• Reportlinker Adds Global Motors and Generators Industry

    Reportlinker Adds Global Motors and Generators Industry

    PR Newswire, Oct 29, 2009

    NEW YORK, Oct. 29 aerials essex /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

    Global Motors and Generators Industry

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    The global outlook series on Motors and Generators provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers an aerial view of the global motors and generators industry, identifies major short to medium term market challenges, and growth drivers. Regional markets elaborated upon include US, Canada, Japan, Europe, India, South Korea, China, and South Africa among others

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  • Massive Blitz As Police Target Drivers

    Massive Blitz As Police Target Drivers

    0 Comments | Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), Oct 17, 2009

    Byline: Mike Malyon

    CARS were seized and drivers searched, questioned and tested for drugs in a massive day-long police operation in Nuneaton.

    Using number plate recognition cameras – specially set up at various points around the town – patrol officers stopped vehicles and then escorted them to a checkpoint area on the Jubilee Centre car park, in Greenmoor Road. Operation Utah took place from 9.45am to 5pm yesterday and involved 50 police officers and other agency representatives, who were kept busy as dozens of cars and vans were brought in. Drivers found to have no insurance had their vehicles confiscated, while drug-test teams, benefit fraud officials and customs and excise staff also carried out comprehensive checks. Inspector Lucy Sewell, of Warwickshire Police, said: “This was a police-driven, multi-agency exercise colorado auto insurance quotes aimed at catching criminals, not motorists.

    ”The ANPR cameras, together with data on the police national computer, were used to identify uninsured vehicles and other intelligence was logged to spot suspicious vehicles or occupants

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  • PercepTool 1.5.5.(Product/service evaluation)

    PercepTool 1.5.5.(Product/service evaluation)

    Macworld, November, 2009

    multi purpose aluminium ladders If you want to take your images from flat to full of life in a hurry, the PercepTool plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 does the trick. The plug-in attempts to mimic your visual cortex’s activities to make an image look the way your brain thinks it should. It does this by altering the brightness, edges, and contrast of your images. To refine its controls, you’ll need to use PercepTool as a script; for a one-click fix, use PercepTool as a plug-in (macworld.com/5163)

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  • Launch Announcement: GE Security Sponsors Campus Safety Conference 2010

    Launch Announcement: GE Security Sponsors Campus Safety Conference 2010

    Market Wire, October, 2009

    The 2010 Campus Safety Conference announces that GE Security will be a Platinum Sponsor at its event, which will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif., March 29-31, 2010.

    The 2010 Campus Safety Conference offers a three-day program for hospital, school and university police agencies, public safety departments, superintendents, administrators and other campus stakeholders involved in the protection of North American campuses. The conference will provide attendees with techniques and information on how they can prevent, detect and respond to the many risks and incidents that occur at today’s healthcare and educational facilities.

    GE Security, Inc., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is a leading supplier of security and life safety technologies, with operations in more than 35 countries and $1.8 billion in annual sales. GE Security offers one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios, including access control, fire detection, intrusion, key management and video surveillance. GE Security’s products are used to protect people and property across a wide range of industries, including aviation, banking and finance, education, government and military, healthcare, law enforcement, residential, retail, stadiums and event venues, and transportation. For more information about GE Security, please visit www.gesecurity.com .

    For exhibit and sponsorship opportunities, please contact learn to sing well Dynise Plaisance at (760) 519-5541 or dynise.plaisance@bobit.com (Western Region); or Tara Schelling at (215) 794-7015 or tara.schelling@bobit.com (Eastern Region.)

    For additional conference information, visit www.CampusSafetyConference.com or call (800) 576-8788.

    ——– The preceding is an American Business Media Editorial Exclusive issued via Marketwire

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  • Company Profile for Moritex Corporation

    Company Profile for Moritex Corporation

    Business Wire, Oct 30, 2009

    Moritex founded in 1973 is engaged in the businesses of applied optical
    equipment, functional materials and biotechnology. In the machine vision
    system division, which is the core of applied optical equipment business
    of Moritex, it employs optical and lighting technologies to develop, tomtom 530s
    manufacture and distribute machine vision equipment by combining lenses
    and lighting systems, primarily for customers in the areas of
    semiconductor production equipment, electronic components mounting
    equipment, and LCD manufacturing equipment. Moritex is a global leader
    in this area.

