Author: Serkadis

We often criticize DMCA takedown abuse here at EFF, but last week’s Cryptome snafu highlights another facet of the problem: how a DMCA takedown for one item can result in the removal of lots of lawful material.

To recap, Cryptome posted Microsoft’s global criminal compliance manual. Microsoft sent a DMCA takedown notice to Cryptome’s domain name registrar and web hosting provider, Network Solutions, alleging that the post infringed copyright. Under the DMCA, a web hosting provider is protected from copyright infringement liability if, among other things, it “expeditiously” disables access to material properly identified in a DMCA takedown notice. Network Solutions asked Cryptome to remove the Microsoft compliance manual. Cryptome refused explaining that the document was posted in order to help the public better understand Microsoft’s practices, and followed up with a DMCA counternotice. Network Solutions promptly shut down the entire Cryptome website. Thus, a complaint about a single document caused significant collateral damage to the perfectly legal material on Cryptome.

This illustrates a basic problem built into the DMCA safe harbors. Microsoft’s notice targeted just one document. Network Solutions, however, couldn’t take down that single document, so opted to take down the entire site. Thus, although Cryptome’s beef was with Microsoft, Cryptome also had to persuade Network Solutions to take a chance of losing safe harbor protection (although not much of a chance, because Cryptome’s posting was protected by the fair use doctrine). Because Network Solutions wasn’t willing to take that small risk, a whole lot of speech was temporarily disappeared.

We’ve recently seen the same scenario with music bloggers, who may have their entire sites taken down as a result of complaints about a few links to music they’re reviewing.

And sometimes it’s not even enough to find a courageous hosting provider. Last year a takedown notice targeting a single site parodying the U.S. Chamber of Commerce resulted in a takedown of the websites of over 300 activist organizations hosted by MayFirst/PeopleLink. The Chamber of Commerce went “upstream,” targeting one of MayFirst’s upstream service providers, Hurricane Electric. When MayFirst pushed back, Hurricane shut off service, thus pulling the plug on unrelated websites, email and other online tools.

In all of these cases, copyright owners reach out to a “weak link,” the service provider with the least incentive to resist the takedown notice. Unless it has a free lawyer, the cost of doing a fair use analysis and defending a lawsuit—even if the service provider knows it will win—is almost certainly more than a service provider is charging any individual customer, or even a whole bunch of “innocent bystander” customers.

This unfortunate outcome is particularly ironic because Congress gave service providers protections in the DMCA. Service providers who care about free speech have better options:

• Remember, if your only relationship to the material targeted is that you provide connectivity to a downstream service, you should qualify for the 512(a) safe harbor, and, therefore don’t have an obligation to take the material down.
• Remember also that you don’t need the safe harbor if the material is a non-infringing fair use. In clear cases, you can bypass DMCA procedures.
• If thinking about fair use doesn’t make business sense, or you’re not sure, keep in mind that the DMCA requires only that you act “expeditiously” to respond to a takedown notice. Courts have found that providers should take down material within a few days of receiving a notice. So if you realize complying with a takedown notice will result in taking down much more material than the notice identifies, take the time to notify the person who sent the notice about the collateral damage it may cause. They may elect to withdraw it, especially where they are likely to face public criticism for causing an overbroad takedown.
• Give your customer a chance to re-jigger their service to avoid such collateral damage.
• Be sure to offer customers a clear counter-notice procedure—the DMCA provides protection for service providers that restore content in response to counter-notices.

Customers who also care about free speech should vote with their wallets and look for providers who will commit to following these suggestions. The safe harbors were supposed to help protect free speech, and they often do—but only if copyright owners, service providers, and internet users follow their common sense as well their business sense.

Si en el día de ayer publicamos una galería de imágenes del Audi RS5, hoy se ha dado a conocer un nuevo vídeo sobre este nuevo modelo de Audi. Realmente el vídeo no es muy revelador ya que sólo nos muestra al vehículo rodando por un circuito y además nos deja escuchar el motor del cuál hace uso.

