Happy Hanukkah! Here’s a little treat from Jake and Micah to celebrate the Festival of Lights. A pair of Hanukkah fortune cookies, perfect for the season.
And just so no one is left out, they also have some Christmas theme fortune cookies, too.
$4.99 each or $9.95 for a pair.
Dutair aluminium side channel blowers are robust units used for versitile applications. These blowers stand out for their durability, due to the robust aluminium design, which makes them highly resistant against corrosion. Other advantages of Dutair side channel ventilators include:
lightweight due to use of aluminium
compact size for building into machines
corrosion-proof aluminium
contact free operation eliminating wear
oil-free so no maintenance
feature noise-dampers as standard, for low noise levels
universal gas pipe connection at inlet and outlet
vibration-free and pulsation-free operation
versatile use for pressure and vacuum
The use of Dutair aluminium side channel blowers is common in machine-building as high pressure ventilator, vacuum pump, air pump, booster, low pressure compressor and oil-free compressor. The applications are unlimited like aireting, dust cleaning, vacuum lifting, vacuum tables, blowing off, pneumatic transport, cooling and vacuum molding.
Introduction of Centrifugal Slurry Pump –ELM Series
The ELM(R) series Centrifugal slurry pumps are cantilevered slurry pumps, horizontal, centrifugal slurry pumps. They are suitable for delivering less abrasive, low dense slurry. The ELM(R) series centrifugal slurry pumps have a high rate of revolution and small volume saving floor area.
The features of this kind of Centrifugal slurry pump
The frame plates of ELM Series Centrifugal slurry pump have changeable, wear-resistant metal liners or rubber liners upon request and the impellers are made of wear-resistant metal or rubber. And the discharge branch can be oriented to any of the eight different positions for installation and application upon request. The shaft seal is adopted both gland seal and centrifugal seal.
Main application of this kind of Centrifugal slurry pump
This kind of centrifugal slurry pump mainly applies in the metallurgical, mining, coal and construction material industry etc.
We are leading manufactuer of producing the low weight loss Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnets.
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Big shocker here: Joe Lieberman, the former VP candidate of the Democratic party, appears set to knife his old pals in the back.
NYT: In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.
The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out to overcome an impasse within the party.
But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and to abandon the idea of any new government insurance plan, or lose his vote.
If Lieberman does, ultimately, prove to be the stick in the healthcare craw, maybe history will look on Ned Lamont, and his 2006 primary run (which prompted Lieberman to go independent), as the Ralph Nader spoiler character of healthcare. After all, if Lieberman had gotten to keep his party affiliation, maybe he wouldn’t be such a pain today.
Meanwhile, as the NYT goes onto note, Harry Reid is trying desperately to hold his ship together on another issue: abortion. The conservative Democrats think the only way they’ll get re-elected is if the final bill includes some kind of anti-abortion measures to guarantee that government money doesn’t go towards it.
Bottom line: there’s a long way to go before this bill (or something similar to it) gets through the Senate.
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These rather rotund Christmas cats are waiting to bring some holiday cheer to you and your guests. Use them to decorate a tree, mantel, or tabletop. Handpainted mercury glass with flocked stripes and a little holiday wreath for a collar.
On sale now for $11.99 US at SmithsonianStore.com
I also had to share this little guy who was available at CB2, however it looks like they already sold out.
“Everything you see I owe to pasta.” – Sophia Loren
“I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza.” – Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.” – Bernadette Peters
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra
“The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.” – Charles Pierce
“Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” – Sophia Bush
“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.” – Jeff Marder
“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” – Christopher Morley
“And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.” – Tiger Woods
Fresh data on corporate sentiment out of Japan is mixed — basically confirming that the country remains mired in an anemic zombie state.
Bloomberg: The Tankan index of sentiment among big makers of products including cars and electronics climbed nine points to minus 24 in December, the Bank of Japan said in Tokyo today. The median forecast of 19 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was minus 27. A negative number means pessimists outnumber optimists.
Stocks fell as the report showed large companies planned deeper spending cuts to protect earnings that are under threat from a currency that climbed to a 14-year high against the dollar last month. Sony Corp., forecasting a second straight annual loss, said last month that it will eliminate jobs, close a factory and transfer some touch-panel production to China.
