Qualcomm Inc’s QCOM automotive design-win pipeline has more than doubled in less than a year as more and more automakers turn to the company’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions.
Cristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, highlighted the accelerated adoption Monday on Benzinga’s “PreMarket Prep.”
$30 Billion Pipeline: Qualcomm’s design-win pipeline for automotive was hovering around $19 billion last quarter before interest increased significantly. The company added an additional $10 billion in just the last two months, bringing its total pipeline up to $30 billion, Amon said.
“It just shows how fast all of the automakers in the industry are embracing the Qualcomm digital chassis,” he said.
The digital transformation is a top priority for automakers as vehicles become connected computers on wheels, Amon said, adding that the company just announced a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz.
Qualcomm will work with Mercedes-Benz to offer direct interactions and personalized experiences for customers through Snapdragon. Amon told Benzinga that the company plans to launch its digital cockpit for Mercedes-Benz vehicles at the end of the year.
Why Automakers Are Choosing Qualcomm: There are a number of different trends driving the transformation of the automotive industry and Qualcomm’s vast mobile experience has positioned it for a natural transformation into automotive, Amon said.
Qualcomm offers connectivity to the cloud and powers everything from infotainment and dashboard systems to smart mirrors, he said.
“Our DNA is high-performance computing, low power. We have the most performance per watt of any other company in the semiconductor industry and we can bring all of those technologies to the car … plus do all of the computation required for artificial intelligence and assisted driving with very efficient power, and I think that’s what’s resonating well,” Amon said.
Qualcomm differentiates itself from the competition by offering connected capabilities across all automotive domains. The company offers connectivity to the cloud, processing power for screens, central computing functions for assisted and autonomous driving and software for all areas of the vehicles, the Qualcomm CEO said.
In the past, automakers would design vehicles before making decisions on electrical components, but moving forward, automakers will choose a technology platform before they decide how to scale on that platform. Qualcomm’s digital chassis solutions allow automakers to easily add technology to its entire range of vehicles, Amon said.
Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala previously told Benzinga that the company remained focused on diversifying its revenue streams. Amon confirmed those diversification efforts and noted that automotive is a big part of the shift.
“We’re really moving from being the communications company for the mobile industry to really being the connected computing for the Edge and the automotive is right inserted into that space as a great example of opportunities for Qualcomm,” Amon said.
See the full interview with the Qualcomm CEO below:
QCOM Price Action: Qualcomm has a 52-week high of $193.58 and a 52-week low of $118.23.
The stock was down 0.33% at $120.80 at time of publication Monday, according to Benzinga Pro.
Photo: Courtesy of Qualcomm.
Image and article originally from www.benzinga.com. Read the original article here.


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Central Tech's Kareem Ferguson drills a long 3 in a 39-38 win over General McLane. GREG WOHLFORD/Erie Times-News
After suffering a tough loss to rival East on Saturday in the Meadville tournament championship, the Central Tech boys basketball team bounced back with a 39-38 win over General McLane. Senior Kareem Ferguson
didn’t score a point in 31 minutes before knocking down two crucial shots in the final 40 seconds. Ferguson hit an NBA-range 3-pointer before drilling a long jumper with 10.5 seconds left. Malik Brinson
led the Falcons with 15 points, while Lukas Hallett
scored 12 points for General McLane. Hallett had a desperation shot from three-quarters court at the buzzer but it hit off the rim. Click here for video highlights
of the non-region showdown.
•The basketball season is less than one week old and tonight will already feature a big-time boys doubleheader at the Hammermill Center. At 7 p.m., Cathedral Prep will make it season debut against 2-0 East. McDowell and Strong Vincent, which will also make its season debut, follow at 8:30 p.m. Prep was scheduled to play in Canada on Saturday before weather conditions prevented the Ramblers from making the trip. Prep won’t have an easy first game as East is coming off the Meadville tournament championship, including wins over Meadville and Central Tech. Strong Vincent will play its first game and has a young team. The Colonels have an interesting schedule to start the year with Class AA contender West Middlesex on Saturday and Erie First next week. McDowell split its two games at Bethel Park this past weekend and beat Meadville 67-50 on Tuesday. Michael Beck had 20 points in the win, while Dalton Grafius scored 16.
•A pair of contenders had big wins on Tuesday with the Fairview and Cochranton boys. Fairview looks like a strong contender in Class AA and routed Cambridge Springs 64-30. Marc Corbin scored 20 points and had four of the Tigers’ 10 3-pointers. Dan Dewey added 14 points on three 3-pointers for Fairview. Cochranton looks like a strong contender in Class A and handled Iroquois 51-33 on Tuesday. Logan Herzberger scored 13 points and Garrett Adams had 11 as the Cardinals improved to 3-0.
Cambridge Springs heavyweight Blaine Wolfrom picks up a 7-0 decision. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Jeff Bobin
•Cambridge Springs rolled to its first region win with a 57-16 win over Conneaut after going 4-1 this past weekend. The Blue Devils had six pins in the win, including Don Reichard
(145 pounds), Archie Loop
(152), Colton Noble
(170), Deven Simpson
(182), Hunter Cox
(195) and Zach Walker
(113). Cambridge Springs sits atop the Region 2 standings along with Greenville and Northwestern, which each had blowout wins on Tuesday.
•Corry and Eisenhower had the closes dual of the evening as the Beavers held on to win 39-35. Corry raced out to a 39-12 lead with five bouts left. Alex Suydan (220 pounds), Parker Curtis (113), Logan Munsee (120) and Jonathan Hammond (132) each had pins for the Beavers. Although Mark May lost by decision at 138 pounds, he clinched at least a tie for the Beavers with four bouts to go. After Eisenhower picked up 12 points on a pint and forfeit, Marquise Precha clinched the match by holding off a pin from Robbie Wilston at 160 pounds.
•McDowell wrestling pulled off one of the biggest wins in recent District 10 history on Tuesday. The Trojans beat Reynolds 30-25 in Transfer, which was the Raiders’ first home dual loss in 20 years. Keegan Fordyce clinched the McDowell win with a 7-6 decision at 120 pounds. “The kids stepped up tonight and did an unbelievable job,” said Tom Lenox, who made his debut as McDowell’s coach. “Every single one of them did their job and I’m very proud of them.” McDowell will look to carry that momentum over to the King of the Mountain tournament on Friday.

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A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Sylvan Barnet
Publication Date: 1999-08-18
A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 6/E, the best-selling text of its kind, encourages students to form their own opinions about art, and then equips them with the tools they need to write effective essays. This handy guide addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, including description versus analysis; the value of peer review; documenting sources; and editing the final essay.
History of Art by Marcia Pointon
Publication Date: 1997-08-12
History of Artcovers training and vocational aspects of Art History, providing a wealth of information on the different kinds of courses available on the relationship between, for example, museum and gallery work and academic Art History.

