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Design wise they put colours : blue or red for the XU line and green for the XB line, and guarantee their heating performances and their control accuracy.
Ergonomics wise, the new anti-tilting system of shelf supports makes easier for each operator the handling of the shelves when they are hot.
The XU and XB lines show an excellent finish quality: inner casing made of bright finish stainless steel and the outer casing covered with an easy-care smooth and bright paint.
The front of the oven has a style more uncluttered; only the controller and the air change setting button are present. The other control elements are located on the right side. The safety thermostat is handy and the possible defaults are pointed with a visual and sonorous alarm.
The insulation of the XU ovens and XB incubators is optimized: there is no contact between the inner and the outer casings. This favours heat dissipation reducing, a quick heating-up and an excellent thermal stability. The XU universal ovens are insulated with 70 mm of glasswool and the XB incubators with 50 mm of composites fiberglass.
All that at very competitive prices.

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… for world’s biggest container ships

Tranter is to equip no fewer than 18 large container freighters with plate heat exchangers during the period up until 2012. These vessels are the world’s largest container ships, carrying an unbelievable 14,000 containers (TEU) per shipment.

The South Korean shipbuilding group Daewoo – the third largest in the world – is currently in the process of putting the finishing touches to a number of top-class container ships. Recently, the first in the series of these ships was delivered to German shipping company Claus-Peter Offen in Hamburg. MSC Savona measures no less than 365.5 metres in length and 51.2 metres in width. Savona’s cargo capacity is impressive: 7,580 containers can be accommodated on deck, with space for a further 6,456 (TEU) below deck. This enormous vessel can still manage a speed of 24.1 knots.

“We’re naturally pleased and proud that we were entrusted with supplying plate heat exchangers for ships including MSC Savona,” says Tomas Sandberg, responsible for European and Asian nautical applications at Tranter International in Stockholm.

The main part of Tranter’s nautical heat exchangers is manufactured in Vänersborg, Sweden. Some are also manufactured at Tranter’s other manufacturing plants in the US, India, China and Germany.

The following equipment is being supplied by Tranter for the 18 ships of the series:
Central F.W. Coolers, Main L.O. Coolers, M/E J.F.W. Coolers,
G/E F.W. Coolers and S/T L.O. Cooler.

About Tranter
Tranter is a global supplier in the development and manufacturing of highly efficient gasketed, welded and spiral heat exchangers. The company has over 70 years of experience and a wealth of knowledge on how heat exchangers can improve processes, save energy and reduce costs. Tranter’s extensive global presence allows the company to work closely with customers and offer local support and service. In every application, Tranter’s heat exchanger technology is contributing to lessen the impact on the environment with higher thermal efficiencies, easier maintenance and greater heat recovery potential.

by Jonathan Hiskes

One of the most depressing aspects of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is the idea that we’ve got no
choice but to rely on offshore drilling and the stomach-turning dangers it
carries. We know all the
problems with importing oil from petro-dictatorships. Electric cars aren’t
ready to replace fuel-combustion engines. The only option, political leaders
tell us, is for Americans to choke down the occasional drilling catastrophe and
deal with the ugly consequences.

“Accidents happen,”
said Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). “You learn from them and you try not to make
sure they don’t happen again.”

“I doubt this is the
first accident that has happened and I doubt it will be the last,” said
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

“The reality of it is
that we will be depending on oil and gas as we transition to a new energy
future,” Ken Salazar, President Obama’s Interior secretary, told a Senate panel
last week. “You are not going to turn off the lights of this country or the
economy by shutting it all down.”

Is it true that we’ve
got no alternative?

The last time lawmakers
truly freaked out about the problem of our oil dependence—when gas prices
topped $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008—the Senate Energy Committee called in
Skip Laitner, director of economic analysis at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

The committee asked
Laitner what efficiency—the famously unglamorous energy strategy—could do to
relieve gas prices. He gave them an astonishing figure: It could save 46
billion barrels of oil. If the U.S. made an all-out investment in energy
efficiency-cutting energy waste out of vehicles, buildings, the electrical
grid, and elsewhere in the economy—Laitner believes it could save the energy
equivalent of 46 billion barrels by 2030.

