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  B | Braun USA: Superior Medical Products
Since 1839, B. Braun has delivered innovative healthcare products, services and educational programs that enhance the care and safety of patients and healthcare professionals in the fields of drug delivery, IV therapy, pain control, clinical nutrition, dialysis and vascular intervention.
Our products and services are used in hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and in the home care setting.
Copyright © 2007 B. Braun Medical Inc. All rights reserved.
www.bbraunusa.com   (77 words)

  
  Eva Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hitler saw more of Braun after the suicide of Angela's daughter Geli Raubal in 1931 (some historians suggest Raubal killed herself because she was distraught over Hitler's relationship with Braun, while others speculate Hitler killed her, or had her murdered).
Braun attempted suicide in 1932 by shooting herself in the neck.
After Braun's recovery Hitler became more committed to her and bought her a villa in Wasserburgerstrasse, a Munich suburb, providing her with a Mercedes and a chauffeur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eva_Braun   (1167 words)

  
 Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1984 through 2005, Braun was a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Gillette Company, which had purchased a controlling interest in the company in 1967.
Braun is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Procter and Gamble, which acquired Gillette in 2005.
A controlling interest in Braun AG was sold to The Gillette Company in 1967 by the heirs of Max Braun, complementing the razor offerings of that company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Braun   (353 words)

  
 OTB - "Forgotten" Pioneers of Wireless, Part 5 - Karl Ferdinand Braun
Braun found that the crystal detector provided no improvement over the coherer when the wireless telegraphy messages were automatically recorded on a moving strip of paper, as was the normal practice at the time.
Braun then reduced the number of antenna wires and poles to three and was able to excite the wires from a common transmitter by arranging the poles in an equilateral triangular pattern.
Braun made a modification in the layout of the circuit for the dispatch of electrical waves so that it was possible to produce intense waves with very little damping.
www.antiquewireless.org /otb/forgoten.htm   (2642 words)

  
 Ferdinand Braun - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Braun was made Professor of Physics at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe in 1883 and was finally invited by the University of Tübingen in 1885; one of his tasks there was to build a new Physics Institute.
Braun's first investigations were concerned with oscillations of strings and elastic rods, especially with regard to the influence of the amplitude and environment of rods on their oscillations.
Braun's papers on wireless telegraphy were published in 1901 in the form of a brochure under the title Drahtlose Telegraphie durch Wasser und Luff (Wireless telegraphy through water and air).
nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1909/braun-bio.html   (491 words)

  
 98-7101 -- Braun v. Ward -- 09/10/1999
Braun would have maintained his plea of not guilty and would have insisted on going to trial." Thus, Braun argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel, that counsel gave misleading advice regarding the plea, and that he was prejudiced thereby.
Braun that his appeal would be circumscribed by the matters raised in his application to withdraw his guilty plea," Braun fails to establish how this additional advice would have changed the issues raised at the hearing.
With little discussion, Braun also contends that he was denied a full and fair hearing on this claim in the Oklahoma courts and the district court, and requests remand for an evidentiary hearing.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/1999/09/98-7101.htm   (3856 words)

  
 Braun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Hitler's mistress from 1932 and his wife during the last few hours of his life, Eva Braun was born in Munich, the daughter of a school teacher.
Of middle-class Catholic background, she first met Hitler in the studio of his photographer friend, Heinrich Hoffmann (q.v.), in 1929, describing him to her sister, Ilse, as 'a gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache and carrying a big felt hat'.
Reserved, indifferent to politics and keeping her distance from most of the Fuhrer's intimates, Eva Braun led a completely isolated life in the Fuhrer's Alpine retreat and later in Berlin.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/8514/braun.html   (514 words)

  
 Braun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Braun is also known as the developer of the cathode ray oscilloscope, the precursor to the radar screen and the television tube.
Braun's interest in the electrical conductivity of metal salts in solution (electrolytes) ultimately led to his study of metal sulfide crystals and other crystalline solids which conduct even when not dissolved.
Braun's crystal detector, however, was "rediscovered" and improved in a few years by others for use as an inexpensive and reasonably reliable detector for radiotelephony.
chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/braun.htm   (3350 words)

  
 FMS Foundation Compilation: Dr. Bennett Braun
Braun, the Complaints state, used suggestive and coercive techniques including exposure to guns and handcuffs in order to encourage the children to "remember" episodes of abuse as part of a supposed transgenerational, organized satanic cult.
Braun confirmed that Shanley was a survivor of SRA in need of additional treatment.[4] Shanley's husband was told that he should protect the couple's young son from ritual abuse by Shanley.
Braun was well known as a international authority in his field, indeed, he served as President of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation where he exhibited his then-patient, Pat Burgus, as a stellar example of his work.
www.fmsfonline.org /braun.html   (3811 words)

  
 Sputnik Biographies--Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s.
The brainchild of von Braun's rocket team operating at a secret laboratory at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast, the V-2 rocket was the immediate antecedent of those used in space exploration programs in the United States and the Soviet Union.
By the beginning of 1945, it was obvious to von Braun that Germany would not achieve victory against the Allies, and he began planning for the postwar era.
history.nasa.gov /sputnik/braun.html   (531 words)

