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Dell is on a full on Android assault, they have many new devices in the pipeline. Seeing as how they entered the game late, they are positioning themselves to offer the most Android devices in the market. This tablet is similar to the Dell Mini 5, aka the Streak, it is a seven inch tablet. Rumors have this thing set for a November release.

This tablet will feature Android 2.1 on a Tegra 2 processor, with an optional TV tuner module so you can watch ATSC or DVB-T. It can also render slideshows via AT&T Uverse. It also has 4GB of RAM, another 4GB of flash for storage and an SDHC slot for up to 32GB of expansion, and there’s a 1.3 megapixel camera. So if you wanted the Streak but want more screen real-estate, this is the device for you.

[via engadget]

Not according to Journal Watch editor and New York Times writer Abigail Zuger, writing here in the Times.  She’s referring to the recent Darren Chiacchia case, where his former partner has filed a legal complaint that Chiacchia did not disclose having HIV — potentially a first-degree felony in Florida.

Were it a matter of science alone, all those AIDS statutes could be rescinded tomorrow. But the science was only a small part of the panic that created them. And effective treatment has not altered the rest of that potent emotional brew: the virus still sows terror, uncertainty, shame and endless complications, whether the infection is concealed or revealed…

Now we think we know better, but do we really? We blame that coughing woman in the subway for our cold, the giant meat company for our food poisoning, all manner of chemicals and electromagnetic radiation for our cancers, and fast-food outlets for ourdiabetes and heart disease. We cannot experience illness without casting around for blame.

Yet at the same time we believe deeply in prevention. Surely if we watch our diets and get our mammograms and colonoscopies, wash our hands, take whatever vitamin is foremost in the news and eat our burgers well done, we can avert bad things. Whole generations have now grown up knowing that sensible people “play safe,” with the overriding implication that if you catch a sexually transmitted disease, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Then the key point:

And so whose fault is a new H.I.V. infection, really? Is it mine, for giving it to you, or is it yours, for being stupid and cavalier enough to get it?

(Sorry for the lengthy quotes, she’s such a great writer it was irresistible.)

I mostly agree with Abbie that effective treatment of HIV has changed the risk equation profoundly, and that what what originally motivated these laws — transmission of HIV was murder!  — no longer holds.  But remember that some (most?) might think that transmission of any infection — herpes, syphilis, MRSA, salmonella from peanut butter, hepatitis A from spinach — is potentially a crime.

And people holding this view will continue to see these HIV statutes as completely justified.  As a result, don’t expect them to be removed from the books anytime soon.

Ryan McBride wrote:

From the moment GlaxoSmithKline acquired Cambridge, MA-based Sirtris Pharmaceuticals about two years ago for $720 million, the pharma giant said it wanted two of Sirtris’ principals, Christoph Westphal and Michelle Dipp, to help it connect with some of the best people and biotech ideas in Boston. That’s still true today, although the specific roles for Dipp and Westphal are shifting in a couple important ways.

Yesterday Xconomy broke the news that Westphal is ending his six-year tenure as CEO of Sirtris, the Cambridge, MA-based developer of drugs for diseases of aging, to take the helm at Glaxo’s venture capital firm, SR One. Yet Westphal is also resigning from his job as senior vice president of Glaxo’s Center of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (CEEDD). Dipp is now being promoted to take on that big job, which involves identifying and managing partnerships with biotechs who can help fill up Glaxo’s drug pipeline. Dipp, who had been the U.S. head of the center serving as a deputy to Westphal, is now in charge of the center’s U.S. and U.K. operations, as Westphal had been.

If you’re older than 30 and still living at home, don’t read the rest of this story. Dipp, who is in Theo Epstein-wunderkind territory at the age of 33, is now the youngest senior vice president at on of the the top 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. She’s in charge of the external drug discovery unit that Glaxo created in 2005.The Glaxo business unit has gained more influence over biotech companies in recent years because of the limited availability of venture capital for young startups, making the cash the young firms can bring in from option-based deals with drug companies a viable way to stay afloat. A good example of one of these deals is the partnership Glaxo formed last year with Lexington, MA-based Concert Pharmaceuticals. Dipp says her group oversees about a dozen such partnerships in all.

