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To Chad I am pleased it had an easy outcome and this would be a good reference thread for those with similar problems with the older CPU's as I said my tester although is really good is slower then my other machines.
If you want to get a little more out of the machine try this as it is the bible of all tutorials for me.
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This Core 2 Quad 3.0GHz does everything I could need it to do. Should it get too slow, I will definitely upgrade. But until this processor gets too slow, there's no point in spending the money. With a 2TB HDD, 8GB of ram and this Q9650 3.0GHz processor this computer loads everything in short order. I don't do any gaming or anything like that.
Anyway, Thanks for the help.
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Yep Chad I am not a power user either and I do have only DDR2 on that machine but an SSD and the link for optimising goes along way to making the machine faster and more efficient.
As I think I mentioned I have it as a tester machine and so don't need the absolute speed but if I did I would go to an i5 of some sort of course it would mean a different motherboard though again when I looked round for a replacement Q9650 or any close to it the prices were way over what say an i3 or i5 plus a simpler board would cost so six of one half dozen of the other mate.
Still I am still very pleased it is working now and your temps are way better than mine which are usually around 35 - 40C :)
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Is there a simple way to test if a property exists on a given object under PoSH 3?
I have a number of cmdlets which return objects with alternate sets of properties, depending on their results. In my scripts, I'd like to test for the existence of those properties within if statements, but PoSH returns errors on the property not existing. This has been a long running frustration that I Google for every couple of months to no avail. The only options seem to involve convolutions around try/catch blocks or writing helper functions that parse through the properties on objects. Both of those approaches potentially meet my functional requirements, but it seems like an awful lot of code and scaffolding for a simple -exists style function. Is there a simpler PoSH method to meet this goal? How do others solve what I would think would be a common problem?
Well, my developer answer would be that your command output should be considered a contract, and should be consistent, even if some properties sometimes have null values. Or, give your output object a type name that describes the kind of object it is. Then you can easily look at the type name and know what properties to expect.
To answer your question, pipe the object to GM and capture the output. Yo can easily see what properties exist that way.
I assume you're using Set-StrictMode, if you're getting errors when you try to access a non-existent property. By default, PowerShell just returns $null when you do that.
To test for the existence of a property, you can use the PSObject.Properties table:
$testObject = New-Object psobject -Property @{ SomeProperty = 'SomeValue' } if ($testObject.PSObject.Properties['SomeProperty']) { Write-Host "SomeProperty: $($testObject.SomeProperty)" } if ($testObject.PSObject.Properties['BogusProperty']) { Write-Host "BogusProperty: $($testObject.BogusProperty)" }
Edit: Get-Member works too, as Don mentioned:
if (Get-Member -InputObject $testObject -Name SomeProperty -MemberType Properties) { Write-Host "SomeProperty: $($testObject.SomeProperty)" }
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How do we measure happiness?
How do we measure happiness? A simple question, but tends to be a complicated answer. Take a second to think about that question. Happiness is not something tangible. You can't hold happiness in your hand, smell it, or taste it. You can feel it, but not in the scientific meaning of the word. So how do we really know if we are happy? One of the most traditional places to look first is Mr. Webster's book.
Happiness is a state of well-being and contentment.
Webster's definition doesn't really help me define a measurement system for happiness. This is still a vague and general definition. It doesn't provide a simple way to determine if you are happy. So let's dive into this a little more.
As an engineer I need something more than just a feeling, something subjective. I went to the great encyclopedia of the cloud, Google. I searched high and low for answers on how to quantitatively measure happiness. I was very surprised to see that the most common result was based around money/wealth. I chuckled and immediately drew the conclusion that money is the root to happiness. But we all know that is not the truth. We would be a very shallow and chronically unhappy society if money was the only way to measure happiness.
Take a look at the 5 happiest countries in the world (GDP/capita USD)1,2.
36. Qatar ($132,900)
The happiest countries in the world don't even make it into the top 10 for GDP per capita. Thank goodness, money is not the direct path to happiness. So I got the top 5 happiest cuntries from the World Happiness Report 2016. This organization uses 6 markers to determine happiness in a country; GDP, social support, healthy life expectancy at birth, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perceptions of corruption. I think on a world scope, these markers are good to analyze. It takes into account the political and economic situations people exist in. I do have a problem with two of their markers… Freedom to make life choices and perceptions of corruption.
Why do I not like these two markers? It puts the blame of why one is not happy on someone else. You have the freedom to choose what you want. I am not naive about this, I understand that North Koreans don't have the same opportunities as Americans or Europeans… but that doesn't mean they aren't as happy. If all you knew was North Korea then maybe serving your country is all you desire in life. Maybe that is what makes you happy.
I am proposing a new method to measure one's happiness. How do I measure happiness? I would have to say I measure happiness from a combination of things.
How do you determine purpose? Ask yourself, if you could only do three things everyday what would those three things be? Remove the ideas of commitment and idea of money. Unlimited time, money, and resources. Purpose is the meaning to life. It is what keeps our lungs filled with air and the spark to keep our heart beating. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the fullest; how do you stack up?
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Blastomycosis is a disease caused by tiny spores of a fungus, Blastomyces dermatitidis commonly living in soil. Inhalation of the spores infects the lungs, initially producing fungal pneumonia. It can spread throughout the body, commonly infecting eyes, bones, skin, and lymph nodes. Twenty-five percent of dogs will die despite treatment, while twenty-five percent that respond well will relapse over the next year, requiring a second course of treatment with a ninety percent cure rate. Mortality rate is high in dogs with respiratory difficulty and severe disease. Dogs that recover are probably immune and reinfection is unlikely.
