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The High Voltage Leader Unveils Its New 10kW X-Ray Generator

February 23, 2010 – Hauppauge New York – Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of high voltage power conversion products, announces the introduction of its new 10kW XT Series of X-Ray generators.

The XT Series features a negative polarity “hot cathode” output with an integrated floating filament power supply, and an optional floating grid bias supply in models ranging from 10kV to 120kV. Front panel controls allow for easy local operation and an analog interface provides comprehensive remote control. On board ethernet with 12 bit resolution simplifies integration of the XT into OEM systems, allowing many operational features to be user programmed.

The XT’s robust IGBT inverter is inherently fault tolerant, making the series ideal for demanding applications. The 6U (10.5” high) XT can be configured with additional chassis in parallel to address higher power requirements.

The XT will be available for purchase in the summer of 2010. Technical literature and additional information on the
XT Series can be obtained at: www.spellmanhv.com/XT

Information on Spellman and their wide range of high voltage products is available by calling +1-631-630-3000,
or by visiting their website: www.spellmanhv.com

Spellman High Voltage Electronics is the world’s leading provider of custom designed and standard AC-DC and
DC-DC high voltage power converters and Monoblock® X-Ray sources for medical, industrial, semiconductor, security, analytical, laboratory, and under-sea cable power-feed applications. With design, manufacturing and service facilities in the US, UK, Mexico, China and Japan, and direct sales offices throughout Europe, Asia and North America, Spellman is committed to supporting advanced system providers and their customers throughout the world.

With the new Isoprobe IV series, Multi-Contact offers reliable oscilloscope probes in compact design.
New generation of test probes is an addition to the touch protected MC high frequency program. The greatly reduced size of this new product substantially facilitates the conduct of measurements in a restricted space, while maintaining the good electronic characteristics of MC Isoprobe test probes. Thanks to a high frequency range up to 500 MHz with touch protection up to 300V, CAT III, the Isoprobe IV test probes are particularly suited for electronics engineers, while the probes of the Isoprobe II and Isoprobe III series are designed primarily for electricians. The test probes are available separately or in sets with matching accessories.

For all available versions and technical details, please see our new flyer C HFline.

The production of attrition dried casein and the conversion of casein to caseinate.

In the early 1980’s the company developed the Multi-Rotor Cell Mill for finer milling and drying applications, which included applications in the food industry. Extensive market research was carried out on existing mills of this type as a basis for the Atritor Cell Mill design. It is a vertical shaft multi-rotor design and contains unique features which enhance the operation, maintenance and performance of the mill.

The blades simply locate between two rotor discs instead of securing them individually with nuts and bolts, which means twice as many blades can be fitted per rotor and up to 8 rotors per mill. In addition, the fabricated mill body is precision machined to take the internal liner rings, onto which the wear segments that come into contact with the product are secured. This gives a tight tolerance between the blades and body wear segments around the circumference of the mill chamber.

This combination, together with the variable speed on the main drive rotor, translates to a versatile, repeatable and predictable mill performance. For added flexibility a high integrity classifier can be fitted to the product outlet, which can be purchased with the mill or retro-fitted.

Product quality for our customers worldwide is assured by Atritor’s machine design stability, robust construction, low maintenance and total service & process support.

Four relay series make their mark in instrumentation applications and they do so like no other switching technology. The SIL HV, SIL RF, MSRF and CR Series meet the miniature size and low profile requirements of today’s high tech designs, ranging in size from 8.6mm [0.339 c] to 24.13 [0.950] in length and 3.4mm [0.134] to 8.13mm [0.320] in height. Designed to eliminate any magnetic coupling effect when stacked in matrices, they are equipped with an internal magnetic shield. Additionally, each series offers unique switching power and RF signal capabilities ranging up to 7 GHz.

The CR Series is the smallest and most versatile instrumentation grade relay capable of switching signals up to 7 GHz and producing low offset voltages less than 1 microvolt. Both the 1 GHz MSRF and 1.5 GHz SIL RF are miniature single-in-line relays capable of switching voltages up to 200VDC and 1 amp while maintaining a consistent 100 milli-ohm on state resistance. Both the SIL RF Series and MSRF Series can provide over 1500 Volts isolation, switch to coil.

