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Foi lançada essa semana uma projeção de como poderá ficar a nova geração do Audi A3 que deve ser apresentado ainda este ano.
Segundo fontes, a projeção chega muito perto da realidade de como será o modelo, antes do lançamento do modelo A3 será lançado o modelo Q3 que deverá estar equipados com alguns equipamentos que viram no Q3.
O modelo deverá ser lançado quase na mesma data que o Volkswagen Golf 7 será lançado também. Ambos os modelos deverão vir com 70% dos equipamentos da suas versões anteriores.
Fonte: The German Car Blog
The winner of the “Doddle 4 Google” competition has been announced, her name is Makenzie Melton, a third grade student from El Dorado Springs, Missouri’s R-2 Schools.
Google in partnership with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum together has organized this year too its annual, Doodle 4 Google contest, in which students from all over the U.S. could submit their Doodles and the jury would select on lucky winner.
The doodles submitted needed to be inspired by the theme “If I Could Do Anything, I Would…”, this years winner has selected the rainforest habitat as her theme, “I chose this doodle because the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants and animals. I love everything except spiders and snakes, but I would still save them.”
Makenzie’s drawing was in competition with 33000 other submission, she received a 15000 USD price for the first place.
This does not mean that the other submission will be thrown away, an exhibit will be held at Google’s New York office.
Last years winner was Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. She titled her doodle “A New Beginning” to express her wish that “out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more.”
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This comes only a few months after the last such poll which saw a desire for energy production to take priority over environmental conservation by 7 percentage points. Now that margin has swung back in favour of the environment with a clear 16 percentage point gap in the environments favour.
It comes as little surprise considering the catastrophic oil spill taking place in the Gulf of Mexico, and highlights the fickle nature of the American public who seem only to care about the environment when there is a grave national threat or someone to blame. (more…)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:25-35
Throughout this year I have researched and written twenty studies on Family Life. I have tried to write inclusive of people living in all sorts of differently shaped families. As Family First Party, I felt there should be some overarching philosophy apart from all of the policies on different aspects of Government policy for families. Although Family First is a party of family values, and not exclusively a Christian party, I have been a Christian minister for 50 years so I write out of that set of values and faith system. To do anything else would deny what is essential to my thinking and understanding. I respect the views of others and I quote many people whose works I have read, but whose values and lifestyle I do not promote, as you will read as you progress through this study for example.
Many people have been considering the issues and have given me their views. But nothing has attracted negative comment as much as this theme when I announced it some months ago. Only five words long, this title “BEING SUCCESSFUL ON YOUR OWN” has been criticised on two accounts. The first is that I should be writing on a theme of people being successful at all.
1. BEING SUCCESSFUL
Some people are not happy with the concept of success in life. They trot out trite little sayings like “God does not call us to be successful, but to be faithful.” That sounds good, but it fails to answer the issue: “Is God honoured when his people are failures, wasting His gifts and squandering His resources?” The answer is clearly seen in the teachings of Jesus who praised successful people in His Parable of the Talents and in some 200 references in scripture to ‘succeeding’ and ‘success’.
The Bible encourages us to be successful. The theme that runs throughout the cycle of stories of Joseph in Genesis which is repeated after every episode that sees the hero badly done by is: (39:23) “but the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.” After the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, Joshua said (1:7-8) “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”
When King Uzziah ruled, he learned from Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God (2 Chron 26:5) and the result? “As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.”
Nehemiah, who was a great hero of Israel, prayed (1:11) “O Lord, Give your servant success today.” David prayed (Ps 118:25) “O LORD, save us; O LORD, grant us success.”
But in Australia we have been through an era of greed where people tried to be successful financially at the expense of others, and at the expense of morality and ethics. Whatever happened to public morality? Many Australians asked the question again this week, as a former Chief Judge of the Supreme Court was buried and people remembered the behaviour that led to his resignation from the bench in disgrace.
