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Superconductor Technologies Inc. and Major Wireless OEM Plan to Conduct a 700 MHz Field Trial for a Tier-One U.S. Wireless Operator
SuperLink to be Integrated Into the LTE Remote Radio Head Platform
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Apr 20, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) (Nasdaq:SCON), a leading provider of advanced wireless solutions, innovative adaptive filtering, and world class cryogenic products for commercial and government applications, will be participating with a major wireless original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in a long-term evolution (LTE) field trial with a tier-one U.S. wireless operator for its new 700 megahertz (MHz) network. The trial is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009.
"We believe there is a significant opportunity for our unique filtering technology to address the major interference challenges of the 700 MHz spectrum," said Jeff Quiram, STI's president and chief executive officer. "This non-exclusive arrangement allows STI to demonstrate the value of our capabilities to our OEM partner. The successful completion of this trial should enable STI to participate in the upcoming 700 MHz network deployments with our SuperLink solution integrated into a state-of-the-art LTE network platform. As a recognized expert in providing high performance front-end receiver solutions that eliminate interference, STI can assist our partner in meeting the demanding requirements of these networks."
To help address critical LTE network challenges that are unique to 700 MHz, STI has posted a video on its website: Challenges Deploying LTE at 700 MHz. To access the video, please visit: http://www.suptech.com/700_video.htm
About Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI)
STI, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, is a leading provider of high performance infrastructure products for wireless voice and data application as well as advanced HTS thin film deposition techniques and cooling technologies. Commercially, STI's SuperLink(r) solution increases capacity utilization, lowers dropped and blocked calls, extends coverage, and enables faster wireless data rates. Its AmpLink(tm) solution enhances the performance of wireless base stations by improving receiver sensitivity and geographic coverage.
For information about STI, please visit http://www.suptech.com.
The Superconductor Technologies Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=3963
This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com
SOURCE: Superconductor Technologies Inc.
By Staff
CONTACT: Lippert / Heilshorn & Associates
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Cathy Mattison
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Verizon Wireless Wants Developers For LTE 4G Network
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/3G/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216600225&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
The company has scheduled a Web conference to let developers discuss details on LTE specifications as well as answer questions and gather feedback.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
April 17, 2009 02:19 PM
Moving aggressively to attract developers to work on devices for its LTE network, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless released the first set of its technical specifications for the 4G network Friday and reported that it will host a developers conference for LTE on May 13.
Verizon Wireless, which is jointly owned by majority investor Verizon Communications and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Group, is in the vanguard of U.S. mobile wireless service providers working to deliver the 4G service. Just days ago, Verizon announced that it's establishing its Verizon Wireless LTE Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., dedicated to the 4G technology.
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The mobile phone service provider said developers will design their products and services for use on the 700-MHz spectrum the company won in last year's spectrum auction by the FCC.
"Hardware is the starting point, and Verizon Wireless is encouraging developers to get excited about designing innovative products and services the future requires," Tony Lewis, Verizon Wireless' VP of open development, said in a statement. "We want to publish details to the development community as soon as possible to get us started. [In] broadly sharing how LTE standards for access and transport will translate into our specifications today, we can provide a framework for all developers who want to begin their work immediately."
The May 13 Web conference is designed so developers can discuss details on LTE specifications as well as to answer questions and gather feedback, Verizon Wireless said. Attendees will be able to ask questions of its officials about the emerging 4G technology. The goal of the conference, a company spokesman said, is to encourage transparency, clarity, and ease in designing LTE devices. The specifications are currently available for download.
"The LTE device specifications will be a road map for developers who choose to develop devices for submission to the LTE certifications process," a company spokesman said. The firm's LTE network is planned to be able to interconnect together a broad range of electronics devices and machines.
Infrastructure providers Alcatel (NYSE: ALU)-Lucent and Ericsson are already preparing to establish a test lab at the Massachusetts facility, which can be utilized to test gear created for the Verizon network.
