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Once December hits (and it’s literally just around the corner), the countdown begins for James Cameron’s The Avatar (PS3, PSP, PC, Wii, DS, and Xbox 3…

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HP Cyber Monday Sale Underway on Sunday

Hewlett-Packard, or HP, has announced that the HP Cyber Monday sale is on now. HP, which is the largest PC maker in the world, has sales in many different product categories, with up to 60 percent in savings.

The HP Cyber Monday Sale will last 4 days. This gives consumers until Dec. 2nd to save big on HP hardware. Examples include up to $545 in savings on the HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition Series Notebook, as well as up to $545 in savings on the HP Pavilion Elite e9280t Series Customizable Desktop PC. Consumers should be warned that some oof these deals include the always annoying mail-in rebate.

Other HP Cyber Monday deals include printer sales. You can save up to 50 percent on HP all-in-one printers. HP is offering free shipping on many items as well.

Other HP Cyber Monday deals include a free gift card worth up to $20
when you buy 2 HP ink cartridges. You’ll also get free next day delivery on the inks.

Those with laser printers, rather than inkjet printers, can see similar HP Cyber Monday gift card savings. If you buy two toner cartridges, you can get a $30 gift card. Once again, you will receive as free next-day delivery.

In fact, the start of Cyber Monday sales on Sunday raises the question that has already been asked by some analysts. That is, how relevant is Cyber Monday? As more people gain access to broadband, does Cyber Monday even matter any longer? That’s a question to be answered as sales figures for HP’s Cyber Monday sale, and others, roll in.

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I definitely need to live in Japan. Perhaps you remember the unbelievable cat-friendly house from Japan that I posted last year. Well, here is another one that may be even more incredible. The Cats’ House designed by Japanese architecture firm Fauna +DeSIGN was built for the owners 16 cats (and 5 canines). It has every kind of climbing and perching structure a feline family could ever dream of, all integrated beautifully into a modern interior.

There appears to be great attention to detail throughout the house. Notice the rounded corners on the climbing shelves. Much safer for cats than sharp pointed corners.

There are even access areas for humans to make it easier to clean the upper perching areas.

Lots of natural light gives the space a wonderful open feel. This handsome silver tabby is certainly enjoying himself!

Catwalks and shelves galore along with secret tunnels and passageways just for cats.

This giant floor-to-ceiling sisal-wrapped scratching and climbing post has got to by my favorite feature.

This amazing house was recently filmed for an upcoming show on Animal Planet. There are many more photos at www.catshouse.jp as well as some videos of the cats enjoying their home.

Thank goodness that Goma’s mom Sachie understands Japanese, because she keeps finding these incredible things! Thanks, Sachie!

There is a definite association between “covert coping” in the face of unfair treatment in the workplace. Men who tend to walk away from conflict at work could be setting themselves up for a myocardial infarction and cardiac death.

In a prospective study of Swedish workers, those who used “covert coping” techniques when they felt they had been unfairly treated were more likely to have an MI or die of ischemic heart disease. Constanze Leineweber, PhD, of Stockholm University in Sweden, and colleagues  in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, expanded on research indicating  that covert coping – or  walking away from a conflict and dealing with the anger “indirectly and introvertly” – increases cardiovascular risk factors. They cautioned that the study didn’t pin down a causal relationship between covert coping and cardiovascular disease. Instead, they said, it raises “an interesting hypothesis, which needs to be confirmed or refuted by future studies.” The researchers analyzed data from a long-running prospective cohort study in Stockholm, the Work, Lipids, and Fibrinogen study, dubbed WOLF for short.

Covert coping was measured by questionnaire, in which the participant was asked about how he or she dealt with unfair treatment from either a boss or a fellow worker. The questionnaire did not measure whether or not the participant experienced unfair treatment at work nor how often covert coping mechanisms were used.

