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Endevco Announces 30% Discount Off List Price on Selected Modal Impact Hammers with ISOTRON® Impedance Converter
Hammer IEPE Output is Compatible with Most FFT analyzers and Data Acquisition Systems

December 4, 2009, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – Endevco Corporation (Endevco®) (www.endevco.com), a Meggitt Group Company and global leader in the design and manufacture of sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure applications, has announced a 30% discount off list price on selected models of their most popular modal impact hammers. The hammers feature an ISOTRON® impedance converter that provides an IEPE-type output, compatible with most FFT analyzers and data acquisition systems, and are designed to properly excite structures in modal and structural analysis applications.

Use of modal impact hammers can be a portable and cost-effective means of providing controlled excitation to structures, while providing no undesirable mass loading to the structure under test. Scaled modal models also require precise force measurement, which can be achieved via a modal hammer fitted with a piezoelectric force transducer. In applications where a high crest factor and ability to shape the input force spectrum is of minimal concern, impact hammers are an ideal source of excitation. Endevco® modal hammers are designed to excite the test structure with a constant force over a frequency range of interest. In addition, certain selected models are acceleration compensated, to avoid spectrum glitches due to hammer structural resonances.

Endevco® model 2302 modal impact hammers are designed for the excitation of small to medium-sized structures. They feature an ergonomically designed handle grip, for optimized control and reduced possibility of “double hits” affecting measurement results. Model 2302 is also acceleration compensated, facilitating reduction of cancel/null and error input (glitches). It is offered in four different sensitivities and ranges, from 5 mV/lbf sensitivity/1000 lbf range (-5 version) to 100 mV/lbf/50 lbf range (-100 version), and includes replacement impact heads of various materials, for different bandwidth response, and a carrying case. Recommended for use with model 2302 is optional mass extender model EHM1653. Endevco® models 2303, 2304 and 2305 are designed for the excitation of larger structures, and feature a wooden handled sledgehammer design, with optional extender head to increase head mass. They are offered in sensitivities of 1.0 mV/lbf, with range of 5000 lbf, and maximum force of 8000 lbf. Endevco® model 2303 one-pound and Endevco® model 2304 three-pound hammers are designed for exciting machinery, shafts, large beams, pipelines, storage tanks and other large structures. The 12-pound model 2305 hammer is used on bridges, buildings, decks and floors. Models 2303, 2304 and 2305 include four interchangeable tips, to help determine input pulse width, and thus bandwidth, along with carrying case. Endevco® models 4416B, 4990A (Oasis) and 133 signal conditioners are all recommended for use with modal hammers. The special 30% discount price applies to orders placed direct to the factory through December 31, 2009, and cannot be combined with any other discount or offer. For detailed specifications, drawings or additional information, please visit www.endevco.com.

About Endevco Corporation, a Meggitt Group Company:

Founded in 1947, with headquarters in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA, Endevco is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of dynamic instrumentation for vibration, shock and pressure measurement. The company’s comprehensive lines of piezoelectric, piezoresistive, Isotron® and variable capacitance accelerometers are used to ensure accurate and reliable measurements in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, defense, automotive, test and measurement, medical, and energy. Additional products include pressure transducers, acoustic sensors, electronic instruments and calibration systems. A member of the Meggitt group of companies (www.meggitt.com), Endevco supports customers with a global network of manufacturing and research facilities, sales offices and applications engineers. Isotron is a registered trademark of Meggitt Group, PLC.

Local businesses are the hot market right now for online services. Most big businesses have a pretty solid online presence at this point and the competition is pretty fierce in this area. Local businesses by contrast don’t really have the resources to establish a very well though-out web identity and, so far, there hasn’t been a real need for most of them. Big web companies, Google is no exception, have realized that this largely untapped market has a lot of potential, so many are pushing hard to win small businesses over. Google has now made a pretty big move sending out stickers to 100,000 businesses in the US, labeling them as “Favorite Places.”