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- Infection in the lung can cause increased respiratory effort, coughing, exercise intolerance, fever, loss of appetite and weight loss. Lung inflammation can get worse after treatment begins because of the release of products from dead organisms.
- Bone involvement often cause lameness.
- Skin involvement results in ulcerated lesions and draining abscesses.
- Eye involvement result in red, painful eyes with discharge.
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- A Microscopic examination performed from skin lesions or lymph nodes
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- Fungal infections that do not improve with antibiotic treatments are suggestive of blastomycosis.
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- After treatment, diseased tissue examined for reoccurrence. Chest or bone radiographs may be retaken depending on infection.
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João, > This might be a stupid idea, but what if we had a Wiki with a couple of > articles that we could use to write down important topics, being one of > those articles something like "what is being worked on and who's behind > it" with links to the SVN ? I think this would reinforce communication, > encourage teamwork and reduce some frustration. The downside is that > normally I don't see wikis being updated often... > What do you think? > > João Saleiro > @joaosaleiro Sounds great. I think we can request a wiki for the project (if that's not already been done). Rui
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: My Abusive Ex Used My Life Experiences for His Comic
I logged onto Tumblr and realized I'd never unfollowed him when I saw a familiar scene.
I've always been prone to getting sick. This trend started when I was a toddler and continued right on and up into adulthood. I was on antibiotics at least once a year for infection, and the flu had been known to leave me bedridden for over a week at a time. It was bad enough that my mother and I had started investigating National Institutes of Health studies on compromised immune systems.At 18, I started to get ear infections once or twice a year. My throat would swell up, making it hard to eat or drink anything, and I'd get a fever. Since I didn't have insurance, I'd make a trip to a walk-in clinic where they would give me antibiotics and tell me to head to the ER if I found myself unable to breathe.
I was 20 when the same symptoms cropped back up, except this time they were accompanied by severe nausea. While I'd managed to get back onto my mother's insurance, I was used to this illness and headed to the clinic. That plan was quickly derailed, though, when I pulled over to vomit and saw the black and green crud that had been inside of me.I panicked and headed directly to the hospital. I drove to the closest ER as fast as I could, trying not to hyperventilate the entire time. A physician's assistant did my intake, and sent me for a CAT scan while a few nurses pumped me full of meds.
The CAT scan showed what they thought was an abscess in my throat. I was scheduled for emergency surgery first thing in the morning, and my mom, who was a nurse at this hospital, came to keep me company.
I was wheeled into and out of surgery with no issues. It was after the surgery that things took a turn. My surgeon came into my room to explain how everything had gone and said the words no post-op patient wants to hear: "I've got good news and bad news."
The good news was that there was no longer any kind of infection in my throat, and that I hadn't had an abscess. The bad news: my tonsils were necrotic. As in, dead. In the back of my throat. One was 70% dead, and the other over 30% dead. I immediately started referring to them as "zombie tonsils."
They would have removed them while I was under anesthesia, except that my white blood cell count was ridiculously low. We're talking the white blood cell count of a late-stage cancer patient. Suddenly, the fact that I was always sick wasn't so surprising. My body had been so intent on fighting off the infection in my tonsils, it wasn't able to deal with anything else.
We scheduled a procedure to get rid of my tonsils for six weeks later. I was instructed to stick to softer foods and given a prescription for amoxicillin. I'd be choking down 1000mg a day until it was time for surgery. On top of that, I also had to visit a hematologist — that's a blood doctor — to make sure there wasn't any other reason for my lowered white blood cell count.
A month later, I went into an outpatient procedure and had my tonsils removed. The surgery itself was a super-easy, and I was in and out within two hours. The recovery however, was an entirely different story. It was a huge shock to my system, and it was a month before I was even close to being back on my feet.
The thing they don't tell you about getting your tonsils out is that, as an adult, it's actually a pretty big deal. It was beyond excruciating. I had to take a dose of pain meds every four hours, and if I missed a dose by even a few minutes, it felt like I was dying.
After the first week, I dozed in and out of consciousness while staying on my best friend's couch. This phase lasted nearly four weeks. I still don't remember most of that July. What I do remember is talking to my friends via notes, because I sounded so strange when I tried to talk.
I slowly got to mending, and by that August I was back to my old self — except that I suddenly had an actual working immune system for the first time in my life. It meant that, at 21, I finally got to enjoy my winter instead of spending it trying to avoid anyone who'd been exposed to the flu.
In the end I got really, really lucky. If I hadn't been back on my mother's health insurance, this surgery could have bankrupted me. I remember panicking on pain meds on how I would pay for the surgery when I barely had a job. But because I'd been put back on my mom's insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act, it meant that instead of thousands of dollars, I owed $200 plus the co-pay for my follow up appointments.
I was told that I'd probably been getting recurring tonsillitis for years, not ear infections, and that if I'd had the ability to go into a primary care physician instead of a walk-in clinic, it's something that probably could have been dealt with without having to resort to surgery. I was so angry with myself. The various clinic doctors I visited during my years without health insurance had no way to know that this was a recurring problem, and without that knowledge they couldn't give me an accurate diagnosis.Your health is important, especially when you're young. If you think something is going on, talk to your doctor and advocate for yourself. This is especially true if your doctor doesn't have a full medical history. It's also the reason that when you go to see your physician, you need to be forthcoming about your medical history. They can't help you — like they couldn't help me — if they don't know there's an ongoing problem.