Three successful business leaders are before the courts, another judge is in jail, a former Catholic priest pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of children, a millionaire who ran away after his friend was murdered was found hiding in Queensland, and a former businessman who was the nation’s wealthiest is having his will contested by a former mistress who bore his child, and a stripper who was his escort while being unfaithful to his wife and his mistress.
These so called “successful” people were immoral, greedy and sinful, not successful. You can only call them “successful” when you have a twisted or a limited definition of success. No one now calls them successful.
Professor Peter Singer, the famous Australian Philosopher, says: “Australians are now taking ethical issues more seriously. We are a bit more moral than we were. Australia has a golden opportunity to redefine the ethical landscape in which we live, and I hope we don’t squander it. Some organisations have taken on an ethical stance which employees feel they can share and which can give people some new confidence.” Hugh Mackay, the social commentator, says: “Perhaps we are beginning to realise that we need to take a closer look at what makes communities function so that we can do a better job of designing environments where humans can more easily act like social and moral creatures.”
Following a TV interview earlier this month with Tony Abbott, the Federal Opposition Leader, a full discussion has occurred about politicians who do not tell the truth, and who deliberately make promises that they have no intention of keeping.
I remember Justice Michael Kirby, recently retired from the High Court, saying upon his return from Cambodia, “The Cambodians lost their spiritual framework when the Khmer Rouge killed the monks and destroyed the temples. At least in Australia, despite the decline of religious belief, we have a cultural memory of the teachings of Jesus Christ. I am not a churchly person but the teachings of Jesus remind us of the transience of human power and ambition and the enduring nature of spiritual and ethical values.”
When people ask, “whatever happened to morality?” they are stating that society will not tolerate actions against the common good.
We have been through an era of “the privatisation of morality” while warning about rampant individualism and the need for shared moral values. Our commitment to each other was dangerously weakened as a result of the unbridled individualism in the 1980’s, the “me” decade when people believed God had arranged matters so that everything occurring under free enterprise was designed for our success, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2009 when everything came tumbling down.
In some churches Prosperity theology found in some preachers taught that if you were to receive the blessing of God, it would be in the form of financial riches. Some of these heretical preachers are still active in fringe denominations. The erosion of the moral environment made it easier for them to behave badly by equating blessing with money, success with getting away with it.
Damian Grace, who taught in the School of Social Work at the University of NSW, wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald: “Morality is not about conformity, but about developing those personal excellences once familiar to us as the virtues. It should not be equated simply with prohibitions or a list of obligations. It is also about courage, generosity, patience, trust and love, the kind of qualities we can really acquire only in our relations with others.”
That is the kind of success I am talking about. Individuals growing in personal excellence and virtue, growing in “courage, generosity, patience, trust and love.”
This is true, not just of successful people, but successful organisations. They too must have a moral and ethical heart, and develop those qualities that mark out successful individuals. The managing director of Bankers Trust Australia, says: “Capitalism is based on self-interest which, on the face of it, seems to conflict with ethical behaviour. But in a capitalist society, we accord genuine respect only to enduringly successful organisations, not fly-by-nighters. To be an enduringly successful organisation, your staff must work to their optimum, respect each other and, most important, the organisation needs to have a social purpose beyond itself and its constituents. In other words, values and standards that go beyond self-interest.”
Professor Don Edgar, a professor at Monash University, says: “The irony is that we have glorified independence and personal choice in a complex modern society where little can be done without dependence upon the expertise and goodwill of others, rather than a message that as human beings we need one another. Society works only if people make it work for the benefit of all rather than a few.”
A clear example of such a successful single woman is Miss Marian Anderson, the African-American contralto who died in 1993, and who won worldwide acclaim as a concert soloist. I found in her bestselling autobiography, “My Lord, What a Morning”, that in spite of her fame, she remained the same gracious, approachable lady, a beautiful model of humility.
A reporter, while interviewing Miss Anderson, asked her to name the greatest moment in her life. The choice seemed difficult to others who were in the room that day, because she had many big moments. For example: there was the night Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced, “A voice like hers comes once in a century.” In 1955 she became the first African American to sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York. In 1958 she became a United States delegate to the United Nations.
