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The White House is decked out for the Obama family’s first Washington Christmas. Part of the fun includes a 390-pound replica of the White House, complete with a marzipan presidential dog Bo and the First Lady’s kitchen garden. White House pastry chef Bill Yosses spent six weeks making the replica from gingerbread covered in white chocolate.

CNN reported that this year is the first time the annual gingerbread White House replica has included an interior view of the State Dining Room, including furniture fashioned from dark chocolate.

Other White House Christmas decorations include the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room, an 18.5 foot Douglas fir lit with LED lights and decorated with large gold ribbons. The White House is also decorated with six other trees which will be replanted after the holiday.

The Obama Christmas theme is “Reflect, Rejoice, Renew.” The First Lady said during the holiday preview on Wednesday that the theme was chosen because Christmas is a time that her family reflects on blessings, rejoices with family and friends, and renews commitments.

Resources for Making Your Own Gingerbread House

If you’re dreaming of building your own gingerbread house, visit Wilton for instructions on how to build several festive gingerbread house models, including Chocolate Wonderland, Fantasy Land, Holiday Chalet or even the High-voltage Christmas.

For more inspiration, visit the Sweetopia blog post, Gingerbread House Ideas, or for a small-scale, kid-friendly gingerbread house craft, visit Kaboose. Even the experts at BobVila.com have joined in with the fun of building gingerbread houses with their online instructions: Building a Gingerbread House. Plus, Cory at allrecipes.com has a recipe, supplies list and plenty of tips for making your own gingerbread house masterpiece.

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Gingerbread Replica of White House

Eco Factor: Air purification system removes 99.97% of pollutants in air.

Sanyo has launched a new home-use air purification system that according to the company can remove airborne pollen, allergy-causing dust, bacteria and germs. Dubbed the Air Washer Plus, the system features a unique electrolyzed water technology that works in tandem with a HEPA filter to remove 99.97% of particles 0.3 micrometers in diameter from the air.

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We’ve been seeing a ton of stories in the last year concerning collection societies around the world increasing their efforts to collect money from any sort of entity that plays music ever — even if it actually ends up causing significant harm to new and up-and-coming musicians. The efforts usually focus on two areas: (1) increasing the fees they’re able to demand from venues (usually set by the government) and (2) getting places that barely play any music at all to pay up at exorbitant rates. SOCAN, up in Canada, is supposedly working on both of these fronts, with reader Adam Bell pointing out that it’s been going after gymnastics clubs because a small number of kids who use them practice routines done to music. But, of course, SOCAN wants to calculate fees not based on the small number of people who actually use music (which is usually intended for themselves, anyway, not for others — which should exclude the usual “ambiance” reasoning that collections societies claim), but the “average number of persons per week per room multiplied by $2.14.” This can really add up for small businesses, and many gymnastics clubs are refusing to pay, recognizing that they might not be able to afford it at all if they want to stay in business. It’s difficult to see how that helps anyone.

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Eco Factor: Energy-saving data center relies on energy-efficient servers and on-site power generation.

Syracuse University has announced the development of the Green Data Center, which has been built with partners IBM and New York State. The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot data center, dubbed the Green Data Center, is designed to be one of the greenest data centers in the world, with an expected energy savings of up to 50%.

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I’m completely in love with these adorable illustrations by mid-century-modern-loving artist and illustrator Jenn Ski. Eight different breeds represented here, each with their own unique characteristics beautifully captured for the Moderncat lover. The Maine Coon looks just like my Mackenzie!

The print is available from Jenn’s Etsy shop and it looks like you can contact her if you would like to get one of the individual images by itself.

Despite the steady stream of columns I’ve been writing, life in Barcelona has been a bit more complicated than one easily reduced, column-ready anecdote per week. Now, in a month it will all be over, and I’ve thought of one last topic about which I never quite got around to writing about: endings. About coming home.

I remember it was one of the first long weekends in September or October, and people from the program had scattered to the four winds, or rather the winds going to Amsterdam, Oktoberfest and Rome. I stayed back. I felt like I barely knew where I was in Barcelona. I didn’t feel much up to hopping on a plane bound for another country.