Recordemos que hará uso de un motor V8 de gasolina que desarrolla 450 CV. Su precio para el mercado español será de 75.000€.

A continuación os dejo con el vídeo:

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Fontbonne University, a Catholic coeducational institution of higher learning sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, seeks candidates for the position of Assistant Director of Service, Diversity and Social Justice.

The person in this newly created position will help further cultivate and promote a campus culture that respects human dignity and encourages and recognizes service, diversity, and social justice through expanded opportunities for student learning, leadership, and civic engagement. The Assistant Director will report to the Director of the Department of Service, Diversity and Social Justice, be an active member of the Student Affairs Division, and collaborate with campus and community constituencies.

The Assistant Director will help:

• Identify service and social justice resources and opportunities for integration into campus activities and coursework
• Assist faculty in incorporating service learning into the curriculum
• Coordinate campus-wide service projects
• Establish/strengthen community partnerships
• Coordinate local, national, and international service trips
• Organize informational, analytical, and reflective discussion series on social justice topics and issues

Additional administrative duties may include, but are not limited to, advising selected student organizations and generating departmental reports.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree required in one of the following, or a closely related field: Social Justice, Higher Education Administration, Student Affairs, Social Work, Sociology, Education, Counseling, Psychology or Cultural/Ethnic Studies. Knowledge of program models for service, service learning, and civic engagement. Experience implementing dynamic social justice education and advocacy programs, preferably in a college or university setting, as well as building and maintaining effective coalitions and collaborative partnerships. Experience coordinating, planning, promoting and leading service projects and trips, preferably in a college or university setting. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; group facilitation and conflict management skills; organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals and groups from a variety of identities, cultures, backgrounds and ideologies.

This is a full-time, 11 month position, with a start date of July 1, 2010. Some evening and weekend hours required. Application deadline is March 8, 2010. Please send a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three professional references to:

Linda Pipitone
Director, Human Resources
Fontbonne University
6800 Wydown Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63105

Electronic resumes may be submitted to lpipitone {at} fontbonne(.)edu. If applying via email, please indicate the position in the subject line of the email.

EOE

About 2 months ago, we reported that BMW will launch a new lease program for its ActiveE electric-car, similar to what it has done with the Mini E electric-Cooper. We now have more details on the lease program thanks to the company’s board member for sales and marketing Ian Robertson.

Robertson says that a total off 700 units of the all-electric 1-Series ActiveE will be leased to customers residing in major cities around the world.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 BMW 135i.

“The fleet will be between 600 to 700 units, about 200 units for the United States and about 300 to 400 in Europe in large metropolitan areas such as Berlin, Paris and London,” Robertson told Automotive News in an interview.

The program is scheduled to launch over the next year.

Refresher: The BMW ActiveE is powered by a synchronous electric-motor making 170-hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. A full charge takes about 4.5 hours allowing a driving range of 100 miles.

BMW Concept ActiveE:

– By: Kap Shah

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La Sexta acaba de confirmar a los nuevos comentaristas que acompañaran a Antonio Lobato durante las retransmisiones de la Fórmula 1 durante la temporada 2010. Se trata de Marc Gené y Carlos Sainz.

Por otra parte, debemos destacar que Marc Gené ya ha comentado las carreras en el canal catalán TV3. Gracias a estas incorporaciones podremos estar al tanto de todo lo que sucede en la escudería Ferrari y por otra parte, Sainz nos dará muchos comentarios técnicos que desconocemos.

Ya quedan menos de dos semanas para que arranque la nueva temporada en el GP de Bahrain y podamos ver a los tres pilotos españoles sobre la pista.

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As you know tomorrow could be a big day from China, as regulators might announce further loan tightening.

Past tightening events jolted global markets.

Everyone will be focused on the Shanghai Composite. But as Waverly Advisors notes, you shoud also watch the short-term SHIBOR (their equivalent of the LIBOR), which is a reasonable proxy for margin debt. More loosely it’s an indicator of so-called “hot money” that finds its way into the stock market.

