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Blackfire RED Aims to Save Consumers From ‘Entertainment Islands’ – StreamingMedia.com

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Blackfire RED Aims to Save Consumers From 'Entertainment Islands'

With RED, Blackfire envisions a home network of compatible devices that can all send and receive audio and video streams where needed.

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Blackfire Research takes the wraps off Blackfire RED today, a distribution framework designed to make device-to-device streaming within the home easy and ubiquitous. RED stands for "real-time entertainment distribution," and the company says it will prevent consumer's entertainment choices from being confined to their own private islands. With RED-enabled speakers, for example, consumers can create multi-room streaming audio systems that are perfectly in synch using speakers from a variety of manufacturers. Or, with a RED-enabled TV they could stream high-resolution video from a set linked to an online subscription service to another in the home that isn't.

RED can stream 5.1 audio and 4K video, and is sophisticated enough to strip out a video's audio channel and send it to RED-enabled speakers. The framework includes three parts: a software engine built into consumer electronics devices, a communications protocol that can work around interference, and a programming interface for real-time distribution. Blackfire is leaving mobile app creation up to its partner CE companies; there won't be one master RED app that controls all of a home's devices. Instead, each partner will create their own app.

The first RED-enabled devices will debut this month and are all audio-related. The company says there will be roughly 90 product lines shipping by the end of the year, including products from Harman Kardon, Onkyo, Pioneer, and Integra. Shoppers will see a RED logo on the packaging of supported products. RED-enabled TVs should hit the market next year.

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Private residence of man who invented Miami Beach can be yours for only $65 million – Norwalk Reflector

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Fisher was an automobile enthusiast, marketing genius and bit of a huckster who had grown from co-owner of a bicycle shop to opening Americas first car dealership, creating the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, main mover behind both the Lincoln Highway from New York City to San Francisco and Dixie Highway from Michigan to Miami, and became a multi-millionaire from his investment in car headlights.

When early developers such as John Collins (think Miami Beachs Collins Avenue main drag) ran short of money to build the first bridge from the mainland to Miami Beach, it was Fisher who stepped in with his money and vision to move the project along. He also financed the dredging of Biscayne Bay to create the residential islands between Miami and Miami Beach, including the Venetian Islands and Star Island. Exclusive Fisher Island, which Fisher once owned, is named after him.

Fisher was full of ideas to promote his projects including riding a bike across a tightrope to advertise his bicycle shop. To promote his automobile dealership, he piloted one of his cars, minus the engine, hanging from an air balloon to the outskirts of Indianapolis where he swapped cars to one with an engine and drove back into town. To get people to his new Miami Beach, Fisher paid for a billboard in Times Square in the middle of the winter advertising that it was June in Miami Beach. Vacationers and transplants began flocking to Miami Beach and from 1920 to 1925, Miami Beachs population increased over 400 percent.

By 1923, Carl Fisher was worth many millions and built the Miami Yacht Club, which he later turned into a private residence. The 18,400-square-foot mansion on Star Island has been completely updated and is now for sale for the first time in 30 years the most expensive home in Miami-Dade County. Priced at $65 million, the property is located on the tip of the island with commanding long range views of Biscayne Bay. With more than 40 rooms, it includes 10 bedrooms, 12 baths and a two-story spacious formal living room with intricately worked ceiling and surrounded by second-story balconies and bay views. Also included are a formal dining room, private family rooms, a large contemporary chefs kitchen that opens to outdoor dining, a 3,000-bottle wine cellar, three offices and two separate staff living areas currently used by a full-time staff of five employees. The 1.5 acre grounds include 255 feet of bay frontage, two private docks, a boat lift, swimming pool and cabana.

With the double whammy of the Florida real estate collapse following the Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 and the 1929 Great Depression, Fisher lost his fortune and sadly ended up almost completely destitute. He lived out the remainder of his life as a handyman living in a small home in Miami Beach where he died in 1939.

Carl Fishers Star Island Miami Yacht Club turned private mansion in the early 1920s has been totally updated in 2016 with a fresh island vibe and new to the market for the first time in 30 years. The listing agents are Alexa Lacovelli, Mirce Curkoski and Albert Justo from One Sothebys International Realty in Miami Beach.

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The path from Dignity Village to the new Kenton Women’s Village – kgw.com

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- For years, a graveled lot directly north of Kenton Park in North Portlands Kenton neighborhood, sat vacant. But on June 5, a work crew arrived on North Argyle Street to begin transforming the empty site, roughly an acre in size, into Kenton Womens Village, a temporary intentional community the likes of which the city has never seen.

A half-dozen neighborhood residents spread across an adjacent southern slope. Some tore out invasive blackberries and other weeds; others used picks and shovels to clear way for a staircase that would connect the lot to Argyle Street.

Related: How the Kenton Women's Village's roots came from a protest in Southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood

Three small bulldozers zipped around the site, delivering piles of dirt and gravel and leveling the packed ground.

Standing in the middle of the lot,MargiDechenne, program manager of the housing transitions program of Catholic Charities of Oregon, watched a truck hauling two small shipping containers pull into the lot. Oh good, she said, the restrooms are here.

Debbie Haskett, a 55-year old-woman who has been homeless for eight years, walked to the far end of the lot where 14 sleeping pods, super-tiny homes approximately 96 square feet each, stood in an oblong semi-circle.

Haskett, one of 14 homeless women chosen to occupy the structures, was deciding where to live. She chose a pod at the far end of the semi-circle that was painted black and turquoise. Turquoise is my birthstone, she said.

She rubbed her hands together at the thought of a home, however small, that she could claim as her own. Im so excited, she said.

Portland has been a leader in the homeless village movement since a group of homeless agitators wrested control of a vacant city-owned property near the Portland International Airport in 2000, cobbled together a cluster of shacks on it, established a system of self-government, and named it Dignity Village.