That in itself isn’t exactly an innovative move, but the interesting part is that these stickers feature two-dimensional bar codes, known as QR codes, which can be decoded by phones or devices with QR code readers and store some sort of information usually used in commercial applications. In this particular case, the QR code links to a the “Favorite Places” page for the particular store, restaurant or whatever business may be sporting it.

The page has some general information about the business, a map, working hours, phone numbers but also reviews and other third-party of user-generated information. The idea is that users stan… (read more)

Digg celebrates its 5th anniversary with Digg 365 [labs.digg.com], the newest incarnation of the ground-breaking data visualization interfaces available at Digg Labs, next to the well-known Arc, Big Spy, Stack and Swarm variants.

Digg 365 surfaces the top 10 stories on any given day, month and year. The ability to view past stories this far back has not existed until now. One can also explore the top 10 stories by category or per year. Users can roll over the colored arcs to show display the months. Clicking on it brings an outside arc to choose a specific day.

There have been plenty of legal questions over the activities of a small group of companies in Europe, including law firm Davenport Lyons, ACS:Law, Logistep and Digiprotect among others — who all seem to work together to purposely put files online that they have licensed, and then send threat letters to the owner of any IP address that connects to them. This leads to a fair number of totally bogus demands for people to pay up to avoid getting sued. Apparently, the business is quite profitable, even as no actual lawsuits have been filed.

Yet, now reader Dan alerts us to the news that, at least in Germany, the pre-settlement letters and relationships between these companies may be entirely illegal. This was discovered due to a recently leaked document — the one that showed how profitable all this was — which also noted that the relationships between the various companies were not based on any direct monetary exchange:

The document states that “the whole project is kind of a joint venture where no party charges the other party with any costs.” The problem with such a set-up is that the pre-settlement offers are usually based on costs incurred by retaining a law office to pursue the claim. File sharers are asked to pay 450 bucks for a porn movie because it costs money to investigate their IP address and send them the cease and desist letter.

However, German law specifically states that these costs can’t be based on the success of the claim. In other words: In order to invoice file sharers for lawyer fees, these fees have to occur and be paid by someone no matter whether a file sharer pays up or not. Invoicing someone for costs that haven’t actually occurred could be seen as fraud.

Oops. After a German lawyer, Thomas Stadler, reviewed all this and posted his analysis saying that the efforts in Germany were clearly illegal under German law (Google translation from the original) , the German lawyer who had sent the original document (the leaked one, detailing how these operations worked), Udo Kornmeier sent him a cease-and-desist letter (again, Google translation from the original), demanding he take down his blog post that showed the whole operation was illegal. Apparently, lawyers who may be breaking the law in Germany don’t like other lawyers exposing them…

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Morgan Stanley's recent UK Economics and Fixed Income Strategy piece shows just how quickly and dramatically the U.K.'s government deficit just exploded. It shows how quickly a crisis can get much, much worse as tax receipts fall due to a weakening economy, yet expenditures rise due to stimulus efforts from governments and higher entitlement pay-outs to struggling citizens.

 

Morgan Stanley: The Treasury’s projection for Public Sector Net Borrowing (PSNB, effectively the UK’s measure of its fiscal deficit) is likely to be similar to the number in the April Budget (£175 billion). ... According to Budget 2009, each 1pp [percentage point] lower growth in a year typically increases the PSNB by 0.5pp of GDP in that year (and 0.2pp the year after).

(Via Morgan Stanley, UK Economics and Fixed Income Strategy, Melanie Baker CFA, 4 December 2009)

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Gaussin company was proud to launch, through the exhibition SITL in Dubai, 2 weeks ago his news brand product : the ATT – Automotive Terminal Trailer.

It’s a totally new solution to increase the safety, productivity, and comfort in one hand and reduce the cost of ownership in other hands during the handling process in the terminal environment.

Thanks to its new design, the ATT is a great alternative to the tractor plus the terminal trailer .

ARCHITECTURE : ALL IN ONE

Unique architecture combining tractor and trailer functions in a single vehicle with a central engine.