Last year, when this spiked, the market tanked soon thereafter. In February, when China hiked rates, there was no tank. But now we’re coming off last night’s big fall, so the jitters are real this time. If China hikes, and SHIBOR spikes, we could get a real selling stampede.

Battle stations!

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Driving over to work today I passed a brand new 2010 Buick LaCrosse, a car we recently reviewed and loved. It got me wondering why anyone would pick a Lexus ES over the new revolutionized LaCrosse since it’s better looking, better priced and better packaged. Well, I figure I’d ask you guys.

Which would you go for? The 2010 Buick LaCrosse or the 2009 Lexus ES? Let us know in the comments section after the jump.

Click here for our review on the 2010 Buick LaCrosse.

Click here to price the 2010 Buick LaCrosse.

Click here to price the 2009 Lexus ES.

– By: Omar Rana

Another classic gloomy interview from Marc Faber on CNBC this morning.

Among the points he hits:

• The Greek bailout will fail.
• The crisis will spread to other countries.
• Buy gold gold gold gold gold gold.

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Most people are at least cursorily familiar with the concept of the circadian rhythm. For those who aren’t, the circadian rhythm refers to our internal, approximately 24-hour cycle of biochemical, physiological, and behavioral processes. Every living thing, from fungus to bacteria to plant to animal, has a circadian rhythm. External cues called zeitgebers (what a great word, huh?) help synchronize or alter our rhythms; they include temperature, nutrition, meal timing, social interactions pharmacological interventions (medicines, drugs), and, most prominently, the light/dark cycle of the earth.

Yes, light, or the lack thereof, plays an enormous role in the regulation of our cycles, especially our sleep cycle. For millions of years, light was an objective, exogenous measure by which organisms established behavioral patterns, hormonal fluctuations, and sleep cycles. Depending on the seasons, the position of the global axes, and the weather, you could pretty much count on light, bright days and deep, dark nights. Nocturnal hunters and scavengers took the lack of light to mean “eatin’ time,” while other animals (including humans) sought shelter and slumber when night fell. Daylight meant activity and safety (since we could, you know, see everything). Fire, then, wasn’t just about cooking and providing warmth; it also allowed humans a small sliver of daylight’s safety and security at night.

Before I go on, I need to make something clear. My regular readers will have already grasped this concept, but I think it’s a good idea to reiterate it. Though it’s tempting to place us humans on another plane of existence, apart from the mindless flora and fauna that share this world, we are animals. Sure, we’re smarter and more complex than the others, but we’re still subject to these exogenous zeitgebers worming their influential fingers into our subconscious and fiddling with our circadian rhythms. Our tendency to get sleepy when night falls isn’t a cultural relic; we didn’t consciously decide to start sleeping at night because it was too dangerous to be out in the dark. The culture of standard bedtimes arose organically, if you can even call it culture. Does the chirping of birds in the morning reflect cultural tendencies? Is “the early bird gets the worm” a standard axiom in avian academia? No – the early bird’s evolutionary niche decrees that it wake up bright and early in order to get food. It’s basic natural selection, and humans are the same way. We don’t decide to get up early. We get up early because of a complex pattern of environmental cues telling us to get up. Throughout our evolutionary development, handling business during the daytime was simply how we survived. We can’t escape nature.

But boy do we try.

The zeitgeber (can’t get enough of that word) with the biggest impact on our sleep cycle is light. Period. And it’s not just natural light that affects our sleep cycle, but also unnatural, manmade lights. That’s kinda how we operate, actually, as instinctual beings who often misinterpret “unnatural” because, well, our physiology isn’t exactly intelligent. It’s not sentient. It’s purely reactive. Blue light from a 10:00 AM sky, blue light from your computer screen at midnight – it makes no difference to our circadian rhythms. It’s all the same to our bodies, because for millions of years blue light meant daylight, not a late night blog comment section or reruns of The Daily Show. And it’s the blue light specifically that appears to monitor our sleep patterns the most.

