Old Bike Tires Find New Life in Retirement: Re-tyre Belts
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Xerox Workgroup Color Printers Win Top Ranking
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For the sixth time in seven years, Xerox Corporation has been named the “Overall Winner” and “Company of the Year” in the workgroup color printers category by VARBusiness magazine, a leading industry publication for value-added resellers who market high-technology products, solutions and services. The accolades were based on the publication’s annual survey of more than 5,000 solution providers.
he VARBusiness “Annual Report Card” awards recognize outstanding partner programs in 18 product and service categories. The scores are based on vendor satisfaction ratings. Xerox earned top scores for product innovation and support, surpassing all competitors in the workgroup color printer category.
Xerox office products earned top recognition from numerous independent industry influencers. Buyer’s Laboratory Inc (BLI), a leading independent testing lab, recently honored Xerox Office products with three coveted “Pick of the Year” awards for the WorkCentre 7242 color multifunction system, and the Phaser 3250 and Phaser 5550 monochrome printers. Additional Office product highlights include:
- The Phaser 6180MFP color multifunction printer was selected by PC World readers as the “Top Choice” in the color printing category.
- The low-cost Phaser 6125 color laser printer was given a “Recommended Product” award by L’Ordinateur Individuel in France.
- APC Magazine in Russia selected the 42 page-per-minute Phaser 6360DN color laser printer as a “Best of the Year 2007” printer for large workgroups.
- The WorkCentre 5632/5655/5675 monochrome multifunction systems all received BERTL’s “5-Star, Exceptional” rating.
Xerox’s proprietary solid ink technology continues to be a prominent player in the Office printing industry. It has been recognized for its ease of use and innovative cartridge-free technology that requires minimal packaging and generates 90 percent less waste than comparable laser printers. This spring, the Phaser 8560MFP was named a “BERTL’s Best” recipient as the “Best Office/Small Workgroup Ink-Based MFP.”
In the production printing market, Xerox systems garnered worldwide attention at various tradeshows and from editorial reviews. The Xerox 8265 Color Wide Format Printer was named “Best in Show” in the wide-format printing category at this year’s AIIM/On Demand tradeshow. Additionally, Wide-Format Imaging magazine awarded the Xerox 6204 Wide Format Solution a “Readers’ Choice Top Product of 2008” designation. Other awards in the high-volume production space include:
- The Xerox Nuvera EA Digital Production System, DocuColor 7000/8000AP Digital Press, DocuColor 242/252/260 Digital Color Printer/Copier and Xerox 4112/4127 Enterprise Printing System earned Better Buys for Business “Editor’s Choice” designations in the 2008 High-Volume Printer & Digital Duplicator Guides.
- with Xerox Document Binder 120-D/Coverbind 101 DFS and the Digital Imaging Marketing Association awarded the DocuColor 5000 Digital PressXerox FreeFlow Print Server with JPEG plug-in its “Innovative Digital Product Award.”
Xerox software applications have been highly recognized for helping enterprises and small offices better manage their document workflow. Xerox’s DocuShare 6.0 and DocuShare CPX 6.0 content management systems were awarded “Pick of the Year” as Outstanding Enterprise Content Management Solution by BLI. BERTL Inc also selected DocuShare as “Best ECM Scalable from SMB to Enterprise” in its annual “BERTL’s Best” awards.
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Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
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For a late night summer party, we wanted to deploy an array of maybe 20 or so little LED garden lights along the periphery of our back yard. And since it was for a one-time event, there wasn't much sense in buying (or building) a set of nice looking permanent solar lights. So here is an alternative: make your own ultra-low cost temporary garden lights using LEDs, lithium coin cells, and mason jars. | |
 To start with, we need LEDs and lithium coin cells. One each per jar. The best kind of LED for this design is an ultrabright LED with a diffused lens so that the light cast by the LED chip goes in *every direction,* not just in the direction that the LED points (which is what you get with LEDs that have clear lenses). Having easy access, we opted for the 10 mm diffused white LEDs from here, but you can get similar LEDs elsewhere as well. For batteries, a very good option is Digi-Key. You *may* be able to do better from various eBay sellers and so forth, but we've gotten burned (figuratively, not literally) by bad sets of lithium coin cells, so beware! One thing to keep in mind: there are strict restrictions on shipping lithium coin cells by air, so if at all possible, allow time for ground shipment of batteries. (And, if you have leftover coin cells, you can always use them to make BristleBots!)
