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Wife of man killed by American attempts suicide

Shumaila Kanwal, the wife of one of the Pakistani shot and killed by an American Raymond Davis has tried to commit suicide by eating rat poison, report said. Ali Naqi, a doctor in Faisalabad city treating Shumaila Kanwal, said she told him she took the poison Sunday because she believes her husband's suspected killer will be freed without trial.

Zardari family threatens to sue Jang media group

Zardari family threatens to sue Jang media group

Islamabad: A US legal firm representing the Bhutto-Zardari family has threatened to file a lawsuit seeking over $ 100 million in damages if Pakistan's Jang media group does not apologise for a report about President Asif Ali Zardari's purported marriage to a doctor named Tanveer Zamani.
Locke Lord Bissell and Liddell, the legal firm in New York, served notice on Friday on the Jang group for publishing a libelous article about Zardari.The notice was issued on behalf of Mark Siegel, the publicist of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, and the Bhutto-Zardari family.
The notice said Zamani had confirmed to Siegel that she had 'never met' Zardari.

The Jang group, which has been running a campaign against Zardari since last year, had reported extensively on a rumour posted on several hitherto unheard of blogs and websites that the President had 'secretly' married Zamani, a New York-based physician and PPP activist.
"Unless such a retraction and apology is issued immediately, Locke Lord Bissell and Liddell LLP will initiate legal action on behalf of the Bhutto-Zardari family for libel, malicious publication and intentional infliction of emotional distress in all jurisdictions where your newspaper has assets," said the notice. "This lawsuit will seek in excess of $ 100 million, which the Bhutto-Zardari family will donate to the victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan,"the notice said.
The notice said the news report about the purported marriage was a "complete lie that was fostered by an Internet hoax that has been ongoing for several weeks".
"Publication of such a non-sourced fabrication was not only reckless, it was malicious. President Zardari has never met Dr Zamani, and Dr Zamani has confirmed such to Mr Siegel,"the notice further said. "By publishing such an outright lie, the Jang group, its publisher and author of this article have caused severe emotionaldistress to the Bhutto-Zardari family, especially President Zardari's three children who are still mourning the murder of their mother," it added.
The notice warned that legal action will be taken by the firm against the Jang group, its publisher and the author of the article concerning Zardari unless "a retraction andapology are issued immediately".There was no word on the development from the Jang group though 'The News', the group's English newspaper, posted a denial of the wedding by Zamani on its website.Zardari family threatens to sue Jang media group

Revolve filter bottle – another reason to kick the plastic habit

 

 

Joining products like the Life Straw, the Bobble and the Katadyn Vario in the portable water filtration market, the Revolve filter bottle is designed to remove up to 99.99% of all contaminants found in tap water and one filter will produce the equivalent of 800 single use 16 oz bottles of water

 

New Energy Technologies demonstrates electricity-generating SolarWindow prototype

Over the past several years, a number of companies and institutions have been developing technologies that could allow windows to double as solar panels. These have included EnSol’s metal nanoparticle-based spray-on product, RSi’s photovoltaic glass and Octillion’s NanoPower window. Last September, Maryland-based New Energy Technologies joined the party by demonstrating a 4 x 4 inch (10.2 x 10.2 cm) prototype of its SolarWindow product. This Tuesday, the company unveiled a working 12 x 12 inch (30.5 x 30.5 cm) prototype, which takes it significantly closer to becoming commercially-viable.
As is the case with EnSol’s technology, SolarWindow incorporates a spray-on photosensitive film. It is applied at room temperature, allows the window to remain transparent, and is capable of generating electricity from both artificial and natural light – the company's intention is that it would be used primarily on the exterior of windows, where it would be exposed to sunlight.
While the details of how the system works aren’t being fully disclosed, the company has stated that the film “replaces visibility-blocking metal [used in most solar panels] with environmentally-friendly and more transparent compounds."

