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World Energy Supports Seventh Successful RGGI Carbon Dioxide Allowances Auction

/CNW/ - World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES; TSX: XWE), an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced it has successfully supported the first quarterly auction of carbon dioxide (CO2) allowances in 2010, and seventh overall, administered by Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc. (RGGI, Inc.) on March 10, 2010.

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada - Trade Resumption - Cline Mining - CMK

/CNW/ - Trading resumes in:

Team Visa athletes Brian McKeever and Colette Bourgonje triumph at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

/CNW/ - As a Worldwide Sponsor of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Visa Canada proudly congratulates Team Visa members Brian McKeever and Colette Bourgonje on their medal-winning performances at Whistler Paralympic Park.

Multiple Site roll out by Major US Produce Wholesaler

/CNW/ - One of the largest fruit and vegetable wholesalers in the United States will be installing energy-saving technology from Smartcool Systems Inc. and managed by EcoCurrents LLC, in all of its distribution and ripening warehouses after achieving an energy savings of over 20% in its headquarter facility.

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada - Trading Halt - Karmin Exploration Inc. - KAR

/CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC):

TD Bank Financial Group CEO to Present at the National Bank Financial Canadian Financial Services Conference

/CNW/ - Ed Clark, President and Chief Executive Officer, TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG), will present at the National Bank Financial Canadian Financial Services Conference in Montreal on March 30, 2010.

TenCate and Roctest combine strengths to create unique geotextile monitoring solution

Roctest Ltd – through its subsidiary SMARTEC SA – and TenCate Geosynthetics have begun work on the technical and commercial development of geotextiles instrumented with optical fiber sensors and the related monitoring services. The relationship will capitalize on the strengths of both companies. TenCate Geosynthetics has a global reputation for innovative products and solutions for complex civil engineering and geotechnical problems while Roctest / SMARTEC provides expertise and innovation in data acquisition devices, instrumentation equipment and software.

Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol expands Digital Terrestrial TV network with Net Insight’s Nimbra platform

RAS (Rundfunk-Anstalt Südtirol) is a public broadcasting company providing radio/television transmission covering the South Tyrol area, broadcasting in german and ladin languages. In 2007, RAS selected Net Insight’s Nimbra platform for the initial phase of its DTT network and has continued to expand during the last two years.

Outotec to Deliver a New Copper Smelter for Tongling in China

Outotec’s scope of supply includes licenses for both Outotec® Flash Smelting and Kennecott-Outotec Flash Converting technologies, basic engineering and delivery of proprietary equipment for smelting and converting. Chinese Nanchang Engineering Institute is in charge of local engineering and project implementation.

Desmoteplase enters clinical phase II in Japan in ischaemic stroke representing Lundbeck’s first clinical programme in Japan

The primary objective of this randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of desmoteplase in 48 Japanese patients with acute ischaemic stroke. Two doses of desmoteplase (70 and 90 µg/kg) will be tested versus placebo. The efficacy of desmoteplase will be assessed after 90 days. The DIAS-J study is expected to take around 1½ years to conduct and once DIAS-J is completed the subsequent development strategy and the clinical data package necessary for a Japanese NDA will be determined.

Exploratory trial shows no incremental benefit of aliskiren add-on therapy in improving changes to cardiac shape in heart attack patients

· A small numerical reduction in cardiac volume from adding aliskiren to standard therapy seen in echocardiogram results, but not statistically significant[1]

Traffic, Not Basketball, Most Likely To Drive Fans Mad This March

Concord, MA - Sports fans associate March with college basketball, but this year a new kind of madness may emerge. TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, has revealed which of the college basketball tournament’s host cities has the longest persistent traffic jam. At the center of the bracket? It’s not Indianapolis, host city of the final games in the competition, but Houston, with a daily average 8.5 mile long backup on Texas 6. Texas 6 connects Houston and Waco. The most congested area of the road is between Northwest Freeway and Westpark Tollway.

Dako: New diagnostic tests provide hope for patients with stomach cancer

Professor Giuseppe Viale, M.D., F.R.C. Path, Director of the Division of Pathology at the European Institute of Oncology, and Professor of Pathology at the University of Milan, declared: “This is an important advance for the treatment of a patient group with a very poor prognosis. Dako’s new diagnostic test helps identify patients with metastatic HER2-positive stomach cancer – an aggressive form of cancer where the options for treatment have previously been limited. Now, with Dako’s HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™, physicians in Europe have diagnostic tools that allow them to identify the patient group with metastatic stomach cancer that can benefit from a targeted treatment.”

Thomson Reuters Names The World’s &Hottest& Researchers

In its March/April issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters identified the dozen authors whose recent papers were cited most often by other researchers during 2009. Jaenisch authored 14 of these Hot Papers. His research investigates reprogrammed fibroblast cells in models of Parkinson’s disease, sickle-cell anemia and other conditions.

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada - Trading Halt - Orbus Pharma Inc. - ORB.H

/CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC):

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