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A Fight to Control Chainsaws in Burma Could Turn the Tide on Illegal Logging

By Ann Wang & Genevieve Belmaker 8 May 2017

SAGAING, Burma — Pyar Aung still remembers the first time he saw a chainsaw. It was a German-made number being used by one of the logging companies operating in the forest around his remote village in Burma’s northwest Sagaing Division in 2013.

“It was so powerful and fast!” recalls 50-year-old Aung, who lives in the tiny village of Mahu. It wasn’t until August 2016 that he got one himself, and today he owns three.

Each cost him around US$124, though cheaper versions can be purchased in urban centers for about 7 times less. In spite of the law, he said he was never asked to show paperwork to buy the chainsaws, nor were any of his fellow villagers.

The claim is surprising given the fact that logging is practically a cottage industry in his community. Among 37 households they own 70 chainsaws. On a recent visit there, they also said they weren’t aware of the fairly new regulation implemented in 2016 that requires them to register their chainsaws with Burma’s Forestry Department.

Remote locales like this are at the heart of a struggling government campaign to turn the tide on illegal chainsaw use and logging.

Mahu is a stark case in point of difficulties the Burmese government faces in educating disconnected rural populations about chainsaw ownership and use.

The village is an isolated island of homes deep in the Patolon Forest Reserve, part of Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park in Burma’s Sagaing region. An ASEAN Heritage Park, it is Burma’s largest national park, at 1,605 square kilometers (619 square miles).

Despite almost non-existent knowledge of safety equipment, training, and protocols, chainsaws are gaining in popularity as the logging tool of choice in Burma’s rich forests.

The country is the largest supplier of natural teak (Tectona grandis) in the world. Forestry officials say they began to see an uptick in imported chainsaws between 2013 and 2014. That increase, with numbers that are very difficult to track and verify, is likely in the hundreds to thousands per year.

That’s bad news for Burma’s forests. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than the more traditional methods of an axe or a handsaw.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which tracks forest cover globally, notes that between 1990 and 2015, the country already lost nearly 15 million hectares of forest and other wooded land. There’s no official data yet on whether a national logging ban in place from mid-2016 to April 2017 had an impact on forest loss.

The geography of locales like Mahu—incredibly remote with limited options for income—contributes to illegal logging. It is completely cut off from the outside world for the 4-month rainy season due to bad roads.

The national education system only arrived in the village five years ago, and there is still no electricity nor cell signal. Villagers are motivated by basic economics to own chainsaws for logging to expedite their work.

There’s also a demand.

Brokers from nearby villages started to show up in Mahu in 2016 in search of wood for sale, around the time that the Burmese government instituted regulations for buying and owning a chainsaw.

Aung says that he can make about $95 per ton of logs. He typically collects 1.5 to 2 tons of wood per week to sell. If the rest of the village logs at a similar pace, they can cut down about 46 tons of wood every week, or over 180 tons per month.

If they sell what they log at the rate Aung notes, the village can make at least $17,500 a month. A conservative estimate of annual village income from illegal logging—minus the rainy season—is about $140,000 annually.

For generations, villagers here have eked out an existence on meager profit from rice farming and other activities like selling handmade bamboo mats. Logging represents a chance to diversify and amplify income streams.

“If we only grow rice, it’s not enough to make a living and that’s why we started cutting trees, but we mostly only log teak,” Aung said. Teak is one of the most valuable tropical hardwood species in the world. “The demand (for wood) is so high.”

Regulations and Enforcement

Villagers in Mahu might claim ignorance about their illegal chainsaws and logging activity, but their actions suggest otherwise. On a recent day in February, everyone stopped logging, disassembled their chainsaws, and hid the parts deep in the forest upon word of an impending Forestry Department inspection.

Altered to an inspection by the Forestry Department, villagers from Mahu take a chainsaw apart to hide parts in different locations in the forest. (Photo: Ann Wang for Mongabay.)

Kyaw Minn Htut, founder of Thuriya Sandra Environmental Watch Group, has kept track of Mahu’s chainsaws, which he confirms aren’t registered and were not purchased legally. He has a complex relationship with the villagers.

“It was me who reported this village to the forestry department,” Htut said while sitting with residents at their monastery, which also functions as a community hall.  “But I asked the forestry department officers to forgive them, because they have no money to be fined and if you take away their chainsaw, they will have no way of surviving.”

Htut is a native of Sagaing Division in his early 40s, and has been doing conservation work in Sagaing region since 2003. He is incredibly persistent when it comes to finding and reporting illegal logging. He once spent 10 days in the forest counting unmarked stumps in an area that had been logged and found that the company (whose name he didn’t disclose) had logged 572 extra trees.

“Four MTE [Myanma Timber Enterprise] officers and three FD [Forestry Department] officers were fired because of my report,” he claims. Htut’s philosophy is that deforestation is not caused by individual loggers, but by logging companies approved by the MTE, which regulates the industry domestically.

“Chainsaws are not the problem, the root of the problem is the policy and the law,” Htut said. “The current one is set up for organizations that are involved in mass production, but not for the people.”

When it comes to the activity in Mahu, he wants to help them to legitimately earn income from logging. With his assistance, the villagers have applied to manage the forest surrounding their village, but have not heard back from the forestry department. It’s unlikely they ever will.

It’s also just as unlikely that they will stop cutting down trees.

“The villagers here at Mahu only cut what they need to survive, they don’t do it to get rich,” Htut said. “Besides what will the villagers feel, if the people not related to this area come and harvest all the valuable wood, but they themselves can’t even do that?”

In Mandalay, the nearest urban center for the timber market and commercial goods, people are a bit more savvy about the rules for selling and owning a chainsaw. Along Mandalay’s so-called “iron street” of machinery and tool shops, out of a randomly selected seven shops along a 40-block stretch, only one displayed chainsaws. Others wouldn’t even discuss a sale without proper paperwork. Fears of plainclothes police officers pretending to be customers are top of mind.

A vendor shows a chainsaw hidden behind other commercial products in a hardware shop in Mandalay, Myanmar. (Photo: Ann Wang for Mongabay.)

Many other shops take a more subdued approach. Some put the chainsaw blades in the corner, but the rest of the equipment stays hidden in back storage rooms and are only presented on request.

“There is a crackdown on chainsaws,” said Ko Ko Win, who manages one such machinery shop. “If you want to sell chainsaws, you need a license, if you want to buy a chainsaw, you also need a license from the forestry department.”

