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|2012-09-06, 07:35
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Ch 31 was translated yesterday. It's getting to the good part. It's going to lead to Ichiko's friends first battle with the gods.
On the side note, after what's happening in 62 I don't think the high ranking gods will ignore Sakura Ichiko's actions.
|2012-09-06, 18:36
|Link #165
Staring into your soul.
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: At the darkness beyond time.
Spoiler for not totally sure,but:
someone migth correct me since my japanese is still very basic.
anyway, churchblue im starting to think you're trolling us since you keep talking of new chapters without spoiler tag, you're still mentioning things people that read the trans haven't even got a clue about, just put any comment or opinion thats beyond the scans on a spoiler tag.
|2012-09-09, 21:43
|Link #168
Join Date: Sep 2012
Oh I see, but it doesn't say much. Anyway, why not find someone who has the recent issue of Jump Square magazine and ask him/her to email to him/her. This much be a not so popular manga for it not to be scanned to more recent one and I do agree that waiting for volume to come out is a pain. I'm a big fan of R+V II and so of the other J SQ manga. I find it strange that no one scan the whole book, but it is what it is. I think that's why chruchblue posts those recent summaries, so if by chance someone can help him/her to understand what going on. I only understood only 20% of what happening even if the autotranslate is confusing.
The only way to solve churchblue's problem is for someone to give him/her to issue or have someone scan the manga to him/her. There I go ranting off topic.
Also, I think churchblue is a dude. I've never since a girl get annoyed of scanlations this much.
Anyway, let's stop picking out churchblue and move the thread along. Even won't buy the magazine to see just this manga (waste money). Thank you.
|2012-09-09, 22:36
|Link #169
Staring into your soul.
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: At the darkness beyond time.
ok here is the deal, usually free and fast magazine scans are done only on popular series, others like this one are on request and the scanner sometimes can even charge for fast and/or HD scans, also the people that know japanese in this thread have no interest in reading the summaries wich means no translation on those, CxC is doing a fast scanlation, they stagnated compared to how they were scanlating before, but still we are getting around 5 chapters per month, wich is a lot if you notice how long the chapters of this manga usually are, so you should just wait those, and don't "demand" scans so you dont get banned again.
the best advice i can give is to try other forums, you migth get better luck there, you could even find some scans, also if you're using google translate, use it on segments of text instead ot the whole thing, that can give you a translation with more sense.
|2012-09-15, 23:31
|Link #179
The Red Dragon Emperor
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New York, USA
^correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean a chapter of the manga that is not in v13 but will be in v14? Also, I know a site that has the manga in chinese(can't read them, but at least flick through them) that is up to chapter 54.
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Family businesses from every trade imaginable have been around for centuries — from shoemakers to confectioners to farmers. But did you know that the world's oldest documented family business is a construction company? It's true, according to research conducted by William T. O'Hara, president emeritus of Bryant College in Rhode Island and author of Centuries of Success: Lessons from the World's Most Enduring Family Businesses. As reported in Family Business magazine, O'Hara's study revealed that construction company Kongo Gumi, based in Osaka, Japan, was founded in the year 578. After the company's first job of building the Buddhist Shitennoji Temple, which still stands, 40 generations of the Kongo family have gone on to work in the business. Ironically, 80% of the firm's $100 million annual revenue today continues to involve building and repairing Buddhist temples — more than 1,400 years after it all began.
Although the electrical contracting industry doesn't date back nearly that far, it shows no lack of successful family businesses — many electrical contractors have the business in their blood. But the road isn't an easy one. In fact, according to Family Business Review, a publication of the Family Firm Institute in Boston, only 30% of family-owned businesses survive into the second generation, 12% are still viable into the third generation, and about 3% operate into the fourth generation and beyond.
What's it like to work in a family-run business, especially when multiple family members are in the mix? We've all heard the advice, whether it be from a friend, neighbor, or self-proclaimed human resources expert: Never date a coworker, don't mix work with pleasure, and beware of going into business with friends or family. So can you really work with family members day-in and day-out and still sit down with them for Thanksgiving dinner? The following companies profiled here say "absolutely" and serve as living proof that family businesses can flourish.
Tomco Electric. Dennis Thompson, a second-generation electrical contractor, and his wife Jeanie, founded Bend, Ore.-based Tomco Electric in 1973. Starting out as a small operation, Dennis has welcomed the challenges the electrical industry has thrown his way. With the help of his son, Colby, who now runs the business, the father and son pair has turned Tomco Electric into a successful commercial and industrial contractor.
While raising three sons and three daughters, Dennis admits he didn't push his children to take over the business. Instead, Dennis says he encouraged his boys to work for other people to gain exposure to the electrical trade, learn the ropes, and prove themselves. In fact, one of his three sons took that advice a little too seriously and is now a competitor.
Although he is still the owner, Dennis eventually passed the torch to Colby, who holds a degree in construction management, but not before making sure he'd paid his dues, knowing that the stakes to perform and succeed would be higher for a family member. In retrospect, he says, one of his proudest moments was watching his son gain not only his respect, but the respect of his fellow workers. "I basically had Colby come up through the ranks in other companies to prove himself because any time you're family there's always the attitude [from other people] that you don't have to work as hard because you're the boss' kid," he says. "I didn't want my employees to think that the kids came in on the upper level here without having to work for it."
Colby admits in the beginning, trying to fill his father's shoes was somewhat overwhelming. "Probably the hardest part about running a family business is that I personally feel the weight of carrying on the legacy of my father," he says. "People express their adoration for Dad and for his skill and integrity. This is particularly inspiring to me as I wish to carry out what he has carefully built. But in the early years, it was a challenge to rise to the level of expectation of Dad and overcome the stigma of being the boss' kid."
As a boy, Colby dreamed of running his dad's business, remembering dinner table conversations filled with expressions of frustration or triumph over business and his mother being there to assist her husband. "Sometimes I could see and feel the concern for the welfare and success of his employees in Dad's eyes," Colby says.
Colby and Dennis attribute survival of the business to their skill, integrity, and genuine concern for the welfare of their employees, many of whom have been with the company for more than 25 years. It's also revised business strategies to adapt to the changing market by expanding into specialized markets and hiring qualified people. "We have stayed competitive by attracting the most skilled force available to us," Colby says. "Then we have compensated them fairly and thus locked up the premium skill in the area."
But during the course of the last three decades, Dennis admits times have been tough due to rocky economic conditions, citing one example he'll never forget — the recession of 1980. "In one year, we went from doing about $2 million worth of business to $350,000 the next," he says. "What I've learned from that experience is I pay as I go. By avoiding debt, I can afford to cut back quickly, react to the market trends, and not have to break the business to pay off my debt."
Describing his survival in the electrical contracting business as bittersweet, Dennis also pays a little credit to Lady Luck. "You're proud when you win a large project in a competitive bid situation, but sometimes you realize later that was the biggest noose around your neck," he says. "If you win a contract for a $2 million job and end up losing $100,000, you wonder why you did it. Construction is a dice game, and hopefully you win more throws than you lose. I guess that's how we survived over the years."
Seven Sisters. It never occurred to Susan, Christine, Linda, Mary, Julie, Barbara, and Nancy that women don't belong in the electrical contracting business. Their father, William Snelson, taught them quite the opposite. As little girls, they believed him when he told them they could be anything they wanted to be when they grew up.
So when Snelson began phasing out a small electrical division of his general construction company, which was founded by his father in the '40s as a plumbing and heating operation in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., but later moved into gas and water pipeline work, his seven daughters bought it in 1980 — despite some skeptics who though the profession held no place for a female, let alone seven of them.
Starting in the electrical industry in 1973, when she began as a dispatcher/equipment manager for her father's company, Nancy Williams has served as president of Seven Sisters since its inception. Learning the ropes by going out to jobsites with her father's estimator, Nancy took on managing small projects in the beginning to familiarize herself with the electrical trade. Today, her responsibilities include project management and supervision, purchasing, scheduling, and estimating. Her sister, Christine Thompson, is vice president, overseeing financial accounting and budgeting, personnel practices and policies, acquisitions, insurance, and strategic planning. Joining her sisters in 1990, Julie Snelson is the secretary and office manager, responsible for billings, job costing, and changeorders.
