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-The Sixth China International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics

•February 23, 2009 • Comments Off

The joint EC-China NANOCOFC workshop (2nd) will be organized joint with

The Sixth China International Conference on

High-Performance Ceramics (CICC-6)

August 16 ~ 19, 2009, Harbin, China.

Papers contributed to this workshop will be reviewed and selected for publication as a special issue or invited papers of International Journal for Energy Research. The papers published in this issue shold focus on the energy dimension of the NANOCOFC, e.g., novel energy applications, fuel cell performance, LTSOFC characteristics, etc. Pure material papers may fall outside the scope.

The deadline for submission is  on 15, March, 2009.

www.nanocofc.org

http://www.ccs-cicc.com/CICC-6/English/Index.htm

regards,

Bin Zhu

3rd International Meeting on Developments in Materials, Processes and Applications of Emerging Technologies (MPA)

•February 23, 2009 • No Comments

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce to you the 3^rd International Meeting on Developments in Materials, Processes and Applications of Emerging Technologies (MPA), which will be held in Manchester (UK) during 21-23 July 2009. More details on the event can be found from the website www.mpa-meeting.com

Topics of MPA-2009:

1. Tribology and Lubrication Science

2. Surface Technology (Coatings; Thick & Thin Films; Surface Fabrication, Modification & Characterisation)

3. Materials for Energy Applications

4. Biomaterials & Nanomedicine

5. Carbon Nanotubes

MPA-2009 HIGHLIGHTS

Plenary lecture – the plenary lecture will be given by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir H. W. Kroto (Florida State University, USA).

Invited talks – there will be a host of invited people from academia and industry.

Posters – there will be poster display sessions in between the technical talks. We are looking to give out prizes for the best poster presentations.

Oral contributions – people from academia and those from industry or those doing industrial work will be given the opportunity to give short 10-15 minute presentations on their most recent work.

Exhibition - companies will have the opportunity to exhibit during this event which will attract people from all over the world.

Interactive discussion forum – the conference will end with an interactive open discussion forum consisting of academics and industrialists all under one roof discussing issues relating to materials, processes and applications of nanotechnology.

Publications – papers presented during MPA-2009 will be considered for publication in special issues of the following journals:

• Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

• Journal of Nano Research (JNanoR)

• Surface Engineering

• Lubrication Science

You can submit your abstracts by sending them to abstracts@mpa-meeting.com

The abstract submission deadline is 30 March 2009.

I look forward to receiving your abstracts and hopefully seeing you during MPA-2009.

Sincerely

Dr Nasar Ali, MPA 2009 Chairman

Members of organizing committee:

A. N. K. Jadoon, BP (Co-Chairman)
S. Hutchins, Keronite Ltd, UK
S. Balakrishnan, Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines, UK
A. Neville, University of Leeds, UK
D. Haynie, Artificial Cell Technologies, USA
V. Teixeira, University of Minho, Portugal
M. Chipara, University of Texas Pan American, USA

V. F. Neto, University of Aveiro, Portugal

A. Abdel Aal, CMRDI, Egypt

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Photocatalytic Products and Technologies Conference - PPTC’09

•February 26, 2009 • Comments Off

Photocatalytic Products and Technologies Conference – PPTC’09

University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal during May 11-13, 2009.

http://www.fisica.uminho.pt/pptc09

PPTC’09 is the first Portuguese conference on photocatalysis and it will be a milestone for all researchers who are interested in this area and its applications. We’ll meet in the wonderful city of Guimarães to resume in three days the major advances in this field, discuss the industrial applications, on-going investigation and also potential networking opportunities. Furthermore, this conference will coincide with a COST Action 540 »PHONASUM« PHOTOCATALYTIC TECHNOLOGIES AND NOVEL NANOSURFACES MATERIALS – CRITICAL ISSUES Management Committee meeting, therefore broadening the interest scope and networking possibilities.

Photocatalytic Materials

Over the last few years there has been a growing interest in the field of semiconductor photo-chemistry regarding the development of self-cleaning materials. Particular nanocrystalline thin films and nanoparticles are capable of acting as photoactive and photocatalytic materials, due to their intrinsic ability of removing pollutants in the gas phase or dissolved in water. The photocatalyst material plays an important role in the dissociation and mineralization of organic impurities on a particular surface, such as on glass, ceramic, metal or a polymer. The vehicle for this photocatalisation is simply solar light. Understanding the fundamental process and enhancing the photocatalytic efficiency of known catalysts has become a major research focus, bearing in mind industrial applications as materials that possess anti-fogging, self-cleaning or antibacterial activities for general purpose surfaces.

Topics of the conference:

 Fundamental Science of Photocatalysis

 Treatments of Water, Air and Soil Including Solar Technologies

 Visible Light Responsive Photocatalyts

 Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

 Synthesis of New Photocatalytic Materials

 Photocatalytic antimicrobial Materials

 Photocatalytic Membranes

 Photocatalytic Reactors

Conference chair:

Carlos José Tavares

Departamento de Física

Universidade do Minho

Campus de Azurém

4800-058 Guimarães

Portugal

Telephone: +351 253 510 474

Fax: +351 253 510 461

e-mail: ctavares@fisica.uminho.pt

http://online.uminho.pt/projectos/grf/

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ENN Produces China’s First 5.7m2 Tandem Junction Solar Panels on Applied Materials SunFab Thin Film Line

•March 19, 2009 • Comments Off

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ENN Solar Energy Co., Ltd. announced today that it has produced China’s first 5.7m2 high-efficiency, tandem junction thin film photovoltaic (PV) panels using a SunFab™ Thin Film Line, rated at 60 megawatts per year, supplied by Applied Materials, Inc. Working together at ENN’s leading-edge facility in Langfang, China, ENN and Applied achieved this milestone just five months after equipment installation. These ultra-large PV panels are nearly four times larger than conventional modules on the market and use Applied’s innovative tandem junction technology to deliver significantly higher conversion efficiencies at competitive costs.

“By combining the high efficiency of tandem junction technology with ultra-large 5.7m2 substrates, we’re able to deliver modules that dramatically reduce installed cost per watt,” said Dr. Rick Wan, General Manager of ENN Solar. “Our close association with Applied Materials has enabled ENN to build a winning platform, combining our next-generation solar technology with our world-class manufacturing capability.”

“We are committed to delivering the highest level of technology innovation and manufacturing excellence to our customers,” said Dr. Randhir Thakur, senior vice president and general manager of Applied Materials’ SunFab Thin Film Solar and Display Business Group. “ENN’s rapid ramp from equipment installation to producing tandem junction panels is an example of the unique capabilities that Applied delivers – unparalleled research and development, technology and manufacturing innovation, and global service and support for our customers.”

About ENN Solar Energy

ENN Solar Energy – a member of ENN Group – is a leader in the manufacturing of large-size thin film module products. The company produces and markets high performance silicon thin film modules of up to 5.7m2 per panel at low cost. Focusing on technology innovation and the environmental improvement, ENN Solar’s mission is to make clean renewable energy more affordable and available worldwide. Learn more at www.ennsolar.com.

About Applied Materials

Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the global leader in Nanomanufacturing Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply Nanomanufacturing Technology to improve the way people live. Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.

Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5918638&lang=en

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EuroNanoForum 2009 – Nanotechnology for Sustainable Economy

•April 15, 2009 • 1 Comment

EuroNanoForum 2009
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Economy
European and International Forum on Nanotechnology
2-5 June, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic

EuroNanoForum 2009 is the fourth conference of a set of international nanotechnology conferences organized within the framework of national Presidencies of the European Union. It will be a 4-day conference taking place from 2nd to 5th of June 2009, at the Prague Congress Centre, as an official event of the Czech Presidency, under the auspices of the Czech Ministry for Education Youth and Sports and with the support of the Industrial Technologies Programme of the European Commission. Focusing on “Nanotechnology for sustainable economy”, EuroNanoForum 2009 will address the contribution and challenges of nanotechnology research for a sustainable development of European industry and society, such as the need for reduction in carbon emissions and fossil fuels dependence, the substantial increase in energy demand, pollution control, clean water management and sustainable quality of life of the European citizen, as well as material production sustainability and efficiency. In this respect, nanotechnology presents many opportunities and challenges that have to be analyzed at international level through a safe, responsible and integrated approach, as first presented by the ENF2003 conference.

By addressing the state-of-the art of key application areas of nanotechnology research and development, the Forum will create a unique opportunity for researchers and industrial experts coming from diverse fields of science and technology to meet, discuss and co-operate, and to contribute to the definition of a European nanotechnology strategy after 2009.

In addition to the different sessions, the thematic workshops, and the poster exhibition with award attribution, an industrial exhibition will show the state-of-the-art of the implementation of nanotechnology into industrial products.

The EuroNanoForum 2009 conference will also be accompanied by an independent and unique set of outreaching and communication activities devoted to the general public.

A roadshow exhibition of the NanoTruck (www.nanotruck.de) on the theme “nanoTruck – High tech from the nano cosmos”, will demonstrate the potential applications of nanotechnologies and their socio-economic impact.

source: http://www.euronanoforum2009.eu/

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European Research Connection 2009

•April 15, 2009 • No Comments

European Research Connection Conference
“networking our way to a research future”
Prague
07.-08. May 2009

Come and join us!
Are you a scientist, full of new ideas?
Or an entrepreneur, looking for solutions or an investment opportunity?
Or perhaps a researcher, willing to take the international challenge?
Realise your dreams and get support for your projects. We want to meet you! Join us at the biggest European research event of the year: in Prague, from 7 to 8 May 2009, under the Czech Presidency of the European Union.

The budget of the European Commission for research and innovation is increasing every year and we can show you how to participate. You will get first-hand information about priorities, objectives and participation rules. In special sessions you will get concrete tips. We will be paying particular attention to promising ideas from the New Member States.

During two whole days, we will bring you into contact with experienced researchers from successful European projects, giving you the opportunity to meet reliable partners for your projects. In fact, the conference is full of opportunities!

Selected EU-funded projects will be exhibited. This will promote the networking and integration of research activities in Europe. A call for proposals targeting potential exhibitors has been published. Exhibitors will come at their own expenses.
The conference and exhibition will take place in Prague from 7 to 8 May 2009 under the Czech Presidency of the European Union. The participation fee will be €50 for the two days. One-day passes will be available for €30.

more info at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2009/rtd-2009/index_en.cfm

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[from:]

http://nanotechnews.wordpress.com/

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On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China 2009 (ChinaNANO 2009) which will be held between September 1-3, 2009 in Beijing, China. This is the third conference following the successful ChinaNANO 2005 and ChinaNANO 2007 held in 2005 and in 2007 in Beijing, respectively.

ChinaNANO 2009 is intended to stimulate discussions on the forefront of research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The conference will focus on nano-information materials, nano-energy and environmental materials, nanodevices and sensors, nanomedicine, nanopharmacy and biomedical engineering, nanofabrication and nanometrology, characterization of nanostructures, nano-optics and plasmonics, as well as modeling and simulation of nanostructures. We sincerely hope that the scope of the conference will serve the interest of the scientific community, as well as the industry and the general public. I wish to extend my welcome to all participants and sponsors of the event.

http://www.chinanano.org/

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NanoteC is one of the longest running series of international nanoscale carbon conferences in Europe (since 1998). It brings together scientists working with nanoscale carbon materials: nanotubes, graphene, diamond- and fullerene-related nanostructures. While each of these materials attracts its own dedicated community of researchers, NanoteC draws on common themes and allows researchers to share insight into this unique element at the nanoscale. Elemental carbon shows remarkable variety in properties via simple covalent bonding, however other systems (for example containing nitrogen or metals) are becoming important and provide alternative components with unique mechanical and electronic properties. Nanotechnology requires an understanding of these materials on an atomic level and this will be the central theme. The NanoteC conferences are renowned for their relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with emphasis on discussion and participation. We endeavour to achieve as much student participation as possible, and we anticipate that the keynote talks will be strongly influential on the next generation of nanotechnology scientists. Contributed talks are also mainly attributed to young researchers. This year NanoteC09 will be in Brussels, Belgium, with 120 to 150 participants from around the world, 12 sessions (non-parallel) with about 10 keynote and 30 contributed talks, as well as a poster session, with posters available for discussion throughout the conference.

Timings and Social Programme

The conference begins at midday Wednesday 26th August 2009 and finishes midday Saturday 29th August. Buffet lunch is available on the 26th. All lunches are included in registration fee, as well as dinner on August 26th and the Conference Dinner on August 28th (Dinner on August 27th is not included).

Early registration deadline:Wednesday 24th June

Conference:Wednesday August 26th – Saturday 29th 2009

• Round table debate: a general and open discussion will be held on themes such as carbon nanotube and nanocomposites production, nanocarbon characterisation, ethics and communication, etc. These are intended to give new people to the field a rapid introduction, and those more established to explore a topic in some detail together.
• The NanoteC Roadmaps: We plan to devise development roadmaps for different aspects of nanocarbon science and technology (for example nanotube production, sample standardisation)
• Breaking News Lectures: If presenting a poster, attendees may register for a “breaking news” slot; depending on demand there will be programme slots available for particularly new and exciting results.
• Student Participation: We’ve negotiated special cheap room rates for students. As always we try our best to encourage student participation at the conference, keeping the student fee as low as possible. A variety of student travel bursaries are available (see menu on the left)
• The conference will also incorporate a growth and synthesis session, as well as a microscopy session organised in cooperation with the Royal Microscopical Society. It will also include a science communication session, where the crucial issue of communication and public dialogue will be discussed.

http://www.hpc.susx.ac.uk/nanotec/

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Supporting Information for selected articles is available free of charge. Links are available from the table of contents and from the abstract page (near the full-text links). Otherwise, please check the “Additional Material” section of the abstract and HTML full-text pages.

See an example.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/10008336/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

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2009 Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensing Workshop

The NNI-sponsored Workshop on Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensing is part of a series sponsored by NNI participating Federal agencies. The workshop will be held May 5-7, 2009 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Leading experts will assess the nanotechnology research community’s long-term goals and key challenges in the area of sensing. Please note that advance registration is required.

NIH Nanoweek 2009

A series of nanotechnology events was held on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland from April 7-10, 2009. On Tuesday, April 7th, leading researchers introduced basic concepts and medical applications. Wednesday included presentations and lab demonstrations by NIH scientists, and on Thursday and Friday, a joint IEEE/NIH workshop was held on nanomedicine. For agendas and additional information, visit www.capconcorp.com/nanoweek2009

http://www.nano.gov/

Big Things from a Tiny World

New nanotechnology brochure released. The world of nanotechnology can be difficult for a non-scientist to grasp, and few publications for general readers exist. Now, the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), with assistance from scientists in the 25 agencies of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, has produced a brochure that is geared to a broad public:

Nanotechnology: Big Things from a Tiny World

Funding Opportunities

Every week the NNI will be updating the latest nanotechnology and nanoscience-related funding opportunities drawn from announcements from agency websites, grants.gov, Commerce Business Daily and other government databases.

Check out the latest nanotechnology articles in this edition of the Nano Flyer.

Interested? • Click here

http://www.nano.gov/

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Links

Please note: Below are institutions involved in nanotechnology research and/or information dissemination. Unfortunately, it is not possible for all institutions involved in nanotechnology to be listed on this page.