Dignity Village had antecedents in Seattle and Los Angeles, which it outlived, establishing itself as what appears to be the longest continuously sited community of its kind in the country.

Although the model didnt immediately proliferate in Portland, it persisted. A second group of homeless individuals pitched tents on a prominent Old Town/Chinatown corner in 2011; that settlement, Right 2 Dream Too, recently moved to a parking lot near the Moda Center. A third group launched Hazelnut Grove, to much controversy, in late 2015 in North Portlands Overlook neighborhood.

But Kenton Womens Village, which opened to residents on June 10, is different from these predecessors.

Its physically different. Tucked on expendable lots out of public view, Portlands other villages evolved from tent encampments and share an improvised, homemade look. Kenton Womens Village sits on prime real estate in an established residential community, a tidy collection of clean-lined, sturdy tiny homes designed by 14 different local architecture firms, shepherded by Portland State Universitys Center for Public Interest Design.

Its socially different. Portlands other villages are resolutely self-governed communities; residents make up their own rules and hold one another accountable to them. Residents of Kenton Womens Village will do the same, but within limits that dont apply at other villages. The village is operated by Catholic Charities, which has a contract with Multnomah County to do so. Each resident had to pass a criminal background check, will have an assigned case worker through Catholic Charities, and will agree, as a condition of her residency, to actively work toward moving back into permanent housing. There will be 24-hour security and a full-time, professional village manager.

And its politically different. Dignity Village, Right 2 Dream Too and Hazelnut Grove were founded as acts of civil disobedience. Groups of homeless individuals built settlements on public properties, without permission, in protest of city laws prohibiting public camping. But its creators conceived Kenton Womens Village as a publicly backed, community-supported venture. It is sited on land loaned by the city, funded with city and county dollars, approved by a vote of the Kenton neighborhood association, and designed and built with the help of hundreds of volunteers.

Not coincidentally, Kenton Womens Village is designed to be temporary. Organizers promise to remove the settlement within a year. The sleeping pods will be hauled to another site, if an appropriate one can be found. Catholic Charities aims to help at least seven of the 14 residents find permanent homes, but its possible some will be referred to shelters at the end of the year.

Thats a risk the residents, who would otherwise spend the coming year sleeping in shelters, alleys or in the woods, appear more than happy to take.

Catholic Charities case manager Bernadette Stetz contacted the women to let them know theyd been accepted. Their reactions were crying, screaming, like I feel like I won the lottery, Stetz recalled on June 9, her voice quavering.

Whether one classifies Kenton Womens Village as a mainstreamed homeless village or as a radically reoriented homeless shelter, organizers consider it a model strategy for addressing the citys out-of-control homelessness crisis one that could be replicated in other neighborhoods.

The driving force of the project is the Village Coalition, whose members include residents of Dignity Village, Right 2 Dream Too and Hazelnut Grove. They say villages offer something shelters dont: a secure, reliable place to sleep and store belongings. More than that, villages give residents a sense of self-determination, common purpose and belonging, keys to healing and self-transformation that even transitional and permanent housing options cant often match. Those benefits, coupled with villages relatively low cost of construction and operation, make villages a better public investment than shelters, advocates say if they can be structured, as Kenton Womens Village has been, in a way that appeals to neighbors.

That hopeful idea has attracted a small army of supporters, while eliciting skepticism on various sides.

At one extreme are Portland residents who say that homeless villages, government-backed or not, are public nuisances: unlawful, unsafe, unhygienic and apt to attract criminal behavior that burdens surrounding neighborhoods.

At another extreme are some longtime homeless activists who see the transitional-housing model being attempted at Kenton Womens Village as a watered-down version of first-generation homeless villages: politically palatable but, without homeless residents truly in charge, unlikely to sustain momentum.

In between are policymakers who see villages as a helpful but incomplete model for addressing homelessness, better than some alternatives but not proven effective at moving chronically homeless people 46 percent of whom experience severe mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness into permanent affordable housing or true self-sufficiency.

But regardless of whether they can cure mental illness, make neighborhoods safer or advance the movement for homeless empowerment, many are betting that enclaves modeled after Kenton Womens Village could be a scalable answer to an undeniable and pressing conundrum: With permanent affordable housing in short supply, and mental health and addiction treatment services limited, chronically homeless people must live, sleep and move their lives forward somewhere.

Mayor Wheeler discusses Kenton home pod

This story is part of Giving Ground, an investigative series exploring the rise of the homeless village movement. It is produced by the Open: Housing Journalism Collaborative, a joint project of Open: Housing, Pamplin Media Group and KGW. Look for other stories in this and related series at OpenHousing.net.

Published June 12, 2017

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Space travel leads to two-headed worm – New Atlas

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Meet the two-headed flatworm from space (Credit: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University)

The Two Headed Worm From Space! It certainly sounds like a good pulpy science fiction story from the 1950s, but in fact, when researchers from Tufts university sent a bunch of flatworms up to the International Space Station (ISS), that's exactly what they wound up with.

On January 10 2015, the researchers sealed up bunch of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) in tubes filled with half water and half air and launched them up to the ISS on a SpaceX resupply mission. What's more, half of the flatworms had parts of their body sliced off. That's not usually a problem for D. japonica, as it has the remarkable ability to regenerate its body in the face of such an event, which is why it's so often studied.

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Meanwhile, another group of worms received the same treatment but were left here on Earth.

The results of the study are going to be published in the journal Regeneration tomorrow.

The worms were kept in space for five weeks and then returned for analysis. The most striking finding was that one of the amputated worms grew back a head at each end. What's more, when those heads were sliced off, the worm was able to regenerate each again, showing that its physiology had been permanently changed. "In more than 18 person-years of maintaining a colony of D. japonica that involves more than 15,000 control worms in just the last five years alone, the Tufts researchers have never observed a spontaneous occurrence of double-headedness," says a Tufts report about the research.