Verizon Wireless has said it will begin rolling out the high-speed technology later this year, with commercial launch of LTE slated to take place next year.
Learn more about all the latest products and technologies at TechWeb's Interop Las Vegas, May 17-21. Join us (registration required).
and this:
Verizon Wireless Calls for Spectrum Reform
http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3816006
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why is peix going up when all signs point to bankruptcy?
i think an adm or cargill buyout or something is in the works and obviously insiders or someone has wind of it?:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corporate-ethanol10-2009apr10,0,5696069.story
Chow predicts a wave of consolidation among the country's 170 ethanol mills. Agricultural processors such as Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Cargill Inc. also are expected to expand their ethanol holdings.
Brent King, who has restructured bankrupt biofuel plants, said ADM and Cargill were "waiting for it to get bleak enough so they can buy plants at cents on the dollar."
A spokesman for ADM, which was outbid for the VeraSun mills, said the company was looking for strategic acquisitions. Cargill declined to comment.
The Bigots’ Last Hurrah
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19Rich.html?_r=1
By FRANK RICH
Published: April 18, 2009
WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”? You don’t need to use your imagination. It’s there waiting for you on YouTube under the title “Gathering Storm”: a 60-second ad presenting homosexuality as a national threat second only to terrorism.
The actors are supposedly Not Gay. They stand in choral formation before a backdrop of menacing clouds and cheesy lightning effects. “The winds are strong,” says a white man to the accompaniment of ominous music. “And I am afraid,” a young black woman chimes in. “Those advocates want to change the way I live,” says a white woman. But just when all seems lost, the sun breaks through and a smiling black man announces that “a rainbow coalition” is “coming together in love” to save America from the apocalypse of same-sex marriage. It’s the swiftest rescue of Western civilization since the heyday of the ambiguously gay duo Batman and Robin.
Far from terrifying anyone, “Gathering Storm” has become, unsurprisingly, an Internet camp classic. On YouTube the original video must compete with countless homemade parodies it has inspired since first turning up some 10 days ago. None may top Stephen Colbert’s on Thursday night, in which lightning from “the homo storm” strikes an Arkansas teacher, turning him gay. A “New Jersey pastor” whose church has been “turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch” declares that he likes gay people, “but only as hilarious best friends in TV and movies.”
Yet easy to mock as “Gathering Storm” may be, it nonetheless bookmarks a historic turning point in the demise of America’s anti-gay movement.
What gives the ad its symbolic significance is not just that it’s idiotic but that its release was the only loud protest anywhere in America to the news that same-sex marriage had been legalized in Iowa and Vermont. If it advances any message, it’s mainly that homophobic activism is ever more depopulated and isolated as well as brain-dead.
“Gathering Storm” was produced and broadcast — for a claimed $1.5 million — by an outfit called the National Organization for Marriage. This “national organization,” formed in 2007, is a fund-raising and propaganda-spewing Web site fronted by the right-wing Princeton University professor Robert George and the columnist Maggie Gallagher, who was famously caught receiving taxpayers’ money to promote Bush administration “marriage initiatives.” Until last month, half of the six board members (including George) had some past or present affiliation with Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. (One of them, the son of one of the 12 apostles in the Mormon church hierarchy, recently stepped down.)
Even the anti-Obama “tea parties” flogged by Fox News last week had wider genuine grass-roots support than this so-called national organization. Beyond Princeton, most straight citizens merely shrugged as gay families celebrated in Iowa and Vermont. There was no mass backlash. At ABC and CBS, the Vermont headlines didn’t even make the evening news.
