How Powerful Is Texas?
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Two years ago, over 125000 people petitioned The White House to let Texas secede from the US. While the petition was unsuccessful, we wondered how Powerful...
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Beckwood Installs Large-Format Triform Fluid Cell Sheet Hydroforming Press At Aerospace Manufacturer
Beckwood, manufacturer of advanced hydraulic press solutions and the Triform line of aerospace focused forming machinery, is proud to announce the installation of a 24 x 96 Fluid Cell sheet hydroforming press within the aircraft manufacturing facility of a US-headquartered company.
St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) - Beckwood, manufacturer of advanced hydraulic press solutions and the Triform line of aerospace focused forming machinery, is proud to announce the installation of a 24 x 96 Fluid Cell sheet hydroforming press within the aircraft manufacturing facility of a US-headquartered company.
The Triform, Model 2496-5BD, has a specific appeal to industries and operations involved with forming a variety of part sizes in low volume, high mix environments. The 2496-5BD offers a maximum of 5000 PSI of evenly distributed forming pressure which can be used to form a variety of parts using the low-cost tooling associated with the Triform process. The press is offered with either a single bed shuttle, or dual shuttles with front and rear control stations for increased productivity.
Aircraft manufacturers are learning the advantages of our Triform 2496-5BD, including its ability to accommodate a significant percentage of their aerospace parts, said Beckwoods President, Jeffrey Debus. Companies forming aerospace ribs, panels, trim pieces, brackets and more will appreciate the versatility the 2496-5BD offers. Additionally, manufacturers currently using traditional press brakes to form multiple bends in a single part, through several operations, will benefit from a consolidation of process steps and overall manufacturing time, by transitioning those parts over to the Triform process, continued Debus.
Like its counterparts in the Triform forming equipment family, the 2496-5BD is fully programmable, designed for simple operation and features a structure which is engineered for Infinite Life. It features programmable pressure, on-board diagnostics, multi-level password protection, and a compact design for flush floor operation. The Triform is also exceedingly durable with low maintenance requirements including fast bladder changes which require approximately 2 hours to complete, and standard, catalogued components from premium suppliers.
This particular Triform model features an OEE, or Overall Equipment Effectiveness system, for maximizing the users manufacturing productivity, Debus continued. Triforms OEE system helps management identify production problems fast, through real-time monitoring of various criteria, including machine status, shift performance data, labor productivity tracking and more, he concluded.
The Triform 2496-5BD features a variable frequency drive (VFD) to maximize energy efficiency by varying the motors speed & torque, based on actual demand requirements. Additional benefits of the integrated VFD system include reduced noise levels and a reduction in the operating temperature of the presses, thereby minimizing the on-board cooling requirements.
In addition to the Triform Model 2496-5BD, Beckwood offers an entire line of aerospace forming equipment, including several other Fluid Cell sheet hydroforming models, a full line of Deep Draw sheet hydroforming models, extrusion and sheet / leading edge stretch forming machines, hot joggle presses and more.
About Beckwood Press Company The Beckwood Press Company is a leading hydraulic press supplier, located in St. Louis, MO USA. They offer quality, custom hydraulic presses for virtually every industry & application, including a line of high-temperature hot forming / SPF presses for forming structural aerospace components. Beckwood also manufactures the Triform line of Sheet Hydroforming Presses in both fluid cell and deep draw models, hydraulic ring expanders / sizers, hot joggle presses, as well as a line of stretch forming machines for both extrusion, sheet and leading edge applications. Get the latest news from Beckwood at http://www.beckwoodpress.com/news.
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Nanobiotix Appoints Its Manufacturing Partner, CordenPharma: Another Step Towards Commercialization
NANOBIOTIX (Paris:NANO) (Euronext: NANO ISIN: FR0011341205), a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer, announces it has appointed CordenPharma as its manufacturing partner. The opening of a new manufacturing line and the scaling up of production is an important step in NBTXR3s route to commercialization.
The new manufacturing line, located in France, will increase the amount of NBTXR3 product available. With an anticipated award of a CE mark in 2016, the Company is preparing to scale-up production further to meet the needs of future commercialization. Furthermore, Nanobiotix is anticipating future demand from clinical trials in the coming years in Europe and in the United States.
CordenPharma is an international full service CMO (contract manufacturing organization) which provides specialized technologies for the development and manufacture of health products. The company is recognized by EMA and FDA thanks to its eight cGMP facilities across Europe and the United States and works with both pharma and biotech companies. Its facilities are regularly inspected by the regulatory authorities (FDA and EMA) and have a good track record.
