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Bi-material injection system for moulding component “Crutch handle”.Assembling nozzles DL2500 and valve gate nozzles ET4000. Both nozzles are suited to customer’s mould housing.
Injected materials PP and SBS.
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Fast signal sources are preferably connected by shielded coaxial cables and connectors with matching impedance to digitizers to obtain best signal quality. Only with this type of connection one can avoid crosstalk and signal reflections with signals that have frequencies in the upper several hundred MHz area.
When using PC based digitizers with their limited free space on the front plate and when also taking the standard demand for additional digital signals like clock, trigger or digital inputs into account, there are only a few connector solutions on the market that are suitable. SMB and MMCX connections are an easy to use and space-saving solution, used by many manufacturers including Spectrum GmbH. All M3i series cards of Spectrum are equipped with these connectors offering one or two analog channels and sampling rates between 1 GS/s at 8 bit resolution up 400 MS/s at 14 bit resolution. In addition to this there are five connectors for supporting digital signals.
Spectrum now offers a new option for the complete M3i range of PCI/PCI-X and PCI Express cards with professional screwed SMA connections. This option is primary intended for OEM and industrial users but can be helpful also in the area of research and development. This international standard connection with a stable screw type coupling and a very good shielding allows a reliable connection of high frequency signals even in rough industry environment or vibrating installations.
The fast digitizers are available in different versions with one or two channels, sampling rates from 100 MS/s up to 1 GS/s and resolutions between 8 bit and 14 bit. The standard version is already equipped with 256 MByte of on-board memory which can be extended up to 4 GByte. Each installed analog channel has its own pre-amplifier offering a wide variety of input ranges between ±50 mV (±200 mV) and ±10 V and several software switchable settings like 50 ohm/1 MOhm or AC/DC coupling. The cards are delivered with drivers for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 as well as several Linux installations like OpenSuse, Fedora or Debian. 32 bit and 64 bit versions of all operating systems are natively supported by the Spectrum drivers.

Lindsey Graham: A Puzzling Man

The politics of the BP oil spill keep getting more confusing.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is saying that the spill has prompted President Obama to finally get on board with the American Power Act and “thump the bully pulpit to urge Senate action” at a meeting with Republicans on Tuesday. However, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., now says that only a small energy bill is possible because the oil spill has made the offshore drilling provisions in the measure a difficult sell. Okay, so why not abandon the drilling provisions?

In fact, Graham wants more drilling than is currently in the bill.

But Graham, who helped write the bill but later backed out, knows that those provisions mean that Democrats such as Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., will back out of the bill.

In an interview with Reuters before the president met with Republican senators, Graham said that he worried that the American Power Act restricts “eastern Gulf exploration in a way different than our original purpose.”

Separately, Graham said he is waiting for a final accounting of the Gulf spill and how to prevent it in the future.

Graham’s shifting positions prompted Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., to say that he’s confused by the use of the Gulf spill to justify not supporting the bill.

Bingaman told E&E Daily (via Climate Progress)

I favor plugging the leak. I favor stopping the spill. But it’s hard to say why the failure to complete the investigation of that spill would be a justification for not limiting greenhouse gas emissions. It seems to me a stretch.

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We love kids… other people’s kids, that is. Yours truly doesn’t have any progeny of his own to look after, so the need for a vehicle that has loads of interior space is mostly lost on me. If you do have some screaming little’uns to look after, though, your vehicular choices suddenly become a bit narrower in focus, and things like folding rear seats, power liftgates and rear-seat entertainment systems begin to look less like unnecessary expenses and more like valuable life- and time-savers.

Regardless of whether or not you have kids of your own, you’ve surely been trapped inside a moving vehicle full of the little buggers. Assuming that’s the case, we’ll step a bit further out on the limb and figure that you’ve had your own thoughts on how best to deal with the, ahem… problem. Mazda has a suggestion – see for yourself by watching the video pasted after the break. Like that one? Click here to see more funny commercials from veryfunnyads.com.

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LaCie wants to ensure that your data is safe. Like really safe. The company took its Rugged hard drive line, added a fingerprint scanner and 128-bit AES encryption and in turn, made what might be the Mad Max of hard drives.