The first night, I was cooking in my room. More specifically, I was washing potatoes in the sink and heating oil on the stove while I watched television on my computer. I had the door open and the windows cracked, hoping to avoid the guy at reception calling to ask if I was dying in a blaze, since it seemed like every time the stove was on it tripped the fire alarm. I was so engrossed in my multitasking that when I registered that the open door creaking, a girl I had met but barely ever spoken to was already sitting on my bed and striking up conversation.

I was drying the potatoes and beginning to attempt to peel them with a knife while I evaluated the situation. This girl was in the program, but she’d maybe been in my room once? After that, I’d only noticed her because of how hung over she always seemed in our nine o’ clock class. She was very short, so I worried about it less. After all, if she did fall asleep in class, her head would not have far to fall to the desk.

That night she was drinking a beer, and having that special sort of “conversation” that amounts to a monologue with pauses for breathing which an interlocutor might misinterpret as an invitation to participate. Her topic? She’d been scheduled to stay a year and was seeking some justification for cutting her stay here short.

“It’s just, I know I could make a life for myself here,” she said, and paused, taking a sip from her Heineken, “but why bother when I’m just going to rip it all up in eight months time?”

At first I tried to give her real advice. I talked about how connections made had their own intrinsic worth, how the focus on a relationship couldn’t be the end date, whether it was with a person or a city. Blah, blah, blah. She didn’t care much for what I said though, of course. Finishing her beer, she looked up and asked me if I’d like one. I said sure, and she went off to her room to fetch it. I walked out into the hallway and realized my door had probably been the only open one she’d found on all three floors. There wasn’t anyone else to listen.

Of course, I had been having the opposite debate with myself–whether or not to extend my stay. I’d avoid spending a painful five-month stretch before my 21st birthday in the States, for one, but it was more than that. More than anything, it was that I love this place. Unlike the girl in my room, I would have loved more time here, no matter how much harder it would have been to leave it in the end. There was a variety of reasons why I ended up deciding not to stay–cost, timing, legal status in the country–but most of all, I have spent enough time outside of things. Because that is what being nine hours out of sync with my friends and six with my family has been like: a world apart.

Back home, you, dear reader, are getting ready for finals. Me, too. All that reading and writing, all that thinking and living–it comes to an end. No matter how long I stayed here, that’s inescapable. No number of extensions and incompletes will get you away from it. Time moves forward, and we move with it. Always another phase beginning before the one that’s ending starts making any sense. Always a newer, shinier brass ring at which to grasp.

Impermanence.

After the plane peels off the runway here, so close to the ocean that it seems like the wheels must be grazing the water, it will finally creep up into the sky. It will roll back over the city, across the coast, and I will see the tangled mess of streets in the ciutat vella, behind the remnants of old medieval walls. Beyond that I will see the clunky, expansive regularity of what the city has since become. And I will be home. And I will be gone.

Daily Random Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 large onions, sliced
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 900 grams / 2 pounds sauerkraut
• 4 large carrots, sliced
• 12 juniper berries (omit if using sauerkraut with juniper)
• 300 milliliters / 1 1/4 cups vegetable stock
• 15 vegetarian sausages, grilled until well browned

METHOD:
In a large flameproof casserole, soften the onion in the oil gently over a low to medium heat for about 10 minutes. Add the sauerkraut and the carrots, toss together well, then add the juniper berries. Stir in the stock and simmer covered for 1 1/2 hours. Add a little water if necessary to keep the mixture moist during cooking. Add the sausages just before serving, mix well, and serve with a big bowl of mashed potatoes.

The other day I posted that the new 2010 Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Calendar had arrived, but also noted that I didn’t get one this year. My aunt gave me a really cute mini calendar she thought I’d like (and I did) – Fresh Picked from BrownTrout. I don’t love big calendars because I like my office wall near my desk a little bare, and this calendar being a mini is perfect.

Besides being packed with garden farm goodness, Fresh Picked is a green product. It’s printed with soy and vegetable based inks on sustainable paper from FSC certified forests. I think this one is a great little stocking stuffer. I think if you’re going to buy a paper calendar you should aim for recycled paper – which is the one issue I have with the Garden Almanac calendars.

Below are a few more garden calendars that are also printed on recycled paper… I really like the first one.

