For small and medium-sized pieces and weight not superior to 1500 kg, can be used washing booths with rotating platform. The platform is made rotate by a special hydrodynamic nozzle or electro-mechanically. The machines are endowed with an electric exhaust fan able to automatically intervene at the end of the cycle, in order to reduce the emission of vapor in the working room. The tanks under the work plan are provided with large windows of cleaning and inspection.
Solutions are supplied from the reservoirs through one or more electro-pumps and the solutions made circulate return to the reservoirs through removable metal filters that make it possible to clean them. In Sprymaster Tau series an exclusive original system of valves, assisted by pneumatic actuators, limits the well-known negative effects caused by the solution mixing in cycle in the washing chamber.
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SPRAY PLANT OF WASHING WITH ROTATING BASE
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Automation system ready to go – PSS4000 approved by TÜV
The new automation system PSS4000 has passed inspection: The system hardware and corresponding software platform PAS4000 have been granted safety approval by TÜV SÜD. This confirms that the safety mechanisms defined in the concept approval are reliable.
To achieve this goal, the function and interaction of all system components, from I/O module to programming and configuration software, were thoroughly examined in regular audits, not just by Pilz during ongoing development but also by independent inspectors.
The hardware and software platform of the new automation system are closely co-ordinated. Both have been fully developed by Pilz in-house in order to implement the high requirements for universality, plus dovetailing of standard and safety functions in an easily manageable format.
The PSSuniversal PLC control systems now available for standard control and safety functions can be combined with networking via the powerful Ethernet system SafetyNET p, making it easier to decentralise control functions and produce modular machinery. All sensors and actuators are connected via the decentralised I/O platform PSSuniversal.
Now that the system has passed inspection by TÜV SÜD, there is nothing to stop the automation system PSS4000 and SafetyNET p being applied freely within industry.
The automation system PSS4000 is designed for all automation tasks: from machine control to safety technology and beyond to motion control, including diagnostics and visualisation. The corresponding software platform PAS4000 makes a significant contribution to reducing the costs and labour of engineering.
The automation system PSS4000 is designed for all automation tasks: from machine control to safety technology and beyond to motion control, including diagnostics and visualisation. The innovative software platform PAS4000 helps to reduce the costs and labour of engineering. It also enables users to retain a centralised perspective, even of decentralised, distributed control structures.
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Jaron Lanier Says That Musicians Using Free To Succeed Are Lying
Jaron Lanier came out with his book recently, and it’s still getting a bunch of publicity, despite getting some rather basic facts wrong. But, even so, I was shocked to hear that he recently stood up at a conference and claimed that musicians who say they are using “free” music to their advantage are lying:
“Every single example of these musicians who did really well by giving stuff away… they don’t exist,” Lanier says. “There are a lot of people who pretend … and it is fake.”
What a bizarre statement, considering just how many real life examples we see every day of musicians successfully embracing an understanding of basic economics (which Lanier apparently lacks). I was trying to better understand how Lanier could make such an easily debunked statement with a straight face, and it’s not clear at all. It appears that Lanier is the one who is pretending here. The only explanation I can find for his bizarre claim is the wiggle room he leaves for himself later in his talk:
Lanier adds that artists making a career off music in the digital age are still having success thanks to the traditional models. “Anyone who is making it now is making it off the little shreds of the old system that is still working,” he says.
So, basically, he will try to turn any of the many success stories we regularly talk about into a story about how they’re still using “the old system.” We’ve seen this before, and it makes no sense. It’s the last gasp argument of someone who’s been proven wrong. They’ll argue that because someone makes any use at all of the old infrastructure or the old system, every bit of their success is due to that. It’s wrong on many different levels.
Furthermore, when Lanier talks about “the little shreds of the old system that is still working,” I’m wondering what he’s referring to — given that countless studies are showing that the music business has continued to grow. So, if there’s anyone “pretending” here, it seems like it’s Lanier.
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You Could Not Make It Up: It’s still real and it’s still a problem, by Lord Chris Smith, BBC News
Article Tags: BBC, You could not make it up
The myth fostered by some parts of the media in recent months – that somehow the scientific evidence for climate change is deeply flawed – needs to be laid to rest, and soon. Sloppily expressed e-mail exchanges involving researchers from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and a blithe assumption that the Himalayan glaciers may melt by 2035, were both irresponsible and damaging. But we cannot allow a few errors to undermine the overwhelming strength of evidence that has been painstakingly accumulated, peer-reviewed, tested and tested again.
