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Norwegian Government Recommends Salvage Of The U-864

Norwegian Government Recommends Salvage Of The U-864

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

SCHIEDAM, The Netherlands, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At a press conference the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Helga Pedersen, announced that the Norwegian government will propose to parliament that the U-864, a German submarine which sank in World War II, should be salvaged rather than left on the seabed and encased to ensure the safety of people and environment. If the Norwegian parliament approves this proposal then Mammoet will use an innovative salvage method to recover the submarine which contains toxic mercury and explosives.

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Unite Statement On Power Industry Walkouts

Unite Statement On Power Industry Walkouts

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite Joint General secretary Derek Simpson said: Unite has raised the growing problem of UK workers being excluded from important engineering and construction projects at the highest levels of Government, including with the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

Wärtsilä 2008: A Record Breaking Year - Net Sales Grew 23% To EUR 4,612 Million, Profitability Improved To All Time High 11.4%

Wärtsilä 2008: A Record Breaking Year - Net Sales Grew 23% To EUR 4,612 Million, Profitability Improved To All Time High 11.4%

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

HELSINKI, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Ole Johansson, President and CEO:

New Bluetooth Marketing Software Atomic Blue Sender Is One More Way To Engage Customers

New Bluetooth Marketing Software Atomic Blue Sender Is One More Way To Engage Customers

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AtomPark Software Inc. (http://www.atompark.com), a software developer, announces the public release of its Bluetooth broadcasting software application Atomic Blue Sender 1.20 - a marketing solution able to send advertisements or other messages to passing mobile devices with Bluetooth enabled (http://www.abs-promo.com).

Using a Bluetooth system

Bluetooth broadcasting can be used as a new and innovative way to market products or simply to send useful information about opening hours, deadlines, special or calendar events, schedules, special offers and sales etc. in places where there are sure to be crowds; shopping centers, museums, concert halls, theatres, universities, company buildings and similar places.

Interactive Systems Worldwide Announces Extension Of Agreement With Sportingbet

Interactive Systems Worldwide Announces Extension Of Agreement With Sportingbet

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

WEST PATERSON, New Jersey, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Interactive Systems Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ISWI) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Global Interactive Gaming Limited (GIG), has extended its agreement with a subsidiary of Sportingbet Plc, the online sports betting and gaming group, until the end of 2011.

Arcadis Wins $8.8 Million Water Management Project In Florida

Arcadis Wins $8.8 Million Water Management Project In Florida

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, has announced today that it has been awarded an $8.8 million work order from the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Building on its reputation as a global expert on water management issues, this SFWMD project is the largest work order currently awarded under the General Engineer Professional Services Contract for Civil and Structural Engineering.

The objective of this work assignment is to assist and support District staff in the execution and implementation of various programs and projects that include:

ECASS 3 Study Receives Recognition From The European Stroke Organisation And The Lancet

ECASS 3 Study Receives Recognition From The European Stroke Organisation And The Lancet

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

INGELHEIM, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- ESO Recommends Extended Time Window for Actilyse(R)

INGELHEIM, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- For Healthcare Media outside the U.S.A., Canada, and Japan

Mercuria Energy Opens Nigerian Office

Mercuria Energy Opens Nigerian Office

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercuria Energy Group, one of the world's five largest private oil and petroleum products traders, is opening an office in Abuja, Nigeria on February 5th, 2009 a company spokesman has announced.

Mercuria Energy, which has its main trading floor in Geneva, Switzerland has been building both its sales of petroleum products in Nigeria, and purchases of crude oil there, for several years now. The company wants a presence in the community, so that we can be closer to both our customers and our suppliers said the spokesman.

Gen-Probe To Acquire Tepnel Life Sciences, Fast-Growing European Molecular Diagnostics Company, For 92.8 Million Pounds Sterling (US$132.2 Million) In Cash

Gen-Probe To Acquire Tepnel Life Sciences, Fast-Growing European Molecular Diagnostics Company, For 92.8 Million Pounds Sterling (US$132.2 Million) In Cash

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

SAN DIEGO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tepnel Brings Gen-Probe Current and Future Growth Opportunities in Transplant Diagnostics and Genetic Testing, Accelerates European Expansion Strategy -

Gen-Probe Incorporated (Nasdaq: GPRO), a pioneer and leader in nucleic acid diagnostics for human disease, announced today that it has offered to acquire all the outstanding and to-be-issued shares of Tepnel Life Sciences, PLC (AIM: TED), a rapidly growing molecular diagnostics company based in the United Kingdom, for 27.1 pence (US$0.386)(1) per share in cash, or approximately 92.8 million Pounds (US$132.2 million) in total.

Midlands-Based Public Company Set To Rival Ebay

Midlands-Based Public Company Set To Rival Ebay

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

BIRMINGHAM, England, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A Birmingham-based company is set to become the next big internet online shopping sensation and give eBay a run for its money!

Officially launching in the Midlands on February 1st with an extensive ITV1 advertising campaign, it expects to have over 1 million customers within its first month of trading and to have over 10 million customers UK wide by the end of the year. As well as intending to create in excess of 50 jobs for people in Birmingham during the same timescale.

Misys - Interim Results Interview With CEO

Misys - Interim Results Interview With CEO

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys, the UK banking and healthcare software maker, today released results for the six months ending 30 November 2008 crediting a 'resilient performance' to its differentiated business model.