The drive comes in both 500GB and 1TB flavors, but alas neither USB 3.0 or eSATA is available although the drive does rock Firewire in addition to USB 2.0. All the extra security and manly toughness costs a bit more with with the 500GB version retailing for $189 and the 1TB costing $299. It’s obviously up to you if you need the equivalent of the A-Team protecting your data.

Patrick Swayze’s widow has teamed up with Extra TV to help the critically and terminally ill as a patient advocate.

Lisa Niemi, who nursed Swayze through his final days as he battled pancreatic cancer, has been added to the Lifechangers Team on the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine. Lisa’s job is to provide emotional and physical support to people who need it and to ensure that they’re receiving the best treatment possible.

In her own way, Lisa’s honoring her late love.

“For all of my husband’s illness, I’d remember things he had forgotten. He thought he lost his appetite, but I said, ‘No honey, that isn’t the way it worked. I had lists. I had the medications. I knew just how much he needed, the what, when, where and why,” says the former dancer, who was married to the Ghost star for more than 30 years before his death last September.

“I was an advocate for Patrick because I didn’t know any other way to be. But, during that time, I learned that getting the right help involves asking the right questions, and sometimes that’s the hardest thing for the patient to do,” Lisa added.

The grieving widow’s first assignment is helping a young woman fighting a blood disease.

Another day, another leak, right? Next up we have the Samsung LiMo-R3-powered i8330. The device will form part of the Vodafone 360 lineup in Europe, and will be known as the H2.

The specs so far seem decent, with a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, an 800×480 Super AMOLED screen, 8MP autofocus + flash camera with HD video recording, and the usual GPS, and WiFi, as well as a touch of HSDPA.

Now, if you’ve got a thing for obscure phone OSes, then this phone could be the thing for you, but with so many tasty Android handsets around, even the most obsessive of Linux fans will surely find more joy elsewhere.

Admittedly, the phone does build a strong bridge over the uncanny valley that divides higher-end feature phones from feature-laden smart phones, so there could be an interested market for it… if the price is right.

Samsung Firmwares (the site that provided the leaked images) say that the device should see a release sometime before the World Cup (June 11th), so Europeans can expect it soon. No word on prices or a US release just yet.

[via Slash Gear]

O bólido Hulme Can-Am desenvolvido pelo empresario James Freemantle é o mais novo superesportivo a disposição dos entusiastas por carros de alto desempenho. Os interessados já podem fazer a sua reserva por 10.000 euros, ou R$ 22.743,91 e terão direito a ter uma previa e um test-drive do modelo antes de seu lançamento, em 2011, e que terá um produção limitada de 20 unidades.

Sua denominação Hulme Can-Am, é em homenagem ao piloto de formula 1 Denny Hulme, campeão mundial da categoria em 1967 e da American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) nos anos de 1968 e 1970. O superesportivo combina a tradicional receita de motor potente + uma carroceria de baixo peso.

Hulme CanAm

Dessa forma, seu chassis de baixo peso é confeccionado em fibra de carbono, enquanto recebeu o potente motor V8 do Chevrolet Corvette de 7.0 litros e com 600 cavalos de potencia. Além disso, o superesportivo Hulme Can-Am recebe de serie um cambio manual de seis velocidade, enquanto que um sequencial com trocas por borboletas no volante sera oferecido com opcional.

Com isso, o modelo deverá acelerar de 0 a 100 km/h em apenas 3 segundos e atingir uma velocidade máxima de 320 km/h. De acordo com a companhia, o Hulme Can-An teve seu “design e desenvolvimento focado na dirigibilidade, com fornecimento de energia e tratamento dinâmico otimizado para o máximo prazer de condução nas pistas e na rua”.

O superesportivo Hulme Can-Am é fruto de sete anos de trabalho do empresario James Freemantle, que teve que vender sua própria casa e pedir ajuda dos amigos, que viraram sócios do projeto. Seu preço final deverá ficar em torno de 295.000 euros ou R$ 666.262, mais as taxas locais. Veja abaixo a galeria de foto completa e um video do modelo.