The SIL HV series is an excellent high voltage / high current miniature single-in-line relay with a max power rating of 10W, this series can switch up to 1000V and carry up to 5 amps for up to 50 milli-second at a consistent repetition rate. These relays can dielectrically hold off up to 4kVDC across the contacts as well as between contacts and coil.

Samples are readily available for your evaluation and prototyping needs by request to MEDER per the contact information below.

About MEDER electronic.: MEDER electronic is a private company offering a complete line of Magnetic Reed Switches, Reed Sensors and Magnets, Reed Relays and Opto-couplers worldwide. MEDER leads the way in designing and manufacturing customer specific switching and sensing solutions for products driven by all major market segments including, but not limited to, Test & Measurement, Medical, Security, Household, Automotive, Industrial, Marine, Navigation, Farm/Lawn Equipment and Telecommunications.

For more information on MEDER electronic., please visit us on the web at www.meder.com

Datalogger Information Technologies is working in a proyect in which monitorize domestic meters.

¿Have you ever stopped to think how could improve the water/electriciy/gas control system? As the law requires supplier companies to make real readings only twice a year, the most common preceeding way is to send invoices for an estimated amount and charge the difference when making a real reading. This may be cause of dissatisfied customers, reading mistakes, leaks not registered on time and a poor track.
Datalogger-IT proposes the use of LOGSBEE units -based on ZigBee technology- connected to each domestic meter.

This way, and using an only DIT-LOGS47, we would have an useful tool to monitorize daily consumption and even they would be reduced in the long term, the costs derived from the hiring of a technician to read domestic meters.
Datalogger-IT also provides the necessary monitoring equipment: different software applications and additional hardware in ordert to overcome any other obstacle like lack of GSM coverage or connectivity problems. Moreover, the company offers Panels PCs installable in hostile environments ranging from 7 to 46 inches.
This technology, which is still undergoing optimization in the laboratories of Tekniker Technology Center, will soon be launched to the market by Datalogger-IT.

New product launch
HepcoMotion® is a pioneer in circulation and continuous motion and at MACH 2010 the company will be featuring a brand new system that reinforces its pre-eminence in this field. This will be the first public demonstration of this highly comprehensive system whose main features will the subject of a range of video displays on the stand.

New sealed actuator
Since its introduction, the HepcoMotion® SBD sealed belt drive linear actuator range has been a runaway success. Designed for high duty applications, these products provide an extremely clean linear solution that keep on working where other systems fail.

New at MACH 2010 will be a new small size addition to the range. The SBD 15-60 is based on a linear ball guide and is supplied in increments of 60mm to 6000mm in one piece; unlimited lengths can be achieved by joining the beams.

HepcoMotion® uniquely offers stainless steel as a standard choice in all its ranges and the SBD 15-60 is no exception to this rule. And naturally it is also fully compatible with the company’s MCS Machine Construction System, allowing it to be incorporated into any bespoke automation system or machine.

Dedicated actuators for X-Y-Z
The creation of an X-Y-Z system, each axis of which performs optimally, will also be a focus at MACH 2010. HepcoMotion® will emphasise that using general purpose actuators throughout the system isn’t good practice as this doesn’t factor in the specific and different demands on each axis. Its X-Y-Z systems use a different actuator in each axis resulting in greater overall efficiency, problem-free production and a long service life.

In a typical HepcoMotion® system, the X-axis would be a PDU2 linear actuator with ultra-high performance Herculane® wheel technology and the Y-axis, the high moment load version of the same product, the PDU2M. The enhanced linear force and higher gearing needs of the Z-axis are ideally met by the stainless steel, lead-screw driven PSD80, another product that uses Herculane® wheels.

All units fit together using standard components and are easily integrated into frames or more complex machines. The system can be specified as individual parts, in kit form or fully-assembled – HepcoMotion® also provides a complete turnkey service.

They won’t be terribly fast—they’ll swim 59 feet per minute and crawl 98 feet per minute—and they’ll cost $18 million to develop, but aquatic robots like this might one day aid underwater search and rescue efforts. More »

The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol, which depicts a serpent or dragon curled in a circle, swallowing its own tail. Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have now created a nano-tool, that they named after the curious beasty. Their ouroborand molecular switch looks kind of like the Ouroboros, in that its tail coils up and around into its cup-like head. Unlike the reptile, however, the molecule could be used to detect metals, toxins, and other pollutants in our environment…
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By John Tate

Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty are coming to the Embassy Suites on the River in downtown Des Moines for our Iowa Regional Conference on May 14-16! Will you join us in taking a stand for freedom?