In addition to finding the double-headed mutation, the researchers also found that the space worms underwent spontaneous fission in which they split their bodies up to create two or more identical worms. This did not happen with the worms that stayed at home. Furthermore, the astronaut worms (astroworms?) also had a strange reaction to fresh spring water when researchers placed them in it, unlike the worms that stayed behind. They became partially paralyzed, immobile and curled up in their petri dishes before returning to normal in about two hours.

The point of the study was to see if the worms' regeneration patterns were altered while in space, and to see if such findings might have applications to humans as we increasingly set our sights on living and traveling in space.

"As humans transition toward becoming a space-faring species, it is important that we deduce the impact of spaceflight on regenerative health for the sake of medicine and the future of space laboratory research," said Junji Morokuma, first author on the paper.

The researchers are quick to point out though, that the study has a few issues including its small sample size. For one, the worms that stayed on Earth didn't experience exactly the same temperature and pressure fluctuations as the worms that rocketed to the ISS, so it's hard to say what exactly caused the changes. Also, the amputated worms had the procedure done here on Earth and the researchers feel that a space-based slicing would provide them even more information and keep the experiment purer. They plan to correct for these issues in future experiments.

This work joins previous studies carried out at Tufts in which flatworms were engineered to grow the heads of other species and induced to grow two heads by altering their bioelectric currents.

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Here’s how space travel is helping keep you healthy – Eyewitness News

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Astronauts on the International Space Station are growing crystals that could help develop new drugs for use on Earth.

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Astronauts on the International Space Station are growing crystals that could help develop new drugs for use on Earth. Here are 10 healthcare technologies that have already come from space:

Robots that can remove brain tumours

Developed in Canada during the Space Shuttle era, Canadarm2 is a robotic arm that is attached to the outside of the International Space Station.

It is used for many tasks outside the space station to avoid astronauts having to complete high-risk space walks. This technology led to the creation of neuroArm, that can perform precision surgery inside MRI scanners, such as removing brain tumours.

Eye trackers used in laser eye surgery

In space, the lack of gravity changes the way the eyes move and perceive motion. High-tech eye trackers were developed to see where astronauts look during their normal work in micro-gravity. Eye movements are a problem faced in corrective laser eye surgery. Eye trackers developed for spaceflight are now being used in corrective laser eye surgery to ensure correct laser beam positioning.

Helping asthmatics breathe

Nitric oxide is a commonly found pollutant in the air, both on Earth and on the International Space Station. When a person has inflamed airways, as seen in asthmatics, an increase in nitric oxide is seen in exhaled air. The European Space Agency has developed a device that accurately measures nitric oxide in the exhaled air of astronauts to detect potential inflammation. This way, astronauts can be treated before the situation becomes more serious. This technology is now being used in asthmatics to detect the amount of nitric oxide in their exhaled air caused by inflammation in their lungs.

Keeping your bones strong Without gravity acting on their bodies, astronauts experience massive loss in bone density that is similar to the bone loss seen in elderly people with osteoporosis. Attempts are made to reduce this bone loss through daily exercise. Astronauts have also shown that taking a small amount of bisphosphonate, weekly, further reduces bone loss. Pharmaceutical discoveries like this are already benefiting the Earths ageing population.

Measuring your bodys temperature

Infrared technologies were developed many decades ago in Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory to measure the temperature of planets and stars. In 1991, this technology was turned into in-ear thermometers. In-ear thermometers provide temperature readings in just a few seconds and have been shown to provide accurate temperature readings, making them ideal for use in hospitals, doctors surgeries and even at home.

Measuring pressure inside the skull

While investigating vision changes in astronauts, scientists discovered they occurred due to increased pressure inside the skull, which, in turn, is the result of an increase in cerebrospinal fluid volume. Flight surgeons needed ways to monitor these pressure changes easily. Research in the UK has led to a device that can measure the pressure inside the skull using displacement of the ear drum, which is non-invasive, quicker and can be done anywhere.

A Star Trek tractor beam to help pass kidney stones

Being in space increases the risk of kidney stones forming. In astronauts, kidney stones can cause infections and complications severe enough to require crew evacuation. Research with Nasa has developed Star Trek-like hand-held ultrasound techniques that can detect, move and then pulverise stones making them easier to pass. This technology could benefit people with kidney stones on Earth, too.

Making teeth braces invisible

Translucent polycrystalline alumina. Its a bit of a mouthful. This advanced high-strength, maximum-translucent, shatter-resistant ceramic was developed for defence and aerospace. It was suggested that the material could be used for making translucent brackets for braces that would appear tooth coloured. After it was trialed, it became one of the most successful orthodontic products in history.

Detecting injuries and cancer using medical imaging

Processing digital signals can be tricky. Nasa pioneered high-tech digital-signal processing to help enhance lunar images to find the best Moon landing sites in the Apollo era. These signal processing techniques are now widely used in CT and MRI scanners to help doctors find injuries and cancers without needing to cut patients open to look inside. It is still being developed today.

Simplified kidney dialysis from spacecraft filtration systems

Water is heavy, so astronauts need to reduce the amount that has to be taken up to space from Earth. They achieve this by recycling and purifying most liquids on the International Space Station (including their urine). While developing these filtration systems, scientists applied the same technology to removing toxic waste from used dialysis fluid. This led to new dialysis machines that no longer need continuous water and drain connections, meaning they use less power and are portable, which enables use at home.

Written by Northumbria University lecturer Andrew Winnard and Nick Caplan, the associate professor of Musculoskeletal Health, Northumbria University.

This article was republished courtesy of the World Economic Forum.

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20 Out-Of-This-World Companies Working On Space Travel Technologies – Interesting Engineering

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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!

We thought wed start off with those famous words by Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generationas nobody does space travel better (fictionally, of course) than they do. It seems like a far-fetched idea for average people like us to travel to space. However, 20 companies are currently working on their technology that may soon make it possible for more humans to experience space travel and to send unmanned spacecraft for innovative cosmic explorations.