A Year of Healthy Living Wall Calendar – features topics that approach food as a nurturing component of life that supports and sustains you. Artful fruit and vegetable photographs along with monthly nutritious recipes and helpful tips.

Herbs 2010 Wall Calendar

Dream Gardens 2010 Wall Calendar – a collection of the most beautiful gardens in America. Plus features helpful tips on ways to achieve your own garden bliss and seasonal how-to’s for year round gardening.

I like photo calendars best, but if you like illustrated garden art then Herb Garden 2010 Wall Calendar is pretty slick offering lovely illustrated herbs, birdhouses, and other garden treats.

Kitchen 2010 Deluxe Wall Calendar – has a focus on culinary still-life photography but natural and green foods, plus offers food lore.

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Fresh Picked 2010 Mini Calendar

With the movie industry’s lawyers recently demanding that ISP Portlane shut down the OpenBitTorrent tracker, claiming (without any evidence) that it was just a rebranded version of The Pirate Bay’s tracker, it seemed possible that the Swedish courts would roll over again. However, in a bit of a surprise, the court has pointed out that it’s a big stretch to hold the ISP liable without more evidence, and has refused to order the shutdown of OpenBitTorrent. Nice to see that the courts don’t always just accept what the movie industry says without further examination.

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In a post last week we looked at where to find the best eco-sex toys. Then I noted I’d be back with more info about natural additions (organic lube) and some recycling info. Then to top it off I forgot. Well, I’m back now with some more information about natural lubes. Later (this time I swear) we’ll look at sex toy recycling.

Weekend Getaway gift set from Good Clean Love – awesome company!

Why natural lube:

If you’re going to go through the cost and hassle of locating eco-friendly sex toys, why on earth would you top off your toys with a toxic, chemical laden lube? In fact, Time Magazine notes, “Most of the personal lubricants in the U.S. — drugstores sold $82 million worth of them last year — contain chemicals found in oven cleaner, brake fluid and antifreeze.” AND you want to put them where?!

You have lots of other, greener, safer options.

You can choose silicone lubes, but they’re not as good as water based. Silicone is man made, but can’t be absorbed into your skin or mucus membranes so it’s safer than a major chemical lube. Still you’ll want to look for fragrance free, color free, and so on to avoid other chemicals. Oil based lubes can be harmful for women trapping bacteria under a coat of oil, plus these lubes can break down condoms. If you’re looking for organic lubes you’ll have the most luck with water based products. Water-based personal lubricants are the safest for the planet BUT also the most easily absorbed by you, so you have to look for 100% natural and organic products. Also note that while water based lubes have pros they also need to be reapplied more frequently – if you think that reapplying is fun, it’s easier to handle.

Some natural choices:

Firefly Organics makes a 100% natural moisturizing lubricant with pure plant butters like natural Shea Butter and Cocoa Butter. The lube does not contain glycerin, silicone or petroleum, is preservative-free, and safe for use with silicone, rubber or polyurethane accessories and toys. The company does not test on animals and the packaging is fully recyclable.

Yes makes an certified organic water-based lube with organic Aloe Vera, organic Flax extract, three synergistic plant based gums – guar, locust bean and xanthan. Food grade preservatives are included, and citric acid to buffer the pH. Yes is also Vegetarian Society trusted which means products are approved as free from animal derived and GMO ingredients, as well as cruelty free.

Sliquid Organics Natural Lube – is a water-based lube that’s both glycerin and paraben free, the use of plant cellulose as a thickening agent makes it last longer than most glycerin-free lubes. Product contains organic botanical extracts that are independently certified by Quality Certification Services in compliance with the USDA National Organic Program.

Many other companies make eco-friendly lube though and you can even find all natural men’s stroke cream and organic massage oils.  For more organic and natural options check out…

• Sliquid Organics Stimulating O Gel
• Evergreen organic soy candles – which can be applied as massage rub.
• Good Clean Love
• Rub Me Massage Bar
• Sensua Organic
• Discreet Organic Lubricant

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Organic & Natural Personal Lubricants

Much of the coverage of the UK’s proposed Digital Economy bill has centered, and rightly so, on the damaging consequences to civil liberties for Britons caused by its Internet termination provisions. Less documented is quite how damaging these regulations are for the bill’s own namesake: Britain’s present and future digital economy.