    (Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section, stock code: 7714)

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  • Old to the new

    Old to the new

    Flex, Dec, 2009 by Joe Weider

    THERE’S PRETTY MUCH A CONSENSUS that Eugen Sandow was the progenitor of modern bodybuilding. It’s a reasonable claim, seeing as how the extraordinarily muscular Prussian performed the first posing routine on film (for Thomas Edison’s camera, no less), opened the first bodybuilding gym (in 1897) and staged the first major bodybuilding competition in 1901.

    Although Sandow was arguably the first bodybuilder, as in the first man to display his muscles for show, his training hardly resembled the kind of lifting that is commonly associated with bodybuilding today. He most definitely lifted weights, but many of the lifts had names such as the “bent press,” the “crucifix” and the “two hands anyhow.” There were also the more traditional cleans and presses, as well as a variety of pulling movements.

    When you look at photos of Sandow, you simply cannot help but be impressed by his muscularity and the aura of power he projects. Then, when you consider that the photos were taken 100 or more years ago–long before supplements were available or such techniques as forced reps, supersets and peak contraction were conceived–you can appreciate his physique that much long island wedding videographers more.

    The lesson to be taken from the example set by Sandow is that the kind of training he did–as primitive as it may seem today–has value, and if it’s incorporated into your current program, it can yield great benefits. I’m not telling you to abandon what you’re doing now in favor of unusual lifts, but understand that a lot of these older lifts still have a place in bodybuilding training.

    When I started working out with weights, I relied heavily on the Olympic lifts, which, at the time, were the clean and jerk, the snatch and the two-hand press

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  • Multi-objective highway alignment optimization using a genetic algorithm

    Multi-objective highway alignment optimization using a genetic algorithm

    Journal of Advanced Transportation, Winter, 2009 by Avijit Maji, Manoj K. Jha

    The available highway alignment optimization algorithms use the total cost as the objective function. This is a single objective optimization process. In this process, travel-time, vehicle operation, accident, earthwork, land acquisition, and pavement construction costs are the basic components of the total cost. This single objective cheap airfare highway alignment optimization process has limited capability in handling the cost components separately. Moreover, this process cannot yield a set of alternative solutions from a single run. This paper presents a multi-objective approach to overcome these shortcomings.

    Some of the cost components of highway alignments are conflicting in nature. Minimizing some of them will yield a straighter alignment; whereas, minimizing others would make the alignment circuitous. Therefore, the goal of the multi-objective optimization approach is to handle the trade-off amongst the highway alignment design objectives and present a set of near optimal solutions. The highway alignment objectives, i.e., cost functions, are not continuous in nature. Hence, a special genetic algorithm based multi-objective optimization algorithm is suggested.. The proposed methodology is demonstrated via a case study at the end.

    Keywords: Multi-objective optimization, highway alignment optimization, genetic algorithm, user cost, construction cost

    Introduction

    Transportation plays an important role in the socio-economic development of a region. It consists of various modes or means of travel from one point to another. The modes vary from simple walking to aircraft. This classification is termed the modal classification. The basic modal classes are comprised of highways, railways, waterways and airways. In highways, motorized and non-motorized vehicles use the road network to travel from one point to another. The railways use the guided path and rail tracks to travel from one point to another. This type of transportation requires a huge initial investment. One of the oldest modes of transport is the waterways. Many country reached culmination of their prosperity for a good waterways transportation system

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  • Driver’s Alert Co-Sponsors North Carolina Fleet Forum

    Drivers Alert Co-Sponsors North Carolina Fleet Forum

    Business Wire, Oct 26, 2009

    Hosts Georgias State Auto Insurance Program Officer

    LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. — Drivers
    Alert (the Company), a pioneer in the fleet safety and risk
    reduction industry, today announced that it is co-sponsoring the North
    Carolina Fleet Forum to be held on Friday, November 20, 2009, from 9 AM
    2 PM ET at the City of Durham, NC Fleet Facility. Drivers Alert will
    present its new Smart
    Risk program, which is designed to help fleets identify drivers
    that are at high risk to cause their next at-fault crash, so they can
    prevent it from california auto insurance quotes occurring. Other event sponsors include Government
    Fleet Magazine, Clean
    Cities North Carolina and 100
    Best Fleets in North America.

    Focusing on Implementing Best Business Practices, the event is
    targeted specifically for public sector fleet managers throughout the
    Southeast. Featured speakers will include Ed Finnegan, State Auto
    Insurance Program Officer, Department of Administrative Services for the
    State of Georgia. With a fleet size of over 20,000 vehicles and 125,000
    state employees, the State
    of Georgia has one of the largest fleets in the country. While the
    Risk Management Services Department utilizes several loss control
    strategies including Drivers Alert, the centralized Office of Fleet
    Management initiates vital strategies to reduce operational costs and
    more effectively manage the States fleet.

