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(IEV) The State of the Union Address for Investors
Here is my short-form take on President Obama's State of the Union address. This is written to outline four major areas that concern stock market investors.
I have excerpted the first three sections — Labor Markets, Sector Priorities, and Fiscal Progress — out of the actual address. The fourth section comes from a piece written in Europe, which addresses the European Free Trade perspective.
I. Labor Markets – Alan Krueger, President's Chief Economics Advisor
Minimum Wage Hike, Incentives to Hire LT Unemployed, Early Education
How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
- Obama outlined steps to help all children get high-quality preschool.
- Offer incentives to companies that hire Americans who've got what it takes to fill that job opening, but have been out of work so long that no one will give them a chance anymore.
- Increase in the minimum wage, from $7.25 an hour now, to $9 an hour, was the most tangible of a raft of initiatives.
II. Sector Priorities
A. Manufacturing – see Vanguard Industrials ETF VIS
Obama's address indicates he wants federal government prioritized into sectors where investments make high returns:
Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There's no reason this can't happen in other towns.
So tonight, I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made right here in America. We can get that done.
B. Oil & Gas/Energy – see S&P Energy XLE
So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. In fact, much of our new-found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together.
Obama likewise called for a doubling of energy production by 2030 and urged Congress to take up climate-change legislation that failed during his first term.
He said that if Congress didn't act on climate change, he would prepare a series of executive actions to "prepare our cities and nation for the worsening effects" of a hotter climate.
C. Infrastructure – see S&P Global Infrastructure IGF
So tonight, I propose a "Fix-It-First" program to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country. And to make sure taxpayers don't shoulder the whole burden, I'm also proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods, modern pipelines to withstand a storm, modern schools worthy of our children.
D. Housing – see Vanguard's ETF REIT VNQ
Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods. And this year, my administration will begin to partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America to get these communities back on their feet. We'll work with local leaders to target resources at public safety, and education, and housing.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected. Too many families who never missed a payment and want to refinance are being told "no." That's holding our entire economy back. We need to fix it. Right now, there's a bill in this Congress that would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today's rates. Democrats and Republicans have supported it before, so what are we waiting for? Take a vote, and send me that bill.
III. Fiscal Progress – see Powershares High Yield PEY
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said Monday that policy makers need to find at least $2.4 trillion more in savings.
On March 1, about $85 billion in automatic spending cuts for the military and various domestic agencies are set to take effect. Both the White House and Republicans have said they want to avert the cuts, but they still disagree on how to do it. Obama shot down a Republican idea to protect the military alone from the draconian cuts.
Economists and the Congressional Budget office have warned that if the cuts, known as "the sequester," are not avoided, it would cut U.S. growth in half in 2013. The Congressional Budget Office has projected an $845 billion deficit this year, which would be a 40% drop from the deficit in 2009.
Obama offered fiscal conservatives an olive branch, however, saying he was prepared to achieve the same amount of healthcare savings as proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. That plan called for $341 billion in savings from federal entitlement programs.
Already, we have brought home 33,000 of our brave servicemen and women. This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue and by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.
IV. European Free Trade – see S&P Europe 350 IEV
From a BBC article, so this is the European view:
Mr Obama announced US support for talks as part of his annual address to Congress on Tuesday, saying a free-trade deal would "boost American exports, support American jobs and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia."
EU-US trade is worth around 455 billion euros (£393B; $613B) a year.
In a joint statement, US and EU leaders said trade between the US and EU supported millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. "We are committed to making this relationship an even stronger driver of our prosperity," the statement said. The EU estimates that a "comprehensive and ambitious agreement" will boost annual GDP growth by 0.5%.
One aim of the free-trade agreement would be to eliminate or reduce tariffs — taxes that apply to imported goods. For both the EU and US average tariffs are already low, below 3%. But further reductions could nonetheless stimulate additional trade and there are some areas where tariffs are much higher, notably food.
Beyond that, the negotiations would try to reduce regulatory barriers to trade. That is more complex, but the experience of Europe's internal market shows it is sometimes possible.
The desire for bilateral trade liberalization, on both sides of the Atlantic, reflects the failure of negotiations for a global deal in the World Trade Organization.
Those talks were launched 11 years ago and are nowhere near concluding. The big powers are anxious to use any opportunity to boost their economic performance.
Free trade between the US and the EU has been under informal discussion for years. It is not clear how long the talks will take, but similar trade deals have involved years of negotiations.
The idea was discussed following the formation of a working group in 2011, and the formal talks may begin in the summer, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said.
He said the deal would focus on bringing down remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade, and standardise technical regulations, standards and certifications.
Previously, politicians have been discouraged from pursuing free trade deals for fear of exposing domestic industries to greater competition from abroad.
But Steve Davies from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a think tank, said the economic crisis in Europe has injected more urgency into the talks. "It's happening now because there has been seriously depressed growth in the EU, and this will be good news for economic growth," he said. Mr Davies said agriculture was likely to be particular area of contention, along with intellectual property, which could lead to political wranglings on both sides of the Atlantic.
"On the American side, the critical factor is that Obama is now in his second term, so he doesn't have the protectionist pressures from US businesses to worry about."
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Deon Edmond can't wait for his first match at the Eastern States Classic on Friday.
Deon Edmond can't wait for his first match at the Eastern States Classic on Friday.
A year ago, Edmond sat in the stands at SUNY Sullivan in disbelief. He kept an eye on the 195-pound competition, wanting his shot.
Edmond's chances of placing at the tournament were taken away by a questionable flagrant misconduct call. A referee ruled that Edmond, at some point of the match, intentionally caused Phoenix's Austyn Hayes' finger to bleed in a quarterfinal. Edmond was disqualified from the tournament.