POWER PACK : Hybrid

The engine module replaceable in less than 20 minutes, is powering a hydraulic transmission, located directly in the wheels.
Original layout to improve cooling and power supply.
Anticipates the new environment standards.
Low maintenance, whilst offering greater availability and reliability.

SYSTEM STOP & START

Electro-hydraulic unit allowing fuel consumption to be reduce by 30%

CHASSIS : NO DEFLECTION

Innovative modular chassis offering the best static and dynamic strength on the market.
Adapts to any type of 20′, 40′ or 45′ container, with a perfectly horizontal loading sill.
CAB
Optimum ergonomics.
High level of comfort and safety.
Large glazed surface for maximum visibility.

CERTIFICATION

Design that meets the strictest standards (CE, TUV, TIER III A, etc… )

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

Innovations protected by 9 international patents, designs and trademarks.

Follow this link to see the video : www.attbygaussin.com

Google has been building towards this for months now and it looks like the way may finally be over, Google Chrome is about to get extensions. Well, to be more precise, Google Chrome Beta is about to get extensions and everyone else will get to enjoy the upcoming Extensions Gallery which is set to launch by the week’s end, according to TechCrunch.

Google does things a little different when it comes to software. Most likely a trait of its web-app background, Google has shunned the usual release cycle of traditional desktop software for its Chrome web browser and opted for frequent releases and small updates. This means that big new features and announcements are rare and don’t pack the same punch when they been around in one form or another for months.

This is why frequent Chrome users may not be too excited by the launch, extensions have been around for a while now. But the fact is that, while extensions support has been built into the browser actual extensions are a little harder to come by, which is why the Gallery is very important, developers have finally realized it’s time to build for Chrome as well so. Not only will there be a centralized, officially-sanctioned place to find extensions, but there will finally be choice.

The Gallery is expected to be launched this week ahead… (read more)

China's top economic planners emerged from an annual closed-door economic meeting to declare that they will continue their stimulative policies.

This comes despite fears that the economy is overheating.

Xinhua: China would continue to adopt the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year and endeavor to improve the quality of economic growth, participants at the Central Economic Work Conference agreed Monday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao addressed the meeting, which is held once a year to set the tone for economic development during the next year, said a statement from the conference.

China Daily: The emphasis, however, is shifting to promoting consumer spending and private investment, rather than the state-led investment of this year's recovery program, which has focused heavily on construction of railways, roads and other public works, newspaper China Business News and other reports said.

The problem is that many of China's stimulative policies are preventing the above economic transformation from actually happening. Yet in the end, they really don't have any choice but to declare that the same level of stimulus will continue, even if in reality they start to cut it back.

Regardless, Shanghai's CSI 300 index seems to happy with today's assurance.

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KENNEWICK, Washington – December 4, 2009 – Bruker Elemental announces the winner of our S1 Sorter giveaway contest.

Andre Jordaan of Shosaliza PMI in South Africa was the winner of the recent S1 Sorter giveaway contest. Congratulations Andre!

The S1 Sorter is a handheld XRF analyzer; ideal for Positive Material Identification (PMI) applications involving stainless steel, carbon steel, low allow steel, etc.

This test method covers the determination of the peel resistance of adhesive bonds between: a sandwich of two layers of aluminum and polyethylene. The goal is to measure the average torque required to peel the two material.

How it wroks:
The fixture consists of a drum assembly, flexible loading straps mounted at the bottom of the stand, an upper self closing clamp to grip the specimen and a drum clamp to hold the outer skin against the face of the drum.
During a test the loading straps pull on the drum assembly, forcing it to rotate and climb along the length of the aluminum panel. This motion peels the outer skin away from the core structure. The peel force is monitored by the load measurement system providing a measure of bond strength.

Conax Technologies retractable Sample Probe Assemblies are used to hot tap or inject into basically any type of liquid or gas stream. Typical applications of a sample probe are gas sampling, oil sampling, oxygen sampling, potable water sampling, waste water sampling, water quality sampling, and water or chemical injection.