Win adds that a obtaining a license to buy a chainsaw involves answering a list of questions such as reasons for the purchase, which trees will be cut down, and the locations where the tool will be used.

“It’s a very complicated procedure, I don’t understand the reason behind all this madness,” he said. “But I guess it’s the new government, and it comes with new rules.” The country held its first democratic election in decades in 2015 and brought human rights icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy, to power.

In June 2016 Burma’s Forestry Department amended its forestry laws to include a policy on chainsaw registration: Whoever uses a chainsaw without permission can be sued, face up to two years in prison, and/or a fine of up to $15.

They also created a committee with police officers, local and regional forestry department officers, and township administrators to enforce chainsaw rules and regulations. That includes monthly reports from forestry departments in each township, district, division and state to headquarters in Naypyidaw.

Combating the myriad aspects of illegal logging in Burma is already a huge job for authorities. Just as the national ban lifted in mid-April, officials announced that in the past year they seized 55,000 tons of illegal timber and 2,600 vehicles and pieces of machinery. Arrests of timber smugglers included 11 foreigners and 8,310 Burmese nationals.

Import Headaches

Burma is still in the early stages of regulating chainsaws, especially when it comes to import rules.

Officer Phyo Zin Mon Naing is assistant director of Burma’s Forestry Department at Naypyidaw and oversees chainsaw registration. He said in an interview that he’s been working on issues regarding chainsaw registration since 2013, but prior to that there were simply no laws or regulations for chainsaws. In 2014, the government started to ask chainsaw users to register equipment, but the system was inefficient and difficult to enforce.

The current procedure, which includes import laws, was put into place after discussion with various departments and the central government.

A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. (Photo: Ann Wang for Mongabay.)

The complex procedure requires importers to submit an inquiry for a permit to import chainsaws and present their import license and company registration to the Ministry of Commerce.

The Ministry of Commerce then submits it to the forestry department for a recommendation letter. In order to issue a recommendation letter, the forestry department has to first check the chainsaw type, country of origin, import method, the number of chainsaws in the current stock, a list of chainsaw distributors by the company and other detailed information. The importer isn’t technically allowed to sell their chainsaws if they don’t agree to monthly reports on their distribution and stock.

Naing believes that this system, which targets importers, distributors, and users of chainsaws, is feasible. For example, they once received an application from a machinery shop that wanted to import 20,000 chainsaws. The request was rejected.

“Currently, there are a total of 1,281 legal chainsaws in the country,” Naing said from the most recently available chart in January 2017. “Sagaing has the most registered chainsaw at 423 units, the second is Mon State with 178 units.”

The numbers clearly aren’t exact, though. For example, the number of known chainsaws in the Sagaing region alone would be 16 percent higher if the units in Mahu village were registered.

Yet despite known pockets of lawlessness like Mahu, Naing is confident.

“Now we have control over chainsaws in this country,” he said, adding that between 2014 to the end of 2016, they seized a total of 746 illegal chainsaws. Most of those come from individual owners and are handed over to the MTE.

Problems with Enforcement

A major problem with monitoring illegal chainsaws is lack of control in insurgency areas, especially Kachin state in northern Burma. Kachin shares a long border with China and is largely controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and its armed group the Kachin Independent Army (KIA). They have an estimated 8,000 troops and are believed to be involved in illegal logging.

“We believe they have a large logging problem, but we don’t have details,” Naing said, adding that they have no communication regarding chainsaw registry with members of KIO. “But we work with the Myanmar military to seize illegal timber in those areas.”

They face myriad challenges, some of which could be life and death.

“This work is difficult and very dangerous, officers at the forestry department don’t have guns, we have no security, how do we protect ourselves?” said Naing. “We just have our pen.”

In fact, Naing doesn’t think there is a clear connection between seized timber and registered chainsaws, especially since the registry is so new. The forestry department is also still in the process of getting its staff and other government agencies up to speed on the registry’s use.

If it proves effective, it could have an impact.

“If we control chainsaws, it will reduce illegal logging in the future,” Naing said. He added that one way they are doing this is through outreach programs, which include group information sessions on how to register chainsaws and the impact to the environment from illegal logging. In January 2017, he said they held 286 chainsaw registry outreach sessions across the country.

Despite complaints over the complicated procedure to obtain a chainsaw, Naing sees the approach as standard.

“If you import a car from a foreign country you have to submit paperwork, so importing chainsaws should be treated the same way,” he said.

He added that he thinks the forest coverage rate is directly related to number of chainsaws. “There are so few officers at the forestry department but so many loggers in Myanmar, how do we control the situation?” he asked. “We must do it, we must register the chainsaws.”

A Hopeful Future, at a Cost

In Mahu, logging is slowly transforming the lives of the villagers, although not everyone can yet afford to purchase a chainsaw. Khin Mg Htwe is 32 years old, tan and lean from years of rice farming before he turned to working as a timber porter.

“I don’t know how to operate a chainsaw, and I can’t afford one yet, but I’m happy they are cutting wood so I can make some income by transporting the timber out of our village,” Htwe said.

Transporting logs with cows that are usually for farming near Mahu. The porter can usually earn almost US$4 per pair haul with a pair of cows. (Photo: Ann Wang for Mongabay.)

The 4-hour round trip by foot to the nearest village involves tying the timber to his two cows and a two-day rest after each trip. He makes a mere $4 each time.

Thar Kyi is a 32-year-old father of four, and is recognized as a chainsaw expert by other villagers, who joke that he cuts the straightest line with chainsaws. Like Htwe, Kyi doesn’t own a chainsaw and is hired by chainsaw owners for $4 per day to operate their machinery. He said that part of his motivation is based on family obligations.

“I have to pay $5 for my kids [per child] to go to school per month,” Kyi said. Though primary education is free in Burma, teachers often ask for extra money in rural areas to offset the cost of uniforms and books.

A villager from Mahu poses with his chainsaw in front of one other source of meager local income: a mat made of dry bamboo. (Photo: Ann Wang for Mongabay.)

Even though activist Htut is devoted to conservation and to preventing illegal logging, he is sympathetic to the villagers.

“I will never ask them to stop logging, because I have no other money-making options to offer them yet,” Htut said. “Before they used to focus more on cultivating rice, now they spend more time on logging and they have to buy rice to eat during the rainy season.”

He doesn’t believe that stricter enforcement of chainsaw regulations will stop the loggers.