Nanotechnology Research and Education Centers

Arizona State University
The Nanostuctures Research Group
Applied NanoBioscience Center

Brown University
Computational Nanotechnology
Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory

California Institute of Technology
Roukes Research Group

Central Michigan University
The National Dendrimer & Nanotechnology Center

Columbia University
Center for Electronic Transport in Molecular Nanostructures

Cornell University
Cornell Nanoscale Science and Fabrication Facility
Center for Nanoscale Systems, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
Nanobiotechnology, Science and Technology Center

Dept. of Defense
Dept. of Defense Research Laboratories, Nanoscience and Technology
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives
Defense University Research Initiatives on NanoTechnology

Dept. of Energy, Office of Science
Nanoscale Science Research Centers

Georgia Institute of Technology
Nanoscience + Nanotechnology @ Georgia Tech

Harvard University
Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC)

Howard University
Keck Center for the Design of Nanoscale Materials for Molecular Recognition

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
National Center for Electron Microscopy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Nanostructures Laboratory
Space Nanotechnology
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology In Depth

Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC)
Applied Physics at Caltech

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Center for Nanotechnology
Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing
Nano-and Opto-Electronics Team
Nanotechnology Home Page

NASA-Nanotechnology Team
Nanotech Home Page

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Advanced Measurements Laboratory
Center for Neutron Research

National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN)

Naval Research laboratory
Nanoscience Institute
Nanoscience Research Laboratory

Ned Seeman’s Laboratory Homepage
Pioneer of DNA nanotechnology

North Carolina State University/U. North Carolina
North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials

Northeastern University
Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing

Northwestern University
Electronic Transport in Molecular Nanostructures (NSEC)
Institute for Nanotechnology (NSEC)
Center for Transportation Nanotechnology
Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection (NSEC)
Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly
National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Nano Science, Engineering, and Technology

Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate

Penn State University
Industrial Opportunities from Nanotechnology Manufacturing Technologies

Princeton University
Biologically Inspired Materials Institute (BIMat)
Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Center for Complex Materials

Purdue University
Nanotechnology Simulation Hub
Nanoscale Physics

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
Directed Assembly of Nanostructures NSEC
Materials Science and Engineering Department

Rice University
Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Nanoscience in Biological and Environmental Engineering (NSEC)
The Smalley Group
Professional Master’s Program in Nanoscale physics
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
A National Laboratory for Computational Science
Stanford University
Stanford NanoFabrication Facility

State University of New York at Stony Brook
USB Buckyball homepage, Physics Department

Texas A&M University
Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nanomaterials & Structures for Aerospace
Vehicles
University of Albany (SUNY)
Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics

University of Arkansas, University of Oklahoma
Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures

University of California-Davis
Nanophases in the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology (NEAT)

University of California-Irvine
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

University of California-Los Angeles
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration
California NanoSystems Institute

University of California-Santa Barbara
California NanoSystems Institute
Nanotech Fabrication Facility
University of Central Florida
Nanoscience Technology Center

University of Delaware
Multiuniversity NSF NIRT Project

University of Florida
The Center for Structural Biology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

University of Michigan
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University of Minnesota
Center for Nano-Energetics Research,

University of North Carolina
Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation
(CISMM) at UNC Chapel Hill
Nanoscale Science Education Center
Nanoscale Science Research Group
North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials

University of Notre Dame
Center for Nanoscience and Technology

University of South Carolina

NanoCenter at the University of South Carolina

University of Southern California
The Laboratory for Molecular Robotics

University of Texas at Austin
Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology

University of Virginia
Center for Nanoscopic Materials Design

University of Washington
Center for Nanotechnology

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Nanotechnology

Virginia Tech
Center for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Devices

Washington University, Durint — Bioimetics

Widener University
Chemistry Department

Yale University
Mark A. Reed Research Group
Nanotechnology Laboratory

Research Publications

Nano Letters, American Chemical Society

Nanotechnology, the Institute of Physics

The Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology, edited by David Awschalom
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biomedical Microdevices (BioMEMS and Medical Nanotechnology), Kluwer Academic Publishers

Professional Societies

American Chemical Society
Chemical & Engineering News, Nanofocus

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Nanotechnology Institute

American Vacuum Society
Nanometer scale S&T Division

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Nanotechnology Council
IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology Council
Materials Research Society
Nanotechnology Initiative

International Resources

Green Facts: Nanotechnologies
European Commission Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks

Nanotechnology Research Institute (Japan)

Cordis (European Research)

Cranfield University, School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science
UK Dept. of Advanced Materials, Current nanotechnology

Delft University of Technology
Nanophysics

International Nanotechnology and Society Network

Institute of Nanotechnology (UK)
Nano Pioneers
Nano Vocabulary
Daily News
Book Division
Moscow State University
Laboratory of Frontier Carbon Materials

Nanoforum (European Union)

Paul Scherrer Institute
Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology: Molecular Nanotechnology

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

The Institut de Genie Atomique (IGA) of the Physics Department
Nanomechanics: Spectroscopy and Imaging

University of Birmingham, UK
The Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory

University of Copenhagen

University of Glasgow
Nanoelectronics research centre

University of Sussex,UK
Fullerene Group Homepage

University of Ulm and the TMR-Network, Denmark
NanoSNOM

http://www.nano.gov/html/res/links.html

National Nanotechnology Initiative

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The Tesla Coil

http://www.teslasociety.com/teslacoil.htm

Links to other Tesla Organizations | Tesla and the exploration of Cosmos Tesla Coil The Tesla coil is one of Nikola Tesla’s most famous inventions. It is essentially a high-frequency air-core transformer. It takes the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage. Voltages can get to be well above 1,000,000 volts and are discharged in the form of electrical arcs. Tesla himself got arcs up to 100,000,000 volts, but I don’t think that has been duplicated by anybody else. Tesla coils are unique in the fact that they create extremely powerful electrical fields. Large coils have been known to wirelessly light up florescent lights up to 50 feet away, and because of the fact that it is an electric field that goes directly into the light and doesn’t use the electrodes, even burned-out florescent lights will glow.

http://www.teslasociety.com/teslacoil.htm

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http://cientifica.eu/files/Whitepapers/nanoporous_materials_WP.pdf

[PDF]

NANOPOROUS MATERIALS

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Nanoporous membranes. Some of the most interesting applications for nanoporous membranes come from the ability of nanopores of certain sizes to let some substances pass and others not . . .

My note –

this is a really incredible explanation and covers some of the exciting possibilities with nanoporous materials science. – By Cientifica.

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High volume fabrication of customised nanopore membrane chips

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0W-47X1H8G-6&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=eedc708f45bb734f8f14cf45262a4c8c

L. J. Heyderman^{, , a}, B. Ketterer^a, D. Bächle^a, F. Glaus^a, B. Haas^a, H. Schift^a, K. Vogelsang^a, J. Gobrecht^a, L. Tiefenauer^a, O. Dubochet^b, P. Surbled^b and T. Hessler^b

^a Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

^b Leister Process Technologies, CH-6060, Sarnen, Switzerland

Available online 11 February 2003.

Abstract

We present a procedure for high volume fabrication of nanopore membrane chips, combining low cost hot embossing for nanopore replication and conventional photolithography for manufacture of the membranes, alignment marks and break lines. The embossing masters are fabricated by electron beam lithography allowing customisation of the nanopore design. Nanopore membrane chips containing four membranes were fabricated and three of the membranes were structured with arrays of pores with three different diameters. Several different nanopore periods were tested. For pillar sizes in the embossing master of 460, 250 and 95 nm, optimization of the pattern transfer process resulted in nanopore sizes of 550, 330 and 140 nm. For the minimum periods employed for these three pore sizes of 1000, 500 and 300 nm, respectively, the membranes were found to be stable. This fabrication technology opens the way for high volume batch processing of nanostructured membranes, facilitating new avenues for research and technology.

Author Keywords: Hot embossing lithography; Nanoimprint lithography; Nanostructured membrane; Silicon micromachining

Article Outline

1. Introduction

2. Fabrication process

3. Processing issues

3.1. Conclusion

References

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This phenomenon is explained qualitatively and quantitatively as a relaxation, during the de-moulding stage, of the elastic stresses stored by the PMMA resist which could not flow during the imprint stage. Purchase PDF (234 K) Patterning of sub-micrometric Co/NiO dots by hot emboss… Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Patterning of sub-micrometric Co/NiO dots by hot embossing lithography and study of their magnetic properties Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volumes 272-276, Supplement 1, May 2004, Pages E1293-E1295 J. Grisolia, C. Martin, L. Ressier, F. Carcenac, C. Vieu, J. -F. Bobo, J. -P. Peyrade Abstract Ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic Co/NiO films were patterned into sub-micrometric dots by hot embossing lithography. The magneto-optical Kerr effect study of these dots shows that when the dot size decreases, the coercive field Hc increases and the exchange bias field HEB decreases. 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Simple Electric Generator – Video 1 min 16 sec www.metacafe.com

Magnetic motor electric generator 1 min 24 sec www.youtube.com

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/coilgen.html

This is an AC electric generator which lights up a tiny incandescent light bulb. The generator is made from a hollow-ended cardboard box with a nail through the center. The box has many turns of fine copper wire wound around it, with four large magnets clamped around the nail. When the nail and magnets are spun fast by hand, the little light bulb lights up dimly.
I wrote this article because I found lots of projects for making a simple electric motor, but nobody gave the secret for making a generator. Well, here it is: use strong magnets, lots of fine wire, and a special light bulb which only needs 1/2 volt. Also, don’t bother making a “commutator,” just hook the wires directly to the bulb. It’s much simpler that way, but the generator will produce AC (alternating current).

Before you start, here are some notes: you must use a special light bulb. Normal flashlight bulbs will not work. Also, you must use the large, strong magnets shown in the parts list. Smaller magnets won’t work. The wire must be #30 gauge or smaller. Also, you can improve the generator if you buy lots of extra kits of wire and wind it on the cardboard, since the bulb will light up even when the generator spins slowly. Three kits of Radio Shack wire is expensive, it’s cheaper to order just one $1.50 solenoid, but you’ll, need vise-grips pliers to pry apart the steel frame and remove the spool of wire.

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HISTORY OF “ULTRA SIMPLE” GENERATOR

While running the tech shop at the Museum of Science in Boston, I was working on new ideas for exhibits for the Electricity Hall in 1988. I knew that the Exploratorium had an electric generator exhibit where the museum visitor would yank a plastic-embedded coil plate through a row of huge magnets (magnetron horn-magnets from a military radar.) Doing so would light up a small bulb. I just knew that there HAD to be a way which uses more common magnets. So I stacked up a pile of 3″ loudspeaker magnets (those black donut things) and waved it past various coils. Finally I wound about five pounds of #26 wire around a ring of nails pounded into a board, hooked up a #49 light bulb, then moved the stack of speaker magnets in and out. This easily lit up the bulb.
Around 1994 I was thinking about the ultra-simple electric motor which later became known on internet as the “Beakman Motor.” Wouldn’t it be cool if kids could also make an electric generator that simple? But it should be possible with parts from a Radio Shack store, since Radio Shack had the special light bulb as well as magnets and spools of electromagnet wire. After a few hours of experimenting I fould that I could just barely light up the 20 milliamps bulb by using a single spool of #30 wire from radio shack. But the wire had to be VERY close to a fast spinning magnet, and the magnet had to be composed of four powerful ceramic magnets in a stack.

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/coilgen.html

MAGNET WARNING

WARNING: Keep the magnets away from computers, disks, videotapes, color TV sets, and from wallets and purses containing credit cards. Try this: Keep the generator far from your color TV, turn on the TV, start spinning the nail so the magnet is spinning fast, then bring the generator about 2ft away from the TV screen. DON’T BRING IT CLOSER!!! Keep spinning the magnets, and you’ll see a cool wobbling effect in the TV picture, along with some color changes. The field from the magnet is bending the electron beam that paints the picture on the screen. Be careful, if you bring the magnet about 15cm away, the iron sheet inside the TV picture tube will become magnetized and the distorted colors will be permanent.

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All the directions for this project are on the site link above and it is really thought-provoking and inspiring, actually.

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Click here to Download further details for exhibitors / conference sponsors. The conference will host typically 100-120 delegates, all active researchers in the field of carbon based nanotechnology. This will provide an excellent opportunity to raise awareness amongst the research community of your products and expertise. Exhibition space will be available next to the area used for posters, which will be available for viewing throughout the conference. There will also be a timetabled poster session.The following facilities are available:

• Exhibition Space: 1000 Euros, including one free non-residential registration.
• Conference Supporters: Conference supporters will be acknowledged on the conference website and also via either inserts in delegate conference packs or space within the abstract booklet. Key sponsors will optionally also appear on the conference bags.
• Poster Prize: We would also be interested to hear from potential sponsors for the conference Poster prize.

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Washington (Nov. 6) – The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that 5.6 million international visitors traveled to the United States in August 2008, an increase of 6 percent over August 2007. International visitors spent a record $12.7 billion in August 2008, a 20 percent increase over August 2007. (more)

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Washington (March 10)—In remarks to the National League of Cities, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez announced that 2007 set an all time record for international tourism, with visitors pumping $122 billion into the U.S. economy from over 56 million international visitors supporting 8.5 million American jobs. “This is yet another record-breaking year for the US travel and tourism industry and another year in which it produced a healthy trade surplus,” Gutierrez said.
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How to Make an Inexpensive Vertical Wind Turbine – Part 1

Visit Blog at http://berezin.com/jeff for details. Part 2 is now done and covers power generation: http://www.youtube.com/watc… Harness the wind for less than $100. DIY vertical wind turbine …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UPe6A_UVPc

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Going with the Wind

A homemade vertical turbine can supply big power at little cost

By Doug Cantor Posted 07.06.2007 at 2:00 am

by John B. Carnett: HOW IT WORKS As the wind turns the wings, magnets in the alternator spin, generating voltage in the wire coils. The current travels through wires to a rectifier, which converts the voltage to DC, and then to a bank of batteries. John B. Carnett

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2007-07/going-wind

The slow-turning vertical-axis design is most efficient in gusts of 6 to 20 mph, so it’s ideal for relatively low-wind areas like western Michigan, where he lives. You can download plans at windstuffnow.com to build your own Lenz2. It’s not a quick weekend project, but once it’s up and running, paying the electric bill should be a breeze.

Build a Vertical Wind Turbine
Cost: $300
Time: 3 Days
Easy | | | | |
Hard

1. Construct the wings

   Cut teardrop shapes from plywood, connect with four-foot rods, and cover with aluminum.

2. Build the alternator

   Glue magnets to two steel discs, tape copper-wire coils to a plywood disc (the “stator”), and slide all three discs over the shaft.

3. Attach the parts

   Clamp both ends of the shaft to the rectangular frame. Weld the wings’ arms to the bottom disc on the alternator, as well as to a steel disc at the top of the turbine.

4. Mount the frame

   Attach cables to the frame arms and stabilize with sandbags.

5. Power the house

   Wire the alternator to a rectifier, a device that converts the power from AC to DC, and connect it to the batteries. It takes four to six hours for Lenz’s turbine to fully charge his bank of eight batteries.

Another Build: The $30 Open-Source Turbine Go to velacreations.com to find instructions for off-grid DIY’er Abe Connally’s Chispito wind generator, a horizontal-axis-turbine design that more than 200 builders have built and helped perfect. Made entirely of salvaged parts, such as a treadmill motor and recycled sewer pipe, the Chispito can generate 100 watts in a 35mph wind. And if you’re able to find all the supplies, you can build it for less than 30 bucks.

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Thursday May 1, 2008

Dow and Global Solar Develop Flexible Solar Roof Shingles

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Dow Building Solutions has commissioned the help of Global Solar Energy in its effort to manufacture solar roof shingles. These shingles are an effort to create an innovative BIPV or building-integrated photovoltaic technology for Dow’s participation in the U.S. Department of Energy SAI (Solar America Initiative). According to Dow, it has chosen Global Solar as a partner because the latter is the sole company able to provide flexible Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) material used for the PVs, which actually meets SAI’s requirement of having 10 percent efficiency, as well as fits Dow’s needs to a T. CIGS is perfect for the type of BIPV technology Dow is creating because of its low cost and high efficiency. Dow’s aim is to lower the cost of solar panels, specifically BIPVs, making solar energy a competitive source of energy, as builders and architects are given free reign on how they want to position the BIPVs due to their inherent flexibility.

http://www.goodcleantech.com/2008/05/dow_and_global_solar_develop_f.php

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Current Solicitations

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Note: Not all federal agencies have specific webpages for nanotechnology funding opportunities. In addition, solicitations often are worded generally and the technological tools to be employed, whether micro-, nano- or macro-scale, are not specified. Looking broadly into areas of interest—for instance, toxin removal or semi-conducting materials— is often the best approach.

New Solicitations

• April 27, 2009 deadline—National Institutes of Health (NIH); NIH has received new funds for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). NIH has designated at least $200 million for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research.
• May 1, 2009 deadline—The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; CNMS is soliciting proposals for user-initiated nanoscience research that will make effective use of CNMS facilities and staff expertise.
• May 11, July 13, 2009 deadlines—Technology Innovation Program; Call for White Papers. TIP is seeking white papers to help shape the Programs’ collaborative outreach and competitions in the future.
• May 21, 2009 deadline—DARPA – Microsystems Technology Office; NanoThermal Interfaces (NTI). DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of NanoThermal Interfaces (NTI). The primary goal of this program is the development and demonstration of ideas based on novel materials and structures that can provide significant reductions in the thermal resistance of the interface layer (often called the TIM) between the backside of an electronic device and the next layer of the package, which might be a spreader or a heatsink (this might be based on technologies developed in the DARPA-sponsored TGP and/or MACE programs, respectively).

• October 30, 2009 deadline (continuously open) — U.S. Army; The U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command-Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM-ARDEC) is looking to identify and develop nanotechnologies for the purpose of generating future armament systems.