Like insulin and inflammation, blue light is integral to our health – in the correct amounts. When we’re exposed to levels of anything in excess (or too little) of what we would have experienced for the bulk of our evolutionary history, problems arise. Blue light regulates our secretion of melatonin, the sleep hormone. Exposed to blue light, we limit the production of melatonin, and we stay alert and awake; in the absence of blue light, melatonin production ramps up, and we get sleepy. This system worked quite well for a long time. Reddish light from fire (our formerly primary source of nighttime illumination) has little to no effect on melatonin production, so sleep wasn’t disrupted when we relied on fire. These days, though, we’re subject to a steady barrage of blue light. During the day, blue light (natural or unnatural) isn’t much of a problem because we’re supposed to be awake, but at night, when we’re “supposed” to be getting ready to sleep, we tend to sit in front of blue light-emanating appliances, and our sleep suffers for it.

(An interesting note on how we respond to blue light. For years, scientists assumed circadian rhythm was set by sight (of light) alone. Person sees sky/LCD screen and the same visual system that allows colored vision determines the hormonal, behavioral, or other physical reactions to the light. It makes sense, but that’s not how it works. It turns out that there exists a second, more dominant system responsible for setting circadian rhythm based on light input. If a person’s sleep cycle depended purely on traditional color vision, we’d expect the blind to universally suffer from disrupted sleep. They do not, however, and this is explained by optical cells that express a photopigment called melanopsin. Unlike the standard rod and cone opsins, melanopsin doesn’t help us see. Instead, it reacts most strongly to blue light, and scientists think it’s the primary regulator of the biological clock and production of melatonin. In otherwise blind patients with intact melanopsin systems, blue light has a strong effect on their sleep cycles.)

Blue light has its place, of course. A British study found that blue light-enhanced white lights in the workplace improved alertness, performance, and even nighttime sleep quality in employees. That’s during the day, though, when blue light exposure is normal and expected. Nighttime exposure to blue light disrupts our sleep hormones. Television, computer screens, even digital clocks with blue numbers – they’re all common sources of late night blue light that can affect our production of melatonin.

Is blue light the only issue? It certainly appears to be the primary driver of circadian rhythm, but it’s not the only one. In a recent study, researchers found that while monochromatic blue light suppressed melatonin production via melanopsin stimulation, polychromatic white light (which includes blue light) stimulated melanopsin equally while suppressing melatonin to an even greater degree. Clearly, it’s not just blue light’s effect on melanopsin affecting our sleep cycles.

Still, blue light is the low-hanging fruit, and there are some simple steps you can take to mitigate its late-night effect on your sleep.

• Keep electronics usage to a minimum or completely eliminate blue light (alarms, TVs, laptops) after dark.
• Go to sleep earlier.
• Use candlelight (read how a fellow MDA reader gave this a try for 30-days).
• Keep your room as dark as possible and your sleeping quarters pitch black.
• Install F.lux (totally free) on your computer to cut down on blue light emissions.
• If you want to try a somewhat extreme experiment you could even wear orange safety glasses at night.

(Thanks to this thread on PaleoHacks for the last two tips.) Also, don’t forget to expose yourself to blue light during the day so that your cycle normalizes – it goes both ways, you know.

Does anyone have experience cutting out blue light exposure to great effect? Let the world know in the comments.

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Us Mac gamers are a much abused, much maligned lot. We get titles late, and most never at all. By the time most titles do come to the Mac, we’ve probably already broken down and played them using Boot Camp or that gaming PC we hide in the closet that we bought specifically for the purpose. Today, things are looking up.

PC game maker and distributor Valve is dropping all kinds of hints, which are by no means ambiguous, that Steam and many of its titles are headed to the Mac sometime in the near future. MacRumors and various other Mac news sites received teaser images direct from Valve themselves, all of which point to that very same conclusion.

The teaser received by MacRumors features Half-Life protagonist Gordon Freeman wielding a crowbar and wearing an Apple logo on his chest. The image was sent “in anticipation of an upcoming announcement from Valve.” No timeframe or additional details about this announcement were included, however, so we’re left to speculate about that, although next week sees the annual Game Developers Conference taking place in San Francisco, so that’s a good candidate for a potential date.

