Local bird watchers of any skill level can participate online in
annual citizen-science research this weekend. Participants in the Great
Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) simply watch birds at any location for at
least 15 minutes, tally the numbers of each species they see, and report
their tallies online at www.Come January 9 and chip card
driving licence would be available at the click of the mouse in Uttar
Pradesh.BirdCount.org. The GBBC lasts through Monday, February 18 and is
a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon, with
Canadian partner Bird Studies Canada.
There are hundreds of bird
species in the San Bernardino Mountains, including pelicans,
red-shafted flickers, bald eagles, wild turkey, violet-green swallows,
hawks,The USB flash drives wholesale
is our flagship product. yellow-rumped warblers, quail, chickadees,
woodpeckers, warblers, lesser goldfinches and a variety of ducks.
This
year, anyone visiting the GBBC website will be able to see bird
observations pouring in from around the world and contribute their own
tallies. Global participation will be made possible thanks toeBird, a
real-time online checklist program that the Cornell Lab and Audubon are
integrating into the GBBC for the first time this year. The four-day
count typically receives sightings from tens of thousands of people
reporting more than 600 bird species in the United States and Canada
alone.
Participants will be able to view what others are seeing
on interactive maps and contribute their tallies for ongoing bird
research and conservation efforts. For the first time, participants will
also be able to upload their counts from the field using the eBird
BirdLog app for Apple or Android smartphones. To celebrate the new
global reach of the count, developers of the eBird BirdLog app are
offering regional versions of the app for 99 cents this weekend.
Cornell
Lab director John Fitzpatrick said, “We’re looking forward to this
historic snapshot of birds that that will be reported from around the
world. We need as many people as possible to help build the wealth of
data that scientists need to track the health of bird populations
through time.”
Ralston said it also has been helpful to watch classmates teach and to learn about their teaching styles and techniques
Tankersley
said the program has grown and recently became accredited by the
National Association for the Education of Young Children after an
extensive process culminating with a site visit last January.Where you
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She
said accreditation had been in the works since before she began her
position and that it is helpful for both the preschool students who are
learning in the environment and for the university students who are able
to put it on a resume.
The preschool enrolls 16 to 20 students
per session and offers morning and afternoon sessions, where student
teachers work to develop language,Online shopping for luggage tag
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General Dynamics Land Systems will display the M1
Abrams Main Battle Tank, the Ocelot Light Tactical Vehicle and the
Stryker and LAV Double V-Hull (DVH) vehicles at IDEX 2013.They
manufacture custom rubber and silicone bracelet
and bracelets. The proprietary DVH technology represents a new standard
in armor protection on a combat-proven platform. The Foxhound is a
lightweight tactical vehicle that integrates V-hull, blast-protection
technology with a demountable protected crew pod that allows multiple
configurations for different roles.
General Dynamic Land Systems
- Force Protection is exhibiting the Ocelot, which is in‐service with
the British Army in Afghanistan. Ocelot's unique modular design makes it
a game changer in the protected 4x4 vehicle class. Shown for the first
time is the surveillance variant with mast mounted sensor suite and RWS.
This variant provides a highly survivable border security capability
and is one variant in a family of mission modules that includes a C2, a
load carrying, a troop patrol and a long range special ops carried on a
common base platform. This unique 'rapid swap out' design provides
commanders with genuine mission options as well as providing significant
advantages in reduced whole life costs resulting from a genuine family
of vehicles.
General Dynamics United Kingdom General Dynamics
United Kingdom will be showcasing its Security and Resilience, Vehicle
Integration and Communications systems expertise at the exhibition.
General Dynamics United Kingdom has been responsible for helping to make
the recently inaugurated Khalifa Port outside Abu Dhabi one of the most
technologically advanced and most secure ports in the world by
delivering its entire Port Operating System. Representatives of the
company will be present at IDEX 2013 to explain its part in two
nationally important programmes and its full range of capabilities
including deployable infrastructures and its leading capabilities in
Long Term Evolution networks for tactical command and control for armed
forces and national emergency services.
IDEX is held under the
patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President
of the UAE, and supported by His Highness Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and
Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
2013年2月16日 星期六
2012年1月30日 星期一
This Is The Most Badge-Engineered Car Of All Time
Badge engineering has been part of the auto industry ever since someone figured out the magical mix of calculus and alchemy that somehow makes money by selling the same car under different names. I've never been entirely sure how this actually works, but it must — because automakers continue to do it.
But which car gets the platform prostitution crown? I think I know the answer.
Badge-engineered cars are also fascinating in the way that studies of twins are fascinating: when you start with two things that are essentially the same, even the most minor of differences take on vast new levels of importance. For example, looking at, say, the Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat can tell you all you need to know about how the two brands see themselves. The Ford is the base model, the Mercury adds fussier, more delicate trim, a more chrome-laden grille,This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game. wider taillights– little things, but they all add up to the more upmarket tone the Bobcat aspires to.
Eventually, thinking about badge-engineering leads to one of two paths: the more common one, where you wise up and stop wasting time on it, and the other, where you begin to wonder about the extremes of badge engineering. Specifically, what car has been the most badge-engineered— what essentially identical car has been whored out under the most different names and marques?
I think I know. At first, I figured it would be one of the Fiat 128 series, which has evolved into Ladas, Zastavas, Nasrs, and more, but those are different than simple badge engineering, as they're more the seeds for entirely new, derivative models. I was looking for something that was really the same car, tarted up with different lights, trim,You can find best china precision Precision injection molds manufacturers from here! badges to seem different. And I think I found it: the Hillman Avenger.
The Avenger was a fairly conventional little car of the era, with pleasing styling and proportions,A Coated Abrasives is an abrasive grain bonded to a flexible substrate using adhesives.Information on useful yeasts and moulds, and solid if unimaginative mechanicals– an ideal combination for a car to quietly spread all over the world.
The Hillman Avenger, introduced in 1970, has been sold under an amazing nine (at least) separate names: Hillman Avenger, Chrysler Avenger, Sunbeam 1250 TC, Talbot Avenger, Plymouth Cricket, Dodge Polara, Dodge 1500 (Brazil), Dodge 1800 (Argentina), Dodge Avenger (New Zealand, built by Mitsubishi), and the Volkswagen 1500. These are all basically the same car, with some variations of engine and styling.
The Volkswagen one is especially weird, as it has the distinction of being the only front-engine/rear-drive car ever sold under the VW name; VW produced it when they bought the tooling from Chrysler, who was pulling out of the Argentinian market. It's confusing in both name (VW's Type IIIs were already sold under the name VW 1500) and looks, with its bizarre mix of late-60s British styling and Bauhaus/80s-era watercooled VW front end treatment and trim.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,
I could be wrong, but this Hillman seems to take the crown. Anyone know of any single car with more aliases?
But which car gets the platform prostitution crown? I think I know the answer.
Badge-engineered cars are also fascinating in the way that studies of twins are fascinating: when you start with two things that are essentially the same, even the most minor of differences take on vast new levels of importance. For example, looking at, say, the Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat can tell you all you need to know about how the two brands see themselves. The Ford is the base model, the Mercury adds fussier, more delicate trim, a more chrome-laden grille,This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game. wider taillights– little things, but they all add up to the more upmarket tone the Bobcat aspires to.
Eventually, thinking about badge-engineering leads to one of two paths: the more common one, where you wise up and stop wasting time on it, and the other, where you begin to wonder about the extremes of badge engineering. Specifically, what car has been the most badge-engineered— what essentially identical car has been whored out under the most different names and marques?
I think I know. At first, I figured it would be one of the Fiat 128 series, which has evolved into Ladas, Zastavas, Nasrs, and more, but those are different than simple badge engineering, as they're more the seeds for entirely new, derivative models. I was looking for something that was really the same car, tarted up with different lights, trim,You can find best china precision Precision injection molds manufacturers from here! badges to seem different. And I think I found it: the Hillman Avenger.
The Avenger was a fairly conventional little car of the era, with pleasing styling and proportions,A Coated Abrasives is an abrasive grain bonded to a flexible substrate using adhesives.Information on useful yeasts and moulds, and solid if unimaginative mechanicals– an ideal combination for a car to quietly spread all over the world.
The Hillman Avenger, introduced in 1970, has been sold under an amazing nine (at least) separate names: Hillman Avenger, Chrysler Avenger, Sunbeam 1250 TC, Talbot Avenger, Plymouth Cricket, Dodge Polara, Dodge 1500 (Brazil), Dodge 1800 (Argentina), Dodge Avenger (New Zealand, built by Mitsubishi), and the Volkswagen 1500. These are all basically the same car, with some variations of engine and styling.
The Volkswagen one is especially weird, as it has the distinction of being the only front-engine/rear-drive car ever sold under the VW name; VW produced it when they bought the tooling from Chrysler, who was pulling out of the Argentinian market. It's confusing in both name (VW's Type IIIs were already sold under the name VW 1500) and looks, with its bizarre mix of late-60s British styling and Bauhaus/80s-era watercooled VW front end treatment and trim.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,
I could be wrong, but this Hillman seems to take the crown. Anyone know of any single car with more aliases?
2012年1月29日 星期日
UWI inventors seek investors
GASPS of amazement emanated from the group of onlookers gathered inside the demonstration tent on the lawns of the Caribbean's premier tertiary institution last week as researchers switched on what could be the world's first cardiac surgery simulator.
The machine with the pulsating pig's heart was the highlight of the University of the West Indies' (UWI) 13th annual Research Days,FIRMAR is a Malaysia Injection Moulding Manufacturer and Plastic Injections Components Manufacturer, held last Thursday and Friday. It could also be the start of great things for cardiac surgeons Drs Paul Ramphal and Daniel Coore, who invented the machine, called the UWI Cardiac Surgery Similator.
According to the two, the instrument — a combination of mechanics, computerised electronics, artificial blood, and dead animal flesh — will not only shorten the time spent on training young local surgeons, but will also make them more competitive on the international scene.
"It is difficult to spend time during the (real life) operations taking junior surgeons through the procedure. Time is of the essence in cardiac surgery," said Ramphal, who said he was tasked with the challenge of training three new cardiac surgeons in 2001.
"So the inspiration really, was how do I get my new trainees to a level so that when they reach overseas to complete their training in a high-volume centre like the UK, Canada, or the US,Johnson Tiles UK offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online, they will not be behind, and preferably in a more advanced position than the other trainees who were at those centres?" he said.
The similator,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, which reanimates a pig's heart — medically, the closest in structure to a human heart — also pumps artifical blood through the organ and is programmed to duplicate real-life scenarios that a trainee surgeon would have to deal with on the operating table during open-heart surgery. Computer leads hooked up to the heart can make it beat in different rhythms, and also track artificial vital signs on an attached monitor.
It's considered a remarkable achievement, with nearly limitless potential if the simulator can be duplicated and sold in the specialised market for cardiac equipment.
This is why the success of the UWI Research Days notwithstanding, its inventors are looking for investors to help them duplicate their creation.
"Whenever we show it to the professionals in the field or the industry people who are involved with the equipment in cardiac surgery, they all want one," he said. They want to know where to buy one, but we just don't have the infrastructure here to be the production centre," said Dr Ramphal.
"We are not a factory. We need a commercial operation to do that," interjected Dr Coore. "So we are in the stage where we are looking for commercial entities to take it on, produce it and to sell it,You can find best china precision Precision injection molds manufacturers from here!This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game." he said.
The two refused to say what was the monetary value of the machine, claiming "that might be confidential to whoever commercialises it", and further declined to answer queries about how much money they would need to replicate it commercially.
The machine with the pulsating pig's heart was the highlight of the University of the West Indies' (UWI) 13th annual Research Days,FIRMAR is a Malaysia Injection Moulding Manufacturer and Plastic Injections Components Manufacturer, held last Thursday and Friday. It could also be the start of great things for cardiac surgeons Drs Paul Ramphal and Daniel Coore, who invented the machine, called the UWI Cardiac Surgery Similator.
According to the two, the instrument — a combination of mechanics, computerised electronics, artificial blood, and dead animal flesh — will not only shorten the time spent on training young local surgeons, but will also make them more competitive on the international scene.
"It is difficult to spend time during the (real life) operations taking junior surgeons through the procedure. Time is of the essence in cardiac surgery," said Ramphal, who said he was tasked with the challenge of training three new cardiac surgeons in 2001.
"So the inspiration really, was how do I get my new trainees to a level so that when they reach overseas to complete their training in a high-volume centre like the UK, Canada, or the US,Johnson Tiles UK offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online, they will not be behind, and preferably in a more advanced position than the other trainees who were at those centres?" he said.
The similator,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, which reanimates a pig's heart — medically, the closest in structure to a human heart — also pumps artifical blood through the organ and is programmed to duplicate real-life scenarios that a trainee surgeon would have to deal with on the operating table during open-heart surgery. Computer leads hooked up to the heart can make it beat in different rhythms, and also track artificial vital signs on an attached monitor.
It's considered a remarkable achievement, with nearly limitless potential if the simulator can be duplicated and sold in the specialised market for cardiac equipment.
This is why the success of the UWI Research Days notwithstanding, its inventors are looking for investors to help them duplicate their creation.
"Whenever we show it to the professionals in the field or the industry people who are involved with the equipment in cardiac surgery, they all want one," he said. They want to know where to buy one, but we just don't have the infrastructure here to be the production centre," said Dr Ramphal.
"We are not a factory. We need a commercial operation to do that," interjected Dr Coore. "So we are in the stage where we are looking for commercial entities to take it on, produce it and to sell it,You can find best china precision Precision injection molds manufacturers from here!This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game." he said.
The two refused to say what was the monetary value of the machine, claiming "that might be confidential to whoever commercialises it", and further declined to answer queries about how much money they would need to replicate it commercially.
Southee expecting more from Zimbabwe
For all the highs the New Zealand cricket team has experienced during the past few months, there's one black mark on the score sheet that still makes for ugly reading.
It's not the nine-wicket hammering they copped in the first test in Brisbane against Australia in December - sure,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, that was bad, but Aussie on their home soil were always going to be tough.
What's worse was New Zealand's failure to defend 328 in a one-day international against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in October.
Forget that it was a dead rubber and Zimbabwean Malcolm Waller played an innings out of the box with 99 not out from 74 balls.