Hulme CanAm

[JURIST] The Oklahoma Senate [official website] voted 33-15 [roll call, PDF] Tuesday to override the veto of bill [HB 3284 text, RTF] that would require women seeking an abortion [JURIST news archive] to complete a questionnaire. The vote comes a day after the Oklahoma House of Representatives [official website] voted 84-13 to override the veto, allowing the proposed legislation to take effect November 1. The Statistical Abortion Report Act would require women to answer questions such as marital status, reasons for seeking the abortion, and whether the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. It would also require doctors performing the procedure to fill out a questionnaire about complications resulting from it. The bill was vetoed [press release] by Governor Brad Henry (D) [official website] on Monday, because of its “personally invasive” nature:

While I support reasonable restrictions on abortion, this legislation has numerous flaws. As with previous abortion bills I have vetoed, HB 3284 lacks an essential exemption for rape and incest victims. By forcing them to submit to a personally invasive questionnaire and posting the answers on a state website, this legislation will only increase the trauma of an already traumatic event. Victims of such horrific acts should be treated with dignity and respect in such situations, as should all people.

Paul Sund, a spokesman for Henry, criticized [Tulsa World report] the Senate’s override because of the cost of litigating legal challenges that may arise from the bill. Supporters have said the measure is necessary to protect unborn children.

Two weeks ago, the Oklahoma Senate voted 32-11 [JURIST report] to pass the bill. Identical legislation was signed into law last session but was struck down [JURIST report] because it was part of a broader bill that violated the state constitution’s single subject requirement. Earlier this month, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson [official profile] agreed to delay the implementation of another controversial new state law [HB 2780 text, RTF] requiring women seeking an abortion to consent first to an ultrasound after the Center for Reproductive Rights [advocacy website] requested a restraining order temporarily barring enforcement of the law. In April, the Oklahoma Senate voted to override [JURIST report] Henry’s veto of two anti-abortion bills, including the ultrasound bill. The Oklahoma laws join another restrictive abortion law passed recently in Nebraska, which bans abortions after 20 weeks [JURIST report].

Three major clients of the Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) electronics manufacturing group are pressuring the company demanding a joint investigation effort regarding working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese site.

Three major clients of the Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) electronics manufacturing group are pressuring the company demanding a joint investigation effort regarding working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese site.Apple Inc.’s spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said on Tuesday “We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death,” and added “We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect.” Apple had sent a team to evaluate the working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese facility, in the mean time HP and Dell too are evaluating and examining reports from Foxconn since they have outsourced production contracts too with this electronics manufacturing group.The questions which this “suicide cluster case” brings up against Foxconn is that, is Foxconn really running sweatshops? Are all Foxconn operations based on human misery? The inadecvat working conditions at Foxconn are a result of a corporate directive or is this just an isolated case which is present only in one particular manufacturing site of the Foxconn factory grid? Terry Gou, Chairman of Hon Hai tried to defend the manufacturing giant by stating that Foxconn does not operates human sweatshops but normal and legit businesses, how ever all the evidences point at the opposite.Also a question remains open. will Apple, Dell and HP move its operations to other manufacturing companies if it will be proven that this suicide cases are a result of some sort of company directive? In the case of Sun Danyoung, a worker of Foxconn who committed suicide because of the interrogation process that he was subjected to, an interrogation which was conducted because he lost the prototype of an iPhone, one could wonder did Apple pressure the interrogation? If yes, Apple may become the prime cause of this suicide case.

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Via first showed off its USB 3.0 host controller at CES 2010 and it just broke cover at Computex. The VL800 series chip can handle four USB 3.0 devices simultaneously while providing data rates up to 5Gbps. Via aims to put this single chip solution into desktops, notebooks, servers, and everything else on God’s green earth.

But we still don’t know when this is going to happen. Via hasn’t announced when we’ll actually see this chip make its way into any devices although we are getting in a 4-port USB 3.0 hub for review shortly, but we’re not sure if it contains this Via chip. Guess we’ll have to tear it apart to find out.