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Casarena is forging a different path from the other wineries in Mendoza. Instead of searching for undiscovered terroirs in new places like the Uco Valley, it is discovering the hidden gems in its home region of Lujan de Cuyo—a place full of rich tradition, potential, and unique micro-terroirs. Casarena has purchased as well as planted vineyards in several distinctive sites, and they control all aspects of winegrowing and winemaking in order to maximize the flavor expression of these terroirs.
The name "Casarena" is a creative merging of the Spanish words "casa" (house) and "arena" (sand), and is a tribute to their restored 1930s winery made of sand-colored stone and the sandy soil that their estate is built on.
Around the Winery
Casarena is rewriting the story of Luján de Cuyo by discovering hidden gems and by focusing on terroir diversity in its estate vineyards.
A young, rising star in the Argentine winemaking world, Mariano recently joined the Casarena team in his native Mendoza after spending several years in Salta as the head winemaker for El Porvenir. He was named "Young Winemaker of the Year" at the Gaucho Annual Winemaker Awards in the UK. Mariano's mission is to let the Lujan de Cuyo terroir speak naturally through his wines, and he brings fresh innovation to what is new and exciting in Argentina.


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Hello Everybody!
I have been involved recently in a rather exciting project drawing lots of people whom I don't know personally, and I decided it was time to draw somebody whom I think I actually do know:
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On the verge of the latest game-changing upcoming update on Grand Theft Auto Online - I still cannot forget the original story, so this is my version of evasive and yet cheerful Michael, ready for action Franklin and the fearless owner of "Trevor Philips Industries" - Mr. Philips himself.
And here they are, back together, open for any possible stroke of luck that future will bring them.
This is the first part of a Christmas surprise for ❤ my other half, ❤ The Damned Brotherhood,
❤ Rockstar Games and everybody who loves and enjoys ❤ Grand Theft Auto V.
❤ Rockstar Games and everybody who loves and enjoys ❤ Grand Theft Auto V.
These characters are all hand-drawn digitally and based on in-game protagonists.
This is a personal project. Brands of Grand Theft Auto are property of Rockstar Games and its partners. Artwork property of W_Flemming.
Thanks for having a look!
Enjoy, merry GTA Online update to all and Happy Holidays to everybody!
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➤ to stop looking around in our external environment for proof
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On social media, moods are represented by irreverent, relatable imagery. We're not sure what it is about that GIF of a sloth that so perfectly encapsulates how we're feeling at that particular moment—we just know that for some reason it totally does. For Target's Fall 2016 TV campaign, we used meme-like GIFs to create funny, ephemeral moments inspired by the core essence of the favorite hashtag #Vibes evoking an emotion related to specific priority and cross-aisle products.
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Hostile Words
Regardless of whether you use Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, or maybe all three: I'm sure that all of us have read a public comment, a post or a tweet with mean and hurtful content. And probably not only once, but many, many times. Hateful and hurtful words are becoming increasingly normal on social media and online communities, simultaneously legitimised by and legitimating the hateful political speeches we have seen in almost all of the most recent election campaigns.
Blaming that intangible and yet omnipresent entity called the Social Network for not doing enough is just an easy and dangerous shortcut because, as linguists know, a word is not good or bad on its own: its context is the key to understanding its deeper and real meaning, as well as its speaker's real intention.
When it comes to attitudes on social networks, the only solution seems to be educating people on how to express an opinion without aggression or insulting others and how to avoid being dragged into the spiral of written violence and anger that some posts seem to create.
This was the aim of the workshop Parole_Ostili (Hostile_Words) that took place in Trieste on the 17th and 18th of February, 2017. The most important outcome of the event was the Manifesto for non-hostile communication: a very interesting document written by an online community proposing 10 principles (The Ten Commandments 2.0) that every internet user should keep in mind to foster respectful and peaceful relations on social networks.
- Virtual is real.
I say or write only things that I would say in person.
- What we say is what we are.
The words I choose reveal the person I am: they represent me.
- Words express thoughts.
I take as much time as I need to find the best way to express what I think.
- We need to listen before speaking.
Nobody is always right, and I am no exception. I listen honestly and with an open mind.
- Words are bridges.
I choose my words to understand, to be understood, to become closer to others.
- Words have consequences.
I know that every word I use can have big or small consequences.
- Sharing is not an innocent action.
I only share texts and images that I read, evaluate and understand.
- Ideas can be discussed.
People must be respected. I don't turn people with different opinions into enemies to destroy.
- Insults are not arguments.
I don't accept insults, not even those supporting my opinion.
- Silence speaks.
When silence is the best answer, I don't say or write anything.
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Last year wasn't the first time that Commonwealth, a sneaker boutique founded in 2004 with locations in Virginia and Washington, D.C., did a sneaker collaboration, but its "Gemini" ASICS Gel-Lyte V made the store's presence known on an international scale. The two-toned navy runners, which had a reverse effect on the left and right sneakers, were viewed as one of the best collaborations of the year and instantly made the shop's name a buzz word in the global scene. Six months have passed now since the "Gemini" was released, and now Commonwealth is looking to follow up its success with another pair of Gel-Lyte Vs, this time taking inspiration from something ancient, too — Leonadro da Vinci.
Viewed as a true Renaissance man, da Vinci's life wasn't unlike many of today's youth who try to tackle multiple pursuits. A lot of people wear multiple hats — even if they're not changing the world with everything they do — just like the Italian painter, inventor, and engineer. "[The sneaker] started off with the observation of today's youth and young professionals," Omar Quiambao, co-founder of Commonwealth, says. "How everyone has diverse interests and are able to excel at different types of jobs/positions at once, i.e. designer/DJ/photgrapher/waiter. Basically modern day 'Renaissance' people, hence using da Vinci as the inspiration."