That evidence shows overwhelmingly that our emissions of greenhouse gases are having a serious impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, and that – as a result – climate change is happening and will accelerate. The damage that has been done by the glee with which sceptics have seized on one or two scientific mistakes and attempted to use them to undermine the whole consensus about the evidence for climate change cannot be underestimated.
Not if but when
In recent years, the public here in the UK, and across much of Europe, had come to accept the reality and the urgency of climate change. There were still debates about what precisely to do to counter it, but at least the fundamental recognition was there.
I think that is probably less true now than it was four months ago – and that is a tragedy. We need to take the argument back to the sceptics, and make the powerful, convincing and necessary case about climate change much clearer to everyone.
Click source to read more, and yes it IS still a REAL problem but not for Climate Realists just people like Lord Chris Smith , take time out to read the comments section
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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Gaga Says Beyonce Is Her ‘Vehicle’ For Change In ‘Telephone’
Lady Gaga said that when she joined forces with Beyoncé for the latter’s “Video Phone” clip, she wanted to “pay tribute” to the Destiny’s Child alumna by stripping down to look more like the “Bootylicious” superstar.
Well, for the pair’s most recent collaboration, B certainly returned the favor (and some!) by entering Gaga’s world for “Telephone.”
Gaga went as far as to suggest that the new video is more about “Honey Bee” than herself and claimed that Beyoncé is her “vehicle” for changing the idea of what a visual product can be.
“The video in a lot of ways is more about [Beyoncé] even than it is about me,” Gaga told L.A.’s Power 106 radio station after the premiere. “It was sort of a pop-art venture for me to bring her into my world. In a way, the video is an attempt for her and I to erase pop music as we know it up until this very point. It’s meant to change the perspective of the world on what a pop music video should be and she’s kind of the vehicle for that. In reality, more people around the world are familiar with her aesthetics than they are with mine. It was something for me to kind of change the way that you see her for one video.”
Certainly, it is different to see Beyoncé in a Bettie Page haircut and various Gaga-esque costumes as she murders her boyfriend in a diner. But she fit in perfectly with the homages to the campy “Batman” series of the 1960s, Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill,” Japanese manga, Salvador Dalí and Madonna that made the “Telephone” video an epic pop-culture adventure.
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Video: BMW S1000 RR does the old table cloth, dishes trick
BMW’s “BMW S1000 RR. Dinner for RR.” viral video has generated more than 1.8 million views, making it the most successful BMW video on YouTube ever. The video also earned an award from Spotlight International Advertising Film Festival in Mannheim in the “Web and Mobile” category.
The video shows a BMW S1000 RR, which is capable of going from 0-62 mph in just 2.9 second, pulling the tablecloth from a huge banquet table leaving all the china and glasses intact.
Check out the video after the jump.
– By: Kap Shah
Source: BMWBlog
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Lord Monckton on Bonn Climate Conference: New treaty, new world government?
Article Tags: Lord Monckton, YouTube
2nd try for a global government? Lord Monckton warns of upcoming UN Conference in Bonn, Germany. Visit www.cfact.org for more information.
CFACT.orgSource: youtube.com
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College friends cook up green grocery shopping application
Image: AUG
We’d all like to know a little more about what we’re buying at the grocery store. How old is that vegetable? Where was it grown? How did it make its way to this shelf or bin? What kind of track record does the farmer have?
Not content to simply ponder these weighty questions, John Healy decided to help provide some useful answers.
“It all stemmed from the movie Food, Inc.,” said Healy, a May 2009 graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga. “It’s a really great documentary about food production and how much we really know about what we eat.
“We were also looking at applications that are out there, and how they fell a little short as far as how much information you could gather yourself.”
The result: The Augmented Living Goods Program (AUG), an innovative concept designed to connect producer to consumer by way of the retailer. Working with fellow SCAD graduates Shane Blomberg, Seth Laupus and Andrew Reeves, Healy produced an application that works with SmartPhones to allow shoppers to get more concrete information on those potential purchases. The project was the big winner at February’s Greener Gadgets competition in New York City.