New Energy Technologies claims that SolarWindow is superior to similar products in that its coating doesn’t have to be applied at a high temperature or in a vacuum, it is less than one-tenth the thickness of other “thin films,” and the solar cells used in each window are the world’s smallest functional models – less than a quarter the size of a grain of rice. It is also said to outperform other technologies by up to ten-fold when it comes to generating electricity from artificial light.
Although precise figures on efficiency aren’t available, the company estimates that when applied to the facade of an office tower, its product could generate over 300 percent the energy savings of traditional rooftop panels.
New Energy Technologies has also received some publicity for its experimental MotionPower system, that generates power from traffic driving over small plates embedded in roads.

A miniature helicopter is powered by electricity generated by the previous SolarWindow prototype (Photo: New Energy Technologies)

Mazda MX-5 - the world's top selling two seater sports car extends its lead

Three generations of Mazda MX-5

The Porsche 911 was first sold in 1963 with the 956 range continuing to be sold until 1965

 

 

Honda to offer hybrid Fit Shuttle

Honda Japan has launched a special website featuring the all-new compact Fit Shuttle, scheduled to debut in March. The big news is that in addition to a petrol Fit Shuttle, Honda will offer a hybrid model equipped with Integrated Motor Assist making it the first wagon-type hybrid model in its class. Clearly the hybrid is now beginning to permeate every class of vehicle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

G-Slate tablet headed for T-Mobile spring release

T-Mobile and LG have announced the G-Slate tablet with 8.9-inch multi-touch display, Tegra 2 processor, 32GB of storage and wireless connectivity over Wi-Fi or T-Mobile's HSPA super fast mobile broadband

The rear-facing camera is a full 1080p stereoscopic camera that also snaps 5 megapixel images and benefits from an LED flash

The G-Slate is said to be light enough to use one-handed, like an e-Reader

 

 

Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time

A group of Cambridge scientists have successfully identified the mechanism that drives our internal 24-hour clock, or circadian rhythm. It occurs not only in human cells, but has also been found in other life forms such as algae, and has been dated back millions of years. Whilst the research promises a better understanding of the problems associated with shift-work and jet-lag, this mechanism has also been proven to be responsible for sleep patterns, seasonal shifts and even the migration of butterflies.
The study from the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge discovered that red blood cells contain this 24-hour rhythm. In the past, scientists assumed this rhythm came from DNA and gene activity but unlike most cells, red blood cells do not contain DNA.
During this study, the Cambridge scientists incubated healthy red blood cells in the dark at body temperature for several days, sampling them at regular intervals. It was discovered that the levels of peroxiredoxins (proteins that are produced in blood), underwent a 24-hour cycle. Virtually all known organisms contain peroxiredoxins.
"The implications of this for health are manifold," said Akhilesh Reddy, lead author of the study. "We already know that disrupted clocks – for example, caused by shift-work and jet-lag – are associated with metabolic disorders such as diabetes, mental health problems and even cancer. By furthering our knowledge of how the 24-hour clock in cells works, we hope that the links to these disorders – and others – will be made clearer. This will, in the longer term, lead to new therapies that we couldn't even have thought about a couple of years ago."
A second study by scientists working together at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and the Observatoire Oceanologique in Banyuls, France, identified a similar 24-hour rhythm in marine algae. Once again, the scientists held a previous belief that the circadian clock was driven by gene activity, but both the algae and the red blood cells proved this theory wrong.
"This groundbreaking research shows that body clocks are ancient mechanisms that have stayed with us through a billion years of evolution," said Andrew Millar of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences. "They must be far more important and sophisticated than we previously realized. More work is needed to determine how and why these clocks developed in people – and most likely all other living things on Earth – and what role they play in controlling our bodies."
The papers "Circadian Clocks in Human Red Blood Cells" and "Circadian Rhythms Persist Without Transcription in a Eukaryote" were published on 27th January 2011 in the journal Nature.