Although only three of the girls actually work for the company, Snelson dictated that all seven would be equal shareholders, which has caused its own set of issues for the management team. "My father strongly believed that everybody should get the same; it didn't matter that they didn't work in the business," Thompson says. "Although that's nice in theory, it can be frustrating because you have certain people working in the company yet every time you make a dollar you have to divide it seven ways. When people ask me what I would have done differently, I say, 'If I had it to do it over again, I would go into business with my sisters, but if they didn't work, they didn't share.'"
Twenty-four years later, Seven Sisters is proud to have defied the odds and become a successful electrical contracting firm, employing between 50 and 75 employees and specializing in pulp and paper, petrochemical and aluminum production as well as public sector work. Surprisingly, gender didn't seem to play as big of a role in the firm's progression as one might think. In fact, Thompson says once the new owners of Seven Sisters proved themselves on a few large projects, such as the Metro in Seattle, they quickly earned the respect and trust of their customers and peers alike.
Citing some of the firm's greatest accomplishments over the years, Thompson recalls several defining moments. Probably the most memorable year came when Seven Sisters doubled its sales from $5 to $10 million. It also was awarded a grant from an organization in Seattle to receive free accounting, legal, and financial services for one year — an application that ultimately brought the firm enormous resources and publicity. Selected as "Business of the Year" by the Austin Family Business Program at Oregon State University, Seven Sisters also gained the opportunity to share its story through a videotape aired on television — another positive marketing tool.
Although Thompson is confident the company will remain in the family, no succession plans have been made yet. Because the seven sisters have 14 children, ranging in age from two to 33 years old — only five of which are out of high school — only time will tell what the future holds for the next generation of Seven Sisters' heirs. Interestingly enough, another family member, Thompson's son William, joined the ranks in mid-November.
E-J Electric Installation Co.. Considering E-J Electric Installation's historic track record, the odds of this 105-year-old firm making it into the minute 3% of family-owned and operated businesses that survive into the fourth generation are better than most. In its third generation of Mann family management, Long Island City, N.Y.-based E-J is the oldest and one of the most successful independent electrical contractors in the country.
It all began in 1899, when Jack Enright and Theodore Joseph founded E-J during the era of paper- and wood-lined conduits and combination gas/electric lighting fixtures. In 1912, Joseph hired Jacques Mann, who had been working as an electrician and attending night classes at the Cooper Union College in New York — the only place in the city that offered free education for engineers. Jacques went on to specialize in installations at theatrical and performing arts centers. Under Jacques' direction, E-J's expertise in the electrification of entertainment facilities expanded when the motion picture industry began to boom. Coincidentally, the renovation of the Paramount Astoria motion picture studio, which was designed and installed under Jacques during the original construction, was redesigned and supervised 40 years later by his son J. Robert (Bob) Mann, Jr.
E-J had made a name for itself as the foremost shipbuilding electrical contractor in the country during World War II, but soon after that the work began to taper off. Bob, who graduated from Yale University with a degree in electrical engineering, helped guide the company through the transition period. Being able to adapt to the shifting market conditions he says, was one of the company's keys to survival. "We started to try and figure out the best areas for us to compete in," Bob says. "And that's what we've been doing ever since — trying to be one step ahead of the competition and one step ahead of the new technologies."
Following in his father Bob's footsteps, Tony Mann came to E-J in 1986, after earning his electrical engineering degree from Tufts University and an MBA from the Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University. As in any other business, Tony realizes that although he, his father, and his grandfather shared many similarities, they also exercised slightly different approaches to business management, a reality that ultimately benefited the company in the long run.
"My grandfather was known for his engineering," Tony says. "My father came in and really drove the business from a marketing perspective — staying out there growing the business from an external standpoint and pursuing new markets. I think what I've done is put together a management team that's the strongest in the industry."
Another competitive advantage directly relates to the firm's family tradition and reputation, Bob says. "Our clients know that when they deal with Tony or myself that they're dealing with the owners of the business, not just a manager or lieutenant," Bob says. "That is very important to a lot of principals and clients."
Tony agrees. "The family tradition really creates pride and dedication, which is reflected throughout the entire organization," he says. "Our clients know that we've been in business for 105 years, and it gives them a comfort feeling that we're not only here today but we're going to be servicing them tomorrow."
Although he and his father are currently the only blood relatives that work in the family business, Tony takes great pride in his heritage and predicts the Mann tradition will continue for years to come. With four young children, ranging in age from one to 10, Tony's plan for the future most definitely involves a fourth generation of Mann leadership. With three girls and a boy, Tony says they all have an equal opportunity.
Parson is freelance writer and editor based in Lee's Summit, Mo.

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A former lead and zinc mine and mill located near Leadpoint, Wash., will soon be cleaned up, following a $1.36 million settlement agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Blue Tee Corp., the former operator of the site. These funds will allow EPA to complete remaining cleanup work at this Superfund site.
"EPA and Blue Tee have agreed on a way to move forward with this cleanup," said Chris Field, EPA's site cleanup manager. "This hazardous waste site is finally going to be cleaned up for the safety of the residents and the environment."
EPA will excavate tailings and contaminated soil from around the mill buildings and will consolidate these materials beneath a protective barrier in the nearby tailings impoundment. The barrier will be graded for erosion control and revegetated. The cleanup also involves placing a protective barrier over contaminated sediments in the tailings impoundment pond and in other nearby wetlands.
The proposed settlement requires Blue Tee to conduct future long-term monitoring and maintenance and repair. The Washington state Department of Ecology will oversee these activities.
The mine and mill operated intermittently between 1910 and the 1980s, producing nearly 1 million tons of lead, zinc, and barium tailings. In 2003, EPA incurred costs of more $200,000 while conducting an emergency cleanup to address remnants of leftover chemicals, 55 gallon drums of hazardous and non-hazardous substances, and polychlorinated biphenyl-containing electrical equipment.
The 30-day public comment period on the proposed settlement ends March 26, 2010. To read the proposed settlement, visit the Federal Register Web site.


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Daniel Craig's watch from "Skyfall" will be part of the auction.
Aston Martin cars, books, props, posters and costumes from all 23 James Bond films will go on sale at a charity auction this month to celebrate the British super spy's 50th silver screen anniversary.
Auctioneer Christie's said memorabilia for its "50 Years of James Bond" sale has come direct from the archives of EON Productions, the company behind a film franchise which began with Sean Connery as the suave but lethal 007 in the 1962 "Dr. No" and will see its latest premiere, "Skyfall", open this year.
"With memorabilia offered from every official Bond film ever made, the auction is sure to appeal to new and established fans of the famous British spy," Christie's director Nicolette Tomkinson said in a statement.
Some 40 lots will be put up for an online-only auction from September 28 to October 8, with a further 10 lots to highlight an invitation-only auction at Christie's South Kensington in London on October 5 as part of EON's celebrations for a "Global James Bond Day".
The catalogue boasts Bond goodies from every era, from the Aston Martin driven by Daniel Craig as Bond in "Quantum of Solace" or his watch in the upcoming "Skyfall" to first editions of Bond creator Ian Fleming's novels "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love."
Items from films boasting a string of Bond girls and baddies which stand out from the auction catalogue include Solitaire's tarot cards from "Live and Let Die", Scaramanga's Solex Agitator from "The Man With The Golden Gun", and gadget man Q's snooper dog robot from "A View To A Kill".
Lots in the online auction will be offered without reserve prices, with bids starting at 50 pounds ($79.68) each.
Proceeds from the auctions will be given to a collection of international and national charities including UNICEF, the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, Women for Women International and the Science Museum in London.