On the right, the restrained response was striking. Fox barely mentioned the subject; its rising-star demagogue, Glenn Beck, while still dismissing same-sex marriage, went so far as to “celebrate what happened in Vermont” because “instead of the courts making a decision, the people did.” Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the self-help media star once notorious for portraying homosexuality as “a biological error” and a gateway to pedophilia, told CNN’s Larry King that she now views committed gay relationships as “a beautiful thing and a healthy thing.” In The New York Post, the invariably witty and invariably conservative writer Kyle Smith demolished a Maggie Gallagher screed published in National Review and wondered whether her errant arguments against gay equality were “something else in disguise.”
More startling still was the abrupt about-face of the Rev. Rick Warren, the hugely popular megachurch leader whose endorsement last year of Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban, had roiled his appearance at the Obama inaugural. Warren also dropped in on Larry King to declare that he had “never” been and “never will be” an “anti-gay-marriage activist.” This was an unmistakable slap at the National Organization for Marriage, which lavished far more money on Proposition 8 than even James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
The Obamas’ dog had longer legs on cable than the news from Iowa and Vermont. CNN’s weekly press critique, “Reliable Sources,” inquired why. The gay blogger John Aravosis suggested that many Americans are more worried about their mortgages than their neighbors’ private lives. Besides, Aravosis said, there are “only so many news stories you can do showing guys in tuxes.”
As the polls attest, the majority of Americans who support civil unions for gay couples has been steadily growing. Younger voters are fine with marriage. Generational changeover will seal the deal. Crunching all the numbers, the poll maven Nate Silver sees same-sex marriage achieving majority support “at some point in the 2010s.”
Iowa and Vermont were the tipping point because they struck down the right’s two major arguments against marriage equality. The unanimous ruling of the seven-member Iowa Supreme Court proved that the issue is not merely a bicoastal fad. The decision, written by Mark Cady, a Republican appointee, was particularly articulate in explaining that a state’s legalization of same-sex marriage has no effect on marriage as practiced by religions. “The only difference,” the judge wrote, is that “civil marriage will now take on a new meaning that reflects a more complete understanding of equal protection of the law.”
Some opponents grumbled anyway, reviving their perennial complaint, dating back to Brown v. Board of Education, about activist judges. But the judiciary has long played a leading role in sticking up for the civil rights of minorities so they’re not held hostage to a majority vote. Even if the judiciary-overreach argument had merit, it was still moot in Vermont, where the State Legislature, not a court, voted to make same-sex marriage legal and then voted to override the Republican governor’s veto.
As the case against equal rights for gay families gets harder and harder to argue on any nonreligious or legal grounds, no wonder so many conservatives are dropping the cause. And if Fox News and Rick Warren won’t lead the charge on same-sex marriage, who on the national stage will take their place? The only enthusiastic contenders seem to be Republicans contemplating presidential runs in 2012. As Rich Tafel, the former president of the gay Log Cabin Republicans, pointed out to me last week, what Iowa giveth to the Democrats, Iowa taketh away from his own party. As the first stop in the primary process, the Iowa caucuses provided a crucial boost to Barack Obama’s victorious and inclusive Democratic campaign in 2008. But on the G.O.P. side, the caucuses tilt toward the exclusionary hard right.
In 2008, 60 percent of Iowa’s Republican caucus voters were evangelical Christians. Mike Huckabee won. That’s the hurdle facing the party’s contenders in 2012, which is why Romney, Palin and Gingrich are now all more vehement anti-same-sex-marriage activists than Rick Warren. Palin even broke with John McCain on the issue during their campaign, supporting the federal marriage amendment that he rejects. This month, even as the father of Palin’s out-of-wedlock grandson challenged her own family values and veracity, she nominated as Alaskan attorney general a man who has called gay people “degenerates.” Such homophobia didn’t even play in Alaska — the State Legislature voted the nominee down — and will doom Republicans like Palin in national elections.
One G.O.P. politician who understands this is the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, who on Friday urged his party to join him in endorsing same-sex marriage. Another is Jon Huntsman Jr., the governor of Utah, who in February endorsed civil unions for gay couples, a position seemingly indistinguishable from Obama’s. Huntsman is not some left-coast Hollywood Republican. He’s a Mormon presiding over what Gallup ranks as the reddest state in the country.