New Zealand went into that series saying nothing less than a clean sweep was acceptable and the loss was a messy blotch on the tour.
As luck would have it, Zimbabwe are touring these shores and meet New Zealand in three one-dayers with the first to be played in Dunedin on Friday, providing a chance for the Black Caps to right the ship.
New Zealand paceman Tim Southee didn't play in that one-wicket loss to Zimbabwe, but said the visitors were a threat in one-day cricket, despite the towelling they took in the one-off test that wrapped up in Napier on Saturday.
"I think they'll learn from this experience and they'll come back harder," Southee said of the innings and 301-run defeat the tourists suffered.
"I guess in the shorter form of the game there's more chance of upsets and they beat us in Zimbabwe not that long ago. So they'll feel that they'll be confident. But we've obviously got some fresh faces in that side and there's some exciting guys that will be keen to get a go and hopefully they do well and make the most of their opportunities."
Yesterday New Zealand coach John Wright revealed his new-look one-day and Twenty20 squads to meet Zimbabwe and as Southee pointed out,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. there's some new boys on the block.A Coated Abrasives is an abrasive grain bonded to a flexible substrate using adhesives.
Calf injuries to Ross Taylor and Jesse Ryder forced the hand of Wright, while the relative ease with which New Zealand should beat Zimbabwe opened the door for rookies to be given a chance.
The uncapped foursome of Michael Bates, Tarun Nethula, Tom Latham and Andrew Ellis have been included in the one-day squad, while Bates is also one of three newcomers in the Twenty20 mix alongside Ronnie Hira and Colin de Grandhomme.
Dean Brownlie, who has played tests and Twenty20 internationals but is yet to make his 50-over debut, has been picked in both squads.
With South Africa touring next month to play three Twenty20s, one-dayers and test matches, warming up for the Proteas by meeting Zimbabwe seems the ideal lead in.
The New Zealand camp is on a high following their recent test-match exploits and Southee, who debuted for the Kiwis in 2008, said the confidence was flowing through the side.
"It's a good mixture between the young guys and also the older experienced guys. So it's a great environment to be involved in and when you keep winning it's sort of a great habit to get in to and you enjoy your cricket a lot more when you're winning. So it's a pretty good camp to be involved with at the moment."
Brendon McCullum will captain New Zealand in the absence of Taylor,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,Smooth-On is your source for Mold Making and casting materials including silicone rubber and urethane rubber, who wants to return to the fold by the first one-dayer against South Africa in Wellington on February 25.
It's not the nine-wicket hammering they copped in the first test in Brisbane against Australia in December - sure,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, that was bad, but Aussie on their home soil were always going to be tough.
What's worse was New Zealand's failure to defend 328 in a one-day international against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in October.
Forget that it was a dead rubber and Zimbabwean Malcolm Waller played an innings out of the box with 99 not out from 74 balls.
New Zealand went into that series saying nothing less than a clean sweep was acceptable and the loss was a messy blotch on the tour.
As luck would have it, Zimbabwe are touring these shores and meet New Zealand in three one-dayers with the first to be played in Dunedin on Friday, providing a chance for the Black Caps to right the ship.
New Zealand paceman Tim Southee didn't play in that one-wicket loss to Zimbabwe, but said the visitors were a threat in one-day cricket, despite the towelling they took in the one-off test that wrapped up in Napier on Saturday.
"I think they'll learn from this experience and they'll come back harder," Southee said of the innings and 301-run defeat the tourists suffered.
"I guess in the shorter form of the game there's more chance of upsets and they beat us in Zimbabwe not that long ago. So they'll feel that they'll be confident. But we've obviously got some fresh faces in that side and there's some exciting guys that will be keen to get a go and hopefully they do well and make the most of their opportunities."
Yesterday New Zealand coach John Wright revealed his new-look one-day and Twenty20 squads to meet Zimbabwe and as Southee pointed out,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. there's some new boys on the block.A Coated Abrasives is an abrasive grain bonded to a flexible substrate using adhesives.
Calf injuries to Ross Taylor and Jesse Ryder forced the hand of Wright, while the relative ease with which New Zealand should beat Zimbabwe opened the door for rookies to be given a chance.
The uncapped foursome of Michael Bates, Tarun Nethula, Tom Latham and Andrew Ellis have been included in the one-day squad, while Bates is also one of three newcomers in the Twenty20 mix alongside Ronnie Hira and Colin de Grandhomme.
Dean Brownlie, who has played tests and Twenty20 internationals but is yet to make his 50-over debut, has been picked in both squads.
With South Africa touring next month to play three Twenty20s, one-dayers and test matches, warming up for the Proteas by meeting Zimbabwe seems the ideal lead in.
The New Zealand camp is on a high following their recent test-match exploits and Southee, who debuted for the Kiwis in 2008, said the confidence was flowing through the side.
"It's a good mixture between the young guys and also the older experienced guys. So it's a great environment to be involved in and when you keep winning it's sort of a great habit to get in to and you enjoy your cricket a lot more when you're winning. So it's a pretty good camp to be involved with at the moment."
Brendon McCullum will captain New Zealand in the absence of Taylor,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,Smooth-On is your source for Mold Making and casting materials including silicone rubber and urethane rubber, who wants to return to the fold by the first one-dayer against South Africa in Wellington on February 25.
2012年1月15日 星期日
A pitch-perfect pitch at CES
Concert pianist Bob Taub watched his teenage daughter strive to learn the violin, and wondered: Could he design a digital tool to help her see and hear the exact notes where she was going astray?
Last week, six years into an add-on career as an inventor, Taub was here at the massive International Consumer Electronics Show, moving his idea a bit closer to reality.
His invention, MuseAmi, is already at the heart of an iPhone app that may prove to be the ultimate Karaoke tool. You sing into your phone, and ImproVox corrects your pitch, adds harmonies, and even mixes in effects such as echo and reverb.
But that is just the start for a software engine so powerful that it can read a musical score and translate it into sound, or listen to sound and transform it into a musical score.
As Taub, who lives in Princeton, sees it, MuseAmi could transform how people learn,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, sing, record, and perform all kinds of music. And it could eventually be at the heart of devices that will hear words spoken in one language and play them back - in real time - in another.
Big ideas are the lifeblood of the Consumer Electronics Show - an event that's known to geeks and engineers everywhere simply as CES and that for a few days each year turns Sin City into Technopolis.
CES is a glitzy stage and showcase for many of the biggest names in technology. But it is also a magnet for budding entrepreneurs, inventors, and start-ups that want to change the world, or at least a small slice of it,Johnson Tiles UK offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online, and perhaps make a fortune along the way.
Some, such as FreeOneHand, are here to show off inventions that, strictly speaking, are not electronic at all but capitalize on devices such as the iPhone and iPad. A spin-off of a Northeast Philadelphia injection-molding company, Engineered Plastics, FreeOneHand developed an ergonomically improved iPad holder. With the $40 device, the company says, an iPad user can read for hours without the usual fatigue.
Others, such as Chalfont-based Telikin, are trying to carve a niche directly into the businesses of industry giants. Telikin makes two simple-to-use touch-screen computers geared to customers, such as senior citizens, who might be scared away by the complexity of a Windows computer or the price tag of an Apple.
Based on the open-source Linux operating system,FIRMAR is a Malaysia Injection Moulding Manufacturer and Plastic Injections Components Manufacturer, the $699, 18-inch Telikin Touch and the $999, 20-inch Telikin Elite offer virtually everything a home user might want, including access to e-mail, the Web, photos, video, and documents. They also come with features especially appealing to newbies - or to children or grandchildren who might want to buy one for a family member.China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development.
One feature, Tech Buddy, allows the computer's owner to grant remote-control access to a relative or friend - say, in case Mom needs help or a refresher lesson. Another is a special link that shows Facebook photos without a visit to the social network's website.
"We have a lot of baby boomer customers who have parents who want to see pictures but are leery of Facebook," said sales manager Cheryl Lewis.
A large part of what matters at CES happens behind the scenes, however - the place where Bob Taub and a colleague met with representatives of some of the biggest names in the electronics and music businesses, although he is barred from naming names by nondisclosure agreements.
One clue came from where Taub camped out during his days at the show: at the booth of Qualcomm, a leading chip-maker that makes the brains for iPhones, Androids, and other cutting-edge devices.
The booth displayed a demonstration product that MuseAmi created with Qualcomm, which has technology that allows two people using separate microphones to participate together in an activity. The demo was a game in which players compete to identify a song when a brief snippet is played - similar to a one-player game, Drop the Needle, that MuseAmi has offered since the summer as an iPhone app.
Taub said the apps were just a taste of what MuseAmi can do, thanks to elegant "machine learning" algorithms developed by an impressive team that includes Yann LeCun, a professor of computer science and neural science at New York University and a leading developer of a kind of artificial intelligence known as "convolutional neural networks."
LeCun's networks play a key role in software that can distinguish between a genuine signature and a forgery with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Bob Stockman, chief executive officer of a biotechnology company, Reva Medical Inc., and MuseAmi's lead angel investor, agrees with Taub that they can play a similar role in machine learning of music and voice.
"The largest music studios, and people developing chipsets for computers and handsets and businesses, see the power of this technology," Stockman said. "The demonstrations blow everybody away, and they all want to figure out a way to incorporate it."
Taub's musical prowess certainly helps. A graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School, he has performed since the 1980s with the Philadelphia Orchestra and other leading orchestras around the world.
So, undoubtedly, does a lifelong fondness for tinkering with things, such as the vintage motorbikes he has rebuilt.
Taub said MuseAmi analyzes six parameters of music: frequency; rhythm; note clarity; volume; and vibrato. Its intelligence is so sophisticated that it should be able to identify a song even when a bad singer is attempting it, he said.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,
But MuseAmi's most impressive feature may be the simplicity of its software. Taub said ImproVox, which contains many of MuseAmi's key features, uses only about 20 percent of an iPhone's processing power.
Even with that, it is powerful enough to fix your pitch, create harmonies - even build four separate lines, so you can sing with yourself like a barbershop quartet.
Last week, six years into an add-on career as an inventor, Taub was here at the massive International Consumer Electronics Show, moving his idea a bit closer to reality.
His invention, MuseAmi, is already at the heart of an iPhone app that may prove to be the ultimate Karaoke tool. You sing into your phone, and ImproVox corrects your pitch, adds harmonies, and even mixes in effects such as echo and reverb.
But that is just the start for a software engine so powerful that it can read a musical score and translate it into sound, or listen to sound and transform it into a musical score.
As Taub, who lives in Princeton, sees it, MuseAmi could transform how people learn,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, sing, record, and perform all kinds of music. And it could eventually be at the heart of devices that will hear words spoken in one language and play them back - in real time - in another.
Big ideas are the lifeblood of the Consumer Electronics Show - an event that's known to geeks and engineers everywhere simply as CES and that for a few days each year turns Sin City into Technopolis.
CES is a glitzy stage and showcase for many of the biggest names in technology. But it is also a magnet for budding entrepreneurs, inventors, and start-ups that want to change the world, or at least a small slice of it,Johnson Tiles UK offer the largest range of porcelain tiles online, and perhaps make a fortune along the way.
Some, such as FreeOneHand, are here to show off inventions that, strictly speaking, are not electronic at all but capitalize on devices such as the iPhone and iPad. A spin-off of a Northeast Philadelphia injection-molding company, Engineered Plastics, FreeOneHand developed an ergonomically improved iPad holder. With the $40 device, the company says, an iPad user can read for hours without the usual fatigue.
Others, such as Chalfont-based Telikin, are trying to carve a niche directly into the businesses of industry giants. Telikin makes two simple-to-use touch-screen computers geared to customers, such as senior citizens, who might be scared away by the complexity of a Windows computer or the price tag of an Apple.
Based on the open-source Linux operating system,FIRMAR is a Malaysia Injection Moulding Manufacturer and Plastic Injections Components Manufacturer, the $699, 18-inch Telikin Touch and the $999, 20-inch Telikin Elite offer virtually everything a home user might want, including access to e-mail, the Web, photos, video, and documents. They also come with features especially appealing to newbies - or to children or grandchildren who might want to buy one for a family member.China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development.
One feature, Tech Buddy, allows the computer's owner to grant remote-control access to a relative or friend - say, in case Mom needs help or a refresher lesson. Another is a special link that shows Facebook photos without a visit to the social network's website.
"We have a lot of baby boomer customers who have parents who want to see pictures but are leery of Facebook," said sales manager Cheryl Lewis.
A large part of what matters at CES happens behind the scenes, however - the place where Bob Taub and a colleague met with representatives of some of the biggest names in the electronics and music businesses, although he is barred from naming names by nondisclosure agreements.
One clue came from where Taub camped out during his days at the show: at the booth of Qualcomm, a leading chip-maker that makes the brains for iPhones, Androids, and other cutting-edge devices.
The booth displayed a demonstration product that MuseAmi created with Qualcomm, which has technology that allows two people using separate microphones to participate together in an activity. The demo was a game in which players compete to identify a song when a brief snippet is played - similar to a one-player game, Drop the Needle, that MuseAmi has offered since the summer as an iPhone app.
Taub said the apps were just a taste of what MuseAmi can do, thanks to elegant "machine learning" algorithms developed by an impressive team that includes Yann LeCun, a professor of computer science and neural science at New York University and a leading developer of a kind of artificial intelligence known as "convolutional neural networks."
LeCun's networks play a key role in software that can distinguish between a genuine signature and a forgery with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Bob Stockman, chief executive officer of a biotechnology company, Reva Medical Inc., and MuseAmi's lead angel investor, agrees with Taub that they can play a similar role in machine learning of music and voice.
"The largest music studios, and people developing chipsets for computers and handsets and businesses, see the power of this technology," Stockman said. "The demonstrations blow everybody away, and they all want to figure out a way to incorporate it."
Taub's musical prowess certainly helps. A graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School, he has performed since the 1980s with the Philadelphia Orchestra and other leading orchestras around the world.
So, undoubtedly, does a lifelong fondness for tinkering with things, such as the vintage motorbikes he has rebuilt.