The hoopla for the Bond anniversary and premiere of the new film follows hot on the heels of Bond's last outing accompanying Britain's Queen Elizabeth on her film debut for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Not until after the surgery did Sandra Nauer realize how sick she'd been.
Not until after the surgery did Sandra Nauer realize how sick she'd been.
"Oh, my gosh, I had no idea I was in such bad shape," said Nauer, 44, who lives in Galt, Calif.
After years of excruciating back pain, fatigue and other symptoms, she had an outpatient hysterectomy on May 22 — and on June 7, she returned to work running her catering business.
"I'm a new woman," she said. "Holy smokes, I feel like a million bucks."
For earlier generations of women, hysterectomy was all but a rite of passage before age 50, albeit a difficult one. Even now, it remains the second-most-performed surgical procedure for American women still of reproductive age, and by age 60, one in three women has undergone the surgery, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite that, hysterectomy rates in the past three decades have dropped from almost 56 per 10,000 women to 33 per 10,000, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists statistics show, and the surgery itself has been streamlined into minimally invasive procedures that make the operation and recovery easier.
But hysterectomy remains controversial. While many medical experts see good news in pioneering advances and quick recovery times, some of them also see bad news, as well, saying that up to two-thirds of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in this country could be avoided.
Are too many women undergoing hysterectomies, even now? Should women think twice before having the surgery?
"The rate has come down a little but not enough," said Dr. William Parker, UCLA School of Medicine clinical professor and author of "A Gynecologist's Second Opinion."
"In the old days, hysterectomy was all we had to offer for patients. We were taught that it was the solution for almost every complaint."
Today, alternative treatments often replace surgery, particularly for women below age 50.
"One of the problems is that the information on alternatives hasn't seeped out as widely as it should into the medical world," said Parker. "A lot of the newer surgeries now are minimally invasive, but many doctors haven't been trained to do them."
For younger women, 90 percent of hysterectomies deal not with reproductive cancers but rather with pelvic pain; uterine fibroids, or benign tumors; excessive bleeding; and endometriosis.
For older women, the most common underlying diagnosis is cancer.
Side effects of the surgery — which involves the removal of the ovaries in almost three-fourths of patients — can include the early onset of menopause, bladder and bowel problems and loss of sex drive.
Research also shows that hysterectomy can increase a woman's risk of heart disease and lung cancer.
"It's important that women understand, even if they're not having children any more, they might like to have sex, and they might like not having a heart attack," said Nora Coffey, founder of the Pennsylvania-based Hysterectomy Education Resources and Services Foundation.
"Whether the surgery is life-saving or completely unnecessary, you deserve to know the consequences."
But other medical experts insist that alternative treatments are always their first choice before surgery.
Hormone treatments can help relieve abnormal uterine bleeding and other menstrual cycle disorders, for example, as can endometrial ablation. Similarly, medications can help shrink uterine fibroids.
"There are certainly non-surgical ways to deal with female problems besides removing the uterus," said Dr. Wesley Hilger, medical director of Sutter Medical Center's minimally invasive gynecology program. "It's a conversation you have with the patient."
Like other experts, he also sees a significant generational change in women's attitudes, with younger, consumer-oriented patients more comfortable demanding answers from their doctors.
"Many older patients who've had hysterectomy years ago don't know why," he said. "They'll say, 'My doctor said I needed it.'
"Now patients have access to information on the Internet. We have a real discussion. The age of the paternalistic doctor is over. Now the decision is more what works for their condition and their lifestyle."
Of the 1,500 hysterectomies he estimates that he's performed in the past six years, he said, only a handful have involved the traditional abdominal incision stretching from hip to hip. Most are vaginal, laporoscopic or robotic surgeries, and increasingly no overnight hospital stay is involved.
"You have to overcome historical bias," he said. "Patients have the idea that because their mother was in the hospital five days after her hysterectomy, they should be, too."
Noreen Rademacher, now 86, remembers the wave of hysterectomies that rippled through her age group of women four decades ago, and she remembers friends being bedridden with pain for much of their six-month recovery times.
When she was in her early 70s — a retired teacher, widow and breast cancer survivor — she had a hysterectomy herself after she was diagnosed with a benign baseball-size growth outside her uterus.
"My doctor said, 'While I'm down there, why not get rid of everything?'" said Rademacher. "He said, 'You don't need it, and I'll remove the possibility of you getting cervical or ovarian cancer in the future.'"
She spent a few days in the hospital after her hysterectomy and within a week was back to walking her dog and taking exercise class. And she has no regrets.
"Once you've had cancer, you don't want it again," she said.
Sandra Nauer thinks her decision to undergo hysterectomy not only solved ongoing gynecologic issues now but also prevented problems in years to come.
After an abnormal Pap smear and extensive tests, she chose a minimally invasive procedure. And then her mother and grandmother, who both had hysterectomies in their 40s, started sharing their experiences with her.
"All these horror stories," said Nauer. "I was really nervous about the surgery. I heard things from other women, all these frightening things. Everyone said, 'You'll never be the same. You'll be down physically for a couple of years.'
"I was really scared, but it was nothing like I expected it to be."


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Industrial robots survive economic slowdown
August 30, 2012 - Despite the weakening global economic situation, a further robot sales increase of about nine percent to about 181,000 units is likely in 2012. The IFR Statistical Department expects that between 2013 and 2015 worldwide robot sales will increase by about 5% on average per year. In 2015, the annual supply of industrial robots will reach more than 200,000 units.
In 2012, the sales increase is still mainly be driven by the automotive industry and the electronics industry as well as by the increasing number of customers with low-volume orders from other industries. The main impulses are coming from North America, China, Brazil and Central- and Eastern European countries as well as from Japan due to the restoration production facilities which were damaged by the tsunami catastrophe.
The urgent need to automate production is the main driver for an accelerated pace of installations of industrial robots in the United States and Canada. Robot supply to the Republic of Korea will only moderately grow after the strong investments of the past years. Robot sales will increase in 2012 and beyond in Taiwan because of major investments from the electronics industry. Robot sales in Germany will reach almost the peak level of 2011 while in Italy and Spain a decrease due to the worsening of the economic situation is likely.
China will become the biggest robot market in the world regarding the annual supply. In order to have the same robot density in China as we have in Germany or Japan, about one million new robots will have to be installed in the coming years in China. The global robot suppliers are aware of this potential and are increasing their capacities. Furthermore, the Chinese robot suppliers are in the process of entering the market or have already entered the market. There are some manufacturers of cartesian/linear robots already in China. However, the growth rate of robot installations will loose momentum in 2012 after the strong increase in the past years. The current difficult global economic situation and the probably ending investment cycle of the automotive industry may be the reasons.
At the end of 2011, only about 55 robots are installed per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing industry in the world. The Republic of Korea, Japan and Germany are the most automated countries in the world with robot densities between 347 and 261. In most emerging markets the robot density or in other words the rate of automation is still far below average.
Compared to all other sectors the rate of automation in the automotive industry is rather high. Japan, has by far the highest robot density in the automotive industry, almost 1,600 industrial robots are installed per 10,000 persons employed. It is followed by Italy, Germany and the United States with a robot density between 1,100 and 1,200. With rates of 261 and 221 robots, respectively, the Republic of Korea and Japan have the highest number of robots operating in the non-automotive sectors. This is mainly due to robot installations in the electronics industry. In Germany, the considerable high rate of 137 robots is due to a more diversified distribution of industrial robots in all industries, especially in the metal industry, the chemical industry, the food industry and the electrical/electronics industry.
The overall conclusions indicate that in almost all the surveyed countries, not only the potential for robot installations in the non-automotive industries is still tremendous, but it is also considerably high in the automotive industry among the emerging markets and in some traditional markets as well.