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adopted at the Parliamentarians' Day on the occasion of the World Food Summit
(Italian Senate of the Republic, Rome, 15 November 1996)
1. We express our keen concern at a situation where close to 800 million people throughout the world, in particular in the developing countries, suffer from chronic undernutrition. It is intolerable that almost 200 million children under five suffer from protein and energy deficiencies threatening their future, most often irremediably. Unless strong measures are taken urgently, hunger and food insecurity will persist and may even worsen dramatically in some regions of the world. The problem manifests itself on a global scale, even in some of the most affluent societies. This situation is an affront to human dignity, a social disease and a threat to democracy.
2. We recognize that food insecurity - for families, regions and nations alike - has many interdependent physical, geographical, political, economic and social causes. These affect economic development and have an impact on the income of individuals and entire nations alike, although the agricultural sector is particularly concerned. In tracing the root causes of food insecurity, we place particular emphasis on poverty, which must be eradicated if the proclaimed goal of "food for all" is to be attained.
3. Whereas peace, social justice, democracy and transparent and responsible governance are all preconditions for a nation's sustained economic and social development, increasing the efficiency of agricultural and food production is the key to ensuring an adequate food supply, which should be maintained at affordable prices worldwide, but especially in low-income, food-deficit countries.
4. Food production must be environmentally friendly. To this end, there is a need to widen public and private investment in the development of appropriate technologies and enhance the effectiveness of the transfer of such technologies to rural populations via training and outreach programmes.
5. Physical constraints on agricultural production, such as lack of water control, insecure input distribution circuits and limited access to markets, should be eliminated. Economic and social policies conducive to the creation of a favourable environment for agricultural production should be adopted, notably to ensure that all farmers and in particular rural women and young people enjoy access to know-how and means of production, including land and credit. Efficient mechanisms for ensuring the food security of the population will have to be implemented, in particular as regards access to adequate food for the poorest and the constitution of sufficient reserves.
6. Attainment of food security requires sustained action at the international level in a spirit of co-operation and solidarity between nations, with due consideration given to differences between their levels of development. Such action should be aimed at the promotion of trade and enhancement of trade liberalization, realized on equitable terms, at the development of environmentally sound new technologies, protection of the planet's natural resources - in particular by promoting renewable energy and using biodiversity, at making genetic resources accessible in such a way as to guarantee the inalienable rights of the depositing nations, as well as at advancement of technical co-operation and the exchange of information. The contradiction between the needs of economic development per se and the imperative of making this development sustainable necessitates increased international assistance.
7. Whereas official development assistance - be it bilateral or multilateral - should be increased and restructured to take account of the needs of the agricultural sector, private investment in this sector should be likewise encouraged. Donors and financing agencies need to adopt a more radical approach towards improving the quality of development proposals that will make it possible to reverse the current downward trend of official development assistance. The amount of food aid to developing countries should be made sufficient to meet their emergency needs and be supplemented by assistance programmes which are focused on rehabilitation of the agricultural sector and are linked with social protection schemes ensuring adequate food for the poorest.
8. Reaffirming the right of all human beings to enjoy an adequate, healthy and well-balanced diet, we
9. We commit ourselves to the task of promoting the implementation of the Summit's Plan of Action within our respective parliaments. More particularly, we undertake to:
10. We urge the participants in the World Food Summit to give adequate attention to the present Declaration, we undertake ourselves to promote its ideas within our respective legislatures and request the Inter-Parliamentary Union to make it widely known in the world's parliaments and to set up, in co-operation with FAO, a mechanism to monitor the implementation, at parliamentary level, of the commitments taken in Rome.

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Sikasso, 11 February, 2020 / 4:35 am (ACI Africa).
The Catholic Church in the West African nation of Mali last Friday, February 7 offered special prayers for the safe release of Columbian-born Sr. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, who was kidnapped by jihadists in southern Mali the same date three years ago.
The special prayers including the celebration of Holy Mass were organized in all the nine parishes of Mali’s Sikasso Diocese in the South of the country, the people of God imploring God for the safety of Sr. Gloria, a member of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate who was abducted on February 7, 2017 reportedly by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (SGIM), a branch of Al Qaeda based in the Mali.
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama of Sikasso diocese recounted that the Colombian nun was following the news on television in their living room in the convent together with her two companions when a group of armed men arrived at around 9:30 p.m. on February 7, 2017.
“They claimed they were jihadists and left with Sr. Gloria who was in charge of the community, after forcibly recovering her identity papers,” Bishop Tiama recounted the events that took place in the parish of Karangasso where the Colombian nun ministered.
The Franciscan sisters have been supporting the parish of Karangasso for several years in the social areas such as health, orphanage and women's promotion, as well as in pastoral ministry.


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(An open letter to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance)
I am publishing my letter in the newspaper, because I have been unable to actually speak with anyone at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance regarding an adjustment they made to the Earned Income Credit (EIC) on my 2012 income tax.
A little history: First, I tried to respond online at http://www.tax.ny.gov/, but the Document Locator Number they provided didn’t work. Then, I called their office, but the line is always ‘fast busy.’ So, then I mailed them a copy of my EIC worksheet and a letter explaining how I filled it out. Five months later, I got a written response. However, they don’t seem to understand the situation, which doesn’t surprise me considering that I had the same exact problem with NYS on my 2009 taxes.
And I couldn’t contact them back then, either! But state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. had someone from the department call me. After a lot of obfuscation on their part, they finally admitted an error in calculating my 2009 EIC.
Now, it is possible I’ve made a mistake on my 2012 EIC; however, it’s unlikely as I used FreeFile to do my federal forms and the IRS had no quibble with it.
Call me crazy, but, it really shouldn’t be this difficult to contact the tax department and I think it’d be a lot easier for all concerned if the state tax people actually knew how to fill out the federal worksheets.


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A Match Made in Heaven (Part I)
Victoria laid in bed, her eyes following the black wall clock. She thought it was a good decision when she first placed the clock directly across from the bed. She was an avid reader and enjoyed reading books before bed every night. With the clock right next to the bed, she would know when it was time to put the book away and turn in for the night.
What was once a seemingly great idea, was now a reminder of the crushing loneliness which had befallen her. The ticking of an alarm clock served as a reminder, every second on the nose, of how heart-wrenchingly lonely Victoria had become. Sometimes she would find herself struggling to count the seconds that would go by, which were marked by the audible ticking of the clock.
She sighed. She couldn’t help but wonder if anyone would care enough to ask what was wrong, if another living soul could see her face or hear the deep sadness in her voice.
She could hear her husband laughing and saying things like, “I got 3 R’s, the letter R, it’s a movie title with 3 R’s…Remember the Titans? Really, Jerry, come on, If I’d have been there I would have won the game already.” She could hear the frustration in her husband’s voice. Victoria knew that he’d never make the effort to go on any of his favorite game shows. After all, that would require saving a little bit of money and hopping on an Airplane to go out to Los Angeles.
When she was younger, Victoria had gone on a family trip to Los Angeles with her loved ones, and fell in love with with the City of Angels. She’d often dreamed of going back as an adult. However, due to her husband’s lavish spending on things like video games, superhero comic books, and knick-knacks from Hot Topic, most of the money that she made at her consulting firm job would be gone after she paid for essentials, such as the need to keep the lights on in their home and food in their stomachs. She popped a Xanax before she could really begin to contemplate her poor life choices.
Victoria woke to a very annoying beeping sound which was, of course, her alarm clock. She turned to her husband who was now fast asleep beside her, rumbling some unintelligible nonsense about it being Saturday and why would she want to wake up before 9 on a Saturday morning.
Victoria was hoping the annoyance that she felt would not come through in her voice, and simply replied, “honey, it’s okay, I’ll go get us some breakfast, I can walk to the burger joint from here. I’ll be back in 10 minutes with your usual fries and gravy, and you want cream and extra sugar in your coffee, right?”
The still sleeping man muttered something unintelligible. She could still hear the zombie-like sounds coming from the sleeping man who rubbed his hand across the back of his wife, as she was heading out the bedroom door and down the creaking stairs. She slammed the door behind her, half expecting the glass pane in the door to fall out of its cocoon and shatter into a million pieces.
Victoria was right: she could walk to the McDonald’s from her apartment, she could practically see the driveway. While Victoria was close to the establishment, she felt around in her pocket, trying to find the crumpled up $20 bill that she discovered while cleaning under the couch cushions exactly 7 days before. Her attempt to find it by fiddling around with the pocket of her sweatshirt was getting her nowhere, so she began to walk back, her head pointed toward the snow-covered ground.
“Hey!” she heard someone shout, “you dropped this!”
A small little boy, whose beautiful green eyes were covered up by his red hair freckles, smiled at her. She smiled back. He was adorable, missing a few teeth. The little boy went to hand her the money back, and when she turned around to face him, she discovered that he was holding a puppy. A very genuine joyful giggle erupted from Victoria. “I love puppies!” she said.
“Would you like one?” the little boy asked. He had the look of sadness plastered across adorable his face. “My mom says we have to get rid of the puppies. 5 puppies is too many puppies.”
“How much?” Victoria’s eagerness, for a moment, took over any semblance of rational thought. Before she knew it, she was holding a tiny little caramel colored puppy in her arms.
When the little boy’s mother arrived on the front porch, she had been watching from the front door, as to keep an eye on her son who wanted to make sure that the dogs went to a good home. He was confident that he could do them by himself.
“Lucas,” the tall woman with red hair said with a beautiful white smile, “who is this woman, and is she here for the puppies?”
“My name is Victoria, and yes, I am here because I want to adopt puppies. I only came out to get breakfast, but a new friend would be great too,” she said, as she gazed at the puppy with a genuine look of adoration.
“How much, what do you like for the puppy?” Victoria asked.
“I think he’ll be very happy with you, and because I know that you already seemed to have hit it off with him, you can take him for free.”
Victoria dug around in her pocket again, and as luck would have it, she was able to find just what she was looking for, she found two Reese’s fun size peanut butter cups in her pocket.
I’ll trade you, she said, placing them in the tiny hand of her new friend.