No surprises here as SpaceX constantly make headlines worldwide by successfully conducting innovative space missions all year round. Founded by Elon Musk,the company is a world-leader in designing, manufacturing, and launching advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX aims to revolutionize space technology to make it possible for our civilization to live on other planets. As early as 2018, SpaceX willsend a crew to travel to spaceas part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program.

SpaceIL is a non-governmental team from Israel currently taking part in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition: a modern race to the Moon. Beyond the competition, however, SpaceIL has the goal of inspiring the next generation of Israelis to explore space. The group wants to do this by using the future success story of their spacecraft.

In order to win the competition, SpaceIL has three major tasks to accomplish.

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Dubbed as the worlds first spaceline, Virgin Galacticultimates goal is to make space accessible to more people. This goes hand in hand with wanting to conduct other meaningful space explorations. Since the space race began in the 1960s, only 559 people have been to space. Virgin Galactic is working to open the vast cosmic arena to the rest of us. Our purpose is to become the spaceline for Earth; democratizing access to space for the benefit of life on Earth,said the spaceline.

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Founded by Amazons Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight service. They work on developing technologies that would allow private human space travel at low cost and increased reliability. Blue Origin is driven by the motto Gradatim Ferociter or step by step, ferociously. Their incremental development process builds upon each of the companys success as they continuously develop ground-breaking spaceflight systems.

This is the worlds first private commercial space station. Axiom Space wants to build an international and privately-ownedspace station that will be the successor of the ISS (International Space Station). The company offers services for a number of various sectors such as for sovereign astronaut missions, space tourist missions, on-orbit research, on-orbit manufacturing, space exploration systems testing, and academic research and outreach programs.

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Space Nation is a space media company from Helsinki, Finland whotook a leading role in the global space boom as they announced the launch of the Space Nation Astronaut Program that is available to everyone. The Finnish start-up envisions a nation of space citizens by liberating space discovery, education, and wellness. You can sign up for free to their astronaut program and unearth your potential for space discovery.

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Deviating from most of the space companies here, DSI is an asteroid mining company that develop technologies to find, harvest, and supply the asteroid resources that will innovate the space economy. Asteroids in the C-group category are rich in water and other important elements like organic carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus as well as ferrous metals. DSI plans to send bespoke robotic spacecraft to extract water resources from identified asteroids using their next generation Comet water thruster. The extracted water can also be used as a propellant for the return trip.

Think beyond tomorrow is the aerospace companys motto, who sent the first expandable activity module to the International Space Station. Bigelow Aerospace is working on the XBASE (Expandable Bigelow Advanced Station Enhancement) for low-Earth orbit and deep space missions.Bigelows technology is similar to steel belt protection in tires giving their pressurized soft-goods high strength qualities. So far, one of their spacecraft is in orbit on ISS and two have already retired. They are currently developing two next-generationspacecraft for futuristic space missions.

Vulcan Aerospace was founded by Microsofts Paul Allen and is out on a mission to find solutions to some of the worlds most difficult challenges. The companys recent endeavor to reach space is with their recently revealed rocket-launching aircraft called Stratolaunch. The aircraft aims to provide convenient, reliable, and routine access to low Earth orbit. Inspired by space heroes like John Glenn and Alan Shepard, Allen in ultimately working to expand human access to space and improve our civilizations way of working and living.

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Odyne Space has a simple mission launching effective and reliable micro- and nano-satellites to space orbit. The companys goal is to support and build the off-earth economy by providing intelligent, motivated entrepreneurs ways to immediately execute their business plans on orbit. We are passionate about seeing humanity become a space-faring society, the company noted. We will be the infrastructure of the new, space economy.

Rocket Labs mission is to remove barriers to commercial space. Thats what they just attempted to do by launching Electron a 3D printed battery-powered rocket into space. The company wants to provide frequent launch opportunities to low Earth orbit in order to achieve its primary mission. So far, Rocket Lab has delivered a number of rocket systems and technologies for fast and affordable payload deployment.

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This company is promising the ultimate fantasy of space travel. Floating up more than 100,000 feet within the layers of the atmosphere, you will be safely and securely sailing at the very threshold of the heavens, skimming the edge of space for hours, the company said. World View is currently working hard to develop their Stratollite technology in order to pioneer private space explorations. Their ultimate goal is to offer an affordable, safe, and gentle way for humans to travel to near-space for an unparalleled space experience. This is definitely one to watch out for.

Fireflys primary focus is to create the worlds best and low-cost light satellite launch vehicle. They are working to provide affordable, high-performance space launch capability for considerably small satellite markets. More often than not, these smaller markets have to settle for secondary payload launches and Firefly aims to innovate that under-served industry.

Extending the human presence across the solar system is Masten Space Systems ultimate goal and they are working on this by developing their entry, descent, and landing technologies (EDL). This technology is of paramount importance for spacecraft on a mission to land on other planets and celestial bodies. They are currently developing a lunar spacecraft that can deliver upto 10 tons of payload to the Moons surface.

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Dedicated to both payload and human space travel applications, XCOR Aerospace is a pioneer in the fast development of reusable rocket engines. The company is developing and producing affordable engines and vehicles with low service requirements to make the dream of space missions a reality, as well as to open new opportunities across the space market.

A joint venture between The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin, ULA provides reliable and cost-efficient space launch services to multiple branches of the US government. The company has made their presence known in outer space for more than 50 years now, delivering payloads such as weather, telecommunications, and national security satellites. They are also involved in sending spacecraft to conduct interplanetary explorations and deep space missions in order to enhance our understanding of the universe.

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Boeings Phantom Express spaceplane is intended to innovate space travel and cosmic missions for both their commercial and government clients. The company is developing this spaceplane to provide rapid, aircraft-like access to space. Their outlook on the future is to make space travel our civilizations mission saying, Boeing has and will take humans and technology farther than theyve ever been.