  
 Ronald Frobnitz - Lilian Jackson Braun
After that, Braun took a short hiatus to write a few short stories, but discovered that writing at home was a lonely life for a lively former PR executive.
Her neighbors suspected foul play, and, as catharsis, Braun wrote a tale in which a Siamese murdered in a similar fashion was avenged ("The Sin of Madame Phloi").
Braun originally wanted the main character to be a newspaperwoman like herself, but her friends discouraged her from doing so, saying that it would be "too autobiographical".
home.att.net /~RACapowski/lilian.htm   (625 words)

  
 PAUL V. BRAUN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Professor Braun received his BS degree, with distinction, from Cornell University, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UIUC in 1998.
We are developing new routes to the formation of such structures, as well as modeling and measuring their optical response.
R. Shimmin, A. Schoch and P. Braun, "Polymer size and concentration effects on the size of gold nanoparticles capped by polymeric thiols," Langmuir, 20, 5613-5620 (2004).
www.mse.uiuc.edu /faculty/Braun.html   (1005 words)

  
 Player Bio: Ben Braun :: Men's Basketball
During his initial season at Cal in 1996-97, Braun took a team that was predicted to finish in the conference's lower half, molded it into one that tied for second in the league and reached the NCAA regional semifinals with tournament victories over Princeton and Villanova.
In 1998-99, Braun's club became the first team ever at Cal to beat three Top 10 schools in the same season, defeating North Carolina, UCLA and Arizona during the course of the year.
Braun accepted the position of associate head coach at Eastern Michigan prior to the start of the 1985-86 season, but midway through the year, on Jan. 15, 1986, he was elevated to interim head coach.
calbears.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/mtt/braun_ben00.html   (1686 words)

  
 CNN.com - Braun formally launches 2004 presidential bid - Sep. 22, 2003
Braun, the only female in the 10-candidate Democratic field, officially launched her candidacy at historically fl Howard University in Washington.
Braun, 56, was elected to the Senate from Illinois in 1992, becoming that body's first African-American woman, but lost her 1998 re-election bid.
During her Senate tenure, Braun was criticized for her visits to Nigeria to meet with then-dictator Sani Abacha, and her re-election campaign was hindered by accusations that her former campaign manager and fiancé sexually harassed employees and used campaign credit cards to buy clothes, jewelry and sport utility vehicles.
cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/22/elec04.prez.braun   (668 words)

  
 Bob Braun was trouper to the end   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Braun didn't talk publicly about the cancer until a year later, when it was in remission.
Said son Doug Braun, a Los Angeles-based vice president for Herballife who was with his father when he died early Monday: “Dad had a sense of family that was extremely strong, and each of us have carried that into our families.
Braun would call Rob and say his voice was strong enough to do a radio show or radio commercials.
enquirer.com /editions/2001/01/16/loc_bob_braun_was.html   (1336 words)

  
 Available Accessories: Braun Wheelchair Lifts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
This lift complies with ADA testing specifications and includes Braun's exclusively-designed base plate, stationary pivot pins, "pull" cylinder operation, and the lowest angle entry ramp in the lift industry.
Braun Corporation's new Under Vehicle Lift (UVL) is the latest edition to its line of dependable wheelchair lifts.
The Braun UVL600 Series may be installed in the rear or side doors of vans, as well as in the bottom steps of buses.
www.centralstatesbus.com /braun.html   (361 words)

  
 Women's groups to give Braun 1st endorsements
Braun, the former one-term Illinois senator and former ambassador to New Zealand, is the only woman in the crowded Democratic presidential primary field.
Braun's campaign views the endorsements as the beginning of a drive to capture more attention from women and as a boost to Braun's uphill fund-raising effort.
Braun met with one of her rivals, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), while both were campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, last week, prompting a rumor that Braun may be dropping out and throwing her support to Kerry.
www.suntimes.com /output/elect/cst-nws-carol22.html   (257 words)

  
 Werhner Von Braun: The Space Age Continues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Von Braun's childhood commitment to "turn the wheel of time," and his later dream to help mankind set foot on the moon became a reality on July 16, 1969 when a Marshall-developed Saturn V rocket launched the crew of Apollo 11.
Dr. von Braun is carried aloft on the shoulders of Huntsville city officials at an Apollo 11 moon-landing celebration July 24, 1969, in front of the Madison County Courthouse, Alabama.
In 1970, Dr. von Braun and his family relocated from Huntsville to Washington, D.C. when he was assigned duties as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning at NASA Headquarters.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /academy/history/vonBraun/spaceage2.html   (561 words)

  
 V2ROCKET.COM - Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun was born to Baron Magnus von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp on March 23, 1912, in Wirsitz, a town in the eastern German province of Posen.
Also, since von Braun was a pilot, who regularly piloted his government-provided airplane, it was suggested that he was planning to escape with A-4/V-2 secrets to the Allies.
Von Braun and his men were transferred to Huntsville, Alabama in April of 1950 to start development of an Army tactical ballistic battlefield missile.
www.v2rocket.com /start/chapters/vonbraun.html   (1907 words)