The history of Net businesses shows that an integral feature of the digital economy is decentralized innovation and the creation of generative new markets by individuals or small, loosely-affiliated groups. These generators of wealth often begin as end-users of the Net, unconnected with established companies. When they start, they don’t have lobbyists, and their entrepreneurship is not yet recognized as part of the country’s vital digital infrastructure or core creative industries — or even a business interest at all.

So how does the Digital Economy Bill treat Britain’s present and future engines of digital growth?

First, it burdens the digital industries with the demands of older incumbent sectors. The Digital Economy Bill has an open-ended requirement that ISPs pay for and implement record-keeping and technical measures against subscribers, as lobbied for by the entertainment industry: costs and red-tape that the ISP industry has strongly protested.

But it’s not just established ISPs that suffer. The repeated demand by the entertainment industry that intermediaries should police their networks has been expanded by the bill to include the subscribers on the edge of the network. If you’re not an ISP, but other people use your network to get their net access — if you run an open Wi-Fi spot, for instance, like the British Library — you’ll now be vulnerable to being terminated or constrained by the actions of those users.

The MP in charge of ferrying the Digital Economy Bill through the House of Commons assures us on Twitter that it’s “still possible to have open networks whose settings protect the host from unlawful activity on the network.” But in a digitally networked environment, where forwarding an email might be infringement, and downloading a music album may just be two artists using the Net to work together, effective policing of nebulous violations of infringement by the intermediaries is absurd.

Open Wi-Fi nodes are currently the most common scenario where subscribers at the edge are also providers. But in future network topologies, communities at the edge may play a more widespread role in distributing Net access. Decentralised mesh networking is still experimental, but is already used in locales from San Francisco to the Scottish Islands, and could yet emerge as a viable complement to centralized broadband providers. Except in United Kingdom under the Digital Economy Bill, that is, where independent mesh nodes might now be responsible for all the traffic that passes through them. The potential for a new competitor in the world of bandwidth provision has been sacrificed to the powers invested in Britain’s status quo.

Another indication that the Digital Economy’s drafters don’t seem to understand the immediate future of the digital economy is the section on internet domain registries. The ostensible reason for this section is to stabilize the private organization that runs the “.uk” top level domain (TLD), by allowing the UK government to take over DNS registries, and change their charters. But the language of the bill now means that “instability” could mean be interpreted as being insufficiently responsive to corporate trademark complaints. And the current draft allows the UK government to take over *any* TLD provider, including other countries’ TLD registries and non-geographic TLDs based in the UK. The end result? Profitable registries will move away from Britain’s unstable regulatory regime where any registry might be seized by the local government and set up shop in friendlier markets. It seems that the UK’s Department of Business either ignores or is ignorant of the fact that this digital economy sector is due to expand significantly as ICANN pursues its plans to open up the top level domain space in the next few years.

As we’ve described previously, the bill notoriously proposes that a British secretary of state can change the entirety of British copyright law, except for its criminal provisions, through secondary legislation. The legal uncertainty created in such an environment, when copyright policy is fundamental to the digital economy, is in itself irresponsible.

Note though, that he or she can only do change the law for one reason; for “preventing or reducing the inf.ringement of copyright by means of the Internet”. The result is a one-way ratchet on British copyright law, forsaking innovative new products and services whose business models are disruptive to the market dominators. From the piano roll to Betamax, vested interests in the creative industries have always defined potential new competitors as “infringement”. They have done so to the search engine and caching businesses (as characterised by the newspaper industry), the iPod and MP3 player sector (ripping music from CDs to MP3s will remain illegal in the UK), and, as Mandelson himself wrote when advocating for this power, online file storage companies. This new power can never be used to create new fair use exceptions or confirm the legality of a new Internet service or products: they can only be used to outlaw and impose new restrictions on them.

Less than twenty years ago in the UK, the first Internet connections were enthusiasts grouping together on a BBS for common benefit; a decade ago, the idea that two of Britain’s richest individuals would run a blogging network and the distributor of an operating system initially built by “hobbyists” would have seemed bizarre to many at the time. But that’s how the digital economy works: when left free to grow and change their roles, those at the leading edge innovate, and help establish the multi-billion dollar industries of the future.