The participants were asked whether they sometimes, often, seldom, or never:

Let things pass without saying anything
Walk away
Feel bad — developing a headache, for instance
Get into a bad temper at home

The results yielded a covert coping score that could range from 8 to 32; the researchers stratified covert coping as low if the score was 8 through 14, medium if it was 15 through 18, and high if it was 19 or more.

They also categorized immediate responses – to the first two options – as low, medium, or high.

Compared with those who had low covert coping scores, the researchers found:

When the unfair treatment came from a boss, those who sometimes or often walked away were three times as likely to have an MI or ischemic death. (The hazard ratio was 3.05, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.23 to 7.58.).

Letting things pass showed a nonsignificant trend to more cardiovascular outcomes for those who did so more often. When the unfair treatment came from a co-worker, the pattern was similar, except that those who said they seldom walked away also had a significant risk for cardiovascular outcomes. The hazard ratio for those who seldom walked away was 4.08, compared with 4.45 for those who said they did so sometimes or often. Both ratios were statistically significant. Neither of the delayed reactions had any association with cardiovascular outcomes – feeling bad or becoming ill-tempered at home – either for unfair treatment from a boss or a co-worker.

Future research, Leineweber and colleagues said, should look at “whether interventions designed to reduce covert coping would alter risk of myocardial infarction and cardiac death.”

Amazon’s off to start your week right with their Cyber Monday deals. You want to get your games for cheap? Then this is where you’d want to be. It’s n…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Nintendo DSi fall beyond the third spot in the Japanese hardware sales charts. Until now, that is. But before you go …

Auburn, Mass., November 5, 2009 – Kadant Web Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE:KAI), launched its latest product designed for cleaning the surface of paper dryers. The Dryer Cleaner™ device fits into conventional doctor blade holders and incorporates application specific cleaning pads for cleaning and polishing the surface of paper drying cylinders.

The Dryer Cleaner device removes dryer surface contaminates such as dirt and scale that can lead to sheet quality defects and sheet breaks. In addition, removing contamination buildup improves heat transfer consistency across the dryer surface offering improved surface temperature uniformity in the cross-machine direction.

According to Mohan Jayaraman, R&D manager at Kadant Web Systems, “The Dryer Cleaner device allows buildup to be removed without special release coatings. And because the device is easily inserted into the existing doctor system, it is a cost-effective method for maintaining clean dryer surfaces with minimal effort.”

Q: Being a broke college student, I don’t always have the funds to feed my baking addiction. So my very sweet grandmother took it upon herself to stock me up with flour, white sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Unfortunately, she purchased me a hefty amount of SALTED butter.  

I don’t use much butter aside from baking, so I’m wondering if leaving out the salt that recipes call for and using salted butter would make a difference in flavor or texture?

Sent by Amanda

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Q: This summer, I signed up for organic CSA baskets for the first time. I’ve decided to continue getting baskets throughout the winter, because I’m trying to source my food more locally. However, I’m currently overloaded with potatoes. I’ve never been a huge eater of potatoes, so they accumulated throughout the summer months and now I’m receiving them in my winter basket. One of my fridge drawers is full of them and I have one full grocery bag above and beyond that.

I’m looking for recipes! I usually eat oven roasted potatoes for breakfast on the weekend and add potatoes to stews and soups. I’m not a big fan of mashed potatoes. I was able to freeze and can my way through other veggie gluts, but I’m at a loss with what to do with so many potatoes.

Sent by Liette

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Q: Recently i’ve been craving Asian dumplings and thinking about trying my hand at making some. I know they need to be steamed, but I don’t have a bamboo steamer.

Is there another way I can steam without having to buy one? I do have one of those flower-shaped folding steamer baskets.

Sent by Rebecca

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Q: I am making some baked goods to give as Christmas gifts to my co-workers and I am trying to find plain bakery boxes to wrap them up in.

Do you know of any good vendors I could get them from? All the places I’ve found online require you buy a case of 250 boxes. I certainly don’t need that many!

Sent by Molly

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Traders anxiously await an indication of whether Japan will intervene to halt the surging Yen, and the decline of the greenback.