On several occasions during her illustrious career, she received medals from various countries. There was that memorable time she gave a private concert at the White House for the President and the Queen of England. She was awarded the coveted Presidential Medal of Freedom. There was that Easter Sunday in Washington D.C. when she stood beneath the Lincoln statue and sang for a crowd of 75,000, which included Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, and most members of Congress. Which of those big moments did she choose?
None of them. Miss Anderson quietly told the reporter that the greatest moment of her life was the day she went home and told her mother she
wouldn’t have to take in washing anymore. There was a successful person!
2. BEING SUCCESSFUL ON YOUR OWN
The second criticism I received in proposing to write on this theme resulted from the comment: “This series of studies has been most helpful to our family life and even when you discussed issues that did not directly affect us at this stage, we found insights that became relevant over the next week or two. But why on your family theme have you spent a couple of studies discussing the issues effecting single people only, and why are you going to do a study on “Being successful on your own?” Doesn’t this cut right across the family theme?”
I replied that people who are neither parents nor married are not excluded from a discussion on the family, for single people are important members of their extended families. Not everyone is called to nurture a family, and although single people have no family of their own they can make an important contribution to the well-being of their extended families.
Single people also share in some of the family responsibilities and bring an added dimension to family life. But not only that, single people who may have no extended family and no nearby relatives, can make a significant contribution to society as a whole, and to every functioning part of it.
We need to help single people be successful on their own. Then they are in a better position to make an even greater contribution to the community and to those families who need an extra family member who can help them cope.
Some single people without families live in community with other single people. Religious communities of sisters, brothers and priests are groups of single people freely committed to each other in this way. So some single people adopt a community lifestyle.
I think of the Christian community at Bundeena that has existed for many years. And others have turned one of blocks of units operated by Wesley Mission into a large family centre consisting of single people.
I have always encouraged single people to be successful on their own. The Australian Institute of Family Studies predicted that 25% of Australian men and women born in the 1960s will never marry. (“With This Ring” AIFS).
Christianity was born in the hearts of single people. The early church expanded the faith through the work of single men and women. The Apostle Paul, like the Lord Jesus, was a single man. Paul wrote: (1 Corinthians 7:8) “Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am.” He also wrote (v27) “Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife.” Paul continued (v32-35) “I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs, how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife, and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.”
Paul believed that singleness gave a person opportunity for Christian growth and service. He wanted single people to realise the worth and significance of their singleness. He would approve of being a successful single.
Success does not lie in the abundance of your possessions, as Jesus taught, but in your commitment to God. Success lies in being the best you can be by God’s grace. So HOW CAN YOU BE SUCCESSFUL ON YOUR OWN?
CELEBRATE YOUR SINGLENESS
Being single gives a person great opportunities. Celebrate them! You have freedom for educational opportunities, additional time for leisure and cultural activities, and you can be financially independent. Never complain about being single. Some of the most integrated and competent people celebrate their singleness.
DO WHAT YOU CAN DO – WELL
Everyone has a gift of God, some talent that can be used in His service. Not everyone has the same capacity or range of abilities as Jesus indicated when he told in the parable of talents that one person possessed ten talents, another five, while another has only one. The essential point was that each person had to do what they could do, well. It is important that single people do – for many wait for another person to make the decisions for them. It is all too easy to procrastinate. But the successful single is the person who learns to do what you can do well!
DISCOVER YOUR GIFT AND USE IT
God has given you talents, and gifts and one of the gifts God has given is Celibacy. Use your celibacy as God intended. When I was fourteen, I wanted a watch. My widowed mother told me we did not have enough money for me to expect a watch for Christmas. But I thought she just might buy one. One day alone in our house except for a friend from school, we were discussing what each would get for Christmas in a week or so.
I told him I was getting a watch. He didn’t believe me. I told him I was, and that my mother probably had already bought it and it was hidden somewhere in the house. He urged me to look for it. I guessed she might have hidden it behind the linen in the linen press. We looked. I found it!