Risks and chances
The opening up of huge consumer markets in the BRIC countries, in South East Asia, in Turkey and also in the Middle Eastern countries will guarantee the increasing consumer demand which is necessary for further investments in automation within these countries. Energy-efficiency and light weight construction materials are the main challenges for the manufacturing industry. The automotive industry will continue to be the innovator for new technology. However, a cyclical decrease of investments of the automotive industry is likely in 2013 and 2014. The electrical/electronics industry will continue to automate in order to increase productivity and to improve quality of work for employees especially in Asia. More easy-to-use robots as well as robots collaborating with human workers will increase robot sales in small and medium size companies. Improved and easier integration of industrial robots will provide more applications for industrial robots. But these are not the only reasons for the further increase of robot sales. Dangerous, tedious and dirty working conditions for human workers must be abolished worldwide. Robots provide the only solution.
Certain risks are involved with regard to this rather optimistic forecast: Financial problems of the major markets may reduce growth of the world economy or even cause a recession. This may result in decreasing investments also in robotics. In that case, planned investments might be restrained for a while. The trend towards automation will continue at a later point in order to increase productivity, profitability and to guarantee sustainability of industrial production.
2011: The most successful year for industrial robots since 1961
In 2011, robot supplies increased by 38% to 166,028 units, by far the highest level ever recorded for one year. The value of sales surged by 46% to US$8.5 billion, a new record. It should be noted that this value generally do not include the cost of software, peripherals and systems engineering. Including the mentioned costs might result in the actual robotic systems market value to be about three times as high. The worldwide market value for robot systems in 2011 is therefore estimated to be $25.5 billion.
In 2011, Japan was again the biggest robot market in the world. Robot supplies to Japan continued to recover and increased by 27% to almost 28,000 units. The automotive industry and most of all other sectors were increasing robot investments above average. Robot sales increased by 9% to 25,500 units in the Republic of Korea. After the huge investments of the electrical/electronics industry in 2010 - when Korea had topped the list - the increase was only moderately in 2011. In the United States robot shipments increased by 43% to a new peak level of 20,555 units in 2011 compared to 2010. The necessary modernization of the production facilities in the United States is gaining momentum. In 2011, 22,600 industrial robots were sold to the People's Republic of China, 51% more than in 2010. Between 2006 and 2011, the annual supply quadrupled. In the 50 years of the history of industrial robots there is no other country with such a dynamic growth of robot installations in such a short period of time. 19,500 new industrial robots were supplied to Germany – the biggest robot market in Europe - 39% more than in 2010. After the strong recovery in 2010, this is by far the highest number ever recorded for one year and it is about 45% of the total supply to Europe. Total sales of industrial robots were up by 13% to 5,100 units in Italy. The automotive industry, food and beverage industry and the metal and machinery industry increased robot orders above average.
The study World Robotics Industrial Robots of the IFR Statistical Department is based on original data provided by almost all robot suppliers in the world and on statistics of national robot associations. The results are discussed and verified by the IFR Industrial Robot Suppliers Group before publication. This unique publication of high quality data presents the most comprehensive global statistics on industrial robots in uniform tables allowing consistent country comparisons. It contains detailed statistical data for some 40 countries, broken down by application areas, industrial branches, types of robots and by other technical and economic variables. Data on production, exports and imports are presented for a selection of countries. Trends in robot densities, i.e. number of robots per 10,000 persons employed in relevant sectors, are also featured.
The International Federation of Robotics was established in 1987 in connection with the 17th International Symposium on Robotics, as a professional non-profit organisation, by robotics organisations from over 15 countries. Since 1970 an International Symposium on Robotics is organised every year on a different continent, in a different country and another city. The Symposium is systematically organised in conjunction with an International Robot Exhibition.
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A LONG WAY LOST (song with vocals)
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Looking out now you shine like a beacon
Looking out now you sure are a sight to be seen
Fading in now, like opening my eyes for the first time
Fading in now, but I'm still caught in between
Cause I'm such a long way lost
Can you find me, I'm tattered and tossed
Can you save me
Cause I don't believe in anything or anyone but you
Here in the dark I can hear you sinking
Here is my heart, I'm trying to let go to you
But it's so hard to believe what I want to believe
It's hard to be here and remember to breathe
Forgive me my silence, I'll try not to break this
Forgive me my trembling, I'm so afraid of this
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But after the rain stopped I opened my eyes to see you
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Opera Mini Browser Coming to the iPad?
Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad)" @ 07:39 AM
"In its latest press release about how well everything's going and how popular it is, Opera has revealed plans for an iPad version of its popular Opera Mini browser."
I like their mini browser (if you want to see it in action you can go to their emulator here) on the iPhone so I'm hoping it works just as well on the iPad, and why wouldn't it right?


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President Barron salutes No. 1 EcoCAR team as 'the Penn State I remember'
Early May 22, Penn State's Advanced Vehicle Team co-leader Benjamin Sattler and controls leader Chris Monaco drove to Old Main in Penn State's EcoCAR 2 competition vehicle to pick up Penn State President Eric Barron for a reception at the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. For the drive from Old Main, it was Barron behind the wheel.


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BURRTON — The Berean Academy boys' basketball team got off to the start it wanted Saturday night in the championship game of the 34th Burrton Invitational, but Inman was able to get the finish it needed for an 44-43 win. Berean trailed by 11 with less than three minutes to play, but was able to get within one by the final buzzer, missing a couple of chances to take the lead. "We got in foul trouble, and that really hurt our rotation," Berean coach Lewis Wiebe said. "That affected some of our match-ups. (Loren) Pearce got in foul trouble early, and that hurt us offensively. We just didn't get any rhythm going. Turnovers were huge tonight. That was a killer. I don't know how many we had, but we had too many. We had some that were just fundamental mistakes." The loss was the second Berean suffered against Inman this season. Josh Miller and Justin Friessen each scored 10 points for Inman, 8-5. Berean, 7-5, was led by Loren Pearce with 15 points and Kameron Wiebe with 11. Berean jumped out to a 7-0 lead. Inman finally scored a pair of free throws and a layup off a steal in the final minute of the quarter. A Kameron Wiebe putback at the buzzer put the Warriors ahead 9-4 at the end of the period. Berean opened the second quarter with a pair of free throws, followed by a 16-3 Inman run to take a six-point lead. Kameron Wiebe hit a putback with 1.2 seconds left, followed by a free throw, to cut the Inman lead to three, 20-17, at the half. Berean was six of 22 from the field in the first half. Inman was six of 17. Berean opened the third quarter with a 6-0 run. Inman ended the period with a 10-6 run to lead 30-29. Inman scored the first six points of the fourth quarter. A Friessen trey from NBA length put Inman up by seven with 4:54 in regulation. Berean took a time out, but turned the ball over, leading to an Inman layup. Another turnover led to another Inman layup, putting the Teutons up by 11 with 2:42 to play. The Warriors charged back with an 8-0 run capped by a Dallas Wiebe trey with 1:26 in regulation. Miller broke the run with two free throws with 1:03 in regulation. T.J. Guhr answered with an unopposed layup. After a turnover and missed free throw for Inman, Berean drew within one on a Kameron Wiebe putback with 22.1 seconds in regulation. After another Inman free throw miss, Berean missed a 3-point shot with .5 seconds remaining. Inman got the deadball rebound and the inbounds pass in to win the game. "We just have to learn to execute better," Lewis Wiebe said. "We have to learn to handle some situations. It shouldn't come to that. Inman had some guys hit some shots for them who weren't key scorers. I have to compliment them for what they did today." Berean plays Moundridge Jan. 29 in Moundridge.