• February 5, June 5, October 5 annual deadline— (A) National Institutes of Health, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine “(R01 – Basic Research Grant).” The purpose of this funding opportunity is to stimulate nanoscience and nanotechnology research approaches that have the potential to make valuable contributions to biology and medicine.
• February 16, June 16, October 16 annual deadline— (B) National Institutes of Health, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine “(R21 – Exploratory/Developmental Grant).” The purpose of this funding opportunity is to stimulate nanoscience and nanotechnology research approaches that have the potential to make valuable contributions to biology and medicine.
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• MURI08 – Nanomembranes

• http://muri.engr.utexas.edu/
  http://www.nanomembrane.org/
  http://www.rle.mit.edu/NSL/MURI/            

  MURI06 – Silicon Laser and Nanophotonics

• http://web.mac.com/jose.menendez/iWeb/Physics/Blog/39F8FEDD-849F-4F89-A5          
  http://brongersma.stanford.edu/plasmonmuri/   
  
  http://www.plasmonmuri.caltech.edu/index.html

• MURI03 – Nanoprobes

• http://vdw.ece.wisc.edu/ntools/  
  
  http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/novotny/muri03/

• DURINT01 (Concluded) Surface Modification for Advanced Hybrid Nanosystems

  http://nanostructure.usc.edu/projects/durint.shtml

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The Office of Science is now requiring all financial assistance applications be submitted through the Department of Energy e-Center (IIPS). Applicants will still need to visit the Grants.gov website to download the required Application Package (forms), by clicking on “Apply for Grants” and searching for the Funding Opportunity Announcement. For Instructions on the Use of IIPS visit this web page, IIPS Instructions. Registration Requirements: As part of the Department’s implementation of e-Government, there are several one-time actions you must complete in order to submit an application (e.g., obtain a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number, register with the Central Contract Registry (CCR), register with the credential provider). See http://www.grants.gov/GetStarted. Use the Grants.gov Organization Registration Checklist at http://www.grants.gov/assets/OrganizationRegCheck.pdf to guide you through the process. Designating an E-Business Point of Contact (EBiz POC) and obtaining a special password called an MPIN are important steps in the CCR registration process. Applicants, who are not registered with CCR, should allow at least 21 days to complete these requirements. It is suggested that the process be started as soon as possible. Applicants do not need to register with Grants.gov to submit an application using IIPS. Need help with Grants.gov, visit the Troubleshooting Tips Page at http://www.grants.gov/help/trouble_tips.jsp.

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Title:

Inverse combined steam-gas turbine cycle for the reduction of emissions of nitrogen oxides from combustion processes using fuels having a high nitrogen content

Document Type and Number:

United States Patent 5617715

Abstract:

An inverse combined steam-gas turbine cycle is disclosed. In the steam cycle, a fuel having a high nitrogen content such as coal or heavy fuel oil is burned in a boiler to raise steam to power a steam turbine. In the gas turbine cycle, a hydrocarbon fuel such as natural gas is burned in a gas combustor to power a gas turbine. The compressed exhaust gas (40. 42) from the steam cycle combustion is introduced into the gas combustor, where nitrogen oxides (NO_x) in the exhaust gas may be reduced through reactions with the hydrocarbon fuel.

Claims:

We claim:

1. A process for removing NO_x emissions from a boiler fired by a high nitrogen content fuel, comprising:burning a high nitrogen content fuel in a boiler at atmospheric pressure to generate steam for a steam-turbine cycle and a waste gas including oxides of nitrogen;

burning a hydrocarbon fuel in a gas turbine combustor for a gas-turbine cycle to clean said waste gas of the oxides of nitrogen and to generate power;

compressing said waste gas from said boiler to a predetermined entering pressure of said gas turbine combustor;

introducing said compressed waste gas from said boiler into a fuel rich zone of said gas-turbine combustor to react with pyrolyzed fragments of said hydrocarbon fuel to convert NO_x in said waste gas to N₂ ;

adding an oxidant to said gas turbine combustor to complete combustion; and

directing exhaust gas from said combustor to a gas turbine.

2. The process of claim 1, further comprising removing sulfur compounds from said waste gas prior to entering said compressor to minimize damage to said gas turbine.

3. The process of claim 2, further comprising removing particulates from said waste gas prior to entering said compressor to minimize damage to said gas turbine.

4. The process of claim 3, wherein said particulates are removed at below 4 ppm.

5. The process of claim 1, wherein said hydrocarbon fuel comprises natural gas.

6. The process of claim 1, wherein substantially all of said waste gas is compressed and introduced into said gas combustor.

7. The process of claim 1, wherein said gas turbine combustor comprises a first fuel-rich combustion zone and a second fuel-lean combustion zone, and said compressed coal waste gas is introduced into said first fuel-rich zone at a downstream location, whereby said waste gas mixes with pyrolyzed hydrocarbon fragments of said fuel.

Description:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to pollution control, and more particularly to pollution control for coal-fired combustion processes.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

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Application Number:
08/340154
Publication Date:
04/08/1997
Filing Date:
11/15/1994
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Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Primary Class:
60/783
Other Classes:
423/235, 60/732, 60/39.182
International Classes:
F01K23/06; F02G3/00; F02G6/00
Field of Search:
60/39.02, 60/39.12, 60/39.464, 60/39.465, 60/39.5, 60/39.182, 60/39.52, 60/732, 422/182, 422/183, 423/235
US Patent References:
3150487    Steam turbine-gas turbine power plant    September, 1969    Mangan et al.
3194015    Combined steam and gas turbine power plant    July, 1965    Pacault    60/391.82
3232713    Apparatus for converting oxides of nitrogen to innocuous gases    February, 1966    Felder, Jr.    422/183
3703807    COMBINED GAS-STEAM TURBINE POWER PLANT    November, 1972    Rice
3791137    FLUIDIZED BED POWERPLANT WITH HELIUM CIRCUIT, INDIRECT HEAT EXCHANGE AND COMPRESSED AIR BYPASS CONTROL    February, 1974    Jubb et al.    60/394.63
3873845    METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRIC ENERGY INCLUDING COAL GASIFICATION    March, 1975    Osthaus    60/391.82
3957418    Method and an apparatus for performing closed combustion    May, 1976    Sata
3971211    Thermodynamic cycles with supercritical CO.sub.2 cycle topping    July, 1976    Wethe et al.    60/391.82
4154567    Method and apparatus for the combustion of waste gases    May, 1979    Dahmen    422/182
4271664    Turbine engine with exhaust gas recirculation    June, 1981    Earnest
4313300    NOx reduction in a combined gas-steam power plant    February, 1982    Wilkes et al.
4342192    Plant for producing power from solid fossil fuels, more particularly bituminous coal    August, 1982    Heyn et al.
4353206    Apparatus for removing NOx and for providing better plant efficiency in combined cycle plants    October, 1982    Lee
4362013    Method for operating a combined plant    December, 1982    Kuribayashi
4426842    System for heat recovery for combustion machine including compressor for combustion air    January, 1984    Collet
4468928    Altitude responsive turbocharger control system    September, 1984    Suzuki
4502277    Turbine power plant system    March, 1988    Papastavros    60/391.81
4519207    Combined plant having steam turbine and gas turbine connected by single shaft    May, 1985    Okabe et al.
4519993    Process of conversion for disposal of chemically bound nitrogen in industrial waste gas streams    May, 1985    McGill et al.    423/235
4539918    Multiannular swirl combustor providing particulate separation    September, 1985    Beer et al.    60/394.64
4569197    Method for producing energy from solid, fossil and ballast rich fuels    January, 1986    Adrian et al.
4845940    Low NOx rich-lean combustor especially useful in gas turbines    July, 1989    Beer
4875436    Waste heat recovery system    October, 1989    Smith et al.
4928635    Power plant and method of retrofitting existing power plants    May, 1990    Shelor
4936088    Low NOX cogeneration process    June, 1990    Bell
4974411    Supercharged coal-fired steam generator    December, 1990    Bruckner et al.
4996836    Combined gas and steam turbine process    March, 1991    Reh et al.    60/391.2
5044152    Method of operating a combined plant    September, 1991    Hoizumi et al.
5069685    Two-stage coal gasification and desulfurization apparatus    December, 1991    Bissett et al.    60/391.2
5078752    Coal gas productions coal-based combined cycle power production    January, 1992    Mach et al.
5139755    Advanced reburning for reduction of NO.sub.x emissions in combustion systems    August, 1922    Seeker et al.    423/235
5148668    Combined gas/steam turbine power station plant    September, 1992    Frutschi
5174107    Combined power generating plant    December, 1992    Ogawa et al.
5255507    Combined cycle power plant incorporating atmospheric circulating fluidized bed boiler and gasifier    October, 1993    Gounder    60/391.2
5265410    Power generation system    November, 1993    Hisatome    60/391.2
5339621    Waste treatment system and method utilizing pressurized fluid    August, 1994    Tolman    60/391.2
Foreign References:
JP0336409    March, 1991
JP0048804    April, 1992
Primary Examiner:
Thorpe, Timothy
Assistant Examiner:
Kim, Ted
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Hayes LLP

Inventors:
Beer, Janos M. (Winchester, MA)
Toqan, Majed A. (Avon, CT)

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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

“The present invention provides a system for NO x emission reduction from boilers which burn fuels having a high nitrogen content, such as coal or a heavy fuel oil. An inverse combined steam-gas turbine cycle is provided. In the steam cycle, the fuel is burned in a boiler to raise steam to power a steam turbine. In the gas turbine cycle, a hydrocarbon fuel such as natural gas is burned in a gas combustor to power a gas turbine. The exhaust gas from the steam cycle combustion is introduced through a compressor into the gas combustor, where nitrogen oxides (NO x ) in the exhaust gas may be reduced through reactions with the hydrocarbon fuel. Thus, the combined cycle is the inverse of combined steam-gas turbine cycles known in the prior art, in which exhaust from the gas turbine cycle is introduced into the steam turbine cycle.”

“In the present invention, substantially all of the steam cycle flue gas may be introduced into the gas-turbine cycle. A compressor for the flue gas is provided to compress the flue gas to the predetermined input pressure for the gas combustor. The size of the compressor and gas combustor are determined by the amount of flue gas generated. Prior to entry into the compressor, the flue gas is preferably cooled to maximize its density, thereby minimizing the work input to the compressor, and any liquid droplets are removed. A scrubber to remove sulfur compounds and an electrostatic precipitator to remove particulates are also provided in the flue gas exhaust line upstream of the compressor. In this manner, the present invention effectively reduces the NO x emissions from a fossil fuel exhaust gas. If desired, the exhaust gas from the gas turbine may be utilized in the steam-turbine cycle.”

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Titre du document / Document title

Design optimization of axial flow hydraulic turbine runner. 1: An improved Q3D inverse method

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

GUOYI PENG ⁽¹⁾ ; SHULIANG CAO ⁽²⁾ ; ISHIZUKA Masaru ⁽¹⁾ ; HAYAMA Shinji ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurukawa, Kosugi-machi, Imizu-gun, Toyama 939-0398, JAPON
⁽²⁾ Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, CHINE

Résumé / Abstract

With the aim of constructing a comprehensive design optimization procedure of axial flow hydraulic turbine, an improved quasi-three-dimensional inverse method has been proposed from the viewpoint of system and a set of rotational flow governing equations as well as a blade geometry design equation has been derived. The computation domain is firstly taken from the inlet of guide vane to the far outlet of runner blade in the inverse method and flows in different regions are solved simultaneously. So the influence of wicket gate parameters on the runner blade design can be considered and the difficulty to define the flow condition at the runner blade inlet is surmounted. As a pre-computation of initial blade design on S_2m surface is newly adopted, the iteration of S₁ and S_2m surfaces has been reduced greatly and the convergence of inverse computation has been improved. The present model has been applied to the inverse computation of a Kaplan turbine runner. Experimental results and the direct flow analysis have proved the validation of inverse computation

Revue / Journal Title

International journal for numerical methods in fluids   ISSN 0271-2091   CODEN IJNFDW

Source / Source

2002, vol. 39, n^o6, pp. 517-531 (18 ref.)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Wiley, Chichester, ROYAUME-UNI  (1981) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Iterative method ; Numerical convergence ; Numerical simulation ; Modeling ; Three dimensional flow ; Kaplan turbine ; Velocity distribution ; Runner ; Axial flow ; Optimization method ; Computational fluid dynamics ; Geometrical shape ; Optimal design ; Turbine blade ; Inverse problem ; Hydraulic turbine ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Méthode itérative ; Convergence numérique ; Simulation numérique ; Modélisation ; Ecoulement tridimensionnel ; Turbine Kaplan ; Distribution vitesse ; Canal injection ; Ecoulement axial ; Méthode optimisation ; Mécanique fluide numérique ; Forme géométrique ; Conception optimale ; Aube turbine ; Problème inverse ; Turbine hydraulique ;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Método iterativo ; Convergencia numérica ; Simulación numérica ; Modelización ; Flujo tridimensional ; Turbina Kaplán ; Distribución velocidad ; Canal inyección ; Flujo axial ; Método optimización ; Mecánica fluido numérica ; Forma geométrica ; Concepción optimal ; Paleta turbina ; Problema inverso ; Turbina hidraúlica ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 19291, 35400010167402.0040

Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 13729663

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The Kaplan turbine was developed by Austrian engineer Viktor Kaplan around 1915. Kaplans are generally considered for low head high flow applications.

The Kaplan is an inward radial flow type reaction turbine similar to a Francis turbine. The turbine is usually placed in a spiral volute. Like a Francis turbine the Kaplan has a series of adjustable wicket gates. However the turbine runner (looking somewhat like a ship’s propeller) has adjustable blades. By changing the angle of the blades in tandem with the angle of the turbines the Kaplan can maintain a high efficiency even at very low flows.

Reaction Turbines like the Kaplan have a change in water pressure as the water passes through the turbine. There is pressure on the upstream side of the turbine runner and suction on the downstream side. On the downstream or outlet side of the turbine is the drafttube which slows the water as it exits the turbine. The draftube has a unique curved horn like shape.

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	Radical polymers are aliphatic or nonconjugated polymers bearing organic robust radicals as pendant groups per repeating unit. A large population of the radical redox sites allows efficient redox gradient-driven and/or electric-field-driven electron transport through the polymer layer. Radical polymers are emerging as a new class of materials useful for energy storage, transport, and conversion devices.

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	Carbon-nanotube-titania composites exhibit enhanced photocatalytic properties over titania. The proposed mechanisms of catalytic enhancement resulting from the pairing of the titania semiconductor with either metallic, semiconducting, or defect-rich carbon nanotubes is discussed. The recent advances in the synthesis techniques for these composites and their photocatalytic reactions with organic, inorganic, and biological agents are also highlighted.

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	Applying an electrical field to a dielectric may induce a large entropy and temperature change which is attractive for solid-state cooling. We present the general considerations and review the experimental efforts to achieve large electrocaloric effect (ECE) in dielectrics. We show that by operating above the order-disorder transitions, a large ECE can be achieved in a ferroelectric polymer.

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DOI: 10.1002/adma.200802763

	A physical principle for producing network and cellular structures using viscoelastic phase separation is described. Its potential applications to the morphological control of materials spanning from soft to hard matter is detailed. Network (sponge) and cellular structures are often seen in various types of materials that are generally characterized by light weight and high mechanical strength.

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Metal Chalcogenide Clusters on the Border between Molecules and Materials (p NA)
John F. Corrigan, Olaf Fuhr, Dieter Fenske
Published Online: Feb 19 2009 8:28AM
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200802897

	Nanoclusters containing up to several hundred transition metal atoms can be understood as intermediates between mononuclear complexes and binary solid-state phases. In contrast to conventional nanoparticles, these species are precisely monodisperse, and therefore their molecular structures can be determined by single crystal X-ray analysis. The figure shows the packing of the [Ag344S124(StBu)96] clusters in their 3D crystal lattice.

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Observation of Unusual Homoepitaxy in Ultrathin Pentacene Films and Correlation with Surface Electrostatic Potential (p NA)
Vivek Kalihari, David J. Ellison, Greg Haugstad, C. Daniel Frisbie
Published Online: Apr 22 2009 11:43AM
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900362

	Pentacene second layer grows with a twist (76 °) on the first layer, while the third and subsequent layers show commensurism with their respective underlayers. The preferred twisting of the second layer on the first layer gives rise to epitaxial and non-epitaxial domains which also reflect in the surface electrostatic potential measurements.

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Georgia Tech formally dedicates Marcus Nanotechnology Building

(Nanowerk News) Three years after breaking ground, Georgia Tech is set to dedicate the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, one of the most ambitious and expensive projects in the Institute’s history. The ceremony will be held on Friday, April 24, at 3PM.

The 190,000-square-foot complex poises Georgia Tech to be a global hub for nanotechnology research and development while igniting an environment that could potentially transform both local and state economies.

Schematic structure of a CNT based IR detector with a nanoscale antenna. (Image: Dr. Ning Xi, Michigan State University)

“The opening of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building positions Georgia Tech as the premier facility for nanotechnology in the U.S.,” said Georgia Tech President Dr. G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “The invaluable research and activities taking place at our Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) will affect the lives of every individual, from health care advances to green energy development and personal technology. Georgia Tech and Atlanta are now sufficiently equipped to be the nanotechnology hub of the southeast and the U.S.”

The Marcus building, coupled with current nanotechnology research facilities at the Pettit Microelectronics Building, creates an unparalleled complex for the development of nanotechnology enhanced by world-class researchers, faculty and student talent.

The $90 million facility was made possible in part by a grant from philanthropist Bernie Marcus, founder and chairman of the Marcus Foundation, who made a $15 million commitment to the project. Marcus views nanotechnology as a driving force in innovation and economic development for the 21st century and beyond.

“There isn’t anything that nanotechnology will not touch or influence in the future,” Marcus said. “It will enhance medicine, high-technology and consumer products. I hope that nanotechnology will do for Georgia Tech, Atlanta and the region what the ‘chip’ did for Silicon Valley.”

Foremost among the new facility’s attributes is 30,000 square feet of clean room space, which provides the sterile environment and sophisticated equipment necessary to maximize the potential of nanotechnology. Companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, SanDisk and Kimberly-Clark have utilized the current NRC facility and clean room space for product research and development.