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In addition to our free and open to the public Friday night Freedom Celebration with Ron Paul, our Saturday, May 15 Forum on the Future of Conservatism (also open to the public) will feature speakers including Tom Woods, Robert Murphy, and Mark Mix.

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Apple’s quarterly earnings reports provide a rare opportunity for financial analysts to publicly pose questions to Apple executives. Today, no one granted an audience asked about Apple’s lost iPhone. More »

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus invited social game developers to band together to create an “app economy” at the Inside Social Apps conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. Maintaining the structure of applications built on top of platforms will be key to Zynga and its competitors’ success, he said:

You wouldn’t even think of going to Expedia.com to check your flight on an iPhone. It’s too many clicks and too much typing, so Expedia isn’t going to have a relationship with you unless you have that app. It’s not that way on the web but it could be that way.

Pincus said he thinks a proper application economy will require tools that create a consistent social gaming experience as users move between applications on the web. First, an “app bar,” would follow users around, enticing them to navigate back to their games — like the one from Meebo (which is tying up with other social web services through XAuth), the “social games bar” launched today by Heyzap, or the one expected to be launched by Facebook soon. Pincus said such efforts have the added benefit of increased engagement and revenues for publishers and networks who use the bar.

Second, apps need properly tuned user communication channels, Pincus said. These should be open enough to allow apps to grow through reaching out to their users, but closed enough to prevent obtrusive and annoying communication.

Third, an app economy would require universal social feeds that follow users around the web. This would allow users to connect feeds between destinations and activities, for instance sending activity in one game to a narrowcasted group of their friends on a certain network. When Zynga tested narrowcasting, or enabling users to share updates with a certain group of their friends, sharing increased 400 percent, Pincus said.

Because people find more value in games when their friends are playing them, Zynga finds that revenues are a leading indicator of engagement, not trailing. Social games have the capacity to be the most successful long-term gaming franchises in history, he argued, because console and PC games go out of style with their hardware, and traditional MMOs only retain a small portion of users over their life.

Pincus, whose hit game FarmVille has something like 30 million daily active users and has hosted 19 billion virtual gift transfers to date, offered advice for his fellow game developers. In order for a social game to be a hit, he said, there are three requirements: Users have to play with friends, they have to make an investment in the game, and the game should be a form of expression.

Pincus encouraged developers to take what he called “bold beats” — in other words, “giving yourself permission to take an enormous risk with your franchise.” For instance, Mafia Wars started adding new cities, and FarmVille added functional buildings. Both moves were internally thought of as challenges to the core games but were well-received by users. “We don’t want to be on a treadmill where we’re killing ourself to put out new content,” said Pincus. The ides is to test changes that are bold enough, so if they work they make a lasting difference.

So how can social game developers work together in the fiercely competitive space, full of ripoffs, copycats and borderline behavior? “Many of us have tried and failed at ways to share traffic and users,” Pincus said, pointing to past efforts of tool bars and APIs. “I think that where this ought to go is to be the open Xbox Live for the web.”

Pincus left the door open for an outside company to build the connecting tools he proposed. The obvious choice might be Facebook, which didn’t have a speaking role at the conference (they’re busy prepping for f8) but was of course ever-present in conversations about social apps. Pincus said of Facebook, which his company has a very lucrative symbiotic relationship with, “They’re going to have to decide between being the plumbing and the portal. I’m hopeful for all of us that they find the better business model around the plumbing.”

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The HP Compaq Airlife 100 certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the specs, the more I’m doubting this first-wave smartbook. More »

Google Government Requests includes an interactive world map of all requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from their services, or provide information about users of their services and products, between July and December 2009. Even with the simple quantitative data that is available, some non-obvious insights can be made (who knew Brazil was so engaged in acquiring or removing Google data?).

As Google claims to be “… still learning the best way to collect and present this information“, it seems your input in terms of proposing a more effective information design might be valuable to them. So, if you were working for Google, how would you propose to represent this data in a more effective way?

Give your comments or links to redesign sketches in the comments section below!

Thnkx Tim!

