Company Mascoma makes ethanol from wood--at small scale

Mascoma said on Wednesday that a demonstration facility is making ethanol from wood chips and other non-food sources, bringing cellulosic ethanol a step closer to commercialization.The test facility in Rome, N.Y., uses different feedstocks, including wood and grasses. Production is at a rate of 200,000...

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Software Anti-Maling who can 'yell'

In San Francisco - Laptops are often incaran into the hands of the cruel thief who want to 'memetiknya' from the hands of the owner. Some laptop manufacturers have been working to develop a system security anti-thief, but not rare that many users still lose laptopnya.Company software developers Front...

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Five outdoor toy ideas just in time for spring.

Is in the house hold that the boried. Unpack the toys outside, out of camping gear, interact with the bird feeders, it will not make you boring.because spring in the air and now it's time to get outside! After a long time cooped up in the cold winter, we can all do with a little vitamin D and a good long stretch and there's no better way to do this than have some fun in the sun.Do you see a collection...

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How to Get a Good Deal for the Used Car

If you are in the market to buy a used car, it is important to try to get the best price possible. Many people do not realize that they can negotiate with the former car salesman, so they only pay the price requested. But you can really save you hundreds of dollars just by using these simple tactics.First, realize that the price you see on the sticker is rarely set in stone. Most of the time you will...

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U.S. Help Prepare for Rp1 Trillion Over Gaza

Jerusalem - United States will provide funds of USD900 million ataus as much Rp1 trillion more for reconstruction in the Gaza Strip due to the attack destroyed three more weekends of Israel.According to the plan the Minister of Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton will deliver the plan of assistance for...

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Microsoft backtracks on severance issue

Microsoft in the middle of lye waves criticism, Microsoft backtracking on the decision to ask the laid off workers to pay back the money that the software maker said the plan was less than the cutting.View results Over the weekend, Microsoft confirmed it is cutting to some underpaid workers and others. At that time, the company did not say how much money is involved, but that the workers sent a letter...

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Java Jazz 2009

the open-open the site www.javajazzfestival.com that there are some artists who already menkonfirmasi to play in the 2009 Java Jazz artist-arstisnya is as follows:Eliane Elias, Howard Hewitt, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tom Scott & Paulette Mc Williams, Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Jazz Orchestra.Wow .. kurt rosenwinkel .. hmmmm rosenwinkel Kurt is a young talented guitarist who again talked-about of late,...

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Election President and Vice President of Indonesia 2009

On 9 April 2009, Election of Vice President and President of Indonesia will be held, in this election to choose the pair hold the President and Vice President of Indonesia 2009-2014 period. Election is the second time held in Indonesia.The candidates the President and Vice President proposed by political parties or a combination of the political party General Elections Member of the Board of Representatives...

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Hamas Send Letter To Obama By John Kerry

Washington, Groups Hamas send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama. Submitted a letter that UN officials in Gaza to Democratic Senator John Kerry during a visit to Gaza.Kerry then submit a letter to the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, Israel. "Mail is in a closed envelope, addressed to the President...

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Most iPhone applications gathering dust

iPhone users have very short attention spans.Just 30 percent of people who buy an iPhone application actually use it the day after it was purchased, according to Pinch Media, which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple's App Store. And the numbers plunge from there: after 20 days, less than 5 percent of those who downloaded an application are actively using it. The drop-off is worse for free...

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How Better Place plans to revive the electric car

This interview was originally posted at CNET Australia. We have reposted it because the U.S. faces similar challenges to Australia in adopting electric-vehicle technology. q&a We sat down with the CEO of Better Place Australia, Evan Thornley, to discuss how his company plans to make the electric...

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Sony springs a couple new Cyber-shot W models for Spring

The W290 comes in a rather subdued palette of colors(Credit: Sony Electronics)Joining the lower-middle middle-class W220 that Sony announced at CES are the $199 middle middle-class W230 and $249 upper-middle middle-class W290. (Sorry folks, but I'm running out of ways to describe mid-priced cameras.)...

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Microsoft hopes 'Windows phone' has a ring to it

Prithvi Raj, a product manager for Microsoft, demonstrates the new Windows Mobile 6.5 running in an HTC touch-screen handset at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. (Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET Networks) Microsoft is trying to sell the...

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Vodafone snags Android-powered HTC Magic

HTC Magic(Credit: HTC) To our disappointment, there hasn't been a ton of Google Android news to come out of GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 so far. Huawei announced on Monday that it plans to start selling Android devices later this year, but other than that,...

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Nvidia Tegra: Not just Windows, Android too

Nvidia is working with Google on Android phones as it veers off from its Windows-Mobile-only strategy. On Monday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nvidia announced that it is working with Google and the Open Handset Alliance to get its Tegra processor...

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Sirius XM agrees to $530 million Liberty Media stake

Troubled satellite radio company Sirius XM announced Tuesday, following reports, that it will accept an investment from cable giant Liberty Media. The investment, which will save Sirius XM from bankruptcy, will take the form of $530 million in loans in exchange for an equity stake on Liberty's behalf. The first phase of the investment will consist of a $280 million loan, $250 million of which will...

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Has the ‘Obama Effect’ Come to Runway Castings?

“Some casting sheets actually said ‘No Blacks,”’ the 19-year-old model Shawn Sutton was saying on Friday, backstage at the Duckie Brown show in the Bryant Park tent. He was referring to the model castings at the recent men’s wear shows in Milan.RelatedTimes Topics: Professional Models“It was pretty...