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Microenterprise Development Review: Volume 9 : No. 1 : July, 2006
This issue of Microenterprise Development Review contains an article addressing The New Capital Accord known as Basel II, which seeks to promote among financial intermediaries best practices in risk management, more effective regulation and supervision, and greater market discipline. The article seeks to understand just how appropriate these formulas are for the typical portfolios of developing countries, in particular for microfinance portfolios, and what the results of their possible application would be. Another article in this edition addresses microinsurance in Latin America and the Caribbean and the partner-agent model, a model which it is argued, with appropriate donor support can rapidly scale-up the spread of insurance to the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Internal State Department e-mails, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, show top officials were extensively briefed about repeated incidents of Blackwater security guards killing innocent civilians more than two years ago. It was only in the last month that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took action to review the activities of Blackwater and other private security companies in Iraq. The assistant secretary of state who oversaw Blackwater and other contractors, Richard Griffin, resigned yesterday in the wake of a critical internal review. THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS Photos 1st Photos of Blackwater Sept. 16 Incident Blotter Despite Blackwater, State Officials Get Promotions Blotter State Department Official Resigns in Wake of Blackwater Criticism Blotter Dem: Blackwater Dodged Millions in Taxes Blotter Blackwater: Shoot First, Face Questions Later, Committee Says Blotter Exclusive: First Images of Controversial Blackwater Incident Blotter Report: Private Military Contractors Hurt War Effort Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage. Yet, the e-mails show that State Department officials had extensive knowledge of a growing problem in the summer of 2005, and complained about a lack of a compensation program for civilian victims. "Obviously it is not pleasant meeting with these individuals with nothing more to offer than apologies, condolences and vague promises," wrote a State Department security officer based in al Hillah, Michael Bishop, to his superiors at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Read the full text of the e-mail. Other e-mails reveal how State Department officials in Washington maneuvered to stonewall inquiries by a reporter for the Los Angeles Times about a Blackwater incident in 2005 near the ABC News headquarters in Baghdad. Some Diplomatic Security officials in Baghdad wanted the case of Blackwater guards outside the ABC News offices referred for criminal prosecution, officials tell ABCNews.com. But the officials say State Department legal advisers told them "it was not feasible." According to another internal e-mail, the legal jurisdiction was "hazy." The only recourse in cases of wrongful deaths is "dismissal." Read the full text of the e-mail. In testimony today before a House investigating committee, Secretary Rice called for legislation so that "appropriate action" could be taken against armed contractors involved in killings. Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.


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Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan's son Kartikey Chouhan submitted before a court in Bhopal on Saturday that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi deliberately linked him with the Panama Papers leak.
Mr Kartikey recorded his statement before Special Judge (for cases against MPs and MLAs) Suresh Singh in the defamation case filed by him against Mr Gandhi.
The court fixed December 17 as the date for submission of evidence in support of the complaint, Kartikey's lawyer Shrey Raj Saxena told PTI.
Mr Gandhi made the statement deliberately to defame Mr Kartikey and his father who is the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh since 2005, Mr Saxena quoted the chief minister's son as telling the court.
The Congress chief clarified later that he named Mr Kartikey out of confusion, but did not tender an apology, the lawyer told the court.
At a Congress rally at Jhabua in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the Gandhi scion had alleged that Kartikey's name figured in the Panama Papers leak, a global investigation into offshore money-laundering entities.
However, the next day the Congress chief said he named Kartikey Chouhan out of "confusion".
On October 30, Mr Kartikey filed a defamation case under sections 499 and 500 of the IPC, against Mr Gandhi.


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We’re being treated to classic rewinds on MSG, with the network televising noteworthy games from the 1980s and 1990s as well as many of the best and brightest from this century.
The trip down memory lane provokes memories and the opportunity to create rankings. In this case, The Post is ranking the greatest teams in New York/New Jersey hockey history. We’re not adding up WAR or GAR or GAA numbers to create the list. Rather, it is based on eyeballs and experience. We’ve seen every one of these teams other than one.
In some cases, we combined seasons. The Dynasty Islanders are rated as an entry, as are the Rangers of 1970-71 and 1971-72, and the Rangers of 20013-14 and 2014-15. New Jersey’s three Stanley Cup champions, however, are rated as distinct entities.
As follows, Nos. 7-1 of the all-time Baker’s Dozen:
7. 2002-03 Devils
The third and last Stanley Cup champion from New Jersey employed a stifling trap under Pat Burns, surrendering the fewest goals in the league while scoring only the 14th most. Jamie Langenbrunner and Jeff Friesen made their marks, Martin Brodeur was still at the top of his game at age 30, and the Devils upset Ottawa in seven in the Eastern Conference finals before defeating the Mighty Ducks in another seven games.
6. 2013-14/2014-15 Rangers
The second edition became a powerhouse through the second half of the season, posting an 18-4-3 record while Henrik Lundqvist was sidelined with the vascular injury he sustained when struck in the throat by a shot. The team won the Presidents’ Trophy and overcame a 3-1 second-round deficit to defeat the Capitals in seven games before suffering an upset seven-game loss to the Lightning when injuries hobbled the back end and the team was shut out at home in both Game 5 and 7. The first edition, of course, made its magical run to the finals on the wings of the angel that touched the Blueshirts when Martin St. Louis’ mother, France, passed away during the second round.
5. 1994-95 Devils
The hangover that followed the previous season’s Game 7 Matteau loss dragged deep into the lockout-truncated season in which the Devils went only 22-18-8. But bolstered by Neal Broten (Lou Lamoriello’s Magnificent Acquisition) and a deep lineup that included Stephane Richer, Claude Lemieux, Bobby Carpenter, Tom Chorske, John MacLean, Bruce Driver, Billy Guerin, the Bobby Holik-Randy McKay-Mike Peluso Crash Line and the 23-year-old Brodeur, New Jersey rampaged through the playoffs, outscoring Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Detroit by an aggregate 67-34.
4. 1970-71/1971-72 Rangers
The best teams in NHL history that failed to win the Cup, 49-18-11 followed by 48-17-13. Emile, Eddie, the GAG Line, Park, the Bulldog Line, Stemmer in triple overtime Game 6 against Chicago, Vic flinging Bernie Parent’s mask into the stands, Gene Carr scoring to salt away the semifinal sweep of the Blackhawks … and Bobby Hull scoring from the trigger position in 1971 and Bobby Orr doing that spinorama at the blue line in 1972.
3. 1993-94 Rangers
Climbed the beanstalk, slayed the dragon, did the impossible, won the franchise’s only Stanley Cup over the past 80 years following a 52-24-8 season. And did it in dramatic, storybook style, taking Mark Messier’s “We’ll Win Tonight” Game 6 over the Devils at the Meadowlands, winning the double-overtime Matteau Game 7 over the Devils, going seven to defeat the Canucks, all with the backdrop of the Neil Smith-Mike Keenan machinations.

