1980s, M1 and M2 lost their correlations to GDP, whereas the original measure studied by Friedman and Schwartz did not.
The money measures economists discuss and follow (M1 and M2, primarily) are empirically inferior to the measure they ignore (bank-created money), even though the measure they ignore is responsible for getting them interested in "money" in the first place.
For anyone my age, think Gilda Radner's creations Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna, the spoof newscasters who argued passionately about topics that didn't match the topics given. After being told of the mistake, Litella would end her rant with a simple "nevermind," whereas Roseannadanna would just keep on talking. The economics profession is more Roseannadanna than Litella (you'll never hear a "nevermind"), but my recommendation is to forget what you've been told about the monetary aggregates and focus instead on bank-created money.
So I've channeled iconic characters from both economics and Saturday Night Live, but I haven't yet drilled down to the inflation rate. In fact, I'll use this article to expand on the empirical result noted above, which, to my knowledge, isn't widely known. Once you see how the alternative approach to money works, and how it differs from mainstream economics, I can break out inflation in the next article. But we'll also need some terminology.
To choose M63 components, I ask a single question: Is a potential component initiated by a private entity with the legal authority to create money, meaning either a commercial bank or a similar deposit-taking institution? If the answer is yes, I include the component in M63. Otherwise, I don't. By using only that criterion, I'm estimating the amount of new money banks pump into the economy when they make loans and buy securities. Not surprisingly, M63 correlates almost perfectly with net bank lending—the correlation between 1959 and 2016 was 0.97.
So, M63 growth and net bank lending both correlate with GDP growth, but why?
I would say it's because banks are the only institutions that create money from nothing when they make loans, meaning their loans inject purchasing power directly into the economy. For loans that aren't made by banks, purchasing power flows from one party to another without increasing the total (lenders that don't hold bank charters have to give up their own purchasing power when they deliver loan proceeds). But for bank loans, net purchasing power increases, because banks can make loans without requiring prior saving. Apart from a small allocation of bank capital, banks conjure loan proceeds from thin air—that's the crux of what their charters allow them to do.
In other words, bank loans are additive to the amount of spending that's already occurring, and therefore, flow directly into GDP. They might boost real growth or inflation, or both, depending on a variety of factors including how the loan money is spent. But it's important to remember that the money–GDP correlation is merely a byproduct of a lending–GDP correlation. Bank lending, not money, is the driving force.
The upper panel shows that the people on the left—both consumers and businesses—are spending, and because a dollar spent equals a dollar earned, the exact amount that's spent flows back to consumers and businesses to be spent once again. So money cycles from spending to income and back to spending in a circular flow, and that's exactly how money works in mainstream theory.
The problem, though, is that mainstream theory assumes the role played by banks to be mostly irrelevant, whereas banks have a giant effect on the circular flow in the real world. In the real world, banks create deposits or cashier's checks or some other form of money purchasing power to deliver loan proceeds. And by creating money from nothing, they increase spending above and beyond the amount of income that feeds in from the bottom of the loop. The circular flow expands, as in the lower panel.
Even more importantly, these bank loan effects cumulative over time. If we say the chart above is the current time period or period 1, then the next chart (below) shows that period 1's new bank credit (or at least a portion of it) is now part of the circular flow, and then it gets joined by period 2's new bank credit. And then periods 1 and 2 join period 3's new bank credit and the flow gets fatter and fatter.
If every picture tells a story, the pictures above tell a story of economists building a discipline (mainstream macro) on a false premise so significant it can't be corrected without starting over. Core theories in every mainstream school rely on the foundational assumption that money is independent of bank lending, all forms of lending believed equivalent and banks believed to be mere intermediaries. Mainstream macro restricts the circular flow to the picture in the first chart's upper panel—it doesn't allow private banks to expand the flow endogenously as in the other diagrams.
Of course, some mainstreamers claim to have improved their theories, and almost all of them would rather you didn't listen to troublemakers like me. According to a typical defense, economists have now figured out how to stuff a hypothetical financial economy into a mainstream, real-economy wrapper, making my criticisms invalid. Anyone who says otherwise just isn't in-the-know, as the story goes.
I shouldn't have to write this, but those claims are as hollow as they are self-serving. Every paper I've read that purports to fix mainstream theory either still ignores the realities of bank lending or blends in other wildly unrealistic assumptions. (To pick a few notable examples, see Ben Bernanke's financial accelerator model, similar papers on the same topic or Paul Krugman's work on the financial economy.) Again, mainstreamers wove false assumptions into the theoretical fabric, and you can't fix that without shredding the fabric and starting over. And once you're committed to starting over, as I am, you might borrow from more realistic theories that sit well outside the mainstream.
I digress because certain economists respond predictably to my way of thinking, and it seems a good idea to address the most common response before moving to the next step. If you're willing to entertain that those economists might be blowing smoke, and I might be onto something, stick with the series for another article.
In Part 2, I'll extend the charts above to consider other flows relevant to inflation. We'll need to paint the whole picture before I can present the logic behind my suggested inflation predictor, which, again, has an excellent historical record. Its historical performance might even lead you to question whether inflation really is "always and everywhere" a monetary phenomenon.