Dipp, who has an MD and a Ph.D in pulmonary physiology from the University of Oxford, found her way into the business side of biotech quickly. She struck an important deal early in her career by becoming an early investor in Sirtris while she was a member of the investment team at the Wellcome Trust, a London-based nonprofit that is the world’s second-biggest funder of medical research. At the Wellcome Trust, she got to know Westphal, who recruited her to join then Sirtris as one of its founding employees in 2005.

But Dipp and Westphal have more on their plate than just what they are doing at GlaxoSmithKline. They, along with fellow Sirtris co-founder Rich Aldrich, are launching …Next Page »

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1886 Mecedes-Benz – The world’s first true automobile

Benz Velo 1894.The origins of the Daimler-Benz company founded through a merger in 1926 date back to the mid-1880s, when Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900) working with Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), and Karl Benz (1844–1929) independently invented the internal combustion engine-powered automobile, in southwestern Germany.

Although they were merely sixty miles apart, these pioneers were unaware of each other’s early work.

Karl Benz had his shop in Mannheim where he invented “the world’s first true automobile powered by an internal combustion engine” in 1885. It had three wheels.

He was granted a patent for his vehicle dated January 29, 1886, for what he called the “Benz Patent Motorwagen.” Among many inventions, Benz patented his first engine in 1879, a high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine of his own design which he included in his “integral” design for the Motorwagen patent application.

In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and design partner Wilhelm Maybach, working in Cannstatt, Stuttgart, were granted a patent dated August 29, 1885 for what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine, that they named the “grandfather clock engine.”

On March 8, 1886, Daimler purchased a stagecoach made by Wilhelm Wimpff & Sohn and he and Maybach adapted it to hold this engine, thereby creating a four-wheeled carriage propelled by an engine, as many had before them. The only distinction about this carriage was that it carried an internal combustion engine.

None of many similar attempts to adapt carts, boats, or carriages, in many countries, were propelled by this type of engine. On the official history pages of the Mercedes-Benz Internet site it is referred to as “a carriage — without a drawbar but with the conventional drawbar steering. A carriage without horses…” Daimler and Maybach later purposely built, from scratch, the first four-stroke engine powered automobile with four wheels in 1889. They founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, DMG, in 1890 and sold their first automobile in 1892.

Foi apresentado pela Volks no Salão do Automóvel de Pequim 2010 a versão 2011 do Phaeton, o sedan de luxo alemão. Com uma parte frontal totalmente nova, faróis reestilizados com lâmpadas Bi-Xenon e um novo capô. A parte traseira do novo Phaeton também sofreu mudanças com lanternas novas, menores indicadores nos espelhos retrovisores e rodas de liga leve de 18 polegadas.

O novo Phaeton 2011 terá duas opções de eixo à disposição, sendo duas versões na parte traseira e quatro motores (a diesel e gasolina). Entre os motores, os modelos à gasolina serão V6, com 280 cv, um V8 com 335cv e um W12 com 450 cv. O motor a diesel vai ser um V6 TDI com 240 cv.

Outro recurso interessante é o sistema de navegação do carro, que pode integrar as informações online do Google Maps caso o motorista desejar.

Imagens do novo sedan de luxo

Via | Top Speed

Researchers say that reputation often trumps the quality of care when it comes to hospital rankings. 

A newly released study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine takes a critical look at the annual U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” rankings, which lists the top 50 hospitals in the nation in various fields. Researchers examined data used to compile the rankings and found that the hospitals holding the top slots were there based more on reputation than merit.

Dr. Ashwini R. Sehgal, a professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, found that while the rankings were based in part on objective data, such as death rates, nurse-to-patient ratio and patient safety, it was the reputation scores given by other doctors that were the predominant decider as to which hospitals ranked highest. Dr. Sehgal said reputation trumped factual objective data in 100% of the publication’s top hospital picks for each specialty, and 91% of the time for the top 10 overall hospitals.

Dr. Sehgal explained that the large amount of variation in the reputation scores, which are determined by interviewing top doctors in certain fields, means that the reputation scores have more of an affect on the final outcomes, because the objective data has far less variation.

“The relative standings of the top 50 hospitals largely reflect the subjective reputations of those hospitals,” Dr. Sehgal concluded. “Moreover, little relationship exists between subjective reputation and objective measures of hospital quality among the top 50 hospitals.”

Officials from U.S. News and World Report have said that the rankings have caught flack for giving reputation so much influence, and intend to scale down its effect on future rankings, according to a report by Bloomberg News. However, they say that reputation is an important overall piece of the hospital rankings that will not be removed entirely. The next annual hospital rankings results are due to be released in July. The news magazine has released the rankings for 20 years.

