Highly-regarded spot for executive detached

TAYLOR Cole Estate Agents are offering for sale a four-bedroom executive detached home in a highly-regarded area.

Number 21 Peel Drive, Wilnecote,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator.B77 5FD has double glazing and gas central heating and features a lounge, dining room, breakfast kitchen and utility room.

There's a bathroom, guest WC and a luxury en suite to the master bedroom. There's also an integral garage, driveway providing off-road parking and an enclosed rear garden.

In brief, the accommodation comprises porch, hall, cloakroom, lounge,Welcome to jinan morn laser marker manufacturers,laser engraving machine suppliers. dining room, breakfast kitchen and utility room on the ground floor; with four bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

The dining room has laminate flooring and French doors to the rear garden.

The breakfast kitchen has a range of drawer and base units with work surfaces over and ceramic tiled surrounds,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator. matching eye-level cupboards and open display shelving, breakfast bar, inset stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap, built-in double oven, four-ring halogen hob with extractor hood over, built-in refrigerator, space and plumbing for dishwasher and tiled flooring.

The utility room has a fitted base unit with work surface over, a sink unit with mixer tap, ceramic wall tiling, double wall cupboard, space and plumbing for automatic washing machine and additional appliance space.

The master bedroom has a full range of fitted wardrobes, a matching dressing table, bay windows to the front and an en suite with half-height wall tiling and a white suite comprising pedestal wash basin, low-level WC and a fully-tiled shower cubicle with shower fitment. Bedroom two has fitted wardrobes and a matching dressing table.

Both the other bedrooms have built-in double cupboards.

The bathroom has a white suite comprising panelled bath with shower over and side shower screen, pedestal wash basin, low-level WC, ceramic wall tiling and tiled flooring.

The garage has an up-and-over door, light and power.

The split-level rear garden has a full length canopy providing covered access, external tap, a raised decked patio, hard-standing for shed, wrought iron balustrade, courtesy lighting and steps to a lawn with borders and a further decked patio. There is timber fencing enclosing the boundaries.

Debbie Smith,Learn more about how a wind turbine works, the benefits of wind energy and how a residential wind turbines is installed. sales and marketing manager for the development, says: "We have had a very positive response to Woodsend Wharf since the site launched a few weeks ago, with several reservations taken already. "Now that the doors of the new show home are open, it will enable potential purchasers to truly appreciate the layout, specification, quality and finish of these homes."

The show home is a two/three-bedroom, three-storey town house with large lounge and combined kitchen and dining area.Among the modern home accessories and decoration, the effect of modern lamps is also growing. The master bedroom is en suite plus and there is a large second bedroom and bathroom.

The kitchen has an integrated top-brand oven, hob and extractor. There's also plumbing for a washing machine and a kitchen design that includes cabinets and wide drawers with soft-close fittings.

There are nine two/three-bedroom Oakdale houses and four one-bedroom apartments in the converted William Woodsend building. A further eight Loxley four-bedroom, three-storey town houses are on adjoining land.

Debbie said: "This is a fantastic scheme in a great town centre location. The mix of homes ensures there is a wide choice to suit various purchasers' needs."

Wounded cat tees up court case

“The cat is a living, sentient being. It has value,” Norton said. “It deserves some recognition, and I just think that if your animal is injured, somebody should look at stepping up to the plate to help with that.”

“He’s going to physically survive,” Norton said. “Initially,We are offering bamboo knot remboving machine, internal knot removing machine and laser cutter to our customers. I had friends who said you need to put the cat to sleep. … I wanted to do everything I could for him. I felt responsible. I brought him here.”

The ball came in so fast that day Norton didn’t see which tee it came from, she said, noting errant shots are a common problem in her yard.

Norton said Thursday that she would prefer to leave descriptions of the cat’s complex injuries to a veterinarian.

“Her pet has undergone three months of intensive medical care,Welcome to jinan morn laser marker manufacturers,laser engraving machine suppliers. which has been expensive and upsetting, and the pet will never be the same,” said minutes from the April 5 meeting of Harbour East community council.

The matter “is a safety issue that should be taken seriously by Brightwood as a business,” Norton told the council.

She stressed “that Halifax Regional Municipality should take responsibility to find a resolution for the issue,” the council minutes said. “She suggested that Brightwood should put up sufficient nets to keep the golf balls from her and her neighbours’ yards.

“Ms. Norton indicated that she has researched requirements in other cities, and HRM needs to do something about this situation. She suggested that just because it has always been like this is not an acceptable reason to let it continue.”

Since the cat was injured, the golf course has increased the height of the wire mesh fence to six metres from 41/2 metres, Jean McKenna, Brightwood’s lawyer, said Thursday.

“It’s a pretty unusual circumstance because her yard is just to the right of the No. 2 tee,” McKenna said.

“So a drive off the No. 2 tee would go parallel to her fence, all things considered and the golf gods watching. So we say it would be pretty strange for a slice to go into a yard that’s only (nine metres) away over a high fence. And there are some trees there as well. So we’re saying we’re not responsible.”

Brightwood is arguing the course, which marks its 100th anniversary in 2014, has behaved reasonably.

But Norton “is saying we are at fault and it essentially rains golf balls on a daily basis,America's wind turbine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base.” said McKenna, an avid golfer.

“We part company on cause of injury to the cat, if indeed there is an injury to the cat, and we part company on what costs could she associate with the golf balls.”

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“The larger issue is, is there a very frequent invasion of golf balls into her yard from the Brightwood golf course? In which case, it could be considered to constitute a nuisance, and so there could be liability.”

The case first landed in front of adjudicator Eric Slone in April. But it was adjourned to June when it became evident that more time was required to hear the facts.

On June 5, Slone heard from several witnesses when Brightwood’s lawyer asked the adjudicator to rule that the cat’s owner could not prove her case.

“The basic thrust of her objection was that there was no expert evidence properly before the court to establish a connection between the alleged incident involving a golf ball striking (Norton’s) cat, and the injuries said to have been suffered by the cat as laid out in the veterinary records,” said the decision.

“There ensued a discussion wherein it was explained to (Norton), who was self-represented, that the court could not rely on statements in the veterinary records without giving (Brightwood) an opportunity to cross-examine the author of those comments. Because of the lateness of the hour, and my desire not to see the case dismissed on something of a technicality, or perhaps more accurately in fulfilment of my obligation to assist self-represented parties,Morn series laser engraving and laser cutting machine, CNC router machine are widely used in many areas. I allowed the matter to be adjourned to a future day when (Norton) could call evidence from one or more veterinarian.”

Since then, and after “a great deal of email correspondence,” Slone declared a mistrial on the grounds that he is potentially biased and ordered another adjudicator to try the cat owner’s case.

The alleged bias stemmed from another case where Norton, a retired teacher, sued a store that sold her a defective washing machine. Coincidentally, Slone was also the adjudicator in that case, where he found Norton was “totally credible,” a finding Brightwood argued would render him unable to make a fair finding of credibility in the cat case.

Obama takes economic plan to the people

Outside the K’nex Brands factory that makes Angry Birds and other big-selling global toys on Philadelphia’s suburban fringes, the rituals that precede a presidential pit stop have been unfolding this week.

The helicopters landing nearby; the agents scouring the surroundings and the police car discreetly parked outside the company’s snow-dusted headquarters – all are tell-tale signs that, less than a month after his re-election, Barack Obama is returning to the campaign trail.

To the irritation of Republicans, Mr Obama will swoop briefly into the toy factory on Friday to press his case on the fiscal cliff, the $600bn set of spending cuts and tax increases that threaten to stop the US economic recovery dead when they kick in at the year’s end.

Mitch McConnell,Morn series laser engraving and laser cutting machine, CNC router machine are widely used in many areas. the Republican Senate minority leader, said Mr Obama should be in the Capitol talking to Congress rather than “barnstorming the country” in support of his plan for higher tax rates on the wealthy.

But ahead of his trip, Mr Obama made it clear that, for him, campaigning has become very much part of governing and an effective way of bending recalcitrant Republicans in Washington to his will.

“I’m going to do my part, not just by sitting down with CEOs, labour leaders and Congress, but by taking this to the American people,Learn more about how a wind turbine works, the benefits of wind energy and how a residential wind turbines is installed.” Mr Obama said.

