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ICIS Expands Its Global Biofuel Coverage With Additional Price Quotes

ICIS Expands Its Global Biofuel Coverage With Additional Price Quotes

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS pricing, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and oil industry, has enhanced its US and European biofuel price reports with new quotations to reflect the growing demand and trade flows of biofuel globally.

The new quotes reflect the diversity of a fast moving market which is driven by legislation, progress in technology, increased trade flows and demand.

MansionPoker.com Goes ECOOP Ticket Mad!

MansionPoker.com Goes ECOOP Ticket Mad!

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

GIBRALTAR, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MansionPoker.com (http://www.MansionPoker.com), once again confirms its reputation as one of the world's most exciting online poker rooms by giving away $22,600 worth of European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) tickets over the next two weeks.

From Wednesday, November 5 2008 to Wednesday November 19 2008, MansionPoker.com members simply have to keep playing their favourite MansionPoker.com real money games earning as many Mansion Club Points (MCPs) as they can.

At the end of the promotional period, those points will be added up and the BIG MCP earners will be rewarded with free ECOOP tickets.

Prostate Therapy Clinic Now Located At The Heidelberg Medical Centre (Medizinischen Zentrum Heidelberg): More Space Available For Provision Of Gentle Prostate Treatment

Prostate Therapy Clinic Now Located At The Heidelberg Medical Centre (Medizinischen Zentrum Heidelberg): More Space Available For Provision Of Gentle Prostate Treatment

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

HEIDELBERG, Germany, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heidelberg Prostate Therapy Clinic opened the doors of its new facilities in the new Heidelberg Medical Centre (:medZ). The former health centre has been converted into a medical centre of excellence. The interior and exterior of the building have been adapted for the needs of patients, allowing individual consulting as well as ultra-modern and top-quality medical care. This conversion to an optimal environment for treatment applies not only to the architecture, which now allows handicap access, but is also true for the specially developed colour scheme and design in the area where the Prostate Therapy Clinic is now located.

Mobile Social Networking Goes Web - Peperonity.com Now Has A Real Web Interface

Mobile Social Networking Goes Web - Peperonity.com Now Has A Real Web Interface

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

HAGEN, Germany, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest mobile site building community peperonity.com now officially presents a completely refurbished version of its web presence to the public, making mobile social content available to the broad mass of fixed-line PC users even better.

By means of a clear menu structure, users can now navigate through the pages and content very easily. The current features and menu items from the mobile experience have been preserved in full, however were emphasised even more with new buttons. This makes the service more apt to the needs of the ever-growing mobile social networking area.

Industry Veteran Joins DeCarta As EMEA VP Of Sales To Meet Market Demand For Navigation And Mobile Mapping Services

Industry Veteran Joins DeCarta As EMEA VP Of Sales To Meet Market Demand For Navigation And Mobile Mapping Services

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced the appointment of Armin Fendrich as Vice President of Sales of EMEA (Europe, Middle East Africa). Fendrich will head up deCarta's operations throughout the EMEA region with an emphasis on increasing sales for LBS applications including personal navigation, mobile and fleet-tracking/MRM.

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ServersDirect.co.uk - Save Up To GBP450 This Winter At Servers Direct

ServersDirect.co.uk - Save Up To GBP450 This Winter At Servers Direct

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

HUDDERSFIELD, England, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- See our latest offer where you can make a saving of over GBP450 where you receive a free Microsoft Server 2003 or Small Business Sever 2003 Software and double memory on selected IBM servers. You need to purchase a qualifying IBM System X Express server along with double the standard memory and a licence for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 and you get the memory and operating system absolutely free! All you need to do to claim is purchase one of the System X Servers listed add the required memory and software to your order and then complete and submit the claim form.

4D Launches Chatbox Mobile

4D Launches Chatbox Mobile

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Social Media Company Launches Mobile Portal and M-Store for Leading Chat Brand

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

4D Interactive, the UK social media company, has today announced the launch of a mobile web portal for Chatbox, its interactive chat and dating TV channel on Sky channel 877.

A Good Drug Mule - Polymer Patch Is A 'Backpack' For Cells

A Good Drug Mule - Polymer Patch Is A 'Backpack' For Cells

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

MIT engineers have outfitted cells with tiny “backpacks” that could allow them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumors or become building blocks for tissue engineering. Michael Rubner, director of MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering and senior author of a paper on the work that appeared online in Nano Letters on Nov. 5, said he believes this is the first time anyone has attached such a synthetic patch to a cell. 

The polymer backpacks allow researchers to use cells to ferry tiny cargoes and manipulate their movements using magnetic fields. Since each patch covers only a small portion of the cell surface, it does not interfere with the cell’s normal functions or prevent it from interacting with the external environment. 
ARCADIS Awarded Three GRiP(R) Contracts For The US Army, Worth $33 Million

ARCADIS Awarded Three GRiP(R) Contracts For The US Army, Worth $33 Million

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

AMSTERDAM, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced today that it has been selected to provide performance based remediation services under its GRiP(R) program by the U.S. Army Environmental Command at Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Air Field (HAAF) in Georgia and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. The total value of the awarded contracts is $33.5 million.