With the addition of the facilities in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Georgia Tech’s nanotechnology efforts could potentially be an economic boon for the Institute and metro Atlanta. Last year, nearly 600 users from academia, private enterprise and government utilized the existing facilities. The new facility will allow for significant growth in external users.

“The NRC aims to be the hub of nanotechnology research and development nationally, delivering Atlanta the recognition in this field that the San Francisco Bay area earned for silicon chip development,” said Dr. James Meindl, director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center founding director of the Nanotechnology Research Center.

The dedication of the Marcus building will be followed by a reception and tours of the facility. Speakers at the event will include Marcus, Dr. Peterson, Dr. Meindl and Erroll B. Davis, Jr., chancellor of the University System of Georgia.

Source: ASM

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From NanoArt 2008 International Online Competition – Top 10 – Part 1

I am pleased to present in a two-parts article the Top 10 artists in the 3rd edition of the international online competition for NanoArt, a new discipline at the art-science-technology intersections and a reflection of the Nanotechnology development. Read the Whole Article

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• Molecule predicted by theory discovered (STUTTGART, GERMANY)
• Planting the seeds for nanoparticle growth (JAPAN)
• IMEC transferred Design-for-Manufacturing tool for embedded SRAMs to Samsung Electronics (LEUVEN, BELGIUM)
• Nanotech’s big booster: Bernard Marcus sees enormous potential in the science of the small. (NEW YORK, NY)
• Electric scooter hoping to spark eco two-wheelers (TX AND VIETNAM)
• Chubais Proposes Tracking All Nanotech Production (MOSCOW, RUSSIA)
• Germany Gets Their Nanotechnology on Track…Train Tracks (GERMANY)
• Nanotechnology could spark compensation payouts (AUSTRALIA)
• `Black gold of the forest’ makes a solid investment (KOTA BARU, MALAYSIA)
• Antiferromagnetic coupling in semiconductors: Magnetic materials (SEOUL, KOREA AND USA)
• Molecular magnets wired on gold (ITALY)
• Better photocells from bigger Buckyballs (USA AND GERMANY)
• Nanoparticles deliver the goods and leave without a trace (USA)
• Diatoms boost dye-sensitized solar cell efficiency (OREGON)
• It’s Not Your Father’s Night Vision (USA)
• Easton AXIS Arrows Now With Nano Infused Carbon (SALT LAKE CITY, UT)
• Govt asks industries to focus on R&D in nano-technology (INDIA)
• Little seen outside Dallas tech circles, nano expert gives start-ups millions (DALLAS, TX)

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High-Temp Superconducting Nanowire System is First of its Kind

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have, for the first time, created an array of nanowires that are superconducting at relatively high temperatures. This work, published recently…

2008-11-29 22:37:00

Nanomanufactured polymer film could lead to lower-cost solar cells

You never know where basic research may lead. For decades materials scientists have been experimenting with a corkscrew-like polymer structure called a gyroid. Now an international team of…

2008-11-29 22:36:00

Mother of Pearl Secret Revealed

In addition to its iridescent beauty, mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of the shells of abalone, mussels and certain other mollusks, is also renowned for an amazing strength and toughness…

2008-11-29 22:36:00

‘The photon force is with us’: Harnessing light to drive nanomachines

Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun’s light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been…

2008-11-28 20:34:00

‘Stress tests’ probe nanoscale strains in materials

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as…

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The Size of Nano
These two illustrations give visual examples of the size and the scale of nanotechnology, showing us just how small nanotechnology actually is.

Nanoscale: 3 Examples

All dimensions are approximate. Nanoparticle is courtesy of the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, US Department of Energy.

Courtesy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

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See: What is Nano? • Nano Applications and Products • The Scale of Things

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Applications and Products: Putting Technology to Use

Nanotechnology is going to change the world and the way we live, creating new scientific applications that are smaller, faster, stronger, safer and more reliable, including: New Medical Treatments Nanomedicine is focused on diagnosing and treating diseases and creating new drug delivery techniques with fewer side effects. Many nanomedicine findings are now in clinical trials and could soon be available to the public.

• Nanotech-enabled sensors may be able to “smell” cancer. Researchers have mapped the odor profile of certain skin cancers and are looking into ways to create a small electronic nose able to sense the airborne chemical pattern of skin cancer and other odors.

• Gold nanoparticles can be used to detect early stage Alzheimer’s. Other nanostructures can recognize diseased cells and deliver drugs to cancerous tumors without harming healthy cells or organs. Some researchers are designing new nanoparticles to improve biomedical imaging.

• Research is underway to use nanotechnology to engineer a gel that spurs the growth of nerve cells. The gel fills the space between existing cells and encourages new cells to grow. This process could be used to re-grow lost or damaged spinal cord and brain cells.

Photo credit: These iron oxide nanoparticles have a diameter less than 10 nanometers and are coated with DNA for use in biomedical imaging. Image courtesy of Joyce Wong, Boston University.

Cheap and clean energy
The difficulty of meeting the world’s energy demand is compounded by the growing need to protect our environment. Many scientists are looking into way to develop clean, affordable and renewable energy sources.

• Prototype solar panels incorporating nanotechnology are far more efficient than standard designs in converting sunlight to electricity, promising cheap solar power in the near future.
• Nanotechnology is already being used in new batteries, and nanostructured materials look to greatly improve hydrogen storage materials and catalysts needed to realize fuel cells for alternative transportation.

Photo credit: New solar panel films incorporate nanoparticles to improve performance (Gui Bazan, UCSB, graphic by Peter Allen).

Clean Water
Clean water is a precious natural resource and a basic necessity. While the worldwide supply of potable water is limited, the demand continues to increase.

• Nanotechnology could help meet the need for affordable clean water through inexpensive water purification, as well as rapid, low cost detection of impurities. Researchers already discovered unexpected magnetic interactions between ultra small specks of rust, which can help remove arsenic from drinking water.

Photo credit: Nanorust Cleans Arsenic from Drinking Water. Image courtesy of CBEN/Rice University

Pollution Reduction and Environmental Progress
There are many eco-friendly possibilities for nanotechnology, including lighter cars and machinery that requires less fuel; alternative fuel and energy sources; and materials that detect and clean up environmental contaminants.

• Scientists are examining the potential for nanosilver, which is known to have anti-microbial properties, to clean up oil spills and other hazardous chemicals in the environment.

• Nanotech- enabled sensors may one day be able to detect and identify harmful chemical or biological agents in the environment.

Improved Materials and New Products
The very structure of materials can be improved through nanotechnology, by developing nanomaterials that are stronger, lighter, more durable or better conductors, among other traits.

• Adding nanoparticles to plastics can make them stronger, lighter and more durable. Nanoparticles are currently used in baseball bats and tennis rackets, but someday may also be used in bulletproof vests and light, fuel efficient vehicles.

• Different nanoscale materials can be used in thin films to make them water-repellent, anti-reflective, self-cleaning, ultraviolet or infrared-resistant, antifog, anti-microbial, scratch-resistant, or electrically conductive. Nanofilms are used now on eyeglasses, computer displays, and cameras to protect or treat the surfaces.

• Nanoscale transistors may someday lead to computers that are faster, more powerful and more energy efficient than those used today.  Nanotechnology also holds the potential to exponentially increase information storage capacity; soon your computer’s entire memory will be able to be stored on a single tiny chip.

http://www.nano.gov/html/facts/nanoapplicationsandproducts.html

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NNI Research Centers

A highly significant impact of the NNI has been the focused investment by the NNI-participating agencies in the establishment and development of multidisciplinary research and education centers devoted to nanoscience and nanotechnology. NNI agencies have developed an extensive infrastructure of over 60 major interdisciplinary research and education centers and user facilities across the country. Many such centers, with state of the art equipment for nanoscale S&T research, are designated as user facilities and are available to researchers from academia and the private sector, and to scientists at the national laboratories.

NNI Centers and Networks of Excellence

Government funds for nanotechnology research have created some of the most sophisticated nanoscience laboratories in the world. In addition to providing the facilities, the National Nanotechnology Initiative also has created programs to attract researchers across an array of disciplines and to facilitate discoveries.

Research at Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Image credit: Department of Energy

Centers and networks provide opportunities and support for multidisciplinary research among investigators from a variety of disciplines and from different research sectors, including academia, industry and government laboratories. Such multidisciplinary research not only leads to advances in knowledge, but also fosters relationships that enhance the transition of basic research results to devices and other applications. All agency centers and networks created under NNI auspices over the last seven years are listed here, organized by funding agency.

NIST Nanotech Center

NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Image credit: HDR Architecture, Inc./Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing.

• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy
• Department of Defense
• NASA
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• National Institutes of Health

Other Research Centers

Some centers and networks are collaborative efforts of several agencies. Among them is the National Nanomanufacturing Network, established in 2007 and scheduled to become fully operational in 2008, which is a partnership between four NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC), DOD laboratories, and NIST. In addition, industry, business and professional organizations are partnering in this effort for nanotechnology development.

Also in 2008, NSF will establish a new center on environmental health and safety in 2008 and will expand national outreach activities at its nanotechnology research and education networks: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology in Society Network, Nanoscale Center for Learning and Teaching, Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers, National Nanomanufacturing Network, and Materials Research Science and Education Centers.

A major milestone for DOE in 2008 is the start of full operations at the agency’s fifth Nanoscale Science Research Center (NSRC) user facility located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. These five major user facilities are a primary component of the scientific infrastructure developed through the NNI. All five DOE NSRCs are anticipated to be in full operation by the middle of FY 2008.

NIH continues to fund a network of nanotechnology research centers, supported by both individual NIH institutes and the NIH-wide Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative. Centers’ programs promote multidisciplinary research and development that engage basic biological, physical science, clinical perspectives and expertise, and leverage, and enhance the centers’ investments.

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) at NIST is now in full operation. Initial work includes fundamental research that may be key to the development of next-generation data storage devices. Other areas of emphasis at NIST include nanomanufacturing and the development of standard reference materials.

See NSF Centers • DOE’s Nanoscale Science Research Centers • NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

http://www.nano.gov/html/centers/home_centers.html

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Posted: April 24, 2009

IQPC is organizing the 2nd International Congress Advanced Battery Technologies

(Nanowerk News) After the overwhelming demand 2008 experts from the Battery, Automotive and Chemical Industry will exchange their experiences in the fields of Li-ion batteries, ultracapacitors and automotive applications at the 2nd International Conference Advanced Battery Technologies taking place from 30th June to 2nd July in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

The need for reliable batteries is increasing worldwide. The mar-ketability of electric vehicles is especially pushing the battery de-velopment. At the moment Lithium-ion batteries seem to meet best the demands for enhanced energy storage. But there are still many drawbacks that industry is currently trying to overcome: en-ergy density has to be increased, the life span needs to be ex-tended and the thermal stability to be optimised. The industry is putting a lot of effort in the research in the field of cell chemistry developments, new materials and nanotechnology.

The first congress day on Tuesday, 30th June 2009 is concentrating on latest developments in battery technologies, innovative materi-als and components for Li-ion batteries and will focus the question: “Is Lithium-ion the ideal battery?” Gianni Sartorelli (Maxwell Tech-nologies Inc., Switzerland) will give an insight into the topic „Com-bining batteries and ultracapacitors“.

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On Wednesday, 1st July 2009 we will focus on intelligent batteries for the automotive industry and on strategies how to successfully meeting technical challenges. The attendees will hear about the “Aging behaviour of ultra high power Li-ion batteries” from the ex-pert of Energy Storage Components Dr. Olaf Böse (Continental AG).

Amongst other questions the interactive workshop day on Thurs-day, 2nd July will be facing the problems of Battery Management Systems for EV and HEV.

The conference addresses to experts from (Pre-) R&D Batteries & Energy Storage, Electronics, E/E-Systems, Energy Management, Electrical Powertrains, Hybrid Engine Development, Business De-velopment, Marketing and Sales.

For further information please contact Herrn Mark Reichmann on Phone: +49 (0) 30 20913 428 or email: Mark.Reichmann@iqpc.de

Source: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

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More ‘Roadmaps for Materials’: 30,000 phase diagrams available online

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A short course in modern x-ray spectrometry

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Former RUSNANO Top Executive Leonid Melamed will manage the JV between Russian Atomic Energy Agency and Rostechnology

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Green motorcycle gears up for world’s first zero-emissions Grand Prix this summer

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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of semiconducting hybrid nanoparticles

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Whiskers of ‘quantum cat’ offer advanced sensors

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NANOYOU project will bring nanotechnology lessons to 30,000 European students

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‘Electronic mosquito’ for quick and painless glucose test to aid diabetics

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Adding metals makes spider silk significantly tougher

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Published Online April 23, 2009 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1173388

Science Express Index

Reports

Submitted on March 11, 2009
Accepted on April 9, 2009

Crystal Structure of the Nuclear Export Receptor CRM1 in Complex with Snurportin1 and RanGTP

Thomas Monecke ¹, Thomas Güttler ², Piotr Neumann ¹, Achim Dickmanns ¹, Dirk Görlich ^2*, Ralf Ficner ^{1 1} Abteilung für Molekulare Strukturbiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, GZMB, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
² Abteilung Zelluläre Logistik, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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These authors contributed equally to this work.

CRM1 mediates nuclear export of numerous unrelated cargoes, which may carry a short leucine-rich nuclear export signal or export signatures that include folded domains. How CRM1 recognizes such a variety of cargoes has been unknown. Here, we present the crystal structure of the snurportin1-CRM1-RanGTP export complex at 2.5 Å resolution. Snurportin1 is a nuclear import adapter for cytoplasmically assembled, m₃G-capped spliceosomal U snRNPs. The structure shows how CRM1 can specifically return the cargo-free form of snurportin1 to the cytoplasm. The extensive contact area includes five hydrophobic residues at the snurportin1 N terminus that dock into a hydrophobic cleft of CRM1, as well as numerous hydrophilic contacts of CRM1 to m₃G cap-binding domain and C-terminal residues of snurportin1. The structure suggests that RanGTP promotes cargo-binding to CRM1 solely through long-range conformational changes in the exportin.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1173388v1

me > Science Magazine > Science Express

> Monecke et al.

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Posted: April 24, 2009

Molekularer Shuttleservice – Logistik in kleinsten Dimensionen

(Nanowerk News) Die Kommunikation muss stimmen: Dies gilt auch für die lebende Zelle. Winzige Poren in der Zellkern-Hülle sind lebenswichtige Transport- und Kommunikationskanäle, die den gesamten Güterverkehr in und aus dem Zellkern kontrollieren. Diese “Kernporen” sind hochselektive Tore: Während kleine Moleküle meist ungehindert passieren, sind große für ihren Transport auf einen Shuttle-Service angewiesen. Doch wie erkennt ein molekularer Transporter sein Frachtgut? Und wie entscheidet er, wo Fracht geladen oder entladen werden muss?

Einen entscheidenden molekularen Mechanismus haben jetzt Forscher vom Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie und der Universität Göttingen aufgeklärt (“Crystal Structure of the Nuclear Export Receptor CRM1 in Complex with Snurportin1 and RanGTP”).

Am Kern-Exportrezeptor CRM1 (blau) binden der molekulare Schalter RanGTP (rot) und das Frachtmolekül Snurportin (orange) weit entfernt voneinander. Im Hintergrund: eine elektronenmikroskopische Aufnahme von Kernporenkomplexen – den gigantischen Transportkanälen in der Zellkernhülle. (Bild: MPIbpc / Universität Göttingen)

Lebende Zellen gleichen in vieler Hinsicht Miniatur-Fabriken mit winzigen Produktionsstätten, Förderbändern und Maschinen. Anders als Bakterienzellen, zeichnen sich die komplexer gebauten Zellen von Pilzen, Pflanzen und Tieren dabei durch strikte Arbeitsteilung aus. Sie sind in verschiedene Abteilungen – Kompartimente – gegliedert, von Verpackungs- und Sortierstationen, Proteinfabriken und Kraftwerken bis hin zur Kommandozentrale, dem Zellkern. In diesem ist das gesamte Genom ( Erbgut ) archiviert, das die Baupläne für die Produktion von Proteinen enthält. Die Proteinfabriken allerdings, die nach diesen Bauplänen arbeiten, befinden sich außerhalb des Kerns im sogenannten Zytosol. Wie gelangen die Baupläne in die Proteinfabriken?

“Rushhour” an der Kernhülle

Um dieses logistische Problem zu lösen, muss die Zelle einigen Aufwand betreiben. Dazu werden Kopien der einzelnen Gene in Form von Boten-Ribonukleinsäure (Boten-RNA) erstellt und aus dem Zellkern exportiert. Proteinfabriken – die Ribosomen – verwenden diese dann im Zytosol zur Protein-Herstellung. Die Boten-RNA ist damit ein wahrer Exportschlager. Umgekehrt erfolgt auch ein massiver Import in den Kern. In jeder Minute werden damit mehr als eine Million Moleküle transportiert, darunter viele Proteine. Die Folge ist ein immenser Güterverkehr zwischen Zellkern und Zytosol, der der Rushhour einer Großstadt in nichts nachsteht. So entspricht der Materialstrom, der täglich durch die unzähligen Kernporen eines Menschen geleitet wird, in etwa unserem Körpergewicht.