Bloomberg: Contracts granting the right to buy the yen versus the dollar rose last week to a 2.1 percentage-point premium relative to options for selling Japan’s currency, according to Bloomberg data. The odds of the yen strengthening past 84.83 per dollar, the highest since July 1995, to 84.5 by the end of March rose to 80 percent, options data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said on Nov. 27 in Tokyo his nation will “do what is necessary” and he may contact U.S. and European officials to act, raising speculation that officials will intervene in foreign-exchange markets for the first time since 2004. The yen’s 14 percent advance against the dollar since April 6 threatens profits at exporters from Sony Corp. to Toyota Motor Corp.

However the latest word is that an intervention is a no-go:

Dow Jones: Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii ruled out currency intervention for the time being, saying it is “unthinkable” right now, Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun reported in its Monday morning edition.

“(We’re) now at the stage of monitoring the (currency market) situations and (intervention) is unthinkable,” Fujii was quoted as saying by the Mainichi.

The paper said Fujii made the remark to a group of reporters after he attended an unscheduled meeting of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his senior economy-related ministers.

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• Japanese Yen On A Tear
• Credit Default Swaps Augur Yen Body Slam
• Dollar Tanks Again After Chinese Banker Urges State To Buy More Euro And Yen

Will Spotify be headed off to the “next gen consoles”? This seems to be the rumor circulating the Internets, as excitement continues to grow for the p…

Just one more day left to make a donation to Colony Cats and enter to win a set of Curve perch shelves from Urban Pet Haus!  This wonderful organization is working hard to help improve the lives of cats in Central Ohio. Every donation will help to ensure that they can continue their good work.

We are currently 85% of the way to meeting our goal of raising $1000 for Colony Cats. Won’t you please make a donation today and help us reach our goal!

>>Visit the Colony Cats fundraising page at GiveForward to make a donation and enter to win!

As a potential financial crisis, traders have already forgotten about Dubai.

The key factor is that the UAE is backstopping banks, which, as we know from experience here, is the signal to go back to business as usual.

Bloomberg: The euro and the Australian dollar rose against the greenback and the yen after the United Arab Emirates’ central bank said it “stands behind” the country’s banks, easing concerns about a possible default by Dubai World.

The U.S. dollar pared earlier gains against Japan’s currency after the Mainichi newspaper reported Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii as saying the government won’t intervene to weaken the yen. The euro gained for the first time in three days after the Abu Dhabi-based central bank of the U.A.E. said lenders will be able to borrow using a special facility tied to their current accounts.

“The market is willing to assume that there will be no actual default in Dubai,” said Sean Callow, a strategist at Westpac Banking Corp. in Sydney. “We’re likely to get back to what everybody is most comfortable with, which is selling U.S. dollars.”

After swooning on Friday, the futures are already in the green for tomorrow.

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See Also:

• UAE Central Bank Intervenes To Stem Dubai Meltdown
• Here’s What Dubai Will Look Like If It Gets REALLY Bad
• Dubai Plans Appeal to Bondholders

Motion Index Drives Trunnion Index Drive units utilize our standard RT Series of Rotary Index Drives mounted in a vertical position. Trunnion Index Drives are ideal to move great mass with smaller units, which allows for space saving. All Trunnion Units can be ordered with standard or custom frames fully equipped with head and tailstock supports and one piece base weldments

Reinforced output flange bearing for higher tilting moment
Can be ordered as complete assembly with head stock, tail stock and base frame
Custom index and dwell angles can be tailored to your requirements
All sizes available in 100% programmable flexible Trunnion Dial Table solutions
Ready to accept most servo motor brands
Extremely reliable with long service lives
Available in clockwise, counter clockwise, oscillator index mode of operation
Flame or Induction hardened cams allowing smaller turntables to have higher load capabilities
High efficiency mechanical components require less input power
Barrel Cam and Cam followers and bearings fully immersed in oil bath
High precision cam followers and machined cams allow for accuracies of up to .0009″ (0.023 mm) while our Trunnion Index Drives are in dwell.
Cam followers are good for the entire calculated life of RT Series Trunnion Index Drive
Most RT Series models completely maintenance free
Highly efficient mechanical parts decreases input power needed to operate effectively
Completely wear-free when used with optional universal control TIC

