Welcome to America: Poignant black and white pictures show the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York

• City of sweat shops, shanty towns and slums is an unrecognisable New York, captured, in black and white
• Shots provide a window into the squalor, deprivation and poverty of a bygone age

They may have headed to the ‘Land of the Free’ for a better life, but a set of poignant black and white pictures illustrate the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York.

The images captured by Jacob A. Riis provide a window into the squalor, deprivation and poverty of a bygone age.

The stark photos of sweat shops, shanty towns and slums provide an image of an unrecognisable city. 

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• Military scientists say new foam could save the lives of thousands of soldiers
• The expandable substance significantly reduces internal haemorrhaging
• This buys time while a soldier is taken to a field hospital
• The US military have handed biomaterial company Arsenal Medical £14million to develop the technology

It might look like the something you would use to fill in a cavity wall.

But military scientists say a new foam could save the lives of thousands of soldiers on the battlefield.

The foam can be pumped into the bodies of soldiers to stop them bleeding to death where they fall.

Foam protecting the organs and slowing internal bleeding quickly stabilises a wounded soldier and gets them off the battlefield

The amazing expandable substance significantly reduces internal haemorrhaging – buying seriously-injured troops enough time to be transported to a field hospital for medical care.

Early tests have shown a six-fold reduction in blood loss, and a dramatic increase in three-hour survival rates.

Researchers believe the new treatment could be saving the lives of British service personnel on the battlefield within two years.

The state-of-the-art technique involves injecting two liquids into the wounded soldier’s abdominal cavity.

The chemicals react to create a polyurethane polymer bio-foam which expands up to 30 times their original volume.

This fits to the inside of the body cavity and solidifies, forming a foam shield which seals off internal injuries to organs and substantially cuts blood loss.

The state-of-the-art technique involves injecting two liquids into the wounded soldier¿s abdominal cavity

The foam is then removed in one solid block by a surgeon when the soldier reaches hospital

The foam can be easily removed by a surgeon in less than a minute, usually in one solid block.

Top brass at the US military-tech wing Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (Darpa) have handed biomaterial company Arsenal Medical £14million to develop the technology. British military chiefs are watching the trials with interest.

About 85 per cent of preventable battlefield deaths are from internal wounds that need surgery or other in-hospital treatment.

They are the most difficult to treat because they can not be directly identified, rendering field dressings and tourniquets useless.

Often there is not enough time to transport the stricken soldier from a firefight to a place where they can get the right medical attention within the so-called ‘golden hour’ when chances of survival are greatest.

But during tests DARPA found the foam increased survival rates after three hours from 8 per cent to 72 per cent. Every single pig used in the experiment survived at least one hour.

The breed of pigs used in the tests have skin and organs similar to humans.

Lieutenant Colonel David King, a trauma surgeon and US military doctor who has worked on the project., said: ‘The most frustrating thing is when you operate on those patients and you realise that the injury they have is easily surgically correctable and you correct it.

‘But they’ve just been down too long already, and there’s no way to bring them back. If we can deliver this to the battlefield, this is a game changer.’

Upma Sharma, who leads the research project, said: ‘If you can take somebody who has this kind of injury and just give then 60 extra minutes – once you arrive alive to a surgeon you have a very good survival rate.’

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• Scientists are now able to use a 3D printing technique to produce biodegradable ‘scaffolding’ for facial features and internal organs
  
• Using the printouts, bioengineers are able to cultivate human skin cells around the scaffolding to create living tissue
  
• The technique has already been used on patients for small body parts such as blood vessels and it is hoped that facial features will soon be available
  
• Experts are also hoping technique will make man made organ transplantation possible within the next two decades
  

These remarkable images show the groundbreaking advances scientists are making in the field of regenerative medicine, paving the way to print new body parts such as ears and noses.

Although experts say it will be some time until they are able to grow entire functioning organs, bioengineers are already able to grow and use new blood vessels in patients.

And they are now closer to being able to offer patients replacement ears and noses.

Currently, replacement ears are constructed with materials that have an unnatural Styrofoam-like consistency. Alternatively surgeons may sometimes build ears from a patient’s harvested rib, but this option is challenging and painful, and the ears rarely look natural or perform well.

Now, scientists at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are using 3D printing techniques to manufacture scaffolding for human cells to grow on and create realistic-looking facial features including ears and noses

Growing lungs and other whole organs for transplant remains the goal, and scientists claim they are edging closer.

A 3D printer at the university has already built a prototype kidney. In several labs, scientists are studying how to build on the internal scaffolding of hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys of people and pigs to make custom-made implants.

Instead of depositing ink, the printer puts down a gel-like biodegradable scaffold plus a mixture of cells to build a kidney layer by layer.