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Space Adventures offer space travels to everyone and has completed a total of 8 flights to the ISS for their private clients. Those private clients have flown to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and have dwelled alongside professional astronauts for 10 days or more. Clients were able to marvel the Earth from 250 miles above while traveling at 17,500 mph in a weightless environment inside the spacecraft. The company is inviting everyone to experience space and become one of the first 600 people to have ever flown to space. Get in touch with them by clicking here.

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SNCs technologies are applied in a wide range of applications like in telemedicine, navigation and guidance systems, threat detection and security, commercial aviation, scientific research, and infrastructure protection. One of their most popular spacecraft is the Dream Chaser, a reusable vehicle for multi-mission, commercial, and transportation services to low-Earth orbit destinations.

Reaching for the stars isthe companys daily business as they design, develop, and operate major space systems. Currently, Airbus is developing and building the European Service Module (ESM). That will power the Orion capsule and its crew towards deeper into space and beyond what has previously been reached. The Orion is the next-generation NASA spacecraft designed for manned space missions beyond low-Earth orbit. It includes destinations like the Moon, Mars, and asteroids.

A lot of these companies promise to make space travel affordable for ordinary people like us. However, they have not disclosed how much roughly it will cost to privately embark on a space odyssey. It is indeed exciting to think that one day, you and I could just take a short holiday to space. Space travel is something that wasbeyond our imagination before. Now, we can confidently hope that all of these endeavors will be a reality during our lifetime.

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Defense attorneys: Loans to Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa’s accuser could cloud bribery claims, but not … – The Advocate

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GONZALESDefense attorneys for Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa and a local businessman have long claimed the stink of politics hangs over the secret recordings that led to charges accusing the two of trying to bribe a candidate to quit a race last year.

In routine pre-trial disclosures last week, prosecutors revealed that the man who directed the recordings loaned money to the candidate who claims Matassa and Olin Berthelot tried to pay him off a revelation that ramped up defense claims that the case was in essence a setup manufactured for political reasons.

But several legal experts say that while the loans made by Wade Petite, publisher of the Pelican Post news website and a past candidate for local office himself might be unseemly, they're not enough to legally torpedo the case against Matassa and Berthelot, who are longtime friends.

Still, the attorneys all agreed the fact that Petite loaned Gonzales City Council candidate A. Wayne Lawson $1,200 the exact amount Matassa and Berthelot are accused of offering as a bribe could become fertile material in a trial and the court of public opinion.

Jarrett Ambeau, a public defender in Ascension Parish, said the loans are "mud to throw at the wall" so attorneys can raise questions in the media and in court to "bring an air of dishonesty to Mr. Lawson."

Ambeau, who is not involved in the case, said the argument could be that "he got a loan from the guy who recorded the conversation, a guy who had an ax to grind and would benefit from 'breaking' the news."

"I would use this as a bit of squid ink, try to muddy the water and attack the credibility of Mr. Lawson," Ambeau said. "I would suggest by inference that it was not a loan, but a payment for the tape."

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Investigators with the Louisiana Attorney General's Office and Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office have known about Petite's loans to Lawson since early August, months before the March grand jury indictment of Matassa and Berthelot on counts of attempted election bribery. The existence of the loans became public knowledge earlier this month after investigative reports and transcripts were filed in court as prosecutors turned over materials to defense attorneys.

The case stems from an election last fall. Lawson, a part-time barber and perennial candidate in Ascension, qualified to run against Gonzales City Councilincumbent Neal Bourque. As the deadline for removing himself from the ballot approached, Lawson met with Matassa and Berthelot to discuss his possible exit from the election.

Lawson and Petite have alleged the recordings captured that meeting, subsequent phone calls Lawson had with Berthelot and Matassa, and the day when Lawson was supposed to withdraw from the race in exchange for a bribe.

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Harry Daniels III, a criminal defense attorney not involved in the case, said that in Louisiana, it is legal to record someone without his or her knowledge as long as at least one person who is a party to the conversation knows about the recording.

Daniels also said entrapment, a defense often raised against undercover stings, applies only to law enforcement or other "government actors" and only when they induce someone to commit a crime who was not already predisposed to do so.

Petite and Lawson aren't government officials. And Daniels noted Lawson told investigators that it was Berthelot who contacted him about meeting with Matassa, not the other way around.

"I dont think it would meet any of the elements of entrapment," Daniels said.

Lawson told investigators he became immediately suspicious about Berthelot's call, which came shortly after he signed up to run for office. Lawson said that's why he contacted Petite about trying to record the meeting, in case something untoward happened.

Lawson told investigators that he had not been getting many telephone calls returned during a lengthy search for a job, including government positions.

"But all of sudden now since I qualify for this particular City Council's race, individuals begin to call me," Lawson said, according to the investigative reports.

Even if the loans from Petite to Lawson were for the recordings, which the two men deny, legal experts didn't see that as posing any kind of criminal liability for them.

Ascension Parish public defender Jeff Heggelund, who previously worked as a sheriff's deputy in narcotics, said it is common for confidential informants to get cash as part of their work with law enforcement. This wouldn't be much different than that, he said.

"It's just part and parcel to the process, really," said Heggelund, who has done some civil legal work for Berthelot's companies in the past.

In the recordings, Matassa and Berthelot tell Lawson they think he should drop out of the Division E council race against Bourque. They also promise Lawson a parish job and $1,200 so he can turn a trailer into a food truck. The last recording captures the final transaction at Berthelot's Gonzales office, where Lawson was to fill out a job application and candidate withdrawal form and receive the $1,200 in cash, hours before a state deadline for him to drop out of the race. Lawson, however, didn't fill out the forms or take the cash.