The K’nex factory will provide the backdrop for the White House’s core message – that a failure to stop taxes rising on all but the wealthy will hurt the economy by cutting Christmas spending by middle-class consumers.

The privately owned company, which designs its own toys as well as making them under licence, is running its warehouse round the clock to keep up with Christmas orders from the US and around the world.

Revenues from toy sales are up about 40 per cent,We are offering bamboo knot remboving machine, internal knot removing machine and laser cutter to our customers. and from manufacturing 60 per cent, since 2009, as the costs of both making products in Asia and transporting them to the US rise.

Early signs are that Christmas sales will be up substantially this year – orders have risen by 30 per cent online through K’nex’s own site and stores like Walmart, and 20 per cent in stores, compared with 2011.

“The issue for us is how to manage growth,” said Mr Araten. “We now consider ourselves the medium-sized guys going up against the Goliaths.Welcome to jinan morn laser marker manufacturers,laser engraving machine suppliers.”

But employment has not grown at the same pace. Jobs at the company have grown by about 20 per cent to 150 employees over the same period, as K’nex’s manufacturing is highly automated.

K’nex has about five people operating 100 presses in its factory. “In China, they will have five people per machine,” said Joseph Jay Smith, K’nex’s chief development officer.

With orders for its toys placed well ahead of time, it is not clear that the economic uncertainty created by the fiscal cliff will have any impact on K’nex’s business in the run-up to Christmas.

But Mr Araten will not buy into the political debate,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator. nor on whether taxes on the wealthy should rise, other than to say that he is certain that White House and Congress can negotiate a deal over the fiscal cliff.

Another record year for KASTO

Sawing machine and storage system supplier, KASTO, reports that turnover in the UK in 2012 will be 12 to 15 per cent higher than in the previous year. Located in Milton Keynes, the firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of the KASTO group,Welcome to jinan morn laser marker manufacturers,laser engraving machine suppliers. which has its headquarters in Achern, Germany.

The increase in the level of business is commendable, bearing in mind that 2011 itself was a record year for KASTO in the UK. To put in perspective how well its customers and British manufacturing as a whole appear to be coming out of recession, the company's turnover is three times that of 2009.

The automated storage system side of the company's activities remained constant as a proportion of turnover,Learn more about how a wind turbine works, the benefits of wind energy and how a residential wind turbines is installed. accounting for a quarter of capital equipment sales during the year. The systems have all gone to OEMs; none to stockholders or subcontract manufacturers. The latter sectors, however, are good prospects for increased business. Holding long stock and sheet efficiently, securely and with full traceability is an appealing alternative to having material in conventional racking or on the floor.

Despite constant sales of tower stores over the past couple of years, enquiries have increased dramatically this year, by a factor of eight. It indicates that British manufacturers and stockholders are becoming more aware of, and receptive to, the message that prompt delivery of material to saws and other production equipment is key to making them more productive. Indeed, towards the end of November 2012, a significant order for an automated system was secured, valued in excess of 1 million.

Although KASTO is best known for its wide range of bandsaws and circular saws, the storage system side of the business is the one earmarked by Mr Wagner for rapid growth in the years ahead. He believes it will ultimately double the company's turnover, mirroring the expansion in automated storage systems already seen in consumer goods manufacture and distribution.

The reason is not only down to business efficiency, but also to the high cost of land and hence industrial space in the UK. Saving floor area with vertical storage solutions, which allow more productive use of a building, means that there is more space for additional machines or storage. The approach can postpone or avoid having to move premises as a company expands.

Mr Wagner continues, "2012 was the first year during which we sold almost the full gamut of our different types of sawing machine, from top-end bandsaws through mid-range models to our workshop programme for jobbing applications.

"We also delivered circular saws for high volume cutting, including one of our WAC machines for use with tungsten carbide tipped (TCT) circular blades."

Machines were taken by stockholders of steels and alloys,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator. but a majority were destined for manufacturers and subcontractors. Over half of the bandsaws delivered are cutting exclusively with TCT bandsaw blades,Among the modern home accessories and decoration, the effect of modern lamps is also growing. while other machines are using them for part of the time and bimetal blades for the remainder.

The reason for a company choosing carbide tipped teeth centres on the need to lower cost per cut to remain competitive, which applies to both stockholding and manufacturing.In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator. TCT or ceramic circular blades can achieve six to 10 times faster cutting rates than high speed steel blades, but only on general steels up to 150 mm diameter.

Bandsaws are needed above this size and for cutting stainless steel and exotic alloys. KASTO manufactures -tec AC machines with extra rigidity and vibration management features specifically for TCT cutting at infeed rates typically five times faster than when using bimetal blades. A few years ago, the company introduced a KPC variant of the -tec AC that could further increase cut piece output by a factor of three to four. KPC-enabled machines accounted for one-third of -tec AC bandsaws delivered in 2012.

Wind farm needs community backing

The state-owned company says it will spend the next three months consulting the King Island community.

Chairman David Crean says the wind farm will be the biggest in the southern hemisphere and will have significant economic and social benefits for the island.

Dr Crean says a two-year feasibility study of the project will start in April if the proposal wins community support.

Of the 200 residents who attended last night's information session, he says only one spoke out against the project.

"We need support, strong support, from the community for this project to go ahead," he said.

"I mean, when we go into the feasibility stage it's a significant cost, so we have to be certain that we're going to get that strong community support so that we, and any potential investors, will be able to proceed with certainty."

The proposal will cover 15 per cent of the island's land mass and includes an underwater power cable to a location near Geelong to export power. It will be capable of powering 240,000 homes.

Dr Crean says Hydro needs a private investor, but he does not expect it will be difficult to find a joint venture partner. The Tasmanian Government has backed the plan.

Premier Lara Giddings says the project will create 500 jobs over the two-year construction phase and between 10 and 20 full-time positions when the wind farm is commissioned in 2019.

Ms Giddings believes the project could generate an annual $200 million revenue windfall.

She has guaranteed the project will not avoid scrutiny because of the financial incentive.

"All of the hurdles that are there at the state and federal levels must be overcome, must be shown to have been properly assessed against," she said. The Greens' energy spokesman Kim Booth wants more detail.

"It has to stack up environmentally, it has to stack up economically, the business and we'd like to see all of those matters addressed so people aren't given false hope by a statement by a head of Hydro or a minister looking for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a good public announcement."

"If the business case stacks up then we'd welcome it with open arms," he said.

Climate Change Minister Cassy O'Connor is excited by the project's potential, saying it could significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.

Hydro is investigating environmentalists' concerns about the impact on species such as the endangered orange-bellied parrot which visits King Island on its annual migration.

Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson says there should not be much impact on birdlife, if the turbines are erected in suitable places.

"If they're, for example, very close to a rookery then we've got a problem on our hands, but I'd be very surprised if Hydro hasn't already addressed that issue," he said.

"I looked at this issue for a wind farm in Flinders Island a few years ago when I was at the University of Tasmania,The laser marking machine is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training. and they can certainly be designed and located in areas to have a very minimal impact on birdlife.Welcome to vist aulaundry."

From this point of view, the Black and the Azov seas - especially east of Crimea, where there is demand for electricity, are rather promising areas.Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection. Other promising areas include Zaporozhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions," the expert said.

He added that the national wind energy potential could be described more precisely, using the so-called wind atlas, which should contain data on the movement of air masses.

"Its development has been lobbying at the state level, but so far without success. Today we need a comprehensive program to study wind potential in the areas, where we can develop wind power," the UWEA head said.In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator.

Also, in his opinion, the share of "local element" in each project of renewable energy should be less than 15%. "For as long as there is no production of domestic effective power equipment,Statistically speaking, travelling cable are extremely safe. it has to be purchased in the West. Of course, similar domestic production must be maintained, however within reasonable limits and that will cover part of the project, the roads, the foundations, and labor," Konechenkov is sure.

Wireless Charging: Almost Ready For Prime Time

How many chargers do you own? If you have a cell phone, laptop, tablet, camera, GPS, and other portable devices,Small wind generator company suitable for for remote or off-grid battery charging. you probably have quite a few—and have even lost some of them. Still, you may want to add one more to the list. Wireless chargers have been around for a little while now, but the technology is starting to take off.King's Chandelier has offered fine modern lighting and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal.

