| Nanotech Filter Delivers Drinking Water
The researchers also gave the nanoparticles a negative charge. That's because impurities in water, including salt, organic matter and bacteria, also have negative charges. Try to put two negatively charged objects together and they will repel each other just like the same two polar ends of magnets. Laboratory tests showed that the new membranes demanded 50 percent less energy than conventional membranes. Such energy efficiency could reduce the total expense of desalinated water by as much as 25 percent. .
Cape & Islands News
Not only did he manage to avoid a mandatory jail term, the state's senior senator has been re-elected seven times since the accident, invariably in routs over sacrificial lamb opponents. Yet for all its notoriety, few novelists or playwrights have dared venture near Chappaquiddick, a timidity not shared by writers of non-fiction expounding on any number of theories as to what happened that still, muggy night in the summer of 1969.Playwright Jessica Provenz, a Long Island native born six years after the accident, shows no such hesitancy. Her play, "A Wake on Chappaquiddick," held its first staged reading last weekend at the Cape Cod Theater Project in Famouth and drew strong turnouts all three nights -- "and we were competing with Harry Potter," Provenz quipped. Contrary to what some may expect, Provenz did not approach her subject from the perspective of classic Kennedy hater -- far from it.
Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation Raises $70,000 Via National ...
General R.J Hillier, Canada's top military commander, accepts a cheque on behalf of the Military Families Fund in the amount of $35,058.75 from the Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation. Left to right: Murray Marshall, CEO, Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits LTD, General R.J. Hillier, Canada's top military commander, David Hood, Senior Vice President of the Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation and Bob Peter, CEO of LCBO .
Rural Nueces in need of EMS
BISHOP One day last August, Irene Delgado's neighbor in the Fiesta Ranch colonia complained of chest pain. "He treats me like I was his daughter and he was saying, 'M'hija, I'm dying,' " Delgado said. The neighbor's wife had already called 911. A few minutes later, Delgado did the same. Then she called a constable, Jack Caughman, stationed in nearby Bishop. Caughman also got on the phone and called dispatchers. And he called again. About 40 minutes later, an ambulance dispatched from Alice, 40 miles away, arrived to take Delgado's neighbor to the hospital in Corpus Christi. The neighbor survived, but his ordeal remains a stark reminder of how long residents in rural parts of Nueces County can wait for ambulance service. The national standard for ambulance response is eight minutes, but many areas of the county are so isolated from ambulance services that meeting that response time is not possible.
Kaine Wants to Extend Voting Hours in Va.
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