Taub said MuseAmi analyzes six parameters of music: frequency; rhythm; note clarity; volume; and vibrato. Its intelligence is so sophisticated that it should be able to identify a song even when a bad singer is attempting it, he said.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free,
But MuseAmi's most impressive feature may be the simplicity of its software. Taub said ImproVox, which contains many of MuseAmi's key features, uses only about 20 percent of an iPhone's processing power.
Even with that, it is powerful enough to fix your pitch, create harmonies - even build four separate lines, so you can sing with yourself like a barbershop quartet.
2012年1月9日 星期一
Machinery outlook for 2012 looking bright
According to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), the forecast for manufacturing technology demand calls for "continued but slower growth.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality," That comment comes on the heels of a resurgence in U.S. manufacturing technology orders that put the year-to-date (Dec. 26, 2011) total at $463.32 million, up 80.5% compared with 2010, and the second highest dollar amount in the last 15 years.
"It's long been recognized that analysis of manufacturing technology orders provides a reliable leading economic indicator, as it is an indicator that manufacturing firms are investing in capital equipment to increase their capacity and improve productivity," said Douglas K. Woods, AMT president. "These machines and devices are the equipment that turn raw materials such as steel, iron, plastic, ceramics, composites and alloys from their original state as stock materials into what will become durable goods such as airplanes, cars, and appliances, as well as consumer and other goods that are used every day."
Throughout 2011, various machinery and equipment producers for the plastics industry have reported extremely good sales numbers. Sumitomo Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, said in a mid-May release that the company "is pleased about the high level of capacity utilization at its factory" in Wiehe, Germany. It went on to boast of "substantial orders" from both domestic and international customers such as the one from geobra Brandstatter for 50 hydraulic Systec machines for the production of Playmobil toys, headquartered in Zimdorf, Germany.
"Substantial orders from China, Mexico and Turkey confirm the upward trend to be observed in many important markets abroad that suffered a particularly bad hit during the financial and economic crisis," said Christian Renners, GM of the sales and after sales business unit at Sumitomo Demag.
Word on the street from various sales sources say that North American molding manufacturers saw similar sales upturns in 2011. The future for North American molders in 2012 appears to be one of higher capacity utilization as well, note some of these sources who say that they're seeing many of the larger mold manufacturing operations out 25-30 weeks in backlog.
CBW Automation in Fort Collins, CO,Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, has seen a big spike in orders for its automation equipment. "We've hired 30% more people, are running additional shifts, and have invested in additional capital equipment for our production floor," said David Carson, CBW president. "This appears to be a very solid manufacturing turnaround."
Tax incentive fueled?
Did the accelerated depreciation tax break given by the federal government have anything to do with these increased sales of machinery and equipment. "Our research says it had some impact on people's willingness to drive investment sooner, and to get the added incentive is beneficial," commented AMT's Woods in an interview with PlasticsToday. "This year, many in the manufacturing industry essentially had a good year compared to previous years and as they looked at their cash position and tax position, decided to make the investment, with or without that expensing ability of the accelerated depreciation. Many are in better financial position and are trying to reposition themselves better with regard to taxes."
CBW's Carson said, "My understanding is that the equipment has to be delivered and installed by year end, but we booked orders into the new year as of 20 weeks ago, so I'm not sure how much the accelerated depreciation had to do with it. I think there's a lot of money on the sidelines - a lot of cash - and nowhere else to go with their money, so they're buying capital equipment."
Woods noted that the uncertainty principle is a factor as well. "Company owners are uncertain about taxes and government regulations that might be coming in 2012, and this uncertainty drove people to act in 2011," he said. "There are several bills [in Congress] trying to maintain the accelerated depreciation on capital equipment, but company owners aren't counting on that. They believe in playing what you've got in your hand today. Business had the ability to invest in 2011 when they were doing much better."
Additionally, Carson said he's seeing a lot of "pent-up demand" for equipment and believes that reshoring of some manufacturing has contributed to that. CBW serves primarily the packaging and medical industries, which as far as Carson's business went, didn't take much of a dip. However, he acknowledges that he's seeing "bigger demand for automation," for several reasons: "companies that want to upgrade molds and/or molding machines and need new automation for improved efficiencies, as well as automation for new technology specifically in-mold labeling, which brand owners are adopting, a technology that translates into cost savings."
CBW didn't let any grass grow under its feet during the downturn either, which Carson said also contributed to demand for its products.A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, "We have worked hard to develop new products for new markets," he stated. "The most significant is automation to unload cartons at Filling Lines. New-product development has truly been a factor in our increase of orders."
Pent-up demand for new equipment, new products and new technology just might be the key to the dramatic increase in manufacturing technology orders. The AMT report noted that new orders were up the highest in the Midwest and Central regions of the U.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of S., with the Midwest's manufacturing technology orders for 2011 up 105% more than the comparable figure for 2010. "It's also where the oldest equipment resides and the industries impacted most by the weak dollar and reshoring trend are located,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free," noted the report.
The average age of machinery currently in use at U.S. manufacturing facilities crept up from nine years in 2007 to 13.5 years, and as demand started to increase the need for investment to replace the aging equipment became apparent, noted the AMT's report. Concurring with Carson's observations, the AMT report also adds that "those investments are being made in completely new technology."
With regards to the reshoring trend that nearly everyone mentions when talking about improving capacity utilization, the AMT report noted, "More work is coming back to the U.S. from foreign shores and there is greater foreign direct investment in U.S. facilities. The quality of work in the U.S. is proving to be more valuable than originally thought in the off-shoring investment calculation."
Additive manufacturing is growing, nano-machining has become commercially affordable, and the availability of new materials, such as compact powdered metals, are having a tremendous impact.
Woods added, "The factors that are fueling this tremendous surge are the traditional reasons that drive growth in investment, but what is unusual about the current rebound is that all factors have come together at one time. This is something that's never been seen before and as a result we are seeing a true renaissance for manufacturing in the U.S."
The outlook for 2012, said the AMT report, "remains positive" due to a weak dollar making exports strong and the manufacturing base's reinvesting in the latest tools. "The automotive industry is making major changes to address green issues, which will lead to significant investments in production technology, as well as spending to support the shift of the industry's center from Detroit to the South/Southwest."
That said, Woods stated that "manufacturing in America still needs help." In spite of the number of Americans out of work, manufacturing jobs "continue to go unfilled. That is because the factory floor today is very different from what it used to be. It is awash with new technologies and processes that require advanced training and adaptable skills. We need a 'smartforce' of workers who are up to the job."
The AMT is also calling for help in leveling the playing field for U.S. companies in the global marketplace "by eliminating trade barriers, reining in regulations, and lowering taxes for manufacturers or we risk losing ground to our foreign competitors in new markets and industries," commented Woods.
"It's long been recognized that analysis of manufacturing technology orders provides a reliable leading economic indicator, as it is an indicator that manufacturing firms are investing in capital equipment to increase their capacity and improve productivity," said Douglas K. Woods, AMT president. "These machines and devices are the equipment that turn raw materials such as steel, iron, plastic, ceramics, composites and alloys from their original state as stock materials into what will become durable goods such as airplanes, cars, and appliances, as well as consumer and other goods that are used every day."
Throughout 2011, various machinery and equipment producers for the plastics industry have reported extremely good sales numbers. Sumitomo Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, said in a mid-May release that the company "is pleased about the high level of capacity utilization at its factory" in Wiehe, Germany. It went on to boast of "substantial orders" from both domestic and international customers such as the one from geobra Brandstatter for 50 hydraulic Systec machines for the production of Playmobil toys, headquartered in Zimdorf, Germany.
"Substantial orders from China, Mexico and Turkey confirm the upward trend to be observed in many important markets abroad that suffered a particularly bad hit during the financial and economic crisis," said Christian Renners, GM of the sales and after sales business unit at Sumitomo Demag.
Word on the street from various sales sources say that North American molding manufacturers saw similar sales upturns in 2011. The future for North American molders in 2012 appears to be one of higher capacity utilization as well, note some of these sources who say that they're seeing many of the larger mold manufacturing operations out 25-30 weeks in backlog.
CBW Automation in Fort Collins, CO,Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, has seen a big spike in orders for its automation equipment. "We've hired 30% more people, are running additional shifts, and have invested in additional capital equipment for our production floor," said David Carson, CBW president. "This appears to be a very solid manufacturing turnaround."
Tax incentive fueled?
Did the accelerated depreciation tax break given by the federal government have anything to do with these increased sales of machinery and equipment. "Our research says it had some impact on people's willingness to drive investment sooner, and to get the added incentive is beneficial," commented AMT's Woods in an interview with PlasticsToday. "This year, many in the manufacturing industry essentially had a good year compared to previous years and as they looked at their cash position and tax position, decided to make the investment, with or without that expensing ability of the accelerated depreciation. Many are in better financial position and are trying to reposition themselves better with regard to taxes."
CBW's Carson said, "My understanding is that the equipment has to be delivered and installed by year end, but we booked orders into the new year as of 20 weeks ago, so I'm not sure how much the accelerated depreciation had to do with it. I think there's a lot of money on the sidelines - a lot of cash - and nowhere else to go with their money, so they're buying capital equipment."
Woods noted that the uncertainty principle is a factor as well. "Company owners are uncertain about taxes and government regulations that might be coming in 2012, and this uncertainty drove people to act in 2011," he said. "There are several bills [in Congress] trying to maintain the accelerated depreciation on capital equipment, but company owners aren't counting on that. They believe in playing what you've got in your hand today. Business had the ability to invest in 2011 when they were doing much better."
Additionally, Carson said he's seeing a lot of "pent-up demand" for equipment and believes that reshoring of some manufacturing has contributed to that. CBW serves primarily the packaging and medical industries, which as far as Carson's business went, didn't take much of a dip. However, he acknowledges that he's seeing "bigger demand for automation," for several reasons: "companies that want to upgrade molds and/or molding machines and need new automation for improved efficiencies, as well as automation for new technology specifically in-mold labeling, which brand owners are adopting, a technology that translates into cost savings."
CBW didn't let any grass grow under its feet during the downturn either, which Carson said also contributed to demand for its products.A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, "We have worked hard to develop new products for new markets," he stated. "The most significant is automation to unload cartons at Filling Lines. New-product development has truly been a factor in our increase of orders."
Pent-up demand for new equipment, new products and new technology just might be the key to the dramatic increase in manufacturing technology orders. The AMT report noted that new orders were up the highest in the Midwest and Central regions of the U.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of S., with the Midwest's manufacturing technology orders for 2011 up 105% more than the comparable figure for 2010. "It's also where the oldest equipment resides and the industries impacted most by the weak dollar and reshoring trend are located,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free," noted the report.
The average age of machinery currently in use at U.S. manufacturing facilities crept up from nine years in 2007 to 13.5 years, and as demand started to increase the need for investment to replace the aging equipment became apparent, noted the AMT's report. Concurring with Carson's observations, the AMT report also adds that "those investments are being made in completely new technology."
With regards to the reshoring trend that nearly everyone mentions when talking about improving capacity utilization, the AMT report noted, "More work is coming back to the U.S. from foreign shores and there is greater foreign direct investment in U.S. facilities. The quality of work in the U.S. is proving to be more valuable than originally thought in the off-shoring investment calculation."
Additive manufacturing is growing, nano-machining has become commercially affordable, and the availability of new materials, such as compact powdered metals, are having a tremendous impact.
Woods added, "The factors that are fueling this tremendous surge are the traditional reasons that drive growth in investment, but what is unusual about the current rebound is that all factors have come together at one time. This is something that's never been seen before and as a result we are seeing a true renaissance for manufacturing in the U.S."
The outlook for 2012, said the AMT report, "remains positive" due to a weak dollar making exports strong and the manufacturing base's reinvesting in the latest tools. "The automotive industry is making major changes to address green issues, which will lead to significant investments in production technology, as well as spending to support the shift of the industry's center from Detroit to the South/Southwest."
That said, Woods stated that "manufacturing in America still needs help." In spite of the number of Americans out of work, manufacturing jobs "continue to go unfilled. That is because the factory floor today is very different from what it used to be. It is awash with new technologies and processes that require advanced training and adaptable skills. We need a 'smartforce' of workers who are up to the job."
The AMT is also calling for help in leveling the playing field for U.S. companies in the global marketplace "by eliminating trade barriers, reining in regulations, and lowering taxes for manufacturers or we risk losing ground to our foreign competitors in new markets and industries," commented Woods.
Can Bundoran’s hens crack the egg question ?
Transition Year students Julian Pawlowski, Niall McSharry and Jack Roden from Magh Ene College in Bundoran have posed a challenge to the hens in their home town - what makes the best egg?
This is just one of a number of exciting questions posed by students from eight of Donegal’s colleges in the 27 projects submitted in a number of categories for the 48th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition which takes place this coming week at the RDS in Dublin.
This will be Niall and Jack’s second time to compete in the exhibition, as they previously conducted a project investigating the antibacterial properties of spices.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
This year, the Bundoran students are researching the effect of hen feed on egg quality.A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, The students came up with the idea for this project as they noticed that many people in their local area were setting up small chicken coops to produce eggs.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, The main cost in keeping hens is the cost of their feed and the students decided to investigate whether it is necessary to buy commercial feed or if household food waste could be used alternatively. Every person in a household produces on average 70kg of food waste which is dumped and is enough to feed a hen for a year.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of
One of the members of the group, Julian Pawlowski, rears hens and over the twelve weeks between September 15 and December 15, the students collected and analysed 24 batches of eggs produced by 14 hens. Half of these hens were fed solely on commercial hen feed while the second group of hens were fed on household food waste. The students test the eggs collected from each group of hens under each of the following categories; egg size, egg mass, shell strength and shell colour. The results should be fascinating!
The Young Scientist event will be open to the public from this Thursday,Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, January 12 until Saturday, January 14 with tickets available at the door costing 6 for students, 12 for adults and 25 for a family pass.
The exhibition is a great family day out packed full of fun, creative inventions, interactive education and live shows including Robot Wars and 3D Theatre which includes a cosmic voyage of discovery. There will also be a real NASA astronaut attending the exhibition this year - Dan Tani will fly in from the U.S and talk about his experiences in Space including his 100th spacewalk on the International Space Station! Coding club Coder Dojo will also feature at the exhibition with workshops teaching creative problem solving skills and practical creative skills.