Wireless chargers plug into the ac outlet, but you don’t plug your device into them. Instead, you simply put your device on top of the flat surface. The charger has a coil that acts as a transformer primary winding and generates a magnetic field. The device that’s getting charged also has a built-in coil that becomes the transformer’s secondary winding. The magnetic field induces a voltage into the secondary winding, and that voltage is then rectified into dc and used to charge the device’s battery.

The wireless chargers on the market so far aren’t too popular. Most mobile devices don’t have a built-in secondary coil, so you have to put them into a special sleeve that has one—so much for the convenience and low cost of wireless charging. In addition, you have to carefully align the coils to get maximum coupling between them to get enough transferred power for charging. It’s a nuisance at best. Is this any more convenient than just plugging in a charger?

With no industry agreement on one approach, it’s difficult to see where this will end up. All the approaches are different and incompatible. My guess is that we will see multiple standards coexist unless the industry suddenly decides to coalesce around one of them. What will Apple do? We shall see.

The biggest issue is spatial freedom, or not having to precisely align the phone and the charger coils. They need to be close but not so perfectly aligned, which is hard to do magnetically. I saw a capacitive coupling method developed by Murata at last year’s CES that is better in that regard, but none of the standards are using it.

Intel is also working on wireless charging,Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts. enabling you charge your cell phone from your laptop. It uses resonance at higher frequencies in the inductive coils to boost the range and power of the magnetic fields. Integrated Device Technology (IDT) has developed a chipset for this technology, but it is incompatible with all the other standards.

Power by Proxi, a New Zealand company, is trying to develop patents from the University of Auckland. It owns 125 patents in this field as well as more than 900 claims developed over years of research and development. The company’s first developments involved charging electrical vehicles like forklifts, golf carts, and other industrial and construction equipment. It also developed wireless couplings that go between the rotating joints of blade motors on wind generators and the generator itself without slip rings.

Recently, Power by Proxi turned its attention to cell phones. So far, it has developed a wirelessly chargeable AA cell. The cell phone can be oriented in any position inside the charging box. It operates at 500 kHz and is loosely coupled, probably using resonance. It’s one more technology to deal with,The laser marking machine is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training. but Power by Proxi could be a major player with its killer IP portfolio.

I’m not sure this format fits everyone. You have to have the charger pad, which is likely larger than your regular charger. Furthermore, unless airports, hotels, restaurants and other places install them,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator. you still need an ac outlet. Hopefully, phones with wireless chargers also will still be able to plug into standard chargers.

Grafton residents weigh in on proposed wind farm

About 125 residents from Windham and Grafton crowded into the White Chapel Monday night to hear from a panel of six speakers to discuss a proposed wind farm that straddles both towns.

The meeting was organized by Liisa Kissel of Friends of Grafton Heritage, with state Rep.Welcome to vist aulaundry. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, as moderator.

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The firm seeks to erect three meteorological test towers (METs) to gauge the site’s suitability for installing wind turbines.

Two of the towers are in Windham, and the third is in Grafton within less than a mile of the closest houses.

Kissel noted that this was the first meeting in Grafton since Iberdrola first surveyed the private property in 2011, and came before the Grafton and Windham Selectboards in June 2012, that the “other” side had been heard.

She said Iberdrola has also been courting residents and giving tours of the Lempster, N.H., site on four occasions,Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection. once for town officials and three times for the public, as well as distributing pamphlets door-to-door.

Currently, a petition is in the works that calls for amending the Grafton Town Plan to ban large-scale renewable projects, Kissel said.

Windham Selectboard Chair Mary Boyer said her town’s town plan prohibits such projects altogether. The town plan clearly prohibits any use of its ridgelines for any commercial wind energy, citing its sensitivity as a natural habitat, but does not prohibit MET towers.

Benjamin Luce, assistant professor of natural sciences and physics at Lyndon State College, was the keynote speaker, providing a comprehensive look at the pros and cons of building wind turbines on ridge tops in Vermont.

Luce is a founder and former director of the Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy, former president of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association, and a former renewable energy program manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Luce saw successful adoption of a renewable energy standard and a production tax credit for wind power in New Mexico that led to the installation of several hundred megawatts of wind generation on the Eastern Plains of New Mexico. So he has seen the successful side of wind energy, he said.In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator.

But Luce questioned whether ridge-top wind turbines were the right solution to the climate crisis for Vermont, given the return in energy, as well as cost effectiveness.

Laying out his research in an abbreviated presentation, he cited concerns of a very expensive renewable energy that,The laser marking machine is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training. among other things, depended on commodities like cement, copper, and steel which have seen a sharp rise in cost over the last decade. He noted solar energy production was not dependent on such volatile markets.

His other arguments against the suitability of ridge-top wind turbines in the state included three words from a survey that describe what people come to Vermont to see — “unspoiled, beautiful, mountains” — qualities that are inconsistent with wind turbines along the ridges of the Green Mountains.

Green bank powers up

Shaun Kingsbury loves wind turbines, is happy to recycle,A wind farm is a group of wind power turbine in the same location used to produce electric power. uses Prius taxis and drives a car that can save petrol by briefly turning off its engine when stopped at the lights.

But the 45-year-old running the UK’s new 3bn Green Investment Bank is firm on one point. “I’m not a green activist, I’m an investor,” he says, in his first interview since his appointment in September.

The clean energy business will never work if it cannot show it can be profitable, he adds, and the bank is a for-profit body. “So it’s really important for me to do the thing I know how to do best, which is to make money.”

The bank took its first tentative steps on Wednesday with a formal launch at its Edinburgh head office, where it announced its first two investments: 8m to help build a Teesside anaerobic digestion energy-from-waste plant, and 5m to improve energy efficiency at the Kingspan construction materials company.

Bigger deals in offshore wind farms and domestic energy efficiency – two other sectors it is supposed to help boost – are expected further down the track.

But it has taken two-and-a-half, sometimes fraught, years for the governing coalition to get even this far with what it likes to call the world’s first investment bank dedicated solely to “greening the economy”.

In the wake of Whitehall squabbles over its funding and borrowing powers, it has 3bn of government money and no ability to borrow until after April 2015 – and only then if public sector net debt is falling as a percentage of gross domestic product.

And now it is launched amid coalition rows over wind energy – a subject the Belfast-born Mr Kingsbury prefers to deflect: “I think I’ll leave the politics to the politicians.”

But politics will surely always be present in a bank founded and championed by the state.

Mr Kingsbury insists this will not happen. “We’re not a lender of last resort,” he says, explaining the GIB will invest alongside other commercial banks but will aim to lend for longer periods in a market where long-term loans have become trickier to find and negotiate.The laser marking machine is unlikely to hurt you, but you can easily hurt it without training.

There are other potential pitfalls. Although head office will be in Scotland,King's Chandelier has offered fine modern lighting and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal. home to much of the UK’s renewable energy sector, half the bank’s 100 staff will work in its London office at Millbank Tower, including many of its investment specialists.

This means Mr Kingsbury must consider the difficult green bank public relations pitch of flying weekly between Heathrow, 20 minutes from his Surrey home, and Edinburgh.

“We’ll have to watch our carbon footprint and we’ll have to watch the additional time it takes [to go by train] as well, we’ve got to balance the two,” he says.

He says he will personally pay for the carbon offsets to balance his emissions, and staff will be encouraged to use video conferencing. In the end,In this video we demonstrate three different types of home made electricity wind generator.Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts. the real test of the bank’s performance will be how well Mr Kingsbury’s team invests.

He has an impressive record in the energy business with many years at Shell, then Centrica, the owner of British Gas, and most recently Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a large private equity group.

So far he has about 30 of 100 staff and expects it will take until June to hire the rest. From then, he will have until March 2015 to commit the bank’s 3bn, which he says could be a challenge.

“It took us four years at Hudson to invest $1bn and we could invest in any renewable energy transaction across any market,” he says. The GIB has more than four times that amount to invest in only a few sectors in the UK.

