bytimothyharvard
Hydraulic Cylinders are a vital part of a wide range of industrial machines, vehicles, tools, presses and more. They are common on earthmoving vehicles such as bulldozers and backhoes to raise and properly control the digging buckets. Machines in the automotive manufacturing industry commonly use a variety of hydraulic systems, as do the lift tables in automotive repair shops. Understanding your machines and their lift systems is very important when the need comes to replace a component. Misuse of various cylinders can damage the machine, or cause poor performance.
Understanding The Various Types Of Cylinders
Depending on the function, hydraulics can come in a range of cylinder types including single action which utilize both pressurized fluid from one source as well as a spring system to expand and retract the moving parts. Double action makes use of pressurized fluid from two sources and utilizes a heavy duty rod system instead of a spring. Telescoping or multi-stage cylinders have up to 6 relays of hydraulics and are commonly used in forklifts and construction cranes. Tie rods are a load bearing component of various cylinders, but can be prone to leakage of lubricant. Welded cylinders are much heavier duty and provide a very smooth extension and retraction when in use. They are also much less prone to leakage as they have fewer possible areas for that issue to arise.
Be Sure You Know The Type Of Hydraulic Cylinder You Need
Machines and vehicles using hydraulics are not invincible and will at some point need repairs or replacements. Knowing exactly which cylinder you need is important for both safety of the workers and productivity of the machine. Knowing your working pressure is important; cylinders all have a set maximum pressure they can be subjected to safely. Be sure you are aware of the weight of the machine itself, such as the bucket on a backhoe, in addition to the amount of earth or other items it will be lifting. Improperly rated cylinders can not only perform poorly, but they can also damage your machines or vehicles. Being aware of your stroke length is important as well; this can be anywhere from a fraction of an inch to several feet depending on its use. Once you are fully aware of your cylinder needs for the unique machine or application you are considering, you can then move on to finding a prefabricated or custom made piece for the job.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
US President Barack Obama has announced that he will ease the country’s ban on offshore oil drilling, which has been in place since the 1980s.
According to the plan, offshore drilling would now be allowed in parts of the Atlantic, from Delaware down to 125 miles beyond the shoreline of Florida, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
The move, however, does have some restrictions; drilling further northeast or along the West Coast is still prohibited. Contracts in Bristol Bay, Alaska were also suggested, but were scrapped due to environmental concerns.
The president remarked that he decided the move was needed to lessen the country’s need for additional energy, adding that he had studied the issue for over a year. “This is not a decision that I’ve made lightly,” he said.
“We’re announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect America’s natural resources,” Obama continued, speaking at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. “My administration will consider potential new areas for development in the mid and south Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.”
“Drilling alone can’t come close to meeting our long-term energy needs, and for the sake of our planet and our energy independence, we need to begin the transition to cleaner fuels now. I know that we can come together to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation that’s going to foster new energy — new industries, create millions of new jobs, protect our planet, and help us become more energy independent.”
Obama said that the plan was partially intended to garner support from Republicans in Congress for a climate-change bill to lower greenhouse gas emissions, which has been languishing for months due to lack of support from Republicans.
Some environmental groups, however, condemned Obama’s move. Phil Radford, who is with the Greenpeace group, said that “[e]xpanding offshore drilling in areas that have been protected for decades threatens our oceans and the coastal communities that depend on them with devastating oil spills, more pollution and climate change.” Greenpeace also said that lifting the ban fuelled the US’ “addiction to oil”.
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Republican leader for the House of Representatives John Boehner, meanwhile, said he agreed with lifting the ban in the Atlantic, but remarked that it “makes no sense” not to have lifted it in other areas as well. “Opening up areas off the Virginia coast to offshore production is a positive step, but keeping much of the Pacific Coast and Alaska, as well as the most promising resources off the Gulf of Mexico, under lock and key makes no sense at a time when gasoline prices are rising and Americans are asking ‘Where are the jobs?'”, he said.
“Today’s announcement is a step in the right direction, but a small one that leaves enormous amounts of American energy off limits,” said the Senate Minority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell.
