Purchase of Electro-Trac™ EM Technology completed by Sharewell LP

HOUSTON, Texas (CitizenWire) — Sharewell L.P. is pleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of the patented, proprietary EM MWD technology jointly developed pursuant to an exclusive license agreement between E-Spectrum Technologies and Sharewell L.P. This unique technology was initially developed by E-Spectrum in cooperation with the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of a “Deep Trek” initiative to foster new technologies to facilitate exploration for deep natural gas resources. Mark West, Sharewell’s President, stated that, “Due to the rapid commercial success and increasing demand for the technology, we are very pleased...

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Nobel Medicine Prize ushers in week of awards

The Nobel Medicine Prize winner will be named Monday, kicking off a week of prestigious award announcements including the two that are most watched, Literature and Peace. Speculation is as always rife for those honours, to be announced on Thursday and Friday respectively, with many predicting a poet will grab the literature award, and some saying a Chinese dissident will follow last year's jaw-dropping surprise pick of US President Barack Obama for the Peace Prize. First up though is the Medicine Prize, with the laureate to be revealed on Monday around 11:30 am (0930 GMT) by the Nobel jury at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. The award committees for the various prizes never reveal the nominees, leaving the door wide open for frenzied speculation in the weeks prior to the announcements. One...

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Reggae festival leaves Italy for Spain

Abandoning Italy because of what they say are racist government immigration policies, the Italian organisers of a major reggae festival have sought refuge in Spain for this year's edition. Rototom Sunsplash, one of Europe's biggest music gatherings featuring hundreds of concerts and drawing tens of thousands of people, has been held in Italy for the past 16 years -- until now. "Like in the Bob Marley song 'Exodus' we have left Babylon behind and we have arrived in our land of promise," said Filippo Giunta, president of the Exodus association that was specially set up to organise this year's festival, which ends on Saturday in the coastal Spanish city of Bencassim. Giunta hit out at the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose coalition partner is the anti-immigration...

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Activist arrests blot U2's first Russia concert

Irish super group U2's first Russia concert was marred Thursday after police detained rights campaigners at the jam-packed venue and tore down tents to prevent them gathering signatures for petitions. Some 75,000 fans flocked to Wednesday evening's showpiece in a Moscow stadium which came the day after U2 front man Bono held talks with rock-loving President Dmitry Medvedev on issues including preventing the spread of polio and HIV. Bono praised Medvedev as "gracious" in front of the crowd but also as a finale invited Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk -- famous for his outbursts against the Kremlin -- to the stage for a duet. Police not only forced out activists handing out leaflets and gathering signatures but also U2's own charity fund, the ONE Campaign against AIDS, activists said...

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Israeli orchestra to play at German Wagner festival

The Israel Chamber Orchestra is to play at Germany's prestigious Bayreuth festival of Wagnerian music, in a rare breach of an Israeli taboo against performing the rabidly anti-Semitic composer's work. "The orchestra will play at the opening of the festival," Erella Talmi, the chairwoman of the orchestra's board of directors, told Israeli army radio on Tuesday. She said the decision to take part next summer was the result of an invitation from Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katerina Wagner to the Israeli ensemble's musical director, Austrian conductor Roberto Paternostro. She said that Wagner was trying to shake up the event, traditionally attended by what she called an "elitist" audience. "The decision was not to break a taboo," Talmi added. "The decision was to accept an invitation...

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