Shuttle-Service für große Moleküle

Mit einem zehntausendstel Millimeter Durchmesser sind die Kernporen nanoskopisch klein. Selbst im besten Lichtmikroskop ist eine einzelne Kernpore kaum mehr als ein winziger Punkt. Kernporen arbeiten als hochselektive Tore und Sortieranlagen: Während sie die meisten kleinen Moleküle ungehindert passieren lassen, verweigern sie sperrigem Material den Durchtritt. Können sich große Moleküle allerdings durch einen “Passierschein” ausweisen, dann übernehmen Shuttle-Moleküle (sogenannte “Exportine” oder “Importine”) deren Transport. Anders als ihre Fracht haben diese Shuttle das Privileg, die Kernporen nahezu ungehindert zu passieren.

“Be- und Entladung dieser Transporter steuert ein molekularer Schalter namens “Ran”. Das kleine Molekül “GTP” schaltet Ran im Zellkern gewissermaßen “an”. Exportine erhalten von RanGTP das Zeichen zum Laden, Importine das Signal zum Entladen ihrer Fracht”, erklärt Ralf Ficner, Leiter der Abteilung Molekulare Strukturbiologie an der Universität Göttingen. Doch wie setzt RanGTP die Fracht-Beladung von Exportinen in Gang? Und wie erkennt und liest ein Exportin den “Passierschein” seines Frachtgutes? Exportin 1 (auch bekannt als CRM1) ist ein wahrer Allrounder unter den Transportern. Es exportiert hunderte, vielleicht tausende verschiedene Zell-Bestandteile aus dem Kern, angefangen bei RNA und Proteinen bis hin zu ganzen Ribosomen. Nicht zuletzt bedienen sich auch einige Viren wie das HIV dieses Transportweges. “Eine solche Vielfalt an Passierscheinen zu lesen, ist ein wahrer Spagat für das Allround-Shuttle. Es soll keine Fracht übersehen, aber auch keine ‘blinden Passagiere’ an Bord nehmen”, so Dirk Görlich, Leiter der Abteilung Zelluläre Logistik am Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie.

Transportkomplex in atomarer Auflösung

Einen wichtigen Teil dieses Rätsels haben die Göttinger Wissenschaftler um Ficner und Görlich jetzt gelöst. Den Nachwuchswissenschaftlern Thomas Güttler und Thomas Monecke gelang es, die entscheidende experimentelle Hürde zu meistern, an der sich Wissenschaftler seit über zehn Jahren versuchen: Sie konnten CRM1 im Komplex mit dem molekularen Schalter RanGTP und einem Frachtmolekül namens Snurportin kristallisieren. Mithilfe der Röntgenstrukturanalyse lässt sich damit der Transportkomplex wie unter einer Art Supermikroskop in atomarem Detail untersuchen.

“Wir sehen jetzt, dass Schalter und Frachtmolekül an völlig unterschiedlichen Stellen von CRM1 sitzen – die beiden sehen sich praktisch nicht. RanGTP scheint bei Bindung an CRM1 wichtige Strukturänderungen im Shuttle auszulösen”, erklärt Thomas Monecke. Erst diese Strukturänderungen befähigen den Transporter, seine Fracht zu laden. Wie die Forscher herausfanden, erkennt und bindet CRM1 Snurportin gleich mehrfach – über drei unterschiedliche Stellen seiner großen Oberfläche. “Dass CRM1 Fracht über seine Außenseite bindet, könnte auch der entscheidende Trick sein, der dieses Exportin zum wahren Transport-Allrounder macht. Denn Transporter, die auf wenige Fracht-Moleküle spezialisiert sind, wickeln diese in ihrem Inneren ein – und dort findet nicht jedes Molekül Platz”, erklärt Thomas Güttler. Dagegen kann auf der Oberfläche von CRM1 Fracht nahezu beliebiger Größe und Form binden.

Das nächste Ziel der Wissenschaftler ist es nun, die Bindung weiterer Frachtmoleküle an CRM1 zu untersuchen. “CRM1 ist ein ganz entscheidender Spieler, wenn wir verstehen wollen, wie komplexe Zellen überhaupt funktionieren. Es ist nicht irgendein Transporter der Zelle, sondern das Arbeitstier des Kern-Exports schlechthin”, so Dirk Görlich.

Source: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=10257.php

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1.1 NUKLEOZYTOPLASMATISCHER TRANSPORT…………………………………………………………………..1
1.2 DAS SPLEIßOSOM UND DER SPLEIßVORGANG………………………………………………………………….5

http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974537802&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=974537802.pdf

[from 2004]

Die minimale IBBSPN1-Domäne erstreckt sich von As 1-65 und besteht, wie IBB-Domänen anderer Transportadaptern, welche Mitglieder der Karyopherin β-Familie als Vermittler zur Kernpore verwenden (z.B. IBBα), hauptsächlich aus basischen Aminosäuren (Abbildung 48) (Cingolani et al., 1999). Dennoch ist IBBSPN1 N-terminal um 14 As länger, als die bereits strukturell analysierte IBBα. Die C-terminale m3G-Cap Bindedomäne enthält eine ungewöhnlich hohe Anzahl von fünf Tryptophanresten, zeigt aber keinerlei Sequenzhomologien zu Proteinen in der Proteindatenbank (PDB; Abbildung 47). Sie formt auch keine Armadillo (ARM)-Repeats, wie die cNLS-Bindedomäne von Importin α.

pp.18

Abbildung 11: Domänenstruktur von SPN1.

http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974537802&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=974537802.pdf

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(Never mind, this is only exciting to me . . .)

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Asheesh Advani: Startup Financing

3 Honest Ways to Raise Startup Money

Create a healthy foundation for your business by combining enthusiasm with honesty.
By Asheesh Advani   |   September 23, 2008

Develop financial projections that are rooted in verifiable assumptions
Venture capital firms and angel investors typically want to see financial projections that shoot up like a hockey stick. Entrepreneurs often feel compelled to exaggerate projections to look like their businesses can reach a billion dollars of market value in a few years. There’s no point in just fabricating a set of projections that aren’t based on reality.

Write paychecks that don’t bounce, but increase as the business grows
One of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs is to convince talented employees to join the team and stay on the team before their company is profitable or stable. As a startup business owner, you’re faced with a choice:

{very interesting}

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Successful entrepreneurs love to tell stories about how they got their first client. While working out of a closet or a garage, they print up business cards with a prestigious address and fancy logo and close the deal. That’s what it takes to sell. Exaggerating the stability or size of your enterprise to secure your first client is the stuff of legend. Even if your product isn’t ready, you can use a similar approach to raise money for your business by getting investors and business partners–who can provide financial support–to compete to be first. There’s a certain prestige in being part of the first group of investors, partners or customers to help launch a business. Create the feeling of exclusivity. Require an invitation to use your beta product. Generate buzz about your product plans and your team among blogs that investors read. There’s less need to exaggerate if you can set expectations that your product is still being tested among early adopters.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/financing/startupfinancingcolumnistasheeshadvani/article197224.html

• How Do Investors Get Paid?
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• Where the Money is
• 3 Honest Ways to Raise Startup Money
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Look Like a Multimillion Dollar Brand

Five ways to look like you make a lot of money without spending a lot.
By Scott Gerber   |   April 16, 2009

You may have a great product or service, but to be taken seriously, clients need to believe that you’re on the same playing field as the bigger guys. Even if you’re a consultant that works from a home office, you’ll need to position your company as a polished brand that touts confidence, experience and quality.

[ . . . ]

Website

Vanity Numbers

Automated Phone Systems

Virtual Offices

The Business Card

http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/youngentrepreneurscolumnistscottgerber/article201308.html

“Now you have a slick website, a jingle-worthy toll free number and a captain-of-industry street address. It’s time to combine all of those elements into a single tool. The business card is a vital part of the first impression experience and an instant reflection of you and your company’s work.”

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http://www.developerfox.com/19-photoshop-tutorials-to-design-a-own-business-card/480

AMAZING

http://www.photoshopnerds.com/creating-a-business-card.htm

Creating a business card First of all, what you should know is that the standard measures for a business card are these: Width: 3.75 inches and 2.25 inches Height. Be careful not to forget to put a 300DPI resolution, the minimum DPI for printing purpose. So let’s create a document with these specifications.

Now go to Image > Mode > CMYK Color (this is the color mode that is used for printing.

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19 Photoshop tutorials to design your own business card

Posted By Admin on November 18, 2008 | Filed under: Photoshop Tutorials, Web Design

If you need business cards we recommend business-cards.com

Everybody or every company like to have a beautiful unique business card, but if you aren’t  going to outsource it, this post is your chance to learn how to make your own professional business card using these awesome Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Also if you need inspiration take a look to the links blow:
- 10 Brilliantly Creative Business Cards Ideas
- Cool business card designs

1- Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

2- Create Stylish Business Card in Photoshop

3- Creating a Business Card

http://www.dtptutorials.com/photoshop-tutorials/create-a-stylish-business-card-in-photoshop

How To Create This - found here : http://www.dtptutorials.com/photoshop-tutorials/create-a-stylish-business-card-in-photoshop

[and others]

4- Custom Sim Cards Tutorial

5- Blue-Grey Visiting-Card

6- create a new Business card

7- Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card

11- Make business card in Photoshop

11- Make business card in Photoshop

12- Making a grungy business card

1- Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

http://www.developerfox.com/19-photoshop-tutorials-to-design-a-own-business-card/480

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• OpenOffice.org

Geek Candy
OpenOffice.org
by rob

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Office programs are essential for productivity, not only on the job but at home. But not everyone has $400 to throw down for a copy of Microsoft Office, especially if it’s for a second or third PC. What do you do if your budget can’t handle the price tag? No, you don’t install a single copy on multiple systems. There is another way. This month we’ll look at a replacement for Microsoft Office’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. The best part? It’s free!

OpenOffice.org is a free open-source multi-platform suite that includes the core office productivity programs Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations) and Base (database). Other office applications in the suite are Draw (vector graphics editor) and Math (mathematical equation editor). There are versions of OpenOffice.org for Windows, Mac OS X (through X11), and Linux (for which there is no Microsoft Office version).

Writer

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[and a description of the others, CALC, IMPRESS, BASE, DRAW, MATH, MACROS, and how support is available for them)

Math

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Welcome to the real world – Did you know the whole world starts where you find your feet standing –

From – dymndeata

Submitted on 2009/04/24 at 3:08am

I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…

Submitted on 2009/04/24 at 1:59pm

Have you ever just stood and looked down at your feet? Have you noticed they are standing on something? Do you know what that means? It means you aren’t dead – you are alive. That’s why you can see your feet. Every moving thing around you is part of the world your feet are standing on – those things are other people who are just as alone as you. What do they think about? What do they see? What are their interactions with the world around them? What problems do they have and how do things you know match up with helping to solve those problems? You aren’t unneeded – you are needed. You are part of all this. It is up to you to participate in your own life. Find your feet.

cricketdiane

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A comment and reply from today – (And don’t tell me this doesn’t work because it does. And it only works if you do it – not if you try to figure out if it will or not.)

[Try it . . .]

What it has really been like living in the United States – from 1980 – 2010 – pervasive human rights abuses by the US holier than thou Republican Party – Cricket Diane C Phillips

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To tell the truth is to say that in the United States of America – you will experience these things, not to pretend that it is not so.

If you are a woman, you will be raped. You will be beat to death or nearly to death in your own home. You will, if you survive, watch your children be taken from you and abused by others the state deems to raise them and they will be put on psychiatric medication such that they can’t think, can’t function, can’t learn, can’t play and can’t write their own name for their hands shaking. When they sleep, there will only be nightmares and darkness while their bodies tingle and feel like thousands of bees stinging them and their ears ring with a high pitched constant painful buzzing. They will never eat a meal they can enjoy because it makes them sick and nauseated. There will be no friendships or dating because the drugs give them diarrhea so they smell like that and endure that humiliation at their school and around other people every other day.

Their weight will inflate them until you don’t even recognize they had ever been healthy and it will stay on them for their entire lives because the drugs have changed their metabolism and their sexual and reproductive health forever. And, you will watch them hate themselves and be shunned in a world that only wants people of a normal body weight., which will never be available to them.

And, you, as a woman in America, will get to experience those things too because the state, your family, your doctor and your community will force you to take those drugs, too. Except that you will also find that the dizziness prevents you from driving or walking across the room to get something without running into things and getting hurt. You won’t sew, or write or read or be able to follow a thought because those drugs are meant to prevent those things to keep you out of trouble and prevent you from saying or doing anything that others might not like. But, you will know. You will know your children’s suffering and sorrows as you watch others abuse them in ways that you would not at the hands of strangers that are housing them to get the money paid by the state for them.

And, you as a woman in America, might get a job, might get to work at something, might start a business, but more likely you will be poor and homeless and surely excluded from the workforce because you are forced to go through the mental health system to get a job. There is no employer that wants to have a full-time well paid employee that has been deemed to be difficult which is evidenced by the fact you are “diagnosed” to need mental health services and psychiatric medications. So, don’t expect to have 40 hours of work at minimum wage or your own home or your own business or your own opportunities to get money as other people do. But, you can’t have your children back and your life back, unless you do just that.

And, if you get a lover, a boyfriend or another husband, you can expect that he will beat you within an inch of your life with whatever is around until you are so bruised, broken and in such pain, that you won’t even want to go on. Then, you will be given even greater doses of and combinations of medications until your body is racked with pain day and night, your ears ring, your hands shake and no one will listen to you because every sound that you utter sounds garbled and confused. Your vision will be blurred, double-vision that twitters and moves instead of ever focusing rightly. Your ability to think will not pursue more than half a thought at a time but every feeling of worthlessness, hopelessness and despair will be amplified and pervade every moment. You will have muscles that twitch uncontrollably and to take a walk means every step is awkward and unbalanced so you will shuffle your feet to feel your way along.

Your lips will be swollen and cracked like having been in the desert for many days in the hot sun. Your thirst will go on day and night with a feeling like a mouthful of dry cotton all the time until finally your teeth fall out from lack of moisture in your mouth. Then, nobody will hire you, nobody will want to be with you and nobody will listen to anything you can muster together into an intelligent sentence because you have the after effects of the drugs you’ve been given to “help” you.

The many days of not being able to go out in the sun and having these drugs strip the vitamins, minerals and electrolytes from your system will leave you vulnerable to every sickness with sick looking skin and sleeplessness, nervousness and both the pain from being physically abused by domestic violence and from the psychiatric drugs themselves. Headaches and nausea will make every moment of every day an intolerable eternity that never seems to end and it will go on for years and years and years.

And, anytime your community, county or state wants money – they will use you and your children to get it by “serving” you some more. The police and local fire services will harass you and your children will be bullied, harassed and brutalized at their schools by their school officials, foster parents, social workers and mental health “professionals” along with abuses by other students and you will watch it helpless to do anything about it. Sooner or later you will end up in jail for some inane, petty something like not having your married name on your ID or saying something your neighbor doesn’t like or walking down the street without your shoes on, and in jail you’ll find that every other disabled woman in the community is sitting right there in the county jail, too.

Your ex-husband that beat you till your bones were broken and your beauty was hidden by black and blue bruises and bloody gashes, will sit in his new house with his new wife and explain to everyone how obvious it is that you were the problem all along. And, your family, your community and your friends will agree with him. He won’t spend time in jail or locked up in a mental hospital with medications forced on him or restrained on a board for 16 hours pissing all over himself with his eyes rolling back in his head – nope, that will be done to you for your “mental health” – that is the United States of America that you and your children will experience because that is all that is available to you and the only thing that the Constitution will ever mean to you and your children in practice.

Then, all the accomplishments and dreams of accomplishments, which are yours alone to give to the world, your motherhood, your youth, your beauty and your opportunities will be shoved down your throat as something you had that you wasted. Because that is how we do things in America.

- cricketdiane, 04-22-09, USA

“Cricket” Diane C Phillips
Marietta, Georgia, USA
(Metro Atlanta, GA – 30067)

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*** Real Life Living in the United States of America from 1980 – 2010 ***

Under the Rule of the Republican Party in America -
aggregate and specific individual human rights violations of the United States of America targeted especially the vulnerable populations of women, children, elderly, disabled, diverse cultures and creatives, as well as those engaged in alternative lifestyles of choice and religious views

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- cricketdiane, 04-22-09, USA

“Cricket” Diane C Phillips
Marietta, Georgia, USA
(Metro Atlanta, GA – 30067)

http://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/

Marietta, GA 30067-1608

Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Race: White

Divorced: Seven children (the state has subjected both me and some of my children to these human rights violations, civil rights abuses and has done it to many others across our state, and across the United States. It has been the common practices, especially for women and female children over the last twenty years, at least.)

Date of Birth: 1958

Note: There are no domestic remedies in the United States because of “sovereign immunity” which allows continued abuses to occur against the population generally and to specific populations within the aggregate, specifically disabled and disadvantaged populations, women, elderly and children.