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Justin Bieber announces Hyde Park gig for BST festival
Pop star Justin Bieber will bring his Purpose world tour to the BST festival in Hyde Park, it has been announced.
The singer will play to 65,000 fans at the open-air venue on 2 July, 2017. He has also announced a date for Cardiff's Principality Stadium on 30 June.
It comes a day after the star's single, Sorry, was revealed as the most-streamed video of 2016.
According to video site Vevo, the video was seen 1.8 billion times worldwide, and 87 million times in the UK.
Bieber is up for album of the year at the Grammy Awards, where he received seven nominations earlier this week.
The BST festival has gained a reputation for booking some of music's biggest stars for one-off, exclusive performances.
Last summer's festival saw Carole King play her first UK show for more than 25 years and Stevie Wonder recreating his magnum opus, Songs in the Key of Life, in full.
Bieber is not quite as elusive as those stars, having played 18 dates in the UK this year - including two headline sets at the V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
He has gained a reputation for petulant stage behaviour - calling Instagram "the devil" and demanding his fans remain quiet in between songs.
"The screaming in these breaks has got to stop. Please and thank you," he said on stage in Manchester.
"I don't think it's necessary when I'm trying to say something and you guys are screaming."
He addressed the outburst on Twitter, in a string of tweets that have since been deleted.
"There's times when I get upset," he said.
"Times when I get angry, there's time's when I'm going to be frustrated. But I'm always going to be myself on stage."
Support for his BST shows comes from pop acts Tove Lo, Anne-Marie and Martin Garrix.
The 2017 BST festival has previously announced headline slots from Green Day, Kings of Leon and Phil Collins.


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- Some things just tickle my funny bone no end and THIS is one of them.
- Have a look at THESE sweet Christmas stockings and maybe make one of them!
- Have a look at the amazing sculptures done by THIS artist!!!
- And THIS one too!! I love his birds!
Today's quote..."I've finally reached the wonder years....wonder where I parked the car?....wonder where I left my phone?....wonder where my glasses are?....wonder what day it is?


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Title : Armor Plate - Cast, Metallurgical Examination of a Mn-Cr-Ni-Mo-V Steel Used for Cast Gun Shield Armor.
Descriptive Note : Experimental rept.,
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Personal Author(s) : Riffin,P. V.
Report Date : 06 APR 1944
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Abstract : This report concludes that the manganese-chromium-nickel-molybdenum-vanadium steel examined has some promise of making satisfactory 4 to 6 inch armor, provided that proper measures are observed in the homogenization and quenching of the castings.
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Brown visited other cities including Detroit, but received no other formal offers and if he had not decided by the Bears Thursday deadline they would have pulled theirs off the table.
Jerry Angelo's latest addition gives the Bears a second veteran addition on the offensive line. John Tait signed a six-year $33.5 million deal last month to anchor the right side of the line. Now the two will block next to each other, as Brown is Chris Villarrial's replacement at right guard.
With the Brown signing Chicago has basically exhausted their remaining cap space, which was estimated at $1.5 million. The team could gain some more room if recent acquisition, FB Bryan Johnson, agrees to restructure his contract that counts $2.2 million toward the cap this year.
The chances of trading for Miami Dolphins DE Adewale Ogunleye seem less and less likely as the Bears cap room disappears. Ogunleye is seeking a contract extension with a signing bonus in the area of $15 million. At this point the Dolphins offered him a one-year tender of $1.84 million and don't appear inclined to negotiate a long-term contract. The same can be said for LB Ian Gold, who visited Halas Hall last Friday. Coming off an ACL injury, Gold is likely to miss time this season, but at 25 is still young enough to return from a severe knee problem.
One big man for another
Ted Washington played a major role in New England's Super Bowl run after being traded from the Bears to the Patriots for a fourth-round pick. The free agent departure of Washington to Oakland literally left a large hole the Patriots defensive line.
It turns out that Washington's former teammate in with the Bears will now replace him in New England. After three seasons with the Bears Keith Traylor is headed to New England. The 6-foot-2, 340-pound defender, entering his 13th NFL season, has started 107 of 171 career games with 427 career tackles, including 13 sacks.


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Buying from the web is quite simple and quick to accomplish. You simply have to go online, go to the drug store website, and accomplish its order form. These online pharmacies are available all hours of the a day, 7 days a week. You do not need to hurry during office hours to order your [drugs. Instead, you may spend the weekend to buy online and refill your drug supply. Most online pharmacies have a comprehensive selection of drugs, ranging from weight loss products to sexual dysfunction remedies.
Guys suffering from erectile dysfunction or related sexual disorders can order Viagra or Cialis online. This way, they do not need to reveal their problems to strangers at a local drug store. Online pharmacies also include complete details on the accessible drugs. By just pressing the drug icon, comprehensive information will reveal the drug’s side effects and recommended dosages.
Most individuals choose online drugs due to their low costs. Anticipate the medicines to be charged at thirty percent less than the actual cost in a community drug store. You also save more cash by not using your car or riding public transport to check out the pharmacy. By cutting down your medication and travel spending, you’re able to set aside more money for the kids’ tuition and for crucial household bills.
The safest online drug stores are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. You should only buy from pharmacy websites that have been authorized by the FDA. If it is not approved by the FDA, then you’re better off buying drugs from the closest pharmacy. The FDA provides a list of reliable pharmacy sites and scam drug stores businesses in their website. Refer to this record prior to ordering any drugs from the web.
Expect to achieve a medical form asking for your medical history, prescription drugs, pills amount, allergic problems, and such. This medical form will be submitted from the web and will be reviewed by the online pharmacy’s in-house physician. The prescription you give the website must be one year old at the most. Remember, it is unauthorized to order a restricted drug minus an official physician’s recommendation. If the site does not require a prescription, it’s not reliable and probably delivers counterfeit drugs. Always give the online pharmacy complete clinical details. Otherwise, you’re putting yourself in danger. The physician can’t make an apt study if there is incomplete information.


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The amazing mind-body connection to healing is well known to anyone reading this newsletter, but it’s always wonderful when research confirms it.
Recently, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that when doctors expressed concern for the feelings of their patients– and paid attention to their concerns– those same patients were sick for an average of one day less than the patients of doctors who acted like Sgt. Joe Friday in the old Dragnet series: “Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts”.
Empathy is hard to establish in a four minute visit at your local HMO where patients frequently feel like little more than a number: Wait in the room, “Doctor” will see you soon (meaning anywhere from 30-60 minutes later), four minute interview (“what are your symptoms?”) write the script, call it a day.
But empathy and caring might just be among the most healing commodities on the planet.
The body’s immune system is a wondrous thing, but there’s a direct pipeline between what happens in the head and what happens in the body. (The study of this amazing interaction is called psychoneuroimmunology.) Interleukins are chemicals that “turn on” all kinds of armies in the immune system, sending out troops to fight invading microbes. Guess when interleukins are turned on the most?
When you’re happy, excited, pursuing your bliss and generally enjoying life.
Interestingly, in the University of Wisconsin study I just spoke about, there was a direct relation between a doctor’s empathy level and his or her patient’s level of Interleukin-8, one of the chemicals that sends out signals to the immune system cells to get busy and start fighting!
The randomized control trials also showed that the colds of patients who were assigned to “low-empathy” docs lasted a full day longer than those assigned to physicians known to be caring and empathetic.
Empathy helps to heal. And it’s something you can give freely.
It doesn’t require a prescription.
It doesn’t require a checkbook.
It just requires a heart.
Thank you for this……I am a practitioner and have been one for many years. Sometimes I have wished I didn’t get so emotional about the well-being of my clients and you’ve helped me recognize that that could well be the reason my clients do so well!
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This is so true. My husband died suddenly 2 years ago and the only doctor that let me grieve was my eye doctor who also sent me a card. Another doc looked away, mumbled something and told me to ask for the name of a therapist on my way out. Another told that it is better to have loved than never loved at all. Empathy would have taken a few minutes and would have validated my emotional pain. Thanks for sharing this study.
Great post! I am just starting out in community management/marketing media and trying to learn how to do it well – resources like this article are incredibly helpful. As our company is based in the US, it?s all a bit new to us. The example above is something that I worry about as well, how to show your own genuine enthusiasm and share the fact that your product is useful in that case.