The old world of da Vinci's sketches and work is channeled through multiple panels that use earth tones such as brown, tan, and charcoal, and it translates to a similar vibe of the "Gemini," in part thanks to a leather toe box that's balanced with suede accents. For everyone who dug the previous release, the "da Vinci" is the follow up they've been waiting for, and working with ASICS has been able to push Commonwealth forward. "We've always had great collaborative product releases, so [there's no] external pressure at all [to follow up the "Gemini]," Quiambao says. "After the 'Gemini' release, we learned that our customer base is open to pushing the envelope. Ultimately we try to create product we're happy with that connects with the independent mindset of our fan base."
At first, however, there might have been some resistance to Commonwealth taking risks on its first collaboration. The shop wasn't the first to mix-match the colorblocking on right and left sneakers, but it's still seen as jarring every time it's executed. That's why it's important that if this technique is done, that it's done tastefully and the right way. And Commonwealth was able to accomplish that on the "Gemini." "Some consumers thought the "Gemini" project was a little weird because of the materials being flip flopped, but they ended up really liking it on foot," Quiambao says. "After our first project with ASICS, we seem to be on the radar with a lot of new consumers and brands who may have not been aware of our 10-year history as a premier boutique retailer."
Now that Commonwealth has helped itself cultivate a larger audience through its prior collab, the "Da Vinci" won't be slept on by those who are unfamiliar with the shop. And it has something special planned to coincide with this project, something that Quiambao hopes will be part of this collaboration. "Since the colors were inspired by the sepia tones in Da Vinci's sketches, we developed a custom sketchpad to help strengthen that theme," he says. "Hopefully we receive them in time to package them inside the shoe boxes."
The wait for the "Da Vinci" shouldn't be too long, either, as it's slated to drop on Saturday, March 21, at Commonwealth with a retail price of $170.


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At the turn of the 21st century, the world seemed to be dividing along technological lines. On the one side were bits: the fast, flexible elements of digital information, flashing at the speed of light across rapidly expanding communication networks and enabling thrilling new virtual worlds of communication, commerce and entertainment.
On the other side were atoms, the traditional building blocks of the old economies. Atoms were slow and difficult to handle, it required effort to shape them into useful products and machines, but the techniques required to do that work were mature and well understood. The main challenge, it seemed, was finding cheaper, easier ways to do that work.
Of course, the separation between the digital and physical economies was always a false one. The digital world is firmly rooted in the physical. Even the smartest smartphones and supercomputers rely on mining equipment to pull their constituent materials from the ground, machines to shape their components and ships, trucks and aircraft to reach customers.
And the companies that build those machines have used digital data for as long as it has been available: equipping their production lines with robots and automated machinery, designing and analyzing products using smart computer systems and scheduling production with sophisticated planning systems.
Today, however, the maturity and uptake of digital technologies in manufacturing is accelerating dramatically, precipitating a change significant enough to earn its own title: the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0.
It's a revolution built not on one idea, but many. Consultancy McKinsey & Company highlights four major disruptions: a significant rise in data volumes, computational power and connectivity; the emergence of sophisticated data analytics capabilities; new forms of human-machine interaction and improvements in the way digital instructions are transferred to the physical world.
Internet of things
The connectivity part of Industry 4.0 has its own buzz-phrase: The internet of things, or IoT. The term refers to the ability of once "dumb" devices, from light bulbs to machine tools, to communicate across digital networks, transmitting information on their own state, and reacting to instructions from computers and other connected devices.
For manufacturers, IoT technologies offer a host of potential benefits: monitoring the health of machines on the factory floor, tracking the location of products as they move through the supply chain, or delivering new insights into the reliability and performance of products once they are in customers' hands. Consultancy A.T. Kearney forecasts that by 2020 IoT devices will outnumber "traditional" connected devices by two to one, helping to improve global productivity by almost two trillion dollars.
Business customers want the same level of speed and flexibility as consumer supply chains.
Data alone isn't enough to deliver better products or more reliable, efficient processes. Companies also need the ability to transform that data into useful information. That's where analytics come into play. A range of new techniques has evolved to take advantage of the ability of powerful computer systems to rapidly crunch huge quantities of data.
In manufacturing applications, from mining to semiconductors, companies are using advanced statistical methods and machine-learning algorithms to reveal hidden relationships between inputs, such as process temperatures, pressures and raw material composition, and outputs, like quality and yield. They are using these insights to fine-tune their processes, squeezing extra performance out of their operations.
Data analysis capabilities are also helping manufacturers extend their offerings through "servitization" – businesses built on the ongoing support of products once they are in customers' hands. Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of mining and construction equipment, has established a dedicated analytics and innovation unit, and invested in several technology startups. A key goal of its efforts is the development of predictive analytics that will help its customers squeeze more value out of their equipment, for example by detecting wear and damage in components, allowing machines to work for longer between maintenance overhauls while reducing the occurrence of breakdowns in the field.
Digital information is already making its way to the factory floor, on touchscreen machine control interfaces and tablet computers. The latest systems can fine-tune the information presented to staff based on its context. Diagnostic systems for maintenance technicians can provide step-by-step instructions for testing a faulty machine, for instance, and automatically recommend additional tests or mitigating actions based on the results.
U.S. aircraft maker Boeing has piloted the use of augmented reality glasses and voice commands to guide workers assembling complex wiring harnesses. The project, developed with software company Upskill (formerly APX Labs), cut harness assembly time by 25 percent while reducing the errors. The company is now exploring opportunities to roll out similar technologies in other production areas.