INMAN (8-5) — Miller 2 56-6 1, 10; Severs 0 (1) 0-0 0, 3; Seiler 3 0-0 5, 6; Williams 0 2-3 1, 2; Friessen 1 (2) 2-4 1, 10; Cottam 3 (1) 0-1 3, 9; DeVore 0 0-0 0, 0; Thiessen 1 0-0 1, 2; Ropp 1 0-0 4, 2; TOTALS 11 (4) 10-14 16, 44. BEREAN ACADEMY (7-5) — T.Busenitz 0 (1) 0-0 5, 3; Ladwig 0 0-0 0, 0; Guhr 1 0-0 2, 2; C.Busenitz 2 0-0 4, 4; D.Wiebe 0 (2) 0-0 2, 6; Pearce 5 5-6 3, 15; Smith 0 0-0 1, 0; K.Wiebe 5 1-1 1, 11; Broadie 1 0-2 1, 2; TOTALS 14 (3) 6-9 19, 43. Inman 4 16 10 14 —44 Berean Acad. 9 8 12 14 —43 All-Tournament Team Josh Miller, Inman — MVP Tyler Cottam, Inman Loren Pearce, Berean Academy Tevin Renken, Little River Dalton Konen, Little River Stetson Broce, Pretty Prairie Kyle Patrick, Hutchinson Central Christian John Dealt, Fairfield Davis Cook, Goessel Trae Lane, Burrton Most Inspirational — Shane Goerzen, Goessel Freshman free throw winner — Jeremy Stiebens, Hutchinson Central Christian (61 of 80).


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In light of Apex Cellars move from Sunnyside to Prosser, Randy Tucker of Tucker Cellars told Sunnyside's Daybreak Rotary Club members that his winery is continuing to be successful.
Tucker, Wednesday morning's guest speaker, presented a brief background of his winery by explaining that his grandfather moved to the Lower Valley in 1933, shortly after prohibition.
He said his grandfather was approached by Bill Bridgman, founder of Bridgman's Upland Winery. Tucker's grandfather began growing wine grapes for Bridgman as other wineries were closing.
The next generation of Lower Valley Tuckers began with Dean Tucker, who began farming sugar beets. As the sugar beet market slowed, the Tucker family began diversifying their crops and included wine grapes on the farm in the 1970s.
In 1979, the Tucker family opened a fruit stand on Yakima Valley Highway and expanded it in 1981 to include a winery.
Tucker said from '81 to '84 the winery employed three different winemakers.
In the meantime, he was attending college at UC Davis to become a winemaker.
Tucker said the family discovered the importance of consistency in the wine being made because the consumers noticed the differences between the three winemakers before him.
He began making Tucker Cellars' wines in 1984 and said the biggest seller is the Muscat Canelli.
Dean Tucker passed away in 1999 and Randy and his wife Debbie purchased the winery.
"We began making changes, including the label," he explained.
The Tuckers eventually closed the fruit stand to accommodate the growing winery and gift shop that features gourmet foods.
The largest motivation for the Tuckers in continuing the family business, said Tucker, "We want to make a premium wine at an affordable price."
He said the success of the winery doesn't solely rely upon the Tucker label, but includes a secondary market in producing bulk wine for other wineries. Tucker said the need for bulk wines creates a balance in the business.
Another contributing factor to the family-owned winery's success is tourism. Tucker said approximately 70 percent of the tourists who visit Tucker Cellars are from the Seattle area, and "We are a destination point." He anticipates tourism will increase in the Lower Valley and said he feels there is still room for more wineries because of the tourism growth.
When one Rotarian asked how the communities of the Lower Valley can better accommodate the growing tourist population, Tucker stated that he believed more restaurants and hotels are needed in the area.
Tucker said the tourism season is largest between late June and October, citing, "Tourists really like to be here for the crush."
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Posted: Mar 05, 2010 9:26 pm
Post subject: Where should I take a first time geocacher in Winnipeg?
I tweeted
that my first cache hide
had been published
. Shortly after, a fellow Winnipegger replied to me, and said she had become interested in geocaching about two years ago, but had never done it.
Long story short, I invited her to tag along with Shawnssica, SeptemberLily and yours truly this weekend, so we could show her what it's about.
Now, there are a LOT of caches in Winnipeg that I just
, but I'm having a hard time deciding whether I should take this person to a cache I haven't found yet (so she gets the full experience) or to one that I already know the location of, so I can make sure it's one that will be worth her time.
Question to you: Where do you normally take first time geocachers? Is there a specific area that you would suggest?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted: Mar 07, 2010 5:48 am
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As somebody still fairly new I'd say go for a cache none of you have been to that's a decent size and winter friendly, perhaps that hasn't been visited in a few days so the geotrails aren't completely fresh.
Consider whether the person wants a hike or a quick grab. I was going to recommend GC2240Q the Frozen Swamps of Almey but I see that Shawnssica has already been there. Of course, you haven't been there and with the warm weather it won't be there much longer.
Maybe GC1RWVC Garbage Hill Memories. It's better to do this one in Winter.
If you want a longer walk and don't mind deep snow (really) then I really enjoyed my walk to GC12DXD Must Be Nuts and once you find the cache you will say "hey cool cache" - mind you the cache itself is a micro I think so the reward is mostly the cool container.
Or pick one of the easier finds near the gate in Birds Hill. Those can be either a quick grab or a long walk depending on which you choose. They are beautiful year round, have decent swag, etc.
Clearly I have favoured the north east because I live there.
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Posted: Mar 08, 2010 3:59 am
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Thanks MissionMode. I'll look into those caches.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2010 2:57 pm
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I would suggest Assiniboine Forest between Grant and Wilkes or La Barriere Park. We prefer areas like this to the "urban jungle". Have a good time.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 10:46 am
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MissionMode wrote:
I was going to recommend GC2240Q the Frozen Swamps of Almey but I see that Shawnssica has already been there.
That was a fun trudge, but Jess didn't make it out to that one. (I was flying solo after a dentist visit) Also I see that k61 disabled the listing and picked up the ammo can for the summer, so it's really off the table!
Thanks for the other suggestions - we've found that clusters of caches just off the beaten trail are perfect targets for those "What do you want to do? / Nothing really... Hey, want to go find a few caches!?" afternoons. Now that it's not minus thirty out there, it'll be even easier to get J out to some parks
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 3:17 pm
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The Forks area is another great place to cache.
MHz, a cacher who no more knows her destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East Indian Company
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 3:21 pm
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Shawnssica wrote:
That was a fun trudge, but Jess didn't make it out to that one. (I was flying solo after a dentist visit) Also I see that k61 disabled the listing and picked up the ammo can for the summer, so it's really off the table!
Yeah... my list was very "point in time" as I assumed they were heading out that week. It would be completely different now. Neither of the suggestions I made is really good right now since those areas are no longer frozen and now more swamplike - which is the opposite of "good for beginners".
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 3:25 pm
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The Marsh (as in Oak Hammock Marsh) is always a good place for beginners as I can also do a little intro to geocaching workshop in the theatre (as long as I know ahead of time) before going out to find some of the 36 caches available.
A lot of the caches at the marsh are best suited for beginners and faily close to the Centre and easily accessible but a few will require some longer hikes on the trails or some thinking and researching to solve.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2010 3:31 pm
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@ohmic I hadn't thought of the marsh. I just took a quick look at the live webcam, and it seems like a nice area. Thanks for your reply!
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Posted: Apr 21, 2010 2:15 pm
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There is also Assiniboine park and the zoo. Alot of nice differents size and style of caches in there.
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Location: Manitoba
Posted: Apr 23, 2010 1:38 am
Post subject: Go RURAL
In my humble opinion I think rural caching is just a riot, easy with bigger caches. I recommend the Selkirk drive to Lower Fort Garry (just did it), a Morden- Winkler run, Whiteshell caching and I think doing a lovely drive to Morris and caching along the 75 can be fun too (we just have to replace a few post flood yet)! All told though the micros add numbers in Winnipeg and I love them - the truly great caches are LARGE AMMO cans hidden in just outside the city in parks. Another amazing run which might ruin you for Winnipeg caching is doing a Trove run to Portage!
All in all we still believe any cache you FIND is a great cache!!!!!!
The others you have reoccuring nightmares over for years or dismiss as unimportant. That missed AMMO can in the Black Hills @ the Goldmine is still haunting me as everyone before and after had an easy find...