I opened the watch box and there was the most beautiful watch in its velvet box. I tried it on and felt so excited, then carefully hid it way again. Then came Christmas day. But what was supposed to be a great surprise, wasn’t. I already knew.
I pretended I was excited and thanked Mum but I had an empty feeling. My gift had been opened with the wrong person at the wrong time and all the joy was gone. Celibacy is a gift of God. Don’t unwrap it until you are with the right person and at the right time! God has given you a gift, use it well in serving others.
HELP OTHERS MEET THEIR NEEDS
Successful people are those who know how to serve others. I have observed over many years that some single people grow incredibly narrow in their interests and self-centred in their concerns. The successful single has learned to be interested in other peoples’ interests and committed to helping others. That’s why they are so popular!
VISUALISE YOURSELF ACHIEVING
One of the great arts in being successful is in visualising yourself achieving. This requires that you will have great faith. Unless you have a goal, can dream of yourself achieving that goal and visualising yourself accomplishing it, you are not using all the inner power you have within you to help you be successful. Whatever your purpose, dream the dream and visualise yourself achieving it, and then get on your way.
AIM AT BEING A TOTAL PERSON
The successful person is not measured by their net asset worth financially, but in their achievement of a total personality. That means your all-round development as a person. Both our Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul were great people with well-developed personalities and skills. They were both single, but total people. I rejoice with single people who have developed their skills, who manage well on their own, who have expanded their competencies and who are living a fulfilled life.
In all of our emphasis upon families in these studies this year, I would note with appreciation the contribution made by single people, and urge you to become a successful person on your own. Making your commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour is the first and ultimate step in being a successful person.
REV HON DR GORDON MOYES AC MLC
APeugeot México anunciou nesse final de semana o lançamento do modelo 3008 no mercado mexicano que começará a ser vendido oficialmente a partir do dia 04 de junho.
O modelo será oferecido com cinco opções de cores, o que deve agradar pouco o consumidor devido à limitação de personalização.
De baixo do capô, o modelo vai contar com um motor de 1.6 litros que rende 156 cavalos de potencia, acompanhado com um cambio automático de seis marchas.
Como equipamento de serie, o modelo vai contar com airbags duplo, controle de temperatura, sistema de som com mp3, freios ABS e EBD e rodas de liga leve.
Fonte: es Auto Blog
CNN.com and Stamen Design have launched “Home and Away” [cnn.com], an impressive interactive data visualization that allows users to learn about and pay tribute to more than 6,000 fallen troops from more than 20 countries. Evolving from 2 separate lists of casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, Home and Away tells the story of where and how the lives of these troops began and ended. The website also allows for personal memories to be continually added by family and friends.
While tackling the many issues involved when dealing with an extremely sensitive dataset, this project attempts to exploit the power of data visualization to engage a wide audience and tell compelling and moving stories, here as an exceptional way to honor the sacrifice every single one of the deceased soldiers made.
Users can search for casualties across several different criteria, including last name, age hometown, location of death and date of death. More detail about the life of each casualty is featured on a personal memorial page, as well as memories from family and friends shared through iReport, CNN’s user-generated news community.
More information is also available at Presslift.
Thnkx Erica!
The anchors of Good Day New York have dubbed Bret Michaels the new Balloon Boy! The rocker has been accused of “faking” his recent health woes for publicity.
The former frontman of glam metal band Poison shocked American Idol viewers when he braved deteriorating health to appear as one of the surprise performers on Wednesday night’s Idol finale. He shared the stage with top-three finalist Casey James as the two sang a duet of Poison’s hit ’80s song “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
The performance was a huge triumph for Michaels, who has cheated death countless times in the past four weeks. He was hospitalized twice in April; once for an appendectomy and a second time just one week later with an almost fatal brain hemorrhage. As if that weren’t enough to deal with — Bret was admitted to the hospital again last week for what’s been called a “warning stroke.”
He even has a hole in his heart! (He’s set to undergo surgery for that this fall.)
