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A recent court verdict in Bangladesh in a case almost 10 years old has brought into focus the continuing scourge of weapons-smuggling from China into South Asia.
A judge in the Bangladesh port city of Chittagong last week sentenced 14 men to death for their role in what was an aborted bid to smuggle in 1,500 boxes of weapons that needed ten trucks to carry.
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His observations have shone the light on the illicit trade that supplies weapons to armed groups in eastern South Asia.
These weapons boost the arsenal of India's Maoists as well as those in the country's northeast , officials say.
According to Major General Gaganjit Singh, former deputy chief of the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), Bangladesh's coast, south of Chittagong, had always been the favourite spot to land weapons brought in from China for onward supply.
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But following the change in government in Dhaka and a subsequent crackdown on armed groups, arms smugglers have opened up other routes, though they have not entirely forsaken their choice of Bangladesh as a preferred transit point.
"Bangladesh was no longer safe for landing Chinese weapons for onward transhipment to Maoists in India and Nepal or rebels in India's Northeast," says Singh.
The rebels have started picking up Chinese weapons from the Sino-Burmese border and bringing it to their bases in Northern Myanmar, points out G M Srivastava, former chief of Assam police.
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Indian intelligence officials have long suspected Barua to be the king-pin of the gun running.
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Singh has closely monitored Barua's activities during his long years of service in the Northeast.
Indian intelligence says Barua has been traced by signals interception - during a recent telephone call to a junior ULFA commander Jyotirmoy Bharali - to Ruili, a Chinese town on the country's south-western border with Myanmar.
A month ago, he was traced to Tenchong, a Myanmar town opposite Ruili.
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It was cancelled after Shimray's arrest.
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The first time India got conclusive evidence of its northeastern rebels picking up weapons from the Bangladesh coast was in April-May 1995.
Alerted by sources across the border, the Indian army started 'Operation Golden Bird' in the southern parts of Mizoram state bordering Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The rebels had picked up the weapons there after they had been carried inland from the Wyakung beach, south of Chittagong.
In a series of encounters with the rebel column, the Indian army killed 38 fighters and arrested 118 with an array of weapons.
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1. Advanced Materials Research Vol. 569 (2012) pp 376-379© (2012) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerlanddoi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.569.376 Dynamic shear stress evaluation on micro-turning tool using photoelasticity Soumen Mandal1, a, Anirudh Kumar1, b and Nagahanumaiah1, c 1 CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute a firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com: Polariscope, Poledioscope, Dynamic Photoelasticity, Micro-turning, Shear stress.Abstract. The paper presents an experimental methodology for evaluation of shear stress inducedon a micro-turning tool during micro-turning operation. A micro-turning tool manufactured bySandvik Coromant was used for micro- turning of a brass spindle. The front face of the tool wascleaned, polished and coated with a thin layer of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA), a birefringentmaterial. Subsequently, reflection photoelastic experiments were conducted to find the shearstresses induced on the micro-tool. A custom designed grey field poledioscope was used for thispurpose which was pre-calibrated and verified using disk under compression test. The tool wassubjected to turning operation and dynamic images of the tool were captured using Casio ELIXIMZR-200 camera in high speed movie mode at 1000 fps (frames per second) for four differentorientations of the analyzer simultaneously. These images were processed using a code developed inMATLAB software to generate a shear stress map of the tool dynamically at different time instantsof the machining