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Specially designed for high precision measurements, this water level indicator has a flat tape with a core spring steel with 2 copper wires coated with yellow nylon. Graduation at 1 millimeter intervals.
The probe, made of refined steel with electrode and insulation, has a diameter: of 15 mm. Water level indication by both acoustic signal and led.
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Photonic Products Ltd, authorised distributor of SANYO laser diodes, has announced that, due to the recent merger between SANYO and Panasonic, SANYO will end production of its industrial red and infrared laser diodes at the end of September 30th 2010. The last time buy date for all affected product lines will be March 31st 2010.
In order to fully support its SANYO laser diode customers, Photonic Products has negotiated an agreement with SANYO whereby it is able to guarantee order coverage for up to two years, providing final orders are placed by March 31st 2010.
Photonic Products will also source and recommend suitable alternatives from leading manufacturers which will provide equivalent performance and reliability at a comparable price. During the transition period, the company’s engineers will work with customers to evaluate and approve alternative laser diodes to prevent disruption to production schedules and minimise any inconvenience.
SANYO will continue to manufacture 405nm blue-violet laser diodes which are available in industrial strength up to 85mW optical output power and with the stability required for critically demanding industrial and medical applications. Photonic Products will continue to distribute SANYO blue-violet laser diodes.
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Q. Dear Umbra,
Hey! This whole freakin’ deal about aluminum, steel, and plastic bottles is bewildering. I wanted to get a BPA-free Nalgene, but should I buy an aluminum instead? I don’t have or see the use to spend $20USD for a darn bottle. What’s the best way to go?
Jay
Dayton
A. Dearest Jay,
To sip, perchance to dream.Hey yourself! This can indeed be a bewildering topic, made even more so by recent revelations that one trusted brand of aluminum bottle contained BPA in its lining.
Even though it’s a New Year, I’m going to stand by some Olde Umbra Advice: Do not buy a plastic bottle. Although Nalgene and other plastic-bottle makers have proudly and loudly eschewed BPA in many of their products, this does not mean we don’t have other problems with plastics. They are toxic and resource-intensive to manufacture, they can pose various health problems, and there’s no good way to dispose of them. (If for some reason you decide you absolutely must have a plastic bottle, choose BPA-free of course, and avoid #3, #6, and #7.)
As for your other choices, I personally would opt for stainless steel over aluminum. Although steel is a tad heavier than aluminum, it doesn’t need to be lined with anything potentially toxic, and it tends to be cheaper. Plus: It’s stainless! Doesn’t that sound fresh and clean!
One more thought, Jay: Is it possible that you don’t need a water bottle at all? Many of us get by in life without one. But if your lifestyle does require a liquid transport system, I heartily endorse your desire to invest in a permanent option over disposable bottles—and I think you will find that the one-time investment of $15 or $20 pays off quite quickly.
Salutly,
Umbra
Q. Dear Umbra,
We need to replace our 28-year-old electric clothes dryer. I know a gas dryer will use less energy, but since the natural gas enters our home at the far other end of the house from our dryer and there is no gas connection near the dryer, it will cost substantially more to switch to gas than just the modest extra cost of the gas dryer itself. We dry about half our clothes on racks and our electricity is 100% wind (ie, we pay a wind premium). Would it be environmentally evil of us to just get another electric dryer?
Judy H.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
A. Dearest Judy,
If only you could hang your wet clothes to dry on the horns of this dilemma.
My advice is going to be relatively quick and dirty: First, if you can dry all of your clothes on racks, do it. Read our interview with Alexander Lee of Project Laundry List to find out why.
Second, if you can find any way to install a gas dryer, do it. Is it possible to move the location of your dryer to the “far other end of the house” where the gas line is? Would that make the necessary plumbwork any cheaper and easier? It’s difficult for me to say, without having seen your house or met your gas person, but I’d investigate that
option. Gas dryers use far less energy and are gentler on clothes. They can save up to 50 percent of laundry-related costs, and though they do cost more up front, they pay for themselves in not too long a time.