In addition to the displays of up to 550 student projects, there are a further four exhibition halls filled with science and technology based exhibits making it a must-see event. The annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition attracts over 40,000 people making it one of the largest events of its kind in Europe, if not the world!
The other Donegal schools taking part include Choliste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon; Coliste Ailigh, Letterkenny; Gairm Scoil Chú Uladh, Beal an Atha Mhór; Loreto Community School, Milford; Loreto, Letterkenny; Pobalscoil Gaoth Dobhair and St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. The topics they chose include the effects that drugs used for asthma have on the heart, smoking, a study of the relationship between temperature and the rate of erosion of aluminium, a study of the level of carbohydrates in different types of milk, the question can the type of musical instrument you play effect the size of your lungs; a study of pollution on the river Finn and a number of its banks; an investigation into gathering rain water which explores the benefits of the energy it generates; an investigation on whether your fear changes with age; the effects that walks, climbing and tourism has for the Mount Errigal and a study of the effect water has on a golf ball.
This is just one of a number of exciting questions posed by students from eight of Donegal’s colleges in the 27 projects submitted in a number of categories for the 48th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition which takes place this coming week at the RDS in Dublin.
This will be Niall and Jack’s second time to compete in the exhibition, as they previously conducted a project investigating the antibacterial properties of spices.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
This year, the Bundoran students are researching the effect of hen feed on egg quality.A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, The students came up with the idea for this project as they noticed that many people in their local area were setting up small chicken coops to produce eggs.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, The main cost in keeping hens is the cost of their feed and the students decided to investigate whether it is necessary to buy commercial feed or if household food waste could be used alternatively. Every person in a household produces on average 70kg of food waste which is dumped and is enough to feed a hen for a year.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of
One of the members of the group, Julian Pawlowski, rears hens and over the twelve weeks between September 15 and December 15, the students collected and analysed 24 batches of eggs produced by 14 hens. Half of these hens were fed solely on commercial hen feed while the second group of hens were fed on household food waste. The students test the eggs collected from each group of hens under each of the following categories; egg size, egg mass, shell strength and shell colour. The results should be fascinating!
The Young Scientist event will be open to the public from this Thursday,Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, January 12 until Saturday, January 14 with tickets available at the door costing 6 for students, 12 for adults and 25 for a family pass.
The exhibition is a great family day out packed full of fun, creative inventions, interactive education and live shows including Robot Wars and 3D Theatre which includes a cosmic voyage of discovery. There will also be a real NASA astronaut attending the exhibition this year - Dan Tani will fly in from the U.S and talk about his experiences in Space including his 100th spacewalk on the International Space Station! Coding club Coder Dojo will also feature at the exhibition with workshops teaching creative problem solving skills and practical creative skills.
In addition to the displays of up to 550 student projects, there are a further four exhibition halls filled with science and technology based exhibits making it a must-see event. The annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition attracts over 40,000 people making it one of the largest events of its kind in Europe, if not the world!
The other Donegal schools taking part include Choliste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon; Coliste Ailigh, Letterkenny; Gairm Scoil Chú Uladh, Beal an Atha Mhór; Loreto Community School, Milford; Loreto, Letterkenny; Pobalscoil Gaoth Dobhair and St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. The topics they chose include the effects that drugs used for asthma have on the heart, smoking, a study of the relationship between temperature and the rate of erosion of aluminium, a study of the level of carbohydrates in different types of milk, the question can the type of musical instrument you play effect the size of your lungs; a study of pollution on the river Finn and a number of its banks; an investigation into gathering rain water which explores the benefits of the energy it generates; an investigation on whether your fear changes with age; the effects that walks, climbing and tourism has for the Mount Errigal and a study of the effect water has on a golf ball.
2012年1月2日 星期一
The Food Trends Chef Charlie Trotter Started
For Charlie Trotter, 2011 wasn't a great year for press coverage , but now that he's announced his eponymous Chicago restaurant will close, it's time for the plaudits to roll in. Much of the praise with which Trotter is being remembered has to do with his role, outgrown as it may be, as a leader in his field. A lot of the trends that have come to define modern American cooking can be traced back, at least in part, to Charlie Trotter.Tooling But unless you've been reading the Chicago food sections for the last 25 years, exactly what advances the chef helped spur may be a little blurry. So to put Trotter's legacy in perspective, here's our guide to the food trends he inspired and the dishes he created to do so.
Trotter was among the first U.S. chefs to popularize degustation menus,oil paintings for sale better known as tasting menus, just two years after his restaurant opened. The menus would go on to become one of his signatures and a major trend in the world of haute cuisine. The Chicago Tribune announced his entry into the European-dominated world of degustation menus in 1989: "Chef Trotter's eight-course menu will change every six to eight weeks. One of the current courses is ravioli of Norwegian salmon and smoked salmon with julienned leeks and lobster sauce."
They're not exactly a dime a dozen these days, but vegetable tasting menus have become something of a staple in high-end dining, with restaurants such as Thomas Keller's Per Se carrying them regularly. Back in March, GQ critic Alan Richman told The New York Times, "Alice Waters may have discovered vegetables, but Trotter was the first man I know who cooked them beautifully." To get a sense of what Trotter did with vegetables, savor this description from that same Times piece:
Long before locavore was a word or seasonal menus were driven by anything but necessity, The Times described Trotter's cuisine in a 1997 article: "Mr. Trotter is known for his degustation menu, a parade of six courses cooked in the French tradition influenced by Asian minimalism that riff on seasonal ingredients." In his September four-star review, Tribune critic Phil Vetel wrote that "Trotter's kitchen crew never works off a set menu, but begins each day with the market's bounty and a blank sheet of paper." He went on to describe " a gorgeous study of hearts of palm, presented in thick, raw slices, a gentle puree and pastalike ribbons curled around chopped olive; porcini tart with fig and goat cheese over eggplant puree (a composition so rich and smoky I searched the plate, vainly, for pieces of stealth bacon); and squash blossom beignet next to strips of grilled zucchini, pea puree and Australian black truffle."
When a Brooklyn grocery store can erect a table in its kitchen and receive two Michelin stars, you know the form has arrived. Charlie Trotter first invited patrons into his kitchen 22 years ago, in 1989,Piles and by 1995 the chef's table or kitchen table was a bonified trend. It's one of the most exclusive seats in Trotter's house, booked months in advance, and while the food's generally similar to what they're eating in the dining room,China ceramic tile the show makes the exclusivity worth it. A 1997 Tribune feature elaborates: "In the heat of battle, Trotter sometimes forgets for a moment that guests sit a few feet away. A sloppily presented dish, a gaffe in service will trigger the chef's extended vocabulary."
When the first raw restaurant opened in New York in 1999, raw food seemed like a really weird and experimental thing. But Trotter was already on board, and he published a cookbook, Raw, in 2003. By the time The Times was writing trend pieces about raw food finding its way into high-end resorts in 2006,Plastic moulds Trotter and his restaurant's optional raw menu were considered among the movement's stalwarts. "For us, raw food is here to stay. It's part of our repertoire at this point. It's not that we just dabbled in it," he told The Times. A 2003 CBS preview of the book included recipes for "Bleeding Heart Radish Ravioli With Yellow Tomato Sauce" and "Portabello Mushroom Pave' With White Asparagus Vinaigrette," which it described: "The meatiness of the marinated portabellos is enormously satisfying, but the aromatic flavor of jalapeno, garlic, ginger, cilantro and soy are what pushes this creation over the top. The creamy white asparagus contributes richness and acts as the perfect cohesive element."
Trotter was among the first U.S. chefs to popularize degustation menus,oil paintings for sale better known as tasting menus, just two years after his restaurant opened. The menus would go on to become one of his signatures and a major trend in the world of haute cuisine. The Chicago Tribune announced his entry into the European-dominated world of degustation menus in 1989: "Chef Trotter's eight-course menu will change every six to eight weeks. One of the current courses is ravioli of Norwegian salmon and smoked salmon with julienned leeks and lobster sauce."
They're not exactly a dime a dozen these days, but vegetable tasting menus have become something of a staple in high-end dining, with restaurants such as Thomas Keller's Per Se carrying them regularly. Back in March, GQ critic Alan Richman told The New York Times, "Alice Waters may have discovered vegetables, but Trotter was the first man I know who cooked them beautifully." To get a sense of what Trotter did with vegetables, savor this description from that same Times piece:
Long before locavore was a word or seasonal menus were driven by anything but necessity, The Times described Trotter's cuisine in a 1997 article: "Mr. Trotter is known for his degustation menu, a parade of six courses cooked in the French tradition influenced by Asian minimalism that riff on seasonal ingredients." In his September four-star review, Tribune critic Phil Vetel wrote that "Trotter's kitchen crew never works off a set menu, but begins each day with the market's bounty and a blank sheet of paper." He went on to describe " a gorgeous study of hearts of palm, presented in thick, raw slices, a gentle puree and pastalike ribbons curled around chopped olive; porcini tart with fig and goat cheese over eggplant puree (a composition so rich and smoky I searched the plate, vainly, for pieces of stealth bacon); and squash blossom beignet next to strips of grilled zucchini, pea puree and Australian black truffle."
When a Brooklyn grocery store can erect a table in its kitchen and receive two Michelin stars, you know the form has arrived. Charlie Trotter first invited patrons into his kitchen 22 years ago, in 1989,Piles and by 1995 the chef's table or kitchen table was a bonified trend. It's one of the most exclusive seats in Trotter's house, booked months in advance, and while the food's generally similar to what they're eating in the dining room,China ceramic tile the show makes the exclusivity worth it. A 1997 Tribune feature elaborates: "In the heat of battle, Trotter sometimes forgets for a moment that guests sit a few feet away. A sloppily presented dish, a gaffe in service will trigger the chef's extended vocabulary."
When the first raw restaurant opened in New York in 1999, raw food seemed like a really weird and experimental thing. But Trotter was already on board, and he published a cookbook, Raw, in 2003. By the time The Times was writing trend pieces about raw food finding its way into high-end resorts in 2006,Plastic moulds Trotter and his restaurant's optional raw menu were considered among the movement's stalwarts. "For us, raw food is here to stay. It's part of our repertoire at this point. It's not that we just dabbled in it," he told The Times. A 2003 CBS preview of the book included recipes for "Bleeding Heart Radish Ravioli With Yellow Tomato Sauce" and "Portabello Mushroom Pave' With White Asparagus Vinaigrette," which it described: "The meatiness of the marinated portabellos is enormously satisfying, but the aromatic flavor of jalapeno, garlic, ginger, cilantro and soy are what pushes this creation over the top. The creamy white asparagus contributes richness and acts as the perfect cohesive element."
2011年12月19日 星期一
As kids grow up, magic of Christmas changes
If your house is bursting with Christmas cheer this time of year and all is merry and bright, then clearly you do not have teenagers living under your roof.Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists.
Because practically everything they loved about Christmas like, yesterday, is now “lame”: decorating gingerbread houses, shaking snow globes, even “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
Take our tradition of driving around looking at Christmas lights.
“Why can’t we just stay home and watch ‘Invasion of the Christmas Lights’ on TLC?” my 15-year-old whines. The others nod in agreement.
Or take the tree. The only thing they have to do is put on the family ornaments. But after hanging a combined total of 12, they declare their work done.
“Remember, you said you want to simplify Christmas,” my 18-year-old says. “And I’m pretty sure skipping nine boxes of ornaments would be a good place to start.”
It makes me long for the holly jolly days when the threat of falling to the Naughty List made pouty, sassy kids change their tune fast.
Even our family pet has rained on my Christmas parade. In case you’ve ever wondered, when a dog pees on green tissue paper, the result is a permanent blue carpet stain.
It wasn’t always this way, of course. When the kids were little, even simple things were magical. One time when my daughter was about five, we were leaving a basketball game one February night.
“Mom, look at how pretty the grass is!” she said.
I looked down and saw dead, brown grass with a few piles of dirty snow scattered on top.
“What?” I said, puzzled.
“Look at all the pretty glitter!” she persisted.
And upon closer look I could see how the moisture reflected the outdoor lights,The Transaction Group offers the best high risk merchant account services, making the grass sparkle, like it had been freshly sprinkled in fairy dust.
Another time, on a hot July night, we were at the county fair. Our youngest was two and in his stroller, urgently pointing at something. Since there are many things one could be tempted to point fingers at while at the fair, I didn’t pay much attention.
But he persisted. Following his short, stubby finger I found what had his attention: a single star in the sky, bright enough to shine through the glare of the fair lights.
Of course, there’s nothing more magical than Christmastime for kids. There are snowmen coming to life, flying reindeer and toy-making elves. Snug in their beds at night, they strain to hear any noise that could resemble Santa’s sleigh bells.
Moms will do just about anything to keep the magic alive. How else to explain sprinkling baby powder “snow” around a Santa boot on your carpet?
But eventually the kids grow older, the gig is up, and the magic gone.
Now, if my kids hear noises outside at night, it’s most likely due to one of their friends forking our lawn. The magic of Christmas these days is about as real as plastic snow.
Like gifts, for example. My college son’s list this year is very practical, things like a waffle iron, black rubber floor mats for his car and a membership to Sam’s Club.
The same boy whose face lit up one Christmas when he got the impossible-to-find white Power Ranger would be thrilled now to get a DustBuster for his apartment.
My college daughter and I spent a day shopping together, where she picked out every single one of her presents. Our high school senior’s one and only gift is a bass guitar that he picked out himself. And I haven’t gotten a thing for our 14 and 15-year-olds because they can’t think of anything they really want.
It’s enough to make me want to just cut them all a check and call it good.
Last year my then 14-year-old son begged us to go to a mall the Sunday before Christmas to see a planned “spontaneous” singing of the “Hallelujah” chorus.
By 11:45 the middle of the mall was packed with thousands of people, and at exactly noon, performing arts groups, as well as shoppers, burst into song.
There was applause and cheers when it ended. Some people were even crying. And then they left and went on their way to Bath & Body Works or wherever.
That was lame, I thought. So planned.I have just spent two weeks shopping for tile and have discovered China Porcelain tile. So cheesy. So….
“Awesome!” my son said. “Wasn’t that so cool?”