It’s all a little too “Hallmark Movie of the Week” for the anchors of the Big Apple’s Good Day New York. In fact, during this morning’s broadcast, the news team was vocal about their inability to buy Bret’s claims of “miraculous recovery.” HIT PLAY For An Earful Of The Tomfoolery:
Filing this under: “Oblivious Asshats Who Need To Zip Their Lips!” Keep on singng, Bret!
Judge James B Zagel denied the request by the Blagojevich defense team to pick jurors the old fashioned way by allowing both the defense and prosecution to question potential jurors one at a time.
The ruling comes after Zagel excused nearly 3-hundred jurors, many for hardship reasons, most of them economic. In fact, when explaining his ruling, Zagel said the number of those excused is larger than usual. Many, according to Zagel, cited unemployment and their inability to look for a job if they are in court every day for possibly as long as four months.
Defense attorney for former governor Rod Blagojevich, Sheldon Sorosky asked that the defense be allowed to question potential jurors one at a time, “the old fashioned way”. Judge Zagel answered, “what would be achieved by dragging a 28 year old with 3 kids who can’t afford day care down here”.
The defense will be allowed to review the list of nearly 300 potential jurors who have been excused on Friday.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin next Thursday.
Yes, says BTIG’s Mike O’Rourke, who presents the following:
A couple of factors have broken in favor of the bulls over the past couple of sessions. Risk spreads have settled down. AAII Sentiment at 37% bullish has become its most pessimistic since early November and is under the buy threshold of 40% (see chart). Coincidently, this week the S&P 500 hit those same levels that it hit in early November. Although the Euro has been testing its lows, it has not registered a new low in 6 days. The monthly underperformance of Equities relative to Treasuries this month has been the worst since late 2008. These factors combined with the absence of disasters in Europe enabled the strong session today. It will be key to see if tomorrow allows upside follow through. There is upside resistance at both 1115 and 1135 and 1080 has carved itself out as downside support.
The only thing we’ll say is that this is fairly thin gruel here. Taking heart in bearishness is a bit hard to stomach, considering how good the market did when everyone was bullish. The tightening of risk spreads and the failure of the euro to make new lows is good… but hard to imagine anyone getting too ra-ra about these things, unless they continue for awhile.
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If a company or organisation decides for a Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) system, its communication needs are usually deemed very important. Quality is important and can only be verified with measurements at frequent intervals.
Willtek’s 2305 Stabilock is a mainframe with software available for testing either TETRA radio terminals, or base stations, or both. Service personnel use the Stabilock to ensure the quality of the transmitter and receiver.
Base stations can be tested at output power levels up to 100 W. Base stations with separate connectors for transmitter and receiver can easily be connected.
Radio terminals can be tested in terms of transmit and receive parameters; the digital circuits are also tested with call setup routines in trunked mode (TMO) or direct mode (DMO).
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BURBANK, CA – April 29, 2010: Haskel International Inc., a world leader in providing low, medium and high pressure gas, hydraulic and fluid power equipment to the oil and gas industry, today announced that it is exhibiting its new compact IRCD at the 2010 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas.
The new compact IRCD is a unique system for the multipoint injection of chemicals into oil and gas production systems. One of the major advantages of the Haskel IRCD system is that it only needs one operative air or electric-driven pump per chemical, no matter how many injection points the system has. significant savings are achieved by using the IRCD flow distribution system from Haskel International in place of multiple metering pumps for chemical dosing.
The revolutionary design can handle flow rates from as low as 0.5 L/hr up to 320 L/hr (85 USGPH) with injection pressures up to 15,000psig and flow turndown of up to 50:1 (flows up to 6,000 L/hr can be achieved with larger models)
The IRCD solves the immediate need for savings on space weight and costs through lower installation and maintenance costs and the ease of adding units to an existing system. It can be supplied individually or in a panel configuration. It contains no moving parts and features ceramic contact parts that last longer and need fewer spares. 316 Stainless steel body and perfluroelastomer O-rings minimize environment al and chemical attack.
