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The Audi A1 presentation is a long way off in February, if you consider Christmas, holidays and New Year all in the middle, but the A1 countdown has already started. The new Audi compact car will debut at the 2010 Geneva motor show from March 4 to 14, but it’s while before our curiosity will be satisfied.

The A1 launch campaign includes tantalising glimpses of the car on Twitter, Facebook and in the video above. On January 28 we should see an A1 test drive video released, followed by a project manager video on February 4. The A1 count down will finish on the day of its online presentation: a date which hasn’t been confirmed yet. After the jump is another corporate video with design concepts revealed, and to register for A1 updates, see the Audi UK site.

You can now download the complete new INTECNO MICRO gearmotors catalogue.
It’s divided into 3 sections :
– MICRO DC gearmotors DC
– MICRO brushless DC gearmotors
– DC motor controls
In the catalogue you can find all the characteristics of the gearmotors made up of DC or BLDC (brushless) motors, planetary or worm gears.
Wormgearboxes from the CM range (sizes 26 and 30) have just recently been added to this range.
See below some of the main characteristics of these modular gearboxes :
• New housing design, neater and more linear
• Die-cast aluminium housing, input and output flanges
• Permanent synthetic oil long life lubrication
• Input oil seals inside the housing
Wormgearboxes have been added to complete the MICRO gearmotors range, in order to offer a wider range of applications to our clients. They can be used for example in, small conveyor belts, automatic doors, packaging machines – where small dimensions are a must.
Please contact us to receive a copy.

Help ensure the safety of your furry friends while you’re away this holiday season or anytime you travel. Even if you have a pet sitter, there will be times when pets are alone. Planning ahead can make a lot of difference.

For home safety when you’re away, Deb Coller, ADT vice president, recommends having monitored carbon monoxide and fire alarms. This is smart advice. One of my biggest pet fears when I’m away is that my cat will be stuck at home with no way to escape during a fire or other emergency. If you have alarms monitored with a reputable security company, trained operators are waiting at all times to alert first responders.

Another recommendation from Coller is to attach a pet alert window cling to a front window. The cling provides time-saving pet information to rescuers. Since home fires increase during the holidays, now’s a very good time to get your window cling. To request a free pet alert window cling, visit ADT.

During the holidays, there are also additional pet safety factors to consider. Keep pets away from fireplaces by using a sturdy screen, and keep pine needles, tree water and poisonous holiday plants like poinsettias, mistletoe, holly and lilies away from cats and dogs. Read about symptoms your pet may exhibit if a dangerous holiday plant has been ingested. Also, find out more about how holiday foods and your pet may pet along.

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Keeping Pets Safe While You’re Away

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Excellent and insightful, Americans need to demand REAL accountability based on FACTS

In 1971, the United States abandoned the gold standard, effectively ending the ability to convert dollars into gold. Now another gold standard has taken its place, i.e., the science produced by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

According to NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, the IPCC is “the gold standard for authoritative scientific information on climate change because of the rigorous way in which they are prepared, reviewed, and approved.” Unfortunately for some, the “gold standard” is at the heart of Climategate.

One salient clue to the IPCC’s central involvement is the scientists who wrote the troubling emails. They are not of the basement-and-garage variety: they stand on the summit of climate research. Moreover, they are the key contributors to, and lead authors of, the IPCC’s major science assessment reports-making them, for better or worse, the architects of the climate change “consensus.”

Source: RightSideNews.com

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EMC/EMI three-phase filter solutions for industrial applications like motor drives and machine tools.

Furthermore, these types of EMC/EMI filters are also suitable for mainframe computer systems, large uninterruptible power supplies, medical equipment, wind turbine power stations and a vast array of other three-phase power electronics.

SCHURTER is a leading innovator, manufacturer and distributor of fuses, connectors, circuit breakers, input systems and EMC products. The company focus is on components and systems ensuring the clean and safe supply of power and ease of use of medical equipment according to IEC 60950 or 60601-1.
SCHURTER products are ideal for use in medical appliances, meeting all the typical requirements such as durability, reliability, safety orientation and design ensuring hygiene as well as user-friendliness and maximum functional integration.
SCHURTER supports medical equipment manufacturers worldwide, through technically sophisticated and well-engineered products, in their development work. That is why we consistently align our innovation process with the technological trends of this cutting-edge industry.
SCHURTER employees have already begun to work on compact and multifunctional power entry module combinations intended to respond to the rising demand for mobile units in diagnostics and those for home use. Testing new materials and assessing innovative approaches with regard to our components’ tight conformance, we will make a significant contribution towards easy and efficient compliance with hygienic regulations.
New laws governing appliance safety motivate us to enter into a dialog with our customers worldwide to work out solutions for EMC protection and power supply cord retention in a swift, consistent and cost-conscious manner.
SCHURTER employees are steadfastly committed to guaranteeing maximum benefits and safety to the end customer. We meet application challenges and offer our customers a variety of innovative solutions, taking into consideration the core issues: durability, reliability, tightness, safety, hygiene, user-friendliness and highly functional integration.