“We must embrace all citizens as equals,” Huntsman told me in an interview last week. “I’ve always stood tall on this.” Has he been hurt by his position? Not remotely. “A lot of people gave the issue more scrutiny after it became the topic of the week,” he said, and started to see it “in human terms.” Letters, calls, polls and conversations with voters around the state all confirmed to him that opinion has “shifted quite substantially” toward his point of view. Huntsman’s approval rating now stands at 84 percent.
He believes that social issues should not be a priority for Republicans in any case during an economic crisis. He also is an outspoken foe of the “nativist language” that has marked the G.O.P. of late. Huntsman doesn’t share “the view of some” that “the party was created in 1980.” He yearns for it to reclaim Lincoln’s faith in “individual dignity.”
As marital equality haltingly but inexorably spreads state by state for gay Americans in the years to come, Utah will hardly be in the lead to follow Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont. But the fact that it too is taking its first steps down that road is extraordinary. It is justice, not a storm, that is gathering. Only those who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear have any reason to be afraid.
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saw it on cnbc/ brands that won't survive
insiders selling...
maybe the 12.50s?
GPS May 2009 12.5000 put
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ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_environment/
The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to foreign oil doesn't just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment -- it cripples our economy and strains the budgets of working families all across America. President Obama and Vice President Biden have a comprehensive plan to invest in alternative and renewable energy, end our addiction to foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs.
The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:
* Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
* Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
* Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
* Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
* Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.
PEIX... this could be great from here:
EPA Eyes 15% Ethanol Mix
http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/04/17/epa-eyes-15-ethanol-mix-automakers-decry-warranty-woes/
Issues of Higher Ethanol Mix
Posted Fri Apr 17, 04:20 pm ET
Posted By: Sheraz Mian
Highlights include Pacific Ethanol (PEIX), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), ConocoPhillips (COP) and Valero (VLO).
Higher Ethanol Mix Bad for Refiners
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated the process yesterday to increase the amount of ethanol that can be blended into a gallon of gasoline from the present 10% to 15%. The agency is seeking public comments in response to an application last month by Growth Energy, an industry lobbying group headed by retired General Wesley Clark. The agency is required to decide the issue by December 1, 2009.
Aside from ethanol producers such as Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and the corn lobby, the issue is of immense significance to conventional oil refiners like ConocoPhillips (COP) and Valero (VLO) and automobile manufacturers.
The ethanol producers have been hit hard by a combination of supply-demand imbalance and credit market turmoil. High corn prices -- their primary feedstock -- have not helped their prospects much, either. As a result, a number of ethanol producers have gone bust. VeraSun Energy and Aventine Renewable Energy, two major ethanol producers, are already under Chapter 11 protection, and Pacific Ethanol appears to be headed that way as well. An increased ethanol mandate will increase the demand side of the equation overnight and help improve producers' prospects.
Arrayed against this move would be automakers, many of whose current and older models are not equipped to handle ethanol concentrations in excess of 10%. Fuel blends with ethanol concentrations greater than 10% could damage the automobile's fuel lines and other parts. At issue would be automakers' liability for future problems to cars as a result of increased ethanol in fuel blends.
Another group affected by the increased ethanol usage would be conventional oil refiners. Already faced with weak demand due to the massive job losses in the economy, increased ethanol blending requirements will displace even more oil and weigh on utilization levels. While the automakers will most likely get some sort of exemption from the government in case the requirement is increased, oil refiners will have to live with the reduced call on their capacity.
With the current national narrative in favor of green/renewable energy and the powerful corn lobby on its side, we have a lot of confidence in the success of the Gen.Clark-led effort.
Read the full analyst report on COP
Read the full analyst report on VLO
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/19264/Issues+of+Higher+Ethanol+Mix
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