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A game of basketball has netted the organizer the first ticket in Richmond for breaking physical distancing rules.
A fine of $125 to $175 – depending on when it’s paid – was issued to the individual at an organized game of basketball at a city community recreation centre.
Community Ambassadors gave reminders to the individual to stop playing, but these were not heeded and a bylaw officer was brought in to issue the ticket.
Playing an organized game of basketball was not in compliance with the parks policy and guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While city spokesperson Clay Adams said Richmond is committed to enforcing rules and guidelines, that isn’t the first approach.
“Our approach is always try to educate and inform through discussion rather than fines,” Adams explained. “The issuing of a ticket is truly a last resort.”
The city implemented the Community Ambassador program a few weeks ago to remind people to stay physically distanced.
“It is a particularly important reminder given tomorrow is Canada Day and the potential for people to gather in larger groups in public areas,” Adams said. “Community Ambassadors will, again, be active and visible across Richmond to remind people to have fun, enjoy the community, but to be safe and respectful while doing so.”


22 Sep Airo Security Announces: ARC: from 3D Game Chips to Licensable RISC Processor
Today marks the 20th anniversary of a landmark in my career, and probably a handful of others. On 21st September 2000, the 32-bit configurable RISC processor company ARC International, now an integral part of Synopsys, completed a major milestone in its history: an IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange, at a first day market valuation of around £1.1 billion.
That was a huge achievement for all concerned, but for me it was extra special, because it was the culmination of an objective set by the two people, founder Rick Clucas and CEO Bob Terwilliger, who recruited me as part of the early team of 20 or so people at Argonaut RISC Cores as it was called then, in July 1998. When I visited them for my ‘interview’ in the Argonaut Software building in Edgware, north of London, where there was a large cutout of one the big Nintendo games they’d produced (I believe it was Star Fox) in the lobby, the speed with which startups can make decisions meant I was already offered the ‘job’.
That same evening, pleased that I’d agreed to join, Bob took me to dinner in a well-known Indian restaurant in the center of London, and set me my target: “I want to do an IPO in two years, and you’re going to help us do it,” he told me.
That sounded quite exciting, but I didn’t actually know what it meant. At that point I was quite naïve, as the concept of startups, stock options and IPOs were completely new to me. I had worked for large companies before, like National Semiconductor, Marconi Instruments, and GEC Plessey Semiconductor. I didn’t even know much about RISC processors, apart from meeting Robin Saxby of ARM a few times on my travels to the USA when I was with my previous company. But that was about it.
ARC had an interesting history, which I’d discovered only after I left the company in 2002. It was founded by Rick Clucas and Jez San. Jez is widely known for his success in the games software industry with Argonaut Software, which is where ARC effectively spun out from. Speaking to me last week for this story, Rick said the first form of the ARC processor was actually developed in 1993, and the first licensing deal was with Brooktree in 1996. Prior to the first licensee, the company in several different guises had developed precursors of the ARC processor.
First was the Super FX chip for Nintendo; Jez is said to have received $1 million from Nintendo when they’d turned up in Japan and told them they could develop a hardware accelerator chip that would speed up one of their 3D games by 200 times over the software-based system they were using at the time.
In an interview with Nintendo Life magazine last year, Jez described how Nintendo had a standard DSP chip that didn’t really help them with the graphics so was limited. He said, “We were very forward-thinking with the Super FX chip, because what we designed wasn’t a hardwired polygon engine, it was a fully programmable RISC microprocessor. We had the world’s first GPU years before anyone else had done it, because it wasn’t just the polygons – we could do 3D mapping on it, we could do pixel shading on it… we could do anything, except it only ran on 21MHz.”
After this, Argonaut worked with Hasbro on a chip using three ARC processors for a VR games console, a project which was eventually canned. Next came an assignment for Philips to design a 3D chip for the CD-I 2. And then when that project was canned by Philips, Argonaut designed a 3D chip for a joint venture between Apple and Toshiba for a games console being developed by the Apple Pie division. That also got canned.
Jez said, “We were getting annoyed with these hardware companies hiring us to do really cool hardware and then it didn’t come out, because we were just the engineers working on their product; we didn’t get any say in how it got launched or marketed or anything like that.” But, according to Rick, since the projects were stopped, “we got the rights back.” The processor was actually invented by James Hakewill, with support from Jon Sanders.
So, by the time I joined, there was some history, but by then it had really got to being a proper intellectual property licensing company, through the dedicated hardware spinout, Argonaut RISC Cores.
For me it was a roller-coaster of a journey. I began to understand the culture of a startup before startups were even in vogue. For example, there’s no demarcation of roles. I might have been hired as a director of worldwide communications, but that was just in name only. You did everything: from going out with the CEO and fundraising, to doing the trade shows, organizing graphics, building the exhibition stands, writing press releases, sending out the press releases, building advertising campaigns, writing the brochures and ad copy, hiring people, making the coffee and much more.
That principle didn’t apply just for me — the CEO, the CTO, the engineers, the salespeople, all chip in when you are just 20 or so people trying to build a company. For example, we did many trade shows in the U.S. and Europe. So many that I was traveling to California on a ‘commuting’ basis almost every other week for two years from London. Bob, Rick and I would have competitions on how fast we’d build our exhibition booth or tear it down (it was a pop-up but big enough to require some effort and packing) and get to the airport. Between the three of us and Tim Holden in Europe, David Toombs in the U.S. and Jason Good for both the U.S. and Europe, we’d be in and out of trade shows and conferences, pitching the ARC processor, evangelizing the possibilities of a configurable 32-bit RISC processor and building our partners and networks. And even the engineering team back home got involved in everything — from developing the demos, to helping pack and ship brochures and flyers.
When you do so many things, there are not enough hours in the day. So, I’d often still be in the office at 9:30pm London time talking to the likes of partners and media in California. In my first month, I’d generated headlines in the media like front page stories that said, “ARC challenges ARM,” and I’d spent a week in Sand Hill Road, California, pitching the ARC proposition with Bob and Rick to all the big investors there.
We made a classic mistake when pitching to Silicon Valley investors. We showed them how cool the ARC processor was, with a demo on the laptop showing how anyone could easily configure a processor with whatever instructions you wanted using check boxes on our ‘wizard’ graphic user interface (a name we changed to Architect because another company used ‘wizard’), and then automatically generate the RTL code. The story would have been better received if we talked more about how the benefits of the configurability would have been enough for customers to change their processor.
Despite that ‘failed’ trip to Sand Hill Road, the London-based investors continued to invest in ARC. One of the first people to invest was Tom Teichman, through NewMedia Investors, who’d also invested in Argonaut Games and Lastminute.com. Others early investors included Apax Partners and Nomura, who were able to cash out handsomely on the IPO.
There were some huge challenges as a startup with big-name licensees that couldn’t be named. How could you let the market know? Strict non-disclosure agreements meant you couldn’t use them as reference names for others to have confidence in signing up with you. I remember in 1998 telling the world in our PR and our web site that we had some 18 licensees but could name only three or four of them.
In this respect, credit goes to good reporters in digging for a story. At that time EE Times’ European correspondent Peter Clarke often kept pressing the company to give licensee names, otherwise the story would sound rather hollow (my words not his). It was at the IP 98 show in Frankfurt, Germany, when Peter persisted in asking Bob for names. Peter doesn’t give up in finding the real story, which is one of the characteristics many startups have recognized as a huge benefit when he tells their stories. Next we knew, Peter had published a story after the show deducing Intel was a licensee. That public outage of a licensee didn’t go down too well with Intel, but it was out in public.
As media coverage grew, recruiting became easy — everyone wanted to work for this rising new startup called ARC Cores (the name changed several times, from Argonaut RISC Cores, to ARC Cores, to ARC International pre-IPO). And because it was the dot-com boom…