You can find the complete survey results at the BoJ, in English, here.
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As Paul Krugman put it, states that cut spending in a time of recession are like 50 little Herbert Hoovers.
Well, welcome to New York State, whose governor just slashed payments to schools and local authorities in a bid to keep the state solvent.
DailyNews: New York City will lose at least $84 million in funding under Gov. Paterson‘s plan to withhold payments to keep the state afloat this month.
Saying the “day of reckoning” for cash-strapped New York state is here, Paterson announced Sunday he is unilaterally withholding 10% of nearly $1.9 billion in school and municipal aid funding that was to be paid Tuesday.
For the city that means its school aid payment will be about $60 million short and its municipal assistance payment $23.9 million lower than expected, Paterson’s budget office said.
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Mr Papandreou faces circumstances (akin) to those of Argentine leaders in 2001, when they tried to cut wages in the mistaken belief that ditching the dollar-peg would prove calamitous. Buenos Aires erupted in riots. The police lost control, killing 27 people. President De la Rua was rescued from the Casa Rosada by an air force helicopter. The peg collapsed, setting in train the biggest sovereign default in history.
Economists waited for the sky to fall. It refused to do so. Argentina achieved Chinese growth for half a decade: 8.8pc in 2003, 9pc in 2004, 9.2pc in 2005, 8.5pc in 2006, and 8.7pc in 2007.
London bankers were soon lining up to lend money (our pension funds?) to the Argentine state – despite the 70pc haircut suffered by earlier creditors.
In theory, Greece could do the same: restore its currency, devalue, pass a law switching internal euro debt into drachmas, and “restructure” foreign contracts. This is the “kitchen-sink” option. Such action would allow Greece to break out of its death loop.
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Filed under: Etc., Technology, Hatchback, Toys/Games, Electric
The move to electric-powered vehicles is still in its fledgling stages, but there are plenty of signs that the next few years will finally start ushering in battery-powered transportation for the masses. But there’s one class of vehicle that has almost always been powered by batteries: R/C cars. Slap in a couple of 9-volt batteries and a slew of AA cells, and kids of all ages get to pretend they’re Ken Block in the backyard until mom says it’s time to clean up for supper.
Now that full-sized rides are finally “catching up” to their scaled-down counterparts, it appears that at least one toymaker, New Bright, has decided to take the next step: an R/C car that needs no batteries. It’s called the Ecomobile, and it looks like a solar-powered freehand interpretation of a Smart ForTwo mated with a Toyota Prius. As you can see by its packaging, the Ecomobile takes great pride in the fact that it’s ecopowered, economical and ecofriendly. It’s even packaged in recyclable materials. It’s $29.95. Al Gore can’t stop smiling.
But how does it run? Well, you have to leave it out in the sun for one hour for every five minutes of play time. It’s reportedly slow, too, and much like the EVs we’ve experienced in the real world, reviewers have said that the solar-powered toy doesn’t quite run as long as its OEM-promised times state. Sound like fun? We don’t think so either. So, in the spirit of the holidays, we’ve decided to come up with some of our favorite captions and/or headlines for this eco-tastic (or is that eco-tragic?) new toy. Here are some of our not-so-hilarious efforts:
As you can plainly see, we need your help. Head for the comments section and give us your best headlines for this not-so-fun-looking toy. You won’t win anything for trying, but your efforts could help a misguided parent choose a different (and cooler) toy for their kid.
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The line-up this week isn’t as flashy as the list a couple of weeks back, but maybe there’s still something you can pick up here to while away the Christmas wait. Most of these games are actually
Filed under: Aftermarket, Sedan, Etc., Europe, Videos, Rolls-Royce, Luxury
Right, so this isn’t really a Rolls-Royce. We know, we know — you thought it was. And that’s understandable. But no, it’s a fake, a phony, a fraud, etc. And with the owner spending at least, say, $3,000 to turn an old Mercedes-Benz E-Class into a Roller, we understand why you were duped. We aren’t surprised, however, that this car exists in a former Soviet Bloc country (supposedly Kazakhstan).