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There's no denying. Councilman Zack Reed is one of Cleveland's most visible and engaging city leaders. He's currently sponsoring hot topic legislation like a driver texting ban. And pushed for improvements in his ward, like and ecco-friendly rain garden.
But it's been Reed's very public, private life that sometimes overshadows his good deeds. His battle with the bottle--one he says he is now winning---was well documented by 19 Action News as far back as 2006.
And now there are questions being raised about Reed's relationship with a woman named DeShae Howard. In 2009, DeShae was working for Quicken Loans when she met Reed at a bar. Reed says: "You go out and see somebody that's attractive and you say, can we go out? So we did."
It was good timing on DeShae's part. While she was dating Reed, the councilman happened to be looking for a new executive assistant. He quickly found one in DeShay.
When asked by 19 Action News Chief Investigative Reporter Carl Monday if he had a problem hiring a woman who at the time was his girlfriend, Reed replied: "Oh no, I don't have a problem."
Both Reed and DeShae insisted they stopped dating once she started working. But she says the Councilman wasn't on board with the decision.
"Hi, I'm calling about Zack Reed," said a caller on Monday's voice mail. "Councilman Zack Reed."
When Monday returned Deshae Howard's call, she accused her then boss of stalking her, even sitting in his car outside her home at 3 a.m.
"She says you were stalking her," Monday told Reed, who answered, "at the end of the day, Carl, you know if that's true, there's a mechanism and procedure in place to take that from an allegation to a realization."
Carl Monday Investigations checked and found no record that DeShae ever filed a formal complaint with the City's Human Resources Department or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"I'm asking you, were you stalking her?" No, of course not," Reed assured Monday.
By phone, DeShae had shared what she said were emails and texts sent by Reed.
"Please 'Shay,' I want to see your cute butt and legs. I love you so much. I can't live without you."
Was she making those messages up?
"I can't say...ha....I know I don't remember sending it," replied Reed.
Reed said DeShae's performance as his assistant was "subpar," awarding her a "C" grade.
The grade contradicts what 19 Action News found in DeShae Howard's personnel file. During her two years on the job, Reed paid DeShae thousands of dollars in pay raises from his City Council expense account, in addition to her $18-an-hour salary. One raise hiked DeShae's salary by $600 a month. Not bad for an employee whom Reed now says:
"She wasn't bad. She wasn't terrible."
In recommending the raises, Reed said he was rewarding DeShae for her "dedication and service to the residents of Ward 2. Now, Reed says those were "just words."
So why did DeShae quit? And why now, the allegations of sexual harassment? Reed says DeShae had asked for a letter of recommendation after she quit. He says he wanted the request in writing. She refused. He declined to write the recommendation letter and DeShae got upset.
"She was gonna call Channel 19. I said call 'em," Reed recalled saying.
That was back in July. DeShae has since moved out of town, found another job, and decided not to pursue the story with 19 Action News. But she did return to town a few weeks ago. In fact, Reed says she called and asked him out to lunch. They met at the Nauti Murmaid in the Warehouse District, but Reed says the allegations of stalking and sexual harassment never came up.
Reed continues to insist he did nothing wrong:
"You're a good investigative reporter," Reed told Monday. "Go look at my file. There's never been any allegations against Councilman Zack Reed."
But in this tangled web of love and politics, Reed may not have the last word. In a phone message left on Monday's phone last week, DeShae said she still may pursue the allegations down the road against her former boss and boyfriend---Zack Reed.
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A new edition of the only American national standard for repair of motors and generators — "ANSI/EASA AR100-2010: Recommended Practice for the Repair of Rotating Electrical Apparatus" (ANSI/EASA AR100-2010) — was published recently by the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA). The best practices it provides for mechanical repair, rewinding, and testing help apparatus rebuilders maintain or enhance the energy efficiency and reliability of both AC and DC motors and generators. This article focuses strictly on the electrical aspects of AC machine repair that ANSI/EASA AR100-2010 prescribes, as well as their importance for end-users.
Compared to the 2006 edition, ANSI/EASA AR100-2010 contains more than three dozen changes. Many of these are best practices for maintaining motor efficiency that were identified during a comprehensive "rewind study" published in 2003 by EASA and the Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT), a United Kingdom service center association.
For end-users, one value of ANSI/EASA AR100-2010 is that in just 22 pages it concisely describes "good repair practices." It also provides six pages of supplemental information. End-users who require service centers to comply with the recommended practices in AR100 can also be assured that repairs will be made in accordance with a recognized American national standard. The result should be a "good practice repair" — i.e., a quality repair without shortcuts.
General guidelines
"General" guidelines provided by AR100 include making sure the machine has a nameplate and recording the nameplate data. By reviewing this data, the service center can ensure the machine is suited for its application — and that repairs will maintain its original ratings. AR100 also recommends that the service center determine the root cause of failure and actions that can help prevent a recurrence. This requires careful inspection and testing of the machine before repairs are made.
While some of the good practices in AR100 may seem inconsequential, their combined effect establishes the document as the good practice repair standard for motors and generators. It also has efficiency as a strong underlying theme, even though it was not specifically written to maintain or improve motor or generator efficiency.
AR100 concisely describes the requirements for a good practice rewind in just two pages, beginning with inspection of the windings (Photo 1) and rotor squirrel cages. It's easy to forget that the rotor is an electrical component — the rotating secondary of a transformer, with the stator being the primary. This is important, because defective rotor bars or end rings (Photo 2) could reduce output torque or cause vibration.
Winding data. Exact duplication of the original winding is crucial to maintaining motor performance and energy efficiency. Thus, as a preventive measure, AR100 recommends recording and checking the accuracy of the "as-found" winding data before destroying the old winding. In this regard, it also recommends that in the new winding the average length of the coil extensions should not increase — and that the cross-sectional area of the conductors should be the same (or increased, if possible). Following these good practices will maintain or reduce winding resistance and losses, thereby maintaining or increasing winding life and energy efficiency.
Stator core testing. Stator cores consist of a stack of thin steel discs called laminations, each of which is insulated on all surfaces and has a circular opening for the stator bore. Notches around the circumference of the opening form slots to hold the winding. If shorts develop between the laminations, circulating currents will increase stator heating and losses.
AR100 provides good practices for core inspection and testing, with a focus on detecting core degradation, such as shorted laminations. For example, it prescribes loop or core testing (Photo 3) before and after winding removal, investigation of any increase in core losses, and repair or replacement of damaged laminations. This helps identify a faulty core before (not after) repair — or worse, after the customer places the repaired machine in service.
Winding removal. How to remove (strip) the old windings from the stator core without damaging the laminations receives special attention in AR100. One specific practice it provides is to first thermally degrade the winding insulation in a temperature-controlled oven, while monitoring the temperature of the part (typically the stator), helping to prevent damage to the stator core when the windings are removed.
Insulation system. AR100 also recommends ensuring that the insulation system of the new winding is equal to or better than the original — and that all components are compatible. The "better than" option is normally achievable, because service centers typically use Class H systems (180°C) for random windings and Class F systems (155°C) for form coil windings. Most original manufacturers use either Class F (155°C) or class B (130°C) random windings and class B (130°C) form coil windings.
Rewind procedure and slot fill. Regarding the rewind process, AR100 says the new winding should have the same electrical characteristics as the original. This is best accomplished by "copy rewinding" — for example, using the same size conductors (wire cross-sectional area), the same number of turns per coil, and the same coil dimensions as the original.
Another way AR100-2010 can help end-users improve efficiency in some cases is to increase the wire cross-sectional area, which increases conductivity and reduces losses. They can also reduce the average length of coil turns, which, in turn, reduces resistance and losses.
Guidance on how to repair rotor squirrel cage and amortisseur windings reinforces the need to maintain the machine's original performance characteristics. This includes making certain that rotor bars fit tightly in the core slots, that bar-to-end ring connections are welded or brazed (Photo 4), and that the rotor cage retains its original electrical characteristics and can withstand normal thermal and mechanical forces.