process.IntroductionMicro machining industry and its related applications have undergone significant progress intoday's world of miniaturization due to its outstanding performance in generating miracles rangingfrom tiny micro holes to 3- D complex micro features. Lot of efforts have been focused to maintainreliability, accuracy, precision machining characteristics and efficacy of micro machining process byvarious researchers [1, 2]. However, research pertaining to health monitoring of cutting tool toprevent breakage during dynamic operation is limited in literature. Tool breakage may occur due tovarious reasons like increase in temperature, shearing, plowing, spindle vibration, high feed etc. It isa well established fact that shear stress on any material results in material fatigue. The same isapplicable on machining tools during operation and hence is a prevalent cause for tool failure [3]. Itbecomes mandatory to evaluate the shear stress induced on the micro tool during cutting operationsso that desired performance and tool life can be achieved. In this paper authors have proposed aprocess for shear stress measurement on micro-turning tool using photoelasticity. Photoelasticity isa well known and established phenomenon to evaluate stress on a material experimentally. Thephenomenon is based on the property of birefringence, an unique property exhibited by fewmaterials like calcite, plastics, glass, sapphire etc, showing double indices of refraction when stressis induced on the material. In order to visualize photoelasticity and correlate it mathematically tofind desired stress parameters a polariscope is used. We have used a grey field polariscope for ourapplication. A grey field polariscope works on detection of distribution of intensity (grey levels) onthe image which is simple to acquire and process. Further it uses a very simple set of mathematicalequations to evaluate stress parameters. Due to its simplicity of implementation and mathematicalcalculations authors use a grey field polariscope which was modified and customized into a greyfield poledioscope for the purpose.All rights reserved. No part of contents of this paper may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of TTP,www.ttp.net. (ID: 220.127.116.11-13/08/12,16:03:33)
Advanced Materials Research Vol. 569 377Experimental set upMicro machining centerIn order to conduct micro-turning process a micro machining center manufactured by MikrotoolsDT 110, Singapore was used. Fig. 1 shows the set up of the center with tool mounted on tool holder,a brass spindle for micro-turning fixed on work piece holder along with the custom designed greyfield poledioscope.Processing the micro-turning toolFor photoelastic experiment it is mandatory that the sample under investigation must bebirefringent. The tool used here manufactured by Sandvik Coromant (MAFL3010 1025) is ametallic micro tool and hence was devoid of such property. The front plane of the tool was coatedwith a thin layer of ethylene-vinyl-acetate, a photoelastic material.Development of Grey field polariscope and poledioscopeA grey Field Polariscope (GFP) is combination of both plane and circular polariscope. It uses alinear and a circular polarizing plate as its polarizer but only a linear polarizing plate as its analyzer.Further, the analyzer rotates and a camera synchronized with it captures images at specifiedorientations. In literature commonly GFP camera captures 3 or more images for every half circlerotation of the analyzer. These images are processed mathematically to find stress parameterspresent in the sample [4]. A poledioscope is a combination of a polariscope and a kaleidoscope.From design point of view, the polarizer section of a poledioscope is same as a polariscope but inthe analyzer part, a multi image lens (beam splitter) or a kaleidoscope is used. Thus 4 differentimages can be captured for 4 different orientations of linearly polarizing plates of analyzer in asingle shot. Fig. 2 shows the schematic of a typical polariscope along with the modifications. Thedesigned poledioscope can be visualized from Fig. 1. Fig. 1 Experimental set up Fig. 2 A polariscope and modificationsExperimental procedureBefore we describe the procedure, we present here a brief overview of the mathematics used todetermine quantitative values of stress from images captured using poledioscope which would beused recursively in each step of the experimental process. The equations and procedure used herecan be found in detail in [5].Eq. 1, 2 and 3 were used for processing the images.