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2008 Mumbai attacks
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26 November and lasted until Saturday 29 November 2008. A total of 175 people died, including nine attackers, and more than 300 were wounded.
- Commenting on the 26/11 massacre of Mumbai, Bimal, Politburo member, was quoted in Hindustan Times, saying: ‘We do not support the way they attacked the Victoria station, where most of the victims were Muslims. At the same time, we feel the Islamic upsurge should not be opposed as it is basically anti-US and anti-imperialist in nature. We, therefore, want it to grow.’
- Vivek Agnihotri - Urban Naxals The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2018, Garuda Prakashan)
- Mainstream media coverage of these rampaging, cold-blooded murderous acts of jihad terrorism—perpetrated by a self-professed mujahideen organization (i.e., “The Deccan Mujahideen”2)—consistently ignored the clear ideological linkage to Islam. .... Blithely ignoring obvious Islamic and Muslim connections—credit taken for the attacks by a mujahideen organization;13 or testimony from a Turkish Muslim couple (Meltem and Seyfi Muessinoglu) briefly apprehended and then released unharmed by the jihadists because, “[w]hen the Muezzinoglus said they were Muslims, their captors told them that they would not be harmed”— some media (e.g., NPR) even voiced their own “speculations” about the possible culpability of “Hindu extremists,” an absurd calumny, stated in full paranoid transference mode by the Muslim Brotherhood: "A photograph published in Urdu Times, Mumbai, clearly shows that Mossad and ex-Mossad men came to India and met Sadhus and other pro-Hindutva elements recently. A conspiracy was clearly hatched."
- Bostom, A. G. (2015). Sharia versus freedom: The legacy of Islamic totalitarianism. citing Amaresh Misra . chapter 7
- On the floor of parliament, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram officially dismissed comments made by the Minority Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay that implied Hindutva elements may have been involved in the Mumbai attacks. Antulay sparked a political controversy on December 17 with comments insinuating that the killing of Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) Chief Hemant Karkare by the Mumbai terrorists was somehow linked to Karkare's investigation of bombings in which radical Hindus are suspected. The outlandish comments suggested that somehow Hindutva elements were in league with the Mumbai attackers, or used the attacks as cover to kill Karkare. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) immediately called for Antulay's resignation and protested with boisterous walkouts in parliament over the course of five days. Compounding matters, the Congress Party, after first distancing itself from the comments, two days later issued a contradictory statement which implicitly endorsed the conspiracy. During this time, Antulay's completely unsubstantiated claims gained support in the conspiracy-minded Indian-Muslim community. Hoping to foster that support for upcoming national elections, the Congress Party cynically pulled back from its original dismissal and lent credence to the conspiracy. Regardless of Chidambaram's dismissal (and Antulay's party-ordered retraction), the Indian Muslim community will continue to believe they are unfairly targeted by law enforcement and that those who investigate the truth are silenced. The entire episode demonstrates that the Congress Party will readily stoop to the old caste/religious-based politics if it feels it is in its interest.
- [India cannot] “jump on an entire nation” (Pakistan) just because some people from there came and did something.”
- Sam Pitroda about the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Quoted from Indian Express, Rahul Gandhi’s negative campaign didn’t work: Senior Congress leaders on eve of CWC
- Nussbaum diluted the attempts to deal with the Mumbai terror attack of 2008, stating that ‘it’s important to consider Indian terrorism in a broader context. Terrorism in India is by no means peculiar to Muslims’. In discussions on the Mumbai attacks of 2008, she quickly diverts the discussion away from Islamic terror by citing the 2002 violence in Gujarat and the 2008 Hindu-Christian violence in Orissa, without giving the full context of either. By manipulating the contexts, she equates local communal incidents with terrorism: ‘All of this is terrorism, but most of it doesn’t reach the world’s front pages’. In this manner, she has been effective in shifting attention away from anti-India terrorism.
- Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan̲, A., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2016). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines.
- This appears to be a pattern: whenever Muslim riots or bomb attacks target Hindus, it is thought acceptable to accuse the victims, in order to avoid possible revolts. Thus in 1993 in Mumbai, after eleven coordinated bomb blasts in Hindu majority areas, which killed 257 people and injured 713, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar quickly cooked up a twelfth explosion ... in a Muslim area! “I have deliberately misled people,” he explained later, to show that both communities had been affected.” And to portray both communities’ potential to behave as “terrorists”. Truth and clarity of mind are the casualties.
- Sharad Pawar, as quoted in The Godhra Riots: Sifting Fact from Fiction, Nicole Elfi, 2013, quoting The New Indian Express, August 13, 2006.


Manufacturing The Future: 10 Trends To Come In 3D Printing
Guest post written by Vivek Srinivasan and Jarrod Bassan
December 7, 2012
Once considered science fiction, the ability to do 3D printing – to produce objects on demand at relatively low cost – has become a reality. And the trend is going to pick up steam in 2013. Here’s a look at 10 trends to watch in 3D printing next year and beyond.
- 3D printing becomes industrial strength. Once reserved for prototypes and toys, 3D printing will become industrial strength. You will take a flight on an airliner that includes 3D-printed components, making it lighter and more fuel efficient. In fact, there are aircrafts that already contain some 3D-printed components. The technology will also start to be adopted for the direct manufacture of specialist components in industries like defense and automotive. Overall, the number of 3D printed parts in planes, cars and even appliances will increase without you knowing.
- 3D printing starts saving lives. 3D-printed medical implants will improve the quality of life of someone close to you. Because 3D printing allows products to be custom-matched to an exact body shape, it is being used today for making better titanium bone implants, prosthetic limbs and orthodontic devices. Experiments in printing soft tissue are underway, and may soon allow printed veins and arteries to be used in operations. Today’s research into medical applications of 3D printing covers nano-medicine, pharmaceuticals and even printing of organs. Taken to the extreme, 3D printing could one day enable custom medicines and reduce if not eliminate the organ donor shortage.
- Customization becomes the norm. You will buy a product, customized to your exact specifications, which is 3D-printed and delivered to your doorstep. Innovative companies will use 3D printing technologies to give themselves a competitive advantage by offering customization at the same price as their competitor’s standard products. At first this may range from novelty items like custom smartphone cases or ergonomic improvements to standard tools, but it will rapidly expand to new markets. The leaders will adjust their sales, distribution and marketing channels to take advantage of their capability to provide customization direct to the customer. Customization will also play a big role in healthcare devices such as 3D-printed hearing aids and artificial limbs.
- Product innovation is faster. Everything from new car models to better home appliances will be designed more rapidly, bringing innovation to you faster. Because rapid prototyping using 3D printers reduces the time to turn a concept into a production-ready design, it allows designers to focus on the function of products. Although the use of 3D printing for rapid prototyping is not new, the rapidly decreasing cost, improved design software and increasing range of printable materials means designers will have more access to printers, allowing them to innovate faster by 3D printing an object early in the design phase, modifying it, re-printing it, and so on. The result will be better products, designed faster.
- New companies develop innovative business models built on 3D printing. You will invest in a 3D printing company’s IPO. Start-up companies will flourish as a generation of innovators, hackers and “makers” take advantage of the capabilities of 3D printing to create new products or deliver services to the burgeoning 3D printer market. Some enterprises will fail, and there may be a boom-bust cycle, but 3D printing will spawn new and creative business models.
- 3D print shops open at the mall. 3D print shops will begin to appear, at first servicing local markets with high-quality 3D printing services. Initially designed to service rapid-prototyping and other niche capabilities, these shops will branch into the consumer marketplace. As retailers begin to “ship the design, not the product,” the local 3D print shop will one day be where you pick up your customized, locally manufactured products, just like you pick up your printed photos from the local Walmart today.
- Heated debates on who owns the rights emerge. As manufacturers and designers start to grapple with the prospect of their copyrighted designs being replicated easily on 3D printers, there will be high-profile test cases over the intellectual property of physical object designs. Just like file-sharing sites shook the music industry because they made it easy to copy and share music, the ability to easily copy, share, modify and print 3D objects will ignite a new wave of intellectual property issues.
- New products with magical properties will tantalize us. New products – that can only be created on 3D printers – will combine new materials, nano scale and printed electronics to exhibit features that seem magical compared to today’s manufactured products. These printed products will be desirable and have distinct competitive advantage. The secret sauce is that 3D printing can control material as it is printed, right down to the molecules and atoms. As today’s research is perfected into tomorrow’s commercially available printers, expect exciting and desirable new products with amazing capabilities. The question is: What are these products and who will be selling them?
- New machines grace the factory floor. Expect to see 3D printing machines appearing in factories. Already some niche components are produced more economically on 3D printers, but this is only on a small scale. Many manufacturers will begin experimenting with 3D printing for applications outside of prototyping. As the capabilities of 3D printers develop and manufacturers gain experience in integrating them into production lines and supply chains, expect hybrid manufacturing processes that incorporate some 3D-printed components. This will be further fueled by consumers desiring products that require 3D printers for their manufacture.
- “Look what I made!” Your children will bring home 3D printed projects from school. Digital literacy – including Web and app development, electronics, collaboration and 3D design – will be supported by 3D printers in schools. A number of middle schools and high schools already have 3D printers. As 3D printing costs continue to fall, more schools will sign on. Digital literacy will be about things as well as bits.
Vivek Srinivasan is the Australia regional manager for CSC’s Leading Edge Forum and Jarrod Bassan is a senior consultant with CSC in Australia. The two recently published a report entitled 3D Printing and the Future of Manufacturing.