The success of the digital economy in Britain, as elsewhere, is not served by segmenting the multi-faceted roles of Net users into exclusive legal castes of subscriber, provider, and rightsholder. The fanatic emphasis on stricter IP enforcement as deterrence belies the legal flexibility which allow new industries to grow. This is a bill which is not only offensive to civil liberties, but a powerful disincentive to the innovators setting the keystones of the digital economy, and creating the tools that make us all more free.

At NCAA nationals, the Stanford men’s and women’s cross country teams both dipped far below expectations and finished a devastating 10th and 16th, respectively.

The Nov. 23 meet did not go as planned for the men’s team. They were ranked No. 1 going in and had their eyes set on the win all season. However, with a score of 354 points, they did not even make the podium.

“Our objective — was clearly to put ourselves in position to win the meet,” said Coach Jason Dunn. “We had a rough day, things weren’t going our way and we didn’t respond well. We didn’t imagine any scenario in which we finished 10th.”

Oklahoma State won the meet with 127 points, followed by Oregon with 143 and Alabama with 173.

Sophomore Chris Derrick led the team with a 29 minutes, 15 seconds third-place finish in what was a strong run for him, and the best time he ran all season. Junior Elliot Heath followed him in 30:20, coming in 33rd overall, followed by junior Jake Riley in 46th, who crossed the line in 30:31. Redshirt freshman Miles Unterreiner came in at 31:06, finishing 93rd. The fifth runner was redshirt junior Justin Marpole-Bird, finishing a disappointing 180th in 32:24.

Not scoring for the team was junior Brendan Gregg, a consistent contributor all season who finished 196th in 33:04. Redshirt freshman Benjamin Johnson also did not score for the team, finishing 209th in 34:21. There were a total of 250 runners in the elite race.

Marpole-Bird and Gregg finished dramatically slower than at Regionals just 10 days before, where they finished 30:42 and 30:57, respectively. Derrick and Heath both improved on their 30:38 regional time, and Riley had been out on injury.

The Cardinal came in planning to run as a team, but quickly fell apart. The runners left Indiana disappointed after losing to teams they had beaten earlier in the season, including Oregon.

“It’s left a very, very sour taste in our mouth. It’s hard — When you have three months of perfection evaporate in 30 minutes, it’s difficult to accept,” Dunn said.

The team will return in full next year, and will look for a strong performance next year.

“We will learn from it, we’ll get better next year,” Dunn said. “It’s one of those things we have to go through, and we’re going to be better for it.”

The team now moves into indoor track season, which will intensify into January. The team has a lot to think about going into track and especially next cross-country season.

The finish to the cross-country season was disappointing for the Cardinal women as well, as they took 16th at the NCAAs despite having set their eyes on the podium.

“We are definitely disappointed with our finish at NCAAs,” said senior Kate Niehaus. “It is pretty unacceptable for our program.”

After a troubled season of injuries and slow returns, the Stanford women were prepared to come back full force this past weekend in Terra Haute, Ind., but failed to do so. Sophomore Stephanie Marcy placed the highest for Stanford, finishing in 53rd with a time of 20:57.4. Marcy barely missed earning All-American honors, but has clearly established herself as the No. 1 runner on the team.

The other Cardinal women who competed in the race were freshmen Kathy Kroeger and Alex Dunne, sophomore Georgia Griffin, seniors Maddie O’Meara and Niehaus. Junior Alex Gits started the race but was unable to finish.

“We can’t change what happened,” Niehaus added. “We can only take what lessons we can from the meet and look forward.”

Indeed, the women are grateful that six of the seven runners will be returning, which means that they will have an opportunity to redeem themselves as early as in the upcoming months.

“We are lucky as distance runners that track is right around the corner,” Niehaus agreed. “And I can guarantee that we are extremely motivated to show how capable our team actually is.”

With the upcoming indoor track season, these women will have a chance to prove themselves and better their season record and times.

“We have high hopes for track season,” Kroeger said. “I’m looking forward to running indoor track for the first time.”