Optional materials
Optional materials for the Sample Probe and the Conax Technologies Packing Gland body (wetted components) are available. Refer to the Conax Pressure and Vacuum Sealing Assemblies Catalog #5001C or our website for available options such as:

316L SST
316 NACE SST
316L CRN (gland body only)
Monel 405
Hastelloy C276
Inconel 600

Temperature and Pressure Ratings
Refer to the Conax Technologies Pressure and Vacuum Sealing Assemblies Catalog #5001C for temperature and pressure ratings for static conditions. Pressure ratings are reduced when the sealing gland cap is loosened to allow for the insertion or extraction of the Sample Probe.

There's nothing wrong with hoping for charity and good-intentions from people, but in the end profit incentives provide the most effective way to motivate large numbers of people to join together and solve problems.

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just made this very clear when presented by an internet contest from the U.S. Department of Defense:

The Guardian: The Darpa Network Challenge, which took place on Saturday, offered a cash prize for the first group to successfully locate 10 large red weather balloons hidden at a string of secret locations across the US.

Competitors were asked to use the internet and social networking sites to discover the whereabouts of the balloons, in what Darpa - the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - said was an experiment to discover how the internet could help with rapid problem solving.

The MIT team completed what was supposed to be a nine-hour challenge in just nine-hours. How? They paid out a portion of their prize money to whomever could help them.

The winning team has not explained precisely how they came to discover the location of all 10 balloons, but the process detailed on the team website explains that they created a viral campaign to encourage people to put forward information they gleaned about the locations.

The team offered the first person to spot a balloon a $2,000 share of the prize money, but smaller awards would also be given to those who referred that player to MIT's website - a scheme of incentives aimed at getting people to urge their friends to take part.

Here's a sense for how they set up the incentive structure: 

MIT Red Balloon: Have all your friends sign up using your personalized invitation. If anyone you invite, or anyone they invite, or anyone they invite (...and so on) win money, then so will you!

We're giving $2000 per balloon to the first person to send us the correct coordinates, but that's not all -- we're also giving $1000 to the person who invited them. Then we're giving $500 whoever invited the inviter, and $250 to whoever invited them, and so on..

Checking out the team's website here.

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Full disclosure: the next journalist to use some variation of the word “cracked” to describe the Honda P-NUT’s debut is getting kicked in the shins at the next auto show. I’ll be watching.

Unlike the majority of the unpalatable concepts that have littered Honda’s booth for the better part of 2009, the Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) does not immediately offend the senses. As a matter of fact, the angular front fascia and the well-defined, sloping shoulders are actually quite attractive and almost lend Honda’s design department an air of hope. “Almost” being the operative word.

Unfortunately, the P-NUT unveiled live in Los Angeles last week is not a production-ready urban crawler but a purely a conceptual interpretation of the soul-sucking enviro-friendly vehicles Honda promises to roll out in the future. Apparently, the RWD, rear-engined P-NUT’s primary objective is to demonstrate that there is hope for the ultra-compact city car beyond the ugly, underpowered options currently available today, which is basically akin to performing a digital makeover. The immediate reaction is positive…and instantly killed by the harsh smack of reality.

Bottom line: if you want small, fun, cool and only slightly fruity, buy a MINI Cooper. If you want small, marginally faster than a pair of Rollerblades, and guaranteed to score you plenty of dude poon, buy a smart ForTwo. See Honda? Theoretical problem solved. Now get back to work on the CR-Z.

When I was in high school, one of my good friends was an exceptionally good wrestler. He was also extremely good looking and had a wit about him that wasn’t exactly Showtime-at-the-Apollo-quality but still got the job done. Because of his tenaciously competitive spirit and his ability to charm essentially everyone, no one ever ridiculed him for perfecting what is inarguably one of the gayest professional sports outside of a skating rink. Sure, we thought it, especially those of us that went to the games and observed the painted-on singlets and heavy petting firsthand, but we never said anything. While I can’t speak for my friends, I personally chose to keep my biting sarcasm in check because within in a few months of knowing him, I had deduced that he was currently experiencing his “glory days” and after high school, the most he probably had to look forward to was a modestly successful career as a ladies shoe salesman. I figured, why rain on his parade? Life will take care of that soon enough.