With verifiable input from producers, the program allows shoppers to scan a bar code to access information such as the location of the farm, farming methods (organic?), specialty items (all turnips, all the time) and more. The grocer would introduce a bar code directory and add a SmartPhone-friendly bar code sticker on the front of each local farmer’s container to allow customers to make more informed choices about vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry, and dairy products.
Sounds good, certainly, but what’s in it for the farmer? Responsible food producers will have an outlet to tout the quality of their work and a chance to develop a bond with the end-line consumer. And the store? As buyers become more savvy (and demanding) about the sources of their sustenance, a reputation for being a “local farmer-friendly retailer” can be a big asset, boosting consumer confidence and loyalty.
As the depth of the data improves, customers might be able to access historical pricing, find out what others had to say about the product, input their own feedback on satisfaction, and get a refresher on their own buying history. A rewards system could be added to provide incentives for everyone in the loop.
“We’re currently figuring out parts of the business model,” Healy said. “We’re actually working with a company. We’re also working on signing up producers and things of that nature.”
So far, so good.
“We haven’t run into any really big issues yet,” he added. “One problem is that I’m just a student and I don’t really know anything about business or law. I come from a design background, so all of this is new to me and for the group. It’s just trying to start a business. It’s a process.”
The process started innocently enough as Healy and friends decided they wanted to develop an entry for Greener Gadgets, an annual conference produced by the Consumer Electronics Association that spotlights green designs and innovations in consumer technology. (Themes this year included sustainable product design, green technology in the home, and environmental issues.)
Once the idea took shape, Healy, Blomberg, Laupus and Reeves needed only about a week to flesh out some of the details and develop the application. Before they knew it, they were claiming the top prize.
“The core ideas were mine, but in any design situation, you have to bounce it around from person to person,” Healy said. “Everyone has their own little thing. But everyone’s still involved. It’s fun.”
Now, that concept could be in the early stages of creating a career – or, at the very least, a job – for the point man, who is cautiously optimistic about what the future might bring.
“We’ll see where it goes,” Healy said. “There are so many people who are interested in the idea, as far as actually being able to buy the application. If it turns into a career, it does. That would be awesome. I would love to do it. I’m very passionate about the idea. I just don’t know where it’s going to lead.”
Meanwhile, Healy is hedging his bets. Recently relocated from Atlanta to New York, he is looking for a job in The Big Apple, just in case.
“I’m going to do both for a while and see how this develops,” he said.
Still, he holds hope that he might be on the verge of a nice convergence of green thinking and real-world marketability.
“It’s definitely feeling that way,” he said. “The company we might work with is pretty pumped about it. It could turn into something big.”
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Fritz gets second consulting job, will help GM dispose of unwanted assets
It doesn’t seem like Fritz Henderson is feeling the pain of being ousted by Chairman and new CEO Edward Whitacre. The ex-CEO of General Motors was recently rehired by the company as consultant on a month-to-month basis at a rate of $59,090 to assist the automaker with international operation.
Henderson has now earned a second consultant job for General Motors where he will be responsible for helping dispose of unwanted assets the automaker left in bankruptcy. He will be working for Southfield-based restructuring firm AlixPartners LLP.
Legal documents from AlixPartners did not indicate how long Henderson will work for or how much he’ll get paid.
“From time to time, AlixPartners contracts with experienced specialists to complement our existing team and to help us grow, and that’s our purpose in signing on Fritz Henderson as an independent contractor working on a part-time basis,” AlixPartners said in a statement.
– By: Stephen Calogera
Source: Detroit News
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FOMC Statement: Economy “likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.”
The three things you need to know.
- Rates are “likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.” The key words “exceptionally” and “extended” remain in place.
- The Fed will shut down the last special liquidity facility in June. We’ve entered the “quantitive tightening” phase.
- Inflation is “likely to be subdued for some time.”
- The rest of the statement seems largely unchanged.
Here’s the statement:
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the labor market is stabilizing. Household spending is expanding at a moderate rate but remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth, lower housing wealth, and tight credit. Business spending on equipment and software has risen significantly. However, investment in nonresidential structures is declining, housing starts have been flat at a depressed level, and employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls. While bank lending continues to contract, financial market conditions remain supportive of economic growth. Although the pace of economic recovery is likely to be moderate for a time, the Committee anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability.
With substantial resource slack continuing to restrain cost pressures and longer-term inflation expectations stable, inflation is likely to be subdued for some time.