Third, don’t let the fact that you “pay a wind premium” lull you into making lazy choices. I’m glad your utility offers that option, and glad you take them up on it, and I see that Saratoga Springs has made some heavy investments in wind. But are you sure the electricity that powers your house is 100 percent wind? I don’t have time to
properly investigate, but I hope you will.
Finally, if you do end up buying an electric dryer, be sure to look for one with a moisture sensor, which will keep it from working overtime. Use the dryer as little as possible. And don’t beat yourself up too much.
Delicately,
Umbra
P.S.: Natural gas is not without its drawbacks. If you have not focused on the proposed Marcellus Shale natural gas project in New York, do so. Here is a recent piece from your very own Saratogian about it, although you don’t have to go far to find much, much more.
Q. Hi Umbra,
I love your column and am a longtime reader, first-time asker. I’m also a yoga teacher who spends a lot of time using tea-light candles. I was just wondering if the little metal cups they come in are recyclable. Thanks!
K.
Sydney
A. Dearest K.,
Ooh, Sydney. Yoga and candles in Sydney. I think I’m in heaven.
As with all such recycling questions, I must refer you to your local authorities. I’m not sure what your tea-light cups are made of—most seem to be aluminum, but I don’t know how they do it in Sydney—nor am I sure what’s recyclable in your particular neighborhood. So definitely check with the good folks at your nearest solid-waste facility.
However, I have some other thoughts for you. The first is: Do you absolutely need to use tea lights? Couldn’t you burn small votive candles in reusable containers, thereby avoiding the waste-cup problem entirely? Some people groan about having to scrape wax out of the holders, but those people are unenlightened. I know you will ascend above that concern.
If for some reason you must continue to use tea lights, I am discovering that there is no shortage of people who have very inventive ideas for reusing the cups. Pincushion holders! Wind chimes! Holiday decorations! Ashtrays! Bird alarms! Look around the web for these and other creative-verging-on-nutty suggestions.
Whatever candles you choose, be sure they are free of lead, petroleum, and the other nasties that are found in many conventional varieties. Oh look! More Umbra advice on candles, just in the wick of time.
Namastely,
Umbra
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Eco Factor: Solar-powered vending machine reduces energy consumption.
The SmartVND is a conceptual vending machine designed by Justin Pittman that makes use of natural cooling techniques to minimize energy use and rely more on renewable energy harvested by onboard solar panels.
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Oxygen is developing a dating competition spinoff of its wildly-successful reality smash, The Bad Girls Club. The new dating series, Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too, will feature three former Bad Girls — Amber (Season Three), Kendra (Season Four) and Sarah (Season Three) — vying for the attention of 13 eligible bachelors.
“Over the successful run of the “Bad Girls Club” series, the show’s die-hard fan base has demonstrated an insatiable interest in the dating lives of these flirty and outrageously energetic girls,” says Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Programming and Development for Oxygen. “Love Games’ gives our avid viewers the opportunity to watch their favorite Bad Girls find love in a fun and wildly entertaining way.”
Love Games debuts on Oxygen in March 2010.
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Name: China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) new office tower
Location: Nanshan Houhai CBD, east side of Houhai Binlu
Tower 1: 230m, ~40fl
Tower 2: 200m, ~34fl
Tower 3: 80m, joining towers 1 and 2 (looks taller than 80m in the render)
Total floor area: 140,000 square meters
Completion: unknown
The white fenced rectangular plot in the mid-ground is the site for the CNOOC new tower.