Laurent Lvy, Chief Executive Officer at Nanobiotix, commented: Finding the right manufacturing partner is essential, since ensuring quality and sufficient levels of supply is fundamental for meeting the market demands and the growth of the Company.
Yves Michon, Prsident Synkem - CordenPharma said: Nanobiotixs product, NBTXR3 is a fascinating product not only with respect to its properties, but also in its manufacture. We are working closely with Nanobiotix to ensure a seamless process and manage the scale-up of the product.
NBTXR3 is Nanobiotixs lead product in the NanoXray portfolio. The product comprises Hafnium Oxide nanoparticles which can be injected directly into tumor. With the application of radiotherapy, these nanoparticles absorb X-rays have the potential to significantly enhances the radiation dose within the cancer cells without increasing the dose to the surrounding healthy tissues. NBTXR3 has the potential to cause a paradigm shift in cancer therapy with significant clinical benefit for patients.
In November 2014, Nanobiotix announced its global clinical development plan. In addition to Soft Tissue Sarcoma and Head and Neck cancer, the plan now includes metastatic liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinomas and prostate cancer. In the second half of 2015, the liver cancers and high risk prostate cancer programs are anticipated to enter the clinical stage.
About NANOBIOTIX: http://www.nanobiotix.com
Nanobiotix (Euronext: NANO / ISIN: FR0011341205) is a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer. The companys first-in-class, proprietary technology, NanoXray, enhances radiotherapy energy with a view to provide a new, more efficient treatment for cancer patients. NanoXray products are compatible with current radiotherapy treatments and are meant to treat potentially a wide variety of cancers including Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Head and Neck Cancer, Liver Cancers, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Glioblastoma, etc., via multiple routes of administration.
Nanobiotixs lead product NBTXR3, based on NanoXray, is currently under clinical development for Soft Tissue Sarcoma and locally advanced Head and Neck Cancer. The company has partnered with PharmaEngine for clinical development and commercialization of NBTXR3 in Asia.
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What Kind of Music Does Your Cat Like? – Video
What Kind of Music Does Your Cat Like?
Cats prefer "species-appropriate" music, according to a recently published study in the Applied Animal Behavioral Science journal. In the study, researchers created music designed specifically...
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Dr. Kerscher prsentiert ihre Studie beim Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress – Monaco – Video
Dr. Kerscher prsentiert ihre Studie beim Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress - Monaco
Dr. Martina Kerscher, Professorin der Kosmetikwissenschaften an der Universitt Hamburg, stellt ihre unabhngige Studie ber die Anti-Aging Wirkung von dem in BIOEFFECT enthaltenem EGF vor.
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Anti-Aging Therapeutics volume XVI Covers the Latest Clinical Science on Hypertension, Cholesterol, Alzheimers …
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 19, 2015
Anti-Aging Therapeutics is the sole consecutively published textbook series in the anti-aging medical specialty. An educational project of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) the world's largest non-profit medical organization dedicated to the advancement of technology to detect, prevent, and treat aging-related disease, Anti-Aging Therapeutics volume I was published in 1997, and in 2015 the textbook series is now in its 16th published volume.
Anti-Aging Therapeutics volume XVI serves as the Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies. In its ongoing commitment to publishing excellence, the A4M releases Anti-Aging Therapeutics volume XVI in eReader formats, for convenient reading on Kindle, iPad, and Nook.
Comprised of 20 original chapters authored by the foremost clinical experts in human aging intervention, Anti-Aging Therapeutics volume XVI covers early detection, prevention, treatment, and management of aging-related diseases including hypertension and cholesterol, memory impairment and cognitive decline, obesity, cancer, and more. View the Table of Contents, plus Chapter Abstracts, via the Download Sample link, at: http://www.ebookit.com/books/0000004149/Anti-Aging-Therapeutics-Volume-XVI.html?prw
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Govt Will Take Steps To Ensure Transparency In Censorship: I&B MoS – Video
Govt Will Take Steps To Ensure Transparency In Censorship: I B MoS
The members of the censor board met the I B MOS, Rajyavardhan Rathore on Tuesday to resolve the ongoing issue on the film certification process. A resolution to a series of issues is being...
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Anti-censorship group in China faces DDoS attack
An activist group working to end Chinas Internet censorship is facing an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that threatens to cripples its activities.
GreatFire.org, a censorship watchdog based within the country, reported on Thursday that it had been hit with its first ever DDoS attack.