Other sites also received tantalizing teaser images in a similar vein, which, when you notice the iPhone-like selector control at the bottom of the images, gives a pretty good indication that all are from the same series and further evidence of a Mac connection. MacNN received one using turrets from Team Fortress 2 and Portal acting as Mac and PC from the Justin Long/John Hodgman series of ads:

Shacknews got this image of a Team Fortress 2 Heavy class character as an iPod silhouette:

Eurogamer received this one, featuring a Left 4 Dead character and the “Hate Different” twist on Apple’s longtime slogan:

Rock, Paper, Shotgun got another promo, which plays off of the ad for the first Mac and seems the most clear about Valve’s intentions:

Finally, Macworld received this picture of Half-Life 2’s Alyx Vance character reenacting Apple’s instantly recognizable 1984 commercial:

Additional evidence for the introduction of some kind of Mac version of Steam can be found in the inclusion of Mac elements in the latest beta builds of the game marketplace software. For Mac users who’ve maybe shut out all gaming news out of bitterness or jealousy, Steam is Valve’s digital game distribution software for the PC. It also provides digital rights management (DRM) services for developers, and multiplayer services for users. So far, only Mac Games Arcade provides a similar service for the Mac, but that’s honestly like comparing an aircraft carrier (Steam) to a dinghy (Mac Games Arcade).

Take-Two has laid out some target release windows for a few of their upcoming games, turning the fourth quarter of the year into a possibly quite lucrative time for the company.

Update: A comment from someone at Viacom says that The Hollywood Reporter got this story wrong. He correctly noted that we accidentally called their PR guy a lawyer (fixed), but now says that the quote is not about suing, even though that certainly seems to be the implication from the quote. Perhaps I’m missing something. However, Viacom now says:

We have always tried to be as permissive as possible when looking at what might be fair use, and we haven’t changed our approach at all. Frankly, fair use works for us. I can’t recall a time we’ve ever sued a blogger for the use of a Comedy Central clip, and there’s no reason to believe that would be more likely to today.

That’s an interesting quote from a company suing YouTube for a billion dollars for a lot of fair use clips (including some that Viacom itself uploaded, but ok. We’ll take it at face value. Now, here’s the original post:

Viacom owns Comedy Central and its hit program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show makes frequent use of fair use exceptions in copyright to show TV clips from other TV stations as part of the show. But apparently, Viacom and its lawyers think that fair use is only okay for big studios. With the news that Viacom is pulling The Daily Show and The Colbert Report off of Hulu in favor of its own sites, a Viacom lawyer PR guy threatened to sue any bloggers that posted unauthorized clips of the show. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if it would go after bloggers posting clips, Viacom responded:

“Yes, we intend to do so,” says PR rep Tony Fox. “My feeling is if (websites) are making money on our copyrighted content, then that is a problem.”

Now, it’s true that the video players that each of these shows use on their own official sites do allow for embedding — but they also have limits (and the player is definitely clunky). But, in response to Mr. Fox, isn’t The Daily Show making money off of other’s copyrighted content? Why isn’t that a problem?

It’s really rather disgusting to see big studios like Viacom pretend that fair use only exists when it’s in their favor.

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At Analytica 2010, Malvern Instruments will focus on its range of analytical instrumentation for life science applications, with an emphasis on the company’s comprehensive solutions for characterizing proteins and other macromolecules. Today Malvern offers a variety of options, with a range of systems that can be configured to meet the analysis requirements of individual laboratories. These include the Zetasizer family, which employs dynamic and static light scattering to measure size and molecular weight, and the full range of Viscotek advanced gel permeation / size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) systems and detectors for rapid, reliable characterization of both molecular weight and molecular structure.

In addition to the established and widely used Zetasizer Nano system, Malvern’s Zetasizer family now includes a system dedicated to the analysis of proteins and other biomolecules. Designed and optimised for maximum sensitivity and minimum sample volume, the Zetasizer Micro V is a dedicated system that supports improved understanding and management of a wide range of biomolecule applications. These include: optimising sample and storage conditions; verifying the quaternary structure of protein complexes; identifying thermal characteristics; and assessing protein solubility and sample purity.

