The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize organization, and Progressive Insurance, the country’s fourth largest auto insurance group, today, at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., awarded $10 million to three teams who successfully completed the rigorous Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The winning teams—Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corp. of Mooresville, North Carolina—emerged from an original field of 111 competing teams, representing 136 vehicle entries from around the world. The winning vehicles were showcased to an audience of auto industry, business and government leaders. Each of the winning teams was also presented with a towering bronze trophy designed by Harry Winston, Inc.
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Building upon the communication industry’s leading expert database, PR Newswire today unveiled ProfNet Connect, the groundbreaking, interactive online expert community designed for communications professionals and the media.
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The EU Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) places new legal obligations on chemical companies operating in the EU market. By 1 December 2010, they are required to classify and label their hazardous substances according to the CLP rules.
Industry has to notify the classification and labelling of substances placed on the market to a central database, called the Classification & Labelling Inventory. The database is established and maintained by ECHA. The first deadline for notification is 3 January 2011. Key information from this Classification and Labelling Inventory will also be made publicly available on ECHA’s website. Confidential business information will not be disclosed to the public.
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Many students leave the house without eating breakfast in the morning and at noon fast food restaurants and bakeries near schools enjoy the fact that they are becoming more and more popular. In times of increasing numbers of all-day schools it is time for things to change, more and more schools are convinced of this too. School cafeterias are the logical consequence. But the implementation is not so easy. French Fries and Hot dogs or greasy burgers definitely don’t help concentration in the classroom. Sluggish and tired students are the result.
The banana is transported by plane, eggs by refrigerated trucks and yogurt can be found in open fridges, so to speak – the bottom line: In order to maintain a certain standard in a supermarket you are forced to use a lot of energy. An increasing number of supermarket owners have recognized responsibility and have started saving energy. For example, the Swiss cooperative Coop has set itself the goal of having all of their supermarkets being carbon-neutral by the year 2023.
Every two years specialists from the hotel business and food service industry as well as from the food sector meet in Düsseldorf at the trade fairs hogatec and the freshness trio InterMopro, InterCool and InterMeat. On the opening day prominent visitors from France awaited the visitors!
In a major advancement for green technology, the TCO Certified eco-label for electronics, together with display industry leader NEC, today announced the NEC MultiSync® EA222WMe computer monitor as the first to receive the TCO Certified Edge award for groundbreaking achievements in environmental design. The award is presented in recognition of NEC’s achievement in eliminating halogens, a proven hazard to human health and the environment.
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The senior management team of Camelot Information Systems Inc. (“Camelot” or the “Company”) (NYSE: CIS), a leading domestic provider of enterprise application services and financial industry information technology services in China, celebrated its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) by ringing the NYSE’s ceremonial opening bell on Friday, July 23, 2010. The Company’s American Depositary Shares began trading on the NYSE on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
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Solta Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTM), a global leader in the medical aesthetics market and manufacturer of the industry's three premier brands: Thermage®, Fraxel®, and Isolaz®, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with PGA TOUR golfer Scott McCarron to raise awareness about skin protection and the Fraxel re:store® laser treatment. As the leader in fractional laser technology, Fraxel delivers minimally invasive clinical solutions to resurface aging and sun damaged skin, including the removal of actinic keratoses (AK’s ) — a precancerous skin condition caused by sun exposure. Fraxel re:store treatment provides superior results for AKs on the face or other areas of the body displaying the signs of photodamage.
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This design of a unique non contact chuck, was a part of a much larger scale design and engineering project of a wet processing machine for the semiconductor industry.
The client requested Vertex to design, engineer and produce a scalable new chuck that can hold the wafer from the bottom end and at the same time process the same side which the wafer is held from. We had strict instructions not to have any contact with the top side of the wafer, due to sensitive semiconductor design on that side, therefore the name “Non Contact Chuck”.
This unique design had to overcome and avoid collision of the wafer’s holding fingers with the process module while scanning the wafer above it. This resulted in holding fingers behaving like Millipede legs.
Challenges in this design were enormous.
The chuck had to spin 360 degrees, travel on the Z axis, pressurize the top side of the wafer with air to prevent any liquid from getting to the top side, as well as, pneumatically control and actuate each finger at the right time.
Great project to work on, great challenge and great results.
With many airlines charging to check in baggage, travelers are often forced to pay for fees instead of fun. In fact, according to the US Transportation Department, checked baggage fees are 33 percent higher this year compared to 2009. So far that higher percentage has translated to the airline industry collecting $769 million in just the first quarter of the year!
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EE Times Group, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry decision makers, today unveiled the new EE Times website, which can be found at www.eetimes.com, an innovative media platform that is the first professional community linking everyone in the global electronics industry to drive technology sales. The completely restructured website combines the power of the 1+ million monthly visitors to the website with the EE Times Group’s extensive portfolio of online brands – EE Times, Embedded.com, TechOnline and Designlines, eeProductCenter as well as must attend events – ESC and DesignCon, ARM Technology Conference and online education and training such as the popular Fundamentals of Design courses.
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