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Buenos Aires Book Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina

01 Apr 2009 - 31 May 2009 Date to be confirmed This is one of the most important cultural and publishing events in Latin America, bringing together publishers, writers, authors, booksellers, distributors, scientists, and teachers from around the world. Indeed, it is the largest fair of its type in the Spanish-speaking world, attracting well over a million readers to its pavilions. Of these, more...

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Buenos Aires Tango Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina

28 Feb 2009 - 08 Mar 2009 Intense, moody and undeniably sexy, tango is the emblematic dance of Buenos Aires and the annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival is a great place to see it at its best. The finest practitioners in the world join the peerless local artistes in a programme of tango concerts, dancing displays, exhibitions, classes and a one-minute film festival. Together they fill the city with...

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Court sides with science, says no vaccine-autism link

Yesterday, the United State's Vaccine Court Omnibus Autism Proceeding delivered its ruling to three families who claimed that vaccines were the cause of their children's autism. The courts ruled that "the evidence does not support the general proposition that thimerosal-containing vaccines can damage...

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Google grinds closer to Chrome release for Mac

Google is coming a bit closer to releasing a working version of its Chrome browser for Mac.Programmers for the company had been building an engine that could render Web pages, but it only ran within a simple framework called the test shell. Now they've begun hooking up the renderer to a full-fledged...

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Week in review: Valentines for green tech

Cupid was sweet this week on the environment, with Congress earmarking billions for energy in the economic stimulus plan, a contract awarded for a big solar power plant in Southern California, and even Google crashing the smart-grid party.The $789 billion economic stimulus package, which the House approved...

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Samsung's Blue Earth solar phone is ultra-green

I have a few friends (who shall remain nameless) who are often unreachable because they don't charge their phones when they should. These same friends should look into the new Samsung Blue Earth, which is to be unveiled in a couple days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phone is green,...

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Cisco unveils global blueprint for cities

INDIA--Technology has made possible better management of cities and their amenities so that citizens can enjoy better quality of life. To this end, Cisco Systems unveiled in Bengaluru city on Thursday, its "Intelligent Urbanization" blueprint. Through this global framework, Cisco plans to help cities around the world use the network as the next utility for integrated city management, better quality...

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US and Russian satellites collide in 'unprecedented' accident

A US Iridium satellite has hit a defunct Russian satellite in an unprecedented space collision. The crash occurred some 790km (491 miles) over Siberia on Tuesday, according to NASA, and produced a "massive" cloud of debris. About 600 pieces are being tracked from the debris field in hopes of understanding...

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U.S. and Russian satellites collide

In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today. The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they...

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The FDA has approved a new drug in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Viread (tenofovir) is the first drug in the class of HIV drugs known as nucleotide

Two new weapons in the war against HIVThe FDA has recently approved two new drugs that will be used to treat HIV and AIDS. Reyataz (atazanavir) and Emtriva (emtricitabine) will be in pharmacies later this month, giving two new options to patients living with HIV and AIDS. Let's take a look at these two new weapons in the fight against HIV and AIDS.Reyataz (atazanavir)Once called BMS-232632, this is...

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FDA Approves New AIDS Drug

The FDA has approved a new drug in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Viread (tenofovir) is the first drug in the class of HIV drugs known as nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The drug acts by blocking reverse transcriptase, an enzyme involved in HIV replication. But Viread differs from other reverse transcriptase inhibitors in that the drug is a nucleotide as opposed to a nucleoside....

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Indonesian suspected of having avian flu

Authorities in Indonesia awaited the results of blood tests to determine if a resident of a village known for cockfighting has contracted avian flu.The illness of Putu Pranayoga, 20, may signal the first human case of avian flu, commonly called bird flu, in Bali since a 29-year-old woman died of the disease in August of 2007, The Jakarta Post reported Wednesday.The virus was first detected a week...

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Bush, Obama Meet on Issues

U.S. President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama took a historic walk along the White House colonnade Monday before ducking into the Oval Office.Under sunny skies, Bush and first lady Laura Bush greeted Obama and Michelle Obama to the White House, where the president and his successor met privately to discuss policy issues as part of the formal transfer of powerLaura Bush and Michelle Obama...

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7 Ways To Avoid The Winter Funk

The coming of winter is a celebration of color -- first the leaves cycle through brilliant shades of orange and red, and soon the skies change and suddenly every square inch is coated with shimmering snowy white. For many, however, there is one more color synonymous with winter: blue. There isn't a soul out there unfamiliar with the winter funk (unless you live in the tropics). When the mercury falls...

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Obama and Hannity may share a brew

President Barack Obama's top spokesman said the commander in chief is willing to share a beer with Sean Hannity -- provided the Fox News host is buying.Get him (Obama) a six-pack of Budweiser and we'll meet Hannity anywhere he wants to go, laughing Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.Gibbs said the meeting between Obama and the conservative commentator should take place in a public setting, otherwise...

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All About JAva Jazz Festival 2009

Did You Hear? Swing Out Sister...No need to sweat if you have not secured your Swing Out Sister!We are moving them to a spacier room so that more of you can enjoy their upcoming intimate performance (Swing Out Sister is, after all, planning to present a different experience through their music).For ticket information, direct your attention to www.javajazzfestival.com/2009/ticketonlineorder.phpSee...

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