The Committee will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period. To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets and to improve overall conditions in private credit markets, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and about $175 billion of agency debt; those purchases are nearing completion, and the remaining transactions will be executed by the end of this month. The Committee will continue to monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will employ its policy tools as necessary to promote economic recovery and price stability.
In light of improved functioning of financial markets, the Federal Reserve has been closing the special liquidity facilities that it created to support markets during the crisis. The only remaining such program, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, is scheduled to close on June 30 for loans backed by new-issue commercial mortgage-backed securities and on March 31 for loans backed by all other types of collateral.
Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; James Bullard; Elizabeth A. Duke; Donald L. Kohn; Sandra Pianalto; Eric S. Rosengren; Daniel K. Tarullo; and Kevin M. Warsh. Voting against the policy action was Thomas M. Hoenig, who believed that continuing to express the expectation of exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period was no longer warranted because it could lead to the buildup of financial imbalances and increase risks to longer-run macroeconomic and financial stability.
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Check Out The Fed’s Rocketship
No rate hike? Check out the SPY going to the moon post-Fed announcement!
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Aerology Analog Forecasting Method, by Richard Holle, Research.Aerolog.com
Article Tags: Richard Holle
You might be interested in looking at the process that is used to produce a long term forecast that stays accurate for years rather than just days. Posted to the site is a daily forecast with a lead time of 26 months.
Also in the research section an explanation of the complete set of driving forces that run the natural climate variability factors, that need to be considered ahead of CO2, to get real answers.
Intro
Bringing order out of chaotic systems requires a perspective bigger than the problem to be solved. The current weather / climate debate is a prime example of trying to find order in a chaotic system, however we need to look beyond our own planet if we are to fully realize the effects on our atmosphere. Below is a short research paper regarding long-range weather forecasting and the cyclic patterns that drive our weather.
History
At the end of the last Ice Age, the people who lived on the haltingly retreating edge of the permafrost noticed the surges in the weather. Some of them noticed that there were long-term patterns in the advance and retreat of the ice, and a gradual shift toward warmer climes, that allowed them new and better lifestyles in the expanded habitable zones.
This pattern discovery gave them information that was helpful, encouraging them to look into the natural processes of every day life. Stonehenge were built, to find the connections between the interactions of the movement of the planets, sun and the moon. The builders of Stonehenge focused their attention on the Solar and Lunar declination and found several periods of the Earth and the Moon’s interactions with the rest of the solar system.
Current Forecasting Methods are Flawed
Click to read FULL article by Richard Holle
Source: research.aerology.com
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Scott Rohde talks PlayStation Move
Still have a lot of ground to cover with the PlayStation Move? Sony’s not letting anyone stay in the dark about their shiny new motion controller, so now the VP of the Worldwide Studios Scott Rohde follows
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CHART OF THE DAY: How The Fed Backed Itself Into A Corner, And Is Doomed To Pumping Cheap Money Forever
Foreign governments are finally slowing down their purchases of US treasuries, but it’s okay because banks are well-known to be putting their money into treasuries, rather than loans.
That’s what the chart below shows.
But as David Goldman brilliantly explains, it also means the Federal Reserve has backed itself into a corner:
Most of this reflects use of the carry trade by foreign banks, or hedge funds, who are doing exactly what the American banks are doing: borrowing at 0.25% from central banks and lending it back to the US government at 1% or 2%, depending how far out the curve they go. The demand isn’t not coming from the oil exporters, who appear to be net sellers. On a geographic basis, the main buyers are “United Kingdom” and the “Caribbean,” that is, banks and hedge funds.
Raise rates and the carry trade comes crashing down. And so does the Treasury market and the mortgage market and the US economy. The Fed is stuck with loose money just as the Bank of Japan was during the 1990s, and for the same reasons.
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Lexus LF-A Nurburgring Edition
Lexus acaba de presentar una edición especial de uno de sus deportivos más potentes. Esta versión se denomina Lexus LF-A Nurburgring Edition que como bien se puede deducir, hará las delicias de aquellos conductores que les apasione la competición y las carreras.
Por el momento el precio no esta confirmado. Gracias a su motor, tendrá una potecia de unos 570 CV (10 CV más con respecto a la versión normal). Los neumáticos serán de alta adherencia y dispondrá de unas llantas multirradio.