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Q: read image byte by byte doesn't work python I have this function that writes image to a file byte by byte:
(The function stores in the first 2 bytes the amount of the rows in the image, the next 2 bytes it stores the amount of columns in the image and then in every byte the pixels rows by rows.)
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.image import imread

def write_pic(pic_name):
    pic = imread(pic_name)
    height = pic.shape[0]
    width = pic.shape[1]

    with open("Resources/out.bin", "wb") as outfile:
        outfile.write(height.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big'))
        outfile.write(width.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big'))
        for x in pic:
            outfile.write(x.tobytes())

Then I have this function that reads an image byte by byte:
def read_pic(pic_name):
    with open(pic_name, "rb") as f:
        rows = int.from_bytes(f.read(2), byteorder='big')
        columns = int.from_bytes(f.read(2), byteorder='big')
        mat_pic = np.empty([rows, columns])
        print(rows)
        print(columns)
        while byte := f.read(1):
            for i in range(rows):
                for j in range(columns):
                    mat_pic[i][j] = int.from_bytes(byte, byteorder='big')
            if i == 287 and j == 511:
                break;

    cv2.imshow("The picture", mat_pic)
    cv2.waitKey(0)

But when I show the image, it shows white picture, anyone knows why?
Also, I could not figure out why this while loop while byte := f.read(1): looped infinite times so I added this line
if i == 287 and j == 511: break;
I run this with these lines:
write_pic("Resources/pic.jpg")
read_pic("Resources/out.bin")

A: If that's a JPEG, then you're probably getting an X by Y by 3 array, one for each color component.  You need to handle that.
Why do you write the height and width big-endian?  That's not natural any more.  Almost all systems you encounter today are little-endian.
This works:
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.image import imread

def write_pic(pic_name):
    pic = cv2.imread(pic_name)
    print(pic.shape)
    height = pic.shape[0]
    width = pic.shape[1]

    with open("out.bin", "wb") as outfile:
        outfile.write(height.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big'))
        outfile.write(width.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big'))
        pic.tofile( outfile )

def read_pic(pic_name):
    with open(pic_name, "rb") as f:
        rows = int.from_bytes(f.read(2), byteorder='big')
        columns = int.from_bytes(f.read(2), byteorder='big')
        mat_pic = np.fromfile( f, dtype=np.uint8 ).reshape( (rows, columns, 3) )

    cv2.imshow("The picture", mat_pic)
    cv2.waitKey(0)

write_pic( 'walk.jpg' )
read_pic( 'out.bin' )

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Listerine safety/efficacy for plaque, gingivitis claims recommended by FDA subcommittee.
LISTERINE SAFETY AND EFFICACY FOR PLAQUE, GINGIVITIS CLAIMS RECOMMENDED by FDA's Dental Products Panel Plaque Subcommittee at its Oct. 29-30 meeting in Gaithersburg, Md. The subcommittee concluded that the active ingredient combination of essential oils in Warner-Lambert's Listerine mouthwash -- .064% thymol, .042% menthol, .092% eucalyptol and .06% menthol salicylate -- should be included in the oral health care products final monograph as a Category I (safe and effective) treatment for plaque and gingivitis.
Subject: Listerine safety/efficacy for plaque, gingivitis claims recommended by FDA subcommittee.