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http://www.xcar.com.cn/bbs/viewthrea…thread=&page=1
http://www.cnooc.com.cn/newstopic.php?id=195
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（三）建设新的区域总部大厦，为属地工作提供物质基础。尽管通过企业文化、属地管理的方式，可以把南海东部石油城的概念和轮廓勾画出来，但由于各单位分散在不同的城市、不同的地点，毕竟不能象渤海、南海西部那样，共同工作、生活在一个不大的圈子里。而深圳新大厦的兴建，无疑给南海东部石油城的定义添注了看得见、摸得着的元素。为了解决办公场所严重不足的问题，适应海洋石油南海东部和珠三角地区飞速发展的事业需要，在总公司领导的直接关怀指挥下，在深圳市领导及各部门的大力支持帮助下，新大厦的土地已经基本落实，各项工作正按部就班地快速推进。如果进展顺利，四年后，一座大气、亮丽、壮观、适用的标志性建筑中国海油南方总部大厦将在美丽的深圳湾畔拔地而起。新大厦不仅是南海油田的总部，而且尽可能将中国海油在珠江三角洲地区的各全资、控股企业的总部搬迁进入，成为名副其实的总部大厦。新大厦不仅为海油个单位提供办公、科研、实验场所，其综合性的功能将为大家提供会议、休闲、娱乐和健身等场所。 通过共同企业文化的维系、属地工作的不断深化和南方总部大厦的崛起，新型南海东部石油城的蓝图由遥远到接近，由模糊到清晰，由理想变现实，一步一步地向我们走来。我们坚信，只要我们以科学发展观为统领，贯彻落实总公司的发展战略，扎扎实实做好每一项工作，南海东部石油城的目标就一定能够实现。 |
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(3) the construction of a new regional headquarters building, to provide the material basis for the dependencies. Despite the adoption of enterprise culture, local management approach can bring the eastern oil city of South China Sea, the concept and outline sketched out, but because the units are scattered in different cities, different places, after all, not like the Bohai Sea, the South China Sea in the west, common work and daily life In a small circle. The construction of new buildings in Shenzhen, no doubt to the South China Sea, the definition of the eastern oil city of Tim injection of visible and tangible elements. In order to address the serious shortage of office space to meet the Offshore Oil Eastern South China Sea and the cause of the rapid development of the Pearl River Delta region needs of direct care in the head office under the command of the leadership, in Shenzhen city leaders and various departments of the strong support and assistance, the new building the land has been basically implemented step by step all the work is rapidly advancing. If everything goes smoothly, four years later, an "atmosphere, beautiful, spectacular, applicable" landmark – the South China Sea oil in the beautiful headquarters building will be erected in Shenzhen Bay. The new building is not only the headquarters of the South China Sea oil fields, but as far as possible China Sea oil in the Pearl River Delta region, the wholly-owned, holding company’s headquarters relocation to enter into a veritable headquarters building. The new building not only for sea-oil units to provide office, research laboratory for its comprehensive functionality will provide you the meeting, leisure, entertainment and fitness venues. Through a common corporate culture, sustained by the work of deepening dependency and the rise of the South Headquarters Building, the new blueprint for the South China Sea from the eastern oil city of distant to near, from vague to clear, from the ideal become reality, step by step, toward us. We firmly believe that as long as we take the scientific development concept as a guide, implement the Company’s development strategy, for every one to carry out the work in the eastern oil city of South China Sea, the goal will be realized. |
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CNOOC already has an "old" office tower in Shenzhen, further south near Nanshan’s Shekou Port area.
A Chevrolet S10 continua firme na liderança do mercado brasileiro de picapes médias pelo 15º ano consecutivo. De janeiro a dezembro de 2009, foram emplacadas 39.243 unidades, resultado que conferiu ao modelo uma participação de 35,6% no segmento, contra 30.996 unidades do segundo colocado. Além da liderança, o modelo registrou uma evolução de 25,3% nas vendas, comparativamente ao ano de 2008 (31.310 unidades), crescimento superior ao do segmento, que foi de 18,9% (110.113 unidades em 2009 contra 92.621 unidades em 2008).
“A picape S10 é a preferida no País em seu segmento desde o seu lançamento, em 1995, sendo um fenômeno de vendas. Em 2007, a chegada do pioneiro motor 2.4 Flexpower, que teve um avanço expressivo em relação ao motor convencional a gasolina, consolidou definitivamente a nossa S10 em uma posição diferenciada em sua categoria frente à concorrência”, destaca José Carlos Pinheiro Neto, vice-presidente da GM do Brasil.