Steven Moore, an attorney for Berthelot, hasclaimed the loans from Petite were a payoff to Lawson to help arrange a setup. Moore and Lewis Ungelsby, the attorney representing Matassa, have said Lawson was a friend of the two men, and the cash offer was a loan to help him out, as was the job promise.The talk about dropping out was unrelated political advice, they've argued.

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Petite, part journalist and part political provocateur, and whose website is harshly critical of Matassa, was himself a City Council candidate last year at the same time as Lawson. In that separate race, Petite said he ran not to win the position but to call into question the city's designation of the particular seat as set aside for minority candidates. Petite is white.

Lawson has a long history in Ascension politics, and at times was allied with Bourque, Matassa and Berthelot. But last year, Lawson entered the race to unseat Bourque.

Mike Magner, a former federal prosecutor who now does white-collar criminal defense in New Orleans, said that through their public comments, the defense attorneys are trying to taint Lawson in future jurors' minds so they won't see Matassa and Berthelot's actions as anything other than local politics.

"And have the jury conclude these people are all just low-level political operatives and this is just sort of bare-knuckle political drama rather than any kind of illegal activity," Magner said. "And horse trading is part of the political process and, you know, getting allies to support your political campaign and your agenda is all part of the normal political process, and that can seem unseemly, but isnt necessarily illegal."

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Investigators said in their reports that Petite, Lawson and Dustin Clouatre, who also helped with the recording effort and provided $1,000 to Petite to loan to Lawson, largely corroborated one another's story.

But one of the legal experts, Daniels, noted that Lawson initially wasn't completely forthcoming with investigators about the loans from Petite. After some prompting by investigators, Lawson admitted to a $200 loan from Petite but said he could not recall any others.

Lawson also seemed evasive and unclear in some of his responses to investigators, who eventually asked him if he was taking medication. Lawson told them he had taken Xanax and hydrocodone.

Shortly after that interview, Lawson returned to the Sheriff's Office and encountered some of the investigators in the parking lot, according to one of the reports. He told them that in addition to the $200, he had received a $1,000 loan from Petite, who had told investigators about both loans a week earlier.

Moments after Lawson spoke the second time to investigators, Petite texted one of them to say he had just told Lawson to tell them about the second loan, the report says.

"I think Lawson's credibility may be affected," Daniels said. "They mayattack his credibility. He lied about the loan."

Attempts to reach Lawson for comment Monday were unsuccessful.

Heggelund said such credibility questions wouldn't necessarily be fatal to the state's case. Heggelund suggested the state would have many questions to raise about Berthelot's actions, such as why cash, if it was a loan, wasn't handled through a normal promissory note. Berthelot runs financial services companies that routinely make personal loans.

And Ambeau said any financial transaction between Lawson and Petite would have nothing to do with whatever Matassa and Berthelot might have done to influence the election. He said prosecutors should ask a judge to keep jurors from hearing about the loans from Petite.

"In the end the financial transaction between Petite and Lawson, no matter its nature, is not relevant to the question of whether someone bribed Lawson with unrelated funds," Ambeau said.

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Cars 3 gets back to what made the franchise adequate – Vox

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To call the Cars movies the black sheep of Pixars filmography does a disservice to black sheep. The first one (released in 2006) is considered the one major black mark in the animation studios killer run from 1995s Toy Story to 2010s Toy Story 3, and 2011s Cars 2 is the only Pixar film with a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes.

And, okay, I wont speak up too heartily for Cars 2 may it always be the worst Pixar movie but the original Cars is a good-natured, even-keeled sort of film, one that celebrates taking it slow every once in a while. Its no Incredibles or Wall-E, but few movies are. Its heart is in the right place.

Thus, its a relief that Cars 3 skews more toward the original flavor than the sequel (a spy movieinflected mess that revealed a Pixar slightly out of its depth with something so action-heavy). Its not to the level of that first film, but its amiable, ambling nature keeps it from becoming too boxed in by its needlessly contorted plot (which all but spoils its own ending very early on, then spends roughly an hour futilely avoiding said ending).

Like all Pixar movies, Cars 3 is gorgeous the landscapes the characters race through are more photorealistic than ever, recalling The Good Dinosaur (another recent Pixar misfire that nonetheless looked great) but like most of the studios 2010s output, its storytelling is perhaps too complicated to really register. The movie is constantly trying to outmaneuver itself, leading to a film thats pleasant but not much more.

Still, that doesnt mean its devoid of value. Here are six useful ways of thinking about Cars 3.

This is the angle Disney is pushing most in the trailers for the film. Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), the hotshot race car who learned to take it easy in Cars, has succumbed to the ravages of time, as we all must. Newer, sleeker race cars are outpacing him on the track, and hes desperate to make a comeback.

But Cars 3 resists the most feel-good version of that story, to its credit. Lightning isnt going to suddenly become faster in his middle age. If he wants to beat the young whippersnappers, hell have to either outsmart them or out-train them. But Lightning isnt one for high-tech gadgets that might help him eke out a few more miles per hour from his chassis. Instead, he goes on a random tour of the American South, visiting hallowed racetracks.

It gives the movie a tried-and-true spine old-fashioned knowhow versus new tech but it also means that every time the story seems to be gaining momentum, it veers completely off course in a new direction. Pixar used this tendency to let its stories swerve all over the place to great effect in 2012s Brave and 2013s Monsters University, but Cars 3 has maybe a few too many head fakes. By the time Lightning tries to tap into his roots by visiting legendary racers in North Carolina, I felt slightly checked out.

Seriously! This is a major part of Cars 3s climax!

The movie argues that the best thing Lightning (whos always been coded as a good ol Texas boy) can do to help preserve his legacy is try to find ways to hold open doors for cars that are not at all like himself. And the leader of the new class of racers, Jackson Storm, is voiced by Armie Hammer as a sleek, might-makes-right bully who never nods to the fact that hes so much faster because hes got access to a lot of great technology.