In a bid to create a telecommunications provider serving more than 17 million customers nationwide, CenturyLink and Qwest Communications announced Thursday that their boards have approved a definitive agreement under which CenturyLink would acquire Qwest in a proposed $10.6 billion stock-swap.

If approved, the merger will create a much stronger No. 3 telco in the U.S., behind AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications.

The combined CenturyLink-Qwest would have operations in 37 states, and would have had revenue of $19.8 billion last year. As of December 31, 2009, CenturyLink and Qwest together served approximately 5 million broadband customers, 17 million access lines, 1.4 million video subscribers and 850,000 wireless consumers. More on Multichannel.

The creator of this tiny camera made two mistakes. One: it’s styled like a Lomography Fisheye camera, but can’t shoot fisheye photos. Two: they’re not for sale yet. I demand ten. More »

An Illinois mother has reached a $9.5 million medical malpractice settlement with a hospital, doctor and midwife she alleged were responsible for her son’s cerebral palsy birth injury. 

Helen O’Came filed the cerebral palsy lawsuit against Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Dr. Jae Eun Han and Mary Traub, accusing the defendants of negligence during the birth of her son, Patrick, and of not having a doctor available during the delivery when one was needed. Patrick O’Came, now 14, suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of a brain injury suffered during birth when he was deprived of oxygen over the last 15 minutes of delivery.

The birth injury malpractice suit alleges that Traub, a nurse midwife, was allowed to perform the birth alone, but was required to have a sponsoring physician available in case of complications during delivery. However, the physician sponsoring Traub, Dr. Han, was in Korea visiting family, and had arranged for another physician to take his place.

O’Came began experiencing complications during labor and there was a drop in fetal heart rate. Instead of getting a physician, the lawsuit alleged that Traub decided to perform a risky procedure instead of halting the labor and getting help. Patrick’s umbilical cord was compressed, and he was deprived of a significant amount of oxygen.

As a result of the birth injury, Patrick developed cerebral palsy, which is a permanent disability that will require care for the rest of his life. The hospital has agreed to pay $7.5 million, and Traub and Dr. Han will pay $1 million each as part of the cerebral palsy settlement.

Cerebral palsy can be caused by an injury to an infant’s brain before, during or shortly after birth. If the brain of a baby is deprived of oxygen, it can result in irreversible damage that leaves the child with developmental problems, loss of motor functions and other life-long injuries and disabilities associated with cerebral palsy. The condition is also commonly associated with seizures, sensory impairments and cognitive limitation.

Medical malpractice lawsuits for cerebral palsy are often filed when a medical mistake or series of mistakes occur during prenatal care or delivery that result in the child’s brain being deprived of oxygen for an extended amount of time.

Sony has taken a page out of the Ubisoft DRM-bungling playbook and required gamers playing the downloadable retro game Final Fight: Double Impact to be online in order to play. According to Joystiq, this must be a Sony-only thing because the game plays fine offline on the Xbox 360.

I suppose this isn’t that big of deal, right? It’s not like Sony’s servers ever crash globally.

PS3 Final Fight: Double Impact requires PSN connection [Joystiq]

for fine-grinding of laboratory samples down to < 1 µm as well as for mixing, homogenising, emulsifying and alloying. With this universal mill the sample preparation and the sample analysis have again equal rights on the laboratory bench. Typical fields of application: geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, soil research, electrical industry, chemistry, ceramics industry, glass industry, nuclear research, pharmacy research. The PULVERISETTE 6 classic line is a planetary ball mill with one grinding station and an internal unbalance compensation. Because of the high ball acceleration a significantly higher comminution rate is achieved compared with centrifugal ball mills. The comminution in closed vessels guarantees loss-free milling (including suspensions). All grinding parameters, like grinding time, interval-, break times and rotational speed are adjustable via membrane keyboard. Grinding bowls and balls for the PULVERISETTE 6 classic line are offered in 9 different materials and 3 different sizes. Therefore the instrument can be used universally and enables contamination-free grinding as well as optimum quantitative adaption. Technical data: PULVERISETTE 6 classic line maximum feed particle size: 10 mm Useful capacity: up to 225 ml final fineness: < 1 µm

Advanced Cyclone Systems, S.A. (ACS) is a company exclusively dedicated to the development and international commercialization of the most efficient cyclone systems
worldwide.
ACS mission is to achieve total particle capture exclusively with cyclone systems through continuous investment in Innovation and R&D.