Domestic offshore
drilling produced 537 million barrels a year over the last nine years,
according to the Minerals Management Service. A full-bore efficiency plan would
save the equivalent of 85 years of offshore drilling.

Looking at the
transportation sector alone, Laitner recommended 10 short-term policies that
would cut the need for oil. Congress eventually passed one of them-the “cash
for clunkers” program. Even that could be improved upon: the lax fuel-economy
standards for new cars meant the trade-in program didn’t save nearly as much
fuel as it could have

If you’re tired of dead
sea turtles, oil-coated marshlands, destroyed fisheries, disputes over leak
rates, political cop-outs, terms like tar balls and junk shots (OK, those are funny), these are for you:

10 solutions to our oil addiction

1. A better “cash for clunkers.” Last summer’s popular program
took hundreds of thousands of low-performing autos off the road, but its low
standards for the fuel economy of eligible new cars made it more of an
auto-industry bailout than an environmental boon. A two-year version that gave
credit for only truly efficient new vehicles (35 mpg or better) would save more
oil. Congress could pay for it by extending the 1978 gas guzzler tax to
light trucks and SUVs—it currently applies only to passenger cars.

2. Emergency funding for endangered mass transit. A chilling 59
percent of public transit networks have cut service or raised fares (or
both) since January 2009, pushing more commuters into cars. Congress could save
both oil and jobs by preserving existing bus and rail lines with emergency
funding.

3. A national telecommuting and videoconferencing initiative. Encouraging
employees to work from home and cut back on business travel would cut fuel
usage, save them money and commuting time, and probably make a lot of them
happier. Congress could direct federal workers to telecommute and
videoconference as much as possible. For everyone else, a campaign would help
make these things more normative and socially acceptable.

4. Smarter freight movement. Congress could commission a study to
explore a grab-bag of methods to lighten the impact of trucking and rail and
jet shipping. “Heavy trucks might save 32 percent of energy use through a
combination of improved fuel efficiencies, and better coordination to reduce
empty backhauls and unnecessary travel,” Laitner writes in a journal
article [PDF] Train design that reduces aerodynamic drag and collects
energy from braking (as a Prius does) could produce more savings.

5. Smarter land use. Congress could direct (and help fund) local
government efforts to update zoning and land-use regulations in ways that encourage compact development compatible
with transit service and friendly to walkers and bikers. (Obama’s Partnership
for Sustainable Communities is already taking steps in this direction.)

6. Smarter travel through IT. By equipping its trucks with directional
software that helps drivers avoid left-hand turns, UPS
saved 3 million gallons of fuel in a year. If the nation’s 270,000-some traffic-light
systems all used technology that anticipated traffic patterns and reduced stop times,
according to Laitner, they could cut transportation petroleum use by 5 to 10
percent. A national study into attacking fuel waste through information
technology could yield more such gains.

7. Educating drivers. Teaching energy-efficient driving practices (such as
slower acceleration) and maintenance (keeping tires inflated) would lead to
fuel-saving behavioral changes. Studying why people don’t take money-saving
steps like checking tire pressure could yield even more. Fuel-economy basics
could also become a central part of driver’s ed programs.

8. A resolution saying efficiency is a new national priority. A
“statement”—big deal, right? Well, it could be: An “efficiency is king”
resolution from Congress would send a clear signal to businesses, consumers,
and energy markets that would encourage them to make their own changes.
Congress could also tell government agencies to move immediately on efficiency
measures that would pay for themselves-and make funding contingent on that
action.

9. Prizes for tech breakthroughs. The privately run Automotive X Prize offers $10 million to the first team of engineers that can invent a commercially
viable 100 mpg car. Congress could consider similar incentives to encourage
entrepreneurs to focus on efficiency. (The Obama administration is already
funding potential high-payoff cleantech
research ventures.)

10. Efficiency “visibility.” Efficiency is a largely invisible energy
source. To correct that, writes Laitner, “Congress should direct and fund the
Department of Commerce, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Agency (among others) to collaborate in the development of a National Energy
Efficiency Data Center (NEEDC).” We’re learning more than we ever wanted to
know about oil dispersants, blowout preventers, and other offshore rig
hardware. Why not learn instead about constructive technologies?