Valentine's Day 2019 is just around the corner and most people out there are prepping up for the big day. In an attempt to look our best, we often end up resorting to various beauty care regimes. However, apart from just skin and hair, our feet and hands also require the much-needed attention. I think well-manicured feet and hands not only boost self-confidence, but they also have a feel good factor attached to them. If you do not have the time to go to a salon and also don't wish to spend exorbitant amount of money on pedicure and manicure treatments, then we're here to help. This Valentine's Day 2019, try something a little more relaxing and pamper yourself with DIY pedicure and manicure. The most important part of manicure and pedicure is getting rid of dead skin, and softening and nourishing the hands and feet to make them look and feel more beautiful.
Keep in warm milk for about 5 minutes and slough off the dead skin with loofah on hands and nails.
Now rub the citrus slices all over the feet letting the juice soak up into the skin. This will also help reduce the tan and nourish the skin.
Once this has been done, mix the sea salt and add 2 tsp massage oil and 3 drops essential oil of jasmine in a bowl and scrub the mixture gently all over the feet. Soak feet in clean warm water.


Petone is the birth place of New Zealand's industrial revolution and where the first European Settlers landed on 22 January 1840.
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Petone is just 10 minutes from central Wellington and easily accessible by train, bus or car. Even easier if you are staying local with our many accommodation offerings.
Petone is the only Heritage Precinct in the Wellington Region.
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I am passionate about New Zealand design. I am keen to emphasise the importance of supporting our local designers by promoting Petone and showcasing New Zealand designed and made clothing and homewares.