Tianyu Expands Handset Designs Leveraging Telegent's Mobile TV Technology To Drive Growth In International Markets

Tianyu Expands Handset Designs Leveraging Telegent's Mobile TV Technology To Drive Growth In International Markets

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

SUNNYVALE, California and BEIJING, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tianyu integrates Telegent TV feature into world's first handset with Hybrid CMMB and analog TV reception for domestic China market

Microsoft And HIMSS Launch Health Users Group Across EMEA

Microsoft And HIMSS Launch Health Users Group Across EMEA

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaborative forum designed to connect healthcare communities throughout region.

From the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition in Copenhagen, Microsoft Corp and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced the availability of the Microsoft Health Users Group (Microsoft HUG) across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), providing healthcare organisations and partners with an online venue to facilitate the development of healthcare solutions and demonstrate how technology can help solve healthcare challenges.

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Pycnogenol French Pine Bark Extract Reduces Jetlag - Study

Pycnogenol French Pine Bark Extract Reduces Jetlag - Study

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

A new study published in the journal of Minerva Cardioangiologica says that Pycnogenol, pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces jetlag in passengers by nearly 50 percent. The two-part study, consisting of a brain CT scan and a scoring system, showed Pycnogenol lowered symptoms of jetlag such as fatigue, headaches, insomnia and brain edema (swelling) in both healthy individuals and hypertensive patients. Passengers also experienced minimal lower leg edema, a common condition associated with long flights. 
Livebiznet - A Business Network For Small Medium Business (SMB)

Livebiznet - A Business Network For Small Medium Business (SMB)

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

HYDERABAD, India, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- If you are a small or medium-sized business (SMB), you have good news!! Livebiznet.com, a website where SMBs can network, improve business contacts and increase business visibility has been launched by Core Software, a Hyderabad-based product development company.

Livebiznet helps SMBs with marketing their products and services, with post-marketing material and it also integrates Live chat solution to the website to increase sales and reduce support costs.

Companies can also post their job requirements, company press releases and business opportunities to get quick response from thousands of professionals and other companies in the network.

Modern Gossip Magazine Culture Began With Celebrity Obituaries - In The 1700s

Modern Gossip Magazine Culture Began With Celebrity Obituaries - In The 1700s

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

Research by the University of Warwick shows how death gave birth to the modern cult of celebrity as the sudden rise in the popularity of obituaries of unusual people in the 1700s provided people with the 18th Century equivalent of a celebrity gossip magazine. 
12,000 Year Old Shaman Burial Site Discovered In Northern Israel - And It Was A Woman

12,000 Year Old Shaman Burial Site Discovered In Northern Israel - And It Was A Woman

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" grave offerings - including 50 complete tortoise shells, the pelvis of a leopard and a human foot. The shaman burial is thought to be one of the earliest known from the archaeological record and the only shaman grave in the whole region.
Learning About Lightning - Interferometer Records Discharge In Detail To The Microsecond

Learning About Lightning - Interferometer Records Discharge In Detail To The Microsecond

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

A VHF radio interferometer system that was designed by Zhang GuangShu, et al of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute at Chinese Academy of Sciences was used to observe a cloud-to-ground lightning flash containing 19 strokes , revealing new characteristics of lightning.

The system in this study has five antennas that form an array in orthogonal directions, and an interactive graphic analysis procedure is used to remove the fringe ambiguities. The system error, which comes from frequency conversion, is reduced by phase detection through direct high frequency amplifying. By using the system, the whole progression process in time and space of a lightning flash can be continuously reconstructed at microsecond orders.
India To The Moon: Chandrayaan-1 Settles Into Lunar Transfer Trajectory

India To The Moon: Chandrayaan-1 Settles Into Lunar Transfer Trajectory

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

Yesterday, following a fifth orbit-raising maneuver, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully settled into a trajectory that will take it to the Moon.  After launch on 22 October, the spacecraft was first injected into an elliptical 7-hr orbit around Earth, between 255 km and 22 860 km above our planet. After five engine firings, Chandrayaan-1 spiralled outwards in increasingly elongated ellipses around Earth, until it reached its lunar transfer orbit on 4 November at 00:26 CET (04:56 Indian standard time).  

In the fifth and last orbit-raising maneuver, the spacecraft’s 440 Newton liquid-fuel propelled engine was fired for about two and a half minutes. The lunar transfer orbit’s farthest point from Earth is about 380 000 km. 
Ack ... I just heard a pundit use the term 'political physics'

Ack ... I just heard a pundit use the term 'political physics'

Nov 05 2008 | comment(s)

In case you didn't know it, there's an election happening in America and it hasn't been called or conceded by anyone but only the staunchest Republican could have gone into this expecting a win.  Well, if we get 9 people on the Supreme Court to intervene I suppose anything can happen but there is no normal scenario where Republicans expected a win.
Those Dang Transcription Factors

Those Dang Transcription Factors

Nov 04 2008 | comment(s)

Transcription factors do a lot of things for us, like make arms and legs in the right places.  It turns out they may also make us go bald.
 
Aleris International, Inc. Announces Schedule For Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release And Conference Call

Aleris International, Inc. Announces Schedule For Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release And Conference Call

Nov 04 2008 | comment(s)

BEACHWOOD, Ohio, November 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Aleris International, Inc. will issue its third quarter 2008 results before the market opens on Wednesday, November 12, 2008. That same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time Steven J. Demetriou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin L. Brown, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss results.

The live conference call can be accessed by dialing +1-866-713-8563 or +1-617-597-5311 and referencing Passcode 10179086 at least 10 minutes prior to the presentation, which will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.