378 Advanced Materials Design and Mechanics (( I ) 1 1 3 − I1 ) + ( I 4 − I 2 ) 2 2 2 ∆= (1) 2Ia 1 I1 − I 3 β = tan −1 (2) 2 I4 − I2 2π C (2t ) ∆= (σ 11 − σ 22 ) (3) λC is the stress optic coefficient, t is the specimen thickness (2t is used as light travels through thecoating twice in reflection photoelasticity), σ11 and σ22 are the principal stresses, λ is the wavelengthof light used, I1, I2, I3 and I4 are the intensity of each image pixel captured by the camera.. Fromequation 3, we can find the value of difference of principal stresses (σ11- σ22) provided that C, t andλ are known. The specimen thickness (t) and wavelength of light (λ) are already known parametersfrom experimental set up. The value of stress optic coefficient (C) can be found by calibrating thepolariscope with standard known stressed specimen.From Mohr circle the shear stress Γ12 is given by Eq. 4. (σ 11 − σ 22 ) τ 12 = tan 2 β (4) 2Calibration and testing of the instrumentA circular disk with diameter 9.1 cm and thickness 1.69 mm, coated with EVA layer of thickness1.29 mm was subjected to compressive loading under load of 4.68 N. A schematic is presented inFig. 3.From theory of linear elasticity [6], the solutions for the normal stresses are given by Eq. 5, 6 and 7. 2 2P D2 − 4 x2 σ x = σ 11 = (5) π hD D 2 + 4 x 2 2P 4D4 σ y = σ 22 =− − 1 (6) π hD ( D 2 + 4 x 2 )2 8P D 4 − 4 D 2 x 2 σ 11 − σ 22 = (7) π hD ( D 2 + 4 x 2 )2 Where, P is the applied load, h and D are the sample thickness and diameter respectively. Thevalues of ∆ (phase lag) on X axis of the disk were scanned with respect to position of the point onthe axis and a smooth and continuous curve was obtained by fitting these data points in MATLAB.The calculated stress using the continuous curve so obtained was linked with the stress valuesobtained using mathematical equations and the stress optic coefficient for the material wasdetermined. The calculated value for stress optic coefficient is 1.96 X 10-10 Pa-1. Verification for thedetermined value of stress optic coefficient was conducted by the same set up, under loadingcondition of P= 9.12 N. Good agreement was found between theoretical and experimental values.
Advanced Materials Research Vol. 569 379 Recording images during dynamic conditionsTool images were recorded under dynamic conditions during micro-turning process in a continuousmanner. Turning process was carried out with depth of cut being 100 micron, the feed velocitybeing 0.5 mm/min while the spindle was rotating at 2500 rpm. Casio EXILIM ZR-200 camera wasused in high speed movie mode at 1000 fps (frames per second) and images were captured duringdynamic operation. These images include the tool and also a number of other components like toolholder, work piece, work piece holder and other materials adjoining the tool. These unnecessaryobjects were cropped out, so that proper analysis could be performed. The processed imagescaptured for an instant t= 1 second are presented in Fig. 4. Fig.3Schematic of Fig. 4 Polariscope images for 0, 45, 90 disk under and 135 degree of analyzer. Fig. 5 Shear stress maps of the toolcompression. at time t=1 and 2 seconds.Experimental resultsThe captured images were processed using the mathematical equations 11 to 13. For this purpose aMATLAB code was developed and 4 images for 4 orientations were fed in the program as input at aparticular instant of time. Thus at any instant of time authors were able to assess the shear stressvalues at any point of the tool face. Complete shear stress map at time instants t=1 and 2 secondsalong with variation of stress at a particular point at these time instants is shown in Fig. 5.ConclusionIt is very well understood that due to process complexity and miniature tool size of turning processat micro scale, mapping stresses during dynamic operating conditions is a difficult task. Thedifficulty is conciliated here using a very simple but robust photoelastic coating methodology. Themethodology can effectively check tool breakage and inconveniences caused due to the same ascomplete shear stress map at every instant of dynamic operation is available to the user.References[1] Y. Okazaki: A micro-positioning tool post using a piezoelectric actuator for diamondturning machines Precision Engineering Vol. 12 (1992) p. 151-56.[2] G. Chern and Y. Chang: Using two-dimensional vibration cutting for micro-millingInternational Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture Vol. 46 (2006) p. 659-666.[3] V.P. Astakhov: Geometry of single-point Turning Tools and Drills: Fundamentals andPractical Applications Springer (2010) p. 16-18.[4] J. Lesniak, S.J. Zhan and E.A. Patterson: Design and Evaluation of Poledioscope: A NovelDigital Polariscope Experimental Mechanics, Vol 44 (2) p. 128-135 (2004).[5] W. Pin and A. Asundi: Phase shift polarimetry for non-invasive detection of laser-induceddamage Ninth International Symposium on Laser Metrology Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7155 (2008).[6] J.W. Dally and W.F. Riley: Experimental Stress Analysis McGraw Hill New York (1991).