Although its not known who is behind the attack, China has been suspected of using the tactic before to take down activist websites.
DDoS attacks work by using an army of hacked computers to send an overwhelming amount of traffic to a website, effectively disabling it.
In an Internet posting, GreatFire said that they were seeing 2.6 billion requests per hour, and that its websites had been forced offline.
We are not equipped to handle a DDoS attack of this magnitude and we need help. the group added.
The DDoS attack is targeting mirror websites GreatFire created to let Chinese users access blocked content, such as Google, BBC, the New York Times and other sites known to offer articles critical of the Chinese government.
To create the mirror websites, GreatFire has been using Amazon.com to host them through its cloud services. If the country wanted to cut access to the sites, the government would have to cause collateral damage and risk blocking Amazon servers that also support a large number of businesses, according to the group.
GreatFire suspects that the DDoS is in response to a Wall Street Journal article about the groups use of cloud services to poke holes through Chinas censorship.
Because of the number of requests we are receiving, our bandwidth costs have shot up to US$30,000 per day, the group said. Amazon, which is the service we are using, has not yet confirmed whether they will forgo this.
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Angola: Rafael Marques de Morais – "I Believe in the Power of Solidarity"
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London Angolan journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, joint winner of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism, spoke at the ceremony in London on 18 March
Both as a journalist and human rights activist, Rafael Marques de Morais has exposed government and industry corruption in Angola speaking out for those whose human rights have been violated in his country. Despite repeated arrests and threats, including a 40-day detention without charge during which he was denied food and water for days, Marques de Morais has continued his investigations, most recently detailing human rights abuses within Angola's diamond companies including 500 cases of torture and 100 murders of villagers living in the vicinity. After filing charges of crimes against humanity against seven Angolan generals, Marques do Morais is now being counter-sued for $1.6 (1.09) million. Undeterred, he continues to write on corruption in Angola. He is the joint recipient of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism.
With an award comes a greater responsibility. It is therefore my privilege to accept this journalism award, and dedicate it to my fellow Ethiopian colleagues Eskinder Nega, Reeyot Alemo, and the Zone 9 bloggers. They are in jail, currently serving some of the harshest sentences in Africa, for the crime of exercising their right to freedom of expression. For over a year, the Ethiopian government has denied adequate health care to Reeyot Alemu, who is in desperate need.
Ethiopia is the seat of the African Union, and its regime is one of the worst offenders for upholding the freedoms of the press and of expression. When a regime in Africa succeeds in trampling their citizens' rights with impunity, and enjoys such good international standing and legitimacy as Ethiopia, it becomes a textbook case for other authoritarian regimes.
I believe in the power of solidarity. I have experienced troubles of my own. It has been the solidarity of others that has helped to strengthen my courage and resolve to continue my journey.
Back in 1996, being in London and aghast at press censorship in Angola, I decided to bring it to international attention. Because I could not speak English, I fumbled through an organization's directory, and found Index on Censorship. I could understand the word Censorship. I called them and attended a meeting on Africa. My remarks were most convincing and incredibly short! "Censorship in Angola bad. Dos Santos [the president] bad. Very bad!" Then, a few months later I had an article translated and published in Index's magazine. It was disseminated through other publications in a number of countries.
On my return to Angola from this trip, I will be sitting in court, on 24 March, as the defendant on 11 separate charges of defamation brought against me by seven powerful generals and four of their business associates. I wrote a book that exposed human rights abuses in the diamond industry, in which the plaintiffs are major shareholders and whose private security company has executed many of the violations.
I am proud and honored to stand up against such a mighty power to enable many of the victims to speak out through my reports, which I have been producing for the past 10 years. I will come out of this trial stronger and empowered by the experience.
Thank you very much for this wonderful occasion.
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Kenya: Amran Abdundi – "This Award is for the Marginalised Women of Northern Kenya"
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London Kenyan activist Amran Abdundi, winner of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Campaigning, spoke at the ceremony in London on 18 March.
Amran Abdundi is an activist who, through various channels, has worked to make life safer in northeastern Kenya supporting women who are vulnerable to rape, female circumcision and murder. Despite death threats, Abdundi's Frontier Indigenous Network (FIN) has set up shelters along the dangerous border between Kenya and Somalia, an area where militant terrorist groups pose a threat to many. Alongside these shelters, FIN also maps out conflict areas, targets the illegal arms trade which fuels local conflict and has set up radio listening groups. As a way of reaching women in remote areas, these circles help to dispel myths about tuberculosis treatment and female property ownership, and to tackle doctrines spread by the area's terror organisations. She is the recipient of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Campaigning.