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Does the NFL Need a New Logo?
Brasil or Brazil in 2014?
The use of a Z instead of an S in the country name.
The prominent display of hands in the image.
One of the strangest juries ever.
Monday Night Football has been through several changes in the past few years, changes in format and even in a television station. Now the popular program is in for a new and equally important change: a change in brand and logo design.
There was nothing really wrong with the old sports program logo. It is simple, memorable and bold. There's not a lot to criticize because there's not a lot to it: simple black letters with the ESPN logo and the NFL logo tucked neatly beside it. The only downfall is that it lacks character.
The new logo design has character in excess. It has a basic shield shape that ties in with the NFL logo beautifully. A black bar across the shield bears the name of the program in shiny metallic letters. The bottom part of the logo is created to resemble a football, while the ESPN logo at the top is flanked by bright stadium lights. Shiny chrome surrounds the shield.
One of the elements we really love about this logo is the texture. The rubber texture of the bar and the brown pigskin football below offset the metallic elements nicely. The lights are gleaming and lifelike. This logo design was created to look more like a photograph of a three dimensional object than a drawing. The subtle lighting coming from the right side enhances that perception.
Before you run out looking for a 3D logo of your own, consider the disadvantages of this logo, which are more practical than stylistic. Can you imagine this beast of a logo scaled down? A lot of the detail will be lost, and the result will be less than attractive. Consider it printed without color or high resolution on newsprint, or worse yet embroidered on a polo shirt. It just won't work. We suspect that a simpler version of this logo will be used for those purposes. However, on television screens across the nation, which is where this logo will spend most of its existence, it will work just fine.
The style of this logo design is perfect for the program: bold and manly. It fits the brand well and has the professional details that a brand of this prominence deserves. The old logo was okay, but it could have been created by anyone on any computer's stock Paint program. The new logo certainly surpasses the old. It just screams 'American' and 'football'.
We usually put a lot of thought into how a logo design will work in various media, and that is generally a very important consideration. For Monday Night Football—not so much. This is a made-for-television logo and it looks like one. The field of television program logos is a unique one with an entirely different set of considerations than other fields of logo design. And, if the logo does not work, there is always next season.
The Monday Night Football brand is strong enough to withstand some experimentation, as long as the core audience of red-blooded American males is not offended.
When we look at national and international sports, it seems that most organizations update their corporate logo designs regularly in order to remain relevant to their fans and audiences. However, some sports organizations seem determined to hold onto their old school logo designs even when it goes against all good sense to do so. We know it seems un-American to criticize football, but one of these organizations is the NFL. The NFL has a logo design that extends well back into the organization's history. While there have been a few small changes to the design, it has remained functionally the same for several decades. There are several good reasons for this. The shield shape is imposing and implies going to battle, while the colors are as patriotic as they possibly could be. The level of detail is just right, so that the logo design looks good embroidered on a polo shirt or blown up larger than life on a screen. These are all important advantages, but they do not keep the NFL logo from feeling a little stale after too many years on t-shirts and television screens. Some people have pushed to create a logo similar to that of the NBA, with a player as the central image. However, the problem with this is that everyone has their own personal favorite. For example, the Raiders would not approve if Joe Montana were made the model for a logo, nor would 49ers fans enjoy looking at silhouette of Jim Otto on their television screens every Sunday. No one will be able to agree on a silhouette, making this option next to impossible to execute. Another suggestion is that the NFL keep the shield in some form, but make updates. The NFL has updated their shield before, but never in a way that changed its essential shape or nature. Going this route would allow them to keep a recognizable brand while creating an image that would take them into the future. Last, some people think that the logo design should go in an entirely new direction. They could use another abstract logo or use one of the many symbols associated with football. The sky is literally the limit. Almost any change would have the same effect: a small amount of outcry followed by acceptance. Football fans are not known for liking change, especially when it comes to their favorite sport, but they are quick to get on with the game. Many people enjoy the patriotic color scheme as well as the stars and other patriotic elements of the logo design. These, they feel, represent the fact that football is an all-American sport. However, we could keep these symbols while designing an entirely new logo. We also could maintain a feeling of patriotism without resorting to the obvious. The old NFL logo design is simply not that great. It does nothing to represent such a well-known and well-loved brand. Almost any change would be an improvement at this point. This is one organization that obviously needs to be pulled kicking and screaming into the new millennium.