  
 Braun Prodreg
Braun reserves the right to postpone, shorten, lengthen, cancel or modify this term at its sole discretion.
Braun retains the right to substitute the prize awarded with a prize of equivalent value at Braun's sole discretion.
Participants expressly agree, by submitting their entry that Braun shall be allowed - in its sole discretion - to use their name and country of residence freely and at no charge.
www.prodreg.braun.com /en/prize_terms.html   (586 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Carol Moseley Braun drops out of race, endorses Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Braun has been in low single digits in polls nationally and in early primary states, and she expects to report raising less than a half-million dollars for 2003.
The Dean campaign will pay Braun's expenses when she campaigns for him and may eventually put her on the payroll as a consultant, sources close to the Dean campaign said.
Braun is making the move, they said, because she has been disturbed by recent attacks on Dean by rival candidates, among them Sharpton and Gephardt.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-01-15-braun-drops-out_x.htm   (744 words)

  
 Braun Is Expected to End Bid and Back Dean
Braun and Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, developed a respectful relationship throughout the campaign, in part because key staff members had worked for both.
Braun after the debate and that she requested a meeting to talk about possibly joining his campaign.
Braun joins a list of well-known African-American politicians who have endorsed Dr. Dean and could help him appeal to voters across her native South and in cities like her current hometown, Chicago.
www.nytimes.com /2004/01/15/politics/campaigns/15BRAU.html?ex=1389589200&en=4ff0b97ce6d054bb&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (566 words)

  
 Wernher Von Braun: The Space Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
In 1950, von Braun and his team were transferred to Huntsville, Alabama, his home for the next twenty years.
Between 1950 and 1956, von Braun led the Army's development team at Redstone Arsenal, resulting in the Arsenal's namesake: the Redstone rocket.
Dr. Von Braun and astronaut Gordon Cooper in the control room during the launch of the first manned Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle, carrying astronaut Alan Shepard on his historic sub-orbital flight.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /academy/history/VonBraun/SpaceAge.html   (531 words)

  
 NPR : The 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates: Carol Moseley Braun
It has become a tired cliche by now, but 1992 will long be remembered in the annals of political history as the "Year of the Woman." There were 11 female candidates for the Senate in the 1992 general election, by far the most ever, with four new women elected, also a record.
There was something special about Carol Moseley Braun, I remember thinking at the time, as I stood a couple of feet away from her on the floor of the Democratic National Convention that summer in New York.
But as she stood there in the middle of the Illinois delegation, with the spotlight on her and her radiant smile, I remember taking note of that moment, and came away with the feeling of history about to be made.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/democrats2004/braun.html   (860 words)

  
 WITI - WITI Women - Ellen Braun
Typically, this puts Braun in the position of communicating with corporate CFOs, CIOs, IT Directors, and division heads to agree on the principles that guide technology investment decisions, then working with IT managers, technologists, and business/technical liaisons to develop consensus around the set of technology products and standards that support the IT and business strategy.
Braun recently served as the acting director of technology research for an east coast financial firm.
Braun's experience working with IT leadership of client firms to develop and execute strategies within complex and dynamic business environments, gain consensus around detailed plans, and link strategic directions to business results has translated to similar capabilities for developing strategies for driving change in the workplace.
www.witi.com /wire/witiwomen/ebraun/index.shtml   (452 words)

  
 CNN.com - Braun backs Dean in tight Iowa race - Jan. 16, 2004
Carol Moseley Braun announces her departure from the race and her endorsement of Howard Dean on Thursday in Carroll, Iowa.
Dean thanked Braun for her backing and encouraged supporters to turn out for Monday's caucuses, which he said were the first step toward wresting the White House from President Bush.
Braun was elected to the Senate from Illinois in 1992 but lost a re-election bid in 1998.
edition.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/15/elec04.prez.main   (1514 words)

  
 Projection lenses
A wide-angle lens for the projection of miniature format and half-frame slides or for cases where a large projected picture has to be achieved at a short projection distance.
BRAUN Ultralit PL 4,0 / 85-150 mm MC Another vario-lens which is, because of its higher focal length, particularly conceived for longer projection distances.
BRAUN Ultralit PL 3,5 / 110-200 mm MC With this vario-lens you have at your disposal an outstanding lens of the top class for large proejection distances.
www.braun-phototechnik.de /E/Products/Accessories/objektive.htm   (499 words)

  
 Stimuplex.com - Contiplex® Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block Products
Braun will soon offer the ultimate in peri-/ post-operative pain management and reimbursement convenience by pairing up the Contiplex Tuohy needle and Accufuser Plus disposable pump (275mL capacity, 5mL basal rate, 2mL bolus/15 min.) in a convenient procedural tray.
Contiplex D is the next generation of catheter-over-needle continuous peripheral nerve block devices from B. Braun.
Contiplex A is the original continuous brachial plexus nerve block set from B. Braun Medical found in the CNB200 set and the CBP18K kit.
www.bbraunusa.com /stimuplex/contiplex.html   (510 words)

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