S10, um case da indústria
A picape Chevrolet tem, da frota de picapes médias circulantes no País, mais de 350 mil unidades, resultado das suas vendas no período de 1995 a dezembro de 2009. Este fato é considerado um dos maiores cases da indústria automobilística brasileira.
Em julho de 2009 o modelo registrou recorde histórico mensal de vendas, com 3.916 unidades emplacadas, o que lhe rendeu a melhor marca já registrada desde 1995, ano de seu lançamento no mercado brasileiro e também 38,4% de participação no segmento das picapes médias. O recorde anterior havia sido registrado em junho de 2009, com 3.722 unidades emplacadas.
A picape S10 não parou de inovar e de se manter na frente de seus concorrentes nos últimos 15 anos. Em 2007, por exemplo, recebeu a tecnologia Flexpower, a única no segmento a oferecer a tecnologia bicombustível, que permitiu ao consumidor a utilização de gasolina e álcool, ou a mistura de ambos os combustíveis em qualquer proporção.
O motor 2.4 Flexpower tem potência superior se comparado a modelos a gasolina: quando abastecido com álcool, gera uma potência de 147 cv e quando utiliza a gasolina alcança 141 cv de potência. O motor 2.8 turbo diesel eletrônico dotado de turbo e intercooler, desenvolve 140 cv de potência.
Uma das principais novidades da S10 é a versão Executive com motor 2.4 Flexpower e cabine dupla, equipada com todo o conteúdo do modelo topo de linha, estendendo o benefício desta motorização para clientes que exigem mais conforto e conveniência. Trata-se de um elo entre as versões ‘flex’ e diesel do modelo. Há ainda a versão S10 Advantage com motor e a cabine simples 2.4 Flexpower, que se tornou a picape mais acessível do segmento.
Fonte: Maxpress
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell has pulled out of a job hosting a reality modeling competition on British TV. Last month, a rep for the mean-spirited catwalk maven confirmed that Naomi was in discussions to front the next season of Britain’s Next Top Model. However, Naomi’s potential new gig fell through after talks between the network and the 39-year-old star broke down last week, The Daily Mail online reported Sunday.
Naomi was “really excited” about the prospect of reviving her career with a turn on TV, but pulled out because she couldn”t reach an agreement over logistics or the amount of time she would have to commit, industry insiders say.
The show is being toted as an extension of America’s Next Top Model and Canada’s Next Top Model, hosted by modeling legend Tyra Banks and makeup artist extraordinaire Jay Manuel, respectively.
“The producers felt the last series wasn’t taken as seriously as the American version because presenter Lisa Snowdon just couldn”t carry it off on her own,” says a spy. “What was missing was a real diva supermodel, a British equivalent to US host Tyra Banks,” the source added.
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At CES, there is a somewhat standing tradition of having the incumbent FCC chairman show up for a Q-and-A chat. In the recent past, this has mainly amounted to CEA chairman Gary Shapiro lobbing fairly meaningless softball questions to Michael Powell and Kevin Martin, the two FCC chairs during the Bush administration. Anticipation was high last week in Las Vegas for something more substantial, given that Shapiro’s politics are definitely not typically aligned with the current FCC chair, Julius Genachowski.
Instead of the usual puffball session, Shapiro asked some admirably tough questions — and Genachowski gave as good as he got, never appearing nervous and in the end (at least on this judge’s card) winning the impromptu “Brawl in the Hall” by having an well-thought answer to each of Shapiro’s queries.
While I don’t have a lot of quotes to share — I was watching and listening trying to get the “feel” of the exchange more than the exact words — the thought did occur to me that this FCC has more projects underway in less than a year than the Powell and Martin tenures did, combined. When GOPers like Shapiro or do-nothing FCC commissioner Robert McDowell, or the ostensibly bipartisan Shapiro (ed. note: see comments below from Shapiro, who asserts he is not a Republican; we have changed the post to reflect this) act indignant about the current FCC’s one-month extension of the deadline for delivering the national broadband plan, it behooves us all to remember why we need a plan in the first place — because the two previous, GOP-led FCC tenures basically let the country’s communications regulatory infrastructure go to rot.