Compared to similar units in the market, Haskel Compact IRCD is a more reliable unit that more closely meets the markets demands, providing fewer blockages thanks to new metering valve design, greater control at the point of injection, and smoother flow for better chemical performance . In addition, by using a biased dome regulator to maintain a constant differential pressure across the flow control valve, a constant flow is provided throughout the system, if the flow control valve isn’t changed. This ensures that the fluid flow throughout the Haskel IRCD will only change if the flow control valve is adjusted.
Haskel enjoys a strong reputation in the Oil and Gas Industry and with the capability of the new Compact IRCD, it is sure to be welcomed by the Chemical Injection Market.
Aerotech’s nano Motion Technology (nMT) range expands further with new rotary and Z axis direct-drive nanopositioning stages
Aerotech’s nano Motion Technology now includes linear, linear vertical, rotary and goniometric positioners with best-in-class specifications including 1 nanometre positioning resolution, speeds to 500 mm/sec and acceleration to 5 g – for unparalleled high throughput
Following closely behind the recent launch of single-axis and dual X-Y axis ANT series linear nanopositioning stages as a part of Aerotech’s nano Motion Technology (nMT) range, two new rotary and two new vertical translation variants have now been introduced. With Aerotech’s direct-drive ANT series now covering 95 mm and 130 mm wide linear and vertical-linear translation stages in addition to rotary and goniometric angular positioners, users can now specify long travel range, multi-axis nanometre resolution mechanics for high throughput production and demanding test and research applications. The new stages perfectly complement the outstanding precision, nanometre level precision and high dynamic performance offered by the landmark nMT range.
The new ANT95-R and ANT130-R rotary stages comprise 95 mm and 130 mm diameter models with a positioning resolution of 0.1 arc sec and with a calibrated repeatability of just 2 arc sec. They both utilise Aerotech’s specialised direct-drive motor technology for extremely smooth motion with in-position stability to within a staggering 0.5 arc sec. Both sizes are available in angular travel ranges of 20°, 180° or continuous 360° rotation and maximum speed and acceleration for the latter is up to 200 rpm/400 rad/sec2. Direct axial load capacity is 2 kg for the smaller diameter stage and 3kg for the larger stage. The error motion performance across both sizes of rotary stage (tilt, axial and radial) is in line with the outstanding overall specifications and suited to demanding high throughput manufacturing applications such as disk-drive fabrication, fibre optic device alignment, and MEMS sensor manufacture and test.
The nMT range has been further enhanced with the ANT95-L-Z and ANT130-L-Z series vertical stages which have nominal widths of 95 mm and 135 mm respectively and a calibrated positioning resolution of just 2 nanometres. Supplied complete with vertical mounting angle brackets and integral pneumatic counterbalance mechanisms, the ANT95-L-Z is available in vertical travel ranges of 25 mm and 50 mm whilst the wider ANT-130-L-Z offers 35 mm and 60 mm travel. Within each travel range a high performance –PLUS option is available which increases the repeatability by a factor of around 30%; for the ANT95-L-Z-PLUS this yields a bidirectional repeatability of +/- 75 nanometres.
The design of these new vertical translation stages is derived from the single axis and X-Y linear ANT stages with anti-creep cross roller bearings and a centre driven brushless/non-cogging linear servomotor for ultra smooth performance characteristics and in-position stability of just a few nanometres when driven by Aerotech’s ultra low-noise linear stage amplifiers. Aerotech’s specially developed 40 MHz linear encoder processing ensures such high resolution and together all of these features ensure a dynamic performance and precision which is much improved over traditional leadscrew driven stages or ceramic motor types. The overall speed and acceleration performance of the new vertical stages is up to 200 mm/sec and 1 g – which though not as high performing as their horizontal plane linear positioning counterparts at 500 mm/sec and 5 g – are still eminently suited to high throughput production and test applications.
All ANT series stages are protected with a durable black hardcoat finish, and exceptionally long working life and low maintenance is guaranteed by the non contacting direct-drive linear and rotary motor technology and non contacting optical encoders used in the design.