Huh? Um, no, I thought.
But maybe, it occurred to me later, maybe the magic of Christmas is different for each of us. For him, it’s not driving around looking at Christmas lights. It’s mall crowds singing “King of kings, and Lord of lords!”
The magic is still there; it’s just changed. Like the glittery grass that one February night or a single star in a July sky, sometimes you just have to look a little harder to find it.
Maybe the magic is that I have two teenagers who, shockingly, don’t seem to care much about lists and presents this year.
Maybe’s it’s that I got to spend an entire day with my college daughter.
Maybe it’s that I had points from my credit card I had forgotten about that actually paid for that guitar.Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker,
Maybe the magic is that we’re together at Christmas.
So I’ll keep trying to find that one present that surprises them and makes their face light up.China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. Or at the very least, not give them something that judging by the look on their face you’d swear they just opened a toilet plunger.
Unless you’re my college son. That’s probably on his list.
JoAnne Beiermann lives in Columbus with her husband and five children.
Because practically everything they loved about Christmas like, yesterday, is now “lame”: decorating gingerbread houses, shaking snow globes, even “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
Take our tradition of driving around looking at Christmas lights.
“Why can’t we just stay home and watch ‘Invasion of the Christmas Lights’ on TLC?” my 15-year-old whines. The others nod in agreement.
Or take the tree. The only thing they have to do is put on the family ornaments. But after hanging a combined total of 12, they declare their work done.
“Remember, you said you want to simplify Christmas,” my 18-year-old says. “And I’m pretty sure skipping nine boxes of ornaments would be a good place to start.”
It makes me long for the holly jolly days when the threat of falling to the Naughty List made pouty, sassy kids change their tune fast.
Even our family pet has rained on my Christmas parade. In case you’ve ever wondered, when a dog pees on green tissue paper, the result is a permanent blue carpet stain.
It wasn’t always this way, of course. When the kids were little, even simple things were magical. One time when my daughter was about five, we were leaving a basketball game one February night.
“Mom, look at how pretty the grass is!” she said.
I looked down and saw dead, brown grass with a few piles of dirty snow scattered on top.
“What?” I said, puzzled.
“Look at all the pretty glitter!” she persisted.
And upon closer look I could see how the moisture reflected the outdoor lights,The Transaction Group offers the best high risk merchant account services, making the grass sparkle, like it had been freshly sprinkled in fairy dust.
Another time, on a hot July night, we were at the county fair. Our youngest was two and in his stroller, urgently pointing at something. Since there are many things one could be tempted to point fingers at while at the fair, I didn’t pay much attention.
But he persisted. Following his short, stubby finger I found what had his attention: a single star in the sky, bright enough to shine through the glare of the fair lights.
Of course, there’s nothing more magical than Christmastime for kids. There are snowmen coming to life, flying reindeer and toy-making elves. Snug in their beds at night, they strain to hear any noise that could resemble Santa’s sleigh bells.
Moms will do just about anything to keep the magic alive. How else to explain sprinkling baby powder “snow” around a Santa boot on your carpet?
But eventually the kids grow older, the gig is up, and the magic gone.
Now, if my kids hear noises outside at night, it’s most likely due to one of their friends forking our lawn. The magic of Christmas these days is about as real as plastic snow.
Like gifts, for example. My college son’s list this year is very practical, things like a waffle iron, black rubber floor mats for his car and a membership to Sam’s Club.
The same boy whose face lit up one Christmas when he got the impossible-to-find white Power Ranger would be thrilled now to get a DustBuster for his apartment.
My college daughter and I spent a day shopping together, where she picked out every single one of her presents. Our high school senior’s one and only gift is a bass guitar that he picked out himself. And I haven’t gotten a thing for our 14 and 15-year-olds because they can’t think of anything they really want.
It’s enough to make me want to just cut them all a check and call it good.
Last year my then 14-year-old son begged us to go to a mall the Sunday before Christmas to see a planned “spontaneous” singing of the “Hallelujah” chorus.
By 11:45 the middle of the mall was packed with thousands of people, and at exactly noon, performing arts groups, as well as shoppers, burst into song.
There was applause and cheers when it ended. Some people were even crying. And then they left and went on their way to Bath & Body Works or wherever.
That was lame, I thought. So planned.I have just spent two weeks shopping for tile and have discovered China Porcelain tile. So cheesy. So….
“Awesome!” my son said. “Wasn’t that so cool?”
Huh? Um, no, I thought.
But maybe, it occurred to me later, maybe the magic of Christmas is different for each of us. For him, it’s not driving around looking at Christmas lights. It’s mall crowds singing “King of kings, and Lord of lords!”
The magic is still there; it’s just changed. Like the glittery grass that one February night or a single star in a July sky, sometimes you just have to look a little harder to find it.
Maybe the magic is that I have two teenagers who, shockingly, don’t seem to care much about lists and presents this year.
Maybe’s it’s that I got to spend an entire day with my college daughter.
Maybe it’s that I had points from my credit card I had forgotten about that actually paid for that guitar.Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker,
Maybe the magic is that we’re together at Christmas.
So I’ll keep trying to find that one present that surprises them and makes their face light up.China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. Or at the very least, not give them something that judging by the look on their face you’d swear they just opened a toilet plunger.
Unless you’re my college son. That’s probably on his list.
JoAnne Beiermann lives in Columbus with her husband and five children.
2011年12月18日 星期日
Winter-coat giveaway warms hearts of many
Students at St. Patrick School in Wadsworth gave coats they collected to needy men, women and children Saturday during an annual Christmas basket food giveaway program at the Holy Family Food Pantry in the former St.The Transaction Group offers the best high risk merchant account services, Bartholomew Church.
A Christmas tree sparkled in the entrance of the old church, and Santa Claus was on hand providing cheerful greetings as families lined up outside to enter the building.
A total of 250 meal boxes were given to families, courtesy of volunteers and Knights of Columbus Council 731 which sponsored the program. The meals included a turkey and all the trimmings.
More than 6,200 pounds of food was trucked in from the Northern Illinois Food Bank on Saturday morning and members of the Knights of Columbus worked in sync to get the boxes from the semi into the church building.
“This is the first time we’re doing the coat giveaway,” said Barb Karacic, coordinator of the food pantry. “When we found out, we were thrilled to be able to provide this for the families. It’s a surprise for them.”
Volunteers with pen and paper in hand went down the line. getting coat sizes from the recipients. Then, coats were selected for each person and placed in a bag with the recipient’s name, and given after the food was received.
“I didn’t even know about this,” said Moises Soto of Waukegan, who was donning a spring windbreaker. “Right now, I’m cold and I really could use a winter coat. This is very nice that they are doing this.Full-service custom manufacturer of precision plastic injection mold, I was just happy to get a turkey.”
Cindy Jennings of St. Patrick School said the student council collected coats for several weeks. Each year, students work on a project and this year,Buy oil paintings for sale online. the theme is community service.
“I wanted the children to do this so they could experience giving firsthand, because when you can see the person you gave that coat to,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China, it makes a world of difference,” said Jennings.
Besides coats, many recipients received hats, scarves and gloves until the students ran out of them.
St. Patrick student Erin Kehoe, 12, said she had fun collecting the coats.
“We got them from everybody,Smooth-On is your source for Mold Making and casting materials including silicone rubber and urethane rubber,” she said. “A lot of people in my family gave coats and also at my dad’s office, they donated.”
Just like the song, chestnuts were really being roasted by an open fire — or at least on a Weber kettle grill. Knights of Columbus member Andrew Zabinski of Antioch oversaw the chestnut-roasting operation, as Zion-Benton High School students Dino, and his brother Anielleo Giustino, put a tiny split at the top of the nuts before placing them in a tin-foil pan on the hot coals.
“They kind of taste like popcorn,” said their 11-year-old brother Joseph as he peeled one and bit into it.
The coordinator explained there are more than 3,000 families that she knows that make use of the food pantry, and many more “unduplicated” individuals that are allowed to get food once a month. “At least that gives them six full meals worth of food,” Karacic said.
Besides the food and coats, Karacic said 525 families received Christmas presents, including toys and clothing for children.
“We start this process in July and ask families in need what their sizes are. We then give those lists to sharing parishes and corporations in the area who give donations they’ve collected,” she said. “We just try to help as many families as possible.”
The Holy Family Food Pantry, located at 912 8th St. on the south side of Waukegan, is a program of Community Social Services, the outreach agency of Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan. Other services include a soup kitchen, PADS shelter and Immigrant Center.
A Christmas tree sparkled in the entrance of the old church, and Santa Claus was on hand providing cheerful greetings as families lined up outside to enter the building.
A total of 250 meal boxes were given to families, courtesy of volunteers and Knights of Columbus Council 731 which sponsored the program. The meals included a turkey and all the trimmings.
More than 6,200 pounds of food was trucked in from the Northern Illinois Food Bank on Saturday morning and members of the Knights of Columbus worked in sync to get the boxes from the semi into the church building.
“This is the first time we’re doing the coat giveaway,” said Barb Karacic, coordinator of the food pantry. “When we found out, we were thrilled to be able to provide this for the families. It’s a surprise for them.”
Volunteers with pen and paper in hand went down the line. getting coat sizes from the recipients. Then, coats were selected for each person and placed in a bag with the recipient’s name, and given after the food was received.
“I didn’t even know about this,” said Moises Soto of Waukegan, who was donning a spring windbreaker. “Right now, I’m cold and I really could use a winter coat. This is very nice that they are doing this.Full-service custom manufacturer of precision plastic injection mold, I was just happy to get a turkey.”
Cindy Jennings of St. Patrick School said the student council collected coats for several weeks. Each year, students work on a project and this year,Buy oil paintings for sale online. the theme is community service.
“I wanted the children to do this so they could experience giving firsthand, because when you can see the person you gave that coat to,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China, it makes a world of difference,” said Jennings.
Besides coats, many recipients received hats, scarves and gloves until the students ran out of them.
St. Patrick student Erin Kehoe, 12, said she had fun collecting the coats.
“We got them from everybody,Smooth-On is your source for Mold Making and casting materials including silicone rubber and urethane rubber,” she said. “A lot of people in my family gave coats and also at my dad’s office, they donated.”
Just like the song, chestnuts were really being roasted by an open fire — or at least on a Weber kettle grill. Knights of Columbus member Andrew Zabinski of Antioch oversaw the chestnut-roasting operation, as Zion-Benton High School students Dino, and his brother Anielleo Giustino, put a tiny split at the top of the nuts before placing them in a tin-foil pan on the hot coals.
“They kind of taste like popcorn,” said their 11-year-old brother Joseph as he peeled one and bit into it.
The coordinator explained there are more than 3,000 families that she knows that make use of the food pantry, and many more “unduplicated” individuals that are allowed to get food once a month. “At least that gives them six full meals worth of food,” Karacic said.
Besides the food and coats, Karacic said 525 families received Christmas presents, including toys and clothing for children.
“We start this process in July and ask families in need what their sizes are. We then give those lists to sharing parishes and corporations in the area who give donations they’ve collected,” she said. “We just try to help as many families as possible.”
The Holy Family Food Pantry, located at 912 8th St. on the south side of Waukegan, is a program of Community Social Services, the outreach agency of Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan. Other services include a soup kitchen, PADS shelter and Immigrant Center.
2011年12月12日 星期一
Nylon makes advances in truck oil pans
Plastics continue to penetrate a market segment traditionally dominated by metals -- oil pans -- as recent developments show.which applies to the first offshore merchant account only,
ElringKlinger AG has developed an oil pan concept with integrated sieve enclosure, oil drain plug and dipstick channel functions. It displayed a prototype of the pan at the IAA 2011 automotive fair in Frankfurt in September.
ElringKlinger and mold maker and molder Hummel-Formen jointly applied for a patent for the concept in 2010. ElringKlinger then acquired a 90 percent holding in Hummel Group in October.
In 2009, Hummel-Formen started producing a 70-liter oil pan in a grade of BASF’s Ultramid nylon 66 (Ultramid A3HG7 Q17) for MTU Friedrichshafen. The off-road pan saves 40-50 percent of the weight compared to aluminum pans.
At Fakuma 2011 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Lanxess AG displayed an oil pan measuring 120cm x 40cm x 35cm for the 12.8 liter Euro 6 engines of the Mercedes Actros truck from Daimler. This is molded in both nylon and nylon 66 by BBP Kunststoffwerk Marbach Baier GmbH.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings，
Lanxess oil pan specialist Frank Krause said nylon 6 is as capable as nylon 66 in meeting the performance needs of oil pans. He said nylon 6 also has an advantage in improved sealing in the sealing groove area as glass fibers show less on the surface than they do in nylon 66.
The unit shown by Lanxess at Fakuma was the larger of two oil pans in the Actros truck, which has a larger top and 18 fixing inserts for its cast aluminum cover. This larger unit is the rear sump version, as described by Gnther Zoll,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, production and materials technology specialist at Daimler,ceramic magic cube for the medical, in a presentation at the 2009 VDI plastics in automotive conference.
The Actros oil pan displayed by BASF SE on its K2004 stand was clearly the front version with 12 fixing inserts for its cover. Both have the same 37-liter oil capacity. Zoll pointed out that the hybrid design with a cast aluminum cover and plastic pan molding is equally strong as original pans made entirely in cast aluminum.
The front Actros oil pan won a 2003 SPE central Europe automotive award for molder Kunststoffwerk Sachsen and its partners BASF, injection molding machinery producer Engel and moldmaker Presswerkzeugbau Gro.dubrau.
Zoll of Daimler said at the 2009 VDI conference that there is potential for even more highly integrated oil pans. He suggested that,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. in the far future, integration of oils pumps may be conceivable.
ElringKlinger AG has developed an oil pan concept with integrated sieve enclosure, oil drain plug and dipstick channel functions. It displayed a prototype of the pan at the IAA 2011 automotive fair in Frankfurt in September.
ElringKlinger and mold maker and molder Hummel-Formen jointly applied for a patent for the concept in 2010. ElringKlinger then acquired a 90 percent holding in Hummel Group in October.
In 2009, Hummel-Formen started producing a 70-liter oil pan in a grade of BASF’s Ultramid nylon 66 (Ultramid A3HG7 Q17) for MTU Friedrichshafen. The off-road pan saves 40-50 percent of the weight compared to aluminum pans.