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These boots were made for dancing: The wellies with a built-in sound system that plays music from your mobile phone

EXCLUSIVE: The Bloom Boots – wellies with a built-in Bluetooth-enabled speaker that wirelessly plays songs from a phone also have pockets to keep belongings safe and dry at festivals.

That shirt’s a bit loud! The fabric that turns clothes into a walking sound system – using tape cassettes and a converted Walkman

Texan artist Alyce Santoro has created sonic fabric – musical clothes with cassette tape weaved through the material. Rubbing a sonic fabric reader, made from a converted Walkman, over the clothes produces sounds.

The luggage that’s impossible for airlines to lose – because it’s got a built-in GPS tracker

The prototype luggage technology, known as Bag2Go, embeds a satellite tracker and bar code in the suitcase that communicates with an app on your smartphone.

Is this the end of curtains and blinds? New Wi-Fi enabled windows change transparency at the click of button

A plastic film that can be stuck onto windows, mirrors and shower doors and instantly switches from opaque to clear in one second via a smartphone app has been designed by Californian firm SONTE.

They will never take away your guns…you need them for the upcoming riots.
To kill EACH OTHER!
WAIT, let met rephrase that…YOU ARE ALREADY DOING THAT!
Killing policeman is killing your own…do you really think that those man and woman are working for those asseholes?
Come on man…they are only pawns…nothing more.
Those freaks on top of the pyramid don’t care , they love it to see how you are decreasing the population.
And as soon as the group of law force has been thinned…machines will be deployed to assist the remaining legal forces.
Machines which which will have weaponry that will go beyond your imagination.

Do you want to preserve your freedom?…than stop fighting ghosts and wake the hell up!
See what they are doing…they are using YOU to achieve THEIR goal…a brand new nation that is controllable.

14-year-old Jared Marcum faces a year in jail after he was arrested by police in Logan County, West Virginia for refusing to remove a pro-Second Amendment t-shirt. 

http://www.infowars.com/14-year-old-faces-year-in-jail-for-wearing-pro-gun-t-shirt/

The new Tianhe-2 supercomputer, nicknamed the Milkyway-2, was unveiled by China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) during a conference held in late May. University of Tennessee professor Jack Dongarra confirmed this week that the Milkyway-2 operates as fast as 30.7 petaflops — quadrillions of calculations — per second.

Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy’s fastest supercomputer, has been clocked in at “just” 17.6 petaflops per second. Dongarra is also a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory which houses Titan.

The new Chinese supercomputer will provide an open, high-performance computing service for southwest China when it moves to the Chinese National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou by the end of this year. NUDT has listed several possible uses for the Milkway-2, including simulations for testing airplanes, processing “big data,” and aiding in government security.

The Milkyway-2 will have to be officially tested, but its incredible speed will likely place it atop the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list, which is expected to be unveiled during the International Supercomputing Conference next weekend. It would mark the first time since 2010 that China topped the list — then with the Tianhe-1.

Related Story: The 5 fastest supercomputers

The United States only just reclaimed the top spot this past November after coming up short to Japan, China and Germany over the past three years.

The rankings earn more than bragging rights as supercomputers become increasingly important to national security. The Titan aids in American research about climate change, biofuels and nuclear energy. In May, a U.S. House subcommittee held a hearing on supercomputers where researches asked Congress to provide funding for “exascale” computers, which could operate at one quintillion flops per second.

Dongarra noted that even with sustained investment into this technology, the United States could still fall behind global leaders in the supercomputing race.

“Perhaps this is a wake up call,” he said

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Also read…. The Pluto Switch Mystery

“Did they found out how to build a bridge between different time-streams?

Is the Pluto Switch of Google a part of this knowledge?

Or it the mythological Helmet of Pluto… which make the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution…the only ancient source that attributes a special helmet to the ruler of the underworld.”

They created an artificial third eye by combining high technical devises with the old knowledge in chime…they created a controllable source that THEY can walk while you are fighting over fake wars and useless gadgets.

They are able to change the past, present and the future without you even knowing it.

• State of the art home office has touch screen and three LED screens
• More reasonably priced versions still cost the same as a new family car
• Designers say they are already being used by Microsoft and US Marines

Office of the future: Right now this home office from MWE Labs will set you back £30,000 but Microsoft has already started using them so one day our offices may be full of them

It may look like a prop from the latest Star Trek movie but this futuristic office is already in use.

The Emperor 200 is equipped with a touchscreen control centre, three 27in LED screens and an air-filtering system to control heat.

The home office’s manufacturer, MWE Lab, based in Quebec, Canada, describe it as the ‘ultimate computer workstation’ and says clients have included Microsoft programmers and the US Marine Corps.