“They will just go back to using axes and handsaws, the illegal logging will continue and so will the bribery to related governmental officials,” he said.

This article was original published on Mongabay:

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Is It Love or Charity: What Did Paul Really Say?

I mean that. What exactly did Paul write in his letter to the Corinthians? What was he really talking about? What concept? Using what term or word to express that concept or idea or notion?

Some of the newer editions or versions of the Bible use the word Love. But not so the earlier ones.

That means, if you go back 50 or 70 or 80 or a hundred years or so -- just to be safe -- and read that same chapter (chapter 13: verses 1-13 of Corinthians I), it is not the word “Love” that you are likely to encounter. The word that will actually meet your eye is likely to be “Charity.”

That means, in the earlier versions, the Bible -- Paul, that is -- talks about the concept of Charity, using precisely that word, as it is translated in English. But in later, more recent, versions the word “Charity” has been replaced with the new word “Love.”

As to why it is so, I have neither the time nor the resources -- nor, in fact, the requisite qualifications -- to go into at this time.

Looking for Truth: Is Truth the Missing Link in Our Discourse?

I deliberately ended the quote from the New Testament on the word “truth.”Because, often, truth seems to be the missing link in much of our thinking and discourse these days.

Whereas in reality, whether the topic is Love or Charity, neither of them makes much sense without a deliberate, open, serious and unambiguous commitment to truth.

Nor, for that matter, does anything else make any sense in the absence, on our part, of a clear commitment to truth.

Once truth is ruled out as an arbiter of reality, or reduced to a helpless bystander, right ceases to be might and might -- brute force -- then automatically becomes right. This then paves the way for cheating, robbing and enslaving others as individuals, groups, nations and societies, which has been the dominant theme of much of the story of the world.

That is why a cynic can say that in talking about Love and Charity without any reference to or respect for Truth, our object may be in fact to use the lofty expressions and noble professions of Love and Charity themselves as a ruse to deny Love or Charity to others.

Subjecting others to all kinds of injustices and inequities then becomes possible -- in fact it becomes a lot easier and a lot more palatable -- once we remove truth from playing an active, visible and decisive role in human affairs.

Because once we eliminate truth as a factor, we can then freely commit all kinds of oppressive, atrocious and uncharitable acts on all kinds of others -- and then lie about it.

In a sense, it is precisely that kind of iniquity, unfairness and injustice that Islam came into this world to end.

Muslims and the Concept of Love

So, when the Muslims abandon, with such alacrity, to Christians and others, the concept of Love -- either in general or in relation to God, and especially in relation to God’s mercy and love for his creation -- I want them to pause and take another look at what they are doing.

In the haste of some of them to go down as the Taqwa people -- I am not going to comment on what Taqwa is at this time -- and as the people who fear God, rather or more than love him and be loved by him, they may have surrendered to others something so absolutely precious, so valuable -- and so quite possibly unique and special.

They may have thrown the baby out with the bath water.

Allah, The Most Forgiving One: A Quick Count

Let me give you a quick count, hoping I am right, and may Allah forgive me if I am wrong, of just one of those most beautiful and glorious names and attributes of Allah, namely, Ghafoor.

It is not one. It is not two. It is not 10 or 25 or 50. But a full 89 times by my count -- may Allah forgive me if I am wrong. That is how many times Almighty Allah uses that most amazing and beautiful name for himself in the Qur’an -- The Most Forgiving One!

What do you want me to say?

I did not make up these numbers. It does not matter whether the person doing the count is a Muslim or a non-Muslim. The numbers are there for anyone to see. And they are going to be the same numbers for everyone undertaking the count, regardless of the race, religion, faith or belief of those doing the counting.

It Is Not Just Ghafoor, But Also Ghaffaar

All this means that along with everything else that he says he is, Allah, Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala, is also the Most Forgiving.

He is Ghafoor.

And he is also Ghaffaar. Whatever the difference between the two names.

That means if the story of Allah’s mercy and love does not end withRahmaan and Raheem, but continues to unfold in the form of Ghafoor, a name that Allah uses for himself in the Qur’an about 89 times, it does not stop with Ghafoor either.

It finds even more reason to saturate his creation. And this time it does so in the form of another name of the same derivation as Ghafoor, namely, Ghaffaar.

In the same way as, earlier, Rahmaan was further described using another name of the same root, namely, Raheem.

Thus, in the Qur’an, Allah refers to himself by the name of Ghaffaar, not once or twice, but at least five times. And that is in addition to the 89 times where he refers to himself as Ghafoor.

So, he is both Al-Ghafoor and Al-Ghaffaar -- The Most Forgiving and The Most Forgiving, even more so -- just as he is both Ar-Rahmaan and Ar-Raheem -- the Most Merciful and Loving and the Most Merciful and Loving.

What does it all mean? I think I will be better off if just said “I haven’t a clue!”and moved on.

All I am doing is sharing with you what I see -- what is out there. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

But what I am saying is what is out there for any naked eye to see.

Once again, the Missing Wau”: The Miracle of Conjunction without a Conjunction

But all this is not all either.

The story of Allah’s mercy and love continues -- unstopped, unstoppable, immense, overwhelming, immeasurable and without pause or interference.

Remember the Wau-less conjunction of Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem?

A conjunction without a conjunction?

A glorious example, in our own hands, of the power of Kun fa Yakoon?

Others need the aid of a conjunction like “and” to be able to pile one thing on top of another. Allah does not.

When he wants to do something, he just says to it “Be!” and lo and behold it happens -- it comes into being.

So, remember the wave after wave of the flood of Allah’s mercy and love -- unremitting and without so much as the pause or interference caused by an alien and interjecting “Wau”? There is much more of it in the Qur’an than many of us seem to know -- or care about.

Instant and Blanket Amnesty for Wrongdoers

So, the flood of Allah’s boundless mercy and love and forgiveness continues to flow. Now in the form of a loud and open call for those seeking an escape from this flood of mercy to stop and turn back.

Now the invitation goes out to all those on the run from Allah’s mercy and love to stop running and return to Allah’s mercy and love.

To all those gone astray -- and which one of us has not strayed at one time or another, in one way or another, for one moment or longer?

To all those on the run -- those who had foolishly turned their back on Allah’s mercy and love.

An open and unconditional invitation to all wrongdoers to return.

A blanket and instant amnesty of the kind the world never heard and never could imagine.