"That was a crazy call last year," said Edmond, a Kingston senior. "I'm excited to wrestle again in the tournament and get back out there. After it happened, it was watching the other matches and I was just, 'This is ridiculous. I could have placed really high at this tournament.' It motivated me to get better for this season and to come back and place at the tournament."
Edmond, the fifth seed at 195 pounds, overcame a serious injury to return to the mat this season. He tore his left anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in Fargo National qualifier on April 14.
"You see athletes in the NBA tear their ACL and they are out for 12 months," Edmond said. "My doctor let me feel it out. The prognosis was six to nine months. I came back after six."
Edmond, who said his knee might not be 100 percent yet, is 32-1 this season. Edmond's only loss came to Yorktown's Steve Sabella, a returning Section 1 champion, 3-2 at the Mid-Hudson tournament.
"That match made me feel like I could still wrestle at a high level," Edmond said. "That gave me a little bit of confidence that I was on my way back."
Monroe-Woodbury sophomore 99-pounder Vinny Vespa earned the highest seed — second — of any Section 9 wrestler. Action in the two-day tournament starts with the round of 64 at 10:40 a.m. Friday.


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Travelers who have incurred business related expenses paid with personal funds can request reimbursement, upon return, by completing a Travel Expense form and sending it to the Accounting Office.
Expenses should be recorded on a per day basis. Please remember to include the time of departure and return, as these times are needed to determine what/if any meals are eligible for reimbursement.
Sign the form. The the most common reason expense forms are returned unpaid, is because has not been signed by the traveler.
Use your ASU ID number. Use of this number will keep your social security number private and make processing your travel expenses more efficient.
Include receipts for any expenses, other than allowed meals. Hotel receipts should be itemized. If there is any doubt as to whether a receipt is acceptable or not, please stop and see the Travel Compliance Designee.
The supervisor's signature is required if the expenses exceed the original budgeted amount shown on the Travel Request.
Indicate where you would like your reimbursement check sent (i.e., home address, office address, etc).
Double check the math - even though the form is in a spreadsheet format, sometimes things just don't add up correctly (especially if there are miscellaneous expenses listed). We can not make corrections to the expense form if it increases the reimbursement amount, so remember to double check.
Attach a copy of the conference brochure, training brochure, or other descriptive material, including the itinerary and list of classes and/or sessions you attended, if not sent prior with the travel request.
Submit the Travel Expense form within thirty days of your return. Processing time takes between 7-10 business days, once the expense form is received in the Accounting Office, as long as everything has been received and is complete.
Please keep a copy of the reimbursement form and receipts, for your records.
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Born in a Russian zoo, baby Kiara's dad is an African lion and her mom's a liger: half-lion, half-tiger, which makes her the world's first hybrid "liliger." When Kiara's mom wasn't able to nurture the cub, a housecat named Dasha who belongs to one of the zookeepers stepped in (and for 20% additional squee, here they are cuddling).
Not everyone is psyched about Kiara, cuteness be damned. National Geographic reports that big cat conservationists claim that it's irresponsible to hybridize the species, saying that in the wild, Kiara would be "very mixed up." :(((((
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The Texans will next play at New England on Jan. 13. Foster became the first player in NFL history to have 100-yard games in each of his first three playoff games.
The Texans (13-4) had trouble finishing drives all day and mustered only three field goals in the first half. Houston struck first after the break, with Foster scoring the game's only offensive touchdown on a 1-yard run in the third quarter to make it 16-7.
In his first playoff start, Matt Schaub had an interception returned for a touchdown by Leon Hall before halftime.
Johnathan Joseph had an interception and J.J. Watt had a sack as the Texans beat the Bengals (10-7) in the wild-card round for the second straight year. Cincinnati hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, the league's longest current streak.
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So now that PASS is over and life is getting back to normal I thought it would share my final thoughts and evaluations of the event. This was my first year at PASS so I don't have much to compare it to other than SQL Saturday, which isn't a fair comparison because SQL Saturday is a free event for attendees.
Here's my thoughts on the event broken down by the things that were most memorable and important to me.
I hope I added to making this better. The session Brian and I gave seemingly went very well or at least it felt like it from the feedback I got throughout the week.
My favorite session I attended was by Donald Farmer of Microsoft called 'Integrating Predictive Analysis Throughout the Data Lifecycle'. He showed how data mining can be used in many more places than are commonly thought. The best part of the presentation was using the Titanic passenger list and description to predict whether or not the passenger survived.
The best moment in entertainment was Thursday night there was a nice after party which included the band The Flock of SQLs and about 8 or 9 Guitar Hero or Rock Band games set up for everyone to play. Here is a nice picture of Brian and me jamming (of course I look a lot more smooth than Brian) provided by Trish Lewandowski. Thanks Trish for the photo!
This was my first time in Seattle and I loved it. I was pretty amazed to be in a city that isn't dominated by abandoned buildings. I had little time for sightseeing other than the Space Needle but it was pretty amazing. The convention center was impressive and those who set it up for PASS did a great job.
This was probably the most fun I have had at a professional event. I meet lots of people that I would have otherwise never spoken with. The whole event was impressive and a little overwhelming for a first timer. I hope I'm lucky enough to be come back next year as a speaker again.


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Having doubled its waiting room wallboards franchise by buying Havas's point of care unit, AccentHealth is moving to boost the digital side of its business with its acquisition of MediVista Media's Everwell TV network.
It's a smaller buy, putting AccentHealth video and interactive content in an additional 1,000 waiting rooms and boosting the company's TV network to 13,500 offices. AccentHealth has Health Panels and TV screens in 30,000 offices nationwide. The company is also looking to broaden its media mix throughout its network to include TV, print, literature distribution and some new interactive products.