Om May 26 he the European Commission presented  an analysis of the costs, benefits and options for moving beyond the EU’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 from 20% below 1990 levels to 30% once the conditions are met. At present these conditions have not been met. This communication follows the Commission’s Communication on “How to reinvigorate international climate negotiations” and the Council’s request to present an assessment on the impacts of a conditional move to a 30% emissions cut. The measures taken to support energy-intensive industries against the risk of carbon leakage are also examined as required under the ETS (Emissions Trading System) Directive. The Communication shows that the reduction in EU emissions as a consequence of the economic crisis, together with a drop in carbon prices, has changed the estimations two years ago when the revised ETS was presented. Therefore in light of the new data, an analysis of the implications of the different levels of ambition as a motor for modernising the EU economy and creating new jobs by promoting innovation in low-carbon technologies is provided. This analysis encompasses the efforts required in the main different sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond 20%, up to 30%, looking also at the impacts of these efforts and the potential policy options to achieve them. The current context of constrained public finances and economic contraction is also fully taken into account when assessing possible alternatives.

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‘World News’ segment cut skeptic interview from 11 minute to just 10 seconds, then links it with white supremacists.

We’ve all sort of known the media have been in the tank for the global warming alarmist movement. For evidence, look no further than a March 2008 segment that aired on ABC “World News” attacking leading climate skeptic, University of Virginia environmental scientist Professor Emeritus Fred Singer.

And the same culprit behind that 2008 segment, “World News” weekend anchor Dan Harris, was at it again with a piece that aired on May 23 attempting to link climate change skeptics to white supremacists.

But for balance, Harris included a few brief remarks, all of 10 seconds, from Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, a news aggregator website Harris called “aggressive.” But the actual interview Harris conducted with Morano was much more extensive and in depth. Throughout the interview, Harris asked Morano questions, but with premises that weren’t necessarily true.

During the back-and-forth, Harris asked Morano about the “threat” from people who challenged global warming skeptics, the validity that ClimateGate was a real scandal, the charges from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., that ClimateGate exposed fraud, how someone could be skeptical of global warming with such a broad consensus and what Harris deemed as “interesting,” that climate skeptics were susceptible to threats as well. However, 99 percent of that was left out of the segment. What was left out of the ABC News segment? Transcript as follows:

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For a man who led his company into bankruptcy, and back out again, David C. Swanson probably won’t have to worry about solvency for while.

Swanson, of course, has been chief executive of Dex One (DEXO), the yellow-pages company previously known as R.H. Donnelley Corp., for the last eight years, and chairman for about half that time. That means he’s the same man who led the company into a voluntary bankruptcy filing last year, a development the company blamed on ongoing economic challenges in its post-emergence 10-K this spring. On the downhill slide to bankruptcy and during the restructuring, the company cut its headcount 20% in 2008 and “continued to actively manage expenses and enacted a number of initiatives to streamline operations and contain costs” in 2009, among other things freezing pension benefits for employees. The company emerged, restructured, on Jan. 29.

Now he’s stepping down, effective Friday. Described as a retirement in the 8-K that Dexo put out on Friday, it was announced just seven days before his departure date, and the same document notes that he

“will receive severance benefits to which he is entitled under his Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of December 31, 2008, as amended … in connection with a termination not for Cause following a Change of Control…”

In any case, he eased out in style. According to the Separation Agreement filed with the 8-K, he’s getting a $6.45 million lump-sum cash payment, plus unspecified accrued and unpaid vacation time, and a pro-rata annual bonus for 2010. He’ll be reimbursed for the cost of getting health, dental and life insurance through as late as May 31, 2013 — a good three years.

He gets to keep his 25,230 unvested stock appreciation rights — valued at $468,521 Tuesday night — which he can exercise between March and June next year, and he’s eligible for a long-term incentive payment of as much as $3.49 million. He gets another $5.7 million payout from a special executive pension that survived the bankruptcy process, on top of the pension he’s due under the company’s plan for all employees, which was worth $1.4 million as of Dec. 31, according to the company’s latest 10-K. He also gets his deferred-compensation account balance, which was $124,014 at the end of last year (over and above the $538,230 he collected from the deferred comp plan at the beginning of 2009.)