All joking/sardonic comments aside, we always wonder why people bother with stunts like this. The other day we saw a BMW E39 525i with a M5 badge. Now, the only people that will be impressed by an M5 badge are the exact same people who will notice that the E39 is missing the requisite four tail pipes. So, who exactly are they fooling, besides themselves? This Phantom conversion’s one redeeming quality is that the finished product (somehow) looks pretty good. Make the jump to watch the video. A tip of the Kalpak to Pasi for the tip!
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Continue reading VIDEO: Borat-class “Rolls-Royce” actually looks good
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Timex Ironman Race Trainer System: Digital Heart Rate System
Once upon a time, athletes trained by going as hard as they could for as long as they could. When that method proved to be inefficient, the athletes began training regimens based on how they felt on any given day. If they felt good, they trained hard. If they felt tired, they trained easy. In other words, they were guessing.
Then things changed. Science entered the picture. Science is a wonderful thing.
For science determined that the human body has five distinct energy systems: aerobic, anaerobic, maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max), lactate tolerance, and phosphates. And any athlete who wants to be all he or she can be needs to train each energy system the right amount of time at the correct time. Failure to do so results in what is commonly called ‘overtraining.’ Which is a fancy way of saying you trained too hard, too much and for too long.
Overtraining is bad. Why? Because you can’t go fast and have no endurance. Undertraining is bad too. Why? Because you can’t go fast and have no endurance.
The good folks at TIMEX have just what you need to avoid overtraining and undertraining. It’s called The TIMEX Ironman Race Trainer. It’s a heart rate monitor. And it works like this: there’s a chest sensor that straps neatly and comfortably around your chest, along with a watch you wear on your wrist. A signal goes from the chest sensor to the watch. By simply glancing at the watch, you know what your heart rate is. Which means you know if you’re in the correct ‘zone’ or not.
Which means no more guessing. Which means your training is doing what it’s supposed to do – making you faster and improving your endurance.
The TIMEX Ironman comes with all sorts of snazzy functions. It remembers your last ten workouts for you and lets you download them into a training log on your computer. Which means you can adjust your training based on where you are in your season. It also has an intensity timer, which allows you to train at the correct effort level for the correct amount of time. But that’s not all. In addition, it tells you how many calories you burned and it has an automatic heart rate recovery function. The latter function tells you how long your heart is taking to recover to normal. Which means you KNOW your conditioning level is improving.
Great, you say. But how hard is it to use? Do you have to have doctorates in engineering and systems programming to make it work? Nope, you don’t. All you have to do is touch a button or two and you’re ready to rock n’ roll. And get this! The TIMEX Ironman comes with an instruction booklet that was written by real, live human beings. Not by technical writers who have lost touch with reality and only know how to communicate in some arcane lingo having no resemblance to any known language on the face of the earth.
In other words, TIMEX has made the thing easy to use, because you can understand the instructions. Thank goodness!
And don’t let the name – Ironman Race Trainer – scare you off. It’s not just for super-serious athletes training for the Ironman Triathlon or the Tour de France. It’s for anyone who trains on a regular basis. Even people who jog around the neighborhood want get in better shape. And the TIMEX will help them do it for two reasons: they’ll be aware of how hard they are training, and because the TIMEX is simple to operate.
Super-serious athletes can purchase software and a USB device, which allows the transfer of data to the watch without a ton of button pushing. Which means they can train for a marathon without having to first endure a button pushing marathon, while they try to program the watch.
The TIMEX Ironman does a bunch of other cool stuff too. Like recall your heart rate for the last 50 laps. It gives you your average heart rate and peak heart rates. It even has a countdown timer and alarms that let you know when you’re either training too hard or slacking.
All in all, the TIMEX Ironman is a wonderment. Because it does everything you could ever want – and more! And because it’s reasonably priced, which means you won’t have to miss a payment on your BMW to buy it. And – the big kicker! – it’s user friendly, which is techno-jargon for it’s so easy anyone can do it. The reviewer – who is a technological idiot – is well aware that many manufacturers misuse the phrase “user friendly.” More often than not, what it really means is that you will never – ever – figure this thing out, but buy it anyway. Not in this case.
The TIMEX Ironman is so friendly it gives kisses.
So if you want to be faster and stronger for longer, race out and get one of these puppies. You’ll love it. On the Rate-O-Meter, which ranges from 1 star (don’t bother) to 5 stars (can’t live without it), the TIMEX Ironman wins 5 stars.