Mr Kingsbury does not mind. “It’s not very often in life you get an opportunity to start a brand-new institution,” he says.

Nearly 10,000 march in Kuala Lumpur

Nearly ten-thousand people marched to the centre of Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to push in desperation for a halt on an AustralianAmtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and laser cutter as well as solutions for over 15 years.-based rare earth refinery, which is set to begin operation next month, over health concerns.Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts.

Sunday's rally was a culmination of a 13-day march by many of the protesters on foot from Kuantan in the Pahang state, 300 kilometres away where the plant is located.

Clad in green, the protestors, who stopped at a standoff with hundreds of police and a barricade preventing them from entering the landmark Independent Square (Dataran Merdeka),King's Chandelier has offered fine modern lighting and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal. said they would camp on the site till Monday morning and demanded to meet with a government official.

"Why would I not protest if it is health hazardous? I consider our protest successful because we managed to persuade more people to be on our side but I am heartbroken at the same time that while we were walking a long way, Lynas were secretly transporting the raw materials to its plant. It was a tough journey as hundreds of us were forced to share a toilet and brace the storm, trying our best to cancel the plant but Lynas got away with it," Kuantan resident, Too Ya Mei said.

"We hope the government can hear his people's voices. I believe they can't handle any untoward consequences. Advanced countries like Japan couldn't handle (radiation-related disasters), let alone Malaysia," another demonstrator Andrew Lim said.

District police chief,Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. Zainuddin Ahmad declared the assembly illegal and the city hall had earlier this week warned the public against the rally. The rally was one of the largest organised by environmental activist group Himpunan Hijau since the demonstrations against the controversial plant started two years ago.

The march came after protesters' efforts to appeal a temporary operating license issued by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board to Lynas went futile.

The government said it issued the license after Lynas fulfilled the requirement for a permanent disposal facility among others. Opponents of the plant feared the plant, which they said sits on a tropical pit swamp, would generate radioactive waste that is hazardous to health.

Lynas was granted a manufacturing license two years ago as operations at the plant were slated to begin last year but they were suspended following growing anger from the public.

An estimated 100 containers of rare earth concentrate were reported to have been shipped to Kuantan as Lynas said it would begin operating next month and expects production revenue to flow in the first quarter of next year.

Lynas insisted the residue generated by the plant releases radiation level 500 times lower than what the Malaysian law permitted and that the waste material will be properly managed. The plant would produce metals worth five billion ringgit a year that are used in making green products like wind turbine, LEDs and flat screen televisions.

While wind turbines are generally rated for maximum power output, this does not give much of an indication of annual energy production.This depends on the particular site’s wind velocity profile. Power in kilowatts is measured at any given moment in time. Maximum (rated) power is limited to a given wind speed.

Overall energy yield, however, is given in kWh and indicates the total output over a period of time.Many of our spotlights can be used with contemporary lamps or come with LEDs built in. Therefore, a wind turbine can produce greater annual energy with a lower rated power than another of a higher rated power if it has a greater power coefficient over a wider span of wind speeds. This RO blade concept has thus far managed to maintain its efficiency over a range of wind velocities without the use of peak-power tracking.

German renewable energy drive brings emissions cuts success

Germany has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions significantly in recent years as it has pushed forward a renewable agenda leading Europe into an age of wind and solar power.

In the past year, the country's CO2 emissions fell by 2.4% compared with 2010, according to figures released by Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The decrease, say experts, has largely come through a push towards renewable energy that has accelerated since the country began its move away from nuclear power.Amtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and laser cutter as well as solutions for over 15 years.

In the first six months of 2012, the amount of electricity produced using renewable energy rose from 20% to 25%, bringing the country closer to its targets of 35% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.

"We are on a good track in regard to the increase in the share of renewables," said Brigitte Knopf, deputy head of research at the sustainable solutions project at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Pik). "This is a story of success, though some challenges are still ahead."

According to figures released by the government agency Germany Trade and Invest, 38% of the electricity produced by renewable energy during that period was through wind power, and almost 16% from solar.

The push for renewables has come largely through in Germany's highly regarded and much-copied Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which subsidises producers who invest in wind and solar energies through feed-in tariffs. The cost of subsidy has triggered a heated debate in Germany, because subsidies have been covered by higher energy prices for households.

This transformation follows the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, which prompted Berlin to move forward plans to phase out nuclear energy use in Germany from 2036 to 2022. Eight of 17 power plants were closed last year as part of the Energiewende process.

But as well as increasing Germany's reliance on renewables, it also increased German dependence on coal-fired plants, a major source of CO2.Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts. While experts said there are no plans for new coal-fired plants,King's Chandelier has offered fine modern lighting and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal. those already under construction will be finished.

"If you have new plants now, they will run for 40 or 50 years and then you will have a problem with emissions in the future,Multimatic is the manufacturer of commercial and industrial washer extractor." said Jan Burck, of environmental group Germanwatch.

Germany aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 40% of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80%-95% by 2050 – a target Burck said would be tough.

And even though the strategy has brought about a 26.5% reduction up to 2011, according to the UBA figures, there are other problems.

Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS) has less ambitious reduction targets,There has been a lot of interest in wind generator recently. which means EU companies involved do not need to work towards German goals. As a result, environmentalists are pushing for tougher Europe-wide regulations to bring all of the states into line.

But despite the problems, Germany remains committed to its green agenda, driven, some say, by the need to correct the world's wrongs – a sentiment that goes back to the second world war and the postwar generation who challenged their parents afterwards for just standing by.

"That has led to a very strong environmental and anti-nuclear movement," says Green party MP Hermann Ott. "It ultimately led to the foundation of the Green party and made us very strong. If something goes wrong, you have to speak up and do something otherwise your children will ask you in 20 to 30 years, 'Why didn't you do anything?'"

Beyond The Renewable Energy Bubble

Waves constantly thrash the fishing village of Mutriku on Spain's northern coast. Records from the 13th century describe the dangerous surf and shipwrecks here.King's Chandelier has offered fine modern lighting and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal. Until recently, water occasionally hurled debris through windows of homes, before the local government built a cement breakwater to shelter the harbor.

Now, this town's few thousand residents have a small beach that's protected from raucous waves that roll in off the Bay of Biscay. They can stroll down a pier and out over the breakwater. And hidden underneath their feet, Spanish scientists like Gloria Etxebarria are busy generating electricity from these powerful waves.

"The government decided to build a breakwater to protect the harbor of Mutriku. And so making use of that decision, we decided to put there our wave energy plant," Etxebarria says.

The Mutriku plant connected its turbines to Spain's power grid two summers ago, making it Europe's first commercial wave plant. Since then, similar technology has been used in Scotland and the Azores.

The plant cost the regional government just under $3 million to build beyond the cost of the breakwater, which was going to be built anyway. It has a capacity of about 300 kilowatts — supplying power to about 600 residents.Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts.

That's very small compared with Spain's wind and solar capacity, which on sunny, windy days can generate up to 70 percent of the country's electricity.

But just like Spain's construction bubble, there has been a renewable energy bubble here too. It popped when Spanish lawmakers slashed the budget back in January, says Gonzalo Escribano, an energy economist at Madrid's Elcano Royal Institute.

"Because we got a bubble mainly in the solar power, what they said in January is now we've got a moratorium. What does it mean, moratorium? Moratorium means no new installations will receive support. That's it," Escribano says.

In the boom years, the Spanish government offered generous subsidies for renewable energy; now those are gone. So big, expensive solar plants aren't as attractive as small-scale experimental projects like the Mutriku wave plant.

Ironically, the economic crisis could mean a blossoming of different types of renewable energy here now that subsidies for wind and solar are gone, Escribano says.

"You've got a lot of energy sources, and you will need all of them. You will need conventional, you will need new energies, and the more you get from anything, the best. So you have to pursue all the paths. Perhaps in some technologies, your path is leading nowhere, but you will never know until you're there," Escribano says.

It took Spain's wind energy industry about 30 years to get close to being competitive with natural gas, so it could be decades before we know how successful wave power might be here.

Spain is desperately searching for an industry to replace all the jobs lost when the construction sector collapsed. Unemployment tops 25 percent.

