Author: Serkadis

The Giga-tronics 8500A Series Peak Power Meters combine CW power measurement with the ability to make precise peak power measurements at any point on a pulsed waveform.
This dual, built-in capability lets you make CW measurements and analyze pulsed waveforms with a single instrument.

The meter is available in a single or dual channel configuration. A built-in display shows measurements such as rise time, fall time and pulse width plus the pulse profile. And you can use a reference cursor to read peak power at any point on the pulse waveform.

Giga-tronics CW and Peak power sensors contain an EEPROM programmed with the frequency calibration factors measured at the factory, or in your cal lab. When you key in the frequency at which power is being measured, the meter automatically applies the correct cal factor from the sensor EEPROM.

Features
Rise time < 15 ns Sensor frequency range from 0.03 or 0.75 to 18.5, 26.5 or 40 GHz Power Range: -20 to +20 dBm Pulse; -40 to +20 dBm CW Measurement resolution is 100 ps Measure the same point on repetitive pulses at over 70 measurements/second Built-in power sweep calibrator with NIST traceable accuracy

Applications
The series is used mainly for transpallets with standard carrying capacity; it is suitable only for manual lift trucks.
Typical usage: transpallets for indoor industrial handling in textile, chemical, tanning and food industries, stainless steel transpallets.

Technical features
LOAD CAPACITY: 450-750 daN
ROLLER TREAD: injection TPU 60D polyurethane tread; hardness 60+/-3 Shore D; excellent rolling resistance and elasticity, good resistance to wear and to tearing
CENTRE: polyamide 6

Usage conditions
Suitable for environments where atmospheric agents, alcohol, glycol, mineral and organic acids, base solutions and saturated vapour are present.

Minimum operator involvement and high analytical productivity – these are key benefits of automated thermometric titration. The method is ideal for monitoring the quality of fats and oils, namely to determine crucial parameters such as free fatty acid content and iodine value.

Benefits of thermometric titrimetry
Thermometric titration means that there is no electrical contact with titrating solutions, so samples can be titrated in a totally non-aqueous environment. The endpoint is determined automatically, not prone to operator bias and can be detected in highly colored or turbid solutions, or even in media containing suspended solids. Moreover, the thermometric sensing probe requires no maintenance, special preparation, regeneration or calibration and can be stored dry between titrations.

Determination of free fatty acid content and iodine value
Two determinations common in the analysis of fats and oils illustrate the versatility of the technique, namely the free fatty acid content and the iodine value. In both analyses, excellent agreement can be achieved with results obtained by official methods of analysis. The titrations are very fast, typically less than a minute in duration and can be easily automated by using a sample changer. Application Notes with the details on the determination of free fatty acid content and iodine value in vegetable fats and oils can be downloaded from the Metrohm webpage.

The bema 3 is our tough dirt killer. Available only in the free sweeping design, the bema 3 is the perfect partner for heavy-duty service on construction sites.

It can handle heavy use thanks to its internally-positioned motor and its stable wheels.

When mounted to a wheel loader or multipurpose trucks, the 660 mm sweeping barrel can beat even the toughest dirt.

Durable running wheels and internal Gerotormotor as well as comfortable attachment by quick change mechanism.

Even water sweeping is possible

Unimog-LKW lift attachment with wheel controlled vertical lifting and wheel leveling

PROMOTION FOR RENEWAL

Up-date your portable equipment for vibration analysis

With the recent introduction of a range of new portable equipments , CEMB offers the possibility to exchange old instruments (such as N28, N30, N32, N400, N402), working or not working, with the purchase of one of the new models.

The offer expires on 31.12.2010 and it is subject to CEMB General Sale Conditions. How can you get a new equipment taking advantage of this promotion ? Our commercial department will contact you and give you all the necessary information.

CEMB -New instruments for vibration analysis and balancing-
Cemb designs and manufactures a full range of equipments for vibration measuring and correction of the unbalances on rotating machine. The instruments, based on the latest technologies, allow easy and accurate solving of any problem of vibration in machine during operation: measuring vibration, FFT analysis, on field balancing, print-out certificate.