At Fakuma 2011 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Lanxess AG displayed an oil pan measuring 120cm x 40cm x 35cm for the 12.8 liter Euro 6 engines of the Mercedes Actros truck from Daimler. This is molded in both nylon and nylon 66 by BBP Kunststoffwerk Marbach Baier GmbH.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings，
Lanxess oil pan specialist Frank Krause said nylon 6 is as capable as nylon 66 in meeting the performance needs of oil pans. He said nylon 6 also has an advantage in improved sealing in the sealing groove area as glass fibers show less on the surface than they do in nylon 66.
The unit shown by Lanxess at Fakuma was the larger of two oil pans in the Actros truck, which has a larger top and 18 fixing inserts for its cast aluminum cover. This larger unit is the rear sump version, as described by Gnther Zoll,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, production and materials technology specialist at Daimler,ceramic magic cube for the medical, in a presentation at the 2009 VDI plastics in automotive conference.
The Actros oil pan displayed by BASF SE on its K2004 stand was clearly the front version with 12 fixing inserts for its cover. Both have the same 37-liter oil capacity. Zoll pointed out that the hybrid design with a cast aluminum cover and plastic pan molding is equally strong as original pans made entirely in cast aluminum.
The front Actros oil pan won a 2003 SPE central Europe automotive award for molder Kunststoffwerk Sachsen and its partners BASF, injection molding machinery producer Engel and moldmaker Presswerkzeugbau Gro.dubrau.
Zoll of Daimler said at the 2009 VDI conference that there is potential for even more highly integrated oil pans. He suggested that,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. in the far future, integration of oils pumps may be conceivable.
2011年12月8日 星期四
Using Cash Flow To Evaluate Dividend Safety
We use dual cash flow analysis as a primary screen for vetting investment candidates being considered in our portfolios. Although we have tweaked our model over the years to include more complex accounting analysis of the financial statements, the nuts and bolts of our screen focus on the sources of cash flow and their contributions to earnings.
Our research has shown that companies and businesses who generate most of their cash flow from “operations” tend to have higher quality-of-earnings than companies who rely on non-cash balance sheet "maneuvers" to support earnings.
Understanding the components of an earnings report gives us a good picture of a company’s financial health and liquidity. Studying the changes within these relationships over multiple periods allows us to identify potential opportunities and detect possible danger looming ahead.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. The dual cash flow technique has also shown to be a very effective tool for evaluating dividend safety/risk. As in earnings quality,A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. the premise for dividend quality is similar.
Stable and/or growing cash-flows generated by operating activities are more likely to support a current dividend and open the door for future dividend hikes going forward.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . In contrast, companies who support their dividend with debt or non-operating cash may find themselves in a position to cut, suspend or eliminate their distributions.
There are many strategies for evaluating dividends. Some methods use discounted cash-flows, or net cash on the balance sheet along with estimates of “future” free cash-flow forecasts. Problem is, predicting future cash-flows can be compromised by input variables, cost of capital, etc.
Using past results is not perfect either, but at least we can see the trends developing by observing how a business manages its liquidity. Consistency of earnings quality matters a lot to dividend growth and sustainability.
In this market environment, utilities, pharmaceuticals and consumer staples have been popular defensive plays,As many processors back away from hydraulic hose ,By Alex Lippa Close-up of zentai in Massachusetts. given their history of strong cash flow generation, dividend stability and perceived insulation from economic cycles. Utilities, being rate-sensitive and capital-intensive, have benefitted from a protracted low interest rate environment. Yet, eventually, their borrowing costs are likely going to rise faster than earnings growth.
Pharmaceuticals, particularly major drug manufacturers look interesting as the quest for finding cures to prolong the lifespan of our species will always be sought. Too often, we hear about patent expirations and generic cannibalism, yet somebody has to develop the products which address our corporal needs. Names such as Pfizer (PFE), Bristol Meyers (BMY) and Merck (MRK) come to mind.
Our research has shown that companies and businesses who generate most of their cash flow from “operations” tend to have higher quality-of-earnings than companies who rely on non-cash balance sheet "maneuvers" to support earnings.
Understanding the components of an earnings report gives us a good picture of a company’s financial health and liquidity. Studying the changes within these relationships over multiple periods allows us to identify potential opportunities and detect possible danger looming ahead.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. The dual cash flow technique has also shown to be a very effective tool for evaluating dividend safety/risk. As in earnings quality,A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. the premise for dividend quality is similar.
Stable and/or growing cash-flows generated by operating activities are more likely to support a current dividend and open the door for future dividend hikes going forward.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . In contrast, companies who support their dividend with debt or non-operating cash may find themselves in a position to cut, suspend or eliminate their distributions.
There are many strategies for evaluating dividends. Some methods use discounted cash-flows, or net cash on the balance sheet along with estimates of “future” free cash-flow forecasts. Problem is, predicting future cash-flows can be compromised by input variables, cost of capital, etc.
Using past results is not perfect either, but at least we can see the trends developing by observing how a business manages its liquidity. Consistency of earnings quality matters a lot to dividend growth and sustainability.
In this market environment, utilities, pharmaceuticals and consumer staples have been popular defensive plays,As many processors back away from hydraulic hose ,By Alex Lippa Close-up of zentai in Massachusetts. given their history of strong cash flow generation, dividend stability and perceived insulation from economic cycles. Utilities, being rate-sensitive and capital-intensive, have benefitted from a protracted low interest rate environment. Yet, eventually, their borrowing costs are likely going to rise faster than earnings growth.
Pharmaceuticals, particularly major drug manufacturers look interesting as the quest for finding cures to prolong the lifespan of our species will always be sought. Too often, we hear about patent expirations and generic cannibalism, yet somebody has to develop the products which address our corporal needs. Names such as Pfizer (PFE), Bristol Meyers (BMY) and Merck (MRK) come to mind.
Chestnuts more popular in winter
A Chinese porcelain "chestnut basket" recently was offered for sale at a Virginia auction. We looked at the basket, which appears to be a bowl and underplate,which applies to the first offshore merchant account only, and wondered if the reticulated areas were simply decorative or if they were important because the bowl held chestnuts. The chestnuts served in the Chinese porcelain basket must have been roasted and peeled, then eaten like any nut. The slotted bowl allowed the escape of steam from the hot chestnuts.
Chestnuts have been eaten since prehistoric times.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans used ground chestnuts as bread flour and a substitute for potatoes. Today, chestnuts become particularly popular in the winter,ceramic magic cube for the medical, when they are added to turkey stuffing or simply roasted, shelled and eaten. But they also can be used to make salads, "meat" loaf and hummus, and they can be mixed with maple syrup to create a French dish called "marron glace." Chestnuts are now available at grocery stores or online with or without their hard outer shells.
Modern bowls specially made to serve hot chestnuts don't seem to be available. When you search online, you find lots of bowls made from the wood of chestnut trees. Some trees in America were introduced by Europeans, but there are also native varieties, including the American chestnut. Unfortunately, an Asian chestnut tree planted in New York in 1904 spread a fungus that killed most of the American chestnuts.
Today, gardeners plant decorative Chinese chestnut trees that have pink, not white, flowers and little fruit. Most chestnuts that are cooked today are imported from Japan, China, Spain and Italy.
Q: Our family has owned a small clear glass dog figurine for decades. My dad picked it up when he came upon a truck wreck in West Virginia. Boxes and boxes of these dogs had fallen out of the truck, and nearly all of the figures were broken. The dog is 3 inches high by 1 7/8 inches wide and 2 5/8 inches deep.A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. The figure is hollow and the bottom is open. The dog is in a sitting position with his ears down. Any idea what it was used for, and what it's worth today?
A: Your glass dog originally was a candy container.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, It was sold in the mid-1950s filled with candy sealed inside by a paper bottom glued to the base's rim. The original paper closures were printed in blue with the words: "Poochie, contains pure and wholesome candy. Remove paper and Poochie becomes a good paperweight or a cute what-not ... American Creations, Inc., New York, N.Y." Others were made in pink or green glass, some with color flashing. The identical glass dog, but painted brown and filled with bath salts, was sold by a New York cosmetics firm.
Without the sealed bottom, however, your doggie would sell for only about $5.
Browsing at a garage sale, I recently bought an old fire extinguisher to use as a doorstop. I'm told it's an antique. It's copper with a rubber hose. It says, "Pacific Fire Extinguisher Co., San Francisco-Los Angeles" and "Pacific Badger Soda-Acid Fire Extinguisher." It has a copper placard with directions on charging and maintenance and a certification number from the Underwriters Laboratories.
Various solutions have been used in fire extinguishers since the early 18th century. The earliest fire extinguishers, patented in 1723, contained a liquid that was shot out of the container by exploding gunpowder. The first soda-acid fire extinguisher was patented by Francois Carlier in France in 1866. In 1881 Almon Granger patented a soda-acid extinguisher in the United States.
Soda-acid fire extinguishers were still being used in the 1940s. The company that made your fire extinguisher was still working in 1953 but by then it was making a more modern product.
Chestnuts have been eaten since prehistoric times.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . During the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans used ground chestnuts as bread flour and a substitute for potatoes. Today, chestnuts become particularly popular in the winter,ceramic magic cube for the medical, when they are added to turkey stuffing or simply roasted, shelled and eaten. But they also can be used to make salads, "meat" loaf and hummus, and they can be mixed with maple syrup to create a French dish called "marron glace." Chestnuts are now available at grocery stores or online with or without their hard outer shells.
Modern bowls specially made to serve hot chestnuts don't seem to be available. When you search online, you find lots of bowls made from the wood of chestnut trees. Some trees in America were introduced by Europeans, but there are also native varieties, including the American chestnut. Unfortunately, an Asian chestnut tree planted in New York in 1904 spread a fungus that killed most of the American chestnuts.
Today, gardeners plant decorative Chinese chestnut trees that have pink, not white, flowers and little fruit. Most chestnuts that are cooked today are imported from Japan, China, Spain and Italy.
Q: Our family has owned a small clear glass dog figurine for decades. My dad picked it up when he came upon a truck wreck in West Virginia. Boxes and boxes of these dogs had fallen out of the truck, and nearly all of the figures were broken. The dog is 3 inches high by 1 7/8 inches wide and 2 5/8 inches deep.A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. The figure is hollow and the bottom is open. The dog is in a sitting position with his ears down. Any idea what it was used for, and what it's worth today?
A: Your glass dog originally was a candy container.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, It was sold in the mid-1950s filled with candy sealed inside by a paper bottom glued to the base's rim. The original paper closures were printed in blue with the words: "Poochie, contains pure and wholesome candy. Remove paper and Poochie becomes a good paperweight or a cute what-not ... American Creations, Inc., New York, N.Y." Others were made in pink or green glass, some with color flashing. The identical glass dog, but painted brown and filled with bath salts, was sold by a New York cosmetics firm.
Without the sealed bottom, however, your doggie would sell for only about $5.
Browsing at a garage sale, I recently bought an old fire extinguisher to use as a doorstop. I'm told it's an antique. It's copper with a rubber hose. It says, "Pacific Fire Extinguisher Co., San Francisco-Los Angeles" and "Pacific Badger Soda-Acid Fire Extinguisher." It has a copper placard with directions on charging and maintenance and a certification number from the Underwriters Laboratories.
Various solutions have been used in fire extinguishers since the early 18th century. The earliest fire extinguishers, patented in 1723, contained a liquid that was shot out of the container by exploding gunpowder. The first soda-acid fire extinguisher was patented by Francois Carlier in France in 1866. In 1881 Almon Granger patented a soda-acid extinguisher in the United States.
Soda-acid fire extinguishers were still being used in the 1940s. The company that made your fire extinguisher was still working in 1953 but by then it was making a more modern product.
2011年12月7日 星期三
Building a Better Hose
Every day our lives are affected by the work of chemical engineers who specialize in solving problems through the use of polymers. Simply put, polymers are long “macro-molecules”, formed by combining carbon or silicon atoms with other elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. The combinations form long chains of repeating chemical structures, each with a unique set of chemical properties and characteristics. Depending on the atoms used and their arrangement, engineers and chemists use polymers to create almost anything from a soft toothbrush bristle to a tough bullet-proof vest.
Some polymers occur in nature, like cellulose, amber, shellac, and natural rubber. Other polymers are manufactured by chemists and engineers,he led PayPal to open its platform to Piles developers. and are referred to as synthetic polymers. In an ongoing quest for better and more useful materials, these scientists aim to make substances tough enough to work in the bitter cold of Antarctica or under the immense pressures encountered thousands of feet below an ocean’s surface.
As a part of the “Great Job!” series that highlights exciting careers in Science, Technology,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), a production crew with WVIZ/PBS ideastream, in Cleveland, Ohio, spent a day with Becki Ramsay. Becki is a chemical engineer with the Hose Products Division of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. She and her team create hoses from synthetic polymers to meet the design specifications they get from mechanical engineers.Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners.
During our interview, Becki expressed to us why she decided early on to become an engineer.
“It’s sort of like you’re interested in so many different things that you don’t really know what to do. You like science, you like math, you like physics. You like all of that. And engineering is one of those things that you can go down any one of those paths depending on what your particular interest is.”
Eventually, Becki decided that she was interested in polymers so she continued her studies to eventually become a chemical engineer.
As a result of her work with Parker, Becki and her team create hoses that remain flexible and convey power through hydraulic fluids while operating under the most extreme environmental conditions, whether it’s sub-zero temperatures or in an application that will pulse it millions of times. These hoses are absolutely critical in the operation of machinery used in industries such as construction, mining, forestry, transportation, and more.
Every day, Becki works with chemists and other engineers to create and test the quality of new materials. On the day of our shoot, we visited the Burst Test Chamber. The chamber is made of armor-plated steel and bullet-proof glass.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， Inside the chamber, hoses are filled with water and pressurized until they explode. Many of the hoses have bursting points in excess of 14,000 pounds per square inch. That would be like getting hit by an explosion with more than 15 million pounds of force, or having to lift three space shuttles! During one of the tests, the hose exploded at nearly 16,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,000 pounds per square inch!