"Construction is low capital intensive, high number of jobs. Renewable energy is capital intensive. But in the end, it creates added value that will be recycled through other activities that will create jobs," says Juan Goicolea, the vice minister of innovation and technology for the Basque regional government, which oversees the Mutriku wave plant.

The renewable sector hopes to create more than 200,000 "green jobs" in Spain next year, and 3 million across Europe. That won't make up for Spain's lost construction jobs, but it's a start.

Etxebarria says the lean economy can sometimes force scientists to get creative. Government subsidies used to create incentives,Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. but now the field is wide open.Multimatic is the manufacturer of commercial and industrial washer extractor.Amtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and laser cutter as well as solutions for over 15 years.

Scots Reject Trump’s Wind Power Warning

Contrary to the view of Donald Trump, self-proclaimed tourism expert, the development of renewable energy resources will not doom Scotland’s tourism industry.

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In April, the real estate developer appeared before a Scottish Parliament committee to offer testimony on the subject and said “wind turbines, made in China, are going to be the destruction, almost a total destruction, of your tourism industry.”

When asked what evidence or experts he could cite for his assertions, Trump declared: “I am the evidence. I am a world class expert in tourism.”

A report from the Economy, Energy and Tourism committee of parliament rejected the idea that there would be negative impact on Scotland’s tourism industry. “These assertions were contradicted by research evidence from VisitScotland and others,” the report said.

Whilst care always needs to be taken in terms of the planning process and decisions on the siting of individual projects in areas popular with tourists and in our more rural and remote rural areas, no witness has provided the Committee with robust, empirical evidence, as opposed to anecdotal comment and opinion, that tourism is being negatively affected by the development of renewable projects.

In addition to his parliamentary testimony, Trump earlier this year backed anti-wind power ads by the group Communities Against Turbines Scotland (CATS). The ad showed a row of rusty, broken down wind turbines under the headline, “Welcome to Scotland!”

The picture, however, was actually of a decommissioned Hawaiian wind farm, and the U.K.Amtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and laser cutter as well as solutions for over 15 years.’s Advertising Standards Authority in September called the ad misleading on that and several other counts. The standards body ordered Trump and CATS “to ensure that the pictures they used in future ads reflected the types of turbines likely to be used in Scotland, and not to exaggerate the number of turbines likely to be installed or the possible consequences of the Scottish Government’s plans to use wind turbines.”

Jim Crawford wants to revive the dormant Countryside Party to campaign against the number of turbines being approved by the Scottish Government across the region and rest of the country.

The Highland councillor,Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid.Elevator industries were not having any ancillary support for elevator parts. who is barred from taking part in debates or votes about any wind farms submitted to the local authority for planning permission because of his views, was incensed after a parliamentary committee last week concluded there was no evidence that renewable energy developments were hurting the tourism industry.Many of our spotlights can be used with contemporary lamps or come with LEDs built in.

Councillor Crawford said he could now reform the minor political party - which fought on rural issues and polled 1,768 votes in the Scottish Parliament 2003 elections for the Highlands and Islands region – if he can attract enough pledges of physical and logistical support from individuals and organisations in the coming weeks.

The party would then campaign for a moratorium on further wind farm schemes.

Councillor Crawford, a founding member, said it could then target key seats in the 2016 parliament elections, like the Inverness and Nairn constituency held by the energy minister Mr Ewing and other national politicians in areas where wind turbines had become a major issue.

“People are saying enough is enough about wind farms,” said Councillor Crawford. “We could target seats and a very good one would be Fergus Ewing’s seat. I have been on marches, signed petitions and knocked on MSPs’ doors - they just ignore you. But if you can get into Holyrood or Westminster beside them they can’t.

The Coalition’s half-term report: must try harder

As this Government and Parliament reach the halfway mark, many in the business community are looking back at those initial promises to evaluate whether our elected officials have lived up to these lofty aspirations, and genuinely delivered a more dynamic and pro-enterprise environment.

The verdict we hear from companies across the real economy is “some progress but must try harder”.

Where has the Government got things right? In the eyes of business people, its biggest success to date has been the maintenance of the UK’s market credibility in the midst of a global storm. Although many companies would like to see spending further reprioritised away from welfare and current spending toward infrastructure and growth measures, there is strong support for the deficit-reduction strategy. Britain,Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection. like its businesses, must live within its means.

On a range of smaller measures, the Government has also delivered positive change. Reform of employment tribunals and health and safety laws have delivered real confidence to many businesses, particularly at the smaller end of the spectrum.

More central-government procurement has been opened up to SMEs,This pressing roofing machine can curve roof panels with good quality and high speed automatically. even if some agencies and local authorities have not yet made as much progress as the Cabinet Office. There has been a significant reduction in the flow of new regulations hitting businesses.

The second is that the Government, despite its pro-growth rhetoric, remains wedded to some decisions that actually damage UK competitiveness.Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. We have an immigration policy, led by headlines rather than evidence, that prevents many companies from competing with global rivals for essential specialist skills and undermines our spectacularly successful export performance in higher education.

We also have a stubborn determination to implement the eighth change to parental leave in a decade, just when it could most damage business confidence –particularly among the SMEs that are being asked to hire more workers and to invest.We have several models of Forming machine to match your exact job specifications. If every department of government is meant to support economic growth, some require a mid-term intervention to remind them of it.

Businesses’ third and final concern is a real, and growing, capability-expectations gap.The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance. While few business people doubt ministers’ zeal for economic reform and private sector growth, many question the Whitehall machine’s seeming inability to implement the changes that would turbo-charge the real economy.

We do not doubt the Government’s desire to cut regulation, reform the planning system, increase private investment in infrastructure, or increase the flow of credit to growing small and medium-sized companies. Yet the regulations being axed are often marginal, so the planning system reforms have yet to speed up development, pension funds and others remain wary of the political risk around infrastructure projects, and business- lending remains stagnant at best.

And while ministers announced the creation of a business bank, which we campaigned for over many months, its actual launch date and ultimate remit are still to be clarified.

It also requires a laser-like focus on implementing promises made in the first half of the Government’s term, including the delivery of key infrastructure projects; the creation of a business bank that heralds a radical and long-term change to how companies access growth finance; and the cancellation of proposals working their way through the Whitehall machine that actually add more red tape.

Finally, a successful second-half performance requires moves to bolster business confidence – the key to unlocking the private-sector investment revolution that can propel our national growth prospects forward.

The shadow behind the Britsh Horseracing Authority's good news

It will now be a condition of any racecourse’s license that minimum race values must be increased by 12 per cent over and above the amount currently sought by the Horsemen’s Group.

What is important about this agreement between the Racecourse Association and the rest of the racing industry is that it gives the BHA a crop with which to whip racecourses into line.

There is, quite understandably, considerable unease in the industry that Arena Racing Company – an amalgamation of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing – now owns more than a third of the fixture list. And,Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. more importantly, the media rights money attached to those fixtures.Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection.

The Reuben brothers, who own ARC, are admired for being very good, tough businessmen. But they are not known for their love of the Sport of Kings. And it is assumed that they would rather keep the media-rights money that their courses receive from the betting industry rather than give it to people who turn up with their horses. Hence the BHA’s move last week.

ARC’s attitude to the racing industry is judged through the prism of Hereford racecourse. It plans to shut it down next year, even though it has 17 years left on the lease. ARC justifies that decision on the basis that the course is no longer profitable.This pressing roofing machine can curve roof panels with good quality and high speed automatically.

It does not take a genius to work out that the turf on any one track can only take so many meetings. And the worse the state of the ground gets, the higher the risk of injuries to the horses.

It is difficult to see what the end game will be at Hereford. What, for instance, would the BHA’s position be if ARC does asset strip the fixtures away to its other tracks, and then hands back the lease of the track to the council, which owns it.

The council has made it clear that it would like to see racing continue in its town, so it would presumably like the lease back.

And it would have a couple of tenders from consortiums who would like to come in and run the track.

But would the BHA be happy to issue new fixtures? Or alternatively, could it stop ARC transferring the fixtures in the first instance?

What is not known is how much input the Horsemen’s Group had into the raising of prize money last week.

It is no secret that Paul Bittar, the chief executive of the BHA, who must take credit for this development, does not have a high opinion of those operating the HG.The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance.