So, It Is Not Just Ghafoor and Ghaffaar, But Also Tawwaab and Afuw

Allah now calls himself Tawwaab -- the one who is most welcoming and accepting of repentance: of those who return to him.

Those who pause in their waywardness and decide to turn back.

And he calls himself Afuw.

And that is in addition to Ghafoor and Ghaffaar.

And again he does so not once or twice or five times but about 11 times or so.

Furthermore, he couples that expression of Tawwaab with Raheem -- the most merciful and loving. For example, in the two Aayats below:

1. Wa Anat Tawwaabur Raheem (2:160).

And I am the most welcoming and accepting of repentance and the most merciful and loving.

2. Innallaha Huwat Tawwaabur Raheem (9:104; 9:118).

Surely Allah, he is the most welcoming and accepting of repentance and the most merciful and loving.

This is what Allah has to say about himself in the Qur’an.

So, how do you explain away any of these things? How do you so nonchalantly surrender the turf of Love to others -- without so much as making an effort?

More importantly, is that how you explain the notion of God to yourself, your family and friends, and to the rest of the world of Allah, Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala?

Or are you one of those who never thought of explaining God -- either to yourself or to anyone else?

How Like a Doting Parent!

And how like a doting parent it all is! The way Allah treats the children of Adam!

First, shower your favourite child with a topless mountain of favours and gifts of the kind no one can imagine.

Then, let lose on that child a bottomless ocean of mercy and love and compassion and kindness from all sides.

And in between continue to overlook the errors and follies of that child with utmost grace and compassion and tolerance and accommodation.

And in the end, when that child continues to misbehave, chase that child down and do everything to bring that child back to his senses and smother him with forgiveness.

And, when that child continues to insist on his foolishness, and continues to ignore all warnings and invitations, leave the door of repentance and return wide open for that child.

An “open-door” policy? We invented that idea and that expression!

Well, our God of infinite love and mercy did!

And “leave the lights on”? We invented that idea and that expression too!

Well, our God of infinite compassion and tolerance and forgiveness did!

Did I hear you say someone out there has a more dynamic and more complete model of God’s mercy and love and compassion and grace and tolerance and forgiveness for his creation?

Like who?

I Am Glad You Are with Us

Once again, I am glad you are with us -- reading this E-Letter. Allah bless you for doing that.

But you can do more than that. You can be much, much more than apassive consumer of these E-Letters. You can actively help us to expand the arc for the distribution of our E-Letters.

One way you can do that is by providing us with the E-Mail addresses of those whom you would like to see receive our E-Letters -- and asking others to subscribe.

These E-Letters come to you free. So, no one needs to pay a fee to subscribe to them.

So think about active ways of helping us and widening the circulation and availability of these E-Letters to as wide an audience as possible.

Feel Free to Share the Good News

Other than that, feel free to circulate this E-Letter to your own Mailing List if you have one. And ask your friends and contacts to do the same.

Provide us their E-Mail addresses.

Also feel free to print, publish or use our E-Letters for educational and non-commercial purposes -- but make sure you do so with proper acknowledgement and credit to the author and to his Website www.IslamicSolutions.Com.

Beyond reading our E-Letters, feel free to discuss them with others -- and with us. But keep the discussions positive and useful. Don’t get into nitpicking and hair-splitting.

Make hard copies and distribute them to people you know.

Keep hard copies in your mosques and Islamic centres and other places where Muslims and non-Muslims gather.

Give them out in your meetings.

And also, keep a hard copy for yourself -- and read it at your leisure. Some of the stuff here may take a second reading.

Write Back

Also, please take the trouble of writing back to us. That allows you to get more involved with what we are saying.

Also, it will give us an indication that you care. Isn’t that the least we can do for one another: show we care?

For writing back, please use the E-Mail: DrSyedPasha [at] AOL [dot] com

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Do bear in mind, however, that our manuscripts -- whatever we write, put on the Web or send in the form of letters and E-mails, etc. -- are mostly drafts in need of further research and revision, which we are often unable to undertake or complete due to serious time and resource constraints.

Part of that time and resource constraint is our inability to be more exact in our Transliteration. If there are inconsistencies, please overlook them.

Don’t Forget Us in Your Du’as!

As you read, please do not forget me, my family, my parents, my teachers and my ancestors in your Du’as.

And all those wonderful people, Allah bless them, who may help me, now or in future, with this immense project. Especially, our wonderful Webmaster, Allah bless him, who slaps these E-Letters on the Web with the same speed with which I finish writing them.

And do please find within you the generosity and compassion to forgive me if I have in any way offended you; or said something I should not have said; or said it in a way that you thought was not appropriate.

Ask Allah to forgive me for any errors that there may be in my E-Letters and to protect me from them in future.

May Allah be with you!

Where and in the way you want him to be!

Allahummaghfir Li-Ummati Muhammadin, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam!

Wassalaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah!

Yours Respectfully,

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Adult Day Services help improve the health and quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities.
Choice in Supports for Independent Living (CSIL) is a self-managed care option for home support services where funds are provided to eligible clients to purchase and manage their own home support services.
If you find it hard to bathe safely in your own home, even with support, you may benefit from community bathing programs.
Home Support is care provided in your home by Community Health Workers who are directed by a nurse.
Hospice palliative care, also called end-of-life care, includes a range of services for dying people of all ages, including children, and their families.
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Netzero Dialup Commercial

Did we just descended to 1997 just because of credit crisis? Just now I saw a Netzero commercial, featuring CEO Mark Goldston, promoting dial-up connection. Yep, you read this right – a Netzero (definitely a name from 90s) is promoting a dial-up, claiming “it takes you to the same Internet as broadband”, just does it cheaper. Now, I don’t know about the average Joe’s needs on the internet (maybe all he does is checks his e-mail using that good old Lynx browser.

But if he’s anything close to average Joe I know he checks his e-mail using webmail interface which is pretty heavy load on my scale – wheather you’re using Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail or your provider’s web mail interface. Then he checks the weather. Just as an example – the’s total weight is over 100KB.  Then maybe he reads some news ( – 322KB, – 663KB). Now the scary part starts – his girlfriend, or wife, or daughter wants to do some shopping online. is 106KB, Macy’s is 335KB and SaksFifthAvenue (in case they’ve got money to spend) is 236KB. And don’t even think of watching any video – YouTube or Hulu.

So, maybe someone out there knows what’s Netzero counts on. From my point of view – this is just a bad waste of good money. Might have donated to charity, that ought to work out better.

Sell It Right!