"We have offices where we have both formats," said EVP business and product development John Curbishley. "We think they're complimentary. What we're trying to do is allow the client to be able to brand the office with a range of touchpoints in print and digital."
Clients, said Curbishley, are "really focused on the kind of scale we can provide. They're looking for overall reach, whether print or digital, but also targeted reach into particular conditions, geographies and demographics, and this is a nice deal for us because it extends our reach in all those areas."MediVista's Everwell unit will continue to produce health programming, but without its own waiting room network.


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30. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?lorraine.mcgill Feb 1, 2012 11:51 AM (in response to tyro1)
I've had two different inquiries in the past two days that I believe are scams and are wondering if anyone else is getting these. My huge red flag is bad grammar. Another is when they use wrong words (like "facility" in the email below). I'm trying to figure out what the deal is. What's going to happen if I send these people a payment request through VRBO?
Below are the exact copies of the the messages. The first I replied to thinking I might stump them and they actually responded. I'm curious to hear what you think. The second was just an inquiry which I haven't replied to yet. Keep in mind, I live in Gainesville, Florida which is not a typical "vacation" town -- our usual guests are here for University of Florida and Gator sports related events.
hello,i saw your facility and i loved it..please i want to kow if the dates choosen by me are available and if credit cards can be used as a medium of payment?please get back to me asap...pixton
Thanks for your inquiry. The acceptance of credit cards depends on where you are located. Can you please tell me where you live? Also, what is bringing you to town?
i live in utah..my husband and i and our pastor and oue kids just want to get away for four days to seek the face of the lord in prayers..please get back to me
Hello how are you doing there today..i saw your house here and i do have interest in that i will like you to get back to me on this Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com so that i can be ready for the payment Fredericks
31. Re: Scam from the email@example.com Feb 6, 2012 11:22 AM (in response to tyro1)
Just had a very similar experience as others here (from the Ukraine; "oops, made a mistake with the checks, please keep your share and send rest to my travel agent"). Went to bank to cash the money orders so I could wire the money to his travel agent and bank told me they were fake. I wasn't surprised ... something just didn't seem right. But it is very annoying and infuriating!
I feel like e-mailing him and saying "I cashed the checks and am using the money to go on vacation!"
32. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?clearwaterbeach1 Feb 6, 2012 1:44 PM (in response to firstname.lastname@example.com)
you are lucky that your bank was able to spot a forgery. Most banks cannot tell and put them into your account. Then, 2 weeks later, you are notified that it was a forgery and you are out the money. The bank is not liable, even if they accept it for deposit. I wouldn't even deposit the "money order" because I knew there would be a "return check fee". I love how they say that "since Visa is unsecure" (as if there check is secure!)
Rule# 1. Don't give money back.
33. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?jennifer.shoemaker Feb 7, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to tyro1)
THANK YOU all for sharing. My instinct was right but not until I already sent them our contract with our name and address on it.
I got the exact same letters as posted.
I am so glad this was posted...but as soon as I got the "I overpaid you letter" I knew this smelled worse than ever.
34. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?dbmeyer Feb 7, 2012 1:15 PM (in response to tyro1)
Just received the following inquiry which is obviously a scam. I won't reply but this is an example of how a scammer can get our email address if we do reply.Inquiry Detail
Hi!!! I`m from UK and want to ask do I need an adapter for a curling iron or shaver?
Name harold biehl Guests 0 adults, 0 children
35. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?gabriel Feb 7, 2012 4:33 PM (in response to dbmeyer)
it is great to see this important blog about online security. I hope that all 500,000+ vacation homeoners take security seriously. Unfortunately that is not the case.
I suggest we write a new blog about warning signals so we are all aware and learn from each other.
36. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?marilyn Feb 9, 2012 3:24 PM (in response to tyro1)
Since I advertise on many sites with all my homes, I receive an average of 10 emails per week all dealing with "my employer sent too much" scam. Last week I had fun with one of them. I never give out my banking info or any other personal info. I asked for a check for a deposit. They emailed me that it was sent and that "they sent too much". I emailed, I have no way to do refunds. "my computer cannot generate refunds". They started begging for the refund. I emailed answers after each of their requests. Needless to say, we never received the original deposit check.
Two years ago, I received an inquiry on a rental that was to take place within a month. I find this highly unusual as I typically rent 6 months in advance. After much back and forth emails, I received a deposit check. But instead of the check being for $1000, the check was for $5000. We were asked to deposit the check, let it clear and then refund the difference prior to their comining as they had to buy their air line tickets. The check was from an aviation company in Florida. As this was an usual request, I had my assistant first call the bank the check was drawn on. Account was good. But request was unusal so we called the aviation company. A very large company with many branches through out the United States. They were not aware of any such rental, but transferred the call to another branch. They were not able to answer our questions. We asked for the main office and asked to be connected to either the president of the company or the main accounts payable manager.
Long story, short, turns out the check was drawn on a real account and a real company. BUT, the check was a fraud. Had we deposited the check, it would have cleared our account, hit the aviation company account, they would have disputed the check, money would have been withdrawn from our account, paid back to aviation company and we would have been out $4000. The entire process could take 30 days. Pays to take the time to investigate anything that seems just a little bit strange.
37. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?gabriel Feb 9, 2012 4:13 PM (in response to marilyn)
Wow Marilyn!!! That is an amazing story.
You should post your story in the blog:
How to spot a Scam from a real inquiry?
I hope we can collect these stories there to alert all homeowners of the risks.
38. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?bend2011 Feb 9, 2012 6:08 PM (in response to gabriel)
Please, please, please, even if you get a check that is more than the listed amount, please do not cash it.
