Bill is pictured with his wife, Eileen, who also participated.

Engineered and designed for rugged industrial use, this valve is rated to ASME and National Board Certified standards for Section VIII service. ASME Section VIII to 750 psi for Liquid, Air, and Gas. 300 PSI for Steam.

The SV418 is a multiple purpose safety relief valve, used where quick accurate reseating and minimal blowdown (or loss of medium) is important; and where high capacity is required. Applications include most areas where safety and relief valves are required: Pumping stations, water-works, compressors, accumulators, receivers, production lines, chillers/coolers, sprinkler systems, piping, tanks and many others.

The SV418 is available in sizes from ½” to 3”.

BSPT piping and O2 Cleaning and cryogenic services options are available.

About Spirax Sarco, Inc.
Spirax Sarco is the world leader in steam system management. The Company provides a broad range of fluid control products, engineered packages, systems expertise and site services for its diverse range of over 100,000 industrial and institutional customers. The Company helps its customers to optimize production capacity, reduce energy costs and emissions, improve product quality and enhance the safety of their
operations. Spirax Sarco has strategically located manufacturing plants around the world and employs approximately 4,700 people, of whom around 1,300 are direct sales and service engineers. Further information can be found at www.spiraxsarco.com/us.

This Wednesday, July 27, 2011, photo, shows the computer screens and other monitors used by the drilling operator to drill into the Marcellus shale at a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade, but Old Energy is winning. Oil companies big and small have used technology to find a bounty of oil and natural gas so large that worries about running out have melted away. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

NEW YORK, NY (AP) – Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade – just not the one we expected.

By now, cars were supposed to be running on fuel made from plant waste or algae – or powered by hydrogen or cheap batteries that burned nothing at all. Electricity would be generated with solar panels and wind turbines. When the sun didn’t shine or the wind didn’t blow, power would flow out of batteries the size of tractor-trailers.

A capped groundwater monitoring well stands on the former site of the Hadnot Point fuel farm at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Gasoline from leaking underground tanks on the Marine Corps base contributed to what is considered one of the worst cases of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) – A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

But no one responsible for the lab at the base can recall that the procedure – mandated by the Navy – was ever conducted.

The U.S. Marine Corps maintains that the carbon chloroform extract (CCE) test would not have uncovered the carcinogens that fouled the southeastern North Carolina base’s water system from at least the mid-1950s until wells were capped in the mid-1980s. But experts say even this “relatively primitive” test – required by Navy health directives as early as 1963 – would have told officials that something was terribly wrong beneath Lejeune’s sandy soil.

A just-released study from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cited a February 1985 level for trichloroethylene of 18,900 parts per billion in one Lejeune drinking water well – nearly 4,000 times today’s maximum allowed limit of 5 ppb. Given those kinds of numbers, environmental engineer Marco Kaltofen said even a testing method as inadequate as CCE should have raised some red flags with a “careful analyst.”

Irvine, CA – Pasternack Enterprises, Inc., a leading ISO 9001:2008 registered manufacturer and global supplier of RF and microwave products, adds inventory of low frequency SMP connectors which are perfect for applications requiring operating frequencies of 8 GHz or less.

Pasternack Enterprises’ new SMP connectors are specifically designed for low frequency, high density applications where the benefits of a small RF connector are utilized. Common uses for these low frequency SMP connectors include blind-mate interconnect systems and miniaturized high density coaxial modules, such as connecting to a small PCB. Low frequency 8 GHz SMP connectors carry the same “small-footprint” advantages as their higher-frequency counterparts, but are a more cost effective option when a 40 GHz connector is not needed. Cost savings can range from 50% to 75% when compared to standard SMP connectors.

Pasternack’s low frequency SMP connectors are typically attached to cables assemblies using RG178, RG405, and 0.047” diameter semi-rigid cable. The connectors utilize Beryllium copper (BeCu) and Kovar alloy at critical contact points in their designs, while brass and stainless steel are used in non-contact areas. These new lower-frequency SMP versions are also compatible and fully mate-able with Corning Gilbert GPO™ connectors.

“Increasing requirements for high density applications have driven the communications industry to utilize ‘small-footprint’ connectors, such as the SMP” says Gerry Camacho, VP of Technical Marketing at Pasternack Enterprises, Inc. “We are pleased to offer these new low frequency 8 GHz SMP’s, as they can provide significant cost savings up to 75% when compared to an equivalent 40 GHz version.”

The new low frequency SMP connectors from Pasternack are available now. You can browse all the versions and accompanying specifications on Pasternack’s website or by visiting http://www.pasternack.com/pages/Featured_Products/low-frequency-8-ghz-smp-connectors.htm. Pasternack Enterprises, Inc. can be contacted at +1-949-261-1920.

Construction cranes work on top of One World Trade Center, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 in New York. Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are hoping that the final pieces of the spire will be installed soon, making the tower 1776 feet tall. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NEW YORK, NY (AP) – Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center as construction workers cheered its ascent.

The final two segments of the 408-foot spire will rest on a construction platform for several weeks until the entire needle is permanently installed. With the spire as its crown, the trade center will soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet (236 meters) in the air – a reference to the birth of the nation in 1776.

Sunlight glinted off the slender steel structure as it rose slowly into the blue sky. Construction workers inside the building clustered around unfinished floor ledges to get a better glimpse of it.

“It will give a tremendous indication to people around the entire region, and the world, that we’re back and better than ever,” said Steven Plate, who is overseeing construction of the World Trade Center.

Composed of 18 parts and weighing 758 tons, the spire floated into Manhattan several months ago on a barge.

With a beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels. An LED-powered light emanating from it will be seen from miles away.

The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

“It’s not just a construction site,” Plate said. “It’s truly a mission for all of us.”

With the additional 408 feet (124 meters), the building would be the tallest in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna – a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building’s height.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet (442 meters), not including its own antennas.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed. By contrast, a spire is something that is part of the building’s architectural design.

The tower is slated to open for business in 2014.

Tenants include the magazine publisher Conde Nast, the government’s General Services Administration and Vantone Holdings China Center, which will provide business space for international companies.