WILMINGTON, Delaware and GALWAY, Ireland, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- New and existing investors complete a US$17.3 million Series C investment - Experienced medical device executive, Dr. Art Rosenthal, appointed as CEO - Aggressive launch of Sideguard(TM) Sidebranch stent in EU following recent CE Marking - Expansion of management team, RD and manufacturing capacity in Galway, Ireland

Cappella, Inc. (Cappella) announces today that it has completed a US$17.3 million Series C investment, led by new investors, Fountain Healthcare Partners and Mitsui Co. Venture Partners (MCVP). Enterprise Ireland also participated in this round alongside Cappella's existing investors, Polytechnos Partners and ACT Venture Capital.

WATERLOO, Ontario, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For 10 exciting days this October, Canada's Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary science celebration Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future will take a global audience from the strange subatomic world to the outer frontiers of the universe.

Events will take place from October 15 to 25, 2009, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Perimeter Institute's creation and contributing to Canada's National Science Technology Week.

LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

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UK HR Software company Vizual is taking the unprecedented step of giving away its HR.net Lite Human Resources software free of charge.

This is the first time that fully functioning HR software has been available as free software - and it's not time limited either. UK businesses typically pay from GBP300 to GBP1,000+ for this level of Human Resources software.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced the opening of the third large landfill gas (LFG) plant near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, named Novo Gramacho. The opening coincided with the celebration of the International Environmental Day. The new plant will consolidate the leading market position of Biogas, a company in which ARCADIS Logos holds 33%. In 2004, Biogas opened the Bandeirantes landfill gas project, followed by the Sao Joao project in 2007, both near Sao Paulo.

MANCHESTER, England, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Use of Biogas to Supply UK Gas Grid

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The people of Manchester will soon be contributing to a green energy revolution - just by flushing the loo!

In a UK first, United Utilities has teamed up with National Grid to convert a by-product of the wastewater treatment process into gas for injection into the local gas pipeline network and fuel for a fleet of sludge tankers. The ground-breaking initiative is centred on one of the country's largest wastewater treatment plants at Davyhulme in Manchester.

The scheme has been given the green light by winning funding from Defra, coming via WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme).

Researchers here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate dating back more than 500,000 years.   The data were extracted from  the top 65 feet of a 1,312 foot sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

The results provide some new information about the four glacial cycles that occurred during that period.  While climate records from ice cores can show resolutions with individual annual layers, ocean sediment cores are greatly compressed with resolutions sometimes no finer than millennia.

The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of colleagues.

Heck and his colleagues examined 22 interstellar grains from the Murchison meteorite for their analysis. Dying sun-like stars flung the Murchison grains into space more than 4.5 billion years ago, before the birth of the solar system. Scientists know the grains formed outside the solar system because of their exotic composition.

LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- First UK broadcaster to syndicate full episode, ad-supported online video content for catch-up viewing on third-party websites

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, and UK broadcaster, Five, today announced the launch of a landmark initiative that will allow Five's viewers to embed episodes of their favourite television shows on their websites, social networks and blogs. Five becomes the first UK broadcaster to syndicate full episodes of popular programmes for catch-up viewing on third-party websites. The initiative, which utilises the Brightcove platform, gives Five the ability to expand the distribution of long-form, ad-supported video content online and will also generate additional advertising income.

SAN JOSE, California, June 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Finesse Solutions, LLC, San Jose, CA, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for bioprocess applications, announced its move from a facility in Santa Clara, CA, to a much larger facility in San Jose, CA. Finesse's new address is 71 Daggett Drive, San Jose, CA, 95134. This move completes the consolidation of all Finesse departments from Irvine, CA to Silicon Valley.

Is Internet expression a fundamental right?   Certainly a subset of the modern generation has  demonstrated an irrational sense of entitlement about free content, to the detriment of media companies that have tried to provide it like the New York Times, but parts of copyrighted material have always been allowed under fair use.    What if court interpretation of fair use has changed?

University of Arkansas law professor Ned Snow says current judicial interpretation of fair use, a 150-year-old doctrine that allows people to use copied material in their speech, has become so constricted that it inhibits speech.