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SEB Stegmann says London Welsh must not repeat the poor starts which almost proved costly against Leeds when they face Bristol tonight.
The 25-year-old back described the semi-final second leg of their 60-58 aggregate win over Leeds as "one of the craziest games I've been involved in".
But as the Exiles prepare to host Bristol in the final, Stegmann says they must be more consistent.
"That's the main thing we have got to look at," he said.
"We got away with it against Leeds, just through our endeavour, but we can't really afford to do the same against Bristol because they will put us to the sword.
"We have got to start well and be positive straight away.
"In the last 15 minutes against Leeds, when everything started coming together, it was a case of 'why weren't we doing that before?'"
Stegmann remains confident Welsh can find the form to combat Bristol and secure a Premiership return.
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Japan fell far short of their gold-medal target at the Olympics but still rejoiced on Monday in a record medal haul, hailing it as a boost to the country's recovery from last year's quake-tsunami disaster.
"A record-high 38 medals for Japan," blared a front-page headline in the business daily Nikkei's evening edition, hours after the London Games closed. The previous high was 37 from Athens 2004.
But only seven medals in London were gold, with Japanese judokas bagging only one of those. The Japanese Olympic Committee had been gunning for 15 golds, hoping that could invigorate its bid to host the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
Japan finished 11th in the overall medal standings, ahead of Kazakhstan but behind Australia. The US were in top spot with 46 golds.
"To exceed our previous overall best is something that we are happy with, plain and simple," Japan's chef de mission Haruki Uemura told Japanese media.
"We had never in the past been getting medals every day like we did here."Celebration
The major daily Mainichi Shimbun newspaper celebrated the team's performance.
"Although the number of gold medals fell short of the nine won in Beijing, many of the silver and bronze medals have greatly moved people who watched how they were won," it said.
Japanese swimmers grabbed a record 11 medals, although none of them was golden, as Kosuke Kitajima failed to lift a third straight double gold in the men's 100m and 200m breaststroke.
The Japanese women's football team went down fighting 2-1 to the United States, whom they beat in the World Cup final a year ago, to claim silver.
Japanese women won medals in table tennis and badminton for the first time - both of them silver. They also took a first volleyball medal in 28 years - a bronze.
Some of the gold medals came as no surprise. Three-time world all-around gymnastic champion Kohei Uchimura lifted his first Olympic gold while Saori Yoshida, Kaori Icho and Hitomi Obara won a women's wrestling title each.
Kaori Matsumoto took the only judo title for Japan in the women's 57kg.
But in the last two days of action, middleweight Ryota Murata grabbed the first men's boxing gold for Japan in 48 years and Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu won the first men's wrestling title for Japan in 24 years in the freestyle 66kg.Inspiration
Japanese endeavours in London have inspired the country's northeast, which was ravaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed some 19,000 people and sparked a nuclear crisis in March 2011.
Fencer Kenta Chida, who won the team foil silver, toured his tsunami-hit hometown of Kesennuma with his teammates Yuki Ota, Ryo Miyake and Suguru Awaji on Sunday.
He visited the grave of his best friend from childhood, Satoru Onoda, who had encouraged Chida to go for gold after his poor performance at Beijing 2008. Onoda drowned in the monster wave.
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"I told him, 'Satoru, I've done it.' I believe he is glad, too, in heaven," Chida told Japanese media. "Your support pushed me to get the silver medal and I am happy I was born in Kesennuma."
Mikio Miura, an electric appliance store owner, told the Sports Hochi that Chida had lifted the whole town.
"He has given me tremendous power. We will definitely recover. We welcome goods and money but today something reached our hearts," he said.
The Mainichi said that the Japanese team had been inspired by the trauma of last year.
"Many athletes have been engaged in activities to encourage disaster areas in various ways and draw strength from people there who have cheered for them," the newspaper said.
Japanese Olympians "may have taken to heart the power and role of sport more than ever", it added.
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At least 56 people have been arrested on suspicion of killing 32 villagers, including women and children, in the Tana Delta region in Kenya's southeast coast, police say.
