There have been unexpected positives that are forcing big Institutional Investors off the sidelines even if the average didnt do much today, dow gaining 47 points, s p inch up, nasdaq advancing. People didnt see what im about to talk about coming. And its really changing the landscape. First, i dont know many who look back at the last week and august and thought we saw a surge in activity in the use. But if you look, youll see something uncanny among all the charts of the industrials and all tech stocks. Youll see a bottom. Thats right. Those stocks, which have been pretty much in free fall for most of the summer if not the spring, started their pivot right then, at the end of august. Ive been over and over that period, trying to figure what the heck changed the economy to turned those stocks around. The answer not much at all. If anything, we caught another leg of delegal raciieseceleratd. The dollar . No. The earnings . Nothing. They were almost uniformly bad. No, there was only one
All the way to albapia. Im dannial lack in toronto. Home to the first museum of art from the muslim world. Good morning, thank you for joining us on Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im morgan radford. A 5month dispute obvious afghanistans presidency timely comes to an end. Overnight the two rivals signed off on a powersharing deal, one creating a unity government with the winner named as president. The runnerup shares power in a newly created job as chief executive. For more we turn to jennifer glasse. Live from kabul. How did the deal come together . Morgan, it was a longhammered out deal taking weeks of negotiations. This is the agreement, four pages long, and has an english translation. The whole idea is that it spells out who does what in the new government. The role of chief executive is a new role, created by a president ial decree after inauguration. The chief executive will have two deputy chief executives, and therell belongs therell be a longs Christopher Gibson.
Of adaptations. We took a wall and started writing all over the Different Things on the wall we thought drones were going to be used for. We came up with a lot of the common commercial ones we talked about here. Then we also kind of had a section of the wall where we wanted to come up with some of the things that we hoped and we wanted to see drones really used for. And aerial delivery of medicines. And those are two examples that we have been involved in since. Any other one of the interesting requests we got early days, walmart found us and they asked us if this is something they publicly talk about. They do, they use satellite imagery to figure out how many people go to the stores. But they want to take a step further and find out how many people go to the stores based on their commercials on tv. So being able to map that and correlate that based on i did this ad campaign and 30 people showed up at the store. Globally and regionally, its huge. All the manufacturing plants in china w
Manufacturing a new Competitive Edge in this global economy. The best thing washington can do is to encourage further growth in investment. As president obama noted in his recent speech touting 3d printing hubs, if you want to attract more good manufacturing jobs, you need to be on the cutting edge. Our company could not agree more. Id like to thank the committee for holding this hearing and id be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, mr. Cobb. Our next witness is Peter Weijmarshausen founder and ceo of shapeaways, the worlds leading 3d printing marketplace and community. Prior to shapeaways, peter was the chief Technology Officer at sanjen which he and his team developed satellite broadcast modems. Hes director of engineering at ermiska where hes responsible for delivering a Business Broadband Service via satellite. He was born and raised in the netherland and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee
I respectfully recommend that this committee encourage and support initiatives such as 3d maryland that have a focus on multisector, cross disciplinary precompetitive collaboration building on the strengths and Core Competencies to advantage practices, foster innovation and grow regional ecosystems taking advantage of public funding sources. Supporting initiatives like 3d maryland builds on the momentum created by recent initiatives such as the National Manufacturing National Additive manufacturing institute. Addressing and creating an adaptive work force that all points on the spectrum is critical to our engagement of these technologies. I would recommend working at the grassroots level, locally with users, with proven track records from both industry and education. So we can institute some changes in k through 16, Vocational Training and apprenticeship programs, et cetera. Wider adoption is inevitable. We need to ensure that the work force is prepared to increase engagement. Studies