According to the US Minerals Management Service, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Atlantic south and east of the continent could contain up to 5.8 billion barrels of oil and 40.5 trillion cubic feet of gas. The West Coast, meanwhile, which remains off limits for drilling, contains 10.5 billion barrels of oil with 18 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Journalist, counselor, painter, and US 2012 Presidential candidate Joe Schriner of Cleveland, Ohio took some time to discuss his campaign with Wikinews in an interview.
Schriner previously ran for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008, but failed to gain much traction in the races. He announced his candidacy for the 2012 race immediately following the 2008 election. Schriner refers to himself as the “Average Joe” candidate, and advocates a pro-life and pro-environmentalist platform. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles, and has published public policy papers exploring solutions to American issues.
Wikinews reporter William Saturn? talks with Schriner and discusses his campaign.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Preston, Victoria, Australia —On Saturday, Wikinews interviewed Tina McKenzie, a former member of the Australia women’s national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. McKenzie, a silver and bronze Paralympic medalist in wheelchair basketball, retired from the game after the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Wikinews caught up with her in a cafe in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Preston.
((Wikinews)) Who plays in that one?
((WN)) It’s not the same.
((WN)) Was that the one where you were the captain of the team, in 2005? Or was that a later one?
((WN)) The Gliders have never won the World Championship.
((WN)) Unfortunately, they are talking about moving it so it will be on the year before the Paralympics.
((WN)) The competition from the [FIFA] World Cup and all.
((WN)) But anyway, it is on next year, in June. In Toronto, and they are playing at the Maple Leaf Gardens?
((WN)) I don’t know either!
((WN)) We’ll find it. The team in Bangkok was pretty similar. There’s two — yourself and Amanda Carter — who have retired. Katie Hill wasn’t selected, but they had Kathleen O’Kelly-Kennedy back, so there was ten old players and only two new ones.
((WN)) Caitlin de Wit.
((WN)) No, she’s missed out again.
((WN)) That doesn’t mean that she won’t make the team…
((WN)) You never know until they finally announce it.
((WN)) They said to me that they expected a couple of people to get sick in Bangkok. And they did.
((WN)) They sort of budgeted for three players each from the men’s and women’s teams to be sick.
((WN)) Yeah. I sort of took to counting the Gliders like sheep so I knew “Okay, we’ve only go ten, so who’s missing?”
((WN)) She was sick the whole time. And Caitlin and Georgia were a bit off as well.
((WN)) The change of diet affects some people.
((WN)) When was that?
((WN)) 2007 or 2008?
((WN)) Yeah, well, the men are going to Seoul for their world championship, while the women go to Toronto. And of course the next Paralympics is in Rio.
((WN)) It will be a very different climate and very different food.
((WN)) One of the things that struck me about the Australian team — I hadn’t seen the Gliders before London. It was an amazing experience seeing you guys come out on the court for the first time at the Marshmallow…
((WN)) It was probably all old hat to you guys. You’d been practicing for months. Certainly since Sydney in July.
((WN)) Especially that last night there at the North Greenwich Arena. There were thirteen thousand people there. They opened up some extra parts of the stadium. I could not even see the top rows. They were in darkness.
((WN)) When I saw you last you were in Sydney and you said you were moving down to Melbourne. Why was that?
((WN)) I know you lived here for a long time, but you moved up to Sydney. Did your teacher’s degree up there.
((WN)) And you like teaching?
((WN)) You retired just after the Paralympics.
((WN)) Your basketball career or your teaching career?
((WN)) When did you join them for the first time?
((WN)) That would be good.
((WN)) Where are they all at?
((WN)) It’s not really because…
((WN)) Yeah, they kept on pointing that out…
((WN)) Sounds like a basketball player already.
((WN)) Something I noticed in the crowd in London. People seemed to think that they were in the chair all the time and were surprised when most of the Rollers got up out of their chairs at the end of the game.
((WN)) Disability is a very complicated thing.
((WN)) I was surprised myself at people who were always in a chair, but yet can wiggle their toes.