As I was browsing around for some new and exciting Christmas web hosting offers, I found an interesting offer… well, rather an interesting page with an offer. I stumbled on it on Friday and since I already have an account with this hoster, decided to pursue other matters. Today, when I checked on it – it still there. Amazing, isn’t it?

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If you, however, still interested – you may even sign up with Dreamhost using our promo code: ZEALUS200812. You’ll get a free domain while you’re at it.

Advertising: Microsoft vs. Google

Spotted this beauty in one of the RSS channels. Speaking of war in online advertising, it comes as a very handy argument.

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Last week in the midst of the excitement on RWDevcon conference in Washington DC, I forgot to mention that my article was published on It’s titled “Securing iOS User Data: The Keychain, Touch ID, and 1Password“. It covers implementing TouchID and/or 1Password in your iOS app to secure your data. Have a look.

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Town in the province of Lecco, overlooking Lake Como, Valmadrera is a charming tourist destination, near the provincial capital. The village has Roman origins, however, it revealed its real appearance around the year 1000: in particular in the late XIII century there were already documents that report about settlements built around the already existing churches in the districts of St. Dionigi, Caserta, al Ceppo and San Tommaso. Throughout the town's history the local families played a major role in all the events.
Among the sights, not to miss: the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Martino, dating from the early Middle Ages. The building probably had a military role, but was transformed into a place of worship in the XIII century. During the last restoration works a series of original frescoes and ancient architectural structures have been brought to light. Inside it preserves a venerated painting of the XV century depicting the Madonna del Latte.
The Church of Sant'Antonio Abate was begun in 1791 and completed in 1823, committing several architects. The church also contains a Crucifixion of 1879 of the artist Mosè Bianchi and a panel with an early work of the XVI of Lomazzo, which previously belonged to the Sforza Family. The bell tower, erected in 1923, with its 90 meters is the highest of Lombardy.
The ancient Church of St. Dionigi, which preserves its simple and straight lined aspect, keeps inside a series of Gothic frescoes and a precious altar in polychrome marble.

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News, reviews and resources for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Licensing professionals.

Event Listing: SAM Workshop (London)

ITAM_SAM_LON_APRThe ITAM Review will be running a SAM Workshop at the BCS in London on the 29th April.

This will be an interactive session whereby those with issues or interest around SAM can discuss openly in a confidential setting with peers.

The day will start with an introduction to SAM best practices, Audit readiness and advice on SAM implementation from real world experience. The floor will then be open to those attending to discuss individual issues.

  • Who: The ITAM Review
  • What: SAM Workshop and confidential round-table
  • When: 9.30am – 4.30pm Wednesday 29thApril 2015
  • Where: BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London
  • Cost: £349 (Early Bird £299 until 1st March 2015)

This workshop will be scenario and discussion driven – you bring your scenarios and we work through them. We will also work through some real life scenarios and challenges.

This is a great opportunity to gain access to some shared knowledge from your peers on how to address issues specific to you. We’re confident you’ll learn from other people’s scenarios as well as your own. Chatham House / Confidentiality rules apply and the Workshop is limited to 15 delegates to ensure a close-knit group dynamic.

Book here!

About Rebecca Beach

Rebecca is the Marketing & Community Manager for both The ITSM Review and The ITAM Review. With a background in ITSM Rebecca's aim is to continue to engage and grow both communities and encourage more fledgling ITSM/ITAM writers to contribute their insight and experiences for the benefit of their fellow readers. If you have something you would like to share then please email

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Capitol Hill Den

$95 - $161.43 / night   in Denver
1 Bedroom 1 Bathroom Sleeps 2

You will love this condo! One bedroom, one bathroom in a historic building built in 1908. It's unique features include hardwood floors, a clawfoot bathtub and lots of natural light. The building is safe and quiet and is enjoyed by neighbors of all ages and professions. This is the perfect launchpad for all the amenities downtown Denver has to offer.

Capitol Hill is one of the most cosmopolitan neighborhoods in Denver. There are numerous restaurants, clubs, bars, stores, concert venues, and other cultural amenities in this community. Less than a 5 minute walk from the Denver Art Museum. Capitol Hill is next to two major Denver parks, Civic Center Park and Cheesman Park. Both of these are meeting centers for the community – hosting many festivals, including the Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods-sponsored People’s Fair in June.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! You really do not need a car here. Capitol Hill is the most walkable neighborhood in Denver. The neighborhood has good public transportation and is a biker’s paradise. Walk score: 94, Transit score: 66, Bike score: 97.

While the condo has two bikes available for guests to use, we know that not everyone is the same size. Renting a bike from Denver B-cycle is super easy - there are three stations located a half mile or less away. Simply ride the bike when you need it, and check it back into any B-cycle station when you don't.

We are proud to host vacationers as well as business travelers looking for an alternative to a traditional hotel. This home is professionally cleaned before/after each guest's stay.

License: 2018-BFN-0008931

Master Bedroom:

-Queen size bed

-En suite bathroom with clawfoot tub / shower

-Reading lamp

-Closet - plenty of room

-Gas BBQ gill in courtyard

-Coin / Credit card operated clothes washer and dryer in building

-Hair dryer

-High speed Internet

-Smart TV w/ Roku (no cable); may be hooked up to a laptop to stream (cords provided); TV may also be used with Nintendo 64 w/ 27 games

-Linens and towels provided

-2-hour street parking / Some meters nearby

-Two bikes, helmets, and bike lock

-Coffee maker

-Cookware, dishes & utensils

-Glass top electric stove and oven

-Rice cooker

Denver Airport, Via I-70W – 24 miles (40-minute drive)

Colorado State Capitol – less than 10 mins (walking)

Coors Field – 9 mins

Pepsi Center – 9 mins

Mile High Stadium – 11 mins

Cheesman Park – 20 mins (walking)

Civic Center Park – 10 mins (walking)

Denver Art Museum – 11 mins (walking)

History Colorado Center – 7 mins (walking)

The Daniels and Fisher Tower (Landmark clock tower w/ 2.5 ton bell) – 8 mins

The Colorado Convention Center – 6 mins

16th Street Mall – 6 mins

Larimer Square – 9 mins

Downtown Aquarium – 10 mins

Denver Zoo – 13 mins

King Soopers Grocery – 4 mins

Trader Joe’s – 2 mins (13 mins walking)

Maximum occupancy: 2 - children must be counted in the max. occupancy unless they are under two (2) & are sleeping in a portable crib (not provided).