Much the same can also be said of the 2011 Saab 9-5.

Although it was officially unveiled months ago at the Frankfurt Auto Show, it’s appearance at the LA Auto Show marks the first time I’ve seen it in the flesh and while I find some aesthetic aspects leave much to be desired, I can’t bring myself to delve further into detail. You may have though Saab’s 20-year dysfunctional marriage to the General was the most damaging to its career but as sad as it may seem, those were just the highlights. Now the entire brand is posed on the edge of extinction while the 9-5 itself faces a fate worse than death with intellectual property rights now under BAIC’s exclusive ownership.

In light of this bleak outlook, it hardly seems fair to ridicule the 2011 9-5 for a confusing design language that looks more bred from Lexus than it does from jets. So rather than criticize it for what it was and what it’s utterly failing to be, lets instead allow the 2011 9-5 a last hurrah before it’s raped of all relevant technology and left to fade into obscurity inside a Beijing office building.

If Dubai World's Nakheel property arm ends up defaulting on its debt, creditors may not much to take possession of.

Turns out that creditors for one $3.5 billion bond may only have a giant piece of barren land, the size of Manhattan, as collateral to their giant loan.

Bloomberg: Investors will be able to seek foreclosure on the property’s mortgages should the Dubai World unit fail to repay the loan, according to the bond’s prospectus. The debt is due on Dec. 14, after which Nakheel has two weeks to remedy a default. The property forms part of the Dubai Waterfront project, where Nakheel plans to build a city twice the size of Hong Kong.

Apparently it's a very valuable piece of land... assuming you have the money to build two Hong Kongs on top of it.

“The project isn’t likely to happen,” said Saud Masud, a Dubai-based real estate analyst at UBS AG. “I’d be very surprised if anything is built in the next five years.”

The land was valued at $4.2 billion by Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. three years ago, based on the entire project being ready by 2018, when it would be worth $11.8 billion, the prospectus said.

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BLOG DEFINITIONS
Blog is short for Weblog, a term first used by Jørn Barger in December 1997. Jørn Barger use the term to describe a group Weblog personal website is always updated continuously and contains links to other websites that they find interesting along with the comments of their own.
Broadly speaking, Weblogs may be summarized as a collection of personal websites that allow the manufacturer to display different types of content on the web with ease, such as paper, a collection of Internet links, documents (Word files, PDF, etc.), pictures or multimedia.
Makers blog called Blogger. Through Blognya, Blogger personality becomes easily recognizable based on what topic you like, what a response to the links in the select and the issues therein. Therefore it is very personal blog.
Another development is the Blog Blog includes stories about what a Blogger thinking, feeling, so what he did every day. Blogs and Online Diary also be located on the Internet. The only thing that distinguishes blog from the Diary or journal that we usually have is that the blog created to read others.

HISTORY BLOG
Probably the first blog is the page “What’s New” on the Mosaic browser created by Marc Andersen in 1993. If we still remember, Mosaic was the first browser before the Internet Explorer even before Netscape.
Then in January 1994 Justin Hall started his personal website “Justin’s Home Page” which later changed to “Links from the Underground” which might be called the first blog as we know it today.
Until the year 1998, the number of blog that there was very little. This is because the time required expertise and specialized knowledge of website creation, HTML, and web hosting to create a blog, so that only those who engaged in Internet, System Administrator or Web Designer who later in his spare time creating a blog-blog of their own.
But this time, we do not need to be a programmer to be a Blogger, because we can display the entire contents of the Web with ease via the menu editor that has been provided.
The advantage of the use of Weblogs among others:
Through weblogs, we can expand relationships friends / acquaintances that can form a large community.
Weblog exceed electronic mail (email), because a blog post that you mentioned, can be read by visitors unlimited blogs. Unlike email which can only be read by people who we send. In addition, blog visitors can also quickly respond to blog posts through comments that can be directly written on the blog.
As the development of weblogs from time to time, understanding the weblog will also evolve with ideas – ideas and wishes of the Blogger.