Hurricane and ReCyclone Systems contradict the general thinking that cyclones are inefficient powder collectors. These cyclone systems can reach bag filter redundancy in the most demanding operating processes.

Applications include particulate matter (PM) emission control in boilers and furnaces and product recovery in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries. ACS works in a very close cooperation with its clients in order to design custom made cyclone systems that really solve their unmet needs.

RIFTEK has just introduced a new RF605 Series of ultra-compact triangulation laser sensors.
The Series includes 4 sensors with a 50 to 500 mm measurement range. The size of IP67 aluminum housing is only 50x50x17 mm and the weight without cable is no more then 60 g, which makes the devices ideal for robotics applications. Despite the small dimensions, the 2 kHz measuring frequency sensors have RS232 or RS485 ports, analog output (4…20 mA or 0…10V), synchronization input and an alarm output for machine control interfacing.
Free software provides easy setting of the configuration parameters. Free SDK allows user to develop his own software products without going into details of the sensor communications protocol. For further information please see the instruction-manual on our website www.riftek.com/pages/indexeng.htm

Features
Measurement Range at -100 to +20 degC
+/- 2 degC Accuracy
Compact Size, Light Weight
Long Battery Life
Easy Connection to sampling line
Simple Operation
Traceability to National Standard

The Hygrometer TK-100 YN Model is a battery powered portable instrument. It is suitable for the field measurements where electrical power is inconvenient or the multiple-points measurements. TK-100 Dew Point Transmitter is set inside of the instrument for the measurement from -100 degC dp to +20 degC dp, at an accuracy of +/- 2 degC dp.

TK-100 Transmitter
The core measurement tool for YN Model is TK-100 Dew Point Transmitter, manufactured by TEKHNE Corporation, Japan. TEKHNE Ceramic Sensor is designed to secure the best mixture of accuracy, high response speed and long term stability. Most advanced technology is used for this purpose. Also, the advanced microprocessor technology realized temperature compensation mechanism, which minimizes the effect by process temperature to the dew point measurement.

Portability
YN Model is small, by 160 x 160 x 88 mm, and has lightweight, at 2 kg. It is developed based on the customers’ voice; “easily bring it on the business trip by train or by air”.

Power
YN Model contains re-chargeable Lithium battery inside of the instrument. The battery make the instrument work for 24 hours, by only 3 hours charge time. You can use it continuously over 24 hours, by the operation with battery charger connecting.

Battery status can be easily monitored by 3-status display for AC Power Supply, Charge and Discharge exist in the front panel.

Easy to Use
One of the most important features for such instruments is how easily users start operation. YN Model needs only 3 steps for measurement, those are; Charge the battery, connect the line and press start button. So the product does not choose users, but users choose the product, right now.

If you are interested in the sales of dew point sensors, hygrometers and instruments in your region, please contact :

TEKHNE Corporation
6-14-10 Futago, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki City,
Kanagawa 213-0002, JAPAN
TEL +81(44)379 3697
FAX +81(44)379 4105
e-mail: [email protected]

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I. Perfect and Reliable Power Generation Mechanism
Adopt the new generation brush-free generator which has been improved and designed from the advanced generator technology in the world. Class H insulation structure is adopted on the generator windings. The stator base of main generator is of armor plate welded structure. The design of stator lamination is unique. The rotor of main generator is of protruding pole type, which consists of one-piece protruding pole lamination. The manufacturing process is as follows: use aluminum casting or copper bar to connect the core and full damp winding together, directly wind the magnetic winding and fill high-class heat sealed epotherm between the winding layers. Thus, the product has good electrical insulation and reliable mechanical strength.

II. Outstanding Electrical Performance
High Voltage Stability–Voltage regulation rate under stable state 1%
Powerful Giant–Strong capability to start up asynchronous generators
Wide Voltage Range–Voltage regulation range 5% or set up at will
Clean Sine Wave–Distortion rate of voltage sine wave shape 5%
Electromagnetism–Special motor electromagnetism design and high quality AVR to assure very low wireless interference DB
Safety and Reliability–Short circuit current under stable state 3Ie, duration 3S

In future, it will be possible to perform many handling tasks previously reserved for SCARA robots more cost-effectively, compactly and easily using the rotary lifting module EHMB from Festo. This applies particularly to fragile small parts. The rotary lifting module has similar movement patterns to a SCARA robot for loading and unloading processes.