Driverless trucks
Advanced digital technologies are also changing the way companies think about machines. In part, that's because machines are becoming more capable, allowing them to take on more work that once required human input. In the mining sector, Rio Tinto has introduced a fleet of 69 driverless trucks at three iron ore mines in Pilbara, Western Australia. The vehicles move millions of tons of ore every year, working 24 hours a day under the supervision of a team of controllers working more than 1,000 kilometers away in Perth. The company is also using driverless trains and automated drilling machines.
Fully automated "lights-out" factories are still rare, but they are becoming an ambition for a growing number of manufacturers. In Japan, robot maker FANUC already uses its own robots to build versions of themselves without direct human assistance. Camera maker Canon is investing more than $100 million to fully automate its own Japanese factories by 2018, a move designed to cut production costs by up to 20 percent.
Machines are becoming more flexible, too, as companies such as Siemens seek to build a "digital factory" that can reconfigure itself rapidly to meet changes in customer demand. Robots and computer-controlled machine tools can be programmed to make different parts every cycle, for example, reducing batch sizes and easing the introduction of new product variants or improvements.
One of the most radical ways that the digital and physical worlds are merging is 3D printing – or additive layer manufacturing – a process that allows complex shapes to be produced by fusing materials, including liquid polymers and powdered metals, into precise shapes. Once reserved for prototype parts due to its high costs and relatively slow speed, the technology has advanced to the point where it is increasingly being used in serial production.
CFM LEAP aircraft engines, produced by a collaboration between GE and Snecma, will each use 19 3D-printed fuel nozzles. GE says the technology offers a host of advantages, including a 25-percent weight reduction, a reduction in components per nozzle from 18 to one, and improved durability in service thanks to an intricate arrangement of cooling channels and reinforcements enabled by the manufacturing technique. By 2020, GE Aviation says it will have manufactured more than 100,000 parts using 3D printing techniques.
Elsewhere in the aerospace sector Airbus is also adopting additive layer manufacturing techniques in a number of areas, such as producing engine pylon components for the A320neo developmental aircraft.
Huge opportunity
Together, the widespread adoption of these trends is expected to deliver a significant boost to the manufacturing sector. BCG, a consultancy, expects Industry 4.0 to increase manufacturing sector revenues in Germany by €30 billion ($32 billion) a year, for example, equivalent to 1 percent of the country's GDP. The same analysis suggests that manufacturing productivity, excluding the cost of raw materials, could rise by 15 to 25 percent. Industry 4.0 is also a huge opportunity for the engineering companies that make the components, software and machines these new approaches require. BCG suggests that German industry will need to invest around €250 billion ($270 billion) over the next ten years to reap the promised benefits.
The potential of these new opportunities is so great that many of the world's biggest engineering companies have made digital and Industry 4.0 a central part of their business strategies. Engineering giant GE, for example, now describes itself as a "digital industrial company." The company has appointed a Chief Digital Officer in each of its businesses, while its IoT and analytics arm GE Digital achieved $5 billion in revenues in 2015, and is targeting $15 billion by 2020.
Similarly, alongside its traditional focus on electrification, Siemens has made automation and "digitalization" the central pillars of its strategy for the next five years. The German company is partnering with 3D-printing specialist Stratasys, for example, to develop software and hard tools that allow additive manufacturing to be more easily integrated into larger production systems.
The impact of digital technologies will inevitably touch companies' logistics processes, too. 3D printing and other flexible manufacturing techniques encourage companies to move towards the on-demand manufacture of products and components, and those objects need to reach their end customers as quickly as possible.
That has implications for network footprints, encouraging companies to move certain production applications closer to their customers, perhaps turning inventory-holding locations into production sites. It is also driving up demand for fast delivery services.
"Business-to-business customers increasingly want the same level of speed and flexibility they have become used to in consumer supply chains," says Reg Kenney, President, DHL Engineering and Manufacturing. "That's driving up the use of air freight and express services in engineering supply chains."
Challenges remain
Significant challenges remain, however. The very nature of digital disruption makes it hard for engineering and manufacturing companies to decide where to invest time, energy and money. To reap the full benefits of Industry 4.0 requires seamless data connections right across the manufacturing supply chain, but the digital revolution is happening so fast, efforts are being focused on small, isolated areas.
"When we talk to our engineering and manufacturing customers, many of them say they are still grappling with the implications of big data and digitization," says Kenney. "Many companies are only making use of a small fraction of the data they hold now, and there are issues of data quality, and of finding enough people with the analytical skills needed to make these systems work."
There are more pragmatic problems, too, such as deciding how ownership and access to data is shared across the supply chain. Should data on the performance of a production machine belong to the company that runs it, for example, or the OEM that built and maintains it? Making better use of data that spans complex supply chains is an area of particular interest for DHL, says Kenney, and the company is launching an Analytics Lab, based in Singapore, to explore opportunities to help customers make better decisions based on complex data analytics. — Jonathan Ward
Published: February 2017
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We are on a mission! At pixelart, our customers become our partners. We cooperate closely on the creation of unique digital brand experiences. We develop, customise and implement digital strategies for the commercial benefit of our partners. It is our aim to stay one step ahead, to set the pace and create the trends. That's our DIGITAL BENCHMARK.
Today, pixelart is a Salzburg agency that provides a complete range of digital services. It has won numerous awards throughout Europe and now employs 60 extremely talented specialists. Core emphasis is on the perfect interplay of strategy, technology, content, marketing and design. Our technology network includes commercetools, Adobe, Magnolia and Marketo.