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One of the biggest problems that stands between electric vehicles and becoming mainstream is limited battery life. But there has been some progress in that area lately: the Japan Electric Vehicle Club [JP], a civic group based in Tokyo, announced today a Mira EV customized by the group traveled exactly 1,003.184 kilometers without a recharge.

The club shattered its own record from last month when another electric vehicle drove 555.6km (345 miles) from Tokyo to Osaka on a single charge. The new record was made possible by driving the car at a driving course in Shimotsuma, Japan, which is apparently the world’s longest.

Powered by a Sanyo lithium-ion battery (built by assembling 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries), the car ran for 27 and a half hours at around 40km/h on average.

The club had a team of 17 people at the course who took turns at the wheel. It will ask the Guinness World Records to officially recognize the drive soon.

Sony has released two new models in its Bright Era 3LCD business projector series – the VPL-FX500L and VPL-FX30. Both projectors have native XGA resolution of 1024 x 768, excellent lens shift capabilities, feature long-life lamps and filters and have low power consumption even with their high-brightness performance. The FX500L (7,000 ANSI lumens) is suited to large screen applications like those found in lecture halls and auditoriums, while the FX30 (4,200 ANSI lumens) has been created for midsized classrooms, boardrooms and meeting rooms…
Continue Reading New Sony projectors – brighter, greener, more flexible

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Eco Factor: Fuel-efficient vehicle promises reduced emissions.

Still awaiting the launch of its first eclectic car, French carmaker Renault has just announced the Clio eco2, a new eco-friendly version of the Clio. The new low emission and consumption vehicle comes with a 1.5-l dCi turbo-diesel engine that produces 86 bhp. It emits a mere 98g/km of CO2, meaning the car has 15% fewer emissions than the current Clio but fits the same price group.

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To any who work in audio or communications, the name Sennheiser is synonymous with the absolute top quality in sound; indeed there are many who wouldn’t dream of using anything less. So it is with regret that this year the industry loses the founding father of the brand, Fritz Sennheiser, who died on May 17th a few days after his 98th birthday. ..
Continue Reading A legend in audio: Fritz Sennheiser dies

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Regarding controlling a cat: Many people have cats that they consider indoor cats but when it comes time for them to “do their ;business” the cat owner puts them outside.  They do not want to trouble themselves with cleaning a cat litter box,  so they shove the cat outside to poop in the neighbors yard.  It is the neighbors who need controlling in this case.  Now, for how to stop the cat from pooping in your yard…there is a commercial product that can be purchased at a feed & seed store called Fox Urine.  It works to keep away cats, squirrels and some other animals/rodents.  My daughter has spread crushed red pepper on the ground where the cats “go”.  This also may take a bit of time but the cats will go to another neighbors yard.  The fox urine works immediately.  Many cat owners are unaware (or don’t care),  but if your city has a leash law there is a good possibility that the law applies to cats as well as dogs.  They could be fined for letting their animal run loose.  Call your animal control office to see if it applies where you live.

11 days before the EVO 4G launches exclusively on Sprint, and hackers have already successfully rooted the phone. Video showing their finesse after the jump. More »










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Electric auto pioneer Tesla Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation have signaled their intent to work together on a number of initiatives, primarily developing EVs in California. Toyota’s purchasing of US$50 million worth of Tesla shares completes a stunning twelve months for the start-up which has included Daimler purchasing a substantial (more than 5%) share, a US$30 million tax break and a US$465 million DoE loan. Partnering with the world’s largest automobile manufacturer gives Tesla immense credibility and the security to purchase a new factory. For Toyota, it sures up its ability to compete in the EV market, at the same time as winning a few cool-school points by partnering with the trendy, publicity-savvy Tesla brand. If, or as-seems-likely, when Tesla goes public, it will be first American auto company to do so since Ford more than a half century ago…
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7 Ways To Find Delicious Vegetarian And Vegan Recipes

Becoming a vegetarian or vegan is entirely an individual’s choice and decision, sometimes when people decide to become vegetarian they struggle with vegetarian cooking because they can’t find delicious vegetarian recipes. It seems that the options are a few and the vegetarian diet is supposedly repetitive and boring. This is so not true.