And last but still not insignificantly, he gets payments to make up for some of his customary perks — also continuing until as late as May 2013. Those include health-club and country-club memberships ($8,340 a year), financial planning reimbursement of up to $14,700 a year, “executive health at the annual rate of $1,585″ and outplacement-services reimbursement totaling as much as $25,000.

The total haul by our calculation? As much as $17.72 million if he collects the full long-term incentive bonus and maxes out the perks, and if Dexo’s stock doesn’t change for the next year.

That would cover the bill for calling 411 to get the phone numbers of every household in New York state. Or he could let his fingers do the walking all the way to the bank.

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The Hills, a television program that follows several people’s personal lives on their living in Los Angeles.

The program started its premier on May 31, 2006, and followed the personal life of Lauren Conrad, former Laguna Beach star, and her friends.

After 5 seasons in the program, Conrad chose to leave and was replaced by another Laguna Beach star, Kristin Cavallari, and would be starting on her character in the second half of the season 5.

Cavallari is best known for her appearances in the series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County on MTV. Born in Denver, she is the youngest of the two children in her family.

However, on March 27, 2010, Entertainment Weekly ran a story announcing that The Hills 6th season will be its last. The last season is comprised of 12 episodes, although Cavallari said to E! that the network might double the final season to 24 episodes.

The Hill’s latest episode, “The Next Minute” was released this May 25, 2010. Shows and replays are available online. Get it free through stream or download.

For easy access on The Hill Season 6 Episode 5, Click on the Links below:

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The Senate Armed Services Committee goes into room 222 of the Russell building today at 2:30 p.m. to mark up the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill. Until members emerge at 9 p.m., it’s a black box of information for determining the contours of the half-trillion-dollar-plus piece of legislation, including the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) amendment to repeal the military’s ban on open gay service. That’s why the coalition of LGBT-rights organizations pushing to secure passage in the committee and then later this week on the House floor are trying as hard as they can to lock down votes by mid-afternoon.

There’s going to be a rally/press conference on the Hill at 11 a.m. with six veterans, five of whom were either discharged or chose not to re-enlist because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” urging senators and congressmembers to vote for repeal. Veterans are going to deliver 20,000 pro-repeal postcards to Congress — focusing mostly on the Senate. Specifically, the coalition – comprised of groups like Servicemembers United, the Human Rights Campaign and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund — continues to target six states represented by undecided or wavering legislators: West Virginia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Indiana and Florida. Already, its released polling in those states that show scrapping “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has wide support.

In advance of a complementary House floor vote later this week, the coalition sent an email alert yesterday asking 750,000 people around the country to email their members of congress in support of repeal. It’s going to send another one today asking them to phone member offices. The idea is to escalate pressure, capping off a build-up of several months that’s brought veterans affected by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — and those who just believe overturning it is the right thing to d0 — to key states and districts.

That effort got the White House to acquiesce to the strategy on Monday, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reluctantly accept the legislative push on Tuesday. But it’s not won over every member of Congress it’s targeted. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) saw 77 percent of Massachusetts voters backing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, but the new senator — a lieutenant colonel in his state’s National Guard — said yesterday that he’s voting against Lieberman’s amendment. So is Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), a Marine veteran of Vietnam and a former Navy secretary, even after the coalition sent a letter from Virginia servicewomen urging him to support repeal. Both claim that Gates’ original plan — to hold off legislative efforts at repeal until a Pentagon working group on its implementation issues guidance to him in December — ought to proceed. Over in the House last night, the chairman of the armed services committee, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), made the exact same argument as his grounds for opposition.

The coalition believes that the Senate committee still has a significant number of undecideds, soft-yes and soft-no votes. (For what it’s worth, I’m not going to give my own whip count, because I don’t believe that’s journalistically responsible in a fluid situation like this one.) But it’s also used to setbacks, even though the legislative compromise provides perhaps the best shot for repealing the law since its enactment in 1993, and that speaks to the resilience of the activists who have pushed the White House, Congress and the Pentagon this far already.

“This is one of the best opportunities for repeal that has come around,” said Michael Cole of the Human Rights Campaign. “The fact that you have congressional leaders supporting it, the president supporting it and Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen saying it will do what they want in respecting the working group, the stars have aligned for putting repeal closer to reality than ever.” If the votes are there.