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San Francisco, California | Retro-Tech

Two enormous windmills overlook Ocean Beach at the far West end of Golden Gate park. Once mighty water-pumping machines designed to provide water for the fledgling Golden Gate Park at the beginning of the last century, they have fallen into disrepair and been resurrected, and the process is happening once more.

Fresh water was essential to transform the sand dunes of the Sunset district into the lush man-made parkland of Golden Gate Park. Inland, ground water was insufficent, so an idea was hatched to harness the coastal winds to pump deep water closer to the ocean shore.

Their functional life was short lived. Built between 1902 and 1908, both windmills pumped fresh well water from depths of 200 feet until 1913, when they were replaced by electric pumps which pumped more water more quickly. Almost immediately, they began to decline.

The North windmill, known as the Dutch Windmill, was the first, built in 1902 with oversized 102 foot sails. Originally, the water it pumped filled the artificial park ponds of Lloyd Lake, Metson Lake, and Spreckels Lake. Primarily due to efforts over twenty years by Eleanor Rossi Crabtree, daughter of a San Francisco mayor, it was renovated in the 1980’s and the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden was planted around it. The restoration was primarily cosmetic, however, and until more recent renovations the internal machinery had not been functional.

The South windmill, known as the Murphy Windmill, was the largest windmill of its kind in the world, with gigantic 114 foot sails, each cut from a single log. These sails turned clockwise, unlike traditional Dutch windmills which turn counter-clockwise (early, terrifying, film footage shows repair men riding the sails as they make their circuit). It was built to supplement the Dutch windmill between 1905 and 1908, funded by $20,000 from a local banker named Samuel Murphy, and donations of lumber and copper roofing from other local businesses. It is currently in the process o a ground-up restoration, with its inner working being re-fitted in the Netherlands by a centuries old windmill designer.

The Dutch Windmill started working again, on a trial basis, in July 2009. There are plans for further restoration in 2010.

In September 2009 the restored cap of the Murphy Windmill returned from the Netherlands, and the final stages of its restoration is now underway.

Maybe it’s because a Google Appliance is an actual, physical machine, and not just an intangible piece of software. But the question that keeps popping up is, "can you actually keep it running once the 2-year license runs out?"

With many software licenses, it’s tacitly accepted that you’d have to pay maintenance, support, and renewal fees; or that updates and upgrades may or may not be included in your license. Somehow, with appliances, this may strike us as odd: does your toaster stop functioning once the warranty runs out? Well, with the Appliance, it’s something you should consider just as you would with any piece of software (even though it comes with its own hardware).

There’s a bit of confusion here. For example, some competitors have been claiming this as a differentiator (notably, Thunderstone has always maintained that unlike a GSA, their Thunderstone Search Appliance is yours to keep and run past the "best before" date). Some Google resellers have claimed the exact opposite (saying you’re welcome to keep indexing and searching with your machine forever, even past the 2 year license.) In fact, both are right, and wrong, since Google has recently changed its policy.

There is no mystery here, but the truth is a little bit complicated:

• If you buy a new GSA, it will stop running once the license runs out (after either 2 or 3 years, depending on what you’ve bought), until you renew the license.
• But if you already own GSAs with the old license, those machines will keep working past the end date. And more interestingly… if you then buy new (additional) Appliances, these will also keep running indefinitely.

Of course, Google’s Appliances will be on the books as hardware in most cases, and it’s common to write off hardware in two or three years, anyway. Budget accordingly, and in a couple of years, you’ll be fine. Otherwise, you’ll end up with just another nice Dell server. You can always sell the Google cheese faceplate on eBay…

We can definitely feel Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain (http://ps3.qj.net/category/Heavy-Rain/cid/1827) inching closer and closer to its release date. We never doubted the hype surrounding this PS3-exclusive, but it’s exciting, nonetheless, to finally see its official US boxart

So did you try your hand at cracking that Rorshach test teaser that for the “deadspace” Twitter account? If you’re just about ready to tear your hair out, rest your weary souls for the answer has been