When it comes to GPC/SEC, Malvern provides a wide choice for chemists seeking either a complete system or an additional detector to enhance an existing set-up. At the heart of the company’s chromatography range are Viscotek advanced GPC/SEC systems. These include the powerful yet easy to use TDAmax, which can be configured with up to four detectors to deliver maximum information from a single experiment. Light scattering, viscosity, concentration, refractive index and UV detection are all available on the TDAmax. The system delivers information on absolute molecular weight without correction or extrapolation, oligomeric composition and aggregation, protein size and density, conjugate composition and second virial coefficient. OmniSEC software not only offers standard methodologies for instrument control, analysis and customised reporting, it can also deal with specialised applications, such as the analysis of pegylated proteins.

Malvern application experts are always available to help configure systems for specific measurement needs and will be pleased to discuss individual requirements with visitors to the Malvern stand A1.320 at Analytica

Sinocan Booth No: Hall 16, Stand: E53

Sinocan is the largest touch screen products manufacturer in China with such IT products as POS Terminal, Mobile POS, Panel PC, LCD Touch Monitor, Open Frame Touch Monitor, Interactive Kiosk, POS Peripherals etc. As a genuine OEM/ODM manufacturer, Sinocan is dedicated to delivering top-notch quality technology products, services, and solutions being delivered at the most current costs at time of shipment to all clients.

Sinocan offers good quality products with a very competitive price. Sinocan products have been classified into 8 different catagories as follow:

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Up to date, Sinocan has three production lines with advanced technology and dust-proof facility with a monthly production capacity of 100,000pcs. Sinocan products have been adopted by customers from 48 countries in the world, including world top 500 MNCs, United Nations, Olympic Games and other such famous clients and partners as NEC, IBM, NCR, Bluestar, Synnex Corp, M-S Cash Drawer etc.

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Badotherm’s stainless steel pressure gauges cover ranges from 20 mbar up to 1600 bar to 4000 bar at the maximum. Case diameters are available from 40 mm to 250 mm. Accuracies between 0.1% and 2.5% can be provided. These all meet stringent EN standards. The stainless steel internal consist out of certified stainless steel or monel and seamless drawn tubes. Badotherm solid front “Safety baffle wall” pressure gauges (BDT20) represent the safest gauge in our industry and can be found at the higher end of our product range. These gauges are manufactured completely in stainless steel or in stainless steel with a plastic compound casing. In addition, this product is available in both dry, glycerine fillable or filled executions as standard. This filling option is available for our complete range. Most of our instruments are compatible with mechanical or electrical accessories, like drag pointers and contact devices, and can be combined with a variety of chemical seals.

Badotherm’s stainless steel pressure gauges cover ranges from 20 mbar up to 1600 bar to 4000 bar at the maximum. Case diameters are available from 40 mm to 250 mm. Accuracies between 0.1% and 2.5% can be provided. These all meet stringent EN standards. The stainless steel internal consist out of certified stainless steel or monel and seamless drawn tubes. Badotherm solid front “Safety baffle wall” pressure gauges (BDT20) represent the safest gauge in our industry and can be found at the higher end of our product range. These gauges are manufactured completely in stainless steel or in stainless steel with a plastic compound casing. In addition, this product is available in both dry, glycerine fillable or filled executions as standard. This filling option is available for our complete range. Most of our instruments are compatible with mechanical or electrical accessories, like drag pointers and contact devices, and can be combined with a variety of chemical seals.

KiSoft RMS stands for KiSoft Reusables Management System. This type of sorting system for empties was recently realized at Kaiser’s Tengelmann in Germany.

During the month of July, over 870,000 single bottles were collected and sorted, filled into empty cases in part automatically, and automatically palletized.
A total of about 715,000 cases were collected and automatically organized by sort.
About 15% of the beverage cases were transported in an ergonomically constructed manual sorting loop, in which foreign bottles were removed from the cases and replaced by the correct bottles.
As part of the “daily business” at Kaiser’s Tengelmann, empties for several well-known bottlers are sorted 100% correctly by type and delivered to the particular bottler.