The exceptionally high performance specifications for the ANT range are in part attributed to the advanced motion control and drive technologies available as a part of complete motion system solutions from Aerotech. With all cabling included and with fully assembled stages that are thoroughly tested and calibrated in Aerotech’s state of the art clean room facilities, complete systems can encompass custom designed machine frames with highly stable granite base and gantries to support customer supplied equipment such as lasers or metrology apparatus. Aerotech’s advanced motion controls include algorithms, data acquisition and analysis tools that counteract the minute disturbances that influence positioning stability and dynamic performance at sub micron levels and optimise overall performance.
Motion control options include the software only A3200 Automation Platform with DSP based Npaq drives or the Ensemble™ series rack or desktop system for multi-axis positioning systems, whilst the Soloist™ series is especially suited to demanding single axis applications. Servo drive technologies include PWM amplifier stages for highest dynamic performance in addition to wide bandwidth and ultra low noise linear servo amplifiers for best in-position stability/lowest jitter performance.
Aerotech motion controllers also feature advanced software commands that are designed to simplify interfacing with customers own systems such as the PSO command that synchronises laser firing with real time position. Comprehensive analogue and digital I/O and GUIs are also available along with a broad choice of diagnostic, set-up and programming tools are available for fast and trouble-free system commissioning. Supported programming languages include AeroBASICTM, Visual Basic® C, and C++ with optional advanced application support covering Windows® based ActiveX components and .NET class libraries.
Ogura’s electromagnetic clutches are designed to provide a quick engagement and disengagement of hydraulic and other pumps used on gas and diesel engines. Clutches are mounted between the engine and the pump and are made for either a belt input or direct drive via a universal joint flange. Clutches are available in 200, 400, 1,000 and 1,500 lb-ft. All clutches use a bidirectional armature so they can operate either clockwise or counter clockwise. Clutch bores are constructed for direct pump shaft input and are available in a variety of straight and splined bore sizes. Bearings in the Ogura clutches are larger than some competitive clutches providing longer life and can easily handle engine vibration.
Clutches are activated only when the pump or other component drive is required to engage, allowing for a complete disconnect when the component is not required, significantly increasing overall life. But more importantly, since the driven component is not running all the time, there is less energy consumed. Many times this fuel savings alone will more than pay for the cost of the clutch assembly.
Ogura has been producing clutches and brakes since 1938. Over that time, we have developed over 5,000 different models of clutches and brakes. Although Ogura primarily produces electromagnetic clutches and brakes, we also produce magnet particle, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and a variety of specialty products. Ogura is the world’s largest manufacturer of electromagnetic clutches and brakes. Current manufacturing capacity is over 30 million units per year. To provide localized support, we have fourteen manufacturing plants spread throughout the world in Asia, The Americas, and Europe. All manufacturing facilities are ISO recognized and conform to the ISO 9001;2008, ISO 140001, and ISO/TS 16949.
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New grinding wheel generation with integrated vibration reduction system excels through optimised running characteristics.
VIB STAR – Your health is our concern!
The TYROLIT innovative multilayer wheel system VIB STAR reduces vibration and is user and machine friendly for professionals. The innovative design of the wheel reduces vibration on the user‘s body. The new VIB STAR technology works against occupational illnesses such as muscle and bone damage, neurological diseases and blood circulation problems.
VIB STAR – convincing benefits: Significantly reduced vibration levels
Optimised running characteristics Increased machine tool life
Ingersoll Rand wins 2010 World Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement – Oil-free compressor market !
Ingersoll Rand has been awarded the 2010 World Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement in the rotary, oil-free compressor market. Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. Ingersoll Rand’s oil-free compressors, certified to ISO 8573.1 Class 0, are designed with industry leading features targeted at increasing energy efficiency.
“The proactive nature of the organization in understanding customer needs and quickly translating them into products has won significant loyalty and mindshare among global end users,” said Anand Gnanamoorthy, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “The fact that Ingersoll Rand is one of the top two companies in the oil-free compressor market highlights the ingenuity of the organization.”