Facebook is currently working on redesigning and improving its Game Dashboard, in an attempt to help members to better find, use and monitor their favorite Facebook games. The new project wants to strike a balance between encouraging game developers and pleasing the gamers, while also striving to prevent game advertising from destroying the fun for everyone.

It is already well-known that Facebook got into serious trouble (and several lawsuits too, for that matter) in the past because of scams conducted via its game ads, so it is no surprise that the social network is working on regaining the reputation and popularity it used to have. Also, the company has already announced that it will no longer place game-related ‘push notifications’ into the notifications channel, thus trying to clean up the network’s communication system.

The pressure is definitely high on Facebook in terms of making this redesign right, because this will mean it can increase the applications usage and help developers grow. However, if the change does not go as expected, the social network will be seriously impaired, not only affecting the evolution of game publishers (like Zynga, for example) but also third-parties. In other words, Game Dashboard will have a considerable impact on the ways Facebook uses to generate income.
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CHURCHVILLE, VA – Copenhagen was two weeks of uninterrupted game-playing: CFACT conned their way aboard a Greenpeace vessel with donuts – then unfurled a banner overside reading “Ship of Lies.“

* China told the world it really wants to cut its carbon emissions, if the West will just pay them a trillion or so dollars to offset the higher costs of wind and solar.

* President Obama warned the poor countries to volunteer fossil fuel cutbacks—in exchange for $100 billion per year that nobody has agreed to pay.

Source: americandaily.com

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A big fuss erupted when Mistwalker announced back in October that they are finishing up a new project. Initially, Hironobu Sakaguchi thought that he would be able to at least discuss this new project before 2009 ends.

Google always tries to attract the best people in the business on its side to maintain its advantage over the competition, so, when Kevin Marks left in June, another promising person was bound to join the company. It is currently the case of Joseph Smarr.

According to his personal blog, the newest addition to the Mountain View team will “help drive a new company-wide focus on the future of the Social Web,” which seems like a realistic thing to say taking into consideration that he had been working on similar projects for Plaxo for almost eight years. Furthermore, Smarr was among the first non-founders to join this organization and helped increase its reputation and productivity to the extent that it was bought for $150 million by Comcast. He also became Plaxo’s Chief Technology Officer.

Contributing to the rise of Plaxo has also helped Smarr get numerous connections all over the social web and has given him the chance to advocate for open standards, just like Marks had done. In addition, he has already gotten in contact with Google working as partners for several projects during the last years. “Like all incoming Google engineers, my official title for the first year will be ‘member of technical staff,’” Smarr said. “The work is on turbocharging the opening up of the social we… (read more)

If you missed out on the vouchers sent out for the God of War III demo, don’t feel so forlorn. You’re in great luck today as you will be getting another shot at it this week.
 
 
 
 

Carbo-Link is a leading Swiss advanced engineering solutions company. It has been founded by interdisciplinary scientists who have developed an innovative technique for the production of lightweight composite tension members with excellent fatigue resistance which are lighter and have a smaller diameter than other available systems for an equivalent stiffness.

The company was looking for a prepreg system for carbon fibre pendent cables to replace steel rods on the Liebherr LR1300 series crawler crane. Carbo-Link chose the Araldite® XB3515 / Aradur® 5021 system because of its high strength and fracture toughness for the anchoring rods made from their unique carbon fibre polymer matrix system.

The crane which is in operation across the world in territories as diverse as North America, Europe and the Middle East has a nominal lifting capacity of 300 tons. The prepreg system chosen had to able to withstand heavy loads and abuse situations and maintain its properties at very high temperatures in the sun.

Araldite® XB3515, a hot melt epoxy resin and Aradur® 5021, a hardener based on polyamines is a system which overall provides excellent mechanical properties (strength and stiffness) combined with easy handling behaviour. These properties make it extremely well suited for use on the Liebherr crawler crane in a range of different environments across the world.

“We selected the Araldite® XB3515 / Aradur® 5021 system because of its low build up of exothermal temperature during the curing phase – essential because of the size of the cross sections which must be large in order to withstand the high tensile forces,” said Dr Andreas Winistoerfer, CEO, Carbo-Link. “The Araldite® prepreg system has helped us to sell lightweight tension cables globally to the construction industry as well as in sailing markets for use on high tech composite yacht rigging.”

The Power Pack Among The AC Motor Spindles.