Why? Even if the check were to clear, the scammer still has you information that is on the check. Your bank acct. number, routing number, driver's license, home address and any other information you have listed on it. The scammer gets a photo of the check and even if they gave you the money, they would still have access to your bank account. Take it to bank security and hopefully they can track down the perpetrator. I have found that the best way to curb suspicion is to ask them to call you. If they are serious, they will, but scammers will not.
I hope this helps!
39. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?marilyn Feb 11, 2012 8:29 AM (in response to bend2011)
Unfortunately speaking with the scammer is not a true handle on the situation.
I asked a scammer to call me and he did. Clarified some questions I had and then mailed me the check. I was not suspicious at the time so did not make a note of the phone number. It was not until I received a check from an aviation company that my antennas went up. It is a very very rare case that I receive a check from a company. That made me check further and called the company asking for the person who certainly did not work there. HOWEVER, the check looked real, had a real company listed and the bank account was real. But the company knew nothing about the rental or the person. We emailed a copy of the check to them and they were shocked. Although the check number was not correct, everything else on the check was perfect.
40. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?marilyn Feb 11, 2012 8:34 AM (in response to gabriel)
Hi Gabriel
Not sure how to spot a scam.
I think you just have to do your due diligence. It it seems weird, 99% it is.
I am not sure how stupid one has to be to send a check for a rental that is several thousand more than a rental. That should be a warning light right away.
When we all write checks, we are careful. So how does a check get written for thousands more, unless it is a scam.
41. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?gabriel Feb 11, 2012 9:07 AM (in response to marilyn)
I agree with you Marilyn, scammers are experts at what they do and we will never be able to spot every single scam, but your experience can help other owners be cautious if they receive mail/calls from these criminals.
42. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?marilyn Feb 11, 2012 12:29 PM (in response to gabriel)
One potential problem I see is that home owners are so anxious to rent, they don't see a potential scam coming.
Let's face it the economy is difficult, competition is greater and some amenities are being blown out of the water (chef and daily housekeeping provided). Thankfully (although I am always worried) we have had wonderful rentals in all seven homes.
I think we just need to keep our eyes wide open.
43. Re: Scam from the Ukraine?bend2011 Feb 11, 2012 11:55 PM (in response to marilyn)
Thanks Marilyn, I did not know this. Glad you caught it before it got really bad!


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Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah, Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban ("Destruction"), the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this "the final solution to the Jewish question." The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps—the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires.
…Hitler, which meant the physical extermination of the Jewish people throughout Europe wherever German rule was in force or where German influence was decisive.
Even before the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they had made no secret of their anti-Semitism. As early as 1919, Adolf Hitler had written, "Rational anti-Semitism, however, must lead to systematic legal opposition.…Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether." In Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"; 1925–27), Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination. Nazi anti-Semitism was rooted in religious anti-Semitism and enhanced by political anti-Semitism. To this the Nazis added a further dimension: racial anti-Semitism. Nazi racial ideology characterized the Jews as Untermenschen (German: "subhumans"). The Nazis portrayed Jews as a race and not a religious group. Religious anti-Semitism could be resolved by conversion, political anti-Semitism by expulsion. Ultimately, the logic of Nazi racial anti-Semitism led to annihilation.
When Hitler came to power legally on January 30, 1933, as the head of a coalition government, his first objective was to consolidate power and to eliminate political opposition. The assault against the Jews began on April 1 with a boycott of Jewish businesses. A week later the Nazis dismissed Jews from the civil service, and by the end of the month the participation of Jews in German schools was restricted by a quota. On May 10, thousands of Nazi students, together with many professors, stormed university libraries and bookstores in 30 cities throughout Germany to remove tens of thousands of books written by non-Aryans and those opposed to Nazi ideology. The books were tossed into bonfires in an effort to cleanse German culture of "un-Germanic" writings. A century earlier, Heinrich Heine—a German poet of Jewish origin—had said, "Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people." In Nazi Germany, the time between the burning of Jewish books and the burning of Jews was eight years.
As discrimination against Jews increased, German law required a legal definition of a Jew and an Aryan. Promulgated at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg on September 15, 1935, the Nürnberg Laws—the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour and the Law of the Reich Citizen—became the centerpiece of anti-Jewish legislation and a precedent for defining and categorizing Jews in all German-controlled lands. Marriage and sexual relations between Jews and citizens of "German or kindred blood" were prohibited. Only "racial" Germans were entitled to civil and political rights. Jews were reduced to subjects of the state. The Nürnberg Laws formally divided Germans and Jews, yet neither the word German nor the word Jew was defined. That task was left to the bureaucracy. Two basic categories were established in November: Jews, those with at least three Jewish grandparents; and Mischlinge ("mongrels," or "mixed breeds"), people with one or two Jewish grandparents. Thus, the definition of a Jew was primarily based not on the identity an individual affirmed or the religion he or she practiced but on his or her ancestry. Categorization was the first stage of destruction.
Responding with alarm to Hitler's rise, the Jewish community sought to defend their rights as Germans. For those Jews who felt themselves fully German and who had patriotically fought in World War I, the Nazification of German society was especially painful. Zionist activity intensified. "Wear it with pride," journalist Robert Wildest wrote in 1933 of the Jewish identity the Nazis had so stigmatized. Martin Buber led an effort at Jewish adult education, preparing the community for the long journey ahead. Rabbi Leo Baeck circulated a prayer for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in 1935 that instructed Jews on how to behave: "We bow down before God; we stand erect before man." Yet while few, if any, could foresee its eventual outcome, the Jewish condition was increasingly perilous and was expected to worsen.
By the late 1930s there was a desperate search for countries of refuge. Those who could obtain visas and qualify under stringent quotas emigrated to the United States. Many went to Palestine, where the small Jewish community was willing to receive refugees. Still others sought refuge in neighbouring European countries. Most countries, however, were unwilling to receive large numbers of refugees.