This technological armoury, and the passion generated by the best online projects around, is what enables pixelart to create such a wide variety of premium digital, web and eCommerce solutions for large brands and businesses. pixelart is one of Austria's leading digital agencies and is enjoying ongoing success in the service of SPAR, Josko, COPA-DATA, Star Movie, Hervis, MIETSKI.com, Siemens, Salzburg AG, Carrera Rennbahnen, Palfinger, Löffler and Gallbauer Catering.


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Innography Blog
Archived posts from 2016
2016 Says Good Bye to These Patents
Over 14,000 patents relating to holiday decor/accessories have been filed across the globe over the years. As the year comes to an end, so too do the active dates of several patents. Here are a few of the more interesting holiday-themed patents that expired in 2016.
Categories: patent analysis, patent search, patent strategy, patents
Patents Gone Wild: The Twisted IP Version of Christmas
It wouldn't be Christmas without a song that contains a series of increasingly grand gifts given twelve days before the big day. The song, published in England in 1780, seems a little out-of-date. I mean, really who needs twelve drummers drumming alongside seven swans swimming around?! Lucky for us, hair metal band Twisted Sister dropped a holiday album, A Twisted Christmas, in 2006. The band recorded a re-imagined version filled with heavy metal references called Heavy Metal Christmas.
Categories: advanced patent search, patent analysis, patent search, patents
Personal Tales of Innovation: Impossible things….
One of my buddies used to say "America was built by salesmen and engineers." I think there's a good argument for that. Edison and the light bulb, Bell and the telephone, Ford and mass production, the Wright brothers and flight, just to name a few. You can find books written on these endeavors. But there are many patents that exist that are not known or studied, but that have commercial impact. Finding stories about those is a little tougher. As an Engineer, I took part in creating several of those commercially successful patents. Here's one of them, where my team worked a persistent problem that no one else had cracked.
Categories: intellectual property management, ip strategies
Inventor Normalization: The New Normal
It's the nature of the beast. Patent documents from different countries are plagued with dirty data. And the more active the company, with patents, or inventor activity, the higher the likelihood for varied spellings and the dirtier it inevitably gets.
Categories: advanced patent search, big data, data correction, data correlation, ip strategies, patent portfolio analysis, patent strategy, r&d strategies
Voting Booth Technology: The Intellectual Property Behind Your Vote
With the recent excitement of the party conventions and the upcoming United States Presidential election fast approaching this November, I began thinking about recent innovations in voting security and access in voting booth technology. I thought I'd take a quick look at this using Innography's Advanced Analysis.
Categories: advanced patent search, application trends, patent analysis, patent filing trends, patent search, patents
The Struggle is Officially Over: Say Hello to PortfolioIQ
The launch of PortfolioIQ signifies the end of an era. Your internal information and public patent data can now be together, in a single platform.
Categories: advanced patent search, big data, data correlation, industry outlooks, intellectual property management, ip strategies, patent analysis, patent portfolio analysis, patent strategy, technology forecasts
[Infographic] The Future of IP is Here and Now
Today's IP world is more connected, integrated, and collaborative than ever before, and will only become increasingly so as it becomes more and more intertwined with—and even driven by—technology. For those who embrace it all, opportunity is abound. Get this infographic to see if you're headed in the right direction.
Categories: industry outlooks, intellectual property management, ip strategies
Patents Gone Wild: Stranger Patents
There was no escaping the office water-cooler-talk about this summer's thriller, Stranger Things, an 8-episode Netflix-original drama set in 1983 in a small Indiana town. The main character, Will, is a 12-year-old boy who has gone missing, sending his mom and friends on a terrifying, supernatural-filled investigation. Covering everything from secret government experiments to aliens, the series is a science-fiction buff's dream, inspiring nerdy debates near and far. Using Innography, let's find the 'stranger' side of patents and applications!


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Link: Nintendo's Wii to provide news
Rabid video gamers could get some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launches an online news service through its popular Wii console. The Wii News Channel, scheduled to debut Saturday, will primarily feature top news stories and photographs from The Associated Press.
Consoles with a broadband Internet connection and the Opera Web browser will be able to access the free news channel, which will offer AP news in multiple languages. Japanese-language news will come from a separate agency.
There were no immediate plans to sell advertising space, said Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo's U.S. headquarters in Redmond.
News will be displayed through an interactive map, which users can navigate with the Wii's wireless controller, Kaplan said.
"The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world," she said. "So if you really want to focus on regional news or national news versus international, you just blow up the map of the U.S."
Even as a rabid news junkie, I am not sure if the Wii is where I want to get my news, but I'm looking forward to playing with this, at least. Maybe Daddy can watch the news while my young gaming comrade is having in-between-game potty breaks or something.


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Hungry and lost in the forest, Hansel and Gretel stumble upon a house made of delicious confections and find themselves welcomed by a witch whose keen interest in them has sinister motives. Filled with bluebirds, deer and gingerbread men, Alan Hineline's adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale is the perfect adventure for the entire family!
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Rosie Danvers and Wired Strings have collaborated with hit makers, Sigma, on their new single featuring Take That!
The song is called 'Cry' and it sure to be a massive Summer anthem.
Strings Arranged by Rosie Danvers and performed by Wired Strings, string session producer Tommy D. Track produced by Sigma, Engineered by Jason Elliot and Recorded at British Grove Studios, London, April 2016.
Rosie Danvers, Wired Strings, Take That & Sigma after recording their new single 'CRY' at British Grove Studios, London, April 2016.
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Have you ever asked yourself how to automatically remove all NaNs (not a number) in all variables in the workspace automatically? Here is a small MATLAB script for this.