I want to thank the judges who selected me for this award after going through so many worthwhile and wonderful nominations that were submitted from around the world. Equally I want to thank Index on Censorship's staff. I will be eternally indebted to you all.
This award goes to marginalised women of northern Kenya whom I have worked with closely for the last ten years and who have joined hands with me in fighting outdated cultural practices that deny them the right to own property, expose them to dangerous practices like FGM, and threaten them with sexual exploitation.
The award also goes to conflict concubines who were abducted by armed youths in the height of armed violence in northern Kenya and acted as comfort women for armed militias. When these women came back from conflict zones with children born out of wedlock, they were rejected by their families. This award is for them.
Society rejected them and they live in separate makeshift areas outside normal settlement areas in northern Kenya. Working together with the conflict concubines we engaged various stakeholders women leaders, elders, local government officials, cultural leaders and youths in order to open a dialogue. This led to partial acceptance by the community in accommodating them. I am still working in engaging the stakeholders to fully accept them and still hope to integrate the conflict concubines in mainstream society.
This award also goes to women who through my organizational campaign are today enjoying their constitutional right to own property, land and livestock. This is contrary to past practice when all lands, livestocks and properties acquired by women was registered in name of their husbands. Or if the woman was single or widowed, her brother or father's name. Our campaign and advocacy managed to break that outdated cultural practice.
The award also goes to women victims of armed violence perpetrated by terrorist groups, community militias and gangs along the Kenya/Somalia border. Thugs who have used their armed power to attack, rape, gang rape and block women fleeing droughts from reaching Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya. We used our loud speakers to confront the attackers and we documented the abuses along the border.
I have done all these things not to win any award or recognition but because of a grave reality on the ground. A horror which moved me to join hands with other women and form a woman-led organisation called FRONTIER INDIGENOUS NETWORK.
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Censorship? 'Underboob selfie' banned in Thailand
MANILA, Philippines Do you know what an "underboob selfie" is?
What started as a fashion trend women's shirts and bikini tops cropped and designed to intentionally expose the lower half of their breasts sported by famous celebrities gave way to a social media trend among young women: the underboob selfie.
This new form of selfie focuses on the midriff and lower portion of the breast. Some of the photos we've seen on the Internet involved women pulling their shirts up to expose them.
Thailand's Culture Ministry has taken the first step to discourage this trend among women.
The country's 2007 Computer Crimes Act bans "obscene computer data which is accessible to the public," and this involves the side of a woman's breast.
Offenders could face up to 5 years in jail, according to media reports.
It did not mention how culprits could be identified. This could be the biggest problem in the enforcement of the law.
Underboob selfies usually leave the face out of view.
"Yeah, and prostitution is illegal too and how well do they enforce that law? Ha ha," said Facebook user Martin Duffy from Thailand.
Some social media users expressed their disapproval of the "puritan crusade" and saw it as another form of "censorship."
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Bizarro McDonald’s Mascot Attacked for Free Speech! – Video
Bizarro McDonald #39;s Mascot Attacked for Free Speech!
Infowars reporter Joe Biggs dressed up as Donald McRonald, Ronald McDonald #39;s ethical brother, and went to the massive McDonalds tent at SXSW in downtown Austin, TX to protest the dangerous...
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Articulating Free Speech. A response to the killing of Cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo. The best response is making the case for more Free Speech, with Dignity and Freedom for all in Actions.
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Americans tend to pick and choose who should be afforded civil liberties to some degree, acenturies-old issue that has flared up once again after a video ofracist chants byUniversity of Oklahoma fraternity brothers went viral. The university's president David Boren last weekexpelled two studentsfilmed making the racist chants.
The popularity of Boren's actions may be hard to nail down (more on that later), butone fascinating trend in public opinion has been quite clear.Americans have becomemore supportiveof free speech for a variety of controversial groups in recent decades, but thisgrowing acceptancehas not extended toracists.This finding comes from thelong-running General Social Survey of U.S. adults.Last year the surveyfound 60 percent saying a "person who believes blacks are genetically inferior" should be allowed to make a speech in their community, similarto the share who said so in 1976 (62 percent).