Filed under: Budget, Minivan/Van, Europe, SEAT, Diesel

Seat has officially unveiled its German-blooded minivan, the Alhambra. Like its clone, the Volkswagen Sharan, the people-mover packs plenty of space, dual-sliding doors and an efficient turbo-diesel option. The Alhambra’s spec sheet reads like your run-of-the-mill minivan recipe, with a few exceptions. There are seven seats thanks to a third row capable of comfortably ferrying full-size adults, cavernous amounts of cargo room when all but the front two chairs are stowed away and a laundry list of safety equipment.

Since the Alhambra shares its bones with Volkswagen, it’s no surprise that the van gets its power from either a 1.4-liter TSI four-cylinder or a 2.0-liter TDI. The latter engine dishes out 140 horsepower and 51 mpg on the European cycle. Even better, you can get the thing with an optional seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.

The mechanicals aren’t quite enough to make our mouths water over the thought of some time behind the wheel, but we’re intrigued nevertheless. Head past the jump to see the press release.

[Source: Seat]

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By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

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Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 public beta for Windows from Fileforum now.

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Starting today, an ambitious project from the Mozilla Foundation called “Lorentz” makes its first public, experimental debut, with the release of a public beta of Firefox 3.6.4. Mozilla doesn’t often promote a public beta of a point release, but this time, the organization needs data from the field regarding the stability of a critical new feature that could help it regain lost traction against competitors Google, Opera, and Apple.

The one major problem with the Mozilla Firefox Web browser — what makes users, including myself, keep an eye on the competition for a better alternative — is how often it crashes. According to Mozilla’s live statistics, the latest stable version 3.6.3 crashed at least once for every two active users whose browsers reported their telemetry to Mozilla’s servers by default, on April 5 and again on April 11.

Judging from the signature data delivered to Mozilla’s servers by its crash reporter system, in recent months, most of those crashes have actually been triggered by plug-ins. For instance, engineers believe as many as half the crashes over the last four weeks that were responsible for 189,762 crashes (as of the time of this writing Tuesday afternoon) may have been caused by a non-updated version of Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Some 90,134 crashes (about 2.7% of the total) are caused by Skype. In previous months, Adobe Flash has tallied as much as 25% of live reported crashes.

The Lorentz project is step two in Mozilla’s bid to remodel Firefox architecture to take better control of its plug-ins. Step one came last November, with the introduction of Firefox 3.6 and its hardening of policies with regard to running just any binary component. With Firefox 3.6.4, Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime, and Microsoft Silverlight — three of the most used plug-ins in the browser user’s arsenal — will be run as protected processes. When they crash, they should no longer bring down Firefox with them.

“This version of Firefox will offer uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime, or Microsoft Silverlight plugins,” writes Firefox product director Mike Beltzner this afternoon. “If a crash in one of these plugins happens, Firefox will continue to run and users will be able to submit a crash report before reloading the page to try again.”

The first, very early, Betanews tests on the new public beta were…well, inconclusive, at least at the moment. We tried several Silverlight pages that we knew were old, and that caused problems with more recent versions in the past. But with the new Silverlight 4, the runtime’s own process control kicks in, evidently precluding situations which used to cause the browser to crash. As we get more time to test, we’ll let you know what we find.

A quick check this afternoon of the latest crash reports from Mozilla show that nearly half of the crashes reported by testers of version 3.6.4 (including daily alpha builds) over the past week, come not from a plug-in but from a Windows kernel call related to multithreading. That could be the first big sign of real improvement to Firefox…something the browser sorely needs.

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Are you tired of the high fructose corn syrup battles? Today the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, released a report that said Americans on average eat enough salt every second to kill a humpback whale kraken. I have not actually read the report, but it probably said something like that. It also said that public education campaigns have failed to reduce sodium intake, and voluntary self-regulation by the food industry hasn’t been effective.

One of the experts who authored the report explained to the Washington Post that while salt is “essential,” we ingest at least 50% more than the maximum level daily, and that this chronic overdosing leads to things like hypertension and other diseases.

According to CNN, the FDA is in the talking-to-industry-players stage of a salt-reduction program, but participation would be voluntary. The Washington Post, however, says that the FDA actually has a program set to launch later this year that will phase in legal limits for salt gradually over the next 10 years, but that it won’t discuss it because it hasn’t been formally announced.

The Salt Institute is framing the issue as a reverse health crisis in waiting, saying that restricting sodium intake would turn Americans into guinea pigs and amount to “the largest clinical trial ever carried out” without anyone’s knowledge or consent.

