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Elon Musk Beat Up Texas For Hyperloop Project Test Site

January 17, 2015 By Carol Harper

Tesla’s and SpaceX’s CEO, Elon Musk is all set for great deeds. One of his beloved pet-ventures, the tube high-speed transport system is going to be made real. Indeed, Musk declared on Thursday that the Hyperloop Project test site will probably be situated in Texas.

The tech expert accepts that the Lone Star State has approached as one of the leading contenders for his venture, which will permit organizations and students to test out different transport pod designs. At the Texas Transportation Forum, Musk declared that this forthcoming venture will involve an approx 5-mile-long testing track.

It didn’t come as a shock that Musk would consider Texas as the most likely contender, particularly since the state already houses one SpaceX rocket plant, situated close to Waco. Also, Musk is involved in the development of a rocket launch station close to Brownsville, Texas.

Approved, Hyperloop is most likely going to require a few years to become reality. However, if the task is fruitful, it may herald an age of hyper-speed transport, with travelers being able to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles (400-miles distance) in approx 30-minutes.

There are numerous supporters of such technology. Essentially, travelers would go inside tubes speeding at hundreds of miles/hour towards their destination. Also, apart from the clear time advantage that such a technology could give, feasibility is another feature that supporters of the thought point to. As per specialists, such a venture would wind up being far less expensive than any high-speed train.

Such a Hyperloop framework would function as pneumatic tubes utilized in newspapers or brokerage houses did. Fundamentally, records or essential papers would be put inside plastic tubes uniting different parts of a building. They would just be pushed from one room to another by utilization of air power. Such low-pressure tubes would permit travelers to go at speeds of up to 760 miles/hour.

Musk has more than once talked about his enthusiasm for the technology. His excitement has really sparked the thought of an annual pod racing contest, where students would contend with their designs.

As per Musk, the traveler pods and tube system linking San Francisco to Los Angeles would attain an expected cost of $6 billion.

Study Reveals, Dogs Use A Smart Tactic While Drinking Water

November 26, 2014 By June Harris

A new research has demonstrated that even if dogs may appear messy when drinking water, they use a smart tactic while drinking water.

Dogs are not in any way agile when drinking water and splatter it all over the floor, making a wreck all around while doing so. At the same time the revelations of the study introduced at the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics in San Francisco gave vital data about the matter and demonstrated the way dogs use a decent tactic while drinking water.

Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and the co-author of the study Sunghwan Jung said the technique while drinking varies from one animal to another. When it comes to humans, they use the suction method with the help of their cheeks to generate a negative pressure in the mouth, in doing so making a vacuum to drink fluids through a straw or from the lip of a cup, he said.

Both cats and canines, for example, lions and wolves have curtailed cheeks. On account of this, they are incapable of completely shutting their lips to generate suction and drink water. So to drink water, the animals utilize their tongues to get fluid and fetch it in their mouths.

Researchers said that in a 2010 study, they uncovered that felines have an exceptionally powerful method for utilizing their tongues to drink fluid. The scientists found that felines draw out their tongues in the shape of a ‘J’, scarcely touching the surface of the fluid and quickly move their tongue upwards. They draw water up into the air and afterward they rapidly close their mouths. The distinction between the tactics by dogs and felines was that dogs further put off their tongues to pull the water more rapidly. The tactic used by felines is a ton slower than that used by dogs, said Jung. So if they are sloppier and messier than felines keep in mind that dogs utilize a smart tactic while drinking, if it helps.

Jung added, “When we began this task, we believed that dogs drink correspondingly to felines. However, it just so happens its distinctive, as dogs crush their tongues on the water surface – they make loads of splattering – however a feline never does that.”

Analysts additionally found that the dogs with smaller size make a less chaos when drinking as compared to the dogs that are greater in size. This demonstrates that the water volume pulled by a dog is relevant to its size and consequently, the larger the dog, the greater the mess.

Dignity Health Agrees To Resolve Overcharging Claims

November 2, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

As per the official reports, Dignity Health, a San Francisco based hospital chain has agreed to pay back $37 million in order to resolve the over-billing claims. The Northern Californian hospital was charged of over-billing the Federal Insurance program.

12 hospitals, including Mercy General, Mercy San Juan and many others that fall under the San Francisco-based health system were accused. It has been observed that some of these hospitals were litigated for overcharging for simply persistent spinal cord compression operations.

An ex-employee of the Dignity Health, Kathleen Hawkins charged the hospital, declaring that the hospital generated a false statement and exaggerated the Medicare from 2006 to 2010. Hawkins will get $6.25 million from the total settlement payment.

Health care systems that admit patients just to increase the revenue of the hospital should be answerable for every single deed, Ivan Negroni, Health and Human Services researcher said. The hospitals should treat patients on the basis of what is beneficial for them instead of what is good for the system, he added.

In contrast, the Dignity Health officials stated, “The billing clashes are due to a prevailing confusion emerging from the vague federal standards on approving patient admissions’ coverage.”

A spokesman from the Dignity health hospital informed that the organization resolved this issue so that it could get rid of the court cases. Dignity Health is considered as one of the five biggest hospital systems of the country.

Additionally, it has been reported that Dignity Health has decided to hire an auditor specially to re-examine all the Medicare claims.

Any person knowing the fraudulent activity has the right to inform government officials. The person can litigate the corrupt organization on behalf of the federal government under the Federal False Claims Act.

More than $23 billion has been recovered by the Justice Department through False Claims Act cases, since January 2009.

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