A major scene at the films midpoint involves Lightning learning that his trainer, Cruz Ramirez (voiced by the comedian Cristela Alonzo), always wanted to be a racer herself, but felt intimidated by how she wasnt like the other race cars the one time she tried out.

How did Lightning build up the confidence to race? Cruz asks. Lightning shrugs. He doesnt know. Hes just always had it.

Just the description of this scene or the even earlier scene where Cruz dominates a simulated race probably telegraphs where all of this is headed. But its still neat that Pixar used its most little-boy-friendly franchise to make an argument for level, more diverse playing fields. Except...

The Cars movies have always moved merchandise, and even if all involved parties insist they continue to make Cars movies for reasons other than because they sell toys cmon. The fact that the movies major new character is an explicitly female car, who gets a variety of new paint jobs throughout the film, no less, feels like somebody in a boardroom somewhere said, Yes, but what if we had a way to make the toys from these movies appeal to little girls as well?

(And thats to say nothing of the numerous other new characters introduced throughout the film, all of whom your children will simply have to own the action figures for. My favorite was a school bus named Miss Fritter who dominates demolition derbies.)

So it goes with Disney, one of the best companies out there when it comes to diversifying the points of view that are represented in its films but always, as the cynics among us are prone to assume, because it sees those points of view as a way to sell you more stuff.

Kerry Washington plays a new character named Natalie Certain, a journalist who pops up every so often to point out how her data cant lie and how Jackson Storm has a 96 percent probability of winning the films climactic race. Ill let you draw your own conclusions from there.

When Pixar made Cars 2, it faced a major challenge. The first film, dealing with Lightnings slow embrace of small-town life, didnt leave much room for another story, and its second-most-important character, Doc Hudson, was voiced by Paul Newman, who died between the two films.

So Cars 2 made a hard pivot into spy movie action, ramped up the role of kiddie favorite Tow Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy), and largely lost the soul of the first film.

Cars 3 is most successful when it finds ways to reintegrate Lightning into the tone and world of the first film, as he tries to grapple with his legacy and realizes Doc (who appears in flashbacks that seem as if they might have been cobbled together from outtakes and deleted scenes Newman recorded for the first film) might offer him wisdom even from beyond the grave. (Since cars cant really die, Doc is just not around anymore. But, again, cmon.)

However, because Lightning already learned his lesson about appreciating life and taking it easy, theres just not a lot to mine here. Cars 3 makes some awkward attempts to suggest technology is no replacement for really experiencing life, and Lightning visits other famous race cars, even detouring to hang out in a bar with famous, groundbreaking cars voiced by Margo Martindale and Isiah Whitlock Jr.

But the movie struggles to figure out how to make all of this mesh, right up until the very end, when it finally nods toward keeping one eye on the past but always letting the future take precedent.

Many thinkers who consider the question of what happens when human beings finally create an artificial intelligence that is on the same level as the human brain have concluded that it will not take very long for such a being to evolve into a superintelligence which is any artificial intelligence thats just a smidgen smarter than the smartest human. And from there, they will continue to improve, and we will be left in the dust, ruled, effectively, by our robot successors.

Anyway, the Cars movies dont take place in an explicitly post-human future, but this is the biggest cmon of them all. At some point, self-driving cars rose up, they killed us all, and now they long for the good old days, not realizing those days are impossible to return to.

Thus, the rise of Jackson and his pals allows the film to broach the subject of those early days of artificial superintelligence, with Lightning in the role of humanity. What will happen when we try to keep up with beings that are simply made better than us? Will we accept our obsolescence with grace? Or will we push back with all we have? Cars 3 suggests no easy answers.

Lou is better than, say, Lava (the odious singing volcano short attached to Inside Out). With that said, it is also about how all of the toys in a lost-and-found box become a sort of toy golem that wanders a playground, returning toys to children and making sure bullies pay for their misdeeds.

The audience I saw Lou with ate it up, but reader, I found it terrifying. If Toy Story posited a world where toys wake up when youre not around, Lou posits a world where toys have no knowledge of what it means to be human but are cursed to make an attempt all the same: strange, shambling beasts from outside of time, wandering our playgrounds.

Make it stop. Kill it with fire.

Cars 3 opens in theaters Friday, June 16, with early screenings on the evening of Thursday, June 15.

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Private Companies, Not Governments, Are Shaping the Future of Space Exploration – Futurism

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Space Race 2.0

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Unionlaunched the first artificial satellite into orbit. The event served as the starting pistol in what would come to be known as the Space Race, acompetition between the U.S.S.R. and the United States for spaceflight supremacy.

In the decades that followed, the first human reached space, a man walked on the Moon, and the first space stations were built. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. were soon joined by other world powers in exploring the final frontier, and by the time the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, the contentious Space Race was something of a distant memory.

In recent years, however, a new Space Race has taken shapeSpace Race 2.0. Rather than powerful nations guided by presidents andpremiers, however, the competitors in this race are tech startups and private businessesspearheaded by billionaire entrepreneurs. And while the current atmosphere is far less contentious than that of the first Space Race (save the odd tweet or two), the competition is just as fierce.

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Bigelow Airspace, Virgin Galactic, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Not only has the number of private companies engaged in space exploration grown remarkably in recent years, these companies are quickly besting their government-sponsored competitors.

Were starting to see advances made by private entities that are more significant than any advances in the last three years that were made by the government, Chris Lewicki, CEO and President of Planetary Resources, tells Futurism.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezoss Blue Origin and Tesla CEO Elon Musks SpaceX are arguably the two companies that are setting the pace. In November 2015, the former completed the first successful vertical rocket landing after sending their New Shepard 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the air. SpaceX landed its own rocketa month later, only they did so with a craft twice as heavy as Blue Origins and traveled all the way into space first.

A month after that, in January 2016, Bezoss company became the first entity tore-launch and re-land a previously used rocket. SpaceX followed suit in 2017. The government was never able to [build reusable rockets], but now, two private companies within the space of the same year have done that, points out Lewicki.