This article will show you 7 Ways to Find Delicious Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes. Here is the list:

1. Buy cookbooks, cooking videos or eBooks on vegetarian & vegan cooking: The best way to learn something is to see it happen. Learning is a receptive skill that comes naturally to human beings. One can buy cook books from anywhere  local book stores, internet etc. With options flooding the book galleries –low cal recipes, cheese specials, low calorie vegetarian desserts etc, there is no dearth of sources to find vegetarian recipes.

2 Searching the internet for vegetarian and vegan websites like blogs: Internet certainly has become the first and last of everything. You can search on the internet for vegetarian recipes and you will be flooded with options. The best part is most celebrity and famous chefs have their own blogs. They share their old and new recipes on these blogs and you can learn great amounts from them.

3 Joining free and paid online website newsletters and subscriptions: If you are willing to make strong efforts to learn vegetarian and vegan cooking, you can also join free or paid online website newsletters and subscription. These websites will either not charge you anything or demand a suitable price for rendering you their services. Once you have subscribed, your mail box will flow with mails regarding vegetarian and vegan cooking.

4 Buying magazines in your local shops: People today have become very conscious about what they eat. They not only want the food to be healthy but delicious too. This is the sole reason why so many cooking magazines are flooding the markets. Some of them are real good and come up with new recipes monthly or even weekly. Choose one which suits your taste buds best.

5 Asking from your vegan and vegetarian friends: Seeking advice from others is all together a great option. You may have many vegetarian and vegan friends. Seek help from them. They might know recipes that you don’t and if they have been vegan or vegetarian for long, their experience will surely help you.

6 Watching cooking shows on TV or channels and watching and writing down their recipes: Many channels run weekly cooking shows. The hosts or presenters are generally renowned chefs. Keeping up with these shows will eventually grant you a good knowledge of flavors and different combinations.

7 Going to the library and borrowing vegetarian and vegan cooking books: The more you will read about cooking, the more you will know about it. You may go to different libraries and get cookery books on vegetarian and vegan diets issued. Read them. You are sure to stumble upon new things and discover secrets.

Learning to cook new vegetarian meals isn’t hard. You just need to know where to look for easy and healthy vegetarian meals. With the tips provided above you will be learning to cook new vegetarian dishes every day. Find some time to find new recipes and your vegetarian and vegan meals will be full of new and delicious ideas that you have never thought of before.

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Any good sources of unbiased information about vegetarianism?

So, nothing from Peta or anything like that. I need concrete sources that are not biased but discuss about vegetarianism in length. I’ve been looking and I haven’t found much. Anything will be appreciated!

Read the china study. It’s clearly not biased because the guy who conducted the study ate meat and dairy his whole life.

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Vegetarianism is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.

Sure, the EVO 4G might not be seeing its official nationwide release until June 4th — but since when do silly matters like release dates bother the Android hacking community?

To make a short story shorter: one of the EVO 4Gs given away at Google I/O ended up in the mitts of a trio of hackers. Armed with nothing but a few hours to kill and a bit of elbow grease (and presumably, some beer), they managed to crack this thing wide open nearly two weeks before it’s even available to the general public.

The lads responsible aren’t release details of the hack just yet, presumably to prevent last minute patches (not that we really have to worry about quick patch work.. it is Sprint we’re talking about, after all)

After six long years, Lost the TV series finally bids us goodbye today. If you’re a huge fan, though, maybe it’s just a matter of letting go of that remote control and switching it for your Rock

It’s been almost a year since General Motors announced the end of the road for Pontiac. While the century-old brand has now joined Oldsmobile, Plymouth and a long list of other iconic makes in the automotive afterlife, the collector market remains more alive than ever. A lineup of 27 classic Pontiacs, including 17 GTOs, will cross the auction block in June.

The performance-oriented machines, many of which are from the brand’s glory days of the 1960s–when Pontiac rivaled Chevrolet and Ford as one of the top sellers in the nation–will be featured at RM Auctions’ Classic Muscle & Modern Performance event on June 19 in San Diego.