Technical Data:
Applications: Drilling, Milling, Grinding, Engraving
Clamping diameter: 60 mm
Motor system: 3 Phase asynchronous motor
Rated speed: 3,000 – 24,000 rpm
Voltage: 185 V
Current: max. 10.6 A
Torque: max. 200 Ncm
Frequency: 50 – 400 Hz
Qutput power: max. 2,700 W

BETHLEHEM, PA¾A new Sanitary High Lift Drum Dumper allows drums to be loaded at floor level, sealed against a discharge cone, elevated and tipped, mating the cone to a gasketted receiving ring on downstream process equipment.
Trademarked TIP-TITE™, the dumper accommodates drums from 30 to 55 gal (114 to 208 liter) and can discharge bulk material into process vessels and equipment inlets 5 to 10 ft (1525 to 3050 mm) above the plant floor.
The drum platform is raised by a single hydraulic cylinder, creating a dust-tight seal between the rim of a drum and the underside of the discharge cone.
A second hydraulic cylinder raises the platform-hood assembly vertically before tipping it to a dump angle of 90 degrees, causing the vertically oriented cone to mate with a gasketted receiving ring. The ring can be fitted to the lid of an optional hopper with integral flexible screw conveyor or pneumatic pick-up adapter, or to existing process equipment.
A pneumatically actuated slide gate valve prevents material flow until the discharge cone has been properly seated in the gasketted receiving ring.
The all-stainless unit can be finished to sanitary or industrial standards. Other models are offered in mild steel with durable industrial coatings, or with material contact surfaces of stainless steel.
The company also manufactures conventional-height drum dumpers, drum fillers, box-container dumpers, bulk bag dischargers, bulk bag conditioners, bulk bag fillers, flexible screw conveyors, pneumatic conveying systems, bag dump stations, weigh batching and blending systems, and engineered plant-wide bulk handling systems with automated controls.
Contact Flexicon Corporation, 1-888-353-9426, [email protected], www.flexicon.com

at 8 a.m. on december 20, 2009, she had apparently collapsed in a bathroom. she was later transported to cedars-sinai-medical center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. after going to cardiac arrest. no further details have been released, the police is currently investigating the cause of her death.

brittany murphy is my favorite actress, her featured films include; clueless (1995), girl, interrupted (1999), riding in cars with boys (2001), 8 mile (2002), just married (2003), and sin city (2005)

r.i.p.
she will be forever missed.

According to IHS Global, there isn’t a single U.S. metropolitan area where houses are ‘extremely overvalued’ right now. In fact, while a few regions remain moderately overvalued, overall U.S. housing prices are now undervalued.

IHS: When weighting each area by its share of total housing market value, we find that the overall housing market is now undervalued by 8.6%. That compares with a peak overvaluation of 26.1% during the second quarter of 2006. When weighting each area by its share of total housing market units, we find the overall housing market to now be undervalued 10.1%. That compares with a peak overvaluation of 17.1%, during the second quarter of 2006.

Here’s a map of their housing valuations below. By their measures, there are a lot of metropolitan areas with undervalued housing these days, especially in California and the southern U.S.. If you think this sounds completely ridiculous, then there’s a decent chance they’re right.

Here’s a brief description of their valuation method, check out the full report here. They claim some housing markets are undervalued by as much as 20%, especially in California.

IHS: Our approach to determining statistically normal house values considers not only house prices and interest rates, but household incomes, population densities, and any historical premiums or discounts metropolitan areas have exhibited over time.

We examined these factors for 330 metro areas, which now account for 78.4% of all existing housing units in America and 86.4% of all related real estate value, to determine what house prices should be, in this statistical sense.

Based on an historical examination of 155 actual metro area price corrections during the 1985-2008 period, we consider valuations in excess of +35 percent as “extremely overvalued” and present a risk of substantial price decline (10 percent, or greater) going forward.

Valuations between ±14 percent are consistent with one standard deviation of the historically normal distribution, and considered “fairly valued,” accordingly. Between extremely overvalued and fairly valued are areas above the historically normal range, but not so high as to be at risk of substantial price decline. We call these areas “overvalued.” Finally, any area below the historically normal range, below -14 percent, is considered “undervalued.”

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See Also:

• Deutsche Bank: Housing Still Has 10% To Fall
• Moody’s: The Housing Market Has Bottomed
• Housing Starts And CPI All Benign

The ESRB has just slapped Atlus Games’ Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey with an M rating. The reason behind this rating: graphic text and phallic monsters.
 
 

Article Tags: Copenhagen Conference, Headline Story, Will Alexander

My memo with this title is attached together with my message titled Children of Africa.

Copenhagen has come and gone. It was a nail biting experience watching the developments on TV and downloading all the Internet items. Now I can get on with my life.

While you enjoy the Christmas festivities, give a thought to the millions of people in the world living in conditions of abject poverty.

Regards and a Merry Christmas,

Will

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We’re not entirely sure if this would be the DLC that Naughty Dog promised to send out in time for Christmas, but apparently, two new multiplayer skins were found in Uncharted 2.