The home office’s manufacturer claims the Emperor 200 is the most advanced home office and comes equipped with a touchscreen control centre, three 27-in LED screens and air-filtering system to control heat.

The office comes equipped with a touchscreen for the left-hand, mouse pad for the right and three adjustable screens to easily reach eye-level.

The adjustable aluminium frame houses an Italian leather chair which allows you to swivel or work while lying on your back, meaning the days of suffering lower back pain from hours sitting hunched over your desk my soon be over.

More frugal investors looking for something within the price range of a family car could consider the Emperor 200′s sister products.

The Emperor 1510LX comes in at just under £14,000, or the same price as a brand new Volkswagen Jetta.

Meanwhile, the cheapest in the range, the Emperor 1510 costs a mere £4,000,  although as the price suggests it lacks many of the features of its more expensive sister model.

Futuristic: The Emperor 200 looks like something out of Star Trek and can be yours for a mere £30,000

Comfort: Designed with comfort in mind the home office comes with an Italian leather chair that allows you to swivel or even work lying down

Expensive: Even the most reasonable version of MWE Lab’s home office will cost £4.000. It is however already being used by the US Marine Corp and companies like Microsoft

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The two men know a fair bit on networking hardware, but the Pluto Switch looks like nothing they have ever seen or even heard of. A number of networking ports at the back of the long, thin hardware are of unfamiliar design, and the writing on the back is in Finnish, of all languages.

“That must have come from outer space (as the name also implies),” one forum user says.

The two men manage access the switch console, but all it provides is gibberish, at first. Further tinkering with the console provides identification for the hardware board inside the device.

“Google Planet8541 Pluto Edge Switch,” it says.

The ending of the story, at least according to the forum posts, is slightly disappointing– the finders manage to contact a Google engineer and decide send the Pluto Switch back home, even after forum members offer to buy the switches. In return, Google gives to duo a handful of exclusive Google t-shirts and very little else when it comes to actual details.

The forum posts are still online, complete with pictures– even if the original posters requested to have had their identities deleted, author name changed to “Steve.” No more was heard from them ever since.

The incident happened 7 months ago, but it remains relevant. After all, it represents a peak inside the secretive world of Google data centres.

Speaking to Wired Magazine, SeaMicro founder Andrew Feldman claims he knows the engineer who built the Pluto Switch, but does not link the switch to Google. But Feldman has a link with Google– he used to work with Force10 Networks, once networking hardware supplier to Google… until Google decided to design its own.

It pays for the giants to design their own hardware. Economies of scale dictate vast savings can be made by stripping down hardware (down to and including the ports and connectors) to the essentials. Not to mention designing your own hadware removes the middleman, the likes of Cisco and HP.

Google is not the only company going down the “DIY” route. AMD paid $344 million for SeaMicro. Intel owns technologies from Cray, Fulcrum Microsystems and QLogic. Amazon, Facebook and even Microsoftare looking into custom-built data centres.

Welcome to the mysterious world of secret data centres.

Go Exclusive Pictures of Google’s Pluto Switch (networking-forum.com)

Go Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa

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“In New York City’s Central Park, people begin committing mass suicide. Initially believed to be a bio-terrorist attack using an airborne neurotoxin, the behavior quickly spreads across the northeastern United States. Elliot Moore, a high school science teacher in Philadelphia, hears about the attacks and decides to go to Harrisburg by train with his wife, Alma. They are accompanied by his friend Julian and Julian’s eight-year-old daughter Jess. Julian’s wife is stuck in Philadelphia but is expected to meet them in Harrisburg. The train loses all radio contact en route and stops at a small town”.

Terrified children as young as five cried ‘we don’t want to die’ as police used their school bus as a roadblock during a car chase.

Officers ahead of the pursuit asked the bus driver to position his vehicle, carrying about 50 youngsters, across the road as the cars approached.

Children were in tears as the car being chased rammed into the rear of the coach.

Miraculously, none was injured. But parents are furious their children were put in danger.

Collision: Parents were left furious after police asked the driver of the 70-seat coach to block the path of a car that had failed to stop in Battlebarrow, Cumbria, during the Appleby Horse Fair

The drama, in Appleby, Cumbria, is now under investigation by the local Police and Crime Commissioner.

His officers asked the driver of the 70-seat coach to block the path of a car that had failed to stop on its way to the Appleby Horse Fair.

It is understood the BMW slowed as it approached the bus and crashed into the rear as it tried to squeeze past.

Amanda Daldry, 43, said her daughters Holly, 15, and Jessica, 13, were on the bus, which was taking children home from primary and grammar schools.

She said: ‘The kids were filled with adrenaline with what had happened. Excited would be the wrong word. They were agitated. The older ones realised what was happening.

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