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Please we need your help or it will never stop. The policies that have caused these common practices are operating today across the United States and in countries they have influenced to use them against their own women, children, elderly and cultures of diversity and creatives.

Thankyou,
Diane C Phillips (Cricket)

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The United States needs to apply the tenets of democracy and human rights in the United States rather than continue the conservative Republican violations of human and civil rights of the Bush administration, Reagan administration, George Bush Sr. administration, Nixon administration, and every other conservative Republican held state government.

- It is subjugating our United States citizens in America to terrifying abuses of human rights violations, vile civil rights abuses, pervasive tyranny, inhumane oppression and evil at the hands of local authorities.

We have no enemies that we would allow to do this to American citizens. Why should our own government entities and businesses get away with it?

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Between pharmaceutical companies and the mental health industry, food poisoning and faulty products, the Republican run government in the United States have killed more US citizens that our enemies have -

My note -

I was thinking about it and if suicide is a known side effect of psychiatric drugs, then it means that during the testing of these drugs – more than one “someone” committed suicide or violence against themselves or others while taking these drugs during the testing phase.

But why, as in the case below, would the psychiatrists and doctors subject this woman to this – “after giving birth and was subsequently prescribed a cocktail of intensely controversial psychiatric drugs including anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs before being subjected to electroshock treatment.”

only after receiving mental health “treatment” did she commit suicide. That is what the mental health industry did for a new mother named Melanie Stokes.

Why was she forced to endure a torture like this by the people around her and by her family and by her community and by her doctors that she trusted? What caused them to put her through a hell which only made matters worse to a degree that is nothing short of sadistic? And this year there is a legislation to do the same thing to new mothers and using her name for the bill to legislate dangerous medications which mean she will not be allowed to breast feed nor bond with her own baby (and she’ll still be sad and melancholy – maybe even commit suicide or murder in the influence of these psychiatric medications.)

What did she do to deserve this? Was it because she committed the “mortal sin” of being unhappy about having her baby rather than being a “good woman” who is happy about it? Do women constitute an abnormality basic to the fact that they are different than men and therefore deserve to be changed by forced drug therapies? Or is it that the “norms” are based on 1930’s ideas of what are the ”average normal” feelings for some given situation?

Is a woman supposed to be happy about the constraints of freedom caused by motherhood, the complete change of lifestyle, the constant workload that is created when that child is born, the fat body, the carefree youth gone and the looming future stacked with diapers, dirty dishes, dirty clothes and drudgery? Isn’t it true that the real support would be anything other than a drug which makes it even more nightmarish and difficult to deal with those things?

If she hadn’t been subjected to this further torture on top of what she already had to deal with, wouldn’t her child’s mother be alive today – wouldn’t she still be alive finding ways to work through these things, instead of gone? She and many others that have been living testament to the truth about these drugs, mean one thing for absolutely sure.

When psychiatrists, doctors and pharmaceutical companies think that what they are doing makes good money but doesn’t hurt anybody – they are wrong, they are delusional and they are selfish to the point of sadism in the subjection and oppression of others by a prescribed regimen of chemical torture under the guise of “help”.

They knew these drugs were causing people to commit suicide and murder and violent acts of aggression. They knew there were a multitude of side effects cause directly by each of these drugs and in combinations there are even more hellish effects from them, so they’ve been prescribing these combinations and raising the dosages. What kind of decency is that? There is nothing but evil in that.

The only social goal would have to have been to completely debilitate entire populations of women, children, young females, families and individuals, especially creatives and free-thinking diversity in our population. There is no other possibility – since that was proven to be exactly the debilitation that occurs to people when subjected to these drugs. And it has literally robbed hundreds of thousands of lives and their freedoms to pursue their happiness, their human rights that were guaranteed and their futures, along with robbing all of us in every community of the accomplishments and contributions to our society that these individuals and families would have made. It is a crime what these pharmaceutical companies and their psychiatric professionals have propagated and when they did it – there was definitely intention.

History will prove they are barbaric.

- cricketdiane,

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Forest paid Massachusetts General Hospital researcher Jeffrey Bostic $750,000 to chat up Celexa and Lexapro, according to US District Court in Boston filings. AstraZeneca paid University of Minnesota researcher Charles Schulz $112,000 to push Seroquel, according to US District Court in Orlando filings. And a decade of pain studies conducted by Baystate Medical Center’s Scott S. Reuben on Vioxx, Lyrica, Celebrex and Effexor were completely fabricated–including the patients say published reports.

And speaking of made up, Coast IRB, an institutional review board which oversees some 300 clinical trials and 3,000 researchers, agreed last year to approve a human trial for Adhesiabloc, a surgical gel that the Government Accountability Office completely made up in a sting operation. Oops.

And let’s not forget Joseph your-child-is-bipolar Biederman, a Harvard physician who, according to the New York Times, assured benefactor Johnson & Johnson his studies would have favorable results for the drug Risperdal in advance of doing them. (Why leave things up to science?)

And Charles Paxil Nemeroff, MD who was forced to step down in December as psychiatry chairman at Emory University thanks to unreported GlaxoSmithKline income of up to $800,000.

And the pharma funded studies continue

Last May a pro Lexapro article, Escitalopram and Problem-Solving Therapy for Prevention of Poststroke Depression, ran in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, with no mention of financial ties author Robert G. Robinson has to Forest.

Why was, a researcher with a history of being funded by SSRI makers…given a forum in the national media to tell the general public that anyone who has had a stroke, whether or not they have been diagnosed with depression, should start a prophylactic regimen of Lexapro…even though non-medical approaches perform just as well, wrote Jonathan Leo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University in the British Medical Journal in March.

And then there’s AstraZeneca.

AstraZeneca’s best selling Seroquel — it made $4.5 billion last year while only approved for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — is linked to high blood sugar, weight gain, diabetes, cholesterol and triglycerides abnormalities, sudden cardiac death, suicide, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and the tardive dyskinesia it is supposed to prevent.

But its safety was established by a different kind of chemistry.

Research director for Seroquel, Wayne MacFadden, was having affairs with two women responsible for Seroquel studies, according to court documents: one was a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and another a ghostwriter at Waltham, MA-based medical communications firm Parexel. In fact the studies upon which the FDA approved Seroquel for bipolar disorder– called Bolder I and II — were written by a ghostwriter.

Worse, sitting on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee at the time was Jorge Armenteros, MD, a paid AstraZeneca speaker according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Today he heads the committee.

Hopefully FDA will keep some Seroquel for itself.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/137551/how_big_pharma_distorts_science_to_get_fda_approval_for_dangerous_drugs__/

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The facts in the Zyprexa case are heartbreaking. The victim, Philip Ebel, suffered from crushing headaches, for which he tried no fewer than 47 different treatments. His doctor in Texas, in consultation with a neurologist from a headache clinic in Michigan, finally prescribed Zyprexa — an anti-psychotic prescribed off-label for headaches. Ebel took Zyprexa for four months before killing himself in 2002.

His doctor testified at a deposition that he was aware of Zyprexa’s side effects, including an increased risk of suicide, and that he told Ebel about them. The 5th Circuit, in agreement with the lower court, ruled that because Ebel and his doctor were aware of the risks, Lilly’s alleged failure to warn could not be a producing cause of Ebel’s death.

http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1202429622871

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My Note -

What it has really been like living in the United States – from 1980 – 2010 – pervasive human rights abuses by the US holier than thou Republican Party – Cricket Diane C Phillips

What it has really been like living in the United States -

*** Real Life Living in the United States of America from 1980 – 2010 ***

Under the Rule of the Republican Party in America -

Iran, China, Russia and Cuba put together haven’t tortured and killed as many American citizens as the Republican Party, the George Bush administrations, the conservative Republicans’ social and business policies, psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies and lack of regulation for food and product safety in the United States have tortured, maimed and killed.

We look at those countries as enemies because of their human rights abuses. What kind of country have the Republicans created under our feet over the past thirty years they’ve been in power, where the human rights violations and abuses in the United States are even more pervasive, more consummately evil and more extensive than in any of those countries or even, all of them put together?

Is it because those countries being kinder than us – took people out and just shot them in a ditch instead of poisoning them with peanut butter sandwiches using salmonella infested peanut butter, rather than killing them with E.Coli bacteria from mishandled meat products because of inspectors who didn’t want to offend their Republican “handlers” as we did, or torturing them with chemical restraints sponsored by psychiatry?

Is it because those countries took people off in the middle of the night to shoot them instead of what is done in the US by taking people out of their homes in the full light of day and then subjecting them to chemical lobotomies using the most horrendous cocktails of pharmaceuticals that hell has ever designed, causing them to kill themselves or commit acts of violence resulting in the deaths of many?

Whose side has our conservative Republican government run by Christian fundamentalists been serving? Our enemies haven’t killed, raped and tortured as many people as the business and social policies of the Republican Party have done right here on our own soil using all the trappings of making a profit while they’ve been doing it.

And in all cases, it would’ve been a kinder, more merciful death if our government’s ineptitude, profiteering and social policies through its big business friends and mental health systems / pharmaceutical companies had just shot the victims. Instead of US citizens being forced to endure a tortured experience of food poisoning, or the horrendous drug side effects of psychiatric drugs, their cars bursting into flames while driving them, suffering the effects of lead poisoning, air pollution and exotic chemicals every where they might live, wouldn’t it have been more humane to simply take 100% of their rights away, take all their money and property, shoot them out in a ditch somewhere? Our people have suffered every vile human and civil rights abuse at the hands of the conservative Republican party run government along with the torturous way it was accomplished plus the mental and physical anguish of a nation’s betrayal of trust before dying or killing themselves or killing themselves and others, under the duress and effects of prescribed psychiatric drugs.

Didn’t we used to call those that do that to our people – “enemies”? Isn’t that why we made some countries into our enemies – for their human rights abuses and violations of civil and human rights? Is it any different if our nation tortures and kills us with tainted peanut butter, vomit inducing tainted meat, compliance cocktails of psychiatric pharmaceuticals, defective cars, trucks and household products, homelessness, derision, exclusion from the workforce and economic opportunities, filthy and dangerous hospitals, health and mental health systems that are killing and maiming people for private profits and by abuses of authority, police brutality and government corruption?

Isn’t it the same enemy and the same evil when it is done that way / meted out against the citizens by their government? Isn’t it still genocide even when it is accomplished in a more sophisticated manner? Don’t we count among those enemies of the US, those that do these things which result in deaths, physical maiming and violations of human rights, abuses of authority and brutality? Is it any different when the perpetrators are wearing Armani suits and driving Porches on their way to their church or Republican Party breakfast?

“Nobody accuses these perpetrators who have committed inhumane violent actions against women, against the poor and against both prisoners of war and the regular people of America, as insane. No, they’re given fine opportunities and will go on to work somewhere else putting forth their distorted and malicious views of the world. In fact, if history serves anything it is to tell us that every one of these perpetrators in America will be treated like kings while the rest of us are treated like slaves and otherwise useless aggravations.” – my quote from a couple days ago.

- cricketdiane, (“Cricket” Diane C Phillips)

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* my note – having lived in this man’s America of the vision he and his friends forced on us – I don’t like the America he remade into his image of it. He has made it a very bad place to live, not the America promised by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for every American citizen. – cricketdiane.

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US human rights violations exposed
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-13 10:12

China issued on Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007 [click to read full text] in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 issued by the US Department of State on Tuesday.

Released by the Information Office of China’s State Council, the Chinese report listed a multitude of cases to show the human rights situation in the United States and its violation of human rights in other countries.

The report says the United States attacks more than 190 countries and regions including China on their human rights issues, but mentions nothing about its own human rights problems.

By publishing the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007, the report says it aims to “help the people have a better understanding of the real situation in the United States and as a reminder for the United States to reflect upon its own issues”.

The report reviewed the human rights record of the United States in 2007 from seven perspectives: on life and personal security, on human rights violations by law enforcement and judicial departments, on civil and political rights, on economic, social and cultural rights, on racial discrimination, on rights of women and children and on the United States’ violation of human rights in other countries.

The report says the increase of violent crimes in the United States poses a serious threat to its people’s lives, liberty and personal security.

According to a FBI report on crime statistics released in September 2007, 1.41 million violent crimes were reported nationwide in 2006, an increase of 1.9 percent over 2005.

Of the violent crimes, the estimated number of murders and no negligent manslaughters increased 1.8 percent, and that of robberies increased 7.2 percent.

Throughout 2006, US residents age 12 or above experienced an estimated 25 million crimes of violence and theft, according to the FBI report.

In the United States, about 30,000 people die from gun wounds every year, according to a Reuters story on December 19, 2007.

The USA Today reported on December 5, 2007 gun killings have climbed 13 percent overall since 2002.

On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech University witnessed the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history with 33 killed and more than 30 others injured, according to AFP.

Two separate gun killings in the Salt Lake City and Philadelphia claimed eight lives and injured several other people on February 12, 2007, according to the Associated Press.

The report points out that law enforcement and judicial departments in the United States have abused their power and seriously violated the freedom and rights of its citizens.

Cases in which US law enforcement authorities allegedly violated victims’ civil rights increased by 25 percent from fiscal year 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years, according to statistics from US Department of Justice.

However, the majority of law enforcement officers accused of brutality were not prosecuted in the end.

From May 2001 to June 2006, 2,451 police officers in Chicago received 4 to 10 complaints each, 662 of them received more than 10 complaints each, but only 22 were punished. Furthermore, there were officers who had amassed more than 50 abuse complaints but were never disciplined in any fashion, according to statistics released by University of Chicago.

The United States of America is the world’s largest prison and has the highest inmates/population ratio in the world. A December 5, 2007 report by EFE news agency quoted statistics of US Department of Justice as saying that the number of inmates in US prisons have increased by 500 percent over the last 30 years.

The freedom and rights of individual citizens are being increasingly marginalized in the United States, the report says.

Workers’ right to unionize has been restricted in the United States. It was reported that union membership fell by 326,000 in 2006, bringing the percentage of employees in unions to 12 percent, down from 20 percent in 1983.

Employer resistance stopped 53 percent of nonunion workers from joining a union, The New York Times reported on January 26, 2007.

According to a report by the Human Rights Watch, when Wal-Mart stores faced unionization drives, the company often broke the law by, for example, eavesdropping on workers, training surveillance cameras on them and firing those who favored unions.

In the United States, money is “mother’s milk” for politics while elections are “games” for the wealthy, highlighting the hypocrisy of the US democracy, which has been fully borne out by the 2008 presidential election.

The “financial threshold” for participating in the US presidential election is becoming higher and higher. At least 10 of the 20-strong major party candidates who are seeking the US presidency in general elections in 2008 are millionaires, according to a report by Spanish news agency EFE on May 18, 2007.

The French news agency AFP reported on January 15, 2007 that the 2008 presidential election will be the most expensive race in history. The cost of the last presidential campaign in 2004, considered a peak for its time, was 693 million US dollars. Common estimates of this year’s total outlay have tended to come in at around 1 billion US dollars, and Fortune magazine recently upped its overall cost projection to 3 billion US dollars.

The US administration manipulated the press. On October 23, 2007, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staged a news conference on California wildfires.

A half-dozen questions were asked within 15 minutes at the event by FEMA staff members posing as reporters.

The news was aired by US-based television stations. After the Washington Post disclosed the farce, FEMA tried to defend itself for staging the fake briefing.

The report says that the deserved economic, social and cultural rights of US citizens have not been properly protected.

Poor population in the United States is constantly increasing.

According to statistics released by the US Census Bureau in August 2007, the official poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3 percent.

There were 36.5 million people, or 7.7 million families living in poverty in 2006. In another word, almost one out of eight US citizens lives in poverty.

The wealth of the richest group in the United States has rapidly expanded in recent years, widening the earning gap between the rich and poor. The earnings of the highest one percent of the population accounted for 21.2 percent of US total national income in 2005, compared with 19 percent in 2004.

The earnings of the lowest 50 percent of the population accounted for 12.8 percent of the total national income in 2005, down from 13.4 percent in 2004, according to Reuters.

Hungry and homeless people have increased significantly in US cities. The US Department of Agriculture said in a report released on November 14, 2007 that at least 35.5 million people in the United States, including 12.63 million children, went hungry in 2006, an increase of 390,000 from 2005.

About 11 million people lived in “very low food security”, according to Reuters.

People without health insurance have been increasing in the United States. A Reuters report on September 20, 2007 quoted the US Census Bureau as saying that 47 million people in the United States were not covered by health insurance.

Racial discrimination is a deep-rooted social illness in the United States, the report says.

Black people and other minor ethnic groups live in the bottom of the US society.

According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August 2007, median income of black households was 31,969 US dollars in 2006, or 61 percent of that for non-Hispanic white households. Median income for Hispanic households stood at 37,781 US dollars, 72 percent of that for non-Hispanic white households.

The rates of blacks and Hispanics living in poverty and without health insurance are much higher than non-Hispanic whites, according to Washington Observer Weekly.

Ethnic minorities have been subject to racial discrimination in employment and workplace. According to the US Department of Labor, in November 2007, the unemployment rate for Black Americans was 8.4 percent, twice that of non-Hispanic Whites (4.2 percent).