As for how this would affect the food industry, the Washington Post points out that there are technical challenges that have to be solved to reduce sodium in many products, because it’s not just used for taste but also as a preservative and in some cases to add “mouth feel” (in their example, sodium makes soup feel thicker).

“U.S. limits urged for salt in processed food” [CNN]
“Lawmakers urge FDA to move swiftly to limit amount of salt in foods” [Washington Post]

Following the 2010 Kia Soul and the 2010 Hyundai Sonata, the 2010 Kia Forte is the third model from Hyundai/Kia to earn the Institute’s top safety designation for 2010. To win, vehicles must earn the top rating of good for front, side, rollover, and rear impact protection and have electronic stability control (ESC), which is standard on the Forte.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Kia Forte.

“The Kia brand is growing rapidly in the U.S. thanks to new vehicles such as the Forte that embody our core philosophies of quality, value, style and safety,” said Michael Sprague, vice president, marketing of Kia Motors America (KMA). “Forte offers buyers a youthful and dynamically styled vehicle with an impressive array of standard safety features, and being honored as an IIHS ‘Top Safety Pick’ award winner furthers its position as a top contender in its segment and a vehicle that offers consumers the entire package.”

The 2010 Kia Forte is now available at Kia dealers in three trims including LX, EX and SX. Prices for the Kia Forte LX sedan starts at $13,695, while the EX and SX start at $15,995 and $17,945 respectively.

Follow the jump for the press release.

2010 Kia Forte:

Press Release:

KIA FORTE AWARDED “TOP SAFETY PICK” BY INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY
New for 2010 Compact Sedan Wins Highest Award from IIHS

– Forte receives top ratings for front, side, rollover, and rear impact protection
– Compact sedan is third vehicle in company history to be named “Top Safety Pick”

IRVINE, Calif., April 20, 2010 – Following in the footsteps of the 2010 Soul urban passenger vehicle, the 2010 Kia Forte compact sedan has been recognized by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) with a 2010 “Top Safety Pick” award in the Small Car category. The new Forte, which replaced Kia’s popular Spectra model, received the organization’s top honor by earning “Good” ratings – the highest achievable – in frontal, side, rear and rollover impact crash safety tests. The Sedona minivan was chosen as a “Top Safety Pick” shortly after its launch in 2006.

Ratings from the Institute are based on results from frontal, side and rear impact crash tests, and for the first time a good performance in a roof strength test to measure protection in a rollover also was required to win. Each vehicle’s overall evaluation was based on various measurements specific to each crash angle, and overall impact on crash test dummies inside the vehicle at the time of collision. All vehicles must have electronic stability control available to be eligible.

Available in three trims, LX, EX and SX, pricing for the Forte sedan starts at $13,695 for the LX trim, while the EX begins at $15,995 and the SX starts at $17,4951. In addition to competitive pricing, Forte also showcases a class-leading combination of standard safety features with active front headrests, advanced two-stage airbags, front seat-mounted and side curtain airbags, four-wheel disc brakes with an antilock brake system (ABS), brake assist (BAS), electronic brake-force distribution (EBD), electronic stability control (ESC), a traction control system (TCS) and a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS).

All Forte models also come well-stocked with a long list of standard amenities, starting with a standard AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio system outfitted with SIRIUS Satellite Radio capabilities with three months complimentary service2. Also standard on all models is an auxiliary audio input jack and USB port for connecting personal MP3 players as well as Bluetooth®3 wireless technology and connectivity with steering wheel-mounted controls, which enables hands-free operation for all compatible mobile phones.

– By: Stephen Calogera

We learned last week that the upcoming Droid Incredible would do TV out and now we have new details on how it works. Customers will have to purchase an optional accessory that plugs into the micro USB port and sends a signal to a composite video connection.

Wirefly has a short video demonstration of how the accessory works. The phone’s full display is output to a TV and automatically converts to a widescreen view when a movie is played.

Since the accessory works via micro USB, this feature could also appear on similar HTC phones built on the same Snapdragon platform. This would include Google’s Nexus One and the HTC Desire.

No pricing information is available for the TV out accessory at this time.

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Information Is Beautiful has a great picture showing how much the Icelandic volcano has reduced European CO2 emissions – Planes Or Volano ?.