A new hockey team is coming to Winnipeg, an event which is very exciting in an area where hockey is as big as football. The team is getting a new name, new uniforms and a new logo design to represent them and their community to the rest of their league and even to the world.
The new team is named the Winnipeg Jets. This name and Canadian pride form the basis for the brand and all visual elements. The red, white and blue color scheme seen in the hockey team logois used by the Canadian Air Force, while there are silver accents that add emphasis and also refer to the metallic color of the jets that the team is named for.
The two main images used in the Winnipeg Jets are a jet (for obvious reasons) and a Canadian Maple leaf. However, there are other fun elements as well. For example, in the round logo that will be used on pucks and other gear, the jet is pointing upward toward a notch, implying that it is headed north. Because Canada is the northernmost country on the continent, this is definitely relevant. One sports team logoshows the wings worn on an Air Force officer's uniform along with hockey sticks and a maple leaf.
The Winnipeg Jets have a visual image that is patriotic and appealing to the avid logo base, but it is sleek and attractive as well. We like the way that the color balance seems to pull our eyes into the logos, especially with the occasional pop of red.
One issue some people may have is that the logo design is a little subdued. It is a beautiful visual identity, but how will it hold up next to the more bright and flamboyant costumes in the league? Some might even call it boring. Also, many hockey teams are cutting back on the number of colors in their uniform and logo for simplicity's sake. For example, we wrote not too long ago about the Nashville Predators' change to a smaller color palette. This one has two separate hues of red and two more for gray in addition to the blue and white. That just seems excessive, especially when you consider that it is, indeed, a rather quiet, unassuming logo.
This is not the first time that the town of Winnipeg has had a hockey team named the Jets. There was a team in the town years ago that left for economic reasons. Since the Jets let, demand has built rapidly. Now that the fans finally have a hockey team, they will surely embrace them regardless of the logo design. However, having a great logo design will definitely give the hockey team the right image and a measure of confidence when going up against other teams in the league. Moreover, a good logo will lead to even more merchandise sales, which all sports teams need in order to financially survive.
The real question is: what will the new mascots look like?
With one World Cup over, it is already time to start arguing about the next. The latest controversy focuses on the new logo design representing the celebrated global event. The new logo design was officially unveiled at the end of the 2010 games. It immediately was the center of the argument. Here are a few of the reasons that many soccer fans are rejecting the new logo.
When it was unveiled, the logo design featured the name of the country, which is normal for sports event logos. However, the name of the country was spelled with a Z instead of an S, because English has been used for several years in World Cup media. This upset many people, especially native Brazilians who prefer the S version. Does removing the country name altogether remove the problem? Not in the hearts and minds of Brazilians.
There's a reason the rest of the world calls it football. There are only a few times when a soccer player can use their hands. While it is clever to create an image of multicolored hands in the shape of the World Cup trophy, it may not be entirely an accurate representation of the sport or the host country.
This logo design was one of seven choices that a specially selected panel had to choose from. Who was on this panel? Several notables such as the Secretary of FIFA, Jerome Valcke, but also popular figures such as author Paulo Coelho, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, and pop singer Ivete Sangalo. Were these the most dignified dignitaries that the country had to offer? Are they a fair representation of the aesthetic taste of the Brazilian people?
Many people liked the old logo design, which was used when Brazil first made their bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2014. It was serious, relevant, and had the country's name spelled correctly in its native language. It also looked good on t-shirts and other media, which is important for events such as this. The general feeling among many is that the popular original logo design should have been modified into a new logo, rather than starting from scratch. It's possible that one of the logo choices had this option, but was shot down by a jury that is not exactly unanimously favored.
Most sporting event logos are larger in a horizontal direction so they fit neatly onto television screens and billboards. This one is tall and therefore will present a marketing challenge, namely how to fill all that empty space on both sides.
There are certainly many positive aspects of the new logo design. It has a color scheme that is more relevant to the host country and a general tropical feeling. The design is clever, even if you are one of those who believe that hands are an inappropriate image for a soccer game. Many well-loved logos begin their public life in controversy; we will see if this one follows suit.