((WN)) Also talking to the classifiers and they mentioned the people playing [wheelchair] basketball who have no disability at all but are important to the different teams, that carry their bags and stuff.
((WN)) Getting women to play sport, whether disabled or not, is another story. And there seems to be a reluctance amongst women to participate in sports, particularly sports that they regard as being men’s sports.
((WN)) They would much rather play a sport that is a women’s sport.
((WN)) Where is it?
((WN)) How does Victoria compare with New South Wales?
((WN)) At the moment you’ll notice a large contingent of Gliders from Western Australia.
((WN)) The news recently has been Basketball Australia taking over the running of things. The Gliders now have a full time coach.
((WN)) I’m sure he is.
((WN)) Did you do some work with him?
((WN)) Watching the Gliders and the Rollers… with the Rollers, they can do it. With the Gliders… much more drama from the Gliders in London. For a time we didn’t even know if they were going to make the finals. Lost that game against Canada.
((WN)) Apparently.
((WN)) You said you played over 100 [international] games. By our count there was 176 before you went to London, plus two games there makes 178 international caps. Which is more than some teams that you played against put together.
((WN)) You need to prove it.
((WN)) Before every game in London there was an announcement that at the World Championships and the Paralympics “they have never won”.
((WN)) You were in the final game in 2004.
((WN)) What was it like?
((WN)) The best team on the court on the day.
((WN)) I’d like to see that happen. I’d really like to see them win. In Toronto, apparently, because the Canadian men are not in the thing, the Canadians are going to be focusing on their women’s team. They apparently didn’t take their best team and their men were knocked out by Columbia or Mexico or something like that.
((WN)) And in the women’s competition there’s teams like Peru. But I remember in London that Gliders were wrong-footed by Brazil, a team that they had never faced before. Nearly lost that game.
((WN)) They’ll definitely be an interesting side when it comes to Rio.
((WN)) They’re a tough team too.
((WN)) The Germans lost to the Americans in the final in Beijing.
((WN)) And between 2008 and 2012 all they talked about was the US, and a rematch against the US. But of course when it came to London, they didn’t face the US at all, because you guys knocked the US out of the competition.
((WN)) You won by a point.
((WN)) It went down to a final shot. There was a chance that the Americans would win the thing with a shot after the siren. Well, a buzzer-beater.
((WN)) Thankyou very much for this.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other agencies have raised the issue of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the battle between Sri Lankan government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), with an estimated 250,000 civilians caught between the fighting according to the ICRC.
Violence has intensified over the past few days in the Tamil-dominated northwest, where government forces have made strategically important gains, including the capture of Mullaitivu, the last rebel stronghold. But hundreds of thousands of civilians, nearly all Tamils, remain trapped within a 300 square kilometer war zone.
The ICRC, the only aid agency with a permanent presence in the war zone, says 250,000 people are trapped in the fighting, a figure that was repeated by the United Nations. The ICRC also claims that hundreds of civilians in the area have been killed or wounded, though an exact number was not given.
Sri Lankan officials say these figures are too high, though they have acknowledged the existence of some civilian casualties. In an effort to help civilians seek shelter, the government has unilaterally established a 32-square-km “no-fire zone” in the middle of the war area. The army dropped pamphlets urging civilians to go there for safety.
However, the LTTE have accused the Sri Lankan military of firing artillery shells into the safe zone, while the government denies such accusations. Likewise, the LTTE have denied the claim that they are using civilians as human shields by forcing them to stay in the area while holding them at gunpoint. The LTTE have yet to answer the military’s accusation that they deliberately placed their heavy weapons near populated areas and hospitals.
In response to accusations of firing at civilians, President Mahinda Rajapaksa pledged that his military would respect the boundaries of the no-fire zone. In a late-night meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the president assured his forces would “minimize the effects of conflict on Tamil civilians.” Mukherjee has pledged to send aid materials into northern Sri Lanka. However, some Indian media sources suspect this is a political move aimed at gaining favor with the DMK, a Tamil party in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Meanwhile, the fate of civilians in the war zone remains uncertain, as the violence has prevented most foreign media and international agencies from entering the area. The ICRC has called on both sides to respect the lives of civilians. “People are being caught in the crossfire, hospitals and ambulances have been hit by shelling and several aid workers were injured while evacuating the wounded,” said Jacques de Maio, the head of operations for the ICRC in South Asia.
