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Watts Gallery in Surrey, Howsham Mill in North Yorkshire, Cromarty East Church in the Scottish Highlands and Dennis Head Old Beacon in Orkney will be able to go ahead with much-needed conservation projects using funds from the £500,000 raised during Restoration Village, the third in the series of Restoration programmes.

Together with several prominent German universities and the SAP® Education organization, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has developed a postgraduate study program as part of its SAP® University Alliances program that culminates in an internationally recognized master’s degree.

BT today set out measures it is taking to help young people into work along with initiatives to ensure that those in employment receive certification through work training schemes.

The Sundance Film Festival is the ideal place to explore new and diverse ideas at the intersection of art, technology and mobility" said Barbara Ponce, manager of corporate advertising for American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

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Hydro-Québec and Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada Inc. (MMSCAN) announced today the signature of a memorandum of understanding that will lead to the launch of Canada’s largest all-electric vehicle pilot project this coming fall.

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Saipem, an Italian company and one of the largest oil and gas industry contractors worldwide, is using CA Clarity™ Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) software to manage strategic projects among its three global business units including offshore, onshore and drilling.

The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding General Motors Co. a $7.7 million grant to accelerate development of four technologies to improve the fuel economy of light-duty vehicles by at least 25 percent while meeting strict future emissions standards.

The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a division company of Siemens Financial Services, has been awarded a contract to develop 4GW of wind farms by 2020 as part of The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore wind farm programme.

Projected $2.13 Billion at Domestic Box Office Sets Studio and Industry Record, Ninth Consecutive Billion-Dollar-Plus Year Domestically

Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.

DONG Energy and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a Division company of Siemens Financial Services, have signed a Joint Venture contract to acquire a 50 percent stake of the offshore wind farm project Lincs, currently owned by UK energy company Centrica, against payment of 50 percent of the incurred development costs, currently estimated to EUR 55 million (GBP 50 million).

Global warming is causing climate belts to shift toward the poles and to higher elevations. To keep pace with these changes, the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile each year, says a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University and at the University of California, Berkeley.

The new, all-vertical coil handling system will enable the plant to accept future larger billets for higher yields and greater productivity with less downtime.

Chevrolet and McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business announced today a nationwide competition that challenges savvy business students across Canada to develop an innovative social media marketing campaign to help launch the all-new 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and compete for the title of Canada’s Next Top Ad Exec.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), through its subsidiary Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, today announced an additional natural gas discovery in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. The discovery is located in Australia’s premier hydrocarbon basin, where Chevron is the leading leaseholder.

The Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif today inaugurated a national project for the digital documentation of the National Archives of Egypt (NAE) based on a sophisticated solution from IBM (NYSE: IBM).

Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), the operator of San Javier International Airport in Murcia, Spain has ordered a new luggage processing and screening system from Siemens Mobility. The new system is due for completion within ten months.

NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects. Their challenge is to build powerful rockets of their own design, complete with a working science payload, and launch them to an altitude of 1 mile.

IBM and Vanderlande Industries today announced the signing of a four-year contract with Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for a smart baggage handling system to speed up the transfer process for bags bound for connecting flights. The IBM contract value is 24.5 million euro.