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Work in progress. Tested only on Linux. Create this PR to be sure you dont mind that way of implementation.
First goes information about error (SIGSEGV, SIGILL, SIGABRT, etc).
Then user can choose directory to save dump (in case he decided to save it).
Then he can open issue on github by clicking href.
Thank you! We will review this in the following days. Please let us know when it is ready, since you mentioned it is a WIP.
Also. is it tested on MAC & Linux & Windows?
Tested only on Linux. I will implement it on other OS after review and approval.
CMake and Meson implementations are still missing.
Actually, I cant understand why travis is not passing. It says that there is no "third_party/lss/linux_syscall_support.h", when there is one. Maybe, it is because lss is submodule or something. It would be great if you help me to figure this out.
Ok, so we discussed and came to the conclusion that we don't want to have breakpad as a submodule in the repository. Instead, it should be built manually in the CI and just (statically) linked against in the build systems. For the CI, you can write scripts to build it and add it to the /scripts directory.
Honestly, I cant understand what I should do and how it will look like at the end.
As he mentionned, you should come up with a .bat and a .sh that builds Cutter with breakpad, but doesn't use submodules.
So the script would do something like git clone; qmake ENABLE_BREAKPAD=True (in the idea, I don't remember the exact syntax).
For each platform, we have a script like https://github.com/radareorg/cutter/blob/master/scripts/prepare_python_linux.sh that downloads, builds and installs it to a local directory.
Breakpad also has .pc files in its source, so I think it will work very similar here.
I know I should edit buid.bat and build.sh too.
Now I want to know that whether I've done that you asked.
Yep, it's a step in the right direction. For prepare_breakpad.py I don't think you have to use python, simple bash/bat scripts would be ok too.
But more importantly, check if you can use pkg-config instead of specifying the lib manually. If you specify a prefix to ./configure and after building run make install, you get a complete prefix with the .pc files that you can use from qmake. I think this should work quite smoothly. Again, check python for reference.
Then you can also put that into the .pro directly without using a .pri file.
Yeah, but it's more crossplatform I'd say, so why not?
There is a problem. .pc files are placed at /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig after make install, when pkg-config is searching at /usr/lib/pkgconfig.
Same thing with .a files.
And again. Why is some builds not passing?
Same thing when it was a submodule. And in this case every build would not pass, but there are some passed ones.
I did a lot of research and there are my thoughts.
If you make install into some directory, you can use PKG_CONFIG_PATH env. variable to use pkg-config. And you can set this variable in .yml files, so CI will build it. But you can't change it through qmake (in .pro file). So apparently you can't build Cutter if you didn't install breakpad into /usr.
Right, you can't set PKG_CONFIG_PATH inside the pro file. And you shouldn't. It's the user's (or CI's) responsibility to install breakpad somewhere and make sure PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set up correctly.
Will find some time tomorrow, I'm very busy these days.
@thestr4ng3r may we have you for a final review before merging this?