For powerful Pontiacs, it has to start with the GTO. And 17 of them from a private collection will be hawked, including two spotlight 1969 models. They’re Judges–or rather the Judge–dishing out 366 hp from 400-cubic-inch Ram Air III V8s. RM says 6,725 hardtops and 108 convertibles were built for 1969. Judge trim added only several hundred dollars to the price tag 41 years ago, but now both of these examples could fetch six-figures at the auction, RM estimates.

RM Auctions

This GTO Judge was “rated” at 366 hp from a 400-cubic-inch V8. Sping the tires and guess how much it really has.

There is also a ‘65 GTO coupe colored Tiger Gold and convertibles from ‘65 and ‘70.

Muscle-car fans will be revved up for Firebird Trans Ams to be sold from the personal collection of Pontiac ad man Jim Wangers. His offerings include a 1969 model joined by the anniversary years of ‘79, ‘89 and ‘99.

In addition to all of this Pontiac panache, 26 Chevrolet Corvettes, seven Chevelles, six Ford Mustangs and a Ford GT will cross the block at the sale, which has about 100 cars.

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These renderings of the future Audi A3 show the 2012 model which will debut a few months before the new Volkswagen Golf 7. The two new cars from the VAG group will share about 70 percent of the same components, from the so-called MQB platform. The new Audi Q3 compact SUV in turn will anticipate the A3 and its new components in a model which will debut in 2011.

The third generation A3 will be availale in a three-door coupe version and a five-door Sportback version with a similar look around the doors to the Q5 and the Q7. The new Audi A3 has a planned production schedule of 200,000 units a year and with the shared Golf platform, we could see hybrid and electric versions emerge.

Standard versions of the A3 will appear with the three-cylinder, 1.2-litre TDI engine with 75 hp, which has CO2 emissions of just 89 g/km. The top of the range Audi S3 will have the 2.0-litre TFSI twin turbo with 300 hp. A new engine to appear will be the 2.0 TDI with increased power to 184 hp and the whole engine range will be Euro 6 compliant.

New Audi A3 renderings

Source | Auto Motor und Sport

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent piece about psychologist Carol Dweck’s work which has highlighted how what you believe about intelligence has an effect on how you perform.

Dwecks’s work has garnered a great deal of attention and her main findings have suggested that children praised for their ‘hard work’ do significantly better when challenged with difficult problem that those who are told that they are ‘intelligent’.

The Chronicle article is a fantastic update to some of the more congratulatory pieces that have appeared in the press as it covers some of the work from other research groups that didn’t find the effect or has only found it under limited circumstances.

The studies wondered whether students’ beliefs about intelligence (“entity” [fixed] versus “incremental,” [flexible] in Dweck’s terms) would affect how long they practiced before taking the test, whether they chose to listen to distracting music while practicing, and how they would explain their low scores after taking the test.

The answer turned out to be: It depends. The Michigan studies divided the incremental theorists (that is, the students who implicitly believed that intelligence is malleable) into two groups: Those whose sense of self-worth was tied to academic performance and those who didn’t care so much about school. The latter group—those whose egos were not deeply invested in schoolwork—behaved as Dweck would have predicted. But among students whose self-worth was tied to academic performance, incremental theorists behaved similarly to students with “fixed” beliefs about intelligence. They avoided practicing, and they “self-handicapped.”

Link to Chronicle piece on Dwecks’ work.

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Lost Final Episode – Watch Lost Ending, in the site that provide uploaded videos online, after six years of thrilling and exciting twist and turn of the story finally the Lost come to and end.

The viewers were fascinated as storytellers by what makes people the way they are said the Damon Lindelof “Lost” co-creator as he recall the whole story. However the story on the island did happen and Jack died at the end of Lost. Some viewers notice that there were no plot resolution and many things in the story did not go well in the ending. And many question left unanswered What was the deal with Jacob’s Cabin? What is the island? How was Hurley able to see dead people? If the island is built by someone well who built it?

Even though the viewers see every twist and turn in the characters story has resolve. But all in all everything goes well thumbs up to the producer and director of the Lost.

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