The ICRC says hundreds of patients are in need of emergency medical treatment. However, the UN says the LTTE have fired at their convoys and refused to allow evacuations to the nearest hospital, while the military had resumed firing during an attempted evacuation. The UN condemned this as a violation of international humanitarian law, which requires a guarantee of safe passage for aid workers on both sides.
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“It’s an incredibly serious situation,” said James Elder, a U.N. spokesman. “We have a very large number of people, including tens of thousands of children, trapped in a fast-shrinking conflict zone.” ICRC spokeswoman Sarasi Wijeratne did not explicitly accuse the LTTE of firing on their convoy, simply stating that the convoy had not been given full security assurances.
Sri Lankan military officials say the rebels are nearly defeated, with only about 30 kilometers of seafront remaining under their control. Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara claims the LTTE have 1,200 well-trained cadres left, while the Sri Lankan army has around 50,000 troops deployed.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Microsoft announced on Thursday they are partnering with KIND Financial to help governments track the production and distribution of legal marijuana. Kind Financial, a California-based start-up company, began selling its Agrisoft Seed to Sale software three years ago. Microsoft is admitting Kind’s software on the Government portion of its Azure cloud service.
Although Kind Financial CEO David Dinenberg stressed to The Guardian they “absolutely do not touch the plant”, his company does business with growers and distributors of marijuana, as well as the governments that regulate it. State law in twenty-five US states — but not US federal law — has legalized marijuana, whether medicinally or for recreational use. Kimberly Nelson, Microsoft executive director of state and local government solutions, said they expect significant demand for technology to help states make sure cannabis distribution within their state is done according to their laws.
Kind also provides kiosks similar to automated tellers (ATMs) to facilitate marijuana transactions in dispensaries. The distribution of marijuana is often done only with cash or through machines like the ones Kind offers since many banks in the United States shy away from the marijuana industry entirely. Microsoft is not interacting with this part of Kind’s operations, however.
Microsoft and Kind will apply for contracts with state governments for their software. Currently, they have applied to Puerto Rico, a US territory, where medical marijuana has recently been made legal. BioTrackTHC, a company similar to Kind Financial, already has contracts with Washington, New Mexico, and Illinois.
Dinenberg said his company’s partnership with Microsoft is a major step in advancing the legitimacy of cannabis-related businesses.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is scheduled to take place this week.
Tseng runs a firm called eTranslate, which helps software developers to make the software available to the users. In the candidate’s questionnaire, Tseng said eTranslate had led to him working with all three tiers of the government. He previously belonged to the Australian Liberal Party, but has left since then, to run for mayorship as an independent candidate.
Tseng is of Chinese descent, having moved to Australia with his parents from Vietnam. Graduated in Brisbane, Tseng received his PhD in Melbourne and has been living in the city, he told Wikinews. Tseng also formed Chinese Precinct Chamber of Commerce, an organisation responsible for many “community bond building initiatives”, the Lord Mayor candidate told Wikinews.
Tseng discussed his plans for leading Melbourne, recovering from COVID-19, and “Democracy 2.0” to ensure concerns of minorities in the city were also heard. Tseng also focused on the importance of the multi-culture aspect and talked about making Melbourne the capital of the aboriginals. Tseng also explained why he thinks Melbourne is poised to be a world city by 2030.
Tseng’s deputy Lord Mayor candidate Gricol Yang is a Commercial Banker and works for ANZ Banking Group.
Currently, Sally Capp is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the Victorian capital. Capp was elected as an interim Lord Mayor in mid-2018 after the former Lord Mayor Robert Doyle resigned from his position after sexual assault allegations. Doyle served as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne for almost a decade since 2008.