Responding to domestic pressures to act on behalf of Jewish refugees, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened, but did not attend, the Évian Conference on resettlement, in Évian-les-Bains, France, in July 1938. In his invitation to government leaders, Roosevelt specified that they would not have to change laws or spend government funds; only philanthropic funds would be used for resettlement. The result was that little was attempted and less accomplished.
From Kristallnacht to the "final solution"
On the evening of November 9, 1938, carefully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence "erupted" throughout the Reich, which since March had included Austria. Over the next 48 hours rioters burned or damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and ransacked and broke the windows of more than 7,500 businesses. The Nazis arrested some 30,000 Jewish men between the ages of 16 and 60 and sent them to concentration camps. Police stood by as the violence—often the action of neighbours, not strangers—occurred. Firemen were present not to protect the synagogues but to ensure that the flames did not spread to adjacent "Aryan" property. The pogrom was given a quaint name: Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night," or "Night of Broken Glass"). In its aftermath, Jews lost the illusion that they had a future in Germany.
On November 12, 1938, Field Marshal Hermann Göring convened a meeting of Nazi officials to discuss the damage to the German economy from pogroms. The Jewish community was fined one billion Reichsmarks. Moreover, Jews were made responsible for cleaning up the damage. German Jews, but not foreign Jews, were barred from collecting insurance. In addition, Jews were soon denied entry to theatres, forced to travel in separate compartments on trains, and excluded from German schools. These new restrictions were added to earlier prohibitions, such as those barring Jews from earning university degrees, from owning businesses, or from practicing law or medicine in the service of non-Jews. The Nazis would continue to confiscate Jewish property in a program called "Aryanization." Göring concluded the November meeting with a note of irony: "I would not like to be a Jew in Germany!"
Non-Jewish victims of Nazism
While Jews were the primary victims of Nazism as it evolved and were central to Nazi racial ideology, other groups were victimized as well—some for what they did, some for what they refused to do, and some for what they were.
Political dissidents, trade unionists, and Social Democrats were among the first to be arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. Under the Weimar government, centuries-old prohibitions against homosexuality had been overlooked, but this tolerance ended violently when the SA (Storm Troopers) began raiding gay bars in 1933. Homosexual intent became just cause for prosecution. The Nazis arrested German and Austrian male homosexuals—there was no systematic persecution of lesbians—and interned them in concentration camps, where they were forced to wear special yellow armbands and later pink triangles. Jehovah's Witnesses were a problem for the Nazis because they refused to swear allegiance to the state, register for the draft, or utter the words "Heil Hitler." As a result, the Nazis imprisoned many of the roughly 20,000 Witnesses in Germany. Germans of African descent—many of whom, called "Rhineland bastards" by the Nazis, were the offspring of German mothers and French colonial African troops who had occupied the Rhineland after World War I—were also persecuted by the Nazis. Although their victimization was less systematic, it included forced sterilization and, often, internment in concentration camps. The Nazis also singled out the Roma (Gypsies). They were the only other group that the Nazis systematically killed in gas chambers alongside the Jews.
In 1939 the Germans initiated the T4 Program—framed euphemistically as a "euthanasia" program—for the murder of intellectually or physically disabled and emotionally disturbed Germans who departed from the Nazi ideal of Aryan supremacy. The Nazis pioneered the use of gas chambers and mass crematoria under this program.
Following the invasion of Poland, German occupation policy especially targeted the Jews but also brutalized non-Jewish Poles. In pursuit of Lebensraum ("living space"), Germany sought systematically to destroy Polish society and nationhood. The Nazis killed Polish priests and politicians, decimated the Polish leadership, and kidnapped the children of the Polish elite, who were raised as "voluntary Aryans" by their new German "parents." Many Poles were also forced to perform hard labour on survival diets, were deprived of property and uprooted, and were interned in concentration camps.
Nazi expansion and the formation of ghettos
Paradoxically, at the same time that Germany tried to rid itself of its Jews via forced emigration, its territorial expansions kept bringing more Jews under its control. Germany annexed Austria in March 1938 and the Sudetenland (now in the Czech Republic) in September 1938. It established control over the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now in the Czech Republic) in March 1939. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the "Jewish question" became urgent. When the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union was complete, more than two million more Jews had come under German control. For a time, the Nazis considered shipping the Jews to the island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. But as the seas became a war zone and the resources required for such a massive deportation scarce, they discarded the plan as impractical.
On September 21, 1939, Reinhard Heydrich ordered the establishment of the Judenräte ("Jewish Councils"), comprising up to 24 men—rabbis and Jewish leaders. Heydrich's order made these councils personally responsible in "the literal sense of the term" for carrying out German orders. When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of German-occupied Poland's 400 ghettos, in the fall of 1940, the Jews—then 30 percent of Warsaw's population—were forced into 2.4 percent of the city's area. The ghetto's population reached a density of over 200,000 persons per square mile (77,000 per square km) and 9.2 per room. Disease, malnutrition, hunger, and poverty took their toll even before the first bullet was fired.
For the German rulers, the ghetto was a temporary measure, a holding pen for the Jewish population until a policy on its fate could be established and implemented. For the Jews, ghetto life was the situation under which they thought they would be forced to live until the end of the war. They aimed to make life bearable, even under the most trying circumstances. When the Nazis prohibited schools, they opened clandestine schools. When the Nazis banned religious life, it persisted in hiding. The Jews used humour as a means of defiance, so too song. They resorted to arms only late in the Nazi assault.