I often had the problem that I had a lot of variables of different types and dimensions in the workspace, which contain either NaN or another no data identifier to identify data gaps. If you want to use this data with other software tools, such as ArcGIS, NaNs must be replaced by other no-data identifiers. The other way round, if you work with digital terrain models (such as the SRTM data set, see Chapter 7.5 of the MRES book), you have to place -32768 (i.e. the lowest possible value of data of the signed integer 16 bit or int16 format) by NaNs in order to use them with MATLAB. As an example, we first create some random variables with NaNs:
clear A = rand(3,3); A(2,1) = NaN; BC = rand(2,4); BC(2,2) = NaN; DE = rand(1,2); DE(1,1) = NaN; FG = rand(3,2); FG(2,2) = NaN; HJ = 'A character array';
We can display the value of the variables in the Command Window by typing
resulting in the output
A = 0.9797 0.2581 0.2622 NaN 0.4087 0.6028 0.1111 0.5949 0.7112 BC = 0.2217 0.2967 0.4242 0.0855 0.1174 NaN 0.5079 0.2625 DE = NaN 0.0292 FG = 0.9289 0.5785 0.7303 NaN 0.4886 0.4588 HJ = A character array
Here is the script to replace all NaNs by the value -999. It first stores the list of variables from the output of who in the array variables. Then it uses eval to execute the MATLAB expression in the variable names, i.e. it gets the values of the variables by calling them, and stores the variables in the array v. Then it locates the NaNs using isnan and replaces the NaNs by -999. Then it assigns the new arrays to the variables variables. Finally it displays the new values of the variables using eval.
variables = who; for i = 1 : size(variables,1) v = eval(variables{i}); v(isnan(v)==1) = -999; assignin('base',variables{i},v); eval(variables{i}) end
resulting in the output
A = 0.1690 0.6477 0.2963 -999.0000 0.4509 0.7447 0.7317 0.5470 0.1890 BC = 0.6868 0.3685 0.7802 0.9294 0.1835 -999.0000 0.0811 0.7757 DE = -999.0000 0.4359 FG = 0.4468 0.5108 0.3063 -999.0000 0.5085 0.7948 HJ = A character array
You can use the script to replace any other value by another value.


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A few seeds every week get sown, mainly radish outdoors each Sunday in a window box to ensure a few are available for harvest each week from April to November. Every couple of days, I would lay a few mung bean seeds in a 'sprouter' on the kitchen windowsill so I always have some fresh bean sprouts at the ready for the sandwiches and salad. Some lettuce seeds went in in February and other sowings will be made from time to time up to September, again to extend availability and avoid gluts.
However each spring the kitchen garden requires what could be called the 'BIG SOW'. This is when the bulk of annual flowers, veg and herb seeds are sown under glass and as they fill out in the seedtrays, out they go to grow on outdoors. Last year, the 'BIG SOW' was done on the 21st March, but with the shocking cold winter and late spring (not to mention other distractions in my life!), the 'BIG SOW' this year took place last Sunday evening 18th April. However Mother Nature can be kind hearted (volcanoes aside!) and seedlings have a way of putting on a spurt of growth as temperatures rise so all in all no need to panic if you still have to sow seeds this spring. Just read the instructions on the seed packets and get sowing.
Every gardener develops a system which suits the local situation. For what it is worth this is my system. My lean-to greenhouse (the one which looks like a phone box!) has five removeable shelves. Each shelf fits two seedtrays. Each seedtray fits 24 cubes of organic potting compost. Each cube is a growing module for a seedling to develop. I hope to grow 2 types of seed variety in each seedtray – so 12 seedlings of each variety is my optimum yield. Therefore, with 10 seedtrays on 5 shelves, I have just enough space to sow 20 different varieties of flowers, veg and herbs. So here goes……
1 a: Nicotiana (Affinis) – nice aroma to keep me and the pollinating bees and other beneficial insects happy.
1 b: Love-in-a-Mist – never grew it before so I'm curious and again I hope the pollinating insects like it.
2 a: Cosmos (C0smea) – like mini sunflowers but multi-coloured and bees liked it last year.
2 b: Gypsophilia (Elegans) – tall like Cosmos and useful for filling out cut flower bunches.
3 a: Night Scented Stock – a wonderful scent at its best after dark which suits my crazy schedule for night gardening.
3 b: Nasturtium (Organic Mix) – Is it a flower or a food? Both really as colourful flowers and leaves have peppery taste.
4 a: Calendula (Pot Marigold) – Attractive small plant but friendly bugs like it so helps protect tomatoes from aphids.
4 b: Sunflower (Russian Mammoth) – A touch of 'wow' factor if they grow tall as expected plus birds & bees love them.
5 a: Beetroot (Detroit Globe) – 12 beetroot won't be enough but I'll sow more as I love it cooked, bottled or grated raw.
5 b: Leaf Beet (Rainbow Chard) – ultimate decorative vegetable and I love beet leaves steamed withgrated nutmeg.
6 a: Courgette (Gold Rush) – Bright yellow, change from green. These grow in same bags after spud harvest in June.
6 b: Tomato (Brandywine) – Again, first try but a big tasty beef tomato sounds mouth watering with basil and olive oil.
7 a: Basil (Sweet Genovese) – I can never have too much basil. These pampered seedlings will stayed potted indoors.
7 b: Coriander – A lovely useful herb but yearns for sun so another one for pampering in the greenhouse.
8 a: Ragged Jack Kale – Cannot be found in shops but prolific so thank God for generous organic seed-saving friends!
8 b: Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli – takes space but Minister Mary White grows it so I'm curious to find out why!
9 a: Mange Tout (Sweet Green) – Corny name perhaps but beats airfreighting these tasty morsels from Kenya.