Next, you'll need some jars. Mason jars are available by the dozen in your local supermarket, in the canning/pickling section (which seems to actually still exist!), but are also available online of course. The "other" way is to start with a set of recycled jars, of course. If you eat a lot of pasta sauce from jars, you can build up a collection pretty quickly. And even if you don't eat food that comes in jars, you can usually find good jars at thrift stores-- so you really don't need to spend a lot on this. But even if you're buying brand new jars, you should be able to get all of your parts for a grand total of about $1-$1.50 per light jar. (If you want to get a bit fancier, there is also plenty of room for that. I like this set of instructions for making frosted glass jars for LEDs-- those would work well for this project too.) | |
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Now we hook up the LED to the battery as though we were making LED Throwies. * Connect an LED directly across the terminals of the lithium coin cell. The long lead goes to the '+' side of the battery. Wrap it once with tape-- just about any kind-- to keep the LED leads touching the battery cell. (We had blue masking tape handy so we used that-- it seemed to work just fine.)
Now the tricky step: Bend the LED 90 degrees from the battery cell using a half-twist, so that (1) it can bend that that way and (2) you don't touch the two leads of the LED to each other. | |
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Place the LED assembly inside one of your jar lids and tape it down in place. (Optionally, you can do a better job of centering the LED than shown here!)
Finally, screw the jar onto the lid, and it's done.
With a little practice, you can make a few of these per minute.
And, after dark, they start to come alive. We think that these could be potentially interesting for a number of different types of outdoor events-- making quick cheap lighting when and where it's needed. They are relatively scaleable, in the sense that hundreds of them are much more affordable than regular solar garden lights. The difference is that like traditional luminarias, these jar lights are temporary. However unlike luminarias, LED jar lights are waterproof, won't blow out or catch on fire, and will stay safely lit-- unattended-- for several days up to a week. And, if you don't need them for a week at a time, you can always easily disassemble them and save the batteries for next time. | |
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For the American Cancer Society
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It has been about four years, and I am still making 3d character art. I have made websites and blogs, and even made cards, shoes, posters, and shirts with my characters at Zazzle. At Zazzle, my fan club is starting to grow which has taken me by surprise. That makes me want to do something more with my characters. So I decided to make an I Can Page at ACS website. When you go to the page, look on the right hand side and you will see one of my characters. Click on my fund photo page to see more.
When I think of cancer, I think of walk-a-thons. I thought about my character, Stilt Walker and some shoes that I have designed. The “Goo” part of the name was taken from Google being a logo Google fan creating logos. I called them Goo-Roars. Then I made all of the ideas combined and came up with my own name for a walk-a-thon titled “Goo-Roar Walk-A-Thon”. I wanted to create a strong image for people that are fighting cancer. So, I used a tiger to blend with Stilt Walker and the Goo-Roar shoe.
I have another character name Little Benny that I should have thought of first for a walk-a-thon. He was created into an animation titled “Benny’s Walk”. Benny walks along with Jesus. His walk-a-thon is a prayer walk-a-thon to encourage people to walk and talk with Jesus fighting cancer. At Zazzle, I decide to create Little Benny Keds Shoes. The picture of the shoe is on my I Can Page.
At Zazzle, I am hoping that people will buy some of my work that is on the I Can Page. It is all for the ACS. A portion of the money will go to the American Cancer Society.
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Six Most Amazing Astronauts
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Gus Grissom
Gus was a very experienced astronaut, working in the Gemini program and piloting the Liberty Bell 7. In the Apollo 1 mission, he was the commanding pilot. Grissom, along with his other pilots, were killed in the Apollo 1 accident. Once he was dead, his family passed on his spacesuit, worn during his Mercury 4 mission to the astronaut's hall of fame.Ed White
Born in San Antonio, Texas Ed was considered a "High Flyer" by the NASA cooperation. In his past experiences, he piloted Gemini 4, and was the second command pilot for the mission Gemini 7. He was to be the command module pilot for the first fateful Apollo mission, AS-204. He also died in a failed test of an Apollo 1 space shuttle.Roger Chaffe
Chaffe had no previous experience as an astronaut, but had instead worked for NASA mostly on creating the shuttles that were to be sent to space. He is responsible for the satellite that took pictures of missiles over in Cuba, which the president later broadcasted with Chaffe on television. He Apollo 1 was his first mission as an astronaut, and he was killed during a training course.Fred Haise
Haise was a pilot on the Apollo missions Apollo 8, Apollo 11, and Apollo 16. He flew as the Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. He was also scheduled as commander for the Apollo 19 mission. Then he flew five flights as the Commander of the space shuttleEnterprise, in 1977. He was selected to command the STS-2 mission to rescue the Skylab space station, but was cancelled because of the long pauses in the Shuttle's development.James Lovell
Lovell was the backup pilot for Gemini 4, and his first spaceflight was as pilot of Gemini 7 in December 1965. Lovell was scheduled to be the backup commander of Gemini 10, but after the deaths of Elliott See and Charles Bassett, he became backup commander of Gemini 9A. In November 1966 made his second flight into space as commander of Gemini 12. After these two flights, he had spent more time in space than any other person.John Swigert
He was one of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 moon mission, which was launched on April 11, 1970. Originally part of the backup crew for the mission, he was assigned to the mission just days before launch, replacing astronaut Ken Mattingly.