Historians differ on the date of the decision to murder Jews systematically, the so-called "final solution to the Jewish question." There is debate about whether there was one central decision or a series of regional decisions in response to local conditions, In either case, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, its former ally, in June of 1941, the Nazis began the systematic killing of Jews.
The Einsatzgruppen
Entering conquered Soviet territories alongside the Wehrmacht (the German armed forces) were 3,000 men of the Einsatzgruppen ("deployment groups"), special mobile killing units. Their task was to murder Jews, Soviet commissars, and Roma in the areas conquered by the army. Alone or with the help of local police, native anti-Semitic populations, and accompanying Axis troops, the Einsatzgruppen would enter a town, round up their victims, herd them to the outskirts of the town, and shoot them. They killed Jews in family units. Just outside Kiev, Ukraine, in the valley of Babi Yar, an Einsatzgruppe killed 33,771 Jews on September 28–29, 1941. In the Rumbula Forest outside the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, 25,000–28,000 Jews died on November 30 and December 8–9. Beginning in the summer of 1941, Einsatzgruppen killed more than 70,000 Jews at Ponary, outside Vilna (now Vilnius) in Lithuania. They slaughtered 9,000 Jews, half of them children, at the Ninth Fort adjacent to Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, on October 28.
The mass shootings continued unabated, with a first wave and then a second. When the killing ended in the face of a Soviet counteroffensive, special units returned to dig up the dead and burn their bodies to destroy the evidence of the crimes. It is estimated that the Einsatzgruppen killed more than one million people, most of whom were Jews.
Historians are divided about the motivations of the members of Einsatzgruppen. American historian Christopher Browning described them as ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances in which conformity, peer pressure, careerism, obedience to orders, and group solidarity gradually overcame moral inhibitions. American writer Daniel Goldhagen viewed them as "willing executioners," sharing Hitler's vision of genocidal anti-Semitism and finding their tasks unpleasant but necessary. Both concur that no Einsatzgruppe member faced punishment if he asked to be excused. Individuals had a choice whether to participate or not. Almost all chose to become killers.
The extermination camps
On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference at a lakeside villa in a Berlin suburb to organize the "final solution to the Jewish question." Around the table were 15 men representing government agencies necessary to implement so bold and sweeping a policy. The language of the meeting was clear, but the meeting notes were circumspect: "Another possible solution of the problem has now taken the place of emigration, i.e., the evacuation of the Jews to the east.…Practical experience is already being collected which is of the greatest importance in relation to the future final solution of the Jewish question." Participants understood "evacuation to the east" to mean deportation to killing centres.
In early 1942 the Nazis built extermination camps at Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec in Poland. The death camps were to be the essential instrument of the "final solution." The Einsatzgruppen had traveled to kill their victims. With the extermination camps, the process was reversed. The victims traveled by train, often in cattle cars, to their killers. The extermination camps became factories producing corpses, effectively and efficiently, at minimal physical and psychological cost to German personnel. Assisted by Ukrainian and Latvian collaborators and prisoners of war, a few Germans could kill tens of thousands of prisoners each month. At Chelmno, the first of the extermination camps, the Nazis used mobile gas vans. Elsewhere, they built permanent gas chambers linked to the crematoria where bodies were burned. Carbon monoxide was the gas of choice at most camps. Zyklon-B, an especially lethal killing agent, was employed primarily at Auschwitz and later at other camps.
Auschwitz, perhaps the most notorious and lethal of the concentration camps, was actually three camps in one: a prison camp (Auschwitz I), an extermination camp (Auschwitz II–Birkenau), and a slave-labour camp (Auschwitz III–Buna-Monowitz). Upon arrival, Jewish prisoners faced what was called a Selektion. A German doctor presided over the selection of pregnant women, young children, the elderly, handicapped, sick, and infirm for immediate death in the gas chambers. As necessary, the Germans selected able-bodied prisoners for forced labour in the factories adjacent to Auschwitz where one German company, IG Farben, invested 700,000 million Reichsmarks in 1942 alone to take advantage of forced labour. Deprived of adequate food, shelter, clothing, and medical care, these prisoners were literally worked to death. Periodically, they would face another Selektion. The Nazis would transfer those unable to work to the gas chambers of Birkenau.
While the death camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek used inmates for slave labour to support the German war effort, the extermination camps at Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor had one task alone: killing. At Treblinka, a staff of 120, of whom only 30 were SS (the Nazi paramilitary corps), killed some 750,000 to 900,000 Jews during the camp's 17 months of operation. At Belzec, German records detail a staff of 104, including about 20 SS, who killed some 600,000 Jews in less than 10 months. At Sobibor, they murdered about 250,000. These camps began operation during the spring and summer of 1942, when the ghettos of German-occupied Poland were filled with Jews. Once they had completed their missions—murder by gassing, or "resettlement in the east," to use the language of the Wannsee protocols—the Nazis closed the camps. There were six extermination camps, all in German-occupied Poland, among the thousands of concentration and slave-labour camps throughout German-occupied Europe.
The impact of the Holocaust varied from region to region and from year to year in the 21 countries that were directly affected. Nowhere was the Holocaust more intense and sudden than in Hungary. What took place over several years in Germany occurred over 16 weeks in Hungary. Entering the war as a German ally, Hungary had persecuted its Jews but not permitted their deportation. After Germany invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, the situation changed dramatically. By mid-April the Nazis had confined Jews to ghettos. On May 15, deportations began, and over the next 55 days, the Nazis deported more than 437,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz on 147 trains.
Policies differed widely among Germany's Balkan allies. In Romania it was primarily the Romanians themselves who slaughtered the country's Jews. Toward the end of the war, however, when the defeat of Germany was all but certain, the Romanian government found more value in living Jews who could be held for ransom or used as leverage with the West. Bulgaria permitted the deportation of Jews from neighbouring Thrace and Macedonia, but government leaders faced stiff opposition to the deportation of native Bulgarian Jews.