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LG Gram Laptop Model 15 Review: We all know about the brand LG, previously this brand was familiar with electronic Home appliance and Smartphones. However, the company stepped into another expensive electronic manufacturing world; that is Computer Laptop. The company previously introduced their 13-inch and 14-inch models. Now it turns with another new with 15.6-Inch model, and it is named as LG Gram 15. It looks with the weight of LG 14-inch laptop which is the lightest laptop in the world (0.98 kg).
The New LG 15 laptop looks as we said in the First paragraph, it is lighting thin laptop. However, the Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air weighs as 1.09kg. Here in this LG Gram 15, it comes with the large screen with light weight when to compare MacBook; it is made up of magnesium shell. Which is lighter than the metal of aluminum alloy. Also, the laptop appearance is viewed as stylish without any cuts on edges and logos as big in the middle. Whereas, the logo is situated on the top right corner screen cover.
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Children with a parent or close relative in prison will receive support from the Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) thanks to a grant of £40,000 from South Wales Freemasons.
The £40,000 grant will support Pact’s ‘Reach Out’ project, which will provide enhanced care and support to children and young people aged three to 16 with a father or close male relative in prison at HMP Swansea and their families. Many of these children have special educational needs and disabilities. The programme will help them cope with the emotional and practical challenges of having a loved one in prison. It also aims to make visiting the prison and maintaining family ties as manageable as possible.
The funding will make a significant difference in the lives of children and their families by providing personalised support. Pact will provide tailored support plans for each child and family, helping them to navigate the criminal justice system and provide access to appropriate services to meet their needs.
Additionally, outreach work in the local community will raise awareness of the challenges young people involved with the criminal justice system face among professionals like teachers, counsellors, and social workers.
Approximately 200,000 – 300,000 children are affected by parental imprisonment across England and Wales each year. Children with a parent in prison are at a higher risk of bullying and social isolation at school, impacting their social and emotional development. This lack of empathy disrupts education and makes attending school daunting, especially for children with special needs or disabilities who may further struggle with communication and emotional processing concerning their parent’s imprisonment.
This project empowers Pact to amplify their mission of fostering a society that embraces justice as a transformative journey of restoration and healing for families as well as prisoners. This project ensures that fewer children will experience isolation and exclusion from their peers, fostering a greater sense of belonging and connection.
The grant from South Wales Freemasons comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation, funded by Freemasons, their families and friends, from across England and Wales.
Pact Head of Services for Wales and West England, Nadia Emblin said:
“We’re very grateful to South Wales Freemasons for their generous grant. Research shows that prisoners who receive visits from a family member are nearly 40 per cent less likely to reoffend. ‘Reach Out’ will ensure that, where appropriate, prisoners and their children can maintain their vital bonds, reducing the harm caused to families by imprisonment and effectively reducing the likelihood of reoffending.”
Robert Payne from South Wales Freemasons, said:
“I’m really pleased we’ve been able to help Pact with their vital project. It’s hard for any child to have a parent in prison but for those with special needs it’s even more difficult. Pact’s work reduces reoffending and does much to keep families together. It’s hugely important for the families and for society in general that this vital project is supported.”
Photo Left to Right : Philip Bevan (South Wales Freemasons) Zuzanna Cybulska (Family Engagement Manager, PACT) Shantelle Shields (Child And Young Person Practitioner, PACT) Robert Payne (South Wales Freemasons) and Merrick Jones (South Wales Freemasons).


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- 2016;19;59-68Exercise- and Stress-Induced Hypoalgesia in Musicians with and without Shoulder Pain: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Study
Kevin Kuppens, MSc, Filip Struyf, PhD, Jo Nijs, PT, PhD, Patrick Cras, MD, PhD, Erik Fransen, PhD, Linda Hermans, MSc, Mira Meeus, PhD, and Nathalie Roussel, PhD.
BACKGROUND: Professional and pre-professional musicians are characterized by physical and psychological demands inherent to their musical activity, and therefore at risk for developing performance related musculoskeletal pain. Physical and psychological demands are known to influence human pain modulation.
OBJECTIVES: In this study we compared the influence of a physically and emotionally stressful task on pain thresholds in musicians with and without shoulder pain.
STUDY DESIGN: A single-blinded randomized and controlled crossover study design was used to compare the effects of a physical versus emotional testing procedure on pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) in musicians with and without shoulder pain.
SETTING: All data were obtained in the field (e.g., at the physiotherapy accommodation in the Royal Conservatory).
METHODS: During the physical testing procedure, the subjects performed an isometric exercise of the glenohumeral external rotators. The emotional task comprised watching “unpleasant” images selected from the International Affective Picture System. The outcome was the assessment of change in PPTs before and after the physical and emotional task.
RESULTS: Our results indicate similar effects of both protocols in either group, i.e., musicians with and without shoulder pain (P > 0.05). All musicians showed elevated PPTs at local and remote areas after isometric exercise (P < 0.05). The emotional stress task increased PPTs at remote areas only (P < 0.05).
LIMITATIONS: Despite the small sample size of musicians without shoulder pain, a power of 78.5% was achieved to detect the necessary effect size of Cohen’s d = 1. Furthermore, comparing these results with those of non-musicians (both healthy subjects and patients with shoulder pain) might reveal information regarding the specific adaptations. Finally a high variability was observed in shoulder disability (i.e., SDQ-scores) as typically seen in a population with shoulder pain.
CONCLUSIONS: In musicians with and without regional shoulder pain, no significant differences were found with respect to pain modulation during a physically and an emotionally stressful task. Both interventions adequately activated central and widespread pain inhibitory mechanisms in both groups.