Jet Edge, Inc., a leading manufacturer of ultra-high pressure waterjets for precision cutting, coating removal and surface preparation, is pleased to announce that MatCamNZ has been selected as its newest waterjet systems distributor covering New Zealand.

As a distributor of Jet Edge water jets, MatCamNZ carries Jet Edge’s full line of waterjet cutting and surface preparation equipment, including waterjet cutting machines, waterjet intensifier pumps and portable waterjetting systems.
Based in Glenfield, MatCamNZ has been supplying and supporting quality machine tools to the New Zealand metal cutting industry for more than 20 years, and has extensive experience with water jet technology. MatCamNZ carries a comprehensive range of products including CNC routers, laser, plasma and water jet cutters.

“Jet Edge is proud to associate our name with MatCamNZ ,” said Jude Lague, Jet Edge president. “MatCamNZ has demonstrated and proven that they have the key attributes of what makes a successful waterjet distributor: knowledge, hard work, professionalism, integrity and great customer service.”

For more information about MatCamNZ., visit www.matcamnz.com, call (09) 444 6537 or e-mail [email protected]. For more information about Jet Edge waterjets, visit www.jetedge.com, call +1 763-497-8726 or e-mail [email protected].

For more information about international distributorship opportunities with Jet Edge, contact Dave Anderson, International Sales Manager, at +1 763 497 8718, [email protected], or visit www.jetedge.com.

About Jet Edge
Established in 1984, Jet Edge is a global designer and manufacturer of waterjet systems for precision cutting, surface preparation and coating removal. Jet Edge systems are used around the world in a broad range of industries, from the world’s leading airlines to automotive, aerospace, industrial manufacturers, machine and job shops.

Working easily with height adjustable cupboards

Disabled people often experience situations in everyday life, which they can hardly cope with without help or which they cannot cope with at all. Even simple activities like setting the table can become an almost insurmountable problem. Plates located in a kitchen wall cupboard are simply not reachable for a person in a wheel chair.

Height adjustable wall cupboards have become a standard feature for some time now in kitchens adapted to people with disabilities. The adjustable height systems are driven by a specially developed Ketterer gear unit. The drive units are adapted to individual requirements in a space-saving, quiet and powerful manner.
The special gear unit – spindle combination allows an accurate design for the incurred tensile and compressive forces. An integrated displacement measuring system offers additional operating comfort, whilst the cupboards can always be moved to the same optimally set position.

These special gear units can be used everywhere where large forces and accurate positioning are required. See for yourself and talk to us.

Hinowa is glad to present the HS1100 and HS1150 Hi-Speed bases, hydraulic, fast and multi kit minidumpers.

After the success of HS1100 and HS1150 minidumpers Hinowa introduces on the market the new Hi-Speed versions.

The new minidumpers are equipped with a totally hydraulic system, with double displacement reduction gear drives and have the Hinowa Auto2Speed system, they are able to reach a speed of 6 km/h against the current 4 km/h of the HS1100 and HS1150 standard version.
The new system automatically accelerates and decelerates depending on the weight loaded on the machine and the inclination of the ground, giving more power on slopes, controlling the translation on descents and granting the max speed of 6 km/h on flat lands.

The interchangeability of the attachments is granted and compatible with the all the current series of HS1100-1150 minidumpers, the auxiliary hydraulic quick couplings, placed sideways the HS bases, grant the max flexibility and quickness in the attachment changes.

The new HS1100 and HS1150 Hi-Speed bases are available from April with our distribution network and can be ordered from now.

Speed up your works with the new HS1100 and HS1150 Hi-Speed!

Verderflex has considerable manufacturing aptitude and its Basildon factory exemplifies the company’s ability to design and manufacture special tube pumps. Its application knowledge and production investment provides a unique resource for OEMs and systems integrators alike to specify pumps with non standard characteristics.

Best manufacturing practices are assured at the Basildon factory thanks to the adoption of proven business tools and techniques for lean manufacturing. The company has implemented programmes to bring sustained order and efficiency to the workplace and the initiative includes process improvement through kaizen, value-stream mapping and quality control.

Verderflex Basildon has also just received ISO 9001:2008 status that the company anticipates will open doors for new business. MD John Watkins commented, “Reduced lead time, assured quality, greater operational efficiency and now ISO compliance are all important components in giving competitive edge.”