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NEWS RELEASE The countdown has begun to the British Female Inventor of the Year Awards 2002 event on 7 February at Café Royal, London, where female inventors of a broad range of products and processes compete for top honours. There are a variety of inventions up for the Patent Office sponsor(Added: Tue Jan 15 2002)

What a way to start the New Year Divorce-Online the UK online divorce service reports a customer purchasing one of their divorce packages at ten to midnight on New Years Eve. The customer who was from Wales carried on a tradition that has happened very year since the service launched in 1999 o(Added: Tue Jan 01 2002)

Research indicates that purse seines caught 80%-90% of the vulnerable migrating salmon present in Johnstone Strait during what were commonly 48- or 72-hour fishing openings: In British Columbia, Canada, salmon purse seiners line up at fishing access points, forming well defined queues. These que(Added: Sat Nov 24 2001)

Global warming and ozone loss are natural claims environmental author Chris James. In his new book "Jagged Environment" (http://www.jaggedenvironment.com/) he maintains that "Global warming and ozone loss are part of an interdependent, cyclical process, and since global warming is independent of(Added: Tue Nov 13 2001)

---BEGINS--- This year Technics, the renowned audio sub-brand of Panasonic celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over the last 21 years, Technics has been at the epicentre of musical culture, with its SL1200 series of turntables being the favourite of DJ's since scratching and spinning began. The a(Added: Tue Nov 13 2001)

An outstanding collection of aviation history from the archives of Westland, one of the longest standing names surviving in British Aviation has been released by Archive Britain. The CD-ROM traces the progress of Westland from its foundation by the Yeovil firm Petter Oil Engines Ltd during the F(Added: Wed Nov 07 2001)

UK’s ANGLE Technology to develop first bioinformatics incubator in Fairfax County, Virginia UK-based ANGLE Technology has been chosen by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in northern Virginia, USA to design and run that region’s first incubator that targets a segment o(Added: Fri Nov 02 2001)

Dr. Fukamachi of Hokkaido University, Japan has ordered a modified version of ASL Environmental Sciences’ Ice Profiler™ for installation aboard an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) owned by KDDI Corporation and manufactured by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co, Ltd. of Tokyo. T(Added: Thu Nov 01 2001)

ASL Goes "Over-the-Top" ASL Environmental Sciences of Sidney, BC, Canada, is preparing the physical environmental portions of the Environmental Impact documents for the proposed marine-based gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to a landfall site on the Canadian coast of the Beaufort Sea (the Ov(Added: Wed Oct 24 2001)

NEW FOCUS AWARDS WILL CONTINUE TO HONOR BEST AND BRIGHTEST STUDENTS IN OPTICS. Long Beach, CA. The Optical Society of America (OSA) has announced that, in spite of recent international events, the 4th annual New Focus Student Awards ceremony will take place as previously planned on Tuesday, Oc(Added: Mon Oct 08 2001)

The Girvan Academy in South Ayrshire, Scotland won top prize in the EPSRC Schools’ Science Race 2001 website-building competition. Girvan was one of five schools selected as finalists in the popular contest organised by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which inv(Added: Thu Oct 04 2001)

3 October 2001 - Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited (MSD) today launches a new painkiller which provides powerful pain relief for up to 24 hours at a time with a single dose. VIOXX®ACUTE▼ contains rofecoxib, which has been shown to be as fast and effective as some conventional NSAIDs or a paracetamo(Added: Tue Oct 02 2001)

Press Release London October 2nd 2001 A Course in Miracles at Saint Mary of Woolnoth Church .. Corner of King William and Lombard Street Wednesday October the 10th 7 PM London EC 3 (Bank Tube exit 5) For More Details Phone Christina Jonker 21 Clifton Avenue Finchly Central London (Added: Tue Oct 02 2001)

TORONTO, Canada - In August 2001, International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) has celebrated its second anniversary, making it one of the most experienced professional association in the world. "When IFSA was founded in 1999, a few international cooperations related to frequency-tim(Added: Fri Sep 28 2001)

Photochemistry and Photobiology are growing areas of scientific importance. For example, the period 1995 to 2000 has seen a growth in citations of approximately 40% in the areas of photobiology and approximately 25% in photochemistry. Research is increasing into the interaction of the environment (Added: Tue Sep 18 2001)