German-occupied Denmark rescued most of its own Jews by spiriting them to Sweden by sea in October 1943. This was possible partly because the German presence in Denmark was relatively small. Moreover, while anti-Semitism in the general population of many other countries led to collaboration with the Germans, Jews were an integrated part of Danish culture. Under these unique circumstances, Danish humanitarianism flourished.
In France, Jews under Fascist Italian occupation in the southeast fared better than the Jews of Vichy France, where collaborationist French authorities and police provided essential support to the understaffed German forces. The Jews in those parts of France under direct German occupation fared the worst. Although allied with Germany, the Italians did not participate in the Holocaust until Germany occupied northern Italy after the overthrow of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
Throughout German-occupied territory the situation of Jews was desperate. They had meagre resources and few allies and faced impossible choices. A few people came to their rescue, often at the risk of their own lives. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on July 9, 1944, in an effort to save Hungary's sole remaining Jewish community. Over the next six months, he worked with other neutral diplomats, the Vatican, and Jews themselves to prevent the deportation of these last Jews. Elsewhere, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a French Huguenot village, became a haven for 5,000 Jews. In Poland, where it was illegal to aid Jews and where such action was punishable by death, the Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) rescued a similar number of Jewish men, women, and children. Financed by the Polish government in exile and involving a wide range of clandestine political organizations, the Zegota provided hiding places and financial support and forged identity documents.
Some Germans, even some Nazis, dissented from the murder of the Jews and came to their aid. The most famous was Oskar Schindler, a Nazi businessman, who had set up operations using involuntary labour in German-occupied Poland in order to profit from the war. Eventually, he moved to protect his Jewish workers from deportation to extermination camps. In all occupied countries, there were individuals who came to the rescue of Jews, offering a place to hide, some food, or shelter for days, weeks, or even for the duration of the war. Most of the rescuers did not see their actions as heroic but felt bound to the Jews by a common sense of humanity. Israel later recognized rescuers with honorary citizenship and commemoration at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Holocaust.


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What's better than adopting one cat? Adopting two! They will keep each other company, and two felines means double the love and affection for you.
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Making your child a part of this new adventure will help her to understand what your new addition to the family needs before you bring her home. Of course pets aren't all work and no play, and bringing a cat into your family can offer a lot of benefits to children, including reducing stress and teaching responsibility … not to mention the hours they'll spend playing games together.
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Milan v Barcelona
As AC Milan prepare to face Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, watch highlights from when they took on the Catalan side in the group stage of the 2011 tournament.
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The UEFA Champions League last-16 first leg encounter between AC Milan and Barcelona really is a match that is the crème de la crème of European football at it's very best.
The clash will pit Milan, who have lifted the famous trophy on seven previous occasions against the four-time winners and their talisman Lionel Messi at a sold-out San Siro Stadium.
In fact it could be a match befitting of the final itself at Wembley Stadium in May, but when the Rossoneri and Blaugrana go head-to-head on Wednesday night, it will no doubt spring a few memories of past encounters between the two giants.
In 1994, fans got a dream final of the flagship competition when Johan Cruyff's 'Dream Team' met Fabio Capello's Milan in Athens. The sides boasted players such as Paolo Maldini, Pep Guardiola, Romario, Hristo Stoichkov, Dejan Savicevic, Daniele Massaro, Marcel Desailly et al and it was the Serie A giants who were crowned European kings after a 4-0 demolition job.
Since that night, Barcelona would have to wait until 2006 for their shot at another final, and they haven't looked back since and have had the edge over their opponents.
Milan have failed to defeat their opponents in the past seven meetings, with Barca having claimed four victories in that time and twice knocking the Italians out of the Champions League.
It's becoming a bit of a regular match-up as this will be their fifth encounter in the last two seasons of the Champions League.
In 2011, Barca won a pulsating group stage match in Milan 3-2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was on target against his old side for the hosts, but the magic of Messi and Xavi won a lung-busting clash in the end.
Look back on that encounter in our highlights video as Milan look to avoid another repeat on Wednesday evening.
Last season, the teams drew twice in the group stage before the Catalans claimed a 3-1 aggregate victory in the quarter-finals with the majestic Messi converting two first-half penalties.
Massimiliano Allegri's Milan are currently on a six-game unbeaten run, including four wins but they have only won one of their last 10 knockout games in the competition.