The oil-free compressor market has unique challenge as these compressors are used in many critical applications, such as power generation or oil and gas sectors. In such applications, air quality is paramount and uptime is critical. Ingersoll Rand’s oil-free compressors include many features and enhancements that provide customers with the peace of mind needed within these markets. Ingersoll Rand’s stainless steel second stage rotors and patented UltracoatTM rotor coating increases airend life and performance. Additionaly, the Nirvana oil-free variable speed compressors with Hybrid Permanent MagnetTM motors and IntelysisTM microprocessor controllers, enable reduction of losses leading to significantly higher efficiency and reliability.
“The recent launch of our new C1000 centrifugal oil-free compressor is the next step in our commitment to meeting the reliability and efficiency needs of our customers,” said Cary Collins, Ingersoll Rand vice president, air products. “We continue to reach out to our customers for their feedback and input and take the steps needed to ensure their needs are part of the ongoing design and enhancements of our oil-free compressors. The C1000 is the most energy efficient 7500 cfm (cubic feet per minute) plant air compressor on the planet – all in direct response to our customer’s needs.”
MANCHESTER, CT – May 25, 2010 – Lydall Performance Materials, a division of Lydall, Inc. (NYSE: LDL), today announced the launch of LyPore Defender-C microglass filtration media series designed to achieve maximum filtration performance while eliminating static discharge in hydraulic, lube oil and fuel systems filtration processes. LyPore Defender-C is an extension of the Lypore Defender filter media series introduced in 2008 which is known for its superior dirt holding capacity and longer filter life. LyPore Defender-C combines the performance characteristics of the LyPore Defender series with a proprietary blend
of fibers designed to dissipate electrostatic energy.
Static discharge during filtration can result in harmful varnish and lacquer buildup on internal metal, rubber and synthetic material surfaces leading to costly damage to components. Additionally, static discharge can lower a filter’s effectiveness by creating holes in the filter media thus degrading the filter’s particulate removal capability.
Dale Barnhart, CEO of Lydall, Inc. stated, “A key element of our growth strategy is through new product development. The launch of LyPore Defender-C demonstrates our ability to respond rapidly to a market need with an innovative solution as we execute on this strategy.”
“Due to the growing use of low conductivity synthetic oils by our customers, static discharge has become an increasing problem. Our customers have asked us for a filter media solution to eliminate damaging static discharge. That is exactly what LyPore Defender-C is designed to deliver. We are excited about this breakthrough in media design which addresses a long standing problem for our customers,” stated Stu Krupnick, Market Manager for Lydall’s Fluid Power and Transportation Filtration Markets.
LyPore Defender-C conductive filter media contains no metals and eliminates the need for additives, aftertreatments or continuous electrostatic oil cleaners. LyPore Defender-C conductive filter media is available in 3, 6, 10 and 20 micron efficiencies with acrylic latex binder or an optional high performance epoxy binder for expanded fluid compatibility and higher working temperatures.
Lydall, Inc. is a New York Stock Exchange listed company, headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut. For more information, visit http://www.lydallfiltration.com.
GAMM presents the range of indexing plungers model PNAX. Threaded stainless steel body with rest position. Stainless steel pin. Stainless steel spring. Mat black thermoplastic knurled knob. Knurled knob of different colors upon request. We can also provide the version with Stainless Steel nut. For more technical information you can visit our web-site.
Pipeline Isolation Valves for a Wide Range of Process Applications. Valves can be fitted with customer choice of Actuation. The parallel slide gate valves are produced in a wide range of sizes and designs (including Venturi and full bore) for fluid isolation duties on steam raising plant and process systems throughout industry. The outstanding feature of the parallel slide design is that of maintained fluid-tightness without the aid of wedging action. No mechanical stress is exerted between the discs, and the valve is not subjected to dangerous strains on opening or closing.
Established over 160 years ago, Hopkinsons products are renowned for long and dependable service life. They can be found on installations ranging from shell boilers to the highest capacity units within electricity generating stations.
