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Is this A Used Plastic Injection Molding Machine or Jacko’s oxygen chamber?

August 23, 2011 in Used Plastic Injection molding Machine by Used_Molding_Machine

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Now that Jacko has passed what will happen to his oxygen chamber that he used to remain young? The theory goes that injecting fresh oxygen into a closed chamber that looks like used plastic injection molding machinery can prolong your life.

This idea still lives on today. If you go to Vegas, you can enjoy fresh oxygen at the various oxygen bars.  I tried it but I didn’t get younger.  It did provide a rush though.

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Study Finds Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer

May 18, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection Molding Machinery by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding machineryA study of 400,000 people by the National Cancer Institute found that coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer.

The study began in 1995 and involved AARP members ages 50 to 71 in California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Atlanta and Detroit. People who already had heart disease, a stroke or cancer weren’t included. Neither were folks at diet extremes — too many or too few calories per day.

Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk a little: 6 percent in men and 5 percent in women. The strongest effect was in women who had four or five cups a day — a 16 percent lower risk of death. Significant according to us folks at Used Plastic Injection Molding Machinery

So, drink up.   Read more……….

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No Coupons…..No Customers – JC Penney found out the hard way.

May 17, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection molding equipment by Used_Molding_Machine

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J.C. Penney stock experienced its greatest single day loss in 40 years.

Last November J. C. Penney hired Ron Johnson, the wizard behind Apple’s retail stores.  Johnson hoped that Penney customers would stop fussing with those little scraps of paper.

Simple, consistently low prices — about 40 percent below what they were before — are key to his new strategy.

But in the last three months, J.C. Penney announced abysmal results, with sales plummeting 18.9 percent at stores open at least a year. Net losses for the period were $55 million.  Foot traffic at stores dropped 6 percent on weekdays and 12 percent on weekends.

Executives blamed the results on the departure of deal-hunting shoppers.

What do experts believe will happen next?  Read more…

Forbes

 

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Automakers Run Short of Plastic – Thanks to German Explosion.

May 16, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection molding Machine by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding machineTHE FACTS:  Today’s cars are an average of about 300 pounds (136.1 kilograms), or approximately 8 percent, of plastic by weight.

THE PROBLEM: An explosion and fire last month knocked out a German factory that was a major supplier of nylon resin to the auto industry. That accident and last year’s earthquake in Japan have exposed problems with the industry’s “just-in-time” parts deliveries. Few companies keep big stockpiles of parts, so they’re not ready if supply is interrupted.

A POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Automakers are taking inventory of parts and are looking to stock up on items that come from one or two factories, just in case those factories are knocked out of commission.

NY Times

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After Head Injury, College Dropout Becomes Math Genius

May 15, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection Molding Machinery by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding machineryWhen 41-year-old Jason Padgett was attacked by muggers outside a karaoke club in Tacoma, Wash., he thought he was going to die. The attackers, who were after his leather jacket, kicked him in the head repeatedly. Miraculously, he not only survived the attack, but developed a mysterious mathematical gift as a result of it.

Everywhere Padgett looks, he sees complex mathematical formulas — like the Pythagorean theorem, for example.  Padgett turns these formulas into intricate diagrams called fractals.  He can produce a visual representation of Pi, the infinite mathematical constant which begins with 3.14.

He is the only person in the world known to have the skill and experts say it was caused by his head injury.

Check out some of Padgett’s drawings………

DailyMail

 

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The Latest in Free Stuff

May 14, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection Molding Machinery by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding machineryThousands of  items are on display at the Advertising Specialty Institute show that’s running in New York through May 10. Some $18 billion worth of promotional products were sold to companies, campaigns, event organizers, and many others last year. Forty-one percent of people surveyed by the Institute said their opinion of the advertiser was more favorable after receiving something—didn’t matter what—for free.

Here’s some other free stuff you might get this year: a credit-card-shaped bottle of sanitizer spray, a perfume-scented temporary tattoo, a buzz brush to clean your computer and your keyboard, a bag made from recycled billboards, a card with an LED candlelight that you can blow out, and a spatula with a bottle opener on the handle. If you’re really lucky, you might get customized headphones from the companythat came up with the Fold and Play recycled speakers. Or a scooter with an attached cooler that can travel 20 miles per hour. Molson Coors Brewing bought a couple hundred of them.

Business Week

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Call of Duty inspires U.S. Military to create new drones

May 11, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection molding equipment by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding equipmentThe U.S. and China are locked in a new Cold War over control of rare earth minerals. It’s a chilling glimpse of the world in 2025, but luckily it’s just a video game — at least until the U.S. military turns one of the game’s fictional drones into reality.

The upcoming video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2″ has somehow managed to inspire the U.S. military well before hitting store shelves in November. Treyarch, the game’s producer, released a viral marketing video on April 23 showing a mock “real-life” demonstration of an armed quadrotor drone similar to flying robots featured in the game. That led a Pentagon office to wonder if the U.S. military could make the same thing, said Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institute.  Read more….

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Thinking Outside the Box creates 20% more creative ideas.

May 10, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection molding Machine by Used_Molding_Machine

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used plastic injection molding machineStudents were asked  to generate a word (“tape,” for example) that related to each of three clue words (“measure,” “worm” and “video”). Some students were randomly assigned to do this while sitting inside a 125-cubic-foot box made of plastic pipe and cardboard. The rest got to sit and think outside the box.  Those thinking outside the box came up with over 20 percent more creative solutions.

In another study students were showed pictures of objects made of Lego blocks and asked to think of original uses for the objects, either while walking along a fixed rectangular path indicated by duct tape on the floor or by walking freely as they wished. The differences were striking: students who walked freely were better at generating creative uses for the objects — coming up with over 25 percent more original ideas.

NY Times

 

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Coffins to Die For

May 9, 2012 in Used Plastic Injection molding equipment by Used_Molding_Machine

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Since the early 1990s, Crazy Coffins, in Leicestershire, England has been satisfying a growing need for people who want to make their final journeys in style.  One guy wanted to be buried in a guitar; another in a skateboard;  another in a corkscrew.  One customer wanted a carriage from the Orient Express – he sourced the exact upholstery from inside the carriage and Crazy Coffins put it inside for him.

No order is off limits for the company whose custom made coffins, which range from around £1,000 to £5,000, can be ordered even if the customer is fit and healthy.  A spokeswoman for the company said: “Price depends on how much time we have to make it and of course how complicated the design is, but we don’t feel we are in a position to comment on taste.”
Want to see more pictures of crazy coffins?  Read more…….

 

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