Tenant stated on Agreement/Booking must be at least twenty-five (25) years-old and acknowledges that they will occupy the Property during the entire tenancy.

No smoking in the home. / No pets. / No parties or events without prior written approval.

Check-in: 4:00 pm

Check-out: 10:00 am

In the event that you must cancel your reservation, please be aware that cancellations must occur at least 30 days prior to arrival date. If cancellation occurs 30 days or more prior to arrival date all monies will be refunded with the exception of a $100 administrative fee. GUESTS THAT DO NOT CANCEL WITHIN THE 30-DAY TIME FRAME WILL BE CHARGED THE FULL AMOUNT. Travel Insurance is recommended, especially when traveling in the winter in CO.

License: 2018-BFN-0008931

215 E 11th Ave Denver, CO 80203
Registration Number: 2019-RENEW-0007075
Property Type: Condo Beds: 1 Accommodates: 2 Check In: : 4pm Bedrooms: 1 Check Out: : 10am Bathrooms: 1.0 Pet Friendly: No
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Reviews - 5 stars based on 7 reviews
Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
The apartment is clean and comfortable and soooo conveniently located. I definitely would stay there again and recommend this space to anyone visiting Denver. Especially if you have downtown business/commitments.
Reviewed on Oct 7, 2019 by Joseph, San Diego, CA   Report

Hi Joseph, thanks for your review! We are thrilled you enjoyed the condo. We would love to host you again in the future!

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Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
I am being 100% honest when I say this condo is the most beautiful place I’ve ever stayed in my life. The location is absolutely prime. Bryan and Lottie left beautiful personal touches, and the place was spotless. The claw foot tub was something of a dream. I wanted to stay forever.
Reviewed on Jun 17, 2019 by Charity, Ridgecrest   Report

Charity, thanks for staying at Capitol Hill Den and for your very kind review. We hope you’ll visit again!

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Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
Booking was very straightforward and the hosts were incredibly personable and communicative.
Reviewed on Jun 13, 2019 by Jennifer,   Report

Jennifer is the perfect guest. Communicated when she had questions. Left the home is perfect condition. Always welcome.

Manager Response
Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
Great location and wonderful hosts.
Reviewed on May 31, 2019 by Loren,   Report

Thanks for your review, Loren. You were a pleasure to host! Come back soon. : )

Manager Response
Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
Very cute and clean condo in a fantastic neighborhood. Lots of great bars, restaurants and the Denver Art Museum within walking distance. Lottie checked in with us regularly to make sure we had everything we needed. We would definitely stay here again.
Reviewed on May 29, 2019 by Erika & Tom, Nashville   Report

Erika and Tom - it was a pleasure to host you. Please do come back and stay with us again!

Manager Response
Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
Lottie was super helpful during our stay ! She made sure we were comfortable and werent lacking anything! I would be thrilled to have them host a future trip !!
Reviewed on Apr 30, 2019 by Crystal, Nashville   Report

You know what is hard? Not meeting the cool people who stay with us. Crystal seems to be one of those people! She attended a concert at Red Rocks while staying in one of the best neighborhoods in Denver - my kinda gal! Come back soon!!

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Capitol Hill Den
5/5 stars
Great location and and had all the amenities I needed for my week in Denver. Would definitely stay again.
Reviewed on Apr 8, 2019 by Andreas, Kelowna, BC   Report

Andreas, thanks for staying in our condo in Capitol Hill while attending your conference! You were a pleasure to host, and we welcome you back for next visit to Denver for work or pleasure.

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Refining, natural gas liquefaction and power generation for oil and gas industry often involve combustion turbines with an output above 40 MW.

In such cases, the combustion turbine itself, a gas fuel module and a water injection module are powerful noise sources of which the impact must be limited to protect workers in the power plant and neighbors as well.

Noise barriers walls and sound enclosures (both : with a steel structure able to withstand high loads due to wind and snow and seismic load as well, and with removables panels for walls and roof, if any) are constructions being appropriate for such a purpose, as long as they are compatible with maintenance requirements.

To enable the ventilation of the turbomachinery components, sophisticated ventilation systems are needed, involving fans meeting ATEX (for Explosive ATmospheres) requirements - based on a european directive - and silencers to limit (through openings needed for air inlet and outlet) the propagation of noise emitted by encapsulated hardware and also due to moto-ventilators themselves.

The features associated with soundproofing equipment in Oil and Gas sector are many and varied: they require multidisciplinary skills.

The existence of domestic regulations for building and for electrical works always involve complex works for project management and documentation preparation, for soundproofing works in the oil and gas sector : the stamping by local authorities is sometimes an essential phase.

Robust experience in metallic construction, electrical works and administrative tasks is required to face succesfully all challenges related to such projects, especially when related to overseas installations or/and petrochemical sites.

ITS has participated in the construction of soundproofing devices for 3 combustion turbines on a carabbean island in the context on an oil and gas project.

As often in such cases, it came to the design and construction of buildings whose envelope could oppose the propagation of noise, as well as the soundproofing devices of associated ventilation systems.

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Annie Juniper Knee Socks

Regular price $12.00

Pink and Green Stripe Socks

These lovely high knee socks are made in a soft and strong quality. Mix and match it with colorful outfits. Made with care.

A great finish to the perfect outfit! The socks are Oeko-Tex and Nordic Swan Ecolabel certified.

80% organic cotton, 17% polyamide, 3% elastane

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Cleaning Supplies for Pad Printing Systems

The IDS division carries a range of cleaning supplies for pad printing applications. The ITW Morlock and Trans Tech product lines offer exclusive, high-quality cleaning products that are designed to decrease the mess during your pad print projects, while increasing productivity.

Our ITW Morlock Brand:

Service Cart MW700 2.0 - is an ideal working tool for the pad printing operator. Made of stainless high-grade steel and therefore extremely hard wearing. Through optimization the new service cart compared to the previous version is a lot more flexible at a more attractive price range. Optimized for the pad printing users, the new MW700 2.0 is equipped with shelves to store auxiliary items, pads, tools and much more. For cleaning jobs a paper towel rack with towel holder is also integrated.