The group reported revenue growth across all business divisions, despite what it described as difficult market conditions. Revenue was up 22% at GBP280m while operating profits from continuing operations nearly tripled to GBP72m.

In a video interview on financial broadcaster Cantos Mike Lawrie, Misys CEO, looks at the group's results including performance highlights, the integration of AllscriptsMysis, Banking performance and drivers, current trading and the outlook for the next six months.

Bragging Rights - Stanford Reclaims

Bragging Rights - Stanford Reclaims "World's Smallest Letters" Designation

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

How many Cardinals can fit on the head of a pin?   Still unknown, but Stanford physicists can at least tell us how many letters formed by quantum electron waves can fit on the surface of a sliver of copper - two; as in "S" and "U."   That's for 'Stanford' and 'University' if you haven't caught on and Cardinals are their ... oh, never mind, if you didn't already get it you stopped reading by now.

So how small is that? The letters in the words are assembled from subatomic sized bits as small as 0.3 nanometers, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.   Bonus: the wave patterns even project a tiny hologram of the data, which can be viewed with a powerful microscope.
Size Matters For Plants Too

Size Matters For Plants Too

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

Show Me The Science Day 3

Reproduction involves some tricky trade-offs for all species, and anyone who has watched a David Attenborough film knows that you can find a wide range of reproductive strategies in nature. Some animals spend their energy producing hundreds or thousands of offspring and leave them to fend for themselves. Others, like whales and humans, produce only a few offspring but expend an enormous amount of resources trying to give those offspring the best chance in life possible.

Plants face a similar trade-off. They can choose to produce many energetically cheap small seeds, or fewer, more expensive large seeds. A recent paper in PLoS Genetics takes a look at one of the genes involved in seed size evolution. They study naturally-occurring genetic variation in found in this gene, and the relationship of that genetic variation to seed size in the domesticated tomato and its wild relatives.

Variation in Seed Size, Figure 1 from Orsi and Tanksley
Using Physics To Unravel Secrets Of Cancer

Using Physics To Unravel Secrets Of Cancer

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

Biology exists in a physical world and cancer researchers are increasingly looking to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand how cancer develops -- and how to stop it.

Traditional cancer biology involves taking a sample of cells and holding them in time so they can be studied. Then the researchers look at that slice of cells to understand what signals and pathways are involved. But that doesn't capture the full picture, says Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Breast Oncology Program at the University of Michigan Health System Comprehensive Cancer Center. 
Everyone Can Predict The Interest Level Of Men On A Date - But Not Of The Women With Them

Everyone Can Predict The Interest Level Of Men On A Date - But Not Of The Women With Them

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field -- who might be interested in whom -- men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men's interest during an Indiana University study involving speed dating -- and equally bad at judging women's interest. 

Researchers expected women to have a leg up in judging romantic interest, because theoretically they have more to lose from a bad relationship, but no such edge was found. 
Learn Better Self Control Using More Temptation

Learn Better Self Control Using More Temptation

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

In almost every diet book you read, they tell you to never get hungry.   You will binge if you do, they all say, because of temptation and that gnawing in your stomach.   Yet all those snacks and meals have corresponded to a ballooning obesity problem which gets instead blamed on trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, salt - you name it.

It may be that all those self-help books and catering to mental weakness has caused a drop in self-control, says psychological theory.   If you want to lose weight, keep a house full of chocolate.
 
Q0957+561, The Twin Quasar, Has Its Brightness Mystery Revealed

Q0957+561, The Twin Quasar, Has Its Brightness Mystery Revealed

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

Variations in the brightness of the Q0957+561 quasar, also known as the “twin quasar” due to its duplicated image on Earth, are intrinsic to the entity itself and not caused by the gravitational effects of possible planets or stars from a far away galaxy.

This is the conclusion of a study carried out by Spanish researchers resolving a mystery that has intrigued astronomers for the past 30 years.
A Mathematical Take On Natural Selection

A Mathematical Take On Natural Selection

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice, says Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, who claims to have worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: Why is the typical evolutionary tree so lopsided?

In other words, the reason some descendants of a parent species evolve into hundreds of different species  while others produce so few goes beyond natural selection  and into math; simple probability yields a surprisingly elegant solution, Pinelis says.
Old Drugs, New Tricks - 100 Year Old Clofazimine Takes On Multiple Sclerosis

Old Drugs, New Tricks - 100 Year Old Clofazimine Takes On Multiple Sclerosis

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)

A century-old drug that failed in its original intent to treat tuberculosis but has worked well as an anti-leprosy medicine now holds new promise as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.

"We never expected that an old antibiotic would hit this target that has been implicated in multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and type 1 diabetes," says Johns Hopkins pharmacologist Jun O. Liu "People have been working for years and spending tens of millions of dollars on developing a drug to inhibit a specific molecular target involved in these diseases, and here, we have a safe, known drug that hits that target," known as the Kv1.3 potassium channel. 
Of Milk And Honey With Salt And Ice

Of Milk And Honey With Salt And Ice

Jan 30 2009 | comment(s)



Are you ready for a treat? Have you ever wished you could be with Charles Darwin on his travels just for one day? Perhaps -- when he first saw immense glaciers? Well, I've arranged today to imagine what-and-where of him and the Beagle in South America. Charles Darwin enjoyed 29 January 1833 because his notes are joyful and eventful. See for yourself.