Already, the current FCC is moving forward with stimulus fund dispersals, the national broadband plan, a network neutrality proceeding, and an effort to find more wireless spectrum for broadband — among other tasks. What’s refreshing about listening to Genachowski is to realize that unlike his immediate predecessors, the title of FCC chairman does not seem to be his life’s pursuit; instead, he is treating his position as the leader of an active clan of folks who want to move this country’s communications infrastructure back into a leading position — and who aren’t afraid to include views from all sides of the political spectrum in doing so.
“One of my main goals at the FCC is to turn it into a 21st century agency,” said Genachowski to Shapiro, with nobody in the audience missing the punchline — that it’s not there now, thanks mainly to the inaction of those who held the same office directly before him. Genachowski also had a good line (sorry, no exact quotes here) about how he was encouraging folks at the agency to try things and suggest things that might fail or be the wrong approach — sort of like how Silicon Valley operates, where you learn lessons from failures and move on, rapidly in search of the next answer.
The bottom line? The FCC seems in pretty good hands under Genachowski, who seems at ease with the tough technical and legal issues before him, and who has the gravitas to speak carefully and cautiously — maybe too cautiously for some who would prefer more direct action, but in the political minefield that is the FCC, it’s a trait to be admired.
For a nice, long interesting chat with the chairman — minus Shapiro’s politically motivated agenda — tune into his visit with Om and Stacey at GigaOM HQ, also last week. Visiting top bloggers for an open-ended, live broadcast Q&A — if you need any proof how different the new FCC is from the recent past, it’s hard to get clearer than that.
Former Spice Girl Melanie “Mel B” Brown will host the next season of Oxygen’s fitness hit Dance Your Ass Off, the popular women’s cable network said Sunday.
Dance Your Ass Off Season One was hosted by Broadway alum and former Dancing With The Stars ace Marissa Jaret Winokur. It featured 12 full-figured contestants who competed to lose weight by hitting the dance floor.
“After the birth of my second daughter, I wanted to find a fun and effective way to drop the pounds and get back in shape,” Mel told reporters during a press junket in Pasadena over the weekend. “I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.”
Dance Your Ass Off will return to Oxygen this summer on a new night of original programming for the network, Mondays.
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Luke Timmerman wrote:
It’s mid-January, and in biotech that means only one thing—it’s time for the annual industry pilgrimage known as the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. I’m here as always, attending the meeting in San Francisco’s Union Square that draws most of this fragmented industry’s major investors, biotech executives, and pharma dealmakers in one place for a frenzy of networking.
The mood is undoubtedly going to be brighter than it was last year, probably because last year could hardly have been worse. I vividly remember one CEO telling me last January that his nightmare scenario was that things would get so depressed that a biotech company could cure cancer, and investors wouldn’t care. Not only was the fear misplaced, the Amex Biotech Index of major biotech company stocks actually climbed 45 percent in 2009.
I’m not planning to spend a lot of my time assessing the mood, since it’s so often an unreliable predictor of what’s to come anyway. Biotechies by their nature (last year’s CEO notwithstanding) have to be optimistic to think they can succeed in such a risky business, so they’ll typically say a bunch of optimistic things. So this year, like last year, I’m going to concentrate my energy on in person meetings with a lot of biotech players from Boston, San Diego, and Seattle—all three geographic clusters where I cover and oversee the local life sciences beat for Xconomy. Since I live in far-away Seattle and do a lot of my reporting by phone, this is a great time for me to schedule a lot of interviews with innovative companies, big and small, in a very efficient way. My goal is to dig up all kinds of original material that you won’t find from any other source, and keep the scoops and insights flowing throughout the year.
I have a full slate of meetings on my calendar between now and mid-day Thursday, but if you’re a reader here in San Francisco and would like to just say hello and chat a few minutes, don’t hesitate to shoot me a note. The best way to catch my attention is to shoot me a message on my BlackBerry at [email protected]. Have a great conference.