Over 35% of 85 year-olds suffer some sort of dementia, Alzheimer's disease being the most common. It is predicted that by 2025, 22 million people will fall victim to this devastating disease. A leading group of Alzheimer's disease researchers led by Dr Chris Eckman at the Mayo Clinic in Jackson(Added: Sun Sep 16 2001)

Naturejobs, the free careers resource of the Nature Publishing Group, relaunches Naturejobs.com on the 6th of September. Several novel features have been engineered, including Job-Alerts (up-to-date job postings tailored to users job searches by e-mail) and sophisticated resume/C.V. tools, allowing(Added: Wed Sep 05 2001)

Naturejobs, the free careers resource of the Nature Publishing Group, relaunches Naturejobs.com on the 6th of September. Several novel features have been engineered, including Job-Alerts (up-to-date job postings tailored to users job searches by e-mail) and sophisticated resume/C.V. tools, allowing(Added: Wed Sep 05 2001)

ASL Environmental Sciences of Sidney, BC Canada, today announced the sale of two of its Ice Profiler™ upward looking sonar instruments to the State Institution Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (SI AARI) of St. Petersburg, Russia. ASL has also been contracted to deploy these instrumen(Added: Tue Sep 04 2001)

The stability and growth of Eastern European countries has encouraged many large international manufacturers of vehicles and consumer goods to transfer production facilities to these countries. They now represent a growing market for powder coatings. A new Study from international marketing consul(Added: Wed Aug 22 2001)

European legislation to reduce the pollution from diesel cars across Europe will be a significant driver in the growth of the European diesel fuel additives market. According to new research by international market analysts Frost & Sullivan, the market valued today at $260 million is forecast to gr(Added: Wed Aug 22 2001)

We are pleased to announce that for the very first time Photographers can apply for ASSOCIATE and FELLOWSHIP awards in the field of Internet Photography. Any Photographer who has their own current web site can apply, and these distinctions will conform to International Exhibition standards. Th(Added: Wed Aug 22 2001)

Optimization Software to the Rescue Tenrox launches Projeca 6.5, a Workflow based enterprise optimization software for project and service oriented organizations Montreal, Canada – August 14, 2001 Tenrox, The Enterprise Optimization Company, today launched Projeca 6.5, an enterprise-wid(Added: Wed Aug 22 2001)

ART joins ADI’s third party DSP collaborative Contact: Yakov Shulman ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Ltd. +972-3-642-7242, ext. 121 yakov@artcomp.com Gabi Artzi ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. +1-805-581-3999 gabia@artcomp.com Atl(Added: Tue Aug 21 2001)

For Immediate Release: Disaster Eminent at North Pole A census taker reported that this could be the last Christmas. D. Cypher, who lives near Santa Claus, Indiana in the US reported that recent events in the UK, US and around the world may impact Christmas. When questioned further D. Cy(Added: Tue Aug 21 2001)

Mathematical Modelling 1980 - 2001 For details of my current projects, please go to http://www.inverse-problems.com/projects The graphics referred to below can also be found there. Introduction I have written this history of my mathematical modelling experience, partly in response to acade(Added: Mon Aug 20 2001)

A recent case study, published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR.com), is the first to show that correction of upper neck injuries may reverse the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The research was performed by Erin Elster, D.C., an Upper Cervical chiropractic speciali(Added: Fri Aug 17 2001)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Gregory Stricherz Foreign Ink Ltd. www.fornink.com 612.920.4884 greg@fornink.com Minneapolis, MN — August 20, 2001 - Foreign Ink Ltd. has completed a 160,000-word software localization project for Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. The project involved translat(Added: Fri Aug 17 2001)

Do you have an Inverse Problem? By Bob Marlow, Loughborough University Did you ever play with a thing called a "Puzzle Box" in your physics class? It was a wooden box with 4 or more sockets on top, and inside the box the sockets were connected by resistors, capacitors and the like. You were(Added: Sun Aug 05 2001)

12 July 2001 News release is available online at http://www.prowse.co.uk/newsf.html With St Swithin’s day this Sunday (15 July), the Met Office is keen to dispel the myth surrounding the old wives’ tale that if it rains on St Swithin’s Day, it will rain for the next 40 days. (Added: Thu Jul 12 2001)