Winding impregnation. AR100 also stresses good practices for winding impregnation. Key points include preheating the stator winding, using varnish/resin with an adequate thermal rating, and ensuring that the treatment is both compatible with the insulation system and suitable for the application environment. Although every part of the rewind process is important, the cured varnish/resin literally is the "tie that binds" the winding components together. It also ensures good heat transfer from the winding to the stator core and to cooling air.
Testing and Inspection
Following the good practice procedures in AR100 builds quality into the repair. As an example, the document devotes an entire section to inspecting and testing repaired machines — often prescribing multiple tests to verify their suitability to perform in accordance with nameplate ratings. Recommended procedures include careful inspection, followed by winding resistance, surge comparison, and high-potential testing. As explained below, these procedures may detect a fault or anomaly that could cause premature winding failure.
Inspection. AR100 recommends that the windings and insulation system be carefully inspected for damage or degradation before performing insulation resistance, surge comparison, or high-potential tests. The main purpose of this procedure is to detect and correct existing damage that might escalate under test and possibly destroy a new or overhauled winding.
Insulation resistance test. Following inspection, testing begins with the insulation resistance test. This test can detect an incorrect winding if the resistance value of the original manufacturer is known; and it may detect a high-resistance connection (e.g., if one pair of leads has higher resistance than the others).
Often called a "megger test" (a trade name of Megger Group, Ltd.), it measures winding insulation resistance in megohms after a constant test voltage has been applied for 1 minute. This is long enough for insulation dielectric stress conditions to begin to stabilize, which results in repeatable test values.
AR100 recommends testing the insulation resistance of the winding prior to high-potential testing; this could save a winding with weak ground insulation from a test that could cause it to fail. The document includes acceptable test ranges for various machine ratings, as well as recommended minimum insulation resistance values, corrected to 40°C (click here to see Table). If a winding does not meet these minimum values, a high-potential test should not be performed.
Surge comparison tests. Whereas insulation resistance tests apply only to the ground insulation system, surge comparison tests (Photo 5) can detect shorts within the winding (e.g., turn-to-turn, coil-to-coil or phase-to-phase). AR100 provides a suggested test level for surge comparison testing — two times the circuit rating plus 1,000V. This essentially "breaks new ground," because this criterion is not dealt with specifically in other standards.
High-potential tests. High-potential testing stresses the insulation system of the winding conductors to ground, so AR100 cautions that it should not be done unless acceptable inspection and insulation resistance test results have been obtained.
The standard provides test levels for new, reconditioned, or not reconditioned windings, as well as comprehensive tables illustrating AC and equivalent DC test voltages. (The AC test voltage level is multiplied by 1.7 to obtain the equivalent DC voltage.) Among its advantages, the DC high-potential test requires an instrument with a much smaller capacity than the AC version. Therefore, it does less damage if a failure occurs.
For a new winding, the test level is the maximum value (100%) given in the tables. After machine assembly, the test level is 80% of the maximum. Both the 100% and 80% test levels are limited to one-time tests of a winding. To prevent insulation damage, that means a winding may be subjected to each test level only once in its lifetime.
If subsequent high-potential tests are desired (or for reconditioned windings), AR100 suggests testing at a 65% of maximum (new winding) level. This is another example of a recommended practice that other standards do not address. For windings that have not been reconditioned, the document says testing should be limited to insulation resistance tests — a good practice that could prevent a winding failure under test.
No-load testing. Following repair and assembly, a motor is normally no-load tested. AR100 provides details on tests that should be performed at this critical point. For example, the exact operating speed should be checked, typically with a digital tachometer.
Instrument calibration. The section on testing concludes with another good practice — instrument calibration. AR100 stresses the importance of having instruments calibrated at least once a year to a national standard as well as clearly labeling them with the vendor's name and calibration date. This helps users avoid issues such as a winding failure due to a high-potential tester that outputs a higher voltage than indicated.
Although this article describes only the electrical aspects of AC machine repair, the ANSI/EASA AR100-2010 standard also provides good practices for DC machine repair, as well for mechanical repair of rotating electrical apparatus. By specifying that apparatus rebuilders follow the procedures in ANSI/EASA AR100-2010, end-users can be assured of receiving quality repairs that are made in accordance with a recognized American national standard.
Bishop is a licensed professional engineer and senior technical support specialist at the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) in St. Louis. He can be reached at [email protected].


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I've been out of India for far too long, or so it seems. I had to be reminded by this article that Sep 5, Wednesday, is Teacher's Day in India. This day was chosen for its co-incidence with the birthday of India's second president, S. Radhakrishnan, a statesman and politician famous for his erudition and learning. According to Wikipedia, only 21 countries have an official celebration of Teacher's Day. Much to my surprise, the US is among them, with the day being part of a week called Teacher Appreciation Week.
Teacher's day in my school was always a big event; teachers did not teach that day, and came to school mainly to be entertained and feted in an assembly with variety shows/skits/gentle mockery. Senior students would mind the junior classes. when I was younger, this meant a day of partying in school. When I became one of the seniors, this meant I was able to come to school in "civilian clothing" (most schools in Delhi had strict uniform policies) to boss over the younger students. Good times...
Now I'm a teacher myself (after a fashion), and find it both easy (and fashionable) to grumble about the lack of respect shown by students in the US, as compared to students in India. The truth of course is far more complicated than that. Schools in Delhi appear to have acquired many of the "bad traits" of the worst high schools here; my mother has taught in Delhi schools for nearly 20 years and has seen them acquire more "western" habits (which is a shorthand for more boy-girl interaction, less "studiousness", less fear/reverence for the teachers, take your pick). And ultimately, as a university professor, I'm not even on the frontlines of education here in the US, and have no business complaining about the largely excellent students I teach.
In any case, here's a cheer for the teachers I had; the ones who tolerated my brashness, general arrogance, and constant questions, and helped me reach the teaching pedestal I find myself at today. And here's hoping that one day there'll be some student who might think as fondly of me as I think of all my teachers long past.


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TONASKET Cascade is heading to Tonasket for boys and girls basketball games tonight.
The Kodiak girls (8-3 overall, 2-3) take on the Tigers (2-8, 0-5) at 6 p.m.
Cascade boys (1-9, 0-4) play Tonasket (7-4, 1-4) at 7:30 p.m.
Also tonight, Chewelah is at Republic and Columbia (Hunters) is at Curlew. Girls start at 5:45 p.m. and the boys at 7:15 p.m.
Wilbur-Creston will get a taste of what it's like to play at the 2B level at Bridgeport at 6 p.m. The Wildcats are moving from 1B to 2B starting in the fall.
In wrestling, Brewster is at Quincy for a 7 p.m. dual meet.
Saturday basketball games include Cashmere at Okanogan, Omak at Quincy, Brewster at Reardan, Republic at Northport, Curlew at Wilbur-Creston, Kittitas at Oroville, Entiat at Lake Roosevelt and Riverside Christian at Liberty Bell.
Saturday were wrestling includes Liberty Bell at Olympia for the Gut Check Tournament, Brewster, Omak, Okanogan and Tonasket at the Cascade Tournament and Oroville, Republic-Curlew at the Mary Walker Tournament.
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Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) June 30, 2014
The Metro Raleigh Business RadioX studio in Wake Forest, NC recently hosted Barbara Beard with Carlyle Conlan and Marlene Spritzer with Cresa Carolinas. Co-hosts Ann Revell-Pechar and Cal Hackeman identified interesting overlaps in the way these recruiting and commercial real estate firms serve the technology and life sciences community in North Carolina.
Carlyle Conlan is an executive search and recruiting firm specializing in mid-to-upper management and was voted top search firm by Triangle Business Journal in 2012. Barbara Beard, IT Practice Leader, began her career more than 20 years ago and recruits for both contract and direct hire resources, primarily in the technology and life sciences fields.