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- Functional and significantly slimmer than the previous model
- On wheels for easy transfer from one job to another
- Universal operator aid

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Job Clean-up - keeping your equipment and skin clean is important for maintaining the proper function, accuracy, and productivity of each job. Our Tran Tech cleaning products are high quality and cost effective, allowing your team to keep their areas clean, hands free of harmful chemicals, and their equipment in top working condition.
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- Paper Mixing Cups
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Inx-Off! - High performance hand cleaner
- Removes Printing Inks
- Safe for Daily Use on Skin
- Neutral Odor Without Harsh Solvents

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This device is engineered to provide our customers with a way to keep their pads clean during the printing process providing them with continued quality and lasting value.

The SkapeTape device works by allowing the operator to periodically remove unwanted material from the pad's surface, keeping the quality of the image free from dust specks and pinholes. The print quality is highest when the pad is clear of dust, dried ink, and other debris predominate in the pad printing process. View our SkapeTape How To Guide, located in our Resource Center, for more information.
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Canadian tech community mourns loss of John Reid, the tech sector’s tireless advocate

John Reid navigated the complicated waters of federal procurement and championed the rights of businesses with such grace, an outsider...

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Freedom Communication Technologies manufactures the industry's only portable, full-featured LMR test equipment. Our industry standard analyzers address every major LMR protocol, including P25 Phases 1 & 2, TETRA, DMR, NXDN, dPMR and Positive Train Control ("PTC"), the new rail safety standard. They possess an unrivaled set of analog test capabilities, having the functionality of multiple stand-alone instruments including a spectrum analyzer with the best spectral purity in an LMR test set.

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Freedom is the world's leading producer of test equipment for mission critical two-way communications.  We manufacture the industry-standard R8100 and R8000 communications system analyzers - portable instruments with lab grade specifications that service every major digital LMR protocol.

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Red Hat:

We talk to many shops that are adopting, or have adopted, DevOps practices. For many companies, staying ahead of disruption means not only delivering new applications but also optimizing (or changing!) current processes and systems. They are moving to team-based cultures, working in smaller increments, and automating their environments to try to increase the velocity for software development and deployment.

Having a common storage underpinning that is “self-service” for developers to provision and manage storage for their applications means teams have less friction in developing and shipping applications.

For the operations team, a consistent platform for development, testing, and production deployments is a big win. And self-service for developers means operations teams spend less time on provisioning services and more time on higher-level work that benefits the business.

Thus, persistent storage for containers remains a hot topic these days. While containers do a great job of storing the application and its logic, they do not offer a built-in solution for storing application data across the lifecycle of containers.

Why won’t traditional storage solutions work for containers?

A container may run for days, hours, minutes, or even just seconds depending on how the application is architected. Containers are disposable, but your data isn’t.

Ephemeral (or local) storage is not optimal because stateful applications require that the container’s data be available beyond the life of the containers. They also require that the underlying storage layer provide all the enterprise features available (such as scalability, multi-protocol support, mirroring, stretched clusters, etc) to applications that are deployed in say, virtualized environments.

This is an important consideration given that many environments have container hosts running in virtual machines (VMs) – so you need to be able to provide the persistent storage features required for virtualization, as well as features required for containers.  It’s critical to provide persistent storage options to administrators since hypervisors have always allowed for persistent storage in one form or the other.

One approach is to use traditional storage appliances that support legacy applications. This is a natural inclination and assumption, but… the wrong one.

Traditional storage appliances are based on older architectures and were not made for a container based application world. Nor do these approaches generally offer the portability you need for your apps in today’s hybrid cloud world. Some of these storage vendors offer additional software for your containers which can be used as a go-between for these storage appliances and your container orchestration, but this approach still falls short as it is undermined by those same storage appliance limitations. This approach would also mean that storage for the container is provisioned separately (different teams, different UIs, tools, etc) from your container orchestration layer.

How does software-defined storage work for containers?

There is a better way! Software defined storage, or specifically in this case: storage containers containing storage software can co-reside with compute containers and serve out storage from the hosts that have local or direct attached storage to the compute containers. These storage containers are deployed and provisioned using the same orchestration layer developers have adopted in house (like Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ) just like compute containers. In this deployment scenario, storage services are provided by using containerized storage software (like Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage) to more easily and seamlessly pool and expose storage from local hosts or direct attached storage to containerized applications.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is built with Red Hat Gluster Storage and offers flexible, cost-effective, and developer friendly storage for containers. It helps organizations standardize storage across multiple environments and easily integrates with Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a persistent storage layer for containerized applications that require long-term stateful storage. Enterprises can benefit from a simple, integrated solution including the container platform, registry, application development environment, and storage – all in one, supported by a single vendor.

To hear from one customer who implemented a Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage solution from Red Hat, please check out our case study with Brinker International.  Or looking for a more intimate understanding of how Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Container Storage work together? Take it for a free test drive and see for yourself.

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On May 12 - 16, 2015 IZOLYATSIA will present its annual residency program Architecture Ukraine. The presentation will be held at the International architectural festival CANactions

Architecture Ukraine is a new project organized with the aim of establishing cooperation between local and foreign experts. For the summer 2015 (July to August) IZOLYATSIA will invite eight international and local professionals (from the disciplines of architecture, art, data visualization and science) to explore the notion of architecture via the prism of inventive interventions within the urban context. Throughout the eight week period, frequent research trips, reviews, events, lectures and workshops will take place. At the end of the period the final exhibition of the winning projects will be presented as a result of the architecture residency program.

Until May 31, 2015, Architecture Ukraine holds an open-call for its potential participants. IZOLYATSIA is now accepting proposals from architects, artists, data visualizers and scientists desiring to explore the notion of architecture through the prism of inventive interventions. The project seeks to gather an international mix of creative individuals, ready to collaborate on new ways of ‘living’ in the 21st century.

By visiting the pavilion of IZOLYATSIA at the CANactions architecture festival the visitors will have the possibility to learn more about the aims and objectives of Architecture Ukraine

At the IZOLYATSIA pavilion will be also presented The Architectonic Self-service exposition, the project of a design group named YAD. The installation consists of several facilities built by anonymous painters, and found on the streets of Kyiv. In order to analyze and strengthen the visual features of the objects, the members of YAD (Andrei Gorokhov, Alexander Manukyants and Vitaly Morozov) have created the remakes of these designs. Painted in bright colors, the remakes emphasis a dialogue between the old and the new, the original and the fake, the anonymous and the author, the utilitarian and the visual. The Architectonic Self-service is the project implemented on the basis of the IZONE creative industry, it will be one of its first exhibitions.

Address of the CANactions festival: Art Cluster Vydubychi. 7v, Inzhenerna str.