That absolute number might be surprising - a clear majority are okaywith a racist speaking out - but they also contrastwithlarger and growing shares of the public who supportallowing speech from othercontroversialgroups. Some 70 percent support allowing a speech from aperson who wants the military to run the country (70 percent), a communist (68 percent), and an anti-religionist (79 percent).The only group where people expressed less support for free speech than racists was "a Muslim clergyman who preaches hatred of the United States" -only 42 percent said this should be allowed. These trends were documented by Tom Smith and Jaesok Son of NORC at the University of Chicago in 2013.
Changing politics as well asattitudes toward sexuality and religion help explain how free speech forsome groups has become more tolerable while support for racists have stayed lower.The Cold war is over,fewer people identify with a religious faith than in the 1970s andacceptance ofhomosexuality has grown rapidly.The stagnation of tolerance for racist speech while support for speech among other groups has grown -- could indicate that the public is not purely becoming more tolerant of the rights of groups they dislike. Instead, the shifts could reflect greater public agreement with the ideas of gay and lesbian people and those who are less religious.
Reactions to the Oklahoma case could be toughto gauge if past surveys are any guide, perhaps due to the difficulty in balancingbetween support forfree speech in general and a desire to quashracism generally.Two national surveysin 1989 and 1991 found aboutsix in 10 saying college students who use racial slurs or published racist magazines should not be expelled. But a similarly large majority in a 1992 survey by Family Circle favored probation for aBrown University student who yelled racial slurs while drunk. More recently, a 2008survey by the First Amendment Center found 54percent disagreeing with the idea thatpeople should be allowed to say things in public that might be offensive to racial groups.
Peyton M. Craighill contributed to this report.
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The General Social Survey was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago usingin-person interviews with a random national sample of 2,538 adults from March31 to Oct.13, 2014. Results on attitudes toward racists are based on 1,711 interviews and have a margin of sampling error of three percentage points.Data analysis was conducted by The Washington Post.
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There are always some people whose ideas are considered bad or dangerous by other people. If [INSERT]wanted to make a speech in your community [INSERT],should he be allowed to speak, or not? Answers: Yes, allowed/Not allowed/Don't know/Refused
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Justin Talks - Instrument Logic [RE-UPLOAD]
Made by Justin Fleurimond Menard (Jusu-Tengu). *Re-uploaded because Freedom Of Speech put a cup of coffee to my head, and told me that I #39;m allowed to express my opinions ideas. All images...
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Raif Badawi imprisoned - Saudi Arabia targets freedom of speech
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(CYG) Demonstration against Human Rights violations in Chad – Video
(CYG) Demonstration against Human Rights violations in Chad
On the 8th of March in N #39;Djamena, the capital city of Chad, peaceful demonstrators who were fighting for their right of assembly and freedom of speech, again had to face harsh violations...
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South Africa: A Stealthy Attempt At Censorship
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Freedom of speech is a fundamental right recognised in our constitution. But that doesn't mean everyone has to allow that speech anywhere you want to make it.
You can stop your drunken uncle from uttering his racist rants at your festive dinner table. Commercial enterprises have the right to limit "speech" on their communication platforms if they feel that content is going to harm them, their customers or their investors.
Internet service providers (ISPs) give us a connection to the public internet. For most of us, who cannot afford to host our own web-servers, they also provide shared web servers or hardware. In exchange, we pay them to provide us with a communication platform so that we can exercise our freedom of speech. This is particularly important for activists and critics who might not otherwise have access to places where their points may be heard.
And that's where things get a bit messy.
Dr. Harris Steinman has published his CamCheck website on Hetzner South Africa's shared website hosting platform since 2009. This website focuses on false and exaggerated medical advertising claims. Since almost all public advertising of normal medicines is heavily regulated (and thus there is little to criticise), much of the CamCheck's attention is on Complementary or Alternative Medicines (CAM), over which there is virtually no regulation.
Steinman has also had significant success with complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The scamsters outed in such a manner are generally not particularly happy about this.
Albe Geldenhuys of USN is one advertiser who has been on the receiving end of a large number of adverse rulings from the ASA. According to the numerous articles about USN products on the Camcheck website, Geldenhuys has no proof of the claims made for his products, and when challenged merely changes the advertising slightly to make other equally evidence-free claims.
Steinman asked a pertinent question in response to years of proven false advertising: "Albe Geldenhuys of USN, a master scam artist?"
Rather than providing a reasoned response and actual proof that the claims in his advertisements are completely above board, Geldenhuys' response has been to issue an ISPA "Take-down" request, demanding that Hetzner take down Camcheck site content of which he does not approve - claiming that it is "unlawful" because it is "defamatory". The content of that take-down request is attached here.
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