The Noisecom 60 GHz Noise Figure test set has 4 separate systems designed to perform Y-factor noise figure measurements using a high performance Spectrum Analyzer or a dedicated receiver. Each system contains a highly stable V-band noise source, isolator(s), optional waveguide to coaxial transitions and an optional pre-amplifier for use with a spectrum analyzer. The two standard calibration tables have ENR data points at 1 GHz intervals.* System ENR is measured before the DUT connector and at the final output stage allowing for pre-test calibration of the system.

About Wireless Telecom Group Wireless Telecom Group, Inc designs and manufactures a variety of products serving the global wireless and telecommunications markets. Comprised of four brands brought together through acquisitions, Noisecom, Boonton, Microlab, and Willtek Communications, the group provides a complementary suite of RF and Microwave-based products, with a major portion focused on advanced telecom testing. Their products include peak power meters, precision noise generators, mobile phone testing solutions, and passive component solutions for cellular/mobile, WiFi, satellite, and other advanced communications networks, all critical enablers to the rapid growth in world-wide communications and computing solutions. This technological synergy has enabled Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. to become a full service supplier of both the commercial and military telecommunications industries. Wireless Telecom Group’s website address is www.wtcom.com. Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this news release may be considered “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include declarations regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company and its management. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could materially affect actual results. Such risks and uncertainties are identified in the Company’s reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended by Form 10-K/A, for the year ended December 31, 2007 and Forms 10-Q for 2008.

Seven models are today available. The number after the acronym indicates the number of blowing cavities. The model SFR 9/27 is equipped with 9 stations able to carry either 9 standard shell molds or 9 triple-cavity molds for a total of 27 blowing cavities. The model SFR 16/32 is equipped with 16 stations carrying twin cavities for a total of 32 cavities.

Applications
Mineral Water, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Fruit Juices, isotonics and functional drinks, Tee, coffee, Milk and milk based products, Edible oil.

Wireless Telecom Group Introduces the new Boonton 59318 RF Peak Power Sensor that is optimized for Boonton’s 4540
and 4500B Peak Power Meter product lines.

Wireless communication and aerospace technology is getting increasingly complex. Highly dynamic signals with noise like signal characteristics, fast switching carriers, as well as pulsed signals need to be measured and analyzed. Developers and engineers need measurement tools that allow them to tackle such intricate waveforms. Boonton proudly announces a new RF Power Sensor that fulfills these requirements – the 59318. The dynamic input power ranges from -24 dBm to +20 dBm in
Peak mode and -34 dBm to +20 dBm in CW mode, with input frequencies of up to 18GHz. With its very fast rise time of <10 ns and a bandwidth of 50MHz, the new 59318 can handle the most difficult signal forms. Due to its high speed the sensor is likewise ideal for statistical measurements.These are utilized if signals show noise like characteristics; hence do not support conventional trigger methods. The 59318 is extraordinary fast but also able to handle very low frequencies, starting already as low as 50 MHz. Frequency range is dependent upon which bandwidth the sensor is set to; it ranges from 0.5 GHz to 18 GHz in high bandwidth mode and from 50 MHz to 18GHz in low bandwidth mode. All 59310 sensors are equipped with an N (m) connector. “Boonton customers expect high quality, combined with state of the art test equipment allowing them to solve their measurement problems. In wireless technology, that translates to reliably measuring very complex signal forms, at very high accuracy – and our new Boonton 59318 Power Sensor delivers”, says Wolfgang Damm, Product Management Director of the Wireless Telecom Group. “Not only is this sensor built with the latest technology, it offers an outstanding value at a very affordable price.