Some polymers occur in nature, like cellulose, amber, shellac, and natural rubber. Other polymers are manufactured by chemists and engineers,he led PayPal to open its platform to Piles developers. and are referred to as synthetic polymers. In an ongoing quest for better and more useful materials, these scientists aim to make substances tough enough to work in the bitter cold of Antarctica or under the immense pressures encountered thousands of feet below an ocean’s surface.
As a part of the “Great Job!” series that highlights exciting careers in Science, Technology,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), a production crew with WVIZ/PBS ideastream, in Cleveland, Ohio, spent a day with Becki Ramsay. Becki is a chemical engineer with the Hose Products Division of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. She and her team create hoses from synthetic polymers to meet the design specifications they get from mechanical engineers.Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners.
During our interview, Becki expressed to us why she decided early on to become an engineer.
“It’s sort of like you’re interested in so many different things that you don’t really know what to do. You like science, you like math, you like physics. You like all of that. And engineering is one of those things that you can go down any one of those paths depending on what your particular interest is.”
Eventually, Becki decided that she was interested in polymers so she continued her studies to eventually become a chemical engineer.
As a result of her work with Parker, Becki and her team create hoses that remain flexible and convey power through hydraulic fluids while operating under the most extreme environmental conditions, whether it’s sub-zero temperatures or in an application that will pulse it millions of times. These hoses are absolutely critical in the operation of machinery used in industries such as construction, mining, forestry, transportation, and more.
Every day, Becki works with chemists and other engineers to create and test the quality of new materials. On the day of our shoot, we visited the Burst Test Chamber. The chamber is made of armor-plated steel and bullet-proof glass.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， Inside the chamber, hoses are filled with water and pressurized until they explode. Many of the hoses have bursting points in excess of 14,000 pounds per square inch. That would be like getting hit by an explosion with more than 15 million pounds of force, or having to lift three space shuttles! During one of the tests, the hose exploded at nearly 16,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,000 pounds per square inch!
2011年11月13日 星期日
Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-hthe Aion Kinah
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Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago.
Representatives of the Japanese and international media, including The Associated Press, were allowed into the plant with the government's chief official in charge of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . The tour was intended to demonstrate how much the situation at the plant has stabilized since the March 11 tsunami, though reporters had to wear full-body protective gear and submit to radiation scans afterward.
Mangled trucks, flipped over by the wave, remain along the roads inside the complex. Piles of rubble stand where the walls of the plant's reactor structures crumbled, and large pools of waterIf so, you may have a cube puzzle . still cover parts of the sprawling campus.
Officials said the situation at the plant,As many processors back away from hydraulic hose , which suffered meltdowns and explosions after it was deluged by the tsunami, has improved enough to allow the visit.
For weeks after the tsunami, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, spewed large amounts of radioactive materials onto the surrounding countryside, much of which remains off-limits.
The media, including an AP photographer and APTN producer, were allowed to view the grounds of the seaside facility and the outside of several of the damaged reactor units before being taken into the emergency operations center. Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, who heads the government's nuclear response efforts, addressed workers inside the center.
Japan's government and the utility that runs the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., say radiation leaks are far less of a danger than in the early days of the crisis. They say work is on track toward achieving a "cold shutdown" -- in which the temperatures of the reactors are cool and under control.
But the government has predicted that it will take another 30 years at least to safely remove the nuclear fuel and decomission the plant. It could also be decades before tens of thousands of residents forced to flee the 12-mile (20-kilometer) exclusion zone around the plant will be able to return.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, Some experts say even that estimate is optimistic.
Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago.
Representatives of the Japanese and international media, including The Associated Press, were allowed into the plant with the government's chief official in charge of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . The tour was intended to demonstrate how much the situation at the plant has stabilized since the March 11 tsunami, though reporters had to wear full-body protective gear and submit to radiation scans afterward.
Mangled trucks, flipped over by the wave, remain along the roads inside the complex. Piles of rubble stand where the walls of the plant's reactor structures crumbled, and large pools of waterIf so, you may have a cube puzzle . still cover parts of the sprawling campus.
Officials said the situation at the plant,As many processors back away from hydraulic hose , which suffered meltdowns and explosions after it was deluged by the tsunami, has improved enough to allow the visit.
For weeks after the tsunami, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, spewed large amounts of radioactive materials onto the surrounding countryside, much of which remains off-limits.
The media, including an AP photographer and APTN producer, were allowed to view the grounds of the seaside facility and the outside of several of the damaged reactor units before being taken into the emergency operations center. Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, who heads the government's nuclear response efforts, addressed workers inside the center.
Japan's government and the utility that runs the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., say radiation leaks are far less of a danger than in the early days of the crisis. They say work is on track toward achieving a "cold shutdown" -- in which the temperatures of the reactors are cool and under control.
But the government has predicted that it will take another 30 years at least to safely remove the nuclear fuel and decomission the plant. It could also be decades before tens of thousands of residents forced to flee the 12-mile (20-kilometer) exclusion zone around the plant will be able to return.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, Some experts say even that estimate is optimistic.
2011年10月13日 星期四
Cromwell Schools Get Solar Panels
In an effort to become more green energy efficient,Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. Edna C. Stevens Elementary School and Cromwell Middle School have been equipped with solar panels.
A ribbon cutting ceremony, held 6 p.It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line.m. Thursday in the middle school auditorium,The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, will formally unveil the photovoltaic systems. The solar panels, which were installed earlier this year, were made possible by funding from the state Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.
The solar panels are expected to provide about half of the electrical needs of the two schools.
"On a good sunny day, the middle school panels produce a good 90 percent" of the middle school's need,we supply all kinds of polished tiles, Flanders said.
Eighth graders can expect to have the middle school's new photovoltaic technology integrated into their science classes.
"One of the eighth grade units is motions in the solar system, seasons and tides," said Carol Aksterowicz, who has been a science teacher at the middle school for 22 years.
Thirty solar panel lab kits were donated to the eighth grade science program by the solar panel building committee. "The small solar panels are four inches by four inches; you can charge batteries to generate a fan or use batteries to ring a bell," Aksterowicz said.
Students will be examining the relationship between direct and indirect sunlight and the amount of energy generated by solar panels.
Aksterowicz said that she will need at least a full year's data collected from the solar panels on the roof of the school, but that she hopes down the road, the data from the roof can be used alongside the data collected from the solar panel lab kits.
And the two schools are not the only town building that has been installed with solar panels.we supply all kinds of polished tiles, The town hall has also been equipped with solar panels, although the array is very small.
"It looks like an awning in front of the building," Flanders said.
Since the town hall system only contributes 5 to 10 percent of the building's electrical needs, its purpose is mainly informational.
"The primary purpose of this was educational," Flanders said. "As part of that we have set up an information kiosk so that people can see what's being generated, offsets in terms of carbon dioxide and cost savings in real time."
The kiosk is located in the town hall lobby and is meant to help people understand the benefit of doing things in a green manner in the community.
"As grant money becomes available we have some more space on the town hall roof as well," Flanders said. "We are looking for funding opportunities to coordinate [solar panel installation] with maintenance on buildings."
The high school roof will be up for replacement in seven or eight years and will be the next candidate for a solar panel system, Flanders said.
A ribbon cutting ceremony, held 6 p.It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line.m. Thursday in the middle school auditorium,The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, will formally unveil the photovoltaic systems. The solar panels, which were installed earlier this year, were made possible by funding from the state Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.
The solar panels are expected to provide about half of the electrical needs of the two schools.
"On a good sunny day, the middle school panels produce a good 90 percent" of the middle school's need,we supply all kinds of polished tiles, Flanders said.
Eighth graders can expect to have the middle school's new photovoltaic technology integrated into their science classes.
"One of the eighth grade units is motions in the solar system, seasons and tides," said Carol Aksterowicz, who has been a science teacher at the middle school for 22 years.
Thirty solar panel lab kits were donated to the eighth grade science program by the solar panel building committee. "The small solar panels are four inches by four inches; you can charge batteries to generate a fan or use batteries to ring a bell," Aksterowicz said.
Students will be examining the relationship between direct and indirect sunlight and the amount of energy generated by solar panels.
Aksterowicz said that she will need at least a full year's data collected from the solar panels on the roof of the school, but that she hopes down the road, the data from the roof can be used alongside the data collected from the solar panel lab kits.
And the two schools are not the only town building that has been installed with solar panels.we supply all kinds of polished tiles, The town hall has also been equipped with solar panels, although the array is very small.
"It looks like an awning in front of the building," Flanders said.
Since the town hall system only contributes 5 to 10 percent of the building's electrical needs, its purpose is mainly informational.
"The primary purpose of this was educational," Flanders said. "As part of that we have set up an information kiosk so that people can see what's being generated, offsets in terms of carbon dioxide and cost savings in real time."
The kiosk is located in the town hall lobby and is meant to help people understand the benefit of doing things in a green manner in the community.
"As grant money becomes available we have some more space on the town hall roof as well," Flanders said. "We are looking for funding opportunities to coordinate [solar panel installation] with maintenance on buildings."
The high school roof will be up for replacement in seven or eight years and will be the next candidate for a solar panel system, Flanders said.
2011年10月8日 星期六
What experts think of our ailing economy
Senedd Correspondent Matt Withers spoke to three of Wales’ leading economic thinkers to ask one simple yet challenging question: where is the economy heading over the next 12 months?
Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Wales director of the Institute of Directors
“Well, this really is the billion dollar question isn’t it?
“I suspect that 12 months is likely to be a short time-span in our recovery process. Yes, I was encouraged by this week’s second tranch of quantitative easing but there’s still much bad news out there.
“The negatives seem to come thick and fast, the latest being these financial institutions having their credit rating downgraded. Such a trend does little to instil optimism in the economy and I think we’ll be in choppy waters for quite a while yet.
“Due to us now operating in the global market, we’re constantly at the mercy of events out of our control and Wales’ close links to the rest of the UK mean our fortunes are likely to remain broadly parallel. As a region we suffer in GVA (Gross Value Added) terms, that is in the value of goods and services produced in Wales, so I remain concerned that we’re lagging behind there.
“Do I see us overtaking other regions in the coming months? Probably not. Do I see a massive turnaround? Probably not.
“Is there hope? Of course – every day I see businesses working hard to build confidence. But I’d like to see some recent Welsh Government announcements come to fruition and a greater coherence in the way which all governments support business and carry forward the leadership baton.
“Wales’ key business sectors need to be given every chance to thrive and, with me chairing a Welsh Government group looking at a strategy for micro-businesses, I’d like to see our eventual recommendations taken on board to show that the Government really does value the knowledge and experience of the private sector.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.”
Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym, former deputy chairman of the Principality building society and economic adviser to Plaid Cymru
“People in general are cutting back their spending and, quite interestingly, if you look at some of the supermarkets you see a shift to the less expensive product ranges,The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, so people individually are being much more careful and that of course feeding back quite badly into the economy in general.
“So the big thing is uncertainty. If one were to take the real worst scenario – I’m not saying this is going to happen, of course – the Eurozone creates great concern now because the problem been dragging on for so long.
“I’m of the view personally that the eurozone makes sense whilst you had relative economic stability but at a time of great crisis – which I don’t think was foreseen – to have a country like Greece in the eurozone really doesn’t make much sense unless you move to a very integrated federal fiscal system which then raises all sorts of issues.
“Then if you look at the UK, certainly I’ve said all along the Conservatives, in the run-up to the General Election, made a big mistake painting themselves into a corner by making their key objective that of eliminating the current deficit within four years.
“It’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will succeed in doing that, in fairness partly because of global problems which are outside of their control such as the eurozone, the slowing down in China and the US problems, but also because it was too sharp a reduction in spending too quickly.”
Professor Patrick Minford of the Cardiff Business School, a former economic adviser to Margaret Thatcher
“The underlying problem that is driving slow western growth is slow productivity growth created by the world shortage of raw materials.
“With emerging market productivity growth fast (so that world growth overall is a strong 4% this year after 5% last),These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives! supplies of raw materials are pre-empted by the emerging markets, and their prices driven up; this in turn undermines western productivity growth, which relies on ever-rising computer power and cheap raw materials.
“In the oil and raw material crisis of the 1970s, similar things occurred. At that time western governments estimated excess capacity at high levels and called for large-scale co-ordinated stimulus in the face of the ‘oil producer surpluses’.
“However, this essentially Keynesian analysis turned out to be seriously wrong and precipitated a massive world inflation.
“Another way of looking at the situation is to note that ‘balance sheets are weak’ after the crisis. This in turn makes firms and consumers reluctant to spend.
“A number of commentators have grasped this side of the picture and suggested it is a pure ‘demand’ phenomenon, which therefore justifies stimulatory monetary and fiscal policy. But ‘weak balance sheets’ simply reflect low productivity and poor profit prospects,It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line. consistently with the account of the West given above.we supply all kinds of polished tiles,
“All this means that the outlook is for slow UK growth. It cannot be affected much at all by the loose money policies from the Bank of England; these unfortunately will just make inflation worse and more stubborn and so are a mistake.
Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Wales director of the Institute of Directors
“Well, this really is the billion dollar question isn’t it?
“I suspect that 12 months is likely to be a short time-span in our recovery process. Yes, I was encouraged by this week’s second tranch of quantitative easing but there’s still much bad news out there.
“The negatives seem to come thick and fast, the latest being these financial institutions having their credit rating downgraded. Such a trend does little to instil optimism in the economy and I think we’ll be in choppy waters for quite a while yet.
“Due to us now operating in the global market, we’re constantly at the mercy of events out of our control and Wales’ close links to the rest of the UK mean our fortunes are likely to remain broadly parallel. As a region we suffer in GVA (Gross Value Added) terms, that is in the value of goods and services produced in Wales, so I remain concerned that we’re lagging behind there.
“Do I see us overtaking other regions in the coming months? Probably not. Do I see a massive turnaround? Probably not.
“Is there hope? Of course – every day I see businesses working hard to build confidence. But I’d like to see some recent Welsh Government announcements come to fruition and a greater coherence in the way which all governments support business and carry forward the leadership baton.
“Wales’ key business sectors need to be given every chance to thrive and, with me chairing a Welsh Government group looking at a strategy for micro-businesses, I’d like to see our eventual recommendations taken on board to show that the Government really does value the knowledge and experience of the private sector.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.”
Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym, former deputy chairman of the Principality building society and economic adviser to Plaid Cymru
“People in general are cutting back their spending and, quite interestingly, if you look at some of the supermarkets you see a shift to the less expensive product ranges,The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, so people individually are being much more careful and that of course feeding back quite badly into the economy in general.
“So the big thing is uncertainty. If one were to take the real worst scenario – I’m not saying this is going to happen, of course – the Eurozone creates great concern now because the problem been dragging on for so long.
“I’m of the view personally that the eurozone makes sense whilst you had relative economic stability but at a time of great crisis – which I don’t think was foreseen – to have a country like Greece in the eurozone really doesn’t make much sense unless you move to a very integrated federal fiscal system which then raises all sorts of issues.
“Then if you look at the UK, certainly I’ve said all along the Conservatives, in the run-up to the General Election, made a big mistake painting themselves into a corner by making their key objective that of eliminating the current deficit within four years.
“It’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will succeed in doing that, in fairness partly because of global problems which are outside of their control such as the eurozone, the slowing down in China and the US problems, but also because it was too sharp a reduction in spending too quickly.”
Professor Patrick Minford of the Cardiff Business School, a former economic adviser to Margaret Thatcher
“The underlying problem that is driving slow western growth is slow productivity growth created by the world shortage of raw materials.
“With emerging market productivity growth fast (so that world growth overall is a strong 4% this year after 5% last),These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives! supplies of raw materials are pre-empted by the emerging markets, and their prices driven up; this in turn undermines western productivity growth, which relies on ever-rising computer power and cheap raw materials.
“In the oil and raw material crisis of the 1970s, similar things occurred. At that time western governments estimated excess capacity at high levels and called for large-scale co-ordinated stimulus in the face of the ‘oil producer surpluses’.
“However, this essentially Keynesian analysis turned out to be seriously wrong and precipitated a massive world inflation.
“Another way of looking at the situation is to note that ‘balance sheets are weak’ after the crisis. This in turn makes firms and consumers reluctant to spend.
“A number of commentators have grasped this side of the picture and suggested it is a pure ‘demand’ phenomenon, which therefore justifies stimulatory monetary and fiscal policy. But ‘weak balance sheets’ simply reflect low productivity and poor profit prospects,It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line. consistently with the account of the West given above.we supply all kinds of polished tiles,
“All this means that the outlook is for slow UK growth. It cannot be affected much at all by the loose money policies from the Bank of England; these unfortunately will just make inflation worse and more stubborn and so are a mistake.
Game Review: ‘X-Men: Destiny’ for XBox 360
It’s been year since the release of a quality X-Men title. Not since X-Men Legends and its sequel has there really been a game that captured the essence of Marvel’s band of merry mutants,we supply all kinds of polished tiles, especially with the pitiful movie tie-in titles that have been released.
When X-Men: Destiny was announced by Activision and Silicon Knights, the makers of Too Human, players hoped their prayers would be answered as they would get to experience what it was like for an emerging mutant caught between the turmoil of the X-Men, Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants and the humans who seek to end the “mutant menace”.
Instead, what they got was a half handed execution that feels like a franchise cash-in rushed out in order to hit the holiday game season before the larger releases like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3.It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line.
Destiny has all the basic controls someone would expect from a third person brawler. Players navigate through closed off pathways and encounter waves of enemies using basic melee, heavy melee and special powered attacks along with the basic blocking, dodging and jumping mechanics. Each character has the same four basic combinations using X and Y that only change by adding an additional X press at the start of the combo. No air juggles, interspersed special attacks of climactic and challenging finishing maneuvers exist.These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives! This quickly makes the game feel dated as almost all other games within the genre have put in these basic features.
As a result, combat quickly gets repetitive. There is little to no variation on beating different foes and those who do require a change in strategy are quickly defeated once a player has learned the specific method of halting that enemies attacks. What results is a game of trial and error that usually results in the players death because of the tedium instead of the difficulty.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
Boss battles take the same feel as other combat as a player only needs a few tries to figure out the right combination of blocking, dodging and attacking for each different boss. In most cases this sounds like a traditional boss battle but because of the lack of depth to X-Men: Destiny’s combat, it quickly loses its luster.
Destiny takes an alternate reality from the X-Men comics where Professor X has been killed in battle by the mutant hating Cyborg Bastion. The X-Men have been hunted down and move to San Francisco where they try to establish a peace with humans. It is during this peace rally that players see their chosen new mutant’s powers develop as the rally is attacked. The player is then thrust into the heart of the conflict between the X-Men who are trying to defend themselves, innocent mutants and innocent human bystanders alike, the Brotherhood who is only looking to protect mutants and the Purifiers, a militant mutant hate group. During their time, players cross paths with different members of both the X-Men and Brotherhood factions and are given choices that affect their standing with the two groups. Early on for example, players are given the option to help Nightcrawler evacuate innocents or help Pyro destroy a building. What is nice is the dialogue changes depending on the backstory of the character chosen by the player even if the resulting game story stays the same.
The problem with the game’s story lies in the characters the player is forced to compete against. Faceless Purifiers and augmented U-Men and MRD forces compose the majority of the game’s antagonists with occasional faction based mini boss battles. Even the game’s final boss battle is a letdown as the game’s main antagonist never really hits a chord with the player to make them truly hate them. It doesn’t help that what should be the most epic encounter happens right before and doesn’t end up feeling all that epic due to the ease in which that boss is defeated as well.
One of the most interesting aspects of the game comes from the choices made in creating this alternate reality. Much of the X-Men canon has been pushed aside. In this world, the X-Men head to the west coast because they are being systematically wiped out for existing and a large number of them are missing or dead including original X-Men like Jean Grey, Beast or Angel. It is a risky decision to already eliminate characters from the series if they had ever hoped to continue it in a sequel.The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, At the same time, it is a risk to be applauded because the characters who are still around do a good job of conveying the gravity of the situation on top of the limited resources they have left to work with.
When X-Men: Destiny was announced by Activision and Silicon Knights, the makers of Too Human, players hoped their prayers would be answered as they would get to experience what it was like for an emerging mutant caught between the turmoil of the X-Men, Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants and the humans who seek to end the “mutant menace”.
Instead, what they got was a half handed execution that feels like a franchise cash-in rushed out in order to hit the holiday game season before the larger releases like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3.It's hard to beat the versatility of zentai suits on a production line.
Destiny has all the basic controls someone would expect from a third person brawler. Players navigate through closed off pathways and encounter waves of enemies using basic melee, heavy melee and special powered attacks along with the basic blocking, dodging and jumping mechanics. Each character has the same four basic combinations using X and Y that only change by adding an additional X press at the start of the combo. No air juggles, interspersed special attacks of climactic and challenging finishing maneuvers exist.These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives! This quickly makes the game feel dated as almost all other games within the genre have put in these basic features.
As a result, combat quickly gets repetitive. There is little to no variation on beating different foes and those who do require a change in strategy are quickly defeated once a player has learned the specific method of halting that enemies attacks. What results is a game of trial and error that usually results in the players death because of the tedium instead of the difficulty.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
Boss battles take the same feel as other combat as a player only needs a few tries to figure out the right combination of blocking, dodging and attacking for each different boss. In most cases this sounds like a traditional boss battle but because of the lack of depth to X-Men: Destiny’s combat, it quickly loses its luster.
Destiny takes an alternate reality from the X-Men comics where Professor X has been killed in battle by the mutant hating Cyborg Bastion. The X-Men have been hunted down and move to San Francisco where they try to establish a peace with humans. It is during this peace rally that players see their chosen new mutant’s powers develop as the rally is attacked. The player is then thrust into the heart of the conflict between the X-Men who are trying to defend themselves, innocent mutants and innocent human bystanders alike, the Brotherhood who is only looking to protect mutants and the Purifiers, a militant mutant hate group. During their time, players cross paths with different members of both the X-Men and Brotherhood factions and are given choices that affect their standing with the two groups. Early on for example, players are given the option to help Nightcrawler evacuate innocents or help Pyro destroy a building. What is nice is the dialogue changes depending on the backstory of the character chosen by the player even if the resulting game story stays the same.
The problem with the game’s story lies in the characters the player is forced to compete against. Faceless Purifiers and augmented U-Men and MRD forces compose the majority of the game’s antagonists with occasional faction based mini boss battles. Even the game’s final boss battle is a letdown as the game’s main antagonist never really hits a chord with the player to make them truly hate them. It doesn’t help that what should be the most epic encounter happens right before and doesn’t end up feeling all that epic due to the ease in which that boss is defeated as well.
One of the most interesting aspects of the game comes from the choices made in creating this alternate reality. Much of the X-Men canon has been pushed aside. In this world, the X-Men head to the west coast because they are being systematically wiped out for existing and a large number of them are missing or dead including original X-Men like Jean Grey, Beast or Angel. It is a risky decision to already eliminate characters from the series if they had ever hoped to continue it in a sequel.The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, At the same time, it is a risk to be applauded because the characters who are still around do a good job of conveying the gravity of the situation on top of the limited resources they have left to work with.
2011年8月30日 星期二
THE BACK TO SCHOOL SURVIVAL GUIDE
Eight out of 10 children carry too much weight in poorly-designed school bags, the charity BackCare warns. Studies have shown some youngsters carry loads that are prohibited under health and safety rules for adults.
That doesn't shock physiotherapist Sammy Margo who says: "We are seeing a huge increase in the number of kids with back problems.Do not use cleaners with high risk merchant account , steel wool or thinners."
She says the best bag is a rucksack with broad straps which should be shortened to ensure it fits close to the body.
"If kids insist on carrying their rucksack by just one strap, which a lot of them do, encourage them to alternate shoulders.
"I am not against across-the-body satchels so long as they have a wide strap and are worn close to the body."
Lighten the load by checking that your child isn't carrying books, PE kit and other paraphernalia to and from school unnecessarily.
NERVOUS STARTERS
If children haven't been to nursery or spent time with a child minder or nanny their first day may be their first long
period away from mum which can cause anxiety for both parent and child.
Parent coach and psychologist Dr Jenny Leonard says: "One of the best ways to overcome their fears is plenty of preparation. You want to be talking about school, their teacher and friends who are going to the same school.I have never solved a Rubik's hydraulic hose .
"It's also a good idea to walk or drive the route and have a look at the school even if you can't go in. If your child is clingy ask their teacher about sitting in the classroom for a while to get them settled.Detailed information on the causes of Ceramic tile, Try not to pass on your fears."
After school take time to talk to your child about any problems or anxieties and arrange some play dates to help them settle.
With some children problems may start a week or two into the school year when they realise they have to attend regularly. Get a planner and mark off holidays and half-term so school does not seem so open-ended.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an oil paintings for sale , and not a metal,
MEALTIME MENUS
Every year schoolchildren in the UK chomp through five-and-a-half billion packed lunches.Prior to RUBBER SHEET I leaned toward the former,
However a study of 1,300 lunch boxes in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health revealed only one in 100 would pass the nutritional guidelines laid down for school dinners.
One in four contained sweets, sugary drinks and other items banned under rules for school dinners which were introduced in 2006 after TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign for better meals.
Half the youngsters were given
fruit but this was the food most likely to be left uneaten and only one in five packed lunches contained any salad or veg.
Helen Riley of the British Nutrition Foundation, says lunches should contain four key food groups: fruit, protein, starchy carbohydrates and vegetables and dairy.
"Sandwiches are easy but think about alternatives such as crispbread, pitta and wraps to add variety."
Pots of baked beans, pasta or rice salad or even homemade popcorn are healthy choices so long as there isn't lots of butter, sugar or salt.
A milky drink, yogurt or cheese will ensure dairy intake but use an ice pack and an insulated bag to keep food fresh.
That doesn't shock physiotherapist Sammy Margo who says: "We are seeing a huge increase in the number of kids with back problems.Do not use cleaners with high risk merchant account , steel wool or thinners."
She says the best bag is a rucksack with broad straps which should be shortened to ensure it fits close to the body.
"If kids insist on carrying their rucksack by just one strap, which a lot of them do, encourage them to alternate shoulders.
"I am not against across-the-body satchels so long as they have a wide strap and are worn close to the body."
Lighten the load by checking that your child isn't carrying books, PE kit and other paraphernalia to and from school unnecessarily.
NERVOUS STARTERS
If children haven't been to nursery or spent time with a child minder or nanny their first day may be their first long
period away from mum which can cause anxiety for both parent and child.
Parent coach and psychologist Dr Jenny Leonard says: "One of the best ways to overcome their fears is plenty of preparation. You want to be talking about school, their teacher and friends who are going to the same school.I have never solved a Rubik's hydraulic hose .
"It's also a good idea to walk or drive the route and have a look at the school even if you can't go in. If your child is clingy ask their teacher about sitting in the classroom for a while to get them settled.Detailed information on the causes of Ceramic tile, Try not to pass on your fears."
After school take time to talk to your child about any problems or anxieties and arrange some play dates to help them settle.
With some children problems may start a week or two into the school year when they realise they have to attend regularly. Get a planner and mark off holidays and half-term so school does not seem so open-ended.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an oil paintings for sale , and not a metal,
MEALTIME MENUS
Every year schoolchildren in the UK chomp through five-and-a-half billion packed lunches.Prior to RUBBER SHEET I leaned toward the former,
However a study of 1,300 lunch boxes in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health revealed only one in 100 would pass the nutritional guidelines laid down for school dinners.
One in four contained sweets, sugary drinks and other items banned under rules for school dinners which were introduced in 2006 after TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign for better meals.
Half the youngsters were given
fruit but this was the food most likely to be left uneaten and only one in five packed lunches contained any salad or veg.
Helen Riley of the British Nutrition Foundation, says lunches should contain four key food groups: fruit, protein, starchy carbohydrates and vegetables and dairy.
"Sandwiches are easy but think about alternatives such as crispbread, pitta and wraps to add variety."
Pots of baked beans, pasta or rice salad or even homemade popcorn are healthy choices so long as there isn't lots of butter, sugar or salt.
A milky drink, yogurt or cheese will ensure dairy intake but use an ice pack and an insulated bag to keep food fresh.
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