N300 can be used to measure the overall vibration value (ISO10816-3), to take synchronous measurements (1xRPM), and to balance on field any rotor on one or two planes, with one or two sensors.
Thanks to the backlit graphic display and intuitive “step-by-step” software, even occasional users will find N300 easy to use.
The quick coupling connectors can be used to connect two independent and simultaneous measuring channels and a photocell. The data can be transferred to a PC via the mini USB port.

You may already know about my favorite grooming tool, the FURminator. Well, they recently released a new and improved deLuxe version of this must-have accessory and this is your chance to win one! The new deLuxe FURminator has the same patented steel edge as the original FURminator — which does an amazing job of removing the loose dead undercoat — plus it now has a terrific ergonomic handle and a fur ejector button. The FURminator is the original and best deShedding tool on the market — accept no substitutes!

The new FURminator deLuxe  is available at Amazon.

ENTER TO WIN!

The folks at FURminator are offering a deLuxe cat deShedding tool to one lucky Moderncat reader. To enter, please leave a comment on this post. The winner will be chosen in a random drawing on February 21 and notified via email. One entry per person. This giveaway is open to addresses in the US only.

If you wanna get some more details on Crytek’s Crysis 2 then we suggest you grab for yourself a copy of the latest issue of Edge Magazine. It’s their featured game for this issue, and they’ve got

Did you know that Quantic Dream did consider using motion control for Heavy Rain? Yeah, we didn’t know either. And it took a Norwegian interview for this little trivia to spill out.
 
 
 

Everybody seems to complains that art, design, research and practice in information visualization should be talking more to each other.

Well, here is a unique opportunity: Andrew Vande Moere and I will soon be hosting a special symposium, co-located with the IEEE IV010 conference in London. We call it: DAVis, the 5th International Symposium on Design and Aesthetics in Visualisation.

From the (brand-new) call:

“This symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of design, art and related disciplines. The goal is to share their stories and experiences on how the needs and goals of both users and businesses are met through information visualisation.

It supports the publication of research in two general domains: Design and Aesthetics. Design refers to the development of visualisation as a creative design process. Aesthetics refers to the role of user experience in visualisation, as understood in three distinct components: aesthetic experience, experience of meaning, and emotional experience.

This symposium presents an opportunity to explore these issues and their consequences for the field of information visualization. In particular, we encourage the submission of design critiques; case studies, possibly with accompanying evaluation studies or critical reflections; position papers; or reports on the impact that visualization research or visualization use has had on the work and life of people. In this context, the story of failures or abandoned approaches can be as informative as descriptions of success. The fields of application are open, and can reach from traditional screen-based graphs, over innovative multi-touch interfaces, to dynamic media architecture displays.”

So – designers, coders, artists, visualizers – go forth and write your way in. Note that all papers will be reviewed before acceptance can be given.

Beware: the deadline is quite tight: March 1 March 21. But honestly, you would not have started earlier, anyways – right? Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, and we are really looking forward to your submissions.

NOTE: Rules about the style, maximum length, important dates, etc. is available at the IV’10 website.

Never mind the controversial comparative screenshots that came out the past week. Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase is singing all praises and putting his two thumbs up to the PS3. In fact, he sees the machine as

Article Tags: Doug L. Hoffman

A new round of pro-global warming papers have begun to appear as the vested interests of the climate change community attempt to resuscitate their failed theory. Having been exposed as a theory full of holes, based on uncertain, perhaps even corrupt, data and overly dependent on computer modeling for “proof,” the supporters of catastrophic climate change are trying to rally. Amid mounting attacks on the IPCC, a small number of its leaders are trying to explain themselves to colleagues, the press and the people of the world. Now that their highhanded, tolerate-no-dissent approach has failed, it seems some IPCC scientists are open to compromise.

In a news maker interview in the February 12, 2010, edition of Science, Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science attempted to respond to the avalanche of criticism that has engulfed the IPCC since the uncovering of the Hadley CRU emails and the discovery that many of the assertions in the AR4 report were taken from untrustworthy sources. Field has been designated co-chair of the report by Working Group 2, which will examine the impacts of a changing climate for the 2014 edition of IPCC reports. He helped write the rare public acknowledgment of error apologizing for the statement in the 2007 IPCC report that stated the Himalayan glaciers were “very likely” to melt away by 2035.