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September 5, 2019

No field or job is free of accidents and/or errors. In fact, it is really normal for all kinds of organizations and manufacturers to run into problems in their projects or products, so it is not something to be surprised by when it does happen. However, the next step that needs to be followed after a mistake or an accident is to investigate what happened so that the proper corrective measures can be used next time in order to make sure that it does not happen again. This is where a root cause analysis comes in. As the name suggests, a root cause analysis helps companies establish what caused the error to happen.

There is an entire team that is usually equipped in handling and investigating the error, and there are a number of different techniques that can be used when conducting a root cause analysis. Regardless of what technique you use to investigate the matter, you have to follow a fixed guideline and format, and this is where templates really come in handy. In fact, you can easily find ready-made templates online that you can just download and then fill in your information on. If you happen to be interested in downloading a root cause analysis template, then you can simply check out

You can find different variants of these templates depending on the kind of root cause analysis that you are doing. So, you can find simple templates if you just want to focus on why something went wrong, and then there are other templates that incorporate other areas what circumstances happened that led to the problem occurring and so on. This ends up making your job a lot easier because you already have everything in front of you and all you have to do is fill in the information.

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Medical Case Study: Accelerate Time-to-Market with 3D Printing

Article by Kelly Clancy created/updated June 22, 2017

Use the power of 3D printing’s speed and precision to streamline your medical device development. Nidek Technologies, developer of ophthalmological diagnostic systems, leveraged this technology to accelerate prototyping and clinical trials.

Continue reading to learn about Nidek’s success and find out how 3D printing is a key factor in reducing their time to market.

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Nidek Technologies (Nidek), located in Padova, Italy, specializes in the development and prototyping of high-technology ophthalmological diagnostic systems. With all of its products having direct contact with patients, it’s crucial that Nidek produces fully-functional prototypes that precisely replicate the final product. This enables a comprehensive evaluation of the fit, form and function of new devices before investing in expensive clinical trials and moving to final production. As this process often proved costly in terms of lead-time and capital, Nidek Technologies turned to Stratasys 3D printing in a bid to optimize its prototyping process and, as a result, accelerate its clinical validation.

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Stratasys Objet500 Connex3 3D Printer.

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This was demonstrated in a recent project which saw Nidek Technologies produce a new automatic Gonioscope, a device designed to observe the space between the iris and cornea. Typically, the R&D team would create the prototypes using traditional manufacturing with expensive injection molds or use CNC machines to create the individual device components. This led to escalating lead-times and, should iterations be required, substantially increased prototyping costs.

As a solution to overcome these barriers, Nidek Technologies invested in a Stratasys Objet500 Connex3 3D Printer. “Our prototyping process has become much more streamlined since incorporating Stratasys 3D printing into our workflow,” says Cesare Tanassi, CEO at Nidek Technologies. “The technology enables us to develop complex parts with intricate geometries on-demand. The ability to validate designs early in the product development cycle helps us eliminate costly iterations during manufacturing, as well as significantly reducing our time-to-market compared to traditional prototyping methods.”

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The assembled Gonioscope prototype, built with 3D printed parts.

Deploying 3D Printed Devices Into Clinical Trials

According to Tanassi, waiting for production parts to conduct clinical evaluations creates costly delays. “Previously we were constrained by the time restrictions associated with traditional manufacturing. 3D printing overcomes these bottlenecks and permits us to quickly enter our devices into clinical trials. As you can imagine, fully verifying our products is crucial to ensuring that premium healthcare is maintained,” he explains. “In the case of the Gonioscope, the quality of the Stratasys 3D printed components saw the device pass a year-long clinical trial where eight global medical centers examined it. It will soon be utilized by clinics and hospitals around the globe, contributing to a novel way to diagnose glaucoma.”

Replacing Metal Parts with Durable Engineered Photopolymers

Beyond the Gonioscope, the benefits of 3D printing are impacting numerous other products. According to Federico Carraro, Mechanical Division Manager at Nidek Technologies, this occurred when developing the company’s microperimeter, a device used to determine the level of light perceived by specific areas of the retina.

Previously Nidek used metal fabrication for this device, which took around two months to create and dramatically delayed the prototyping cycle. “With our Stratasys Objet500 Connex3, we can combine a wide range of 3D printed materials with contrasting mechanical characteristics. This allows us to accurately emulate final parts, including threads, seals, rubber and transparent components. In this case, we achieved the same functional result within 24 hours by replacing metal parts with robust 3D printed components,” explains Carraro.

In the case of the Gonioscope, utilizing the tough flexibility and snap-fit characteristic of the Stratasys Rigur 3D printing material, we could replace several aluminum parts with a single 3D printed component. The ability to quickly 3D print high quality parts that require no post-processing has proven instrumental in cutting our iterations and directly reducing our product development cycle. In fact, since introducing Stratasys 3D printing, we have slashed our prototyping costs by 75% and accelerated our development time by 50%.

Clear Case for Transparent 3D Printed Parts

Nidek Technologies is now pioneering a new proprietary polishing process for its prototype illumination lenses. Traditionally the development of lenses requires several months of build time and cost thousands of Euros per lens. Concludes Tanassi, “In the future, with the VeroClear material, we may quickly 3D print prototype lenses with high clarity and smooth surface finish devoted to our illumination optics. We used a proprietary robotic polishing process for our 3D printed lenses.”

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Nidek 3D prints prototype lenses using highly polished VeroClear material.

The versatility of Connex3 PolyJet materials gives Nidek Technologies the tools to quickly overcome multiple challenges throughout the product development process. From ideation, to iterating prototypes, to clinical evaluation, 3D printing drives innovation, improves product design, saves cost and reduces product development time.

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The Argos family of scopes is one of Athlon Optic’s most advanced hunting riflescope lines to date.  These scopes have features normally only found on high-end scopes. It has a 5x magnification that makes it versatile in multiple shooting disciplines from up close targets to long range distances. It has our Fully-Multi Coated Optics that delivers a crystal clear bright image in in dark environments. The Argos family also has our exclusive XPL coating that protects your lenses from dirt, grease and harsh weather conditions.  The 6061T6 aircraft grade aluminum tube will protect these world class optics no matter what punishment you throw at it. WE didn’t build the Argos to just perform well optically we also built in features that make easy to adjust for any shot you have to take. Some models have Side Parallax Adjustment to give you the ability to adjust to any ranged right at your fingertips.  This along with the variety of second focal plane reticles give you easy elevation and windage adjustments.

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