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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. & Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. And the first time the public got to see it was in 1994 in a very exciting debut.

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Biofuel Companies and Trade Associations Push for Extension to Investment Tax Credits for Cellulosic Biofuels and The Inclusion of Algae Biofuels

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In the current economic environment, small companies are finding it especially challenging to raise financing for first-of-a-kind commercial-scale facilities. Life Technologies Corporation. Maryland Biotechnology Center. Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Edenspace Systems.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. Both are now faculty members at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland: $522,000. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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In fact, growing barley is better than leaving the field fallow according to the Chesapeake Quarterly (published by the Maryland Sea Grant College, Vol 8, No. OBE is a small operation with a core group of 20 people in the corporate office, most of who have been on board for the past two years. OBE product streams. Click to enlarge.

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