“It’s clear there really wasn’t a body of evidence required to assign that “very likely” term,” said Field. “It’s hard for me to figure out what might be a process that would sustain the credibility that should be associated with the IPCC process,” he continued, “I must admit I don’t really have a mature strategy for how we deal with [substantive] errors.” And there in lies part of the problem—the hoopla surrounding global warming has been the result of a politically motivated, haphazard process that hurriedly prepared a series of slipshod reports based on shoddy, substandard science aimed at selling the dangers of climate change to the public. That process now stands revealed as a colossal farce.

Click source to read more

Source: theresilientearth.com

Read in full with comments »   

Lynn Sweet of the Politics Daily wrote about Michelle Obama and her take on Sarah Palin, in an article called “Michelle Obama on Sarah Palin.”  This article is in response to Mrs. Obama’s interview with CNN’s Larry King on February 9th.
Says Sweet,

Mrs. Obama went on Larry King’s show as part of her media blitz in connection with the Tuesday launch of her “Let’s Move” anti-childhood obesity drive. King asked Mrs. Obama about Palin three days after Palin took a shot at President Obama at the National Tea Party Convention. Said Palin, “And our president would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy had made once he was in office. That all of the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s fault.” And later, “How is that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for ya?”

The article reveals how King peppered Michelle with questions about Palin, The Tea Party, and her husband’s criticizers. Of course, Michelle was grace under fire and kept a laser focus on the initiative at hand, childhood obesity.

King seem frustrated when Mrs. Obama skirted his question about what she made of the Tea Party phenomenon with this answer: “I’m focused on what’s in front of me. And right now, that’s ending childhood obesity in a generation — getting this done.”

Lynn Sweet’s article was relatively impartial and gave a decent representation of FLOTUS’ interview with King. With all of the controversy surrounding Michelle’s approach to her initiative on ending childhood obesity, it was refreshing to read an article that was minus stark criticism and Monday morning quarterbacking.  Posted by Bridgette of http://trailblazer-firstlady.blogspot.com.

Article Tags: ClimateGate, Front Page News

THERE has been no global warming for 15 years, a key scientist admitted yesterday in a major U-turn.

Professor Phil Jones, who is at the centre of the “Climategate” affair, conceded that there has been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.

The admission comes as new research casts serious doubt on temperature records collected around the world and used to support the global warming theory.

Researchers said yesterday that warming recorded by weather stations was often caused by local factors rather than global change.

The revelations will be seized upon by sceptics as fresh evidence that the science of global warming is flawed and climate change is not man-made.

The Daily Express has led the way in exposing flaws in the arguments supporting global warming.

Last month we revealed how the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was “speculation” lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The influential IPCC then admitted it had got the key claim wrong and announced a review.

The Daily Express has also published a dossier listing 100 reasons why global warming was part of a natural cycle and not man-made.

Yesterday it emerged that Professor Jones, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, had admitted he has trouble “keeping track” of the information.

Colleagues have expressed concern that the reason he has refused Freedom of Information requests for the data is that he has lost some of the crucial papers.

Click source to read more

Source: express.co.uk

Read in full with comments »   

If you have a copy of Darksiders, you might want to give its case a nice, good look. THQ’s got a surprise code waiting for you somewhere in it, and it unlocks a whole lot of joyous

Article Tags: World Temperatures, YouTube

Looking at how the average of the yearly mean temperature is actually calculated. It meas that an increase in that value comes from a cooler summer, not as cold winters and a longer growing season. Global warming is not happening, this proves it.

Source: youtube.com

Read in full with comments »   

Well, this is… erm… interesting, to say the least. And brave. And hopefully not something that he’ll regret a few years down the road. A mega Pac-Man fan decided he wanted to have his love for the game tattoed

Lacy Schnoor is another American Winter Olympics athlete who, as the picture above shows, would have to make anyone’s hottest 2010 Olympians list.

Schnoor is a freestyle skier who has finished as high as 7th in a world event. She’ll have to do better than that in Vancouver obviously to medal, but after looking at these pics we love her regardless of performance. Check out the pictures below and we think you’ll agree:

A little late, but just think you too could have something like this next Feb. 14th if you find a woman who allows you to touch her without cash changing hands.

(Holy Taco)

Good luck reading this while driving around.

(RideLust)

I want to see this version of the story.

(College Humor)