To end the difficulties at branch stores resulting from inventory differences and time-intensive manual sorting and entry, KNAPP expanded and optimized the existing case management system. This system is the basis for the correct credit accounting with the respective branch stores as well as settlement of accounts with the bottling plants.

Elgin Sweeper Introduces Mobile Camera System For Improved Operation Of Elgin Street Sweepers

New system delivers expanded broom, rear-view visibility while sweeping

Elgin Sweeper has introduced the Elgin Mobile Camera system as an option for its line of environmentally efficient street sweepers. The multi-camera system, which includes both mirror and rear-view camera kits, provides sweeper operators with expanded visibility to the main and side brooms – as well as to the rear of the sweeper – for improved performance.

“Street sweepers often need to negotiate tight spots, take difficult corners and make critical maneuvers in reverse, which requires good visibility to the front, sides and rear of the machine, as well as to the traffic and work areas,” said Frank Ligori, national parts marketing manager at Elgin Sweeper. “With the Elgin Mobile Camera system, the monitor in the cab provides the operator with a detailed view of the main and side brooms to check the collection of debris. The operator can also switch to a rear view of the sweeper when backing up, turning or changing lanes.”

In 2008, Elgin Sweeper began installing rear-view cameras on new street sweepers as standard equipment, with the side mirror camera kit available as an option. Available for Elgin Sweeper’s Broom Bear®, Crosswind®, Eagle®, Pelican® and Whirlwind® models, the cameras and monitor are designed for durability and can withstand the knocks, bumps and vibrations sweepers encounter on a daily basis.

The Elgin Mobile Camera system includes such features as high-resolution Sony CCD cameras for outstanding image quality; 5.6-inch color TFT-LCD monitors; automatic reverse or turn signal camera activation; infrared LEDs for night vision and multi-voltage capability (12/24 VDC). The system also includes a two-year warranty.

“For sweepers already in service, the complete Elgin Mobile Camera system is available as a retrofit package which combines the rear-view and side mirror camera kits,” Ligori said. “These fit on Elgin sweepers and can also be installed by your local Elgin dealer on other brands of sweepers.”

“The mobile camera system is yet another example of Elgin Sweeper’s commitment to our municipal and contractor customers to improve operator performance and comfort,” Ligori said.

For additional information or detailed specifications on the Elgin Mobile Camera system, please see your local Elgin Sweeper dealer, call 1-847/741-5370, or visit www.elginsweeper.com.

Sold and serviced through a network of more than 100 dealer locations worldwide, Elgin products are the sweepers of choice for a variety of general street maintenance, special industrial and airport applications. With more than 90 years of experience, Elgin Sweeper offers municipalities, contractors and industries the most sweeper options in the country, using the latest sweeping technologies—mechanical, pure vacuum, regenerative air, alternative fuel and waterless dust control. Elgin Sweeper is a subsidiary of Federal Signal Corporation’s Environmental Solutions Group. For more information, visit www.elginsweeper.com.

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Mitsubishi Chemical Analytech (Kanagawa, Japan) announces the release of Automatic Titrator GT-200.
This release is a major improvement in our Automatic Titrator series, which includes a large number of new features and the new algorithm enhancements.

The key features of GT-200 include:
1. 5.7 inch Color LCD
2. Operation with USB/wireless mouse
3. USB Memory (Parameters, System Setting, Results & Data)
You can transfer titration curves to Excel.
4. Improved Software: Combination titration etc.
5. Separated Buret & Stirrer
Just the titration part can be placed in a draft chamber.
6. Selectable Optional Printer
Thermal (110mm width) or Dot Impact (58mm width)
7. GLP support functions (Buret, Electrode, Titration check)
8. Maximum 12 Burets
9. Electrodes with BNC connector can be attached/detached from front side.
10. Numerous Titration Modes (High performance)

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