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Angela Ethel (Dull) Gaffney of Anselmo passed away Aug. 29, 2011, at Golden Living Center in Broken Bow. A requiem Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anselm's Catholic Church in Anselmo Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. Burial will be at St. Anselm's Catolic Cemetery at Anselmo. Govier Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The family requests that memorials be made to St. Anselm's Church. Angela was born June 13, 1921, in New York City to Robert Adam and Ethel Mary (Smith) Dull. Survivors include her children, Howard R Gaffney and Linda of Anselmo, Philip A. Gaffney and Susan of Evans, Ga., Maureen Nickels of Chapman, Robert P. Gaffney and Sara of Wildwood, Mo.; brother-in-law, William J. Havens of Smithfield, Va.; and Sandra Schall of Broken Bow, who Angela considered a dear friend and like a daughter who visited Angela on a daily basis. Other survivors include her grandchildren, Angela Dickey (Greg), Howard Gaffney, Teresa Lentfer (Jerry), Andrew Gaffney (Cristi) , Philip John Gaffney and Matthew Gaffney, Chelsa Nickels, ChloÈ and Conrad Gaffney; great-grandchildren, Nichole, Adam and Jeffrey Dickey; Sophia and Olivia Lentfer, Spencer, Karson, Zachary and Jayden Gaffney; nieces and nephews, Geoffrey Barbey (Marci), Janet Lashway, Susan Barbey, Marilyn Maresco-Shepard, Marguerite Maresco-Bosco, Frank Gaffney (Penny), and Patricia Zylawski (Hank). Angela was welcomed into heaven by her husband Howard J. Gaffney; her parents; baby brother Robert; sisters, Dorothy Barbey-Warneck, Teresa Lorraine Havens and Agnes Maresco who Angela grew up with and considered a sister. Angela was a member of St. Anselm's Catholic Church where she was president of the St. Anselm's Altar Society and taught CCD classes for numerous years. She was an active member of the Anselmo Extension Club, Anselmo PTA, 4-H leader for the Happy Hoosier Hillbillies 4-H Club, and a Board member of the Winter's Memorial Library. Angela grew up in New York City and attended PS116 and Hunter College High School. Angela entered Hunter College, but because of WW II it was necessary that she work full time. She was employed at B. Altmans, one of New York's oldest and most esteemed department stores as a milliner and finished seamstress prior to moving to Nebraska. Besides working at Halsey National Forest and Scott's Market in Anselmo, Angela retired after 21 years with Becton-Dickinson of Broken Bow. As a young woman, Angela spent the summers with her grandmother, Teresa 'Tess' Johnson, on her ranch located south of Anselmo and learned to love the vastness of Nebraska. Angela married Howard J. Gaffney of New York City June 30, 1945, at Sacred Heart's Church in New York City. Howard and Angela moved to Nebraska in 1947, where they made their first home in Ortello Valley. In 1954, the Gaffney's moved to the family farm west of Anselmo where they continued farming and raising their family. To this union, four children were born. Mr. Gaffney died in 1971. Angela will long be remembered for her strong values of family, faith and friendship. Her life centered around her family. The family Christmas dinners and family baptisms were two very special events for Angela. She enjoyed the planning, the preparation and the family gathering together at the farmhouse for these very special moments. She dearly loved each and every one of her grandchildren and was known to each as Nannie. A great delight of Angela's was to take each grandchild on a weeklong trip to either New York City or Washington, D.C. upon their 8th grade graduation. Angela loved traveling at every opportunity. A memorable trip was to Europe for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day where she was able to walk the beaches of Normandy where her late husband was at during WWII. Angela had a great love of reading, needlework, gardening and cooking for her family. Angela's memory is a keepsake. While God has her in his arms her family has her in their hearts forever. Published in Custer County Chief, Sept. 1, 2011


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WILSONVILLE, OR--(Marketwire - December 1, 2010) - Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced it has successfully supported Infineon to improve Infineon's verification productivity and effectiveness by assessing the status quo and by jointly establishing improved SystemVerilog (SV) methodologies. Mentor supported Infineon in this deployment based on Mentor's functional verification solutions. The cornerstone of Infineon's new verification environment is the Questa® functional verification platform. The technologies linked with the Questa platform, when applied with the established methodologies, improve Infineon's verification process.
"Infineon has the challenge of ensuring that closure is achieved on complex designs that span multiple time zones and multiple teams on a tight schedule. We knew in advance that we needed to make the most of every verification cycle in order to achieve our goal," said Hartmut Hiller, vice president, Design Methodologies & Implementation at Infineon. "We jointly worked with Mentor to improve our advanced environment that allows for the electronic association of verification requirements through every stage of the process, linking formal results, low-power results, simulation results and coverage information into a single data base."
This unified database was analyzed within the Questa environment to automatically determine if closure was reached. Mentor worked closely with Infineon in an assessment of the status quo and the identification of the gaps compared to Infineon's solid vision of the desired verification environment based on industry standards such as OVM and SystemVerilog. Mentor then contributed tools, methodology, and know-how to support Infineon to achieve its vision. The results are already being applied on Infineon designs.
Improving Functional Verification
To facilitate the work, Mentor supported Infineon in creating a verification architecture document that described the overall strategy, architecture and implementation approach that would be taken to build the verification infrastructure. The verification strategy document defined the general methods, layers, phases, components, libraries, scripts, databases, tools, and decisions that would be used throughout the verification effort.
With the fully documented verification plan, the teams had a clear picture of how to:
Build reusable verification components for each of the design under test (DUT) interfaces
Incorporate non-intrusive UPF-based power-aware logic within the verification environment
Incorporate automatic formal technology to ease the process of identifying the type of bugs found via formal techniques
Incorporate verification metrics like assertion density, functional coverage, bug tracking, test ranking, test sorting, and test merging to provide useful information about the verification status, and how to monitor real verification progress in terms of the effectiveness of each test
Build a series of pseudo-random test case sequences via a combination of constraints and object oriented programming (OOP) extensions within an OVM testbench, to find bugs and exhaustively verify the functionality of the DUT
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Infineon, working together with Mentor, has further refined their advanced verification process to a state-of-the-art process. The process structure provides visibility and predictability into the entire verification process, which provides confidence in the verification status of a design. The process is expected to show significant productivity gain as it first focuses on what is needed, and then selects the right tools for the job. This approach also enables reuse.
The addition of Questa's power aware and automated formal technology is exposing power related and critical corner case issues much earlier in the verification process. "Independent of company size, design type or end-user market, companies verifying complex IC are facing a mounting number of functional verification challenges," said John Lenyo, general manager of the Design Verification and Technology division at Mentor Graphics. "The effective deployment of advanced verification tools and processes is required to address the complexities raised by today's complex ASICs and SoC designs. We are pleased to partner with companies such as Infineon, where the result of our efforts is a more effective verification solution than either party could have implemented on their own. We are looking forward to continued work with Infineon to ensure their verification environment continues to be the best the industry has to offer."
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