This product was provided by Timex to the reviewer.
Randall Radic is a former Old Catholic priest. After a midlife crisis, he spent time behind bars. Today, he has emerged a changed man. As the author of Gone To Hell: True Crimes of America’s Clergy (ECW Press/ Oct 2009), Radic aims to warn the public of the sins committed behind the walls of churches every day. Randall Radic is also author of A Priest in Hell: Gangs, Murderers and Snitching in a California Jail.
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This is the world’s largest Lithium producer SQM with only part of its revenue from the Lithium.
We will not bet on this particular prediction, but now you can get the feeling: why guys like Fedex are voting for Electrification and, by the way, electric cars are here already (picture gallery).
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Oil’s Going To $225 By 2012, Says Analyst
Canada’s LeaderPost has an excellent article about the coming oil price surge and the need for uber-aggressive efficiency projects.
LeaderPost.com:
Chinese consumers are buying more than a million cars a month — and in India when the US$2,500 Nano went on sale, more than 200,000 were ordered in the first two weeks. Adding millions of cars a month to roads will inevitably drive up oil prices.
Jeff Rubin, the former chief economist for CIBC World Markets, predicts that the price of oil will rise to US$225 a barrel by 2012. For readers who dismiss Rubin, think about this:We are in the midst of the biggest recession since the Great Depression and oil has already risen above US$80 a barrel. In 2003, few pundits would have thought US$80 oil was possible. (And Rubin’s past predictions have proven deadly accurate: In 2006, he predicted oil would hit US$150 a barrel in 2008.)”
DS homebrew dev tombot’s The 15th Floor is a homebrew adventure/puzzle game inspired by games such as Myst, Crimson Room, and Hotel Dusk. Made using DS Game Maker (qjnet/nintendo-ds/ds-homebrew-ds-game-maker-31.html), The 15th
Julian Sanchez discusses John Searle’s talk at Google on consciousness and free will, embedded above (via Andrew).
Consciousness could well be a spandrel. That is to say, it may just be that when you have a sufficiently complex information processing system made of the particular kind of physical stuff our brains are composed of, the processes involved will have some kind of subjective character. If conscious mental activity just is brain activity, and not some kind of strange excretion from it, however, then they have precisely the same causal properties, and it’s just a confusion to describe it as “epiphenomenal.”…Or to put it another way: The alternative picture is that evolutionary selection pressure might have produced these very strategic zombies—like vastly more complex insects, say, all stimulus-response with nobody home— but then some mutation won out that added this further feature, consciousness, to the system, because it yielded some additional improvement.
The big question is, why do we think there’s a self inside of us? I’ve been working my way through Jung, who said essentially that there are two things: an I and a self. Self is essentially a way of identifying the set of complexes (mental things or processes) that belong to us, and the I is the complex that sits in the middle of all of that. But, the I is just one of a large number of characters that live inside our head, and the self is a spongy mass that can pick up or discard other bits of the mental landscape as part of the process of individuation.
Another way of looking at the problem of consciousness is via the evolutionary paradigm. We have a consciousness because that’s the best way for a complex informational system to accomplish the set of tasks (predation, social interaction, anticipation of future states, interrelation of sensory and volitional data) necessary to support an organism of such complexity. It might also be true that there are informational, as opposed to biological laws at play. We might have a conception of self because its really difficult to process information without having a dynamic internal model referring to onesself, in the same way that its really complicated to describe what’s going on in one’s day without using a personal pronoun.
In any case, what becomes apparent is that despite a large number of attempts to identify a seat for the soul in a localized part of the brain, we end up with nowhere to point. There are many pieces of the brain where part of the soul might rest, but as we cut finer and finer the parts slip between our fingers. This is an argument for emergent properties in the nervous system. That, or non-materialism.
Free will presents a similar paradox. Julian suggests it may be a required by-product of biological structure. However, it might a by-product of the informational structure of the universe; to the extent that the universe contains phenomena that are indeterminate and unpredictable both in the future and in the past (one cannot either predict the shape of the puddle from the shape of the ice cube, nor reconstruct the ice cube’s shape from that of the puddle it made), and because predictable events can result in conscious entities’ taking actions that preemtively cause the predictable event not to actually occur, free will must be possible.