The unemployment rate for Hispanics was 5.7 percent. The jobless rates among blacks and Hispanics were much higher than that for non-Hispanic Whites.

Racial discrimination in the US judicial system is shocking. According to the 2007 annual report on the state of black Americans issued by the National Urban League (NUL), African Americans (especially males) are more likely than whites to be convicted and sentenced to longer terms. Blacks are seven times more likely than Whites to be incarcerated.

The report says the conditions of women and children in the United States are worrisome.

Women account for 51 percent of the US population, but there are only 86 women serving in the 110th US Congress. Women hold 16, or 16.0 percent of the 100 seats in the Senate and 70, or 16.1percent of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives.

In December 2007, there were 76 women serving in statewide elective executive offices, accounting for 24.1 percent of the total. The proportion of women in state legislature is 23.5 percent.

Discrimination against women is pervasive in US job market and workplaces. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it received 23,247 charges on sex-based discrimination in 2006, accounting for 30.7 percent of the total discrimination charges.

The living conditions of US children are of great concern. Houston Chronicle reported that a survey by the United Nations on 21 rich countries showed that though the United States was among the world’s richest nations, its ranked only the 20th in the overall well-being of children.

US juveniles often fall victims of abuses and crimes. According to a report on school crimes in the United States released by the Department of Justice in December 2007, 57 out of one thousand US students above the age of 12 were victims of violence and property crimes in 2005.

Millions of underage girls become sex slaves in the United States. Statistics from the Department of Justice show some 100,000 to three million US children under the age of 18 are involved in prostitution. A FBI report says as high as 40 percent of forced prostitutes are minors.

The report says the United States has a notorious record of trampling on the sovereignty of and violating human rights in other countries.

The invasion of Iraq by US troops has produced the biggest human rights tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in modern world. It was reported that since the invasion in 2003, 660,000 Iraqis have died, of which 99 percent were civilians. That translates into a daily toll of 450.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of civilian deaths in Iraq has exceeded one million. A report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that about one million Iraqis were homeless, half of whom were children.

US troops have killed many innocent civilians in the anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported on May 3, 2007 that as many as 51 civilians were killed by US soldiers in one week (Karzai Says Civilian Toll is No Longer Acceptable, The Washington Post, May 3, 2007).

An Afghan human rights group said in a report that US marine unit fired indiscriminately at pedestrians, people in cars, buses and taxis along a 10-mile stretch of road in Nangahar province on March 4, 2007, killing 12 civilians, including one infant and three elders (New York Times, April 15, 2007).

It is high time for the US government to face its own human rights problems with courage and give up the unwise practices of applying double standards on human rights issues, according to the report.

This is the ninth consecutive year that the Information Office of the State Council has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the US State Department annual report.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-03/13/content_6533121.htm

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Abuse form: Whistleblowers

CLICK HERE TO REPORT PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE VIA OUR ONLINE FORM

As a doctor, nurse, mental health worker, other caregiver, witness or victim, have you ever been sickened or upset by the physical or mental abuse or harm dealt to patients in a psychiatric facility or under psychiatric care?

Do you know of patient deaths that you suspect were caused by gross psychiatric malpractice such as over-drugging, misdiagnosis, violent restraints, or careless neglect?

Have you seen psychiatric patients singled out for cruel or degrading treatment?

Are you aware of any psychiatrist or mental health practitioner who has taken sexual advantage of a patient?

Do you know of patients being held in a psychiatric facility to drain their health insurance?

Are you aware of any fraudulent financial practices by psychiatrists or psychologists, or within psychiatric facilities?

Perhaps you have tried to change the things you see are wrong, and you have been ignored, ridiculed or threatened by the psychiatric establishment. If so, you are not wrong in your efforts, and you are not alone.

It is vital that criminal psychiatric abuse is reported to the proper law enforcement agencies so action can be taken. This is where you can help.

For more than three decades CCHR has helped witnesses report psychiatric abuses to authorities.

If you think something is wrong, it probably is. If you SEE something is wrong, report it.

QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD BE REPORTED?

ANSWER: Report any crime or act which you believe endangers the health, safety and well-being of a patient. This includes neglect, physical or sexual assault, abusive physical or chemical restraints, imprisonment (wrongful detention in a psychiatric facility), manslaughter and fraud.

QUESTION: HOW SHOULD THIS BE REPORTED?

ANSWER:

1. Write up all known details about the abuse, including dates, places, names of psychiatrists, psychologists or others involved, ensuring patient confidentiality is respected. Send this to the nearest CCHR chapter.

Following are some guidelines:

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What led to the family member, friend or person being hospitalized or treated by a mental health practitioner?
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What was the diagnosis given? Was this given after a thorough medical examination for underlying physical problems that could look like “mental illness”?
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Was there health insurance involved? Did it seem the diagnosis was based on what insurance coverage was coverage? Was length of hospitalization increased or decreased based on insurance held?
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Was the person given a copy of his/her rights, including the right to see an attorney, when admitted or prior to any hearing to determine involuntary placement or commitment to a psychiatric facility?
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Was informed, written consent given before any treatment was administered?

If the abuse involved physical or chemical restraints, do you know who ordered the restraints and under what circumstances?

2. Support your information with as much documentation as possible. Remember, do not do anything illegal. Use only evidence that is acquired legally to substantiate the abuse.

3. Call CCHR to further discuss your case or to make an appointment.

All information is held in strict confidence.

CLICK HERE TO REPORT PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE VIA OUR ONLINE FORM

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http://www.cchr.org/solutions_and_alternatives/abuse_form_whistleblowers.html

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This is what it is to live in America -

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L’Aquila Abruzzo restoration will be partly done by “adoption” of structures and art treasures to be restored

Vatican joins art restoration effort following quake

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Vatican City, Apr 22, 2009 / 10:09 am (CNA).- The Pope’s culture commission is joining the effort to help restore the artwork and statues damaged in the earthquakes that struck Italy’s Abruzzo region.

The April 6 earthquake struck the medieval city of L’Aquila and the villages and towns in the region. The Italian government has begun an assessment of the damaged sites, which foreign governments have offered to help restore.

Among the most famous are L’Aquila’s 16th-century Spanish castle, the Rennaisance church Saint Bernard of Siena and the 13th-century basilica of Santa Maria of Collemaggio.

On Wednesday, the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church asked “all financial and cultural institutions, museums, public and private restoration workshops, and qualified restorers who have not already done so, to give written confirmation of their spontaneous willingness and readiness ‘to adopt’ a mobile work of art.”

Italy’s culture minister said that the restoration work will cost about $65 million.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15753

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My note - It’ culture minister needs to reconsider that figure $65 million won’t even restore one of the damaged cultural treasures. They are definitely going to need help. It is great to see the call for specialists and those interested in financial and cultural restorations to get involved from across the world. There has to be a way to restabilize those structures that are only partially damaged with some flexible earthquake resistant method somehow.

I’m so heartened by the Vatican’s cultural specialists being a greater participant with all their understanding of the historic and artistic care that must be involved in the restoration process. With the help of historians and art communities around the world along with some materials scientists and other engineering geeks / eggheads – this will get done.

And this is absolutely brilliant -

(I hope they will do it)

* APRIL 23, 2009, 7:27 A.M. ET

Italy’s PM Says Has Asked To Move July G8 Summit To L’Aquila

ROME (Dow Jones)–Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday that he has asked to move the summit of the Group of Eight leading nations to L’Aquila, to garner global support for the medieval city recently devastated by an earthquake that killed 294 people.

Berlusconi was speaking at a cabinet meeting in L’Aquila.

The G8 meeting is currently planned for July at La Maddalena, a small island off Sardina.

-By Sofia Celeste, Dow Jones Newswires; +39 06 6976 6923; sofia.celeste@dowjones.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090423-707299.html

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My note – this is perfect, if the G8 can actually be there it could help in so many ways. They can’t deal with reality sitting on a beach somewhere making decisions.

- cricketdiane

What it has really been like living in the United States – Real Life Living in the United States of America from 1980 – 2010 *Under the Rule of the Republican Party in America *

*** Real Life Living in the United States of America from 1980 – 2010 ***

Under the Rule of the Republican Party in America –

Iran, China, Russia and Cuba put together haven’t tortured and killed as many American citizens as the Republican Party, the George Bush administrations, the conservative Republicans’ social and business policies, psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies and lack of regulation for food and product safety in the United States have tortured, maimed and killed.

We look at those countries as enemies because of their human rights abuses. What kind of country have the Republicans created under our feet over the past thirty years they’ve been in power, where the human rights violations and abuses in the United States are even more pervasive, more consummately evil and more extensive than in any of those countries or even, all of them put together?

Is it because those countries being kinder than us – took people out and just shot them in a ditch instead of poisoning them with peanut butter sandwiches using salmonella infested peanut butter, rather than killing them with E.Coli bacteria from mishandled meat products because of inspectors who didn’t want to offend their Republican “handlers” as we did, or torturing them with chemical restraints sponsored by psychiatry?

Is it because those countries took people off in the middle of the night to shoot them instead of what is done in the US by taking people out of their homes in the full light of day and then subjecting them to chemical lobotomies using the most horrendous cocktails of pharmaceuticals that hell has ever designed, causing them to kill themselves or commit acts of violence resulting in the deaths of many?

Whose side has our conservative Republican government run by Christian fundamentalists been serving? Our enemies haven’t killed, raped and tortured as many people as the business and social policies of the Republican Party have done right here on our own soil using all the trappings of making a profit while they’ve been doing it.

And in all cases, it would’ve been a kinder, more merciful death if our government’s ineptitude, profiteering and social policies through its big business friends and mental health systems / pharmaceutical companies had just shot the victims. Instead of US citizens being forced to endure a tortured experience of food poisoning, or the horrendous drug side effects of psychiatric drugs, their cars bursting into flames while driving them, suffering the effects of lead poisoning, air pollution and exotic chemicals every where they might live, wouldn’t it have been more humane to simply take 100% of their rights away, take all their money and property, shoot them out in a ditch somewhere? Our people have suffered every vile human and civil rights abuse at the hands of the conservative Republican party run government along with the torturous way it was accomplished plus the mental and physical anguish of a nation’s betrayal of trust before dying or killing themselves or killing themselves and others, under the duress and effects of prescribed psychiatric drugs.

Didn’t we used to call those that do that to our people – “enemies”? Isn’t that why we made some countries into our enemies – for their human rights abuses and violations of civil and human rights? Is it any different if our nation tortures and kills us with tainted peanut butter, vomit inducing tainted meat, compliance cocktails of psychiatric pharmaceuticals, defective cars, trucks and household products, homelessness, derision, exclusion from the workforce and economic opportunities, filthy and dangerous hospitals, health and mental health systems that are killing and maiming people for private profits and by abuses of authority, police brutality and government corruption?

Isn’t it the same enemy and the same evil when it is done that way / meted out against the citizens by their government? Isn’t it still genocide even when it is accomplished in a more sophisticated manner? Don’t we count among those enemies of the US, those that do these things which result in deaths, physical maiming and violations of human rights, abuses of authority and brutality? Is it any different when the perpetrators are wearing Armani suits and driving Porches on their way to their church or Republican Party breakfast?

“Nobody accuses these perpetrators who have committed inhumane violent actions against women, against the poor and against both prisoners of war and the regular people of America, as insane. No, they’re given fine opportunities and will go on to work somewhere else putting forth their distorted and malicious views of the world. In fact, if history serves anything it is to tell us that every one of these perpetrators in America will be treated like kings while the rest of us are treated like slaves and otherwise useless aggravations.” – my quote from a couple days ago.

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To tell the truth is to say that in the United States of America – you will experience these things, not to pretend that it is not so.

If you are a woman, you will be raped. You will be beat to death or nearly to death in your own home. You will, if you survive, watch your children be taken from you and abused by others the state deems to raise them and they will be put on psychiatric medication such that they can’t think, can’t function, can’t learn, can’t play and can’t write their own name for their hands shaking. When they sleep, there will only be nightmares and darkness while their bodies tingle and feel like thousands of bees stinging them and their ears ring with a high pitched constant painful buzzing. They will never eat a meal they can enjoy because it makes them sick and nauseated. There will be no friendships or dating because the drugs give them diarrhea so they smell like that and endure that humiliation at their school and around other people every other day.

And, you, as a woman in America, will get to experience those things too because the state, your family, your doctor and your community will force you to take those drugs, too. Except that you will also find that the dizziness prevents you from driving or walking across the room to get something without running into things and getting hurt. You won’t sew, or write or read or be able to follow a thought because those drugs are meant to prevent those things to keep you out of trouble and prevent you from saying or doing anything that others might not like. But, you will know. You will know your children’s suffering and sorrows as you watch others abuse them in ways that you would not at the hands of strangers that are housing them to get the money paid by the state for them.

And, you as a woman in America, might get a job, might get to work at something, might start a business, but more likely you will be poor and homeless and surely excluded from the workforce because you are forced to go through the mental health system to get a job. There is no employer that wants to have a full-time well paid employee that has been deemed to be difficult which is evidenced by the fact you are “diagnosed” to need mental health services and psychiatric medications. So, don’t expect to have 40 hours of work at minimum wage or your own home or your own business or your own opportunities to get money as other people do. But, you can’t have your children back and your life back, unless you do just that.

And, if you get a lover, a boyfriend or another husband, you can expect that he will beat you within an inch of your life with whatever is around until you are so bruised, broken and in such pain, that you won’t even want to go on. Then, you will be given even greater doses of and combinations of medications until your body is racked with pain day and night, your ears ring, your hands shake and no one will listen to you because every sound that you utter sounds garbled and confused. Your vision will be blurred, double-vision that twitters and moves instead of ever focusing rightly. Your ability to think will not pursue more than half a thought at a time but every feeling of worthlessness, hopelessness and despair will be amplified and pervade every moment. You will have muscles that twitch uncontrollably and to take a walk means every step is awkward and unbalanced so you will shuffle your feet to feel your way along.

Your lips will be swollen and cracked like having been in the desert for many days in the hot sun. Your thirst will go on day and night with a feeling like a mouthful of dry cotton all the time until finally your teeth fall out from lack of moisture in your mouth. Then, nobody will hire you, nobody will want to be with you and nobody will listen to anything you can muster together into an intelligent sentence because you have the after effects of the drugs you’ve been given to “help” you.

The many days of not being able to go out in the sun and having these drugs strip the vitamins, minerals and electrolytes from your system will leave you vulnerable to every sickness with sick looking skin and sleeplessness, nervousness and both the pain from being physically abused by domestic violence and from the psychiatric drugs themselves. Headaches and nausea will make every moment of every day an intolerable eternity that never seems to end and it will go on for years and years and years.

And, anytime your community, county or state wants money – they will use you and your children to get it by “serving” you some more. The police and local fire services will harass you and your children will be bullied, harassed and brutalized at their schools by their school officials, foster parents, social workers and mental health “professionals” along with abuses by other students and you will watch it helpless to do anything about it. Sooner or later you will end up in jail for some inane, petty something like not having your married name on your ID or saying something your neighbor doesn’t like or walking outside without your shoes on, and in jail you’ll find that every other disabled woman in the community is sitting right there in the county jail, too.

Your ex-husband that beat you till your bones were broken and your beauty was hidden by black and blue bruises and bloody gashes, will sit in his new house with his new wife and explain to everyone how obvious it is that you were the problem all along. And, your family, your community and your friends will agree with him. He won’t spend time in jail or locked up in a mental hospital with medications forced on him or restrained on a board for 16 hours pissing all over himself with his eyes rolling back in his head – nope, that will be done to you for your “mental health”. This is the United States of America that you and your children will experience because it is all that is available to you and the only thing that the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights will ever mean to you and your children in practice.

Then, all the accomplishments and dreams of accomplishments, which are yours alone to give to the world, your motherhood, your youth, your beauty and your opportunities will be shoved down your throat as something you had that you wasted. Because that is how we do things in America.

- cricketdiane, 04-22-09

The United States needs to apply the tenets of democracy and human rights in the United States rather than continue the conservative Republican violations of human and civil rights of the Bush administration, Reagan administration, George Bush Sr. administration, Nixon administration, and every other conservative Republican held state government – It is subjugating our United States citizens in America to terrifying abuses of human rights violations, vile civil rights abuses, pervasive tyranny, inhumane oppression and evil at the hands of local authorities

In the case of the 13 year old girl that was stripped naked at her school and searched over accusations of having ibuprofen which she didn’t -

1. the people who should be paraded in front of the public right now are the school officials who did it for the public to see and the members of the school board who authorized it. They should have to face the public for what they have done to this girl and probably countless others at this school.

2.  this act by school officials was sexual, mental and emotional abuse. If even the girl’s own parents had done it, they would’ve been charged for aggravated cruelty and child abuse, maybe even sexual abuse. Why would the school system be allowed to engage in shaming, humiliating and disregarding the basic inviolable human rights of students suffering their authority?

3.  this case was one that went all the way to the Supreme Court – there would have to be countless others that simply didn’t get to court or were not pursued by the parents. If the schools are this prejudiced against their students, that they wouldn’t know to uphold the basic human rights and values of their communities when it comes to their students, what purpose do they serve in the education system at all? They should be sent to Beirut or Bahrain to teach if that is what they believe – at least it would be in keeping with the beliefs of those places.

