In the New York Times Ellen Barry writes about the outcry among academics St Peterbsurg University (alma mater of Putin and Medvedev) who are concerned about new legislation that may require their work to be submitted to the authorities before it can be published overseas.  Whilst defenders of the order, such as the university's rector, Putin-Medvedev friendly Nikolai M. Kropachev, say it is a standard move to defend intellectual property, detractors claim that the project recalls the Soviet-era censorship program and suggest that those interested in controversial topics, such as human rights, will be the first to suffer from its restrictions.In an interesting footnote, under the rector's leadership, the University has, says Barry, strengthened in the league tables, ...

Axial Vector Energy Corp. announced today that it has opened its Sales and Production Facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. The facility will allow the consolidation of new product developments, license transfers, USA government grants and loans, as well as a sales and demonstration office.

The Virginia Beach based engineers were successful in completing Axial’s multi-fuel workhorse engine and the company is confident they will produce similar results productionizing other engine programs. According to the press release, AVEC possesses large order books on all of these products which can generate tens of millions in revenue for the company starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The company chose Virginia over three other States for multiple reasons including competitive operating cost, quality work force, excellent education systems and a variety of State-sponsored business incentives. Some of these incentives include the Governor’s Opportunity Fund, the

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Author: toronAdded: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:50:13 -0800Duration: 238

Toron Managing partner arthur Heinmaa examines the growing concerns of deflation in the Canadian economy and what the risks might be for 2009. 

Dell unveiled their new ultraslim, the Adamo, a few days ago. The new laptop is a 13.4 inch “luxury” portable featuring no optical drive, a long life sealed-in battery, edge-to-edge glass screen, and a solid state hard drive comes at the very affordable starting price of $1999. Does this sound familiar? A MacBook Air, perhaps? To a lesser extent, the HP Voodoo Envy 133? 

One can’t fault Dell for wanting to keep up with Apple and HP. HP has maintained its stranglehold on worldwide notebook marketshare for over two years. In North America, Dell’s “home territory,” marketshare has fallen below 2006 levels while Apple and HP continue to capture the bulk of sector growth. 

Data courtesy of Gridstone Research. Apple bars represent “Total

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