    Mr. Finnegan will share his States success in reducing the annual
    number of insurance claims and associated expense dollars

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  • Harleysville Mutual to Acquire Delta Lloyds Flood Insurance Business

    Harleysville Mutual to Acquire Delta Lloyds Flood Insurance Business

    Business Wire, Oct 27, 2009

    HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. — Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company and Delta Lloyds Insurance Company
    of Houston, Texas, have agreed to a transaction in which Harleysville
    will assume Deltas book of Write Your Own (WYO) flood business
    effective November 1, 2009. Delta General Agency Corporation, through
    its more than 500 retail flood agents, will represent Harleysville in
    much the same way it represented Delta Lloyds. As such, Delta General
    will continue to provide training, servicing and marketing support for
    flood insurance to those agents. Terms of the transaction were not
    disclosed.

    Since entering the WYO flood program in 1999, our goal has been to
    become a major participant in this fee-based segment of the insurance
    business, said Michael L. Browne, Harleysvilles president and chief
    executive officer. Through a combination of acquisitions and organic
    growth, we have increased our WYO flood book at a 14 percent compound
    annual rate since 2005. The Delta Lloyds transaction will increase our
    size and scale in this niche. More importantly, our agent partners tell
    us that flood insurance is a valuable part of the portfolio of products
    that they can offer to their clients.

    Delta Lloyds, a participant in the WYO flood program since 1984, wrote
    approximately $13.5 million in direct WYO flood premiums in Texas in
    2008. Based on flood premiums alone, Delta Lloyds is the 23rd largest
    WYO flood carrier nationally and the 7th largest in Texas. Harleysville
    has participated in the WYO flood program since 1999, and wrote
    approximately $82.6 million in direct flood premiums nationwide in 2008.
    Based on flood premiums alone, Harleysville ranks 11th nationally and
    17th in Texas.

    WYO flood claims are 100 percent reinsured by the federal governments
    National Flood Insurance Program.

    Philo Smith & Co. served as Delta Lloyds exclusive financial adviser in
    the transaction.

    Harleysville Insurance is a leading super-regional provider of insurance
    products and services for small and mid-sized businesses, as arizona auto insurance quotes well as for
    individuals, and ranks among the top 60 U.S. property/casualty insurance
    groups based on net written premiums

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  • Bungling burglars steal family ashes; CRIME: Police recover the urns, discarded but undamaged, in a nearby park

    Bungling burglars steal family ashes; CRIME: Police recover the urns, discarded but undamaged, in a nearby park

    0 Comments | Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), Oct 27, 2009

    Byline: Emma Stone

    POLICE are hunting the sick thieves who stole hanging hammock chair the ashes of a Coventry couple during a bungled raid at a city home.

    Two urns containing the ashes of the husband and wife were stolen during a burglary at their son’s home in the Radford area.

    The thieves forced their way into the house through a set of patio doors between 6.45pm and 7pm on Thursday.

    During the raid the precious items were stolen from the bottom of a wardrobe.

    Unaware of what the wooden boxes contained, the raiders also stole two jars containing coins and two mobile phones.

    Amazingly, the urns were later returned to the grieving son after police officers spotted them – discarded but intact – in nearby Holbrook Park later that evening.

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    Immediately realising what they contained, the officers from Stoney Stanton Road police station contacted Coventry undertakers. The undertakers were later able to return the undamaged urns to the owner after police trawled through their logs and identified where they had been stolen from.

    The 54-year-old Coventry man, who asked not to be identified, said: “I can’t understand why they would take them.

    “As both the urns are quite heavy, perhaps they thought I used them to collect pound coins but, having said that, both featured a tribute plaque that included the date when each of my parents died.

    “Obviously the urns are very precious to me and it was upsetting to find they’d been taken. It was a relief when police officers said they’d recovered them during a search of the park.

    “They’d taken the trouble to call out a local undertakers so that the remains could be gathered respectfully.

    “I’m grateful that they dealt with a delicate situation like this in such a compassionate way.”

    The man has written a letter of thanks to the officers involved.

    Sergeant Jerome Moran, of Stoney Stanton Road police station, said: “This was a particularly callous and ultimately stupid crime.”

    The mobile phones stolen during the raid were a Nokia 6600 and a Sony Ericsson P9101.

    Anyone with information about the burglary, was in the Holbrooks or Radford areas at the time, or who may be offered the phones for sale, is urged to call West Midlands Police on 0845 113 5000 or, anonymously, via Crimestoppers, on 0800 555 111.

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