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UPDATE: China's Car Privacy and Security Regulation is Effective on October 1, 2021
By: Chelsey Colbert
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On August 20, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released an updated regulation on car privacy and data security that comes into force on October 1, 2021.
By: Hunter Dorwart, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Clarisse Girot
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The National People's Congress (NPC) of China adopted on August 20, 2021 the first Chinese comprehensive data protection law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), less than a year after the first draft of the law was published. The NPC thus concluded its legislative process that saw two additional markups of the law since October […]
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As China is making headlines with its ramped up efforts to build a comprehensive data protection, privacy and cybersecurity legal framework with broad extraterritorial effects, a recent landmark enforcement action of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) against one of the largest tech companies in the country shines a light on how the future privacy […]
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by Chelsey Colbert The author thanks Hunter Dorwart for his contribution to this text. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released a draft regulation on car privacy and data security on May 12, 2021. China has been very active in automated vehicle development and deployment and has also proposed last fall a draft comprehensive privacy […]


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Words prove their value as educational tools for robots – Artificial intelligence and robotics news
by Francisco
Exploring a new way to teach robots, Princeton researchers found that human-language descriptions of tools can speed up learning of a simulated robotic arm lift and the use of a variety of tools. .
The findings build on evidence that providing richer information during artificial intelligence (AI) training can make autonomous robots more adaptable to new situations, improving their safety and efficiency.
Adding descriptions of a tool's form and function to the robot's training process improved the robot's ability to handle newly encountered tools that were not in the original training set. A team of mechanical engineers and computer scientists presented the new method, Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation with LANguage, or ATLA, at the Robot Learning Conference on December 14.
Robotic arms have great potential to help perform repetitive or difficult tasks, but it's difficult to train robots to handle tools effectively: tools come in a wide variety of shapes, and a robot's dexterity and vision are no match for those of a human.
"Additional information in the form of language can help a robot learn to use tools faster," said study co-author Anirudha Majumdar, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton who leads the Intelligent RobotMotionLab.
The team obtained tool descriptions by querying GPT-3, a large language model released by OpenAI in 2020 that uses a form of AI called deep learning to generate text in response to a prompt. After experimenting with various prompts, they decided to use "Describe the [feature] of [tool] in a detailed and scientific answer", where the characteristic was the shape or purpose of the tool.
"Because these language models were trained on the Internet, in a sense you can think of that as a different way of retrieving this information," more efficiently and comprehensively than using crowdsourcing or scraping sites Web sites for tool descriptions, said Karthik Narasimhan, an assistant professor of computer science and co-author of the study. Narasimhan is a core faculty member in Princeton's Natural Language Processing (NLP) group and contributed to the original GPT language model as a visiting scholar at OpenAI.
This work is the first collaboration between the Narasimhan and Majumdar research groups. Majumdar is focused on developing AI-based policies to help robots – including flying and walking robots – generalize their functions to new settings, and he was curious about the potential of recent "massive advances in the treatment of natural language" for the benefit of robot learning, he told me.
For their simulated robot learning experiments, the team selected a training set of 27 tools, ranging from an ax to a squeegee. They gave the robotic arm four different tasks: pushing the tool, lifting the tool, using it to sweep a cylinder along a table, or driving a peg into a hole. The researchers developed a suite of policies using machine learning training approaches with and without linguistic information, then compared policy performance on a separate test set of nine tools with matched descriptions.
This approach is known as meta-learning, since the robot improves its ability to learn with each successive task. It's not just about learning how to use each tool, but also "trying to learn to understand the descriptions of each of those hundred different tools, so when he sees the 101st tool, he's quicker to learn how to use the new tool," Narasimhan said. "We do two things: we teach the robot how to use the tools, but we also teach it English. »
The researchers measured the robot's success at pushing, lifting, sweeping, and pounding with the nine test tools, comparing results with policies that used language in the machine learning process to those that didn't. linguistic information. In most cases, the linguistic information provided significant benefits for the robot's ability to use new tools.
One task that showed notable differences between policies involved using a crowbar to sweep a cylinder or bottle across a table, said Allen Z. Ren, a Ph.D. student in Majumdar's group and main author of the research paper.
"With language training, he learns to grab the long end of the crowbar and use the curved surface to better constrain the movement of the bottle," Ren said. "Without the tongue, he grabbed the crowbar near the curved surface and it was harder to control. »
The research was supported in part by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and is part of a larger TRI-funded project in Majumdar's research group aimed at improving the ability of robots to operate in new situations that differ of their training environments.
"The overall goal is to make robotic systems — especially those trained using machine learning — generalize to new environments," Majumdar said. Other TRI-supported work by his group has focused on failure prediction for vision-based robot control and used an "adversarial environment generation" approach to help robot policies perform better in conditions outside of their initial training.
The item, Leverage language for accelerated learning of tool manipulation, was presented on December 14 at the Robot Learning Conference. Besides Majumdar, Narasimhan and Ren, co-authors include Bharat Govil, Princeton Class of 2022, and Tsung-Yen Yang, who earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton this year and is now a Machine Learning Scientist at Meta Platforms Inc.
In addition to TRI, research support was provided by the US National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University through the generosity of William Addy '82.
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Q: If Statement Not Displaying Results So the rest of the code works as I need it too. The only part that doesn't work is listed below. What I am trying to accomplish is if the SENTINEL is entered once the program is initiated, numResults and floatResults will receive the following values. Where did I not code properly so the statement doesn't work? Thank you for the help
if statement giving me the issue
// gives value if only the SENTINEL is entered once program is initiated
  if (number == SENTINEL && numValues == 0 && floatValues == 0 ) {
    numResults = document.getElementById("numbers").innerHTML = " No values were entered."
    floatResults = document.getElementById("floating").innerHTML = " No values were entered."
  }

My Code

Number Examination Tool

<form name="myForm" >

         <button type="button" onclick="examineNumbers();">Click here to enter numbers </button>

List of Numbers

    </form>

A: You are breaking the IF statement so it never gets to the end, if you move the IF statement like below
number = prompt("Enter a number. Type " + SENTINEL + " to stop.");
  // gives value if only the SENTINEL is entered once program is initiated
  if (number == SENTINEL && numValues == 0 && floatValues == 0 ) {
    document.getElementById("numbers").innerHTML = " No values were entered."
    document.getElementById("floating").innerHTML = " No values were entered."
    while (list.children.length>0) {
      list.lastChild.remove()
    }
  }
  if (number == -1) {
    break;
  }

It should work, Or you can combine the statement,
number = prompt("Enter a number. Type " + SENTINEL + " to stop.");
  // gives value if only the SENTINEL is entered once program is initiated
  if (number == -1) {
    if (numValues == 0 && floatValues == 0) {
      document.getElementById("numbers").innerHTML = " No values were entered."
      document.getElementById("floating").innerHTML = " No values
were entered."
      while (list.children.length>0) {
        list.lastChild.remove()
      }
    }
    break;
  }

A: To set the values into numResults, floatResults each then each variables should be defined first. To put number variable into prompt then I put the if condition  under number prompt. Seems everything is fine.

Number Examination Tool

<form name="myForm" >

         <button type="button" onclick="examineNumbers();">Click here to enter numbers </button>

List of Numbers

    </form>