"We launched a major overnight man-hunt for the attackers and arrested 56 suspects who we believe were involved in the attacks," Robert Kitur, chief of the Coast region deputy police, said on Sunday.
Police sent an additional team of 200 paramilitary officers to the region to disarm the fighters, and said among the dead were six women and 13 children.
The violent clashes on Friday saw semi-nomadic Orma pastoralists being attacked by Raiders, settled farmers from the Pokomo ethnic group, with guns, machetes and spears.
Up to eleven Pokomo had also died which authorities described as a reprisal raid following a series of clashes in August in which more than 100 people have died.
The east-African state is due to go to election in March 2013. The on-going dispute between the two groups has been triggered by contested access to grazing, farmland and water.
Hamisi Abdul, a survivor currently recuperating in hospital, said of the attack by the Pokomo: "They hacked everyone they came across with machetes and spears and shot indiscriminately at us, even as we scampered to seek safety in the bushes. It was confusion. We didn't know which direction they were coming from."
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Some say voters have punished Mas for his austerity policies. But, putting a positive spin on the results, he assured the crowd that the election result is still worth celebrating as they have still won and with twice as many seats as their nearest competitors.
The separatist left-wing ERC has come out as the real winner in the election. Despite being in second place it has doubled its number of seats in the regional assembly to 21. Celebrations were understandably more animated at the ERC headquarters.
There were also smiles all round at the headquarters of Spain's governing Popular Party.
"The separatists have failed," said regional leader Alicia Sanchez Comacho. "They have fewer politicians in the regional assembly than they did two years ago. They have lost two seats. This is what Artur Mas has achieved."
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|Clemson Returns to Action Saturday by Hosting Furman
|Clemson Athletic Communications - Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:52 AM
CLEMSON (7-2, 0-0 ACC) vs. FURMAN (4-5, 0-0 SoCon)
Tipoff: 7 p.m.
Tickets: 1-800-CLEMSON
Radio: CTSN (Pete Yanity-pbp; Tim Bourret-color)
Web: ESPN3 (Don Munson-pbp; Ralph Patterson-color)
• Clemson takes on Furman at home Saturday, with its eye on an eighth win in its first 10 games this season.
• The Tiger program has won 29 straight games in the series over the Paladins dating to the 1978-79 season.
• Saturday's game is the 150th meeting in history between the two schools. The only two schools Clemson has faced more often are South Carolina (164) and Wake Forest (154).
CU Series W-L record: Clemson leads 98-51
Streak: Clemson has won the last 29 meetings
• Clemson is coming off a 74-68 loss at Arkansas last Saturday. K.J. McDanielsK.J. McDaniels
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#32 6-6, 200
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• The Tigers continue to lead the nation in scoring defense, yielding just 53.6 points per game. Clemson is also tops nationally in field goal percentage defense with a .350 figure.
• Clemson is shooting .782 at the free throw line, currently the nation's seventh-best mark. McDaniels is second in the ACC with a .905 figure.
• Clemson has 11 players on its 13-man active roster averaging double figure minutes so far this season.
• McDaniels has scored 20 or more points in six games this season, second in the ACC behind only Jabari Parker of Duke.
• Damarcus HarrisonDamarcus Harrison
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• Freshman center Sidy DjitteSidy Djitte
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#50 6-10, 240
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View Full Profile posted season-highs in minutes (24), rebounds (10) and offensive rebounds (6) in the game at Arkansas.
• Saturday's game will be Camp Reunion Night. Anyone who attended camp was sent a voucher for free tickets via email. If anoyne attended camp and did not receive a voucher, please contact the men's basketball office. Due to NCAA rules, campers who are 7th grade or older will need to complete additional paperwork through the men's basketball office. Contact Susan Ruark at 864-656-1954.
• All elementary school children receive free admission when they show their elementary school pass. Passes must be redeemed at the Littlejohn Coliseum box office by a paying adult.