"In this particular area, we're seeing a lot of growth due to the expansion of software companies and the number of data centers coming from the west coast because of our talent, and because the expense is less here," said Beard. "We're seeing a lot of entrepreneurship here - they really promote that and supporting a lot of entrepreneurs – it's a very promotional place; it's very attractive. We have a lot of really good talent here but we need more developers, and network or systems engineers."
Cresa is an international corporate real estate advisory firm that exclusively represents tenants and specializes in the delivery of fully integrated real estate services. With more than 58 offices, Cresa is the largest tenant representation firm in North America. Marlene Spritzer is a Senior Vice President of the Cresa Carolinas' Triangle office. With over 17 years of commercial real estate experience, Spritzer is focused in the areas of corporate, life science, tech and medical office occupiers.
According to Spritzer, Data Centers are a big part of their work in the Carolinas as well. "We have worked with a few data center companies coming out of California that now have offices here." Cresa simplifies the move for those firms because the company is "focused on representing the end-user, and don't have ties to landlords or owners. There's no conflict of interest."
To learn more about Cresa and Carlyle Conlan, listen to the entire interview on Metro Raleigh Business Radio.
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MARIETTA, Ga., Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), a leading provider of packaging solutions to food, beverage and other consumer products companies, today announced an agreement to acquire Contego Cartons, a leading food and consumer product packaging company based in the United Kingdom. Contego is owned by Platinum Equity.
"We are excited about the acquisition of Contego's Food and Consumer Carton business as it extends Graphic Packaging into new end markets, expands the Company's global footprint and provides new opportunities for growth," said David Scheible, Graphic Packaging's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Contego operates throughout Western Europe with state of the art facilities in the U.K. and the Netherlands. Combining Graphic's current European business focused in the beverage markets with Contego's strong market share position in the European food and consumer products markets will allow us to broaden our customer base and enhance our competitive positioning. Similar to our strategy in the U.S., we are committed to growing our European business around food and beverage markets and optimizing our supply chain footprint around our customers' needs. There are solid synergies in this combination and we believe the Contego Cartons acquisition is an important step in strengthening our competitive positioning in Europe."
Under the terms of the transaction, Graphic Packaging will pay approximately £71 million in cash and assume approximately £10 million in other net liabilities in an all cash transaction to be funded with existing cash and debt under the Company's current revolving line of credit. Contego Cartons operates three folding carton facilities that convert approximately 150,000 tons of paperboard annually into folding cartons for the food and consumer product industries. Two of Contego Carton's facilities are located in the United Kingdom while the third facility is in the Netherlands. The acquisition is subject to standard closing requirements and is expected to close in late December.
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Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE:GPK), headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, is a leading provider of packaging solutions for a wide variety of products to food, beverage and other consumer products companies. The Company is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and holds a leading market position in coated-unbleached kraft, coated-recycled boxboard multi-wall bag and specialty packaging. The Company's customers include some of the most widely recognized companies in the world. Additional information about Graphic Packaging, its business and its products, is available on the Company's web site at www.graphicpkg.com.
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A Flourtown artist who was severely injured in two car accidents will have her work for sale in numerous local businesses starting next week, and her art will support three great causes; she will be donating 5% of sales to the Springfield Historic Society along with 5% of sales to the Black Horse Inn and 5% to the Friends of Historic Bethlehem Pike to continue their mission of maintaining the historic fabric of Bethlehem Pike.
Anthe Capitan-Valais' rendering of the historic Black Horse Inn on Bethlehem Pike previously inspired and aided in its restoration. She is continuing to lend her talents to help the restoration process, this time with the help of several shops in Flourtown.
Artworks by Anthe will be on exhibit for the remainder of January and through February in several local stores. An opening reception will kick things off at Arnica & Ivy Day Spa, 800 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown (215-233-0235) on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 19 and 20, 4 to 6 p.m. Local cabaret performer Anne Ellithorpe will be singing a few numbers both days at about 5 p.m.
When asked about her work, Anthe replied, "Creating work is much like breathing; I simply do it because I must to stay alive … Nothing in life is exactly what it appears to be, and art in my estimation should reflect the same as life, the unexpected."
Many years ago Anthe, who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 in her 40s, was a talented dancer. However, she was hit by a drunk driver in 1981 and was so badly injured that it took her seven years to recover, although she said her recovery was never complete, only 80 to 85 percent.
"I was parked in Clifton Heights (Delaware County) when a drunk driver hit me," Anthe explained. "It was his third drunk driving incident. The car pinned me in, but fortunately it was right in front of a fire station. After they got me out of the car, it blew up. The drunk driver got six months at a work farm but not for the drunk driving. It was because he assaulted a cop who questioned him."
That accident clearly put an end to Anthe's dancing career but not to the passion she had felt when dancing, which remained within. Now through her love of art, she is able to once again express the movements she remembered so vividly through the digital collages she creates along with her paintings.
In addition to her earlier dancing, Anthe has always been an artist. "When I was a child, I would take the cardboard pieces out of my dad's laundered shirts to paint and draw upon," she said.
"I couldn't wait for the next delivery of clean shirts as it would be loaded with many a blank canvas for me to make my creations. I used to get paint-by-number kits, and I was never one to stay in the lines, so with those paints, my imagination and the cardboard from my dad's shirts, I would paint."
In 1993 Anthe was involved in another serious auto accident. Again while she was parked, her car was slammed by a Septa bus. She said the resulting injuries "put an end to my printmaking."
Born in Detroit, Anthe lived in Michigan until she was 10, then lived in Ohio until the age of 24; then a short stay in Long Island, New York, and then Delaware County, where her near-fatal accident happened. She met her husband in 1982, moved to Chestnut Hill and was married in 1983. The couple has lived in Erdenheim since 1986.
Anthe has managed to merge her love of dance with her talent as an artist. "After becoming a professional artist, I was invited to attend a residency in St. Scholastique, Montreal, Canada," she explained. "During my stay I was taken by my hosts to the Winnipeg Royal Ballet. where I saw a rendition of Alice in Wonderland called 'Wonderland.' It was a contemporary ballet without costuming which used lighting to chase the dancers on the stage. This was primarily the only light in the hall. I decided to draw while sitting in the audience, in the dark, while I watched the performance. When the lights came on and my drawings were revealed, I was in awe of the drawings."
Lately Anthe has created works inspired by monitoring classes or attending live dance performances at Swarthmore College, where she is now a guest artist in the performing arts department. She will soon be affiliated with Eastern University as well.
She has also taught drawing to at-risk children with the Chester Children's Chorus. Some of her latest works were created by drawing directly on the iPad during classes and performances or in her studio, creating a digital sketchbook.
These pieces are then put into her computer, manipulated by adding colors and then printed. She has created an endless array of works in variations of colors and patterns.
The works that will be on view during the fundraiser for the three local non-profits are mixed media works on paper, paintings on panel and digital collages from her latest collection and series, " I Dance in My Heart," which will be on exhibit at Arnica and Ivy Day Spa.
Anthe will also have other events and assorted works at Barbara B's Jewels, floral etchings and watercolors at Botanical Expressions, Cisco's Bar and Grille, Pulse Dance Studio (in the Acme Shopping Center in Flourtown), Picture Framing Gallery, Salon-Salon, Scarlet Begonias, collages at GiGi's Consignment Boutique and other locations to be announced. Check with various locations for times and dates.
For more information or to check out Anthe's blog, visit www.artworksbyanthe.com


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Venus Williams earned one of her biggest wins since she pulled
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The seven-time Grand Slam champion won 6-1, 6-2 to improve to
15-0 in first-round matches at Flushing Meadows. But with her
ranking down to No. 60, she had to open against the Wimbledon
In 2011, Williams withdrew before her second-round match because
of Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease. She was playing just
her third event since a first-round loss at the French Open.
Flipkens had been enjoying a career year. The Belgian had never
reached the round of 16 at a major tournament before the Australian
Open, then made her run at Wimbledon.