9 b: Garden Pea (Rondo) – Haven't tried these before but worth a go as hard to find in shops at any time these days.
10a: Salad Rocket – The peppery rocket leaves transform a salad, look good and grow well even in shade.
10b: Mizuna – A Japanese salad which is new to me so thanks to Denise at The Herb Garden for the organic seeds.
All that remains now is to keep the seedtrays moist but not too wet for fear of seeds rotting as happened with a previous batch of tomato seeds which were sown too early. If I'm to do that again, I will need a heated propogator. I'm on the look out for one. If you can suggest any stockists, I'd be grateful.


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Each game is written to allow a certain amount of players in a session at once. You may be in a session with other people you do not know. The entire group is on the same team working together to escape before the room "self destructs". The session does not have to be full to run, all sessions will run with a minimum of 2 with the exception of Area 52 that requires 4 players and maximum is dependent on which game.
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"From Eating Well. I use real garlic roasted with the veggies instead of powder and sweet potato instead of squash. Great served with a salad."
Roasted Winter Vegetables With Cheesy Polenta
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- 4 cups cauliflower florets, chopped
- 4 cups butternut squash, peeled and cubed (1 1/2-inch chunks)
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper, divided
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1⁄2 cups vegetable broth or 2 1⁄2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 3⁄4 cup cornmeal
- 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary or 1⁄2 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 2⁄3 cup parmesan cheese, finely shredded
- Preheat oven to 500°F.
- Toss cauliflower, squash and onion in a large bowl with oil, garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and salt. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast, stirring once, until tender and browned in spots, 25 to 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine broth and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Slowly whisk in cornmeal, rosemary and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper until smooth. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until very thick and creamy, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in cheese; remove the polenta from the heat. Serve the vegetables over the polenta.
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One of the things I enjoy about photographing in the Big Woods is the compositional challenge it presents. With so much random clutter and chaos all around you, it can be difficult seeing your way through to your composition. Yesterday I set an additional challenge for myself on my hike at the Wood-Rill Scientific and Natural Area. Normally, I put the 28mm f/1.8G prime lens on my D800 when setting out for the woods. This time I decided to use the 85mm f/1.8G lens. I practiced what I have taken to calling deep stacking. What I mean by this is that you work your composition through the entire image, front to back.
There is something about the repeating lines and the softening as you move to the back of the image that I find really intriguing. The challenge is in providing separation where you need it and in composing essentially in three dimensions. To be honest, I'm not sure whether it works in both these images. I think it's one of those things that needs some time to settle in. I do find that over time, my thoughts about certain images evolves, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
What I do know is that I had a lot of fun using the 85mm f/1.8G lens in the woods. It was a new way of seeing in the woods for me. I'm going to keep working it.
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Bull ridin', drinkin' like you're in college, and average pub fare at this country-style bar in SoNo
Over the summer I was invited—along with other area food writers and bloggers—to Johnny Utah's in South Norwalk to sample their new menu of "BBQ," Burgers, and Shakes. I was there that night to specifically write about their Super Shakes but wanted to share my food experience and talk about restaurant's overall vibe as well, and right here on Food Dudes.
If you've never been, I would find that damn near impossible. You will inevitably end up there for something; football, dancing, live music, a high school reunion, or a bad decision at the end of a weekend night. No, seriously, even when it was Black Bear it was THAT place, it still is, and that's not a bad thing, but we should all do things in moderation, right?
But still, if you REALLY HAVE NOT BEEN, the best way to describe it is…Texas. Think country western, with hot waitresses wearing booty shorts, and a mechanical bull that's made for the sole purpose of throwing off drunkards daily. It's fun to participate, but it's funny as fuck to watch college kids with a bladder full of Miller Lite go airborne off this great beast. It's an invention for the ages and that's not even sarcastic. If you go with your friends, you'll love it.
The food here is generally average with a few highlights, but overall it isn't bad if you're there or need something to pair with your Red Bull & vodka. For apps, you can't go wrong with the sweet and equally spicy chili. I've had it twice and not everyone will agree but I dig it. If you need a crispy, greasy item, the Onion Tumbleweeds (more like onion strings) are a must. They're addictive, best had with a beer, and they are some of my favorite deep fried onions around here.
When it was time to test some "BBQ," that's where things fell off a bit. The ribs aren't smoked, instead they're more like crock pot/slow cooked style, so I missed the smokiness and the crisp layer of bark achieved from the dry rub when cooked in a smoker. They're tender, they practically fall off the bone, they're covered in a tangy sauce, and if that's your thing, you'll enjoy them.
A bunch of burgers came out next and they were just OK. Some were cartoonishly big and could be tempting on a drunken night when calories don't count. A few, however, like the mushroom & Swiss and the bacon, egg, and cheese burger have potential with a little more seasoning and a little less cooking time. For burger enthusiasts, medium rare to medium is ideal, but I understand that it was a busy night and there were a lot of media in the house.
The milkshakes are doable, and there's an outside chance you could polish off solo if you're into sweets like that. They're also a bit extreme, and silly, but it's tough to mess up a cookies & cream shake, even with all the frosting, whole cookies, and other bells and whistles. We were all stuffed by this point so a sip or two of each was all we could manage. The peanut buttery Payday candy bar shake was another hit shake with the group.
If you go to Johnny Utah's, you'll likely have a great time, but the food may not be spot-on perfect, but I'm not sure it's supposed to be. They're probably not seeking a Michelin Star, and if you go you shouldn't be looking for one. Enjoy the atmosphere, the decent beer selection, and don't forget to ride the bull.
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