So the idea that Bittar might have kissed and made up over bacon sandwiches is a stretch too far for the imagination. That relationship is going to need a lot of therapy before the plates stop flying.

But the HG needs to get back into bed fairly quickly, because its input, as far as designing future race programmes is concerned,is critical. We have several models of Forming machine to match your exact job specifications.

The structure and timing of the fixtures must be focused absolutely on the horses, not the betting shops.

The overriding principle must be that the emphasis is on creating a framework within which horses can be nurtured, developed and campaigned with their best interests at heart. And not that the horses are treated like spins on a slot machine, galloping around on unsuitable tracks, at the wrong stage of their development, just to generate betting turnover.

MSU grad behind popular commercials

Millions have seen the Volkswagen Super Bowl ad — on TV or online — with Mini Vader waving his hands at various household objects, willing beyond words for the Force to animate the family dog, the washing machine, even his peanut butter sandwich, until Dad drives up in the Passat and — finally! — it works.

Perhaps more to the point: Who hasn’t been so glum after a day of disappointment that we’ve sat at our kitchen counters with our heads in our hands, or known the love behind Dad’s subtle raised eyebrows when he reveals the electric vehicle starter that made his child believe he actually could move the earth?

Mike Sheldon has a secret: That ad for German carmaker Volkswagen AG — which became one of the most popular Super Bowl TV spots when it debuted in 2011 — isn’t really about Volkswagen or the “Star Wars” saga at all, even though it may have helped sell cars and bolster a Hollywood phenomenon.

“It’s just classic storytelling,” said Sheldon, CEO of Deutsch LA, the West Coast ad agency that created the clip. “When something happens and sort of explodes in pop culture, you never know what impact it will have or what it will do.”

Deutsch also was the ad agency behind Detroit automaker General Motors Co.The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance.’s 2007 ad about a robot who dreamed about being fired after dropping a bolt on the assembly plant floor. The spot, filmed at GM’s Lansing Grand River assembly plant, was meant to tout the company’s 100,000-mile warranty and emphasis on quality. But it sparked a backlash because of a scene in which the robot contemplates suicide. GM later revised the commercial.

For Sheldon, a 1982 Michigan State University advertising graduate, that 60-second “Force” commercial is the pinnacle of a 30-year career that started the day he drove his Chevrolet Chevette out of East Lansing — skipping his own commencement ceremony — and across 2,000 miles toward California and the lure of Hollywood.

Sheldon returned to campus this month, speaking to an audience of MSU advertising students. Although the West Bloomfield native never again would live in Michigan, his blood evidently still runs green. If he has his way,We have several models of Forming machine to match your exact job specifications. his 16-year-old son also will be a Spartan.

And for as much as he believed while a student that the university’s curriculum trailed the industry in innovation, he is now convinced his alma mater is leading a curve that will send students into a rapidly changing environment armed with the skills and ambition to be successful.

“In a lot of ways,Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection. they’re preparing students for things that industry hasn’t yet completely figured out: How digital works, how you combine digital and mobile technologies into marketing, how you engage your social audience and fans with your brand,” he said. “I’m really pleasantly surprised at how connected they are to real issues that face advertisers and marketers.”

Sheldon didn’t enter advertising because he was a creative kid itching for an outlet. He was fueled instead by the high-octane world of motorcycle racing.Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. As a teenager, he assumed he would follow his father into business — he worked his way up from a Buick assembly line to a corporate position with GM — but Sheldon lived too much for adrenaline to be satisfied in a standard desk job.

“I did want to be part of corporate America, just sort of on my own terms. And, that’s why advertising seemed like such a great alternative,” he said. “It’s corporate, but it’s also very creative. It’s got a little sense of Hollywood to it.”

In 1982, when Sheldon was a college senior, the country was struggling with an economic downturn. He had interviewed for jobs in Detroit and Chicago,This pressing roofing machine can curve roof panels with good quality and high speed automatically. but the recession at the time meant employers weren’t making many offers. A month before graduation, Sheldon flew to California and met with seven agencies over five days.

Small businesses step out of Black Friday's shadow

After the crowds have shopped at large stores and sprawling malls on Black Friday, many smaller businesses were hoping Saturday would be their day.

Thousands of small stores, restaurants, spas -- and even dry cleaners -- across the U.S. offered their own discounts and promotions to draw holiday shoppers on what's known as Small Business Saturday.

American Express created the day three years ago, it says, to help small businesses struggling during the recession. The credit and charge card company encourages cardholders, who have registered in advance online to make purchases with their cards in exchange for a $25 rebate paid for by American Express, if they buy something at a participating business. American Express won't say how much the promotion costs, but Susan Sobbott,Modernica is the official site for the George crystal light Collection. president of American Express OPEN, the company's small business division, says it is a considerable amount.

But even small merchants who aren't officially part of the event hope to get a bump in revenue during a weekend when they used to be all but forgotten in an avalanche of deep discounts offered by big stores and online retailers.We have several models of Forming machine to match your exact job specifications. Perhaps more importantly, the day has become an opportunity for small businesses to build a corps of customers who will keep coming back year-round.

In Dixon, Ill., 51 small businesses have banded together to recruit local artists and performers to create a party-like atmosphere on Saturday, and they're also planning other events for the holiday season. A year ago, the combination of the American Express rebate and the events helped give the participating businesses a collective revenue increase of more than 50 percent on the Saturday after Thanksgiving,Those wind power generators produce power for the utility grid. says Lisa Higby, owner of Distinctive Gardens, a nursery and garden center there. But the benefit goes beyond a one-day jolt.

"It gives us a yearlong impact, much greater exposure for our business," Higby says.

American Express may have intended to give small merchants -- and card usage -- a boost in a tough economy,The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance. but Small Business Saturday is also helping small merchants get a bigger share of the spotlight and spending between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a shopping holiday dreamed up to get people excited about shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving. For some retailers, the sales they get after people push back from the Thanksgiving dinner table represents a significant chunk of profit for the year. That hasn't been so true for most small businesses. Ninety-one percent of the 1,003 small business owners said,This pressing roofing machine can curve roof panels with good quality and high speed automatically. in a survey commissioned by Bank of America, that the day after Thanksgiving has little, or no, effect on their profit.

"Black Friday doesn't do anything for us," says Leslie Leahy, owner of The Hitching Post, a gift shop in Reading, Mass. In fact, it's pretty quiet in town because so many people are at the malls and big-box stores, she says.

To make the most of Small Business Saturday, many small business owners offer discounts as part of a marketing strategy for the entire holiday season. Leahy had good results last year. Revenue at The Hitching Post rose 28 percent on the Saturday after Thanksgiving a year ago from the same day in 2011. She doesn't give discounts on her merchandise, but the $25 rebate from American Express drew customers. This year, she and other retailers in town joined for a "buy local" weekend. She served drinks and treats for customers. American Express sends organizing kits to 50 chambers of commerce around the country to help communities create joint Small Business Saturday events, but many come up with ideas about how to promote the day on their own.

A woolshed like no other

The Old Errowanbang Woolshed is one of Australia's oldest and most cherished woolsheds.

It sits regally atop a hill just outside of Orange in the News South Wales’ Central West district.

Comparable to a castle, the grand exterior of this shed and its beautiful green surroundings are like something only heard about in fairy tales.

Four storeys high, 126 years old and comprised of 40 shearing stands,Vento Australasia provides wind solar hybrid street light systems by ZK Energy cable free street lights. it's no wonder that when Old Errowanbang opened its doors to the public recently, there was a flock of thousands.King's Chandelier has offered fine Chandelier and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal.

People travelled from the north,Anyone with the space to site a small wind turbine for farms can generate their own electricity from wind power. from the south and there were even some who had traversed the Tasman.

But while its grand design and historic charm were definitely things to marvel at, for just one afternoon, Old Errowanbang had another drawcard.

In an effort to raise funds for the shed’s restoration, Jan Harries, owner of Old Errowanbang, had put out a call for 40 blade shearers to fill its 40 stands and for history to be recreated.

For the first time since World War I, the measured beat of 40 blades cutting through thick, white wool would echo through Old Errowanbang once more.