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Report for the Patriot Broadcast Network By Sir David-Andrew
It is becoming more obvious that the Gestapo’s efforts to silence the people are just no longer working. People from all walks of life are just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Being unable to find work, or working and barely having enough money at the end of the week to buy groceries, and being taxed to death; 78% or more of income is consumed by taxes. And if good folks pay the demands for tithes from State Religion Churches, as well, that does not leave much left to live on.
FEMA’s so-called exercise for testing the emergency broadcast system on November 9 and 10, where FEMA will take control of radio and TV networks, could become more than just a test. These tests are supposedly to last for only three minute intervals; however, as history has shown us, when FEMA is out playing war games, disaster STRIKES.
Yes, the Gestapo in the District of Criminals is losing it. None of the tactics, which they used back in the nineties, are working. The people have learned from the mistakes of the past. The more illegal and unwarranted arrests the PIGS make, the angrier the populace has become. The bureaucRATS have been desperately attempting to insight riots to justify declaration of martial law, but the people are no longer stupid and have become wise to riot PIGS’ tricks and tactics.
Now even judges are rebelling against the evil Communist machine, as may be seen in the AP article attached below.
What people from all walks of life have decided is not to riot, but if the PIGS wish violence, they will receive war. Veterans Day just might become the day that they will learn the hard lesson as to what happens to cannon fodder when the people decided that they have had enough of being treated worse than dogs.
I suspect that this so-called FEMA exercise will be used for three things; therefore, people everywhere need to be aware, have cameras and communications ready, thereby preventing these monsters from doing in secret their evil deeds. Oh yes, militia units should be in heightened state of readiness, this could be the week you have the opportunity to try out your new and old toys. That thought should make Obamanation, the Bush Crime Family and the Clintonistas all quiver. They had hoped to had disposed of the militias ten years ago. Too bad, so sad, they are still here, stronger than ever, and even more well equipped!
I again issue WARNING! And Yellow Alert.
As to the FEMA exercise, here are possible scenarios. First, the FEMA exercise could be used to cover the rigging of Tuesday’s election. Remember Stalin stated, “It does not matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.”
Second, the FEMA exercise could be used to conceal or cover a massive nationwide round up of these Wall Street protesters, since they are not being good little slaves, and the MASTERS will not tolerate defiance to their ORDERS. While TV and radio networks are blacked out, these protesters could be taken to some FEMA camp, place unknown, denied due process of law, and made to disappear. FEMA may even attempt to shut down the internet, as well. Then, when the networks come back on the AIR, and people ask what happened to the protesters, government bureaucRATS will all clamor that the protester gave up and just went home. Though, I doubt that FEMA will be able to shutdown the Patriot Broadcast Network, time will tell.
However, there is a third problem that is at hand. As I have been reporting since March, the banksters and Wall Street inside traders have been planning a big event for this fall. Therefore, immediately after an election would be a great time for a BANKING HOLIDAY. As per the numerological games that the banksters and the oy-boys love to play, I would say that 11-11-11, Veterans Day would be a great day for the banksters to shaft this Nation, turning it into a third world nation by debauching the currency, which would throw most countries in the world into sheer panic. However, I believe Russia and China would survive an economic collapse. Libya, as well, would have survived prior the US and Israeli overthrow of Gaddafi. Iran and Japan would probably fair well; however, the British Empire and the European Union would be in major financial turmoil.
Oh well, so much for well laid secret plans of rats and mice. Foiled again! Since it is no longer secret and the whole world knows who’s to blame. Rothschilds and Rockefellers, “how do like me now”? Just think “moose” and “turkey” could be on the menu for Thanksgiving! And there is plenty of hemp on standby, ready for use, as well. I hear drums. What? Is that music I hear? Could it be the song “How Many Of Them Can We Make Die”? Chess is a wonderful game in which one can watch the opponent sweat, especially, once it is learned that the opponent is a coward. Well, those, who have the need to know, now know. May be these demoniacs will all go run and hid, but time will tell.
Ready on the green! Ol’ doc sure has had a tale to tell.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Occupy Wall Street protesters and state officials in Tennessee squared off for a third consecutive night Saturday, even though a local judge has consistently refused to jail the demonstrators and said the state lacks the authority to set a curfew on the property.
The protesters, some of whom have been arrested two straight nights, were galvanized by the friction between state officials and the local magistrate. Several new demonstrators showed up at the state-owned plaza near the Capitol for the first time Saturday.
“My heart has been here all along, but the arrests gave me the momentum to come,” said Vicki Metzgar, 61, director of a Nashville Public Schools science and math initiative. “This (plaza) belongs to us, not the politicians.”
The Nashville arrests came after a week of police crackdowns around the country on Occupy Wall Street activists, who have been protesting economic inequality and what they call corporate greed.
In Oakland, Calif., an Iraq War veteran was seriously injured during a protest clash with police Tuesday night. In Atlanta, helicopters hovered overhead Wednesday as officers in riot gear arrested more than 50 protesters at a downtown park. In San Diego, police arrested a similar number of people who occupied the Civic Center Plaza and Children’s Park for three weeks.
Nashville magistrate Tom Nelson has said there’s no legal reason to keep the demonstrators behind bars and he has released them after each arrest. He has refused each night to sign off on arrest warrants for more than two dozen people taken into custody.
Some legal experts agreed with the judge.
The arrests appeared to be a violation of First Amendment rights that allow for people to peacefully assemble, said attorney David Raybin, a former prosecutor. He and others said the nature of the arrests, coupled with the judge’s refusal to sign off on the warrants, could become ammunition for lawsuits.
“The government is exposing itself to serious liability here by doing this,” Raybin said.
Nelson did not return an email seeking and a phone number for him could not be found.
The curfew at the Legislative Plaza, which state troopers began enforcing Thursday night, runs from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Others questioned the timing of the curfew. The protesters had been demonstrating for about three weeks before it took effect, a point that Nelson said he factored into his decision.
“You can’t pass a curfew mid-protest because you disagree with this group of protesters,” said criminal defense attorney Patrick Frogge, who is representing some of those arrested.
The state Department of Safety is carrying out the arrests. Commissioner Bill Gibbons, who until he joined the Haslam administration was the district attorney in Memphis, said he didn’t have a role in developing the curfew but assured Haslam his department could enforce it.
Gibbons developed a reputation as an able and tough prosecutor in Memphis, where gang and drug violence have been problems for years. He ran against Haslam for governor in the GOP primary, touting his law-and-order credential and sharply attacking his multi-million-dollar opponent for refusing to divulge how much income he gets from the family-owned chain of Pilot truck stops.
Cecily Friday, one of the original Occupy Nashville protesters, said the administration’s attempt to get rid of the demonstrators has “completely backfired.”
“Over 1,000 people have been added to our Facebook page since the arrests,” she said.
On Saturday afternoon, about 150 people showed up for an Occupy Nashville meeting. Lisa Keylon, a city planner, was there for the first time. She said she was recently in Atlanta, discussing with friends how unorganized the protests seemed, wondering how long they could last.
Then people were arrested in Atlanta, followed by those in Nashville.
“Now people are fired up because their First Amendment rights are being violated,” she said.
Among those arrested Friday night was journalist Jonathan Meador, who told troopers he was a reporter covering the story for the Nashville Scene alternative newspaper. On Saturday, the owner of the newspaper sent a letter to Haslam’s staff.
“I expect the governor to publicly apologize to him for this violation of his rights and to assure the people of Tennessee that this administration will not interfere with the right to a free press that has been a fundamental right in this country since our founding,” South Comm CEO Chris Ferrell wrote. “I’m sure you understand that every media outlet in this country will vigorously defend our right to cover government action without fear of arrest or reprisal.”
A gala arts event honoring a prominent Republican fundraiser is happening at an adjoining state-owned plaza Saturday night. Near the scene of the Fest De Ville Gala, one enterprising protester stuck new placards beside those announcing the curfew. They were similar in size and color with text from Article 1 of the Tennessee Constitution: “Citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good.”
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