4.  the school system that involved itself in this egregious act should be sued and each individual that participated or authorized this action should be personally taken to court for civil and criminal charges against them. They should not have the opportunity to ever work in any situation involving children nor policy making nor in any way put in authority over anyone ever again where their actions have long reaching impacts.

5.  it is vile to consider what this unwarranted and unnecessary humiliating strip search has done to this girl’s life, to her sexuality, to her opportunities for self-fulfillment and accomplishment and to her family. It has served no good to her community nor to our world who needs her. This is not education – it is tyranny and oppression, it is vile and wrong, it is abuse of power and authority – and, it is a malicious use of the trust placed in these school officials to do the job they are paid to do. They should be in prison, not protected by the state and the school system.

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13-year-old’s school strip-search case heads to Supreme Court

updated 3 hours, 12 minutes ago

(CNN) — The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona. Redding was strip-searched by school officials after a fellow student accused her of providing prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.

Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, escorted to an office, where she denied the accusations.

A search of Redding’s backpack found nothing. Then, although she never had prior disciplinary problems, a strip search was conducted with the help of a school nurse and Wilson’s assistant, both females. According to court records, she was ordered to strip to her underwear and her bra was pulled out. Again, no drugs were found.

In an affidavit, Redding said,  The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had. I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.

At issue is whether school administrators are constitutionally barred from conducting searches of students investigated for possessing or dealing drugs that are banned on campus.

A federal appeals court found the search  traumatizing  and illegal.

While a federal magistrate and a three-panel appeals court found the search was reasonable, the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Redding last year.

Common sense informs us,  wrote the court,  that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen … was excessively intrusive.
The court said the school went too far in its effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom.  The overzealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those they claim to serve. And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen.
The case is Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding (08-479).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/scotus.strip.search/index.html

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My note -

So, instead of this honors student being involved and focused on the normal activities of growing up and going to college, dating and friendships – she has spent the last six years involved in this view of the US court system. There was no reasonable occasion for the search in the first place. Humiliating and shaming a thirteen year old girl in this way yields nothing of value.

Anyone who actually was selling drugs at that school continued to do so, the accuser who falsely accused her did not have any consequences from the unfounded accusation and the school authorities who would have been put in jail had they done this in any other country are continuing to enjoy their jobs.

There is no excuse for this. Schools are not prisons camps and we do not live in a communist dictatorship, but the way that local authorities have applied our laws have made it look that way in practice.

The school officials involved in this situation should not be working around children of any age. And, how did they do this without notifying the girl’s parents. Schools don’t own the children that are in their care for the purpose of teaching them while they are there. We need a zero-tolerance policy against abuse of power toward school officials and local authorities that are engaged in it.

– And, that the school system and state still does not understand that it was wrong to condone, authorize or conduct strip searches of children such that the Supreme Court has to decide it – is the most obtuse, insane, incompetent, immoral and pathetic excuse for humanity that God has ever created. It does not belong in our country, to have such people as are running the education system in Arizona decide anything if they don’t know any better than that.

- cricketdiane, 04-22-09

The United States needs to apply the tenets of democracy and human rights in the United States rather than continue the conservative Republican violations of human and civil rights of the Bush administration, Reagan administration, George Bush Sr. administration, Nixon administration, and every other conservative Republican held state government.

- It is subjugating our United States citizens in America to terrifying abuses of human rights violations, vile civil rights abuses, pervasive tyranny, inhumane oppression and evil at the hands of local authorities. We have no enemies that we would allow to do this to American citizens. Why should our own government entities and businesses get away with it?

Between pharmaceutical companies and the mental health industry, food poisoning and faulty products, the Republican run government in the United States have killed more US citizens that our enemies have –

My note -

I was thinking about it and if suicide is a known side effect of psychiatric drugs, then it means that during the testing of these drugs – more than one “someone” committed suicide or violence against themselves or others while taking these drugs during the testing phase.

But why, as in the case below, would the psychiatrists and doctors subject this woman to this – “after giving birth and was subsequently prescribed a cocktail of intensely controversial psychiatric drugs including anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs before being subjected to electroshock treatment.”

only after receiving mental health “treatment” did she commit suicide. That is what the mental health industry did for a new mother named Melanie Stokes.

Why was she forced to endure a torture like this by the people around her and by her family and by her community and by her doctors that she trusted? What caused them to put her through a hell which only made matters worse to a degree that is nothing short of sadistic?

What did she do to deserve this? Was it because she committed the “mortal sin” of being unhappy about having her baby rather than being a “good woman” who is happy about it? Do women constitute an abnormality basic to the fact that they are different than men and therefore deserve to be changed by forced drug therapies? Or is it that the “norms” are based on 1930′s ideas of what are the ”average normal” feelings for some given situation?

Is a woman supposed to be happy about the constraints of freedom caused by motherhood, the complete change of lifestyle, the constant workload that is created when that child is born, the fat body, the carefree youth gone and the looming future stacked with diapers, dirty dishes, dirty clothes and drudgery? Isn’t it true that the real support would be anything other than a drug which makes it even more nightmarish and difficult to deal with those things?

If she hadn’t been subjected to this further torture on top of what she already had to deal with, wouldn’t her child’s mother be alive today – wouldn’t she still be alive finding ways to work through these things, instead of gone? She and many others that have been living testament to the truth about these drugs, mean one thing for absolutely sure.

When psychiatrists, doctors and pharmaceutical companies think that what they are doing makes good money but doesn’t hurt anybody – they are wrong, they are delusional and they are selfish to the point of sadism in the subjection and oppression of others by a prescribed regimen of chemical torture under the guise of “help”.

They knew these drugs were causing people to commit suicide and murder and violent acts of aggression. They knew there were a multitude of side effects cause directly by each of these drugs and in combinations there are even more hellish effects from them, so they’ve been prescribing these combinations and raising the dosages. What kind of decency is that? There is nothing but evil in that.

The only social goal would have to have been to completely debilitate entire populations of women, children, young females, families and individuals, especially creatives and free-thinking diversity in our population. There is no other possibility – since that was proven to be exactly the debilitation that occurs to people when subjected to these drugs. And it has literally robbed hundreds of thousands of lives and their freedoms to pursue their happiness, their human rights that were guaranteed and their futures, along with robbing all of us in every community of the accomplishments and contributions to our society that these individuals and families would have made. It is a crime what these pharmaceutical companies and their psychiatric professionals have propagated and when they did it – there was definitely intention.

History will prove they are barbaric.

- cricketdiane,

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_iXApBeT5s
Fox, Douglas Kennedy, Lilly pays $1.42 billion in Zyprexa suit

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http://ablechild.org/

The MOTHERS ACT has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 324 introduced Jan 26 2009).

This bill quite simply is a feeder line for the psycho-pharmaceutical industry and will result in more mothers and infants being put at risk for being prescribed antidepressant and other dangerous psychiatric drugs. These drugs are documented by the U.S. FDA to cause birth defects, psychosis, mania, worsening depression, suicidal and homicidal ideation.

The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act is a federal bill named after Melanie Stokes, a woman who suffered emotional difficulties after giving birth and was subsequently prescribed a cocktail of intensely controversial psychiatric drugs including anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs before being subjected to electroshock treatment.

Melanie Stokes was in the mental health system, was prescribed drugs, was hospitalized, was subjected to the still barbaric practice of electroshock and only after receiving mental health “treatment” did she commit suicide. That is what the mental health industry did for a new mother named Melanie Stokes. It is incredible that a story such as this does not raise alarm bells within Congress on the negligence of prescribing cocktails of psychiatric drugs to new mothers, drugs documented by the US FDA and international drug regulatory agencies to cause not only a host of documented adverse events for adults, but also for the unborn children of pregnant women who incredibly, are being prescribed these drugs even during pregnancy.

Despite the industry’s rhetoric about the need for more mental health treatment of pregnant women and new mothers, the fact remains that the most common treatment for women diagnosed with postpartum depression is drugs. There is absolutely no language in the Mothers Act that will ensure mothers being “screened” for postpartum depression are granted the most fundamental right of “informed consent,” meaning, per the legal definition, they are warned about all the risks of the proposed treatments and all the alternatives. Please stand up for the rights of mothers and don’t let this bill pass.

The opposition to the Mothers Act is simple. It puts the government in a position where they can mandate subjective screening and then determine the fate of a mother and her child –all without any evidence based scientific tests. I urge you to vote NO on this lethal legislation.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1918/t/7870/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26855

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How Big Pharma Distorts Science to Get FDA Approval for Dangerous Drugs

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted April 20, 2009.

How does Big Pharma keep getting dangerous drugs approved? Through the best articles and spokesmen money can buy.

In February the Justice Department charged Forest Laboratories with illegally marketing antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro to younger patients and burying a study that showed suicidal side effects in children. But the very next month the FDA approved Lexapro for depression in adolescents 12 to 17.

In March the Justice Department charged AstraZeneca with knowing and hiding the diabetes side effects of Seroquel. But this month the FDA considers expanding the antipsychotic’s approvals to depression and anxiety.

And in January, Eli Lilly pled guilty to promoting its antipsychotic Zyprexa for unapproved and dangerous uses in a $1.4 billion settlement. But in March the FDA approved Lilly’s Zyprexa/Prozac combo, Symbyax, for treatment resistant depression (TRD). What do you get when you cross Zyprexa with Prozac? Someone who gains 100 pounds and feels great about it

TRD  is such a new pharma invention that Googling it brings up Toyota Racing Development and Teacher Recruitment Days. But it will soon move prescriptions like GAD (general anxiety disorder), MDD (major depressive disorder) ADD (attention deficit disorder) RLS (restless legs syndrome) GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and PMDD (Premenstrual dysphoric disorder) — and for the same reasons.

How do dangerous drugs keep getting approved? Through the best articles and spokesmen money can buy.

Forest paid Massachusetts General Hospital researcher Jeffrey Bostic $750,000 to chat up Celexa and Lexapro, according to US District Court in Boston filings. AstraZeneca paid University of Minnesota researcher Charles Schulz $112,000 to push Seroquel, according to US District Court in Orlando filings. And a decade of pain  studies  conducted by Baystate Medical Center’s Scott S. Reuben on Vioxx, Lyrica, Celebrex and Effexor were completely fabricated–including the patients say published reports.

And speaking of  made up,  Coast IRB, an institutional review board which oversees some 300 clinical trials and 3,000 researchers, agreed last year to approve a human trial for  Adhesiabloc,  a surgical gel that the Government Accountability Office completely made up in a sting operation. Oops.

And let’s not forget Joseph your-child-is-bipolar Biederman, a Harvard physician who, according to the New York Times, assured benefactor Johnson & Johnson his studies would have favorable results for the drug Risperdal in advance of doing them. (Why leave things up to science?)

And Charles  Paxil  Nemeroff, MD who was forced to step down in December as psychiatry chairman at Emory University thanks to unreported GlaxoSmithKline income of up to $800,000.

And the pharma funded studies continue

Last May a pro Lexapro article,  Escitalopram and Problem-Solving Therapy for Prevention of Poststroke Depression,  ran in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, with no mention of financial ties author Robert G. Robinson has to Forest.

Why was,  a researcher with a history of being funded by SSRI makers…given a forum in the national media to tell the general public that anyone who has had a stroke, whether or not they have been diagnosed with depression, should start a prophylactic regimen of Lexapro…even though non-medical approaches perform just as well,  wrote Jonathan Leo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University in the British Medical Journal in March.

And then there’s AstraZeneca.

AstraZeneca’s best selling Seroquel — it made $4.5 billion last year while only approved for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — is linked to high blood sugar, weight gain, diabetes, cholesterol and triglycerides abnormalities, sudden cardiac death, suicide, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and the tardive dyskinesia it is supposed to prevent.

But its  safety  was established by a different kind of chemistry.

Research director for Seroquel, Wayne MacFadden, was having affairs with two women responsible for Seroquel studies, according to court documents: one was a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and another a ghostwriter at Waltham, MA-based medical communications firm Parexel. In fact the studies upon which the FDA approved Seroquel for bipolar disorder– called  Bolder  I and II — were written by a ghostwriter.

Worse, sitting on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee at the time was Jorge Armenteros, MD, a paid AstraZeneca speaker according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Today he heads the committee.

Hopefully FDA will keep some Seroquel for itself.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/137551/how_big_pharma_distorts_science_to_get_fda_approval_for_dangerous_drugs__/

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The facts in the Zyprexa case are heartbreaking. The victim, Philip Ebel, suffered from crushing headaches, for which he tried no fewer than 47 different treatments. His doctor in Texas, in consultation with a neurologist from a headache clinic in Michigan, finally prescribed Zyprexa — an anti-psychotic prescribed off-label for headaches. Ebel took Zyprexa for four months before killing himself in 2002.

His doctor testified at a deposition that he was aware of Zyprexa’s side effects, including an increased risk of suicide, and that he told Ebel about them. The 5th Circuit, in agreement with the lower court, ruled that because Ebel and his doctor were aware of the risks, Lilly’s alleged failure to warn could not be  a producing cause  of Ebel’s death.

http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1202429622871

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Iran, China, Russia and Cuba put together haven’t tortured and killed as many American citizens as the Republican Party, George Bush, the conservatives, psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical companies in The United States have tortured, maimed and killed. We look at those countries as enemies because of their human rights abuses. What kind of country have the Republicans created under our feet over the past thirty years they’ve been in power, where the human rights violations and abuses in the United States are even more pervasive, more consummately evil and more extensive than any of those countries or even, all of them put together?

Is it because those countries being kinder than us – took people out and just shot them in a ditch instead of poisoning them with peanut butter sandwiches from tainted peanut butter, killed them with E.Coli bacteria from mishandled meat products because of inspectors who didn’t want to offend their Republican “handlers” and supervisors?

Is it because those countries took people off in the middle of the night to shoot them instead of what is done in the US by taking people out of their homes in the full light of day and then subjecting them to chemical lobotomies using the most horrendous cocktails of pharmaceuticals that hell has ever designed, causing them to kill themselves or commit acts of violence resulting in the deaths of many?

Whose side has our conservative Republican government run by Christian fundamentalists been serving? Our enemies haven’t killed, raped and tortured as many people as the business and social policies of the Republican Party have done right here on our own soil using all the trappings of making a profit while they’ve been doing it.

And in all cases, it would’ve been a kinder, more merciful death if  our government’s ineptitude, profiteering and its big business friends and mental health systems / pharmaceutical companies had just shot the victims. Instead of them being forced to endure a tortured experience of food poisoning, or the horrendous drug side effects of psychiatric drugs plus the mental and physical anguish of a nation’s betrayal of trust before dying or killing themselves or killing themselves and others.

Didn’t we used to call those that do that to our people – “enemies”? Isn’t that why we made some countries into our enemies  – for their human rights abuses and violations of civil and human rights?

“Nobody accuses these perpetrators who have committed inhumane violent actions against women, against the poor and against both prisoners of war and the regular people of America, as insane. No, they’re given fine opportunities and will go on to work somewhere else putting forth their distorted and malicious views of the world. In fact, if history serves anything it is to tell us that every one of these perpetrators in America will be treated like kings while the rest of us are treated like slaves and otherwise useless aggravations.” – my quote from a couple days ago – I liked it.

The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona. Redding was strip-searched by school officials after a fellow student accused her of providing prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.

In this case, the United States Supreme Court will decide how easy it is for school officials to strip search your child,  Adam Wolf, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing Redding, told CNN Radio on Sunday.

Wolf told CNN Radio his client was traumatized by the search.

Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, escorted to an office, where she denied the accusations.

A search of Redding’s backpack found nothing. Then, although she never had prior disciplinary problems, a strip search was conducted with the help of a school nurse and Wilson’s assistant, both females. According to court records, she was ordered to strip to her underwear and her bra was pulled out. Again, no drugs were found.

In an affidavit, Redding said,  The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had. I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.

A federal appeals court found the search  traumatizing  and illegal.

the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Redding last year.

Common sense informs us,  wrote the court,  that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen … was excessively intrusive.

The case is Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding (08-479).

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/scotus.strip.search/index.html

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So, instead of this honors student being involved and focused on the normal activities of growing up and going to college, dating and friendships – she has spent the last six years involved in this view of the US court system. There was no reasonable occasion for the search in the first place. Humiliating and shaming a thirteen year old girl in this way yields nothing of value.

They sure did educate her about freedoms, rights and human dignity in the United States of America as they educate everyone who hears this story and every student that has been exposed to it. When did the authorities in the US come to hate the people that they are paid to serve, even our young women like this one who had been excelling in school? Or is that what they hate? Are they targeting those who excel, those who are intelligent, those who are gifted, those who are brilliant, those who are creative, who are inventive and innovative and bring new ways of doing things to our world?

Between our education system being the way it is and the pharmaceutical companies use of the mental health industry to torture and abuse those particular groups especially – it sure looks like it. And, then the United States government turns around and says we need to be innovative and invent new things and help them create their way out of the mess we’re in. Figures.

- cricketdiane, 04-22-09