Kroeger is also looking forward to returning to cross country next year, helping the team place higher at Nationals and utilizing the experience she gained at this year’s NCAAs.

Ogura Industrial Corp. is offering customers’ new versions of their TX Series Wankel based rotary positive displacement blowers.
The new models are derived from the company’s production Automotive and Marine duty Air Blowers or Superchargers. These new blowers are designed to be driven by Electric motors for use in both Industrial and Mobile applications.

These new designs allow users to directly couple an Electric motor to the blowers input shaft. This close coupling of the motor to the blower allows for a small package and the ability to have full boost regardless of engine RPM. Which makes them ideal for Industrial furnaces, Floating passenger trains, Diesel Emission controls and Fuel Cells, just to name a few.

Stock designs from 400 cc’s per revolution (leaf Model TX04) to 2,800 cc’s per revolution (leaf Model TX28) are available. Smaller sizes from 20 cc’s per revolution (the TX002) to 200 cc’s per revolution (the TX02) are in full development and available on special order to select customers.

Efficiencies as high as 65 to 70% can be achieved by the blower depending on model, pressure and flow. Pressure differentials of up to 2.0 can be achieved for short durations, with 1.8 running continuously.

The high efficiency and small size of these new blowers are very beneficial for Mobile applications where size and weight are critical.

These devices are only a small part of Ogura’s product offerings that include over 3000 different designs of Electro Magnetic Clutches and Brakes as well.

Theses clutches are only a small part of over 3,000 different clutch models that Ogura has available. If this clutch does not meet your needs please contact us at 732-271-7361 and we will assist you in finding one that does or if you prefer please visit our website at www.ogura-clutch.com for immediate information. Ogura Industrial Corporation, Somerset, NJ

At the SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2009 exhibition in Nuremberg, Dunkermotoren present their DC-servo motors with PROFIBUS DP Interface.

With the DC- servo motor family Dunkermotoren offers powerful and intelligent drives with an output power from 40 up to 500 Watt.
These compact drives are already available for years with the standard Fieldbus Interface CANopen in accordance with Communication Profile DS 301 and Device Profile DSP 402 .

The manufacturer of drive solutions is expanding his product range with the well-established Interface Profibus DP V1. Intuitively parameterizing by the help of popular Projection Tools (e.g. SIMATIC Manager) is possible. Prefabricated function modules for programming of standard positioning- and velocity modes are included in the scope of delivery. The Dunkermotoren experts support the machine manufacturer to implement customer specific solutions.
Dunkermotoren provides suitable drive solutions for different fields of application. The customer can choose from a wide range of drive components. Additional to the motors, the product range includes planetary- and wormgearboxes as well as a variety of encoders, power-off and power-on brakes. This enables machine manufacturers to configurate the optimized drive solution from standard components in cooperation with experts from Dunkermotoren, at a minimum of design- and time efforts.

Ircon®, the worldwide leader in infrared (IR) noncontact temperature measurement, has introduced the new Modline® 6 Series of infrared thermometers. The new line of high performance sensors features advanced signal processing and background-reflected energy compensation capabilities, and includes one-and two-colour fiber optic IR devices designed for harsh operating environments.

The rugged Modline 6 Series thermometers deliver the best value in terms of price, performance, features and ease-of-use of any available fiber-optic infrared thermometer. They are used in a variety of demanding industrial applications, including metal heat treating, steel production, foundries, and primary and secondary glass.

The Modline 6 firmware now provides engineers with enhanced signal processing options, including averaging, “peak hold” and “valley hold.” The thermometers also incorporate a state-of-the-art electro-optic design offering built-in compensation for background-reflected energy. These features are accessed via Modline 6 Multidrop Support Software, which is intended for remote sensor configuration and data acquisition, display and archiving. The software includes demonstration tutorials that pictorially guide users step-by-step through the setup of signal processing and programmable relay functions.

Proprietary electronics support other advanced features, including two-way serial communications, remote sensor setup and configuration, real-time display of target temperature, and field calibration software.

The Modline 6 sensor includes a fiber-optic re-imaging lens interfacing to an electronics box, which has a bright LED display for access to key sensor functions and live temperature output. With the Modline 6, there is no need to open the electronics box when adjustments to sensor settings are required.