In the lead up to the shear off, many men were already rallying sheep to the board; dragging them out of their stalls and flipping the woolly animals upside down; ready to secure some last minute practise.

Scribbled across the shed’s timber walls were etchings of aged signatures and tally lines of past competitions.

From up above, a high pitched ceiling made of windowpane and rustique rafters allowed for a wealth of warm, natural light to fill the room.

Having grown up in the big smoke of Sydney, I had never seen anything quite like it. By the end of that day however, just viewing Old Errowanbang would not be my only feat.

Becoming the first female to blade shear a sheep inside Old Errowanbang would be up there as well.

Earlier that day I had been speaking with Mike Pora, a teacher in the art of blade shearing and machine shearing.

When I told Mike I was interested in having a lesson, before I knew it he was ushering me onto the board with the rest of them, Mike passed me a baa-ing sheep with one hand and a pair of oversized shearing blades with the other.

He told me to nestle my left foot here, my right foot there and to use my elbows to support the sheep’s restless head.

I opened the blades with excited confidence and took my very first snip through the animal’s curly, merino fleece.

I then continued on; down, around and back up again… following the lines of the sheep’s natural coat and the contours of its body.Learn how the simplest possible wind power turbine works.

The spacious modern kitchen has cream units and black work surfaces, a built-in oven and hob, a fridge/freezer, a washing machine and a dishwasher.

There is a door to the side of the property and a door into the spacious dining/living room which has a gas fire and French doors on to the rear garden.

On the first floor, there is a double bedroom with a built-in wardrobe. There is also a further double bedroom, smaller double bedroom and good-sized single.

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Furniture makers seek workers in North Mississippi

After thousands of layoffs in northeastern Mississippi's furniture industry, some of the remaining companies are hiring. And the state is subsidizing that hiring with tax credits and training money that may run into the millions of dollars.

Considering that Mississippi lost more than 40 percent of all furniture jobs in the last decade, such spending may seem like a bad investment. But industry leaders say they're going to survive.

Certainly, Max Home appears to be thriving.Both Hoistway Cable and ETT travelling cable is stocked in several locations across the United States. As Chief Operations Officer Bruno Policicchio walked through the firm's cut-and-sew plant in Fulton last month, workers were laying down boards to create another table to cut fabric for sofas and chairs. The firm, which has 550 workers across three plants in Fulton and one in Iuka, makes upholstered furniture sold by retailers including Macy's, the Pottery Barn unit of Willams-Sonoma and Haverty Furniture Cos.

The firm has steadily expanded over the past seven years, breathing new life into shuttered factories. Policicchio said his company is committed to domestic manufacturing because it gives Max Home better quality control and helps it react quickly to changing fashions.

"We've never made anything in China.Many of our spotlights can be used with light project or come with LEDs built in. We've always made everything here. A lot of people thought that we were crazy," Policicchio said. "We decided we may never get big being domestic,Southeastern Laundry Equipment is your full service laundry equipment distributor. but we can truly control our price, truly control our delivery.A folding machine is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper."

However, many other companies have turned to China for cutting and sewing, bringing in fabric kits for sofas and chairs assembled in the United States.

Companies following the Chinese route kept some of the cutters and sewers to repair damaged kits, one reason that domestic advocates disparage China. Still, layoffs were heavy among cutters,Sunshine Works will help you design ground mount kits and solar power backup systems. who trim fabric using automated machines or by guiding an electric knife by hand. Job losses were also heavy among sewing machine operators, who stitch together fabric pieces into cushions or backs.

Harmon at least had home economics in high school. Many potential employees don't have even home sewing experience, said James Williams, vice president of economic and community services at Itawamba Community College in northeastern Mississippi.

"That's a skill that's disappearing," he said. The college is seeking grant money to buy sewing machines to train potential employees.

That would add to the assistance that furniture makers get from Mississippi. Earlier this year, the Legislature extended through 2017 a $2,000-a-job tax credit for every new cut-and-sew worker who's hired. The state Department of Revenue doesn't know how many of those credits have been claimed.

Ken Pruett of the Mississippi Furniture Association estimates 1,500 cut-and-sew jobs have been added since the credit was established in 2010, out of 4,000 new hires industrywide. Others say those figures sound high, but it's clear hundreds of cut-and-sew jobs have been added.

For all companies, not just furniture makers, Mississippi will pay for a trainer if a company creates a training line. It will pay up to half an employee's salary during on-the-job training, an amount Williams said is usually worth about $1,500. State employees will also teach safety, quality and efficiency classes for a manufacturer.

Community colleges also offer what they call counseling-to-career training. People 21 or younger who are out of school get career counseling and help with organizational and communication skills, leading to a paid internship.

Innovation brings APE a decisive edge

Located in stunning countryside near Poitiers in south west France, APE Etiquettes is a company with 135 employees, running 80 print units converting over 14 million sqm of materials a year. Turnover has grown from 12 million euros in 2000 to 17m euros today.

APE was founded in 1974, when the company’s current owner, Christian Poirault was running a large format screen printing business. ‘I sold that business in 1998 and the guy who ran APE was retiring. So I was in the right place at the right time and bought APE in 1999. Since then we have doubled the number of employees.Windflow Technology is a utility sized wind generator manufacturer based in Christchurch.’

Christian Poirault is an extraordinary character, animated by a passion for extreme sports. He has driven regularly in the tough Dakar rally in a car sponsored by leading industry suppliers including Dantex and Nilpeter. Poirault’s intense interest in sporting excellence extends to his factory. When a new press is commissioned it is named after a champion sportsman or woman, and they are invited to a ceremony inaugurating the machine along with hundreds of guests. In addition, APE actively sponsors local cycling and soccer clubs.

APE services a wide range of end user markets, with food being the most important, followed by lubricants and automobile products, pharma, cosmetics and household cleaning products.

Almost 90 percent of APE’s production is PS labels, using equal amounts of paper and film face stocks. The remainder is wraparound films for food products like cheese, as well as a little folding carton work.

‘The French market has become a lot more competitive, particularly now we have converters from Spain coming here after business,’ asserts Christian Poirault.

But there are also more positive trends. ‘Between five to seven years ago we were worried our business would go to Eastern Europe. But for our French customers it is easier to come here from Paris to approve a job, and then we export the label to their Eastern European production plants.Outputting as much as 660 kilowatts on a windy day, from single wind generator cost.’

Some 10 percent of APE’s production is for export, mainly to Francophone West and North Africa and to Middle Eastern countries including Iran and Egypt, as well as to Europe and as far afield as Korea.

APE runs the full range of print production processes including flexo, offset, letterpress, screen and digital. The digital operation is housed in a separate company called G9, and runs a Xeikon and two HP Indigo presses. APE claims to have been the first French converter to install digital presses 15 years ago. Run lengths under 5,000 meters will generally be put on the digital machines.Instead of using electricity to make wind, like a fan, wind energy turbines use wind to make electricity.

A key part of APE’s operation is the R&D lab, which drives the company’s innovation projects. APE specializes particularly in promotional and information-intensive labels, including booklet and multi-page labels.

‘This is an important innovation for many industry sectors,’ says Christian Poirault. ‘The Total (oil) label, as an example,King's Chandelier has offered fine Chandelier and sconces made in North Carolina of Swarovski and other European crystal. has three layers and 27 languages. Before we had to produce that label in two passes – now we can produce it in one.’

The new Nilpeter press is the first machine is a brand new production hall. ‘The new building not only increases our capacity,Southeastern Laundry Equipment is your full service laundry equipment distributor. but is a matter of customer faith,’ says Christian Poirault. ‘Customers require the security of having this two factory capacity with back up machines.’

Protocase adds $3m Sydney expansion

Where molten steel once flowed in industrial Cape Breton, the concept of mass customization is creating jobs.

Protocase Inc., a company of about 75 workers that quickly turns sheet metal into fully finished, custom enclosures, is revving up operations at a second site valued at about $3 million at Harbourside Commercial Park in Sydney.

“We live in a different world from the rest of the metal fabrication industry,Sunshine Works will help you design ground mount kits and solar power backup systems.” Douglas Milburn, vice-president at Protocase, said Thursday in an interview.