Not only are private companies already surpassingtheir government counterparts, several are poised to widen their lead in the coming months and years.

If all goes according to plan, when SpaceXs Falcon Heavy launches in September, itll take the title of the worlds most powerful rocket away fromNASAs Saturn V. Virgin Galactic is already selling tickets for what it expects to be the first private spaceflights, which will take place aboard the sleek VSS Unity. SpaceX plans to send space tourists to the Moon in 2018, and then in 2024, the companyhopes to launch a system that will take people all the way to Marsroughly 5-15 years before NASA expects to do the same.

Private companies may bein the lead, but the finish line for this Space Race isnt exactly clear. The first iteration was arguably won when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the Moon, so does this sequel end when we establish the first Moon base? When a human walks on Mars? When we leave the solar system?

Truthfully, the likelihood of humanity ever calling it a day on space exploration is slim to none. The universe is huge, with galaxy estimates in the trillions, so thegoalpost will continue moving back (to bring another sport into the analogy). Rather than focusing on competing in what is ultimately an unwinnable race, private and government-backed space agencies can actually benefit from collaboration thanks to their inherent differences.

The way that SpaceX, Planetary Resources, or Virgin Galactic approaches space exploration is going to be very different from NASA or the Air Force, explains Lewicki. Private companies arent beholden to the same slow processes that often stall government projects, and they can secure or reallocate funding much more swiftly if need be. However, unlike agencies like NASA, they do have shareholders to keep happy and a need to constantly pursue profitability.

The two sectors, therefore, have a tremendous opportunity to help one another. Private companies can generate revenue throughgovernment contracts for example,NASA has contracted Boeing to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), and SpaceX just closed a deal with the U.S. Air Force to launch its secretive space drone. Thisleaves the government agencies free to pursue the kind of forward-thinking, longer-term research that might not immediately generate revenue, but that can be later streamlined and improved upon in the private sector.

Ultimately, Space Race 2.0has no losers. The breakthroughs happening in space exploration benefit us all, and truly, a little friendly competition never hurt anyone (unless you count the egos bruised by those tweets).

This interview has been slightly edited for clarity and brevity.

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Industrial Nanotech (INTK) Amongst Today’s Volume Leader – Nelson Research

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Volume is the number of shares traded over a specific period of time. Every buyer has a seller, and each transaction adds to the total count of the volume. When a buyer and a seller agree on a transaction at a certain price, it is considered to be one transaction. For example, if only ten transactions occur in a trading day, the volume for the day is ten. Volume is used to measure the relative worth of a market move. When the markets make a strong price movement, the strength of that movement depends on the volume over that period. The higher the volume means the more significant the move. Volume levels give clues about where to find the best entry and exit points. Industrial Nanotech (INTK) experienced a volume of 851999.

Volume is an important measure of strength for traders and technical analysts because volume is the number of contracts traded. The market needs to produce a buyer and a seller for any trade to occur. The market price is when buyers and sellers meet. When buyers and sellers become very active at a certain price, this means that there is high volume. Bar charts are used to quickly determine the level of volume and identify trends in volume.

A 52-week high/low is the highest and lowest share price that a stock has traded at during the previous year. Investors and traders consider the 52-week high or low as a crucial factor in determining a given stocks current value while also predicting future price movements.

When a commodity trades within its 52-week price range (the range that exists between the 52-week low and the 52-week high), investors usually show more interest as the price nears either the high or the low. One of the more popular strategies used by traders is to buy when the price eclipses its 52-week high or to sell when the price drops below its 52-week low. The rationale involved with this strategy says that if the price breaks out either above or below the 52-week range, there is momentum enough to continue the price fluctuation in a positive direction.

Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s high over the last year was $0.0067 while its low was $0.0005.

Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s 52-Week Percent Change, the difference between the current price and the settlement price from 1 year ago, is -21.21%. Standard Deviation is a measure of the current average variability of return. A move of (plus or minus) 1 std deviation means a 33% odds for a major price move, whereas a move of (plus or minus) 3 std deviations means a 1% odds for a major price move. Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s Standard Deviation is -1.92.

Weighted Alpha is a measure of how much a stock has risen or fallen over a one-year period with a higher weighting for recent price activity. Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s Weighted Alpha is +18.77. A pivot point is a technical analysis indicator used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods. The pivot point itself is simply the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous days trading. On the following day, any trading above the pivot point indicates ongoing bullish trends, while trading below the pivot point indicates a bearish trend.

Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s TrendSpotter Opinion, the signal from Trendspotter, a Barchart trend analysis system that uses wave theory, market momentum & volatility in an attempt to find a general trend, is Sell. Barchart Opinions show investors what a variety of popular trading systems are suggesting.

These Opinions take up to 2 years worth of historical data and runs the prices through thirteen technical indicators. After each calculation, a buy, sell or hold value for each study is assigned, depending on where the price is in reference to the interpretation of the study. Todays opinion, the overall signal based on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of all 13 studies, for Industrial Nanotech (INTK) is Hold.

Pivot point analysis is used in alongside calculating support and resistance levels, much like trend line analysis. In pivot point analysis, the first support and resistance levels are found by utilizing the width of the trading range between the pivot point and either the high or low prices of the previous trading day. Secondary support and resistance levels are found using the full width between the high and low prices of the previous trading day.

Pivot points are oft-used indicators for trading futures, commodities, and stocks. They are static, remaining at the same price level throughout the day. Five pivot point levels are generated by using data from the previous days trading range. These are composed of a pivot point and two higher pivot point resistances called R1 and R2 and also two lower pivot point supports called as S1 and S2. Industrial Nanotech (INTK)s Pivot Point is 0.0033. Its 1st Resistance Point is 0.0037 and its 2nd Resistance Point is 0.004. The 1st Support Point is 0.003 while its 2nd Support Point is 0.0026.

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