La carrocería estará disponible únicamente en cuatro colores, naranja, blanco, negro y negro mate. Por el momento esto es todo hasta que Lexus públique el resto de información o se filtre algún tipo de contenido.
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Brand Spankin’ New Images: Bugatti 16C Galibier Concept is Back in Black
Bugatti today released some new images of its Bugatti 16C Galibier Concept dressed all in black. Yes, as we write this post we are listening to “Back in Black” by ACDC.
Hit the jump for the updated high-res image gallery – “oh yes, I’m back in blaaaack.”
Refresher: The Bugatti 16 C Galibier is one of the several concepts which the company is considering for a future model. Power comes from a 8.0L 16-cylinder engine that features two-stage supercharging. The engine is flex-fuel compatible, meaning it can run on ethanol. The Bugatti Galibier rides on a four-wheel-drive system and features ceramic brakes and a new suspension design that enables “agile, always-sure handling of a saloon of this size.”
Bugatti 16C Galibier Concept:
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Nissan Murano con nuevo motor
Nissan acaba de confirmar que el Nissan Murano recibirá un nuevo motor próximamente. A día de hoy sólo estaba disponible en una motorización, un motor de gasolina V6 y esta claro que un todoterreno a gasolina no es un gusto mayoritario.
El nuevo motor será un diésel de cuatro cilindros y 2,5 litros de cilindrada con el que puede desarrollar 190 CV de potencia. El motor estará ligado a una caja de cambios de seis velocidades automática.
El motor de gasolina se seguirá vendiendo aunque dudo mucho que alguien se decante por esa opción cuando con el motor diésel el consumo esta reducido en un 15%, en concreto, 7,4 litros. El interior y demás características del modelo seguirán intactas.
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What’s The Deal With This New Democratic Plan To Pass Healthcare Without Totally Voting On It?
The healthcare debate is turning into quite the civics lesson.
Chuck Todd explains the latest tactic by Democrats called “Deem & Pass,” and apparently it has something to do with passing a bill without really voting on it.
The “rule” can be written several different ways to include passage of the Senate bill. Though no decisions have been made — including whether or not the rule will be used — there are two scenarios most often discussed, according to a Democratic aide knee-deep in the process.
Scenario No. 1: The Senate bill is deemed passed with the passage of the House Rule for debate. So once the House passed the rules for debating the reconciliation package, the Senate bill could immediately be sent to president for his signature.
Scenario No. 2: The Senate bill is deemed passed with the House’s passage of the reconciliation bill. Since the vote on “the rule” happens before the vote on reconciliation, this would delay the bill being sent to Obama.
Under any scenario, the aide says, the bill must be signed by the president before the Senate takes up the reconciliation.
What’s the advantage for Democrats?
Why are Democrats considering this even though there will still be a roll-call vote?There are a number of House Democrats — either vulnerable in their reelection bids or who don’t like the Senate bill — who want to avoid a DIRECT vote on the health reform bill. They feel this indirect vote — even though it includes the health-care bill — gives them a measure of cover politically.
We’re just going to be totally honest, we still don’t understand what this is about. But this is MSNBC’s explanation, so it’s probably as clear you’re going to get.
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More Examples Of Patent Incentives Making The World Less Safe
For years, we’ve written about how Indonesia has been hoarding bird flu samples and refusing to share them with researchers, because they’re afraid that someone will come in and patent the cure, based on the samples they provide, and that will make it much costlier to Indonesia to get the vaccine. Of course, the end result instead might be no vaccine at all… It looks like we may be facing a similar issue with Ug99, a fungus that is aggressively killing wheat crops in Africa and the Middle East — potentially having a massive impact on global food supplies. FormerAC alerts us to an article about the fight against Ug99, where it’s noted that Pakistan won’t share some important samples with the rest of the world, again out of fear that some big company will patent what they find:
As the breeders keep tinkering, South Asia is bracing for impact. The CDL recently tried to get its hands on a suspicious P. graminis sample from Pakistan that is said to knock out Sr31. But the country is reluctant to share: “Some countries regard isolates of their pathogens as part of their genetic heritage,” CDL director Marty Carson says. “I guess there’s a fear that we’ll patent something off of it.”
Well, given Monsanto’s history of patenting disease resistant crops — and then over-aggressively attacking anyone who uses such crops (even accidentally), it would seem like a rather legitimate fear. Perhaps, rather than brushing this fear off, the USDA’s Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL) should work to do something to fix things?
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