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|March 13, 2013 05:00 AM EDT
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of information availability software solutions, announced today the release of Attunity Replicate 2.1, a high-performance data delivery solution featuring several new enhancements for data warehousing. One key optimization is the addition of Attunity TurboStream CDC, an innovative feature designed to significantly enhance performance. This proprietary technology stages source data, consolidates changes, and delivers data in parallel to the target, optimizing change data capture (CDC) for high-volume and low-bandwidth scenarios. The enhanced Attunity Replicate solution is ideal for strategic initiatives including Big Data analytics and business intelligence typically seen in data warehouse and cloud environments.
Engineered from the ground up to meet the high-performance demands of Big Data, Attunity Replicate's new performance enhancements support many data warehouses, including Amazon Redshift, EMC Greenplum and Teradata. For example, optimizations for data delivery to Teradata include Attunity Replicate's use of Teradata Parallel Transporter (TPT) utilities, like FastLoad, to move large volumes of data into the Teradata database with optimal speed, ease and efficiency. These enhancements are designed to enable organizations to accelerate time to value and reduce the costs of provisioning data.
Attunity Replicate 2.1's new capabilities and optimizations include:
- TurboStream CDC (Change Data Capture): This new and innovative technology provides key optimizations for Amazon Redshift, EMC Greenplum and Teradata, leveraging the data warehouses' native features and utilities to optimize performance and agility.
- Support for new sources: ODBC (open database connectivity), Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Salesforce.
- Support for new targets: Amazon Redshift, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Teradata.
- Full Support for Large Objects: BLOBs, CLOBS, and NCLOBS.
- Enhanced expression Builders (Transforms, Filters, & Global Transformations): Significant investment in usability and graphical user interfaces.
- Improved Resource Utilization and Error Handling Policies
- Log File Management: Provides the ability to automatically delete or roll over log files according to the logs date and size.
"By leveraging each data warehouses' native technologies in combination with Attunity TurboStream CDC technology, Attunity Replicate provides optimized data delivery for Big Data analytics," explained Matt Benati, VP Global Marketing at Attunity. "In addition, Attunity TurboStream CDC technology speeds data replication to the cloud, where low-bandwidth lines traditionally cause data transfer bottlenecks and other related challenges. We believe that our customers will appreciate Attunity Replicate's new boost in performance, broadened platform support and quick ROI."
About Attunity
Attunity is a leading provider of information availability software solutions that enable access, sharing and distribution of data across heterogeneous enterprise platforms, organizations, and the cloud. Our software solutions include data replication, change data capture (CDC), data connectivity, enterprise file replication (EFR), managed-file-transfer (MFT), and cloud data delivery. Using Attunity's software solutions, our customers enjoy significant business benefits by enabling real-time access and availability of data and files where and when needed, across the maze of heterogeneous systems making up today's IT environment.
Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its enterprise-class customers for nearly 20 years and has successful deployments at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity provides software directly and indirectly through a number of partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and HP. Headquartered in Boston, Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. For more information, visit http://www.attunity.com or our In Tune blog and join our community on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Federal Securities laws. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will", "should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. Because such statements deal with future events, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from Attunity's current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: our reliance on strategic relationships with our distributors, OEM and VAR partners, including Microsoft; risks and uncertainties relating to acquisitions, including costs and difficulties related to integration of acquired businesses; our liquidity challenges and the need to raise additional capital in the future; timely availability and customer acceptance of Attunity's new and existing products, including Attunity Replicate; changes in the competitive landscape, including new competitors or the impact of competitive pricing and products; a shift in demand for products such as Attunity's products; the impact on revenues of economic and political uncertainties and weaknesses in various regions of the world, including the commencement or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism; and other factors and risks on which Attunity may have little or no control. This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that could cause actual results to differ. For a more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties affecting Attunity, reference is made to Attunity's Annual Report on Form 20-F/A for the year ended December 31, 2011, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the other risk factors discussed from time to time by Attunity in reports filed or furnished to the SEC. Except as otherwise required by law, Attunity undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
© Attunity 2013. All Rights Reserved. Attunity is a registered trademark of Attunity Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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