Monday, May 15, 2017

Wanna Cry More?? Where's That XP 'Kill Switch' ???

One person stopped it
Published on May 14, 2017
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The New Weapon of Mass Destruction, Bill Gates to the Rescue!!!
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Not Disclosed? YES, NAVY SEALS ACTUALLY HAVE “JET BOOTS” || WARTHOG 2017

[more than 600 operations] w many special applications outside of military operations. Price tag = $33,900 per unit... not bad for such a fine thing, huh?
Published on May 15, 2017
Views: 4.672
Navy SEALs and weapons super-tech go hand in hand. Naval Special Warfare Command spends big bucks leveraging emerging technologies and testing for real operations. Occassionally, the tech is deployed to the now legendary Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), more popularly known as SEAL Team Six.

SIKORSKY MAKING STRIDES WITH MATRIX AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY || WARTHOG 2017

[BlackHawk included, and Cessna Fixed-winged aircraft with no pilot, or 2-crew, or lots of passengers in the back.
EMS or night-time military ops or areas too dangerous. It's 'several years away' due to technical and cultural issues
Published on May 15, 2017
Views: 166
Work is continuing apace at Sikorsky Innovations on its Matrix Technology to enable autonomous and optionally piloted flight, as the manufacturer pursues both commercial certification and military qualification for the system.

Blame It On Politics: Who's The Boss? . . . Fault Lines Appear In The Mesa City Council

Some members of the Mesa City Council - including Mayor John Giles - appear to be crossing the line with respect to refraining from making public comments while a litigation is pending: Case-in-Point an incident one week ago when District 3 Council member Ryan Winkle was given a citation for the suspicion of driving under the influence.
Local mainstream media have had a field day splashing sensationalist headlines and releasing a police-cam video that might have prejudiced public perceptions ahead of the presentation of evidence in this case on June 14, 2017.
True that those in-the-public-eye usually do deservedly get more attention for misdemeanors and mistakes - and high regard and praise for the 'good things' they do - it is unusual and dis-honorable for professional public colleagues to publish in social and printed media possibly prejudicial remarks condemning Ryan Winkle in advance of misdemeanor charges that are pending. Whatever happened to the Presumption of Innocence?
Behavior while driving can be modified and rehabilited,
Apparently certain members of the Mesa City Council are reacting in public well in advance of pending traffic court actions showing a big split on the council based on their political motivations: so far it's only been John Giles District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson. 
The only voice of reason your MesaZona blogger finds in these circumspect circumstances is what the longest-serving member of the Mesa City Council, Dennis Kavanagh, who was succeeded by Winkle last year as the result of term limits, stating the obvious by chiming in on Sunday with a warning to his former colleagues not to overreact to the arrest.
“Our ethics code offers the city council a range of options it can consider when a member faces misconduct charges. Our ethics code permits the council to vote for censure, reprimand, suspension, monetary penalties as well as removal from office for specified reasons including conduct demonstrating a lack of fitness for office.”
Advocating a “progressive discipline approach,” Kavanaugh wrote:
“A councilmember's boss is not the mayor or the other members of the city council. The voters of District 3 are the ones who placed Ryan on the city council. They have the ability to recall the district council member after the first six months the official is in office and they have the ability to reject that official in the next election, should that member choose to run for re-election.”
“They should be the best judge of whether to remove the councilmember they elected. Remember, none of the other members of the current council, including the mayor, could cast a vote for or against Ryan in the 2016 election.”
Kavanagh's remarks are excerpted from this article written by Jim Walsh on May 15,2017 published in East Valley Tribune was updated 2 hours

Biological Therapies Jump in $5.2B Deal

Thermo Fisher Extends Binge With $5.2 Billion Patheon Deal
by
Ed Hammond
Aaron Kirchfeld
Source:    Bloomberg
The deals adds to the $22 billion in acquisitions announced by Thermo Fisher over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Patheon will bring not just any medicine ingredients, but the more complex and harder to produce type grown out of living cells. Such biological therapies are increasingly important to drugmakers facing intense competitive pressure, and companies that have pioneered the therapies are now turning to contractors like Patheon to manage costs or make production more efficient.
 “This is a large and high-growth market that opens up new opportunities for us,” Thermo Fisher Chief Executive Officer Marc Casper said on a conference call Monday.
 
Patheon's stock jumped to $34.73 before the U.S. markets opened on Monday. Through Friday, the shares had risen 24 percent since they were sold in an initial public offering in July at $21 each on the New York Stock Exchange. Thermo Fisher’s deal offers a quick post-IPO exit for buyout firm JLL Partners and Dutch vitamin company Royal DSM NV, Patheon’s two biggest shareholders. . . the shares of Thermo Fisher have more than tripled in the past five years, outperforming both the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and peers. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company, with a market value of more than $67 billion, now offers equipment, instruments and supplies to laboratories and medical research facilities and is a major player in technology used to sequence the human genome.
Including debt, the price comes to about $7.2 billion, Thermo Fisher said in a statement Monday. Thermo Fisher got committed debt financing from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for the deal, and expects to finance the purchase with debt of approximately $5.2 billion and equity of $2 billion. The transaction, expected to close by the end of the year, will boost Thermo Fisher’s earnings per share immediately, according to the statement.
[More details on the Bloomberg link with headline]
 

Shaking Up The Family Tree? . . . We Got Bones!

New Evidence of Mysterious Homo naledi Raises Questions about How Humans Evolved
The much-anticipated dating of the enigmatic species, along with stunning new fossils, challenge key assumptions about human evolution
By Kate Wong on May 10, 2017 in Scientific American
If and when we humans ever figure out how we developed on this entire Planet Earth and when and where our collective species evolved - a concept some people don't believe in - each new announcement in scientific anthropomorphic research seems to always get the pop-up headlines treatment.
Like this one published on May 10, 2017 where southern Africa is the 'hotbed of evolution diversification'. . . or so they say