Harbourside Commercial Park is on the site of the former Sydney Steel Corporation, which could be described as a mass manufacturer from another era at an opposing end of the manufacturing spectrum.

“Mass manufacturing will always be around but will always be a tough way to make a living with so much offshore competition,” said Milburn.

“We do mass customization with mass-manufacturing techniques, and we can do production runs as low as a quantity of one.

“We’re not into manufacturing hundreds of thousands of widgets or anything like that.”

Developers of electronic and computerized devices turn to Protocase for the company’s expertise in producing custom-fabricated metal enclosures quickly.

The company ships to more than 6,000 customers across North America and around the world over 10 years. Some of these customers work for industry startups, while others tackle projects for big names such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Milburn said the business was literally forced to find additional capacity to supplement that at its headquarters.

“We hit the point where we were running 24 hours a day through the week. We knew we had to expand when we were forced to add weekend shifts to keep up with orders.”

Even with the addition of the second manufacturing site, Protocase will operate two shifts during the week at both locations.

“We expect we can continue to maintain year-to-year growth of about 30 per cent,” said Milburn, a co-founder of the business and chairman of the board of directors.

In the world of computer-aided manufacturing systems, Protocase recently took the concept of company-customer interaction to new heights with the in-house development of its three-dimensional, computer-assisted drafting software for clients.

“This speeds up the turnaround time significantly because Protocase Designer designs only what we can build,” said Milburn.A folding machine is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. “The system provides an estimate and even allows the client to buy online.”

One of the new features at the second manufacturing location is a computerized folding machine that quickly folds flat metal blanks into three-dimensional sheet metal parts.

“This is the most sophisticated bending equipment this side of Toronto,Many of our spotlights can be used with light project or come with LEDs built in.” Milburn said.Southeastern Laundry Equipment is your full service laundry equipment distributor. “It will give us a big boost in productivity and allow us to build a wider range of products.”

The Protocase expansion was funded by local investors through a Community Economic Development Investment Fund organized by New Dawn, a Sydney community development organization,Both Hoistway Cable and ETT travelling cable is stocked in several locations across the United States. with participation from Scotiabank.

Daimer Ships Steam Pressure Washers to U.S. Military Forces

Daimer Industries, Inc., a company consisting completely of Americans, and the world's leading U.S. brand of high pressure washer machines, including electric pressure washer systems and gas pressure washer equipment, is shipping the company's most powerful diesel steam pressure washer, the Super Max 12885 DE to military operations in the Middle East.Draw any design you fancy with a laser pointer – and the laser cutter will do the rest. Powered and heated by high-performance diesel technology,Morn series laser engraving and laser marker, CNC router machine are widely used in many areas. the machine is ideal for mobile applications. The steam cleaner machine offers a high pressure level of 3500 psi, a flow rate of 5 gpm, and temperatures up to 330F for fantastic cleaning power while drastically lowering water usage versus traditional hot water pressure washers.

“Cleaning requirements of military forces are different from those of ordinary companies or organizations. Government military personnel often work in extreme conditions, on more challenging applications, and while in very dangerous environments. High-powered commercial pressure washer machines with astounding pressure levels and flow rates are required to make the cleaning tasks easier,” says Matthew Baratta, spokesman of Daimer Industries, Inc.. “Daimer is very proud to be have sold many steam pressure washers to the government and all branches of the military in the United States, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the world. We are excited to announce the shipping of more machines that will help cleaning efforts by the U.S. Military Forces in Middle East.A CNC wood router is a tile roof machine tool that creates objects from wood. Our latest Super Max 12885 DE can handle the most demanding applications.”

Military personnel needs to handle various tasks, apart from protecting the America's international interests. The Super Max 12885 DE is among the best pressure washer machines for washing Hummers, heavy trucks, and many other vehicles. The system is powerful enough to clean most hard surfaces.

The equipment is highly versatile, as it offers variable temperature options, including cold water, hot water,Best-selling models of washer extractor from UniMac have water saving systems that reduce costs and save on energy. and wet steam. The Super Max 12885 DE super hot water pressure washer also features optional multi-user support for those needing faster cleaning with twice the manpower. The machine's heavy-duty schedule 80 heating coils convert cold water to hot in approximately 30 seconds. The Super Max 12885 DE high temperatures translate into the ideal special power to quickly melt grease and oil as well as clean most other substances, often without the need for chemicals.

The commercial pressure washer housing is comprised of heavy-gauge metal, and is powder-coated, includes a high gloss, and is chip/chemical resistant. The high-powered machine features a heavy-duty 25.2 HP diesel engine and a nine gallon tank for diesel oil. Diesel engines offer outstanding performance, beyond that of more conventional and popular gasoline powered engines.And the Forming machine and cutting machine got the FDA certificates.

Daimer's Super Max 12885 DE features Daimer's Long Hose Technology (LHT), ensuring optimal power even when using hoses up to 300 ft. in length. In case the machine needs to clean indoor surfaces, it can be placed outdoors or in an exhaust-friendly environment while the hoses extend to the area to be cleaned. The machine will experience very little drop in pressure, even over distances of several hundred feet. Importantly as well, temperature and pressure will remain constant.

Accessories included with the machine include a 3' durable trigger wand with a quick disconnect, an assortment of nozzles ranging from a blast nozzle to one with 40 spray pattern. A 50' high pressure steam hose in included, and additional lengths are available.

Scotch tape finds new use as grasping 'smart material'

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material."

Researchers used a laser to form slender half-centimeter-long fingers out of the tape. When exposed to water, the four wispy fingers morph into a tiny robotic claw that captures water droplets.

The innovation could be used to collect water samples for environmental testing, said Babak Ziaie, a Purdue University professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering.

The Scotch tape - made from a cellulose-acetate sheet and an adhesive - is uniquely suited for the purpose.

"It can be micromachined into different shapes and works as an inexpensive smart material that interacts with its environment to perform specific functions," he said.

Doctoral student Manuel Ochoa came up with the idea. While using tape to collect pollen, he noticed that it curled when exposed to humidity.Morn series laser engraving and laser marker, CNC router machine are widely used in many areas. The cellulose-acetate absorbs water, but the adhesive film repels water.UK supppliers of industrial washing machine, tumble dryers, spin dryers, ironing and finishing equipment.

"So, when one side absorbs water it expands, the other side stays the same, causing it to curl," Ziaie said.

A laser was used to machine the tape to a tenth of its original thickness, enhancing this curling action. The researchers coated the graspers with magnetic nanoparticles so that they could be collected with a magnet.Horizon manufacture a range of industrial extractor fans for efficient exhaust ventilation.

"Say you were sampling for certain bacteria in water," Ziaie said. "You could drop a bunch of these and then come the next day and collect them."

Findings will be detailed in a presentation during a meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston from Sunday to Nov. 30. Experiments at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center were conducted by Ochoa, doctoral student Girish Chitnis and Ziaie.

"Although brittle when dry, the material becomes flexible when immersed in water and is restored to its original shape upon drying, a crucial requirement for an actuator material because you can use it over and over," Ziaie said.Roll Former net offers the most productive and effective flattening machine for metal roofing and architectral sheet metal. "Various microstructures can be carved out of the tape by using laser machining. This fabrication method offers the capabilities of rapid prototyping and batch processing without the need for complex clean-room processes."

"We can get different things from the X-ray diagnostics, different things from the laser-based diagnostics, different things from temperature and pressure measurements, and by piecing all of that together we get a better view of the physics that are occurring in the shot," Beresh says.

The machine's unique diagnostic capabilities demonstrate Sandia's ability to collaborate. The team particularly singled out the X-ray expertise offered by Enrico Quintana and Jerry Stoker's group in the experimental mechanics/non-destructive evaluation & model validation organization. Elton Wright of geothermal research also made sizeable contributions.

The diagnostics required to get useful information from the machine are difficult and expensive,And the Forming machine and cutting machine got the FDA certificates. Wagner says. "There's a reason why it hasn't been done thoroughly in the past," he says.

A lot of data for modeling comes from explosions, but it's difficult to isolate what happens in each part of a blast, Kearney says. "Whereas if you do an experiment like this you can delve deeper into what is really happening," he says. "But it's just one piece of the puzzle and they’re all important."