Modline 6 Series thermometers use high-speed digital signal processors with an RS-485 serial data communications networking capability supporting up to 32 sensors. System requirements for the Modline 6 Multidrop Support Software include a personal computer with a minimum of 4 MB of RAM operating under Microsoft® Windows NT4/Windows 2000/XP. The software is included at no additional cost with all new Modline 6 Series thermometers.

For more information, visit www.ircon.com

The regulators provide the ultimate in regulation of pressure and feature excellent repeatability, sensitive 20-turn adjustment and miniature size. The balance of the valve seat gives an output that is virtually unaffected by changes in supply pressure, only 0.1 PSI output change with a 10 PSI supply pressure change. The maximum supply pressure is 150 PSI.

Air Logic’s unique dovetail porting system offers threaded ports in 10-32 UNF, 1/8-27 NPT, ¼-18 NPT, and M5. Push to Connect Dovetail ports are available for ¼” 3/16”, 5/16”, and 5/32” O.D. tubing as well as a variety of metric sizes.

The brushed DC-motors will be complemented by a strong
member of the family

At the SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2009 exhibition from 24 to 26 November 2009, Dunkermotoren presents the new brushed DC-motor GR 63S. This motor complements the gap between GR 63 to GR 80 with an output power up to 130 Watts.
The high output power results from ferrite magnets with a high flux density and also from the housing of the motor which is dip-coated in plastic paint. This enables a better heat dissipation at the motor housing.

Looking just at the figures, the torque of the GR 63S compared with the same sized standard motor GR63 increase by 37%, from 27 Ncm to 37 Ncm at almost identical nominal speed. The power density also improved from 0,26 W/cm3 to 0,31 W/cm3.

The mechanical dimensions and interfaces are identical with the GR 63.
The motor is available in different rated voltages 24, 48 and 60 VDC with flying leads. Different shaft lenghts and diameters and shafts on both sides can be ordered. Standard is protection class IP 50, higher class available on request. The motor is characterized by a minimum of emitted interference, versions with higher protection against interference available on request.
In combination with our modular system we can offer innovative drive solutions based on brushless DC- Servo Motors (up to 500 Watt) at short notice. Further components include planetary gearboxes (up to 160 Nm) and worm gearboxes (up to 30 Nm) from our own in-house development and production. These drive systems are completed by a variety of encoders, power-off and power-on brakes.

The Soba Ex is ATEX certified for use in explosive zones 0,1,2 (Gas) and 20, 21, 22 (Dust). Thanks to its special construction: a first copolymer polypropylene casing recovered by a press-vulcanised hypalon housing, the Soba Ex is highly appreciated in the chemical, oil & gas industry, for applications involving aggressive and corrosive liquids, such as fuel, oil, hydrocarbons, acids, solvents, alcohols, etc.

The Soba Ex is supplied with an adjustable 250g resin ballast. It can be used for pump control and be connected to several pumps. It can also be used as high/low level alarm. The Soba Ex must be obligatorily connected through an intrinsically safety relay, which ATMI can supply upon request (You have 4 types of relays to choose from!).

Power supply: 24 VAC/VDC – 10mA or 12 VAC/VDC – 100mA, Maximum pressure: 4 bars, Allowed fluid density: 0.80 to 1.10, Maximum temperature: 70ºC, H07RN8-F certified 3x1mm2 HR HY (Hypalon) cable.

Absolents oil mist filter ODF is well suited for use in applications such as:

• Grinding (cutting fluid emulsion)
• Turning (cutting fluid emulsion)
• Milling (cutting fluid emulsion)
• Electrical discharge machining
• Machining, using straight oil and moderate loads

Absolent is one of the world’s leading suppliers of air cleaning equipment for collection of oil mist and oil smoke particles in industrial operations.

Our products and services totally eliminate the targeted air pollutions as well as reduce energy consumption in factories around the world, which support the global struggle for a healthier environment.

We serve the main part of Europe and North America as well as China and are continuously entering new geographical markets.

Most of the